Country under Heaven

336 pages

English language

Published 2025 by Melville House Publishing.

ISBN:
978-1-68589-169-5
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When you have a favorite genre that you read frequently, some of the more general contours and expectations of that content sort of retread the same territory so often that the larger body of works you've read start to blend together over the long run. Then you come across something that really does something unique and new that you can't help but sit up and acknowledge that you actually in fact have not seen it all.

This was a spontaneous bookstore buy that I didn't recognize (wasn't until I finished it did I realize this book has been out for just about two months; it's basically brand new) and the back cover marketing blurb of "Louis L'Amour meets H.P. Lovecraft!" that originally had me roll my eyes... ended up being actually pretty goddamn accurate! This is a Western first and foremost with all the usual trappings you'd expect: beautiful-yet-unforgiving …

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