Warlock
by Oakley Hall · first published 1958
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Sharpshooter Clay Blaisedell is called to Warlock, a wild frontier town, to restore order, but the more he tries to fix the town's problems, the more the town plunges into chaos all around him.
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…as being particularly filthy, but it has been a long time. It remains one of my all-time favorites. If nothing else, I'm indebted to the book for encouraging me to seek out literary westerns such as Warlock by Oakley Hall and Butcher's Crossing by John Williams.
on “Neal Stephenson was prescient about our AI age” ↗If the revisionist Western appeals to you, I'd also recommend Oakley Hall's Warlock.
on “Cormac McCarthy's personal library” ↗