Showing results for "The Horror" in Westerns

Southwest Arizona, a century ago: an uneasy truce exists between the remote frontier community of Picture City and the neighboring Apaches. That delicate peace is shredded when the bodies of two white men are found hideously mutilated. The angry townspeople are certain the “savages” have broken the treaty, but Billjohn Finley, the local Indian agent, fears that darker, more unholy forces may be at work. There’s a tall, dark stranger in town, who rode in wearing the dead men’s clothes. A stranger who may not be entirely human.

Deadwood, late 1876. A rowdy and reckless undertaker’s delight. What better place for a killer to blend in? Enter undertaker Clementine Johanssen, tall and deadly with a hot temper and short fuse, hired to clean up Deadwood’s dead...and the “other” problem. She’s hell-bent on poking, sticking, or stabbing anyone who steps out of line. But when a couple Santa Fe sidewinders ride into town searching for their missing uncle, they land neck deep in lethal gunplay, nasty cutthroats, and endless stinkin’ snow.

"Wenn die Lebenden nicht mehr stark genug sind, die weißen Hunde von unserem Land zu vertreiben, werden es die Toten tun." - Nana Weiße Feder, Medizinmann der Chiricahua-Apachen. Um den Bau der Eisenbahn zu verhindern und die verhassten Weißen zu vertreiben, beschwört ein Medizinmann den dämonischen Geistervogel. Wenig später erwachen weitere grauenvolle Bestien. Der Texas Ranger Jack Kane und sein Blutsbruder Caddo, ein Apache, nehmen den Kampf gegen die Mächte der Finsternis auf.

"Es heißt, jeder Mensch trägt ein dunkles Geheimnis mit sich, tief begraben in seiner Seele, das nur darauf wartet, aus ihr auszubrechen." Für Town Marshal Gerard riecht es gewaltig nach Ärger, als der narbengesichtige US-Marshal und ein einarmiger Comanche in Bond eintreffen, um dem mysteriösen Mord an einem Siedler auf den Grund zu gehen. Die Tat soll ausgerechnet dessen Tochter begangen haben. Gemeinsam folgen sie der Spur nach Deer Creek und finden den exzentrischen geistlichen Führer der Siedlung. Hinter alldem steckt ein unglaubliches Geheimnis.

In den Weiten des texanischen Llano Estacado treibt ein Monstrum sein Unwesen, gegen das keine gewöhnliche Waffe etwas ausrichten kann. Das ungleiche Duo Hardin und Jackson trifft auf einen Mann, der die Grenzen zwischen Wahrheit und Wahnsinn verschwimmen lässt. Ist er die Rettung oder das Verderben?

Die Witwe Helen Burkfield lebt auf einer kleinen Pferderanch. Als ihre Tochter Crystal verschwindet und die Spur direkt ins Indianergebiet führt, macht sich Helen auf die aussichtslos erscheinende Suche. Sie nimmt die Hilfe von Threefeathers an, einem Krieger, der dem gleichen Stamm angehört, der ihren Mann ermordet haben soll. Gemeinsam folgen die beiden der mysteriösen Fährte. Schon bald muss Helen erkennen, dass Crystal von einem blutrünstigen Dämon entführt wurde.

When Greta Molina’s old friend Tiller offered her the job, a ten-day cattle drive across the Wyoming prairie from the ranching town of Ten Sleep, it sounded like a well-paid break. Three hundred and twenty cows and calves, two guys her age she’s known since college, and a few long days on an ATV will give her time to sort out the mess in her head. The canyon along the trail has a history, sure, but nature has a tendency toward violence. Greta can accept that, even if it makes her insides squirm.

Caddo und Kane, zwei Blutsbrüder auf dem Weg zur Hölle. Caddo, ein großer, schweigsamer Apache, Häuptling und Schamane. Jack Kane, der Texas Ranger, hat es sich zur Lebensaufgabe gemacht, Dämonen und Geister im Wilden Westen zu bekämpfen. Ghul-King Jonnie Death terrorisiert mit seinen Zombiehorden Texas. Die Untoten morden und schänden. Komplette Dörfer werden von den Zombies ausgerottet, ihre Einwohner in Untote verwandelt. Doch dann greifen die beiden Blutsbrüder ein.

Seien Sie dabei, wenn unsere Chronologen ein vom Wahnsinn gefärbtes Potpourri mit dämonischen Kreaturen jenseits des Begreifens, maskierten Legenden des Wilden Westens und Revolverschwingern, die einem nur allzu bekannt vorkommen, verrühren.

