The Captured Dead Now Available!
"The Captured Dead" is a novelette set in Comancheria in 1874. William Tecumseh Sherman, the hero of the Civil War is in the American West to get 'renegade' Indians on a reservation or kill them. One band, lead by the shaman Isatai decide to summon the dead to fight Sherman.
“Jim Cherry's The Captured Dead is an innovative and eerily diverting tale based on the conflict and mass murder, both of man and beast, that formed the dreadful essence of mid-19th century American history. The story centres on the almost mythical mercilessness of General William Tecumseh Sherman; a characteristic that ensured his Civil War victories and was employed in later campaigns to suppress Native Americans, either by restricting them to reservations or through extermination. Cherry's tale takes place in these later years of frontier conflict, when echoes from Sherman's past mental breakdown and the potent mystical practices of his Indian enemies make a literally haunting combination.”
Jay Jeffery Jones, playwright and author of “The Lizard King”
Available in Kindle and Kobo edition and Nook Book soon!
“Jim Cherry's The Captured Dead is an innovative and eerily diverting tale based on the conflict and mass murder, both of man and beast, that formed the dreadful essence of mid-19th century American history. The story centres on the almost mythical mercilessness of General William Tecumseh Sherman; a characteristic that ensured his Civil War victories and was employed in later campaigns to suppress Native Americans, either by restricting them to reservations or through extermination. Cherry's tale takes place in these later years of frontier conflict, when echoes from Sherman's past mental breakdown and the potent mystical practices of his Indian enemies make a literally haunting combination.”
Jay Jeffery Jones, playwright and author of “The Lizard King”
Available in Kindle and Kobo edition and Nook Book soon!
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