There is a house overlooking the vast, rolling plains. A home station where a traveler will be welcomed with a piping hot meal and a downy bed.It is a refuge for the weary. A beacon for the lost.A place where blood and bones feed the land.For four stagecoach passengers......a doctor in search of a missing father and daughter......a newlywed couple on the way to their homestead......and a lady in red with a bag filled with secrets...Their night at the Station has only just begun
Found in Apt. 1724, Osaka Tower Block, Southwest City 3: Hello, Tenant, Welcome to what used to be our apartment. If you intend to read on, then you should know the truth about what happened to us. The annotated version: We couldn't take living here anymore. We've been "Sector Auditors" (yes, Poisoners) for Southwest City 3 for some time now, and while our lifestyle has undeniably been better than the average Citizen's, when you've a permanent target on your back due to your job, the only way you can survive on your terms is by living on the run out in the Wastes, and we're willing to risk it, even if it means the end of our creature comforts... ...and even if it challenges our relationship with each other. So enjoy your time here while you still have it. We don't envy you whatsoever. In all sincerity, S&S Oct. 15th, Year 72 Post Res. P.S. We've left a little bit of (real) cake in the fridge. Thought it would be nice to leave some for the new Tenant. Enjoy!
Desperados and yellow-bellies be warned: These ain't your typical westerns... Herein find legendary masters of anomalous Western and Horror stories-- along with a posse of budding word-slingers-- who all bring you an electrifying and frightening collection of extraordinary tales set in the Old West and beyond... Within these pages, the improbable is made real: cowboys encounter a chimeric critter of the night; dinosaurs return as massive poltergeists; Chinese railroad workers are haunted by invisible frights; outlaws experience Cronenbergian body-horror; fallen-light stalks mother and daughter upon a wintry prairie; a headless horseman roams the badlands; otherworldly creatures hunt within our domain; screaming spectral birds nest within the damned; and gunslinging women with murderous skills annihilate foolish notions of a man's world. These are just a handful of the offerings in this body of macabre lore. So, mount your saddle-horse and join this gang of rogue authors for a ride down dark trails of terror and unsettling thoroughfares that lead deep into strange, nightmarish territory.