James Blake
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Some called him a Texas hero. Some called him the Devil himself. But on one point, they all agreed. While he was alive, John Wesley Hardin was the deadliest man in Texas. A novel of uncompromising depth and power from western master James Carlos Blake, called one of the greatest chroniclers of the mythical American outlaw life" by Entertainment Weekly, The Pistoleer narrates the life of John Wesley Hardin, exposing the many different sides of a man...
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"Powerful. . . impressive. . . [an] epic of the 1840s frontier." -Dallas Morning News
With soaring and masterful prose, James Carlos Blake brings to life an enthralling historical time and place-and a cast of memorable characters-in a stunning tale of dark instinct, blood reckoning, and fates forged in the zeal of America's "Manifest Destiny."
The offspring of a whore mother and a homicidal father, Edward and John Little are driven from their home...
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The scrublands of South Texas, the warm coastland of the Gulf of Mexico, a cinderblock flophouse near the produce fields of South Florida: all are borderlands of mixed blood and spilled blood, of generations forged in fight, failure, and hope. In this extraordinary collection of short works, the masterful James Carlos Blake, author of In the Rogue Blood and the Wolfe family series of border noirs, journeys from the nineteenth-century Mexican frontier...
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The Blue Sea Monster is an ugly, scary monster who roamed the beaches of Palm Beach, capturing little children at dusk. Blake's grandfather suspected the children were, taken to a deserted island in the Bahamas, and he was determined to find those children who had been, kidnapped. Blake James went with his grandfather to get the chopper at the airport. Flying over many deserted islands, Grandfather said, "Maybe we will see something from up here."...
15) Deathgasm
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Two teenage boys unwittingly summon an ancient evil entity known as The Blind One by delving into black magic while trying to escape their mundane lives.