REVIEW: A Land of Blood and Ghosts: On Frederic S. Durbin’s The Country Under Heaven

This vivid new western from Melville House is a wildly successful marriage of cosmic terror

May 30, 2025

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The Country Under Heaven by Frederic S. Durbin

When Quincy chopped off Moon’s finger with a Bowie knife, I was hooked.

Quincy was hacking at a turkey. I have no idea why Cogburn gave Quincy a Bowie knife and a turkey to clean in the middle of a gr…

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Grant Gerald Miller

Grant Gerald Miller is a writer, freelance portrait and headshot photographer, and manuscript consultant from Memphis, Tennessee. He can be reached at grantgeraldmiller@gmail.com.