Deadman's Road

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The Reverend Jedidiah Mercer returns with the re-release of the highly influential pulp novel Dead in the West and four stories one never before collected one brand new. Contained herein are the Reverends adventures with zombies ghouls werewolves Lovecraftian monsters and kobolds. Western action blends with grisly horror and ribald humor for a super collection of shoot-outs and fang-outs claws and crawling horrors and lessons about an angry unforgiving god and methods for killing nasties of all kinds. In Dead in the West the Reverend faces a resurrected American Indian out for vengeance. Not only is the man back from the dead hes brought back others as servants and they are angry hungry little devils when there is an absence of light. Plenty of surprises laughs gross-outs and slimy horrors with a slam bang ending. This novel inspired numerous writer to cross the West with Horror Action Humor and a wobbly moral sensibility. This first adventure of the Reverend sets up all the others which include: Deadman s Road. The Reverend on his mission from God encounters a ghoul who waits on a dark road for travelers so that he can feed his belly and his crippled soul. The Gentlemans Hotel. The Reverend encounters a town empty except for the lone survivor of a stage coach attack. Together they face ghosts and werewolf Conquistadores who can not only transform into toothy adversaries but also into dust and moths and are a real pain in the ass; all of it results in one hell of a cross-draw dagnabbed hair belly confrontation. The Crawling Sky. In an isolated cabin the Reverend and an unwilling partner face a Lovecraftian horror with a nasty attitude and mind blowing abilities. And finally in The Dark Down There the Reverend and an unlikely partner a three hundred pound lady named Flower battle kobolds who cannibalize miners and serve a Queen that at a glance could pass for spoiled tapioca pudding. The Reverend even manages a glancing chance at a kind of backwoods romance.