num_pages: 188
description: The time is 1902, the setting eastern Oregon. Magic Child, a fifteen-year-old Indian girl, wanders into the wrong whorehouse looking for the right men to kill the monster that lives in the ice caves under the basement of Miss Hawkline's yellow house. What follows is a series of wild, witty, and bizarre encounters. The book was originally published in 1974.
language: English
title: The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western
titlecomplete: The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western
characters: Cameron, Miss Hawkline, Greer
genres: Literature, American, Classics, Novels, Gothic, Westerns, Horror, Fiction, Humor, Fantasy
ratings_count: 5380
places: Oregon
publisher: Pocket Books