Title: Pale horse, pale rider
Subtitle: three short novels
First published: 1939
Description: Contains three short novels, -- Old Mortality, a story of race tracks, of the Deep South, of the survival and shattering of a family legend; Noon Wine, Texas and a dairy farm rescued from decay by a man who turns out to be an escaped lunatic from Dakota and of the tragedy that ended it all; Pale Horse, Pale Rider, a mystical story of the narrow ledge between life and death, set at the time of the flu epidemic. --Kirkus Reviews.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), American Short stories, Short stories