The Six-Gun Tarot

R. S. Belcher

May 2018 · Macmillan Audio · Narrated by Fleet Cooper

About this audiobook

The Six-Gun Tarot is the first audiobook in the twisted weird west world of the Golgotha series by R.S. Belcher.

Nevada, 1869: Beyond the pitiless 40-Mile Desert lies Golgotha, a cattle town that hides more than its share of unnatural secrets. The sheriff bears the mark of the noose around his neck; some say he is a dead man whose time has not yet come. His half-human deputy is kin to coyotes. The mayor guards a hoard of mythical treasures. A banker's wife belongs to a secret order of assassins. And a shady saloon owner, whose fingers are in everyone's business, may know more about the town's true origins than he's letting on.

A haven for the blessed and the damned, Golgotha has known many strange events, but nothing like the primordial darkness stirring in the abandoned silver mine overlooking the town. Bleeding midnight, an ancient evil is spilling into the world, and unless the sheriff and his posse can saddle up in time, Golgotha will have seen its last dawn...and so will all of Creation.

R.S. Belcher's The Six-Gun Tarot is "an astonishing blend of first-rate steampunk fantasy and Western adventure." (Library Journal, Starred Review)

Other Books by R.S. Belcher:

The Golgotha Series
The Six-Gun Tarot
The Shotgun Arcana

Nightwise

The Brotherhood of the Wheel

Ratings and reviews

One of the more interesting mashups of myth, folklore, religion, and origin stories I've read. Not sure where tarot came into play other than to name the chapters. I live between Reno, Carson City, and Virginia City so I found the references interesting, if not topographically correct 😏.

About the author

R.S. BELCHER won the Grand Prize in the Strange New Worlds SF-writing contest. He runs Cosmic Castle, a comic book shop in Roanoke, Virginia. The Six-Gun Tarot is his first novel.