The Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Sunglasses After Dark
chronicles the life of a werewolf who becomes part of the human--and
inhuman--history of the Old West.
More than 150 years old, Billy Skillet looks back on his life existing
between Native Americans and white men on the frontiers of a growing
America, always on the edges of reality and unreality.
Born of a werewolf father and human mother from the Old Country, Billy
is the only member of his family who survives a vicious attack. Found
alive in the rubble of their homestead by a Comanche, Billy is taken in
by the tribe. From there, he finds that--as a skinwalker--he is revered
by the Native Americans, though reviled by the white man.
Battling powerful instincts and his own moral code, Billy embarks on his
life's never-ending journey, first learning the ways of the settlers at
the hands of a brutal and drunken reverend, then with a charismatic con
man peddling elixirs in a traveling show. He survives a lynching,
becomes the manservant of a vampire, and battles one of his own kind, a
beast consumed by evil ambition. He sees the rise and fall of legends,
the births of his own children, and the deaths of his loved ones. And
never far behind, Billy's nemesis: a bounty hunter known as Witchfinder
Jones, who, even now, may still be out there, willing to go to the ends
of the earth to destroy him . . .
Originally published in Dead Man's Hand
Praise for Nancy A. Collins
"Possibly the most original voice in the world of vampire fiction since
Anne Rice published Interview with a Vampire." --Film Threat
