Chet Gottfried's work is vivid, lucid and distinct. Sentence by sentence, the writing is beautiful, with its own singular quiet music. Blood is a slyly humorous creation, the perfect hero for this droll, offbeat fantasy.
Blood is unique and interesting as a character and as an agent.
After an Indian medicine man is lynched, however, bodies begin showing up the likes of which Doc and Undertaker Mertz have never seen. Nor has the Reverend Jebidiah Mercer, an itinerant gunslinging evangelist who challenges the demon behind the madness. The writing is always good, often clever in the best sense, and the people just right for this shuddery little tale that manages to salute the pulps without debasing them. There are chills and chuckles throughout this tightly structured novella. The Maze of Peril by John Eric Holmes To those with the courage and ability to survive, the maze pays equal tribute in its fabulous mysteries and treasures from countless civilizations.