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Deadwood meets Cthulhu in this wild and profane Western romp featuring zombies, werewolves, evil spirits, and one pissed-off gunslinging preacher. The Wild West has never seen the likes of the Reverend Jebidiah Mercer, a hard man wielding a burning Bible in the battle between God and the devil, in an endless struggle he's not sure he cares who wins. With its five stories laced with fast-paced action, nonstop humor, and spine-tingling horror, Deadman's Road is your ride to hell, in which a vengeful shaman curses a town by conjuring a seemingly unstoppable army of the undead; an ill-advised shortcut leads to a bees' nest of terror; a man stands condemned, not for murdering his wife but for raising the Lovecraftian horror that killed her; a woman is attacked by werewolves and left for dead in a ghost town; and a mining camp faces off with a horde of cannibalistic fiends.

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Reverend Jebediah Mercer rides through the haunted backwoods of post-Civil War Texas, battling werewolves and eldritch horrors in the name of his cruel and distant Old Testament God in five creepy, gory, and dark pulpy yarns by Southern horror author Lansdale. In 'Dead in the West, ' Mercer fights zombies, a stereotypical 'Indian curse, ' and his own damaged faith, a good bit of pulpy fun spun around a nougat of bitter religion. In 'Deadman's Road, ' the mercenary preacher hunts down a ghoul on a haunted stretch of road; 'The Dark Down There' pits him and a boisterous, sensual ex-cook against an army of kobolds; and in 'The Crawling Sky' he tackles an eldritch monster. -- Publishers Weekly Joe R. Lansdale is the undisputed master of East Texas gothic horror, and his dime novel sensibilities make this marriage of Westerns and horror stories a perfect fit. Deadman's Road features Lansdale's trademark dark humor and skin-crawling mastery of description, steeping these stories in both historical detail and stomach-churning intensity. -- San Francisco Book Review It's the mixture of horror, humor, and action elements that makes this collection a must-read for fans of dark literature. -- BuzzyMag.com

It's the mixture of horror, humor, and action elements that makes this collection a must-read for fans of dark literature. -- BuzzyMag.com Reverend Jebediah Mercer rides through the haunted backwoods of post-Civil War Texas, battling werewolves and eldritch horrors in the name of his cruel and distant Old Testament God in five creepy, gory, and dark pulpy yarns by Southern horror author Lansdale. In 'Dead in the West, ' Mercer fights zombies, a stereotypical 'Indian curse, ' and his own damaged faith, a good bit of pulpy fun spun around a nougat of bitter religion. In 'Deadman's Road, ' the mercenary preacher hunts down a ghoul on a haunted stretch of road; 'The Dark Down There' pits him and a boisterous, sensual ex-cook against an army of kobolds; and in 'The Crawling Sky' he tackles an eldritch monster. -- Publishers Weekly Joe R. Lansdale is the undisputed master of East Texas gothic horror, and his dime novel sensibilities make this marriage of Westerns and horror stories a perfect fit. Deadman's Road features Lansdale's trademark dark humor and skin-crawling mastery of description, steeping these stories in both historical detail and stomach-churning intensity. -- San Francisco Book Review

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Joe R. Lansdale is the author of nearly four dozen novels, including Rusty Puppy, the Edgar-award winning The Bottoms, Sunset and Sawdust, and Leather Maiden. He has received nine Bram Stoker Awards, the American Mystery Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Grinzane Cavour Prize for Literature. He lives with his family in Nacogdoches, Texas. Susan Hanfield is a three-time Audie award finalist and a 2016 Voice Arts award nominee. Classically trained, she has recorded over seventy titles in multiple genres, including young adult, historical fiction, faith-based inspirational, fantasy, paranormal romance, science fiction, classics, and nonfiction. In addition to recording audiobooks, she can be seen in film, on stage, and in commercials. For more information, visit her blog at susanhanfield.com/latest-from-susan. Stefan Rudnicki is an award winning audiobook narrator, director and producer. He was born in Poland and now resides in Studio City, California. He has narrated more than three hundred audiobooks and has participated in over a thousand as a writer, producer, or director. He is a recipient of multiple Audie Awards and AudioFile Earphones Awards as well as a Grammy Award, a Bram Stoker Award, and a Ray Bradbury Award. He received AudioFile's award for 2008 Best Voice in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Along with a cast of other narrators, Rudnicki has read a number of Orson Scott Card's best-selling science fiction novels. He worked extensively with many other science fiction authors, including David Weber and Ben Bova. In reviewing the twentieth anniversary edition audiobook of Card's Ender's Game, Publishers Weekly stated, Rudnicki, with his lulling, sonorous voice, does a fine job articulating Ender's inner struggle between the kind, peaceful boy he wants to be and the savage, violent actions he is frequently forced to take. Rudnicki is also a stage actor and director.

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