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Six-guns vs. werewolves in the Old West!
They’re hired guns. The best at what they do. They’ve left bodies in their wake across the West. But this job is different. It’ll take all their skill and courage. And very special bullets. Because their targets this time won’t be shooting back. They’ll fight back with ripping claws, tearing fangs and animal cunning. They’re werewolves. A pack of bloodthirsty wolfmen has taken over a small Mexican village, and the gunmen are the villagers’ last hope. The light of the full moon will reveal the deadliest showdown the West has ever seen—three men with six-shooters facing off against snarling, inhuman monsters.
- Sales Rank: #1031039 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-11-05
- Released on: 2013-11-05
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
“THE GUNS OF SANTA SANGRE is an old-fashioned, well-made dime novel, doing Louis L’Amour, Elmore Leonard and Richard Matheson proud"
—Bookgasm
"In our mythos of the Old West, there are bad guys and even badder guys, But Eric Red's are the biggest, baddest guys of all..."
—Jack Ketchum
"With The Guns Of Santa Sangre, Eric Red delivers a wild mash-up of action-thriller and bloody horror. This one really digs its claws into you from page one to last bite. Fast, furious, and wickedly fun. Highly recommended."
—Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Fire & Ash and Extinction Machine
"It's The Magnificent Seven meets Dog Soldiers! Taut, action packed and gory as hell! I couldn't put it down!"
—Arrow In The Head at JoBlo.com.
"For connoisseurs of the Old West, Eric Red's The Guns of Santa Sangre has all the elements of a classic:
It opens with a fast-and-furious stagecoach heist;
It has outlaws who, beneath their coarse exterior, boast hearts of gold;
It has touches of Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven;
It has a beautiful heroine disguised as a boy;
And...oh yes!...it has WEREWOLVES!
Quick, smooth, easily read, an almost filmic rendition of the time-honored traditions of the Western, with a deftly handled incursion of the unnatural, with the two blended into a single, intriguing story."
—Hellnotes.
"I really like the trend combining horror with Westerns and THE GUNS OF SANTA SANGRE increases my confidence in this surprisingly popular sub-genre. I thoroughly enjoyed Red's novel with its flawed heroes and the savagery of the werewolves. If you have yet to read a horror Western, this is a good book to start with."
—Horror Fiction Review
“Eric Red brings his considerable talent as a screenwriter to bear on this powerful tale.”
—Ramsey Campbell, author of The Influence
“Titillating and original.”
—Joel Schumacher, director of The Lost Boys, Flatliners and Falling Down
About the Author
Eric Red is a Los Angeles based motion picture screenwriter, director and author. His original scripts include The Hitcher for Tri Star, Near Dark for DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group, Blue Steel for MGM and the western The Last Outlaw for HBO. He directed and wrote the crime film Cohen and Tate for Hemdale, Body Parts for Paramount, Undertow for Showtime, Bad Moon for Warner Bros. and the ghost story 100 Feet for Grand Illusions Entertainment. He created and wrote the Sci-Fi/Horror comic series and graphic novel Containment for IDW Publishing.
Eric's recent published horror and suspense short stories include “Colorblind” in Cemetery Dance magazine, “The Buzzard” in Weird Tales magazine, “Little Nasties” in Shroud magazine, “In the Mix” in the Dark Delicacies III: Haunted anthology and “Past Due” in Mulholland Books' Popcorn Fiction. His first novel, a dark coming-of-age tale about teenagers called Don't Stand So Close, was published in July 2012. His second novel, a werewolf western called The Guns Of Santa Sangre, will be published in November 2012 by Samhain Publishing.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
The devil in his purest form
By MR A G WOODLIFFE
What Jack Ketchum said about the book is true. These really are the baddest bad guys you could ever come across. The villains in this book are monstrous in every way; not only on the inside, but on the outside also. In the day, they are heartless marauding psychopaths; at night, the full moon shows their dark nature in its true form: ravenous predatory animals.
