The Official Western Website of Maine Author
Howard Hopkins/Lance Howard

"The master of Westerns..." --All About Murder Reviews

Welcome to the official Western web presence of western author Howard Hopkins writing Black Horse Westerns as Lance Howard and horror-suspense western novels under his own name. Lovers of the Wild West and readers of western stories and weird westerns saddle up for the latest news on Howard's western releases and read excerpts from past, present and future western novels. Relive the grandeur and struggle of the Old West with timeless themes and true-life characters facing issues relevant for today's society and probing the very heart of human experience and drama.

Western horror and suspense Novels
by Howard Hopkins

Now in trade paperback ! Revised and reset. From Barnes & Noble: Buy From Golden Perils Press: Buy From Amazon: The Dark Riders

THE DARK RIDERS Years ago a young orphan killed a vicious outlaw who raped his sister, but when Chris Durrin thought nightmares and grief would be the only things stalking him for the rest of his life, he was wrong. Dead wrong. Because Milus Clint, the outlaw Chris shot down on that fateful day in the past, has returned from the grave, a creature neither alive nor dead, a thing of the night and bloodthirsty craving. Dead-Walkers, the Apaches called them, but the white man had another name: Vampire. Horror/Western/Vampire Excerpt

Now in trade paperback ! Revised and reset. From Barnes & Noble: Buy From Golden Perils Press: Buy From Amazon: Pistolero

PISTOLERO The parched dusty streets of the Old West carried many a threat for an unsuspecting traveler but none more dangerous than the evil that stalked the night-darkened alleys of Mascarada, New Mexico. Hiding in shadow, slashing and ripping the flesh of young women and leaving behind their mutilated bodies, the Mascarada Ripper vanishes into the night like a ghost. But when a young outlaw is offered a pardon to bring the killer to justice dead or alive, he finds himself confronted with the horrors of his own past and the loss of the very thing he sought to protect by running from Mascarada years before. Horror/Western/Suspense Excerpt

LATEST LANCE HOWARD WESTERN RELEASE! When the Chulo brothers sweep into the town of Thanody, a town that has sworn off violence, all hell breaks loose. And when Marshal James Tredder calls in old friend and manhunter Josh Dellin to track down the vicious killers known as the Prairie Wolves, the West runs scarlet with blood. Within hours Josh find himself forced to confront a powerful land owner bent on covering up his sons' brutal raids and struggling to protect the life of a beautiful young woman who's the only witness to their foul deeds. BUY from AmazonUK or www.halebooks.com & www.bookdepository.com (free post woorld wide) Now available at Amazon in the USA

Howard now has signed hardcover copies of Ladigan for $12pp. Please use the Paypal box for ordering. The Deadly Doves, The Devil's Peacemaker, The West Wolf, Guns of the Past and The Phantom Marshal  also available: $12@. All books signed by author.

Collectible Hardcover Black Horse Westerns by Lance Howard:

• Blood on the Saddle
• The Comanche's Ghost
• Blood Pass (Originally titled Alaskan Showdown)
• The West Witch
• Wanted
• Ghost-town Duel (Originally titled The Lady Killer)
• The Gallows Ghost
• The Widow Maker
• Guns of the Past (Originally titled Dead or Alive)
• Palomita
• The Last Draw
• The Deadly Doves
• The Devil's Peacemaker

• The West Wolf

• The Phantom Marshal
• Bandolero
• Pirate Pass
• The Silvermine Spook
• Ladigan
  1. Excerpt  
• Vengeance Pass Download Vengeance Pass bookmarks here (400k)
• Johnny Dead
        1. Excerpt
• Poison Pass
• Ripper Pass 
  1. Excerpt
• Nightmare Pass
  1. Excerpt
• Hell Pass
• Haunted Pass
• Desolation Pass
  1. Excerpt
• Blood Creek
  1. Excerpt
• The Devil's Rider
  1. Excerpt
• Coyote Deadly * New Release*
• Dead Man Riding (TBA)
• The Killing Kind (TBA)

Available from Amazon UK and Blackwell's Online and Halebooks

"Not only do Howard's westerns contain enough action and traditional shoot 'em up for the most discriminating western novel reader, but they craft vivid characters and explore the vast panorama of human experience and emotion with situations relevant and immediate for a modern audience...you'll find gunslingers and crooked lawmen right alongside battered wives and homeless outcasts...a western writer for the non-western reader and horse opera lover alike!" --Pogo's Literary Reviews

Trade Paperback Editions by Lance Howard

• Blood on the Saddle
• The Comanche's Ghost
• Blood Pass
• The West Witch
• Wanted
• The Gallows Ghost
• The Widow Maker
• Guns of the Past
• Palomita
• The Last Draw
• The Deadly Doves
• The Devil's Peacemaker
• The West Wolf
• The Phantom Marshal
• Bandolero
• Pirate Pass
• The Silver-Mine Spook
• Ladigan
• Johnny Dead
• Nightmare Pass
• Poison Pass 
• Hell Pass ***New Release***
• Haunted Pass ***New Release***
• Desolation Pass (TBA)

Titles can be ordered directly from Barnes & Noble, AmazonUK, and Ulverscroft, Walmart.com

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