Author and creator of TALES OF THE BAGMAN, B. C. Bell writes genre crime, horror, suspense, science and pulp fiction. He is also writing about himself in the third person.
His short story "How Pappy Got Five Acres Back and Calvin Stayed on the Farm" was a winner in the 2007 SFReader.com Annual Short Story Contest. Go read it for free!
Then PLEASE go check out a copy of TALES OF THE BAGMAN. Mac McCullough, a mere foot soldier in the Chicago mob, changes sides when forced to enforce on his own family. Sometimes, all it takes is a smart-ass hood to wreak havoc on the Chicago Outfit.
Bell also writes 1930's style hero pulps for Airship 27. His novella "The Gateway Machine"--in which pulp legend SECRET AGENT X battles the minions of Cthullu, and a blood relative of Abdul Alhazred, author of The Necronomicon--appears in Secret Agent X Vol 2.
Bell's "Curse of Red Jaguar" appears in JIM ANTHONY SUPER-DETECTIVE VOL 1. Jim Anthony and his aides must find the link between a modern industrialist and a Mayan god to stop a psychopathic killer.
My DAN FOWLER G-MAN story, "Harvest of Crime," pits America's ace inspector against a machine gun bank robber. This is one of my favorites. Mystery anyone?
RAVENWOOD, STEPSON OF MYSTERY, in which pulps only true occult hero confronts a Yeti, and a man intent on ruling the world using the legend of The Abominable Snowman.
MYSTERY MEN (and WOMEN) features a stand alone BAGMAN story. Mac foils a bank robbery and takes out a crooked cop in the Chicago summer of 1933.
I just finished a yet-to-be released DAN FOWLER G-MAN story, "Feeding on the Predators Corpse." This one's dark. The villain is based loosely on Richard Kuklinski, The Iceman--who claimed to have taken some two-hundred-and-fifty-lives.
And, yes! There is a BAGMAN sequel in the works! How could I put Mac in 1933 Chicago and not send him to the World's Fair? I couldn't. Along the way we learn more about Mac's proclivity for stealing, a passel of Gypsy pickpockets, Mac confronts Dillinger, and a certain crossover with Canadian Calvin Daniel's pulp hero, THE BLACK WOLF. This one's going to explode!
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