Brand new stories by: Barry Gifford, Robert Mailer Anderson, Michelle Tea, Peter Plate, Kate Braverman, Domenic Stansberry, David Corbett, Eddie Muller, Alejandro Murguia, Sin Sorracco, Alvin Lu, John Longhi, Will Christopher Baer, Jim Nisbet, and David Henry Sterry.

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San Francisco Noir lashes out with hard-biting tales exploring the shadowy nether regions of scenic "Baghdad by the Bay." In this superb collection, virtuosos of the genre meet up with the best of S.F.'s literary fiction community to chart a unique psycho-geography for a dark landscape.

From inner city boroughs to the outlands, each contributor offers an original story based in a distinct neighborhood. At times brutal, darkly humorous, and revelatory--the stories speak of a hidden San Francisco, a town where the fog is but a prelude to darker realities lingering beneath.

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR SAN FRANCISCO NOIR:

"The protagonists of noir fiction have their own agendas, but for readers much of the pleasure is unraveling the mystery and deciphering the clues that constitute a city, and if there is a love story in noir writing it's the passion of writers, readers, and protagonists for the gritty geographical details. As the bodies drop in the strong stories here, steep, fog-wrapped, fratricidal San Francisco comes alive: here are old neighborhoods, bars, bookstores, the famous and then forgotten landlord arson at 16th and Valencia, buried streams, streetcars, parks, a lost city and the new city haunting almost every page of this gorgeous anthology of San Francisco noir."
--Rebecca Solnit

"I was wondering about the city's shadowside that the guides didn't show. These top writers are of the 'As bad as it gets' brand, and then worse. If you like puke, fear & loathing caused by stray bullets, happenstance getting the hero who is an anti-hero really, a male corpse rotting in the bathtub while the woman poops in the garden, the Reverend Christmas shot in the ear by the PO-lice, then this is your good read for a murky, maybe even gritty, weekend."
--Janwillem van de Wetering

"San Francisco has long been a city of back alleys and black figures; this is its romantic map."
--Michael Ray, Editor, Zoetrope All-Story

"It's San Francisco-centric in this atmospheric collection of noir; hard-boiled and twisted. Dark, smooth fiction digging deep into different neighborhoods and ethnicities. The sound is pitch-perfect, too, from the understated staccato of old lost souls to the jiving rap of younger ones."
--Cara Black

Peter Maravelis was born and raised in San Francisco where he still resides. He is currently the events programmer at City Lights Booksellers and is the founder of Red Boat Opera, a portable theatrical troupe operating in the greater Bay Area.

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Other forthcoming Akashic Noir titles: D.C. Noir edited by George Pelecanos, Dublin Noir edited by Ken Bruen, Manhattan Noir edited by Lawrence Block, Baltimore Noir edited by Laura Lippman, Twin Cities Noir edited by Julie Schaper & Steven Horwitz, Miami Noir edited by Les Standiford, Los Angeles Noir edited by Denise Hamilton, and more!