The year is 1902; the setting, Eastern Oregon. A 15-year-old Indian girl wanders into a whorehouse looking for men to kill the monster that lives in the ice caves under the basement of Miss Hawkline's house. Armed with a trunkful of guns, two men set off in search of the Hawkline Monster. What follows is a series of unusual and often comic encounters in this parody of two literary genres.

As a boy, William Bellman commits one small, cruel act: killing a bird with his slingshot. Little does he know the unforeseen and terrible consequences of the deed, which is soon forgotten amidst the riot of boyhood games. By the time he is grown, with a wife and children of his own, William seems to be a man blessed by fortune, until tragedy strikes and the stranger in black comes. Then he starts to wonder if all his happiness is about to be eclipsed....

"While at home in 2020 reading Bram Stoker's Dracula with his family, Matt Kirkland realized that every part of the classic novel included a date. Why not put them in order and send them out by email on the corresponding day? The resulting Dracula Daily newsletter has since grown to 250,000 subscribers, with Dracula memes and commentary trending on social media and leading to what many sites called "the coolest book club on the Internet." This deluxe...