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The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists

by Norman Partridge

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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 As an added bonus, the limited edition also features an unpublished piece of juvenilia, "Castle of the Honda Monsters".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.… (more)
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Norman Partridge keeps writing stuff that can't miss. I continue to highly enjoy the collections of short stories that he writes and has pulled together. This is another one where it's hard to find a bad story. The worst I can say is that some of them were simply OK and not real good or great. Enjoyable but not packing in that punch. I was also kind of spoiled with his collection MR. FOX AND OTHER FERAL TALES in that he wrote a biographical blurb before each story. Here we only get an Introduction and then a bibliography of his completed works. I suppose it allows us to focus on the stories but they were missed. It was nice to go through a streak of stories; we had three or four desert stories followed by some Las Vegas stories, all preceded by some soldier stories. My favorites are below minus some stories which I've already called out as favorites in other collections.

"Do Not Hasten To Bid Me Adieu" - A western story about a romantic cowboy marrying his vampire girlfriend.

"The Pack" - A werewolf is jailed in a small western town.

"Blackbirds" - A young boy discovers the souls of everyone in town is being sucked into hell to feed a demon and decides to stop it.

"Wrong Turn" - An actor's son tries to live off his father's coattails.

"Carne Muerta" - A drug lord gets revenge on the man sleeping with his wife. There is a twist at the end of this story that I should have seen coming but didn't. ( )
  dagon12 | Aug 29, 2020 |
Norman Partridge is the one of the finest writers of short horror fiction going. The Man With The Barbed Wire Fists is his third and best collection. It even excited this long time fan. This quote from the Washington Post says it all: “[a talent] as crazy as a scorpion on a red-hot skillet– and twice as dangerous.” You’ve been warned! ( )
  rickklaw | Oct 13, 2017 |
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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.

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