The Ballad of Doc Holliday and the Bloodsucking Locomotive

Doc Holliday came to Tombstone to work his dentistry business and die in drunken agony of consumption... unless something else got to him first. Deputized by Marshal Virgil Earp and friends with the lawman's brothers Wyatt and Morgan, that "something" he was anticipating was a bullet from the Clanton gang, who had come riding into town in search of mayhem for pleasure. What Holliday got, instead, was a bite on the neck from a transient named Kate, an eerie encounter with a spectral foreigner, and a disease far worse than consumption. Now rotting away and hungry for obscene meat, Holliday's only clues to his affliction are a bizarre locomotive, barreling through the desert rails and the strange monsters it leaves in its wake... all of which want a piece of him! "The Ballad of Doc Holliday and the Bloodsucking Locomotive" is a novel-length poem, all in rhyme, that tells the story of Tombstone's greatest lawmen and their odyssey to confront a monster that was ancient when the Old West was still just a twinkle in the Devil's eye.

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