For this Halloween season

 

PW on Everybody Lies in Hell: "This clever depiction of hell explores the lies that people tell, both to others and to themselves... Zeltserman has developed a rich world with a complex protagonist, and the stated stagnation of hellish eternity doesn’t stop his story from moving briskly along."

Paul Tremblay on Everybody Lies in Hell: "In Everybody Lies in Hell Mike Stone's eternal damnation is a private detective's office in a re-imagined Brooklyn. In Hell, the beautiful woman with a case opens a literal Pandora's Box, and Stone is soon inundated by all-too-recognizable evils and lies of Hell's tortured souls, powerful ancient demons and devils, and haunting personal ones. Classic pulp, noir, and horror--think James N. Cain and Bukowski and Palahniuk--are all ground up in a blender and the result is a nasty, wild, and ultimately redemptive novel that only Dave Zeltserman could write."

As an early Halloween gift, I have this on sale now for $0.99

And the 2026 Edgar Award for Best Short Story...

 

The Julius Katz mysteries have now won an Edgar, Shamus, Derringer, and 2 Ellery Queen Readers awards.

On Sale

 I've put three of my short story collections on sale for $0.99

Kindle version for Buxton and Other Stories

Kindle version for Detectives and Spies

Kindle version for Unlucky Seven

A New Mike Stone PI in Hell story

 

Mike Stone, my PI in hell from Everybody Lives in Hell, is on yet another case. A soul hires Mike to find out if her daughter ended up in Hell, and this leads Mike on a twisty and twisted path, taking him into some Hell’s darkest recesses.

A quick note about Black Cat Weekly. This is a very cool and ambitious fiction magazine which is a mix of pre-1930s SF + mystery novels, short story reprints, and always at least 3 new short stories. It’s a great place to discover interesting pre-1950s writers that you might not have previously have ever heard about.

About Archie

 

Over on my substack I write about Julius Katz's incomparable sidekick, Archie.

Happy Holidays from Julius Katz and the gang

 

For this holiday season

 

With Detectives and Spies on sale for $0.99, spend the holidays with Julius Katz, his sister Julia, Parker, a handful of demons that have escaped from Mike Stone’s private Hell, and of course, Archie.

With apologies to Frederic Austin

 

Four J. Katzes

Three Morris Bricks

Two Mike Stones

and a special $0.99 deal for the holidays!

You might be asking yourself who is Frederic Austin? Well, he’s the gent who wrote The Twelve Days of Christmas, which I shamelessly borrowed from for this holiday promotion, as I’m offering my collection Detectives and Spies for $0.99 for the next week.

And yes, Detectives and Spies has four J. Katz mysteries (two Julius Katz mysteries and two Julia Katz spy/mystery stories, but all four have Archie!), three Morris Brick crime stories, and two Mike Stone, PI in Hell hard-boiled detective stories. 7 of the 9 stories are reprints from either Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, or Black Cat Weekly, but it also has the original stories Julius Katz and The Ruined Roast and James & Bond (A Morris Brick story), both written for this collection.

Available today

 

Buy today for $3.99 or read free with Kindle Unlimited!

About my "early" Julius Katz stories

 

The Sept/Oct issues of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine featured new Julius Katz stories that take place before Julius met Lily Rosten, and this post explains these new stories.