Welcome to Eddie’s Tavern, the setting of Currency of Souls, the only functioning waterhole in a near-dead town. Among the people you’ll meet tonight are: Tom, Milestone’s haunted lawman, who walks in the shadow of death; Gracie, the barmaid, a wannabe actress, doomed to spend her hours tending bar in a purgatory of her father’s making; Flo, the town seductress, who may or may not have murdered her husband; Cobb, a nudist awaiting an apology from the commune who cast him out; Wintry, the mute giant, whose story is told only in cryptic messages scribbled beneath newspaper headlines; Kyle, the kid, who keeps a loaded gun beneath the table; and Cadaver, who looks like a corpse, but smells real nice, and occupies his time counting stacks of pennies.

Limited to 750 signed numbered copies at $40, and a 15 copy lettered edition at $250. Currency of Souls is due out in February. Meanwhile, we’ve just posted a brand new excerpt..

Posted on Wednesday, July 19th, 2006 at 10:18 am.