Patrick Hughes

The Potboiler Podcast

Fiction EN ↓ 30 episodes

We need more fiction. We need more beguiling villains worthy of the conflicted hero’s pursuit. Their smokey rooms have to be soaked in familiar imagery, while swift subversions of any genre’s expectations make their entrances and turn over their tables. The roads they’re on have to twist and turn their mission so they lose sight of the incitement far behind them.   We need Hollow Grim, noir sleuth manhunter rifleman, and Eric Verrity, misunderstood superhuman crime fighter, among a small series of revolving main characters. Welcome to the Potboiler. Pulpy paperback genre fiction with some fres...

Author

Patrick Hughes

Category

Fiction

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Latest episode

Jul 11, 2026

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Episodes

Hollow Grim & Hunt Kill Thrive - Part 2 08.03.2025

Hollow Grim can find no peace. A letter in his pocket continues to remind him of a measure he’s left undone and a wrong done he can’t live with.   He has his predator in his sights, and certainty in his instincts, but knows his lack of evidence won’t allow him to act in his normal definitive manner. The episodes of this story will be offered with no commercial interruptions. Vi...

Hollow Grim & Hunt Kill Thrive - Part 1 24.02.2025

Nevada 1897 All Hollow Grim wants out of life is quiet. He’s happiest in the moments of peace he finds in his quiet postal office, sorting the mail for Progress Township. The quiet is stirred from time to time, when he’s called to his occasional role as a fugitive hunter for the US Marshal. Hollow Grim is a killer. He is the killer this state needs. He is methodical, precise an...

Hollow Grim & The Killer of Killers - Part 3 17.02.2025

Hollow Grim, part time marksman manhunter for the US Marshal, part time postal clerk in Progress Township in Northern Nevada, is on trial for murder. His killshot was fired across the townsquare in broad daylight in front of dozens of onlookers, neighbors and friends. The prosecution has built an air tight case that seems to have all but convinced the old judge presiding. The verdict see...

Hollow Grim & The Killer of Killers - Part 2 17.02.2025

It’s the dying days of the Nineteenth Century, Northern Nevada. The Postal Clerk of Progress Township, Nevada, and sometimes agent fugitive hunter for the US Marshal Service, Hollow Grim, is on trial for murder. The entire township was gathered at the steps of the chapel as Sunday funeral service parishioners started the second verse of Amazing Grace, when Hollow Grim’s rifle shot cut through...

Hollow Grim & The Killer of Killers - Part 1 17.02.2025

Nevada, 1896. Hollow Grim is a killer. He’s the kind of killer Nevada needs. Some predators will only be a threat to the civilized herd. They’ve proven themselves unworthy of a place above the desert dirt. Hollow hunts them as an occasional marksman contractor for the US Marshal.   When he’s not on a fugitive’s trail or setting aim with his notorious rifle, Hollow liv...

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