Hell and Texas by Xavier B. Fernández

Hell and Texas
by Xavier B. Fernández

Call me Ishmael.

At the time the story I am going to tell you begins, I was sixteen years old and living in Transylvania. It is a very small town, in principle not very different from many that are scattered across the immense plains of the great state of Texas: just a dozen houses on either side of the main street, which begins in nowhere and ends at the church. .

Synopsis:

The people of Transylvania, in Texas, live under the shadow of the tyranny of the Commodore, a land-owning rancher who is something more and something worse than a rancher and a landowner. Even something worse than a human being. Until a dark horseman arrives: Valdemar Veracruz, the legendary bounty hunter, who is now more than a bounty hunter. He comes looking for revenge, and to get it he will not hesitate to set hell on fire.

Hell and Texas It is a fast-paced novel pulp that mixes without shame or shame gunmen, vampires, gamblers to the salonApache shamans, zombies and Lovecraftian creatures in a highly enjoyable cocktail with which its author pays tribute to both the spaghetti westerns like the Hammer vampire films, and also the newsstand novels of Marcial Lafuente Estefanía. It is the plot of the film that Sergio Leone and Terence Fisher would have liked to direct with four hands. With soundtrack by Ennio Morricone, of course.

About the author:

Xavier B. Fernández (Barcelona, ​​1960). Author of The Van Helsing Filesa novel published in 2019 by El Transbordador and which in 2017 was a finalist in the XXII call for the Fernando Lara novel award. Other of his novels are Kensington Gardens (Road Novel Award, 2006); The sound of the night (2010; later reissued under the title Barcelona Jazz Club); A night job (Río Manzanares Award, 2010); The Tree Woman Lover (Fernando Quiñones Award, 2013) and easy money (Black Mountain Bòssost Award for Crime Fiction, 2019). In 2021 he won the Lloret Negre short story award with the work Hemingway wasn’t here. He has also written theater in Catalan (Diogenes and Epicurus in the park) and poetry (The beach of dead fish). Before dedicating himself fully to literature, he worked as a journalist in various publications and wrote scripts for several animated television series, including Detective Bogey and Bandolero.