City Long Suffering First Movement

By Tim Murr

On the first day of summer, a mass murderer called The Terrible Head, resurfaces after two years. On the first day of summer, Maupins City will know suffering. City Long Suffering; First Movement launches a saga of Southern-fried crime and horror from the author of Conspiracy of Birds and founder of the blog Stranger With Friction.
Detective Porter Grey's career has been defined by his pursuit of the Terrible Head, who terrorized Maupins City for more than two decades. Even after he was caught, Detective Grey knew it wasn't really over, he just didn't expect it to be so personal. Or that so many people would be dragged to hell with him.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tim Murr
• Release date: Mar 21, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311966346

Tim Murr

Born in Tennessee, my heart's in Boston, and my ass is in North Carolina. I was inspired to become a writer in 2nd grade after reading Treasure Island. I created, write, and maintain the horror culture blog, strangerwithfriction.blogspot.com, and am a featured contributor at www.popshifter.com. My books are Lose This Skin, Conspiracy of Birds/Hounds of Doom, and City Long Suffering. My work touches on horror, Sc-Fi, crime, and the weird. I coined the term Avant Noir to describe my debut novel, Conspiracy of Birds. I'm a movie fanatic with deep love for horror films, noir, spaghetti westerns, Euro-trash, and dark sci-fi. Writers who I hold in high esteem are Don Bajema, Kathy Acker, Jim Thompson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Philip K Dick, Lydia Lunch, Hubert Selby, Flannery O'Connor, William Gibson, and Nick Tosches-to name a few. I'll be buried in my Black Flag t-shirt and Alice Cooper saved my life. "I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work, because I'm too busy being mad at everything." -Lydia Lunch "- that’s what they want: a God damned show a lit billboard in the middle of hell. that’s what they want, that bunch of dull inarticulate safe dreary admirers of carnivals." -Charles Bukowski "Break your back to earn your pay and don't forget to grovel" -Joe Strummer "These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn fool if they weren't." -Dylan Thomas When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised God doesn’t work that way, so I stole one and prayed for forgiveness. - Emo Philips "We like the bootleg sound" -David Thomas, Pere Ubu

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