![]() ![]() It’s hard not to praise Lansdale, who I think is one of the best writers in the field today he can write the most uproariously ribald humor, and a few pages later can break into powerful, heartbreaking emotion. ![]() For Mercer, the last of the Lord’s many tests is a final showdown between good and evil… Or perhaps a showdown between shades of gray, as Mercer is far from pure himself, and the shaman was innocent of all crimes save for the color of his skin. Mercer came to town in hopes of finding his own salvation, instead finding temptation. ![]() A demon has taken over the shaman, and his soulless body will see the townsfolk dead-and Mercer with them. Within a few days, beneath the East Texas pines, the dead begin to rise, shambling into town to devour their family and neighbors. The townsfolk, riled up by a racist deputy, just hung a travelling medicine man-a native shaman and his mulatto wife, a brutal speck of injustice that results the shaman placing a curse on Mud Creek. The gunslinger-preacher finds himself riding into the dusty town of Mud Creek, in hopes of holding an old-time revival. Reverend Jebidiah Mercer is haunted by the sins of his past, finding solace in the bottom of a whiskey bottle and in his. ![]()
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