Summary on All Projected "B. L. Blankenship" Literature (2020-2022)

Hey Western Horror fans, SplatterPunks, Extreme Horror Fans, Gorehounds, Fellow Authors, Readers, Reviewers, and others who may be reading this. My intention in this article is to give a brief overview summarizing every book that I have and will have put out between the years 2020-2022 as B. L. Blankenship (without any major spoilers). For ease, anytime that I'm doing this I'll keep series together, novellas, and such together.

SERIES: (God Walks The Dark Hills):
"GOD WALKS THE DARK HILLS BOOK I&II"
This 500+ page dual novel was the first Fiction book I'd ever written. The entire canonical series will go unto Book VI. A new book within it is planned to come out once a year. Book I&II begins in 1835 and pretty well goes unto the end of The American Civil War. It is central to the total world construct of all of the Western Horror that I write. When I began writing it, I felt like it probably wouldn't be the best thing ever written nor the worst. Thus, I strove to make it amid the most violent. Within this dual novel, BOOK I is a "go for the throat" style of violence, while BOOK II is a stress-inducing suspenseful type of horror - leaving you wondering when the plate is going to drop.

Regarding the supernatural, this initial book introduces the world to an inhuman creature who is most often called "The Lincoln Man" due to his similar appearance to Abraham Lincoln in one of his forms (i.e. he has several). It also introduces Peter Grimm as well as two other inhuman characters who are later identified as chthonic idiot gods (idiot being defined in the old form; one who holds no office or estate). Both of these are of B. L. Blankenship's own creation, howbeit they adopt traits and tendencies from a few other creatures in lore. More is found of these characters throughout the body of his work.

"AIN'T NO GRAVE: GOD WALKS THE DARK HILLS BOOK III"
This follows directly after the events of Books I&II. It is entirely stressful following up on such a massive book as the first dual novel. Writing this felt a lot like I was writing a snuff film. There is extensive amounts of prolonged torture in it. Just know that I strove to make it as inhumanly as I could, much as I will all of the books within this series, giving each of them a different tone.

"THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING: GOD WALKS THE DARK HILLS BOOK IV"
This is set to release in WINTER 2022. BOOK IV & BOOK V will both follow directly after BOOK III. However, they will each follow different characters in the series. Of course, the conclusion to this series directly will be BOOK VI. Lest you wonder, this will be more about hunting/stalking and holding onto past grudges. And yes, I'm intentionally being vague for your benefit.

NOVELLA(s):
THE CONFEDERADO: A WESTERN HORROR TALE OF MESOAMERICAN GORE
This book is the embodiment of a trashy, ultra-violent, splatter western, grindhouse, filthy, nasty, immoral, smutty, wildly offensive, disparaging, chauvinistic, blood-bath of a stand-alone novella. With that said, the overly descriptive and disparaging tone in which I'd written it was largely inspired by Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian or An Evening of Redness in the West."


SERIES/SERIAL:
ABRAHAM LINCOLN BURNS IN HELL (BOOK 1)
In this upcoming blood-soaked Science Fiction series, Shakespeare quoting ladies-man, and superstar John Wilkes Booth travels inter-dimensionally to assassinate other tyrannical variations of Abraham Lincoln. I've begun writing it and stylistically it's vastly different from anything else I have written. There are some huge Victorian gothic elements encapsulated in its style as it does have some letters within it that are written in the first person, like Bram Stoker "Dracula" or Sir Author Conan Doyle's "Sherlock Holmes."
There is no real measure as to how long this series will run. I will say that in the first alternate Earth that John Wilkes Booth travels to - the Northern United States is a mix of Steampunk and DieselPunk. They have biplanes, airships, small WW1 tanks, several guns from the late 1880s, automobiles ranging from the 1880s to the Model T, and street trams. Essentially, traffic is a combination of that and horse-drawn means with the horses being more prevalent. Streets are damp, either cobblestone or brick, and so forth. Frankly, saying that only skims its surface.

COLLECTIONS/ANTHOLOGIES:
LOOK AWAY DIXIELAND: A COLLECTION OF WESTERN HORROR
Thirteen stand-alone short stories are in this book. A few of them include Easter Eggs in relation to the God Walks The Dark Hills series; others don't. It ranges from Home Invasion, Wendigo attacks, to the real-life serial murderer family "The Bloody Benders."

A BOOK WITHOUT A NAME: WESTERN HORROR ANTHOLOGY
Coming SUMMER 2022 - This book will feature Western Horror short stories, dark poetry, and such from an array of authors. Everyone working on this has been terrific. Several stories and poems of my own will be in there. It's been a good deal of fun making it and I'll begin working on the cover art in the short time to come before its release.

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