Portlandtown: A Tale of the Oregon Wyldes
Deborde crafts an exhilarating hybrid of grit, guts, dusty cowpokes, and rotting flesh, honoring genre conventions without succumbing to cliché and anchoring black magic in realistic contexts of politics and family dynamics. (Publishers Weekly)"DeBorde's extraordinary first novel, a dark fantasy set in the Old West, tells a compelling tale of the battle between evil personified and a remarkable family with special abilities. Fans of Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series will enjoy discovering this accomplished writer." (Liberary Journal (starred))"A fantastic read, a dark supernatural Western full of curses, magical powers, hoodoo men, and resurrected outlaws. Better yet, it's thrilling, compulsive reading packed with a menagerie of very cool characters. Bring on more of the Oregon Wyldes!" --Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Father Gaetano's Puppet Catechism (Christopher Golden)"Move over, Spaghetti. Rob DeBorde serves up his fantastical horror Western with a pioneering apple pie--spirit that is all-American genre-bending fiction at its finest." - Bryan Fuller, writer, creator, and executive producer of Hannibal, and writer, creator, and producer of  Mockingbird Lane (Bryan Fuller)A unique and fascinating horror novel. Cowboys, the supernatural, steampunk, and zombies . . .  Portlandtown has enough to keep even the most demanding genre fan satisfied (David Moody, author of Autumn)