Eve wants to be a nun, and Peter a priest, but is their attraction for one another stronger than the call to serve? Eve becomes possessed by a demon and this sets off a trail of murder, sex, and fire across Texas, and Arizona as the couple head to California for an exorcism.

Three families traveling through the mountains of North Carolina to claim their share of the gold rush become stranded deep in the forest, overwhelmed by the unrelenting snow and frigid temperatures. It doesn't take long for the food supply to run out, for desperation and harmful intentions to set in. When one of their own dies, they commit a depraved act to survive, a depraved act that unleashes a curse that will not stop until every one of them is either devoured... or dead!

New Mexico Territory, 1882: She comes to the Klein ranch at sunset, a strange naked pregnant woman dragging a cavalry saber. Annette Klein and her husband have built peace between their marriage and secret relations beyond, but their serenity dies in bloodshed tonight through a cannibalistic demon and a mad preacher. Annette barely escapes the bloodbath to the nearby town of Low's Bend, where she might find safety with a shotgun-toting barkeep, two no-nonsense boarding room ladies, and the gunslinging bounty hunter who's captured Annette's heart.

From New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry, the first in a thrilling series of novels based on Deadlands, a hugely successful role-playing game (RPG) set in the Weird, Weird West. Welcome to the Deadlands, where steely-eyed gunfighters rub shoulders with mad scientists and dark...

Part 2 of 2: Nevada, 1872. Out of the merciless 40-Mile Desert, a stranger appears in the town of Golgotha, home to the blessed and the damned. He carries with him an innocent victim of a horrible massacre and a dire warning for Sheriff Jon Highfather. The conflict between the Indian nations and Mormon settlers has been brewing for years, and now the spirits of the fallen Indian dead have begun to rise to join in the fight. Deputy Mutt's old nemesis, Snake-Man, returns to begin a final bloody war against the Whites, purging them from the land forever.

Caleb Cantrill still can't find where he hid the bandit's gold or his cavern of riches. The only thing it seems he can find is more and more of the monstrous blight he unleashed on the peaceful valley he now calls home. Adding to his troubles, his twenty-four-hour reprieve from the gang is up soon, and the bandits will be returning, looking for their gold, or his life is forfeit. Kitty Welch is swept up in a corrupt scheme which may result in her arrest and deportation back to Scotland. Though she wants to flee, there is something keeping her in the valley.

Danger the likes Boone McCreery has never seen is brewing in the Black Hills. Fresh in from Santa Fe, he’s returned to Deadwood to seek justice for his uncle - and maybe to see about a girl. Little did he know his search for justice would have him stumbling into a hornets’ nest beyond his worst nightmare. One thing is for certain: The trouble he and his compadres chance upon deep in the trees is a long way from ordinary.

Nevada, 1872. Out of the merciless 40-mile desert, a stranger appears in the town of Golgotha, home to the blessed and the damned. He carries with him an innocent victim of a horrible massacre and a dire warning for Sheriff Jon Highfather. The conflict between the Indian nations and Mormon settlers has been brewing for years, and now the spirits of the fallen Indian dead have begun to rise to join in the fight.

On a dark night in the summer of 1859, three men enter the home of Dr. Matthew Callahan and shoot him dead in front of his pregnant wife. Unbeknownst to them, Li Lian, his wife, hails from a long line of women gifted in ways that scare most folks - the witches of the MacPherson clan - and her need for vengeance is as vast and unforgiving as the Great Plains themselves. Devil's Call traces Li Lian's quest from the Nebraska Territory to Louisiana to the frozen Badlands, to bring to justice the monster responsible for shooting her husband in the back.

When Garrett Walkinshaw pays a visit to his sister, he finds her murdered—his albino niece left emotionally scarred on her bed. Determined on getting revenge, the two set out after the killer, following a bloody trail of skin-lacking bodies. After Garrett's best friend—a recently freed slave—joins the road-trip hunt, they're forced to teach Garret' s niece the dark world of survival and assassination in the gritty wild west, where they're met with myriad of roadblocks in the form of evil lawmen, bizarro brothers, a swamp witch, and more.

Every man walks with a shadow...but what happens when he acquires a second one? Just ask Brazos, a cold-blooded killer for hire with blood on his hands and a posse on his tail. Desperate for cash, Brazos accepts $200 to gun down a local man named Brant. He’ll earn every penny...but in the end there’ll be the devil to pay. Because to put a bullet in Brant means putting one in his partner as well - an eerie stranger schooled in the black art of witchcraft. This is one killing that brings with it a deadly curse - and a second shadow.