The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists

A brand-new collection from Norman Partridge! This volume gathers several previously uncollected stories together with two new stories written for this collection. The 24 stories that make up this collection span the length of Partridge’s writing career. It also features an 8,500-word introduction, as well as a complete bibliography. As an added bonus, the limited edition also features an unpublished piece of juvenilia, “Castle of the Honda Monsters”. - 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. Contents: Seeing Past the Corners (An Introduction of Sorts) Red Right Hand 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 Coyotes ¡Cuidado! Do Not Hasten To Bid Me Adieu Carne Muerta Bucket of Blood Undead Origami Harvest The Bars On Satan's Jailhouse Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.