David Whitehead

Something terrifying has started happening in Eggerton. People are turning up drained of blood and very, very dead. Have vampire bats started attacking humans? If so, then who's delivering the hammer-blow that finally kills the victims? For Detective Inspector Jack Sears it's a mystery that not even virologist Doctor Christopher Deacon can fathom. But then the police get lucky. Against all the odds one of the victims survives. But strangely enough, that's when things go from bad to worse ...

"'Gilbert's poems are beautifully situated at the intersection of craft and feeling.'-- Billy Collins In this rapacious world, we eat or are eaten--so poet-critic Sandra M. Gilbert suggests throughout Judgment Day, her tenth collection of poems. Tracing this theme through the range of histories that make us who we are--private, public, religious, artistic, even culinary--Gilbert meditates on recent events as well as the sacred turnings of time, great works of graphic art, and the personal crises that continually reshape our lives. Bringing together physical and metaphysical, elegy and celebration, Judgment Day is rich with Gilbert's signature grace and insight"--

They rode into Austin Springs stirrup to stirrup, six men with guns in their belts and blood in their eyes. The minute Town Marshal Sam Judge clapped eyes on them he pegged them as trouble. He was right too, because by sunset, death had called and the blood of innocents had been spilled in the town's quiet and dusty streets.

These seven short stories take you on a trip through the twilight world of the supernatural, which include: the terrifying universe where men fall in love with monsters; a troubled child's nightmares which prove to be real; a house which attracts evil much as a sponge attracts water; and demons, from a time before history, making Satanic pacts in order to return from the past. Not a journey for the faint-hearted -- there will be no shortage of scare tactics.

Tim Dennison died a slow and agonising death, but because he was a sheepman in a valley that was controlled by two powerful cattle-barons, no one cared if his killers got away with murder - except veteran town-tamer Sam Judge and his gun-swift young partner, Matt Dury. When they tangled with a bunch of masked gunmen in a shooting spree that left another two men dead, it became kind of personal. However, Dennison's death was the tip of the iceberg. Beneath the surface, the Tabosa Valley Sheep War was a powder-keg just waiting to blow.

Seven people are driving a herd of cattle through Comanche country to Abilene. These seven have no business working together--an ex-lawman, a gunfighter, an Indian tracker, an army deserter, a young woman and a boy, and a hate-filled old man. What draws them together is the common danger they face. But when they begin to hate each other more than they fear the Indians around them, their lust, greed and hatred will tear them apart.