Cowboys and keelboatmen, farmers and trappers, outlaws and braves,
soldiers and thieves, con men and newlyweds, all run afoul of the unknown
in fourteen tales of western horror in and around a fictional mountain range
"Larry BlamireÕs stories set in the Callamo Mountains may be short-form, but I find them his most ambitious writing, and also his most primal. They are ominous, unsettling, occasionally poetical and amusing stories, told with real affection for their woebegone characters, that take us back to our fundamental fears of the dark, of the woods, of Nature itself - and the foolishness of anyone who presumes to stake claim to it. If there's a truly American counterpart to the great weird outdoors fiction of Arthur Machen or M.R. James, this might be it.Ó - Tim Lucas, author of Throat Sprockets