Phone Call From Hell and Other Tales of the Damned

"Woods is the David Lynch of short crime fiction."—Spinetingler Magazined

Jonathan Woods, author of the award-winning Bad Juju & Other Tales of Madness and Mayhem, returns with a new collection of seventeen crazed and corrosively funny noir tales. Combining the offbeat humor of the Coen brothers with the madness of Jim Thompson, these stories will keep you up ’til the wee hours. And you won’t go to sleep without a loaded pistol under your pillow.

"These stories really snap, crackle, and pop. Woods is playing with the genre, delighting in its dark discourse, yet there is a wildness running through these pages...Highly recommended."
—Jay Parini, Professor of English and Creative Writing at Middlebury College and author of The Last Station and Robert Frost, a Life

Hi, I'm Jonathan Woods. I divide my time between Key West, FL and Dallas, TX. Whenever I have a little spare cash, I travel the world looking for story ideas. My stories involve sex, violence and craziness - stuff you read about every day in the metro section of your local newspaper or hear about on the late night TV news.

I hold degrees from McGill University, New England School of Law and New York University School of Law and for many years practiced law for a multi-national high-tech company. My first stories appeared in Dogmatika, 3:AM Magazine, Plots with Guns, Thuglit, Pulp Pusher, the noir issue of Blackheart Magazine and in the recent anthologies Speedloader, Crime Factory: The First Shift, Noir @ the Bar Vol. 1 and Murder in Key West