Hangtown

<p><span style=color: rgba(5 5 5 1)>Returning to his hometown Shirley Jackson Award-nominated and Bram Stoker Award®-winning writer and editor Michael Bailey fills in the missing pieces of a town's dark past in this homage to Charles Portis' </span><em style=color: rgba(5 5 5 1)>True Grit</em><span style=color: rgba(5 5 5 1)> and Cormac McCarthy's </span><em style=color: rgba(5 5 5 1)>Blood Meridian</em><span style=color: rgba(5 5 5 1)>.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(5 5 5 1)>Based on a true story </span><em style=color: rgba(5 5 5 1)>Hangtown</em><span style=color: rgba(5 5 5 1)> is a historical western about the hangings in a placer mining town that once went by that moniker one of the first established diggings during the chaos of the Gold Rush. Set in 1848 to 1850 the unlawful were punished and hanged swiftly for crimes of theft and violence haunting forever what is now Placerville California. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(5 5 5 1)>With testimonies revealed in the whisper of oilskin stolen from beneath wooden floorboards or drawn with a finger in the dirt Bailey unearths a bloody tale [a collection of bloody tales] that seep(s) truth like an open wound. mining themes of avarice prejudice injustice and told in prose as blunt as a shovel Bailey hits paydirt with </span><em style=color: rgba(5 5 5 1)>Hangtown</em><span style=color: rgba(5 5 5 1)>. A veritable tour de force. - Lee Murray five-time Bram Stoker Award®-winning author</span></p>