The six-gun tarot

English language

Published Nov. 10, 2013 by Tor.

ISBN:
978-0-7653-2932-5
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"Nevada, 1869: Beyond the pitiless 40-Mile Desert lies Golgotha, a cattle town that hides more than its share of unnatural secrets. The sheriff bears the mark of the noose around his neck; some say he is a dead man whose time has not yet come. His half-human deputy is kin to coyotes. The mayor guards a hoard of mythical treasures. A banker's wife belongs to a secret order of assassins. And a shady saloon owner, whose fingers are in everyone's business, may know more about the town's true origins than he's letting on. A haven for the blessed and the damned, Golgotha has known many strange events, but nothing like the primordial darkness stirring in the abandoned silver mine overlooking the town. Bleeding midnight, an ancient evil is spilling into the world, and unless the sheriff and his posse can saddle up in time, Golgotha will have seen its last …

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The basic bones of The Six Gun Tarot are familiar. An ancient evil awakens in a small town, and a ragtag band of locals have to join together to try to stop it. But the details are important, and in this case the details are what separate The Six Gun Tarot from so many other stories.

First, there’s the town itself. Golgotha is a Nevada town after the silver mine tapped out. It’s not a ghost town yet, but there’s a sense that the town is in decline, and may be there eventually. And Golgotha seems to have lots of secrets. We never really learn about most of them, but hints are there – a grave that must be salted, strange murders that have happened. At one point a character asks if the trouble is regular trouble, or “Golgotha trouble”.

Of course a town is nothing without its citizens, and …

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