Welcome to Scar Ridge

Welcome to Scar Ridge by Jonathon Mast

A train station sits neatly at the top of Main Street, but tracks are suspiciously absent.

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A false priest presides over an unusual amount of funerals.

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After a young man comes home from the Civil War, trees start to randomly appear in strange locations.

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From the moment Carter returns home to find his beloved western town and the people within it have disappeared and he must win it back, we learn things have gone strange in Scar Ridge, Arizona.

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The nine stories presented here are intimately intertwined in this isolated location, dusty and hot, a perfect place for the Landowner to work his odd magick. There's an unusual relationship between Jarvis, his hands, and the cows of his ranch.

Cattle drivers experience something during a monsoon storm that sems to be not quite a deer. A cursed skull is stolen from Danzig's General Store.

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Each individual story will lead you to the ultimate terrifying conclusion, that there is something truly wrong within this town, within the people, and within this world that might just be a part of our own.

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WELCOME TO SCAR RIDGE. AND BEWARE.

"This ain't your granddaddy's western. In fact, if Rod Serling himself scooped up the Ponderosa, Dodge City, and Walnut Grove then plopped them right smack dab in the middle of The Twilight Zone, it still wouldn't hold a candle to the wild weirdness of Scar Ridge. Jonathon Mast will keep you turning the page with this hellish collection of bandits and lawmen, cowboys and Indians, soiled doves and the salt-of-the-earth dealing with high strangeness in a Weird West all his own. Welcome to your next can't-put-down read, Welcome to Scar Ridge."

~ Jason J. McCuiston, author of The Brotherhood of Secret Darkness and Other Cults, Cabals, and Conspiracies

"Honestly, there is not a bad story in this collection, and I am hard pressed to choose one as my favorite. There is a little something for every horror fan in this collection, which is a quick, fun read. 5 stars out of 5."

~ John Watson, Horror Book R&R

"In many ways, the horror western parallels the gothic horror. You don't need to like westerns, or be able to tell a horse from a hee-haw, to enjoy what Jonathon Mast has written. Really, if you've read or watched any kind of fiction, you already have the basics. What Mast does is not allow you to shy away from the advanced western the basics are capable of developing into. It's not something you'll find in any dime store... if you could still find dime stores, that is."

~ Carl R. Jennings, author of Just About Anyone