Lynch: A Gothik Western

Nancy A. Collins

März 2022 · Open Road Media

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A resurrected gunslinger leaves a trail of corpses across the post–Civil War West in this grisly thriller by the Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Sunglasses After Dark.

Retired gunslinger Johnny Pearl has traded in his revolvers for the tools of a homesteader. He’s finally found peace with his pregnant, half-Cheyenne wife. Until soldiers from the US Cavalry, looking to avenge their defeat at Little Big Horn, kill them both, stringing up Johnny from a nearby tree.

Only Johnny’s death is not the end. A mad doctor, a former colleague of Viktor von Frankenstein, wrenches him from the afterlife with a special elixir and a bolt of lightning. Now possessing superhuman strength, mismatched eyes, and the face of a dead man, Johnny returns to his gunslinging ways. Astride another reanimated being, a demonic black stallion, he won’t stop killing until every man involved in the attack on him and his wife is six feet under.

And just when Johnny is ready to meet his maker one last time, he discovers a reason to stay undead—and try to resurrect the man within the monster he has become . . .

Originally published in Dead Man’s Hand

Praise for Nancy A. Collins

“Horror fans will immediately recognize the name of Nancy Collins, possibly the most original voice in the world of vampire fiction since Anne Rice published Interview with a Vampire.” —Film Threat

“Nancy Collins’ bone-colored, blood-smeared star—for she is certainly a star—stands bright and hot at the pinnacle of the horror heap.” —Joe R. Lansdale, author of Moon Lake and Bubba Ho-Tep

“If there is such a thing as a splatterpunk masterpiece, Nancy A. Collins has written it.” —Asimov’s Science Fiction/DIV

Autoren-Profil

Nancy A. Collins has authored over twenty novels and novellas and numerous short stories, and worked on several comic books, including a two-year run on Swamp Thing. She is a recipient of the HWA’s Bram Stoker Award and the British Fantasy Award, and has been nominated for the Eisner, John W. Campbell Memorial, and World Fantasy International Horror Guild Awards. Best known for her groundbreaking vampire series Sonja Blue, which heralded the rise of the popular urban fantasy genre, Collins is the author of the bestselling Sunglasses After Dark, the Southern Gothic collection Knuckles and Tales, and the Vamps series for young adults. Her most recent novel is Left Hand Magic, the second installment in the critically acclaimed Golgotham urban fantasy series. She currently resides in Norfolk, Virginia, with a Boston terrier.