Every man walks with a shadow . . . but what happens when he acquires a second one? Just ask Brazos a dead ringer for Jack Palance who s 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.
As Brazos is about to discover, the Wild West doesn t get any wilder than when a man is damned to live and die in the Shadows from Boot Hill.
A note from L. Ron Hubbard, written many years ago, that could as well be addressed to you, today s reader: Dear Range Boss: Four million of my words have been published in fifty different magazines. . . . Just now I m larruping fantasy fiction more than anything else, though I ve been writing Westerns for some time, too. Hope your readers like Shadows from Boot Hill. The Old West was superstitious in the extreme and . . . reeks with more fantasy than The Arabian Nights.
Also includes the Western adventures The Gunner from Gehenna, in which a plot to steal a miner s gold reveals how a good man can go bad . . . and a bad man can do good, and Gunman , the story of an aging gunfighter turned lawman who shows his town what a real man is made of.
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A minor masterpiece. " author Will Murray"