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It all begins with a decapitated head found at the bottom of a dark well. Bertram Stone is a former Texas Ranger running from the changes of an ever-evolving world. Horses were being replaced by cars. Laws were changing how Bertram could deal justice. Wanting to live out his golden…

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Large publishers have, by and large, turned their noses up at horror and left the indie presses to carry the genre's baton. Set in rural 1920s Texas, this novel brings a few new elements to its chosen trope, and author Timothy Hobbs creates memorable and entertaining characters.

His prose is easy to readan admirable quality lacking in a lot of modern fiction, I thinkyet he generates a sense of place, builds atmosphere, and paints wince-inducing images of gruesomeness. As I write this, I can still ‘see’ his town of Hamilton and remember the people that populate…

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