Four Rode Out (Limited First Edition, Signed)

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First edition · Signed

CURRAN, Tim, Brian KEENE, Tim LEBBON Steve VERNON. Four Rode Out. Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2010. 8vo. Original publisher's tan cloth. Smyth-sewn. Pictorial dust jacket. 280 pp., with illustrations and cover art by Glenn Chadbourne; introduction by Ronald Kelly. First edition. Limited to 750 signed and numbered copies. Signed by all four authors. Now out of print. The weird western has a distinguished pedigree in American popular fiction, from the dime novel through to the work of Joe Lansdale and beyond. What Cemetery Dance assembled here is a quartet of novellas by four writers who between them represent some of the most energetic voices in contemporary horror fiction: Tim Curran, whose atmospheric 1867: Skull-Eater Campaign follows soldiers tracking an evil across a wintry landscape to a confrontation with the supernatural; Brian Keene, whose An Occurrence in Crazy Bear Valley traps a gang of cutthroat outlaws in a cabin with something far worse than themselves; Tim Lebbon, a New York Times-bestselling author and winner of multiple British Fantasy Awards, whose Another Hope imagines the obliteration of a frontier town by creatures released from the mountains; and Steve Vernon, whose Rueful Regret follows a bounty hunter's dark reckoning with guilt and consequence across a cold-blooded tale that reads, in the words of one reviewer, like downed fine whiskey. Illustrated throughout by Glenn Chadbourne — Cemetery Dance's most distinctive visual collaborator — and

• Binding: Hardcover

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