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Mark Justice's The Dead Sheriff Cannibals and Bloodsuckers Kindle Edition
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateDecember 21, 2018
- File size4639 KB
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- ASIN : B07MGKVF9B
- Publisher : Airship 27 Productions (December 21, 2018)
- Publication date : December 21, 2018
- Language : English
- File size : 4639 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 176 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,517,820 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #734 in Western Horror Fiction
- #60,644 in Westerns (Books)
- #211,244 in Horror Literature & Fiction
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About the authors
Started writing comic books back in 1983 and been at it ever since. Have written over 600 hundred comic scripts. Started Airship 27 Productions eleven years ago to write, edit and produce new pulp novels and anthologies. My own work can also be found in Moonstone Books pulp anthologies as well. Rest of my day is spent spoiling the hell out of my six grand kids. Oh, and the five kids aren't too bad either. Hope people who read my stuff have fun with it.
Mark Justice is the author of Looking at the World with Broken Glass in My Eye, Deadneck Hootenanny and co-author of Dead Earth: The Green Dawn, Dead Earth: The Vengeance Road and Dead Earth: Sanctuary With David T. Wilbanks. His short fiction has appeared in Damned Nation, In Laymon's Terms, Legends of the Mountain State 1,2, 3 & 4. The Horror Library Vol. 2 & 3, The Avenger Chronicles, The Green Hornet Chronicles, Dark Discoveries, Legends of New Pulp Fiction and many other anthologies and magazines. He co-edited the holiday horror anthology Appalachian Winter Hauntings. The Dead Sheriff: Zombie Damnation (Volume 1) and co-author of Dead Sheriff Cannibals and Bloodsuckers with Ron Fortier
Justice is a Morning Drive Radio Broadcasting Personality plus he produces and hosts the popular genre podcast Pod of Horror. He lives in Kentucky with his wife Norma Kay and cats.
You can find him at http://markjustice.blogspot.com/
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I read Mark Justice’s first Dead Sheriff (Zombie Damnation) novel for review back in 2014 with a bit of trepidation at first due to my not being a big fan of westerns. As it turned out, Mark’s imagination and gifted storytelling ability swiftly won me over. It was so chock-full of thrilling, comic book-style, weird western action it was a blast to read. After I finished it, I was eager to return to its unique world which was populated with so many intriguing characters. Mark was working on a sequel when he passed away from a heart attack in 2016. It seemed as though The Dead Sheriff would never ride again, but pulp writer Ron Fortier took the manuscript and notes Mark had and, with the blessing of Mark’s widow Norma, completed, and now published it through his company Airship 27. What follows is my review of that sequel.
Cannibals an Bloodsuckers picks up a few months following the events in the previous book. Journalist Richard O’Malley is still traveling with Sam and the animated, gun-toting, corpse known as The Dead Sheriff. The pursuit of a bounty brings them into conflict with a pair of cannibalistic brothers, Arlo and Billy Belcher. The two are twisted and evil with a constant hunger for human meat. While Billy is the brains, Arlo is a giant hulk of a man who’s incredibly strong. Sam and his crew soon discover taking these two down will be both extremely difficult and costly.
While all this is going on, Sam is also being sought by a man named Labine, from whom Sam originally took the amulet and spell book that allows him to use The Dead Sheriff. Labine has his own dark magic at his command, as well as a powerful demon bodyguard to help him retrieve what was taken from him.
As if that weren’t enough, the Vampire Queen Magdala has brought her brood of vampire women into their vicinity. They pose as a traveling bordello of prostsitutes that pulls into town to lure the menfolk in before sprouting giant bat wings and feeding on them.
Our group of heroes end up joining forces with another frontier hero, a woman named Hattie Feilds who drives a stagecoach and carries a sawed-off shotgun. She spends her time hunting and killing vampires who murdered her family. She’s assisted by two Indian sidekicks with their own special talents.
Mark was such an amazing writer, it’s a pleasure to read his work again, and Ron Fortier does a good job filling in and finishing however much Mark had left unfinished. I liked getting more backstory for more of the wild west gunslingers such as The Silver Paladin and his boy sidekick Bullet, the cape wearing Sidewinder, and arrogant Lariat Smith. Each of them have interesting personalities and get to have their own share of the spotlight. One minor quibble I had was with the introduction of Hattie Feilds. She’s an interesting character with a cool backstory, but she doesn’t show up until somewhere around the final third of the book, afterwhich she recieves a large focus in the storyline. It felt a bit jarring for such a major contributor to the storyline to show up so late.
Overall, Cannibals an Bloodsuckers reads like a fun, blockbuster-summer-movie type adventure set in the weird west genre. It boasts a whole host of characters on both sides of the law, and when the heroes all team up together there are six of them, each with their own special abilities giving them a sort of Wild West Avengers feels.
The book also contains several great black-and-white illustrated pages peppered throughout from Art Cooper.
At the end of the book Mark’s widow Norma Kay Ison Justice writes about her husband and the journey this book went through to be published. She also notes that Mark would have been thrilled with how it turned out. I think he would as well.
Fortier's writing style does, in fact, blend ideally with Justice's, as the Airship 27 author/publisher helps resurrect the saga of a young Indian called Sam (aka Cheveyo) who possesses the magical means to puppeteer a prodigious corpse to slay bad men and their demonic peers.
In the sensational sequel, "Cannibals and Bloodsuckers", we're introduced to the flesh-feasting Arlo and Billy Belcher and the nomadic, parasitic prostitutes of magnetic Madame Magdala. Along for the ride is gritty Thunderstorm Parker (my favorite of the supporting characters); the flashy, would-be avenger, Silver Paladin and his snippy sidekick, Bullet; the Zorro-like Sidewinder; the handsome but doomed Lariat Smith; the feisty Hattie Fields; the dark-shackled Labine; and Sam's awestruck partner, newsman Richard O'Malley, whose detailed accounts are certain to keep one gripped. However, none can compare to the eponymous, crusty protagonist, who more than rises to the crusading cause.
At its winsome heart, Fortier and Justice's story plays like a monster-rally epic, thanks its many eccentric characters. The strange (though often amusing) interactions recall strands of "Curse of the Undead", "The Living Coffin", "Bone Tomahawk", "The Hills Have Eyes" and "From Dusk till Dawn", but with an old-time, cowpoke slant that classic-western aficionados will be happy to suckle and devour.
The vivid text is enhanced by Art Cooper's ingenious illustrations, which add extra creepiness to the novel. There's also Zachary Brunner's lurid cover, which captures the bloody panache of the best Euroshock posters.
On all levels, this lively undead package is fated to exceed one's spookiest expectations.
Long live the Dead Sheriff!!!