Hot Iron and Cold Blood

by Owl Goingback

First published 2023

Cowboys ride into territory where the impossible becomes deadly real. Railroad workers from China flee invisible terrors that stalk their camps. Outlaws discover their bodies transform in ways that defy nature. A mother and daughter cross a winter prairie while fallen light hunts them through the snow. Somewhere in the badlands, a headless horseman searches for victims. Gunslinging women destroy anyone foolish enough to underestimate them. Spectral birds shriek from their nests among the damned. Creatures from other worlds move through our domain, hunting. Dinosaurs return as massive spirits that terrorize the living. Each story drags readers deeper into a frontier where survival means facing both human evil and supernatural forces that bend reality itself.

Genres: adventure, fantasy, horror, supernatural, action

Vibes: dark, emotional, suspenseful, thought-provoking

Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family, survival

Setting: Badlands, China, Prairie

Period: 19th-Century

290 pages · Paperback · Death's Head Press

Content warnings: body-horror, gore, graphic-violence

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