Man With the Barbed Wire Fists

Jacket art by John Picacio

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 As an added bonus, the limited edition also features an unpublished piece of juvenilia, “Castle of the Honda Monsters”.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

Hardcover

Limited to 200 signed and slipcased (note, these slipcases look horrible!) copies, plus the limited includes a bonus chapbook, "The Castle of the Honda Monsters", as well as a bound-in ribbon bookmark