![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Worth risking life and limb, and maybe more? Worth risking being ripped to pieces by ravenous, inhuman brutes? Worth crossing paths with those strange, silent cult-folk from the high valley? Worth all the fire and bloodshed and horror and death?Because something far worse than any ordinary traveling show has come to town, and one thing is for those who survive, if any, will never forget the night Silver River run red. But how often does a chance like this come along? There isn't much else by way of excitement in quiet, peaceful Silver River, a once-prosperous boom town slowly gone bust. Fresh off her Splatterpunk Award for Best Novel for. But how often does a chance like this come along There isn't much else by way of excitement in quiet, peaceful Silver River, a once-prosperous boom town slowly gone bust. In an unexpected but delightful pairing, Christine Morgan’s The Night Silver River Run Red manages to combine the brutality and abject violence of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian with the slick-as-spit prose and wry humor of Elmore Leonard, and it’s an infectious, gore-soaked marriage. Exotic attractions and mysterious magics.Not as if they'd be allowed to attend otherwise, not with parents and preacher and schoolmarm all disapproving. Exotic attractions and mysterious magics.Not as if they'd be allowed to attend otherwise, not with parents and preacher and schoolmarm all disapproving. Exotic attractions and mysterious magics. Such as, sneaking out with your friends after dark for a peek at the traveling show setting up just outside of town. Some things, according to Cody McCall, are worth risking a whipping. ![]()
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