num_pages: 400
description: R. S. Belchers debut novel The Six-Gun Tarot was enthusiastically greeted by critics and readers who praised its wildly inventive mixture of dark fantasy steampunk and the Wild West. Now Belcher returns to Golgotha Nevada a bustling frontier town that hides more than its fair share of unnatural secrets.1870. A haven for the blessed and the damned including a fallen angel a mad scientist a pirate queen and a deputy who is kin to coyotes Golgotha has come through many nightmarish trials but now an army of thirty-two outlaws lunatics serial killers and cannibals are converging on the town drawn by a grisly relic that dates back to the Donner Partyand the dawn of humanity.Sheriff Jon Highfather and his deputies already have their hands full dealing with train robbers a mysterious series of brutal murders and the usual outbreaks of weirdness. But with thirty-two of the most vicious killers on Earth riding into Golgotha in just a few days time the town and its people will be tested as never beforeand some of them will never be the same.The Shotgun Arcana is even more spectacularly ambitious and imaginative than The Six-Gun Tarot and confirms R. S. Belchers status as a rising star.
language: English
title: The Shotgun Arcana
publisher: Tor Books