| Dead in the West :: Space & Time Books :: Novella by Joe R. Lansdale |
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Death is common in the frontier town of Mud Creek, and usually final.
After an Indian medicine man is lynched, however, bodies begin showing
up the likes of which Doc and Undertaker Mertz have never seen. Nor
has the Reverend Jebidiah Mercer, an itinerant, gunslinging envangelist
who challenges the demon behind the madness. Only by abandoning
their hard-won homes can the townsfolk hope to survive a night of
terror . . . but is it already too late?
"The writing is always good, often clever in the best sense, and
the people just right for this shuddery little tale that manages to
salute the pulps without debasing them."
"Lansdale is to regional horror what Faulkner was to broader
regionalism . . . There are chills and chuckles throughout this
tightly structured novella." | ||||||||||
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