In that church newly-dubbed ''Santa Sangre'', where the evil ones have taken people prisoner, it's as if the devil himself has made his new home, and hell has become a place on earth.
So what are my thoughts?
Eric certainly doesn't waste time in cutting to the chase. That first chapter, when they are in the wagon in the middle of nowhere, and it is pitch black, we hear the howls in the darkness, and it is absolutely terrifying. Then Eric did something I kinda hated him for: all the people we are introduced to in that chapter are slaughtered. You think to yourself ''Surely the bounty hunter is going to make it'' but that security blanket of ours is then swiftly torn to pieces, just like the shower scene in Hitchcock's ''Psycho''.
The book does have some surprising turns. Its main premises are that of claustrophobia, and despair. Yet there are times I laughed, such as when the 3 protagonists , after much reluctance given their selfish nature, help the village girl in burying some recently killed corrupt policemen, she says ''You are good men senors'' to which they shout 'SHUT UP' in unison.
What hit me the most is the scene where the leader of the wolves takes the little girl out onto the porch, and for a moment we see a side to him we thought could never exist: pain, almost a fatherly affection for the girl. Eric seems to have a talent for this, in giving us the most extreme antagonists, and yet still finding ways of bringing out traces of humanity in them. It reminded me of an earlier piece written by Eric, where a seemingly unstoppable 'psychopath' stalks and terrorises a kid in the desert wilderness of America, and then suddenly the winds turn when the monster asks the kid to end his life, and once the kid fails, disappointingly says ''After all the work I put into you..'
My interpretation of the ending may seem controversial to some, but after reading back on the village girl's fantasies of being rescued by some dark, mysterious handsome stranger, I came to a conclusion: the guns of Santa Sangre were never real. They were a figment of an adolescent girl's imagination. Some twisted depraved individuals devastated her townsfolk, and she fantasised about 3 strong, but kind, strangers who would drive the monsters away. And just as she fantasised, the strongest of these 3 men would make passionate love to her, and she would then bear his child, after he rides away in the wilderness, never to be seen again.
Then again, the real ending may be completely different to mine. That's the great thing about Eric's writing. You never really can tell what is true. The real story shrouded in mystery. It's hidden out there in the wilderness, just like the places in this book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
I love weird westerns
By James Thompson
I love weird westerns! This book is a lot of fun and so far hasn't been boring. Some of the negative reviews are valid. There is not a lot of character development and the story is somewhat predictable. But in all fairness this book was never presented as the next great American novel. It accomplishes what it sets out to to do and that is to entertain. So if you are into werewolves, westerns, and gore then you will enjoy this immensely.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
A Wolf Goes For The Throat...
By Fulgore
Amidst the ever-expanding torrent of wussification that has fallen so forcefully upon the realm of mythological beasts, there remain strong voices in the genre that seem to cry foul and break away from the mainstream’s recent (and painful )romanticizing of all things once regarded as horrific. Granted, Stoker’s Dracula, Shelley’s Frankenstein and a wealth of other novels maintained an air of passion, it didn’t dumb the material down for readers or pander to the lowest common denominator in hopes that teenage girls would bring about an easy cash-grab. Enter Eric Red, the screenwriting mastermind behind the viciously grim The Hitcher and the vampire-cum-western Near Dark (an absolute personal favorite). While Mr. Red is far better known for his cinematic creations (as well as directorial efforts like Bad Moon and 100 Feet), he has also lent his talents for writing to the novelized medium—his most recent being that of The Guns of Santa Sangre.
Much like the material Eric Red has developed for celluloid, The Guns of Santa Sangre is a western-horror hybrid. The narrative is a blunt look at the brutally wild west combined with that of an unapologetically violent fantasy. Really, at just over 200 pages, the book performs like a great creature-feature one might see on the weekend. It’s wholly unpretentious, moves at a breakneck pace and characterizes its subjects between mountains of gore-spilling violence. This isn’t a Lord of the Rings story focused on a hundred-page build-up, it’s a neck-snapping surge of a journey in which the reader is thrown head first. Even now, the first chapter is still my favorite as it provided a blast of an opening that had my eyes widening at the merciless disposal of its subjects and my jaw dropping at its nifty misdirection. Like a groovy B-movie, the characters herein are given just enough depth to make one root for them. Having said that, I truly enjoyed the development of Sangre’s leading man, Tucker, and his morally conflicted conscience. Having a pure character incapable of fallacy is boring to read and watch (***cough, cough, Twilight, cough ***) and I’ve always appreciated the broken antihero over the supermen out there. Tucker is no exception. He’s a conflicted man who’s spent most of his days killing, stealing and committing sexual debauchery. Directly off the bat, he’s a tough character to get behind, but that’s what I dug: that he was a very human character. He wasn’t perfect and he knew it. Thus, to see his progression from “evil” to that of someone trying to relearn how to be good was quite compelling. Even when he performs a good deed there’s still that remnant of who he used to be. One portion of the book has him between savior and devil as he can either shoot a villainous beast, or take part in accosting the victims around him. It’s tension-fueled moments like this that made me come to support the character and yearn to see him through.
And a hero’s only as good as the villains he fights. . .
And the wolves herein are pretty vile. To say the least. Much like The Golem by Edward Lee, the beasts herein are conscious even as eight foot tanks of matted fur and jagged teeth. Thus, their actions are that much more reprehensible because they don’t have the excuse of being “mentally uncontrollable”. Much like their human forms, the werewolves within these pages butcher, murder, molest and rape with reckless abandon. Even with an interesting back-story (albeit too brief), they never come off as pitiable but remain repugnant throughout. Calderon, a “vulpine” henchmen to the lead villain Mosca, even has a perverse introduction that makes the reader hope all the more that Tucker and his boys will just put all of the howling canines down for good.
Having said that, this is also where some of my qualms came into play. . .
While I loved the go, go, go pacing, certain sections leading up to the climax (as well as the climax) felt too rushed. One late battle depicts Tucker, Bodie and Fix dueling a wolf within contorting canyons. The bout of bullets and brute strength builds and builds only to end with a near one-sentence description along the lines of “and then this happened and the foe was dead”. Considering this psychopathic brute to be one of the more reprehensible of the pack, I expected his demise to be a bit more memorable, especially considering that directly before this, a heroic character was just dispatched in one of the story’s most gruesomely twisted ways. That, and while the climactic shoot-out within the innards of a burning church was awesome to read, it ended far too quickly for this werewolf/horror enthusiast. Again, it’s not that it’s bad by any means, but considering these creatures-of-the-night have survived for 500 years, I expected more of a final showdown than what actually occurs.
Also, in their bestial form, the werewolves tears into their own dead to feast. However, silver is treated like that of a gradually expanding fire, as earlier, one antagonist continues to wail in pain until it’s removed. Thus, wouldn’t the wolves which gorge upon their furry brethren (who have been shot with silver) swallow the silver and thus begin to suffer the same effects?
I also found one character’s existence in the book to fall by the wayside as he’s developed in a parallel manner to our trinity of gunslingers, but by the end—for me—felt as though his purpose was rather underplayed beyond a werewolf plot point that is only made mention of—not actually employed.
As Eric Red has maintained a hand firmly clenched on the realm of cinema, it’s no surprise that in many ways, the book reads like a screenplay. While there’s a countless amount of beautifully concise writing, imagery and descriptions, I never lost the feeling that it felt structured for that of a movie. This isn’t a negative thing by any means, as it actually gives further credence to my former statements of being akin to an energetic monster movie. While I believe it could have benefited from a slightly longer length so as to provide some more meat to the bones, I thoroughly enjoyed my time with The Guns of Santa Sangre. It may not break any new ground, but its unique setting and solid collection of ideas make it consistently engaging. That, and it’s just violent. . . Bloody violent. In terms of sheer entertainment, The Guns of Santa Sangre doesn’t strain the brain, but instead, goes straight for the throat. And honestly, I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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