A Western-horror novella where the frontier’s ghosts ride at night.
In the badlands beyond the last mile marker, a drifter with a haunted past stumbles into a town that won’t stay buried. Old sins don’t sleep, and when the wind shifts, something ancient answers.
Gary Phaine is an independent author with a deep love for Westerns in all forms—films, TV classics, and timeless frontier literature. Fascinated by folklore and legends since childhood, he began weaving those old tales together with elements of horror and the supernatural. His debut, Wilderness of Sorrows, launches the Untold Tales of the Old West series—standalone stories that will eventually connect into an epic, long-planned finale. When he’s not writing, Gary enjoys treasure hunting at antique shops, exploring local history, and diving into the Western stories and legendary tales that continue to inspire his imagination.
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The wind came off the mesa like a choir of old doors, and somewhere beyond the cottonwoods a church bell rang where no church had stood for fifty years…(Replace this with your actual sample text.)
“A campfire tale told with match-flare sentences and midnight shadows.”(Swap in real reviews as they arrive.)
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