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The Navajo Nightmare Paperback – April 24, 2021

by David Sodergren (Author), Steve Stred (Author)

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Saddle up for twice the terror in THE NAVAJO NIGHTMARE!

Charles Andersson is a killer. Or at least, he was, once. Now he lives a quiet life with his family, until a gang of crooks take everything from him and Charles must make a diabolical pact. His soul, in exchange for vengeance!

Tanner Williams has been tasked with an impossible job — to track and kill the bloodthirsty abomination that stalks the plains. Haunted by his dark past, Tanner must learn the horrifying secret of…THE NAVAJO NIGHTMARE!

From the twisted minds of David Sodergren (The Forgotten Island) and Steve Stred (Ritual) comes a gripping, blood-soaked horror western that will leave you breathless.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Black Void Publishing (April 24, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 194 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1990260055
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1990260056
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.49 x 8 inches

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David Sodergren lives in Scotland with his wife Heather and his best friend, Boris the Pug.
Growing up, he was the kind of kid who collected rubber skeletons and lived for horror movies. Not much has changed since then.
His best known books include the gory and romantic fairy tale The Haar, the blood-drenched folk-horror Maggie’s Grave, and the analog-horror fever dream Rotten Tommy. David also writes under the pseudonym Carl John Lee, publishing splatterpunk
novels such as Psychic Teenage Bloodbath and Cannibal Vengeance.
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An award-winning author, Steve Stred lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, with his wife and son.
Known for his novels, ‘Mastodon,’ ‘Churn the Soil,’ and his series ‘Father of Lies’ where he joined a cult on the dark web for four years, his work has been described as haunting, bleak and is frequently set in the woods near where he grew up. He’s been fortunate to appear in numerous anthologies with some truly amazing authors.
His novel ‘Mastodon’ will be translated into Czech and Italian over the next few years.
His novel 'Churn the Soil' won the 2024 Indieverse Award for Best Horror Novel.
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Stephanie
Love a good horror western story
Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2023
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I'm definitely a fan of David Sodergren, and western horror is one of my favorite genres. It's unfortunate that western horror doesn't have as many books to choose from as it should. This story is short, and co-authored with Steve Stred, who I was not previously familiar with.

I could tell there was a little bit of a disconnect with the culture of westerns, it really shows in some of the dialogue. In the end though, as international authors, I was able to set this aside and enjoy the variety of what these two have to offer, which is a complex short story filled with emotion, western stereotypes (the good kind) and lots of blood.

Highly recommended, great for train rides or flights to pass the time.

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kimnappi
Western Horror at it's best!
Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2021
First, I want to thank the authors for their patience on such a late review. Being sick with COVID-19 in March set me back about 3 weeks. At least though I had this fantastic story to read.

Charles Andersson is a killer, married man and a father. All he wants to do now is too put his past behind him and live a simple life.

Then fate has it that he is confronted with a group of thieves that want to take his horses and happy to generally harass him and his family, the strangers unaware of who Charles is.

It doesn’t take long for a shooting to take place in a fit of bloody violence though Charles was only protecting his family.

The incident considered settled, Charles later decides to head in to the larger town to apply for a loan to help him with his homestead and farm, leaving Mary and his son behind.

What happens next sets Charles life in motion as he struggles to understand why, losing the only things in the world he cared about and ends up in the local church in a fit of grief.

There is someone is there, someone willing to help him not only bring back Mary and his son but a promise of all things set right.

Never make a deal with the devil.

Western Horror at its absolute best will not only keep the horror fans happy but with the western story readers out there, it has all the elements. The hunt, the chase, the revenge and gunfights. Supernatural elements seem to blend in perfectly and not perceived as distracting. This new genre is getting some speed to so get on the wagon now and don’t miss out. The talent of these two authors can not be ignored, read everything they have written immediately. This book is highly recommended! Enjoy!

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Jeremy Hepler
A blast!
Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2021
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This fast-paced, gory, romp through the wild west was a blast to read! I blazed through each tale in a single sitting with a satisfied grin on my face. Stred's and Sodergren's smooth writing styles are distinguishable but still flow together seamlessly, and I hope the two team up for another western horror in the future.

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Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2022
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alright y'all. let's chat.

let's chat about the NERVE i have doubting david sodergren and any decision he makes when it comes to writing horror.

i put off reading this book ever since it was released. western horror? typically not my thing, but sodergren and stred did this