The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists

Bram Stoker Award winner 2001.

- In a suburban American ghost town, a frightened boy armed with a BB gun stands alone against a soul-stealing stranger.

- During the Great Depression, outlaw rivals of Bonnie and Clyde battle for their lives in a bullet-riddled cornfield that holds the secret of love and death

- Returning to Texas beneath a sky the color of a woman’s heart, the man who slew Count Dracula brings a coffin and a thirst for vengeance to the town that abandoned him.

Norman Partridge’s third short story collection gathers several previously uncollected stories together with two new stories written for this volume. It also features an 8,500-word introduction, as well as a bibliography. As an added bonus, the limited edition also features an unpublished piece of juvenilia, “Castle of the Honda Monsters”.

Contents:

• Seeing Past the Corners (An Introduction of Sorts)
• Red Right Hand
• Coyotes
• Do Not Hasten To Bid Me Adieu
• The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists
• The Pack
• Blood Money
• Last Kiss
• Blackbirds
• Wrong Turn
• Spyder
• In Beauty, Like the Night
• Minutes
• Where the Woodbine Twineth
• Mr. Fox
• The Hollow Man
• Return of the Shroud
• Tombstone Moon
• The Mojave Two-Step
• ¡Cuidado!
• Carne Muerta
• Bucket of Blood
• Undead Origami
• Harvest
• The Bars On Satan's Jailhouse
• Bibliography