Turpitude

Who goes there, bleeding in the snow? In this otherworldly and horrific post-Civil War tale, a Buffalo Soldier leads a rough band of black men (and one dissipated German) in snowy pursuit of a child killer. But, will a mouthless, mythic joker thwart the posse before their darkest prey is captured for blood money? A disturbing one-of-a-kind fable as deep as the hills where their torment and folly unfold. A Tale Untold by a Riddle Top Magpie. From the author of The Kestrel Waters and Wicked Temper. "Thornhorn, where the hell have you been?" ~ William Peter Blatty (author of The Exorcist) "One of the South's wildest new voices..." ~ The Oxford American Magazine "Randy Thornhorn is clearly the love child of Sam Shepard and Flannery O'Connor, raised since childhood by Willie Nelson and Karen Black. He isn't just a good writer, he's a GREAT writer. Southern Gothic magic at its best." ~ Kat Manaan _________________ The Unforeseen Writings of Randy Thornhorn: Where ravenous love and murderous intent festers beneath the Southern skin, searching for release and revelation. Randy Thornhorn unleashes the hellhound electric: grotesque fables, relentless howlings, and touching remnants torn from the heart—gunning up and down the bedeviled backroads run by great Southern Gothic scouts like Edgar Allen Poe, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Truman Capote, Eudora Welty, and even Harper Lee. (And recent Southern Gothic travelers like Barry Hannah, Donna Tartt, Mary Ward Brown, Lee Smith, Poppy Z. Brite, John Kennedy Toole, and Cormac McCarthy). Thornhorn braves a spectral, displaced land where bad daddies, careless lovers, and other vampires collide in horror and comic disarray, amidst the ironic human echoes of Mark Twain and Charles Portis. Prepare yourself for demons and gods you never knew existed, where Randy Thornhorn plays the fool and the fool killer, the high lonesome magpie and the boom-chicka-boom. Rest assured. You have never read the like. . . . (sdb).