HUNGRY AS A WOLF
by Elizabeth Einspanier
BLURB:
Wolf
Cowrie is back in his second adventure! In the Black Hills of the Dakota
Territory in 1865, tensions run high between white settlers looking for gold
and the Sioux people who consider this region their holy ground. When Wolf is
hired to find out what happened to the workers of a mining outpost in the area,
the general theory in Goldwater is that they were slaughtered by the Sioux.
Wolf discovers something far more sinister lurking in the Black Hills, an
ancient evil whose unending hunger drives sane men to ghoulish extremes.
EXCERPT:
Smythe greeted the two men with a horrified look and a
startled oath.
“Yar Doc is dead,” Wolf said. “Again. This time I think he
might stay down. Ken we come in?”
Smythe backed up, still staring. “You’re… you’re covered
in…” he managed to squeak.
“It ain’t mine,” Wolf said, wiping his feet on the welcome
mat before walking into the front hall. “Now go get yar master so’s we can give
him the good news. And… I need a basin of water to wash up.”
The servant returned a minute later with a pitcher of water
and a basin, and Wolf endeavored to scrub his hands and face until his flesh
stopped crawling. He was halfway through when Hartford uttered a syllable that
made his blood run cold.
“Ma’am.”
Wolf looked up, gory water dripping down his hands and chin,
to find Susannah in the doorway. She was staring at him in a mixture of horror
and concern, and he was acutely aware of the results of an exploded skull still
clinging to him. He swallowed hard, wishing fervently that the ground would
just swallow him up right there.
“Miss Twohill,” he greeted her. “I… I took care of the
problem ya had running around. He won’t get any more of the townsfolk. Don’t
you worry none.”
“What… what happened?” she asked. “Are you…? Did he…?”
“No,” he said. “I ain’t bit. This is just… well... we, ah…
blew his... brains out.” He glanced at Hartford for assistance, but the other
man was steadfastly looking out the window. The message was clear: he was
staying out of this conversation.
AUTHOR BIO:
Elizabeth
Einspanier is the self-published author of the Weird Western novella Sheep’s
Clothing and the upcoming sci-fi romance novel Heart of Steel. Her short
stories have been published in Down in the Dirt and Dark Fire Fiction. She is a
member of the St. Louis Writer’s Guild and an associate member of the Horror
Writers of America. She lives in St. Louis, but frequently spends extended
periods in worlds of her own creation.
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1 comments:
I love books that are historical, and set out west. Good job on the review.
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