1868. Ex-Army officer Seth Collins is trying to forget the horrors of the Civil War when he finds himself faced with another kind of horror altogether. Something, not someone, is hunting the people of Silver Branch, including Collins estranged sister. A strange and seemingly unkillable wolf prowls the wilderness, killing not simply for pleasure, but to utterly destroy Silver Branch. But this is a town with its own secrets, ones that it won t give up willingly. Collins shortly finds himself trapped between the obligations of family and friendship. These duties lead him straight into darkness, where he has to find a way to defeat a creature that is neither man nor beast, all the while threatened by the the very town he s trying to save. Gorgeously illustrated in stark black and white, Murder Moon is a trip to a dark West that never was. In the wilderness of the Strangeways, black hats and badmen are the least of your worries. Here, there s fates worse than death and you just might find that your trusty revolver isn t enough to get you out of trouble. Murder Moon features artwork by Steve Lieber (Civil War: Frontline and Whiteout), Guy Davis (Sandman Mystery Theatre and B.P.R.D.), Fábio Moon (Smoke and Guns) and Gabriel Bá (Casanova). Murder Moon is illustrated by newcomer Luis GuaragÃ±a and includes the short story Lone illustrated by Gervasio and Jok. Chapter one of Strangeways: Murder Moon is available for reading online at highway-62.com

Strangeways: Murder Moon

Literature & Fiction

Matt Maxwell

Genre Fiction

Highway 62 Press

Two towns: One living and one not-quite-dead. Westward bound, ex-soldier Seth Collins finds a ruined village named Drytown. Just why is it that everyone in Drytown seems to want to avoid the sun? Before long, Collins finds that Drytown isn't a village, but a deathtrap. But who's setting it with live human bait? There's no clear answers, and only just barely time to escape to safety in the nearby town of Cedar Creek. The monsters from Drytown are thirsty enough to follow and hunt, even in the sunlight now. Led by their master, Raphael de Medina, the creatures are driven by desire and addiction and will not stop until they've drunk every single drop. Husbands hunt wives, men of faith are shaken, the law provides no safety, and one man's hunt for revenge may doom all the living souls of both towns to a monstrous kind of half-life, to thirst without end. The Thirsty is the follow up to MURDER MOON and the second graphic novel from writer Matt Maxwell (TUG ON THE RIBBON, HIGHWAY 62 REVISITED and RAGNAROK SUMMER.) The book features artwork by Gervasio and Jok, Luis Guragña and Alex Sheikman. In addition to the feature story, this volume includes the novella "Red Hands" which tells the story of a different breed of vampire. Gorgeously illustrated in stark black and white, THE THIRSTY is a trip to a dark West that never was. In the wilderness of the Strangeways, black hats and badmen are the least of your worries. Here, there's fates worse than death and you just might might that your trusty revolver isn't enough to get you out of trouble.

Strangeways: The Thirsty

Los Angeles.The Eighties.Cait MacReady is an ex-punk rocker, having spent her college years bouncing around the underground that was quickly burning out and becoming something more hardcore. She spent time interning with occult mystery hunters running their own ramshackle television show. She became a librarian and book restorer. She became a forger, recreating lost and forbidden volumes of magickal power, all the time never once believing that there was anything to all that and steering well clear of anyone who did.She made up a book of her own. To see if she could fool anyone into thinking that it was real history, real magic, real power. Just to see what happened. Then she met the Queen.The Queen already knows about the book, already believes in its power, already craves what is written within those pages. And she'll do anything to possess it.Originally released in 2018, The Queen of No Tomorrows returns in a revised edition. Accompanying the original novel is a new novella entitled "Dreams are Made of Us," telling the story of the band Dreamless, who may have stumbled into overnight success after ten years. But success comes at the cost of playing someone else's song. Only this time it's the Queen of No Tomorrows who is calling the tune.The first of the Hazeland books, The Queen of No Tomorrows combines crime and weird horror, wrapped around a heart of longing and a perhaps dangerous belief in the power of the word to change the real. This edition also includes many pages of behind-the-scenes notes, inspirations and shots fired across the bow of hidebound thought.

The Queen of No Tomorrows: Book one of Hazeland

Maxwell, Matt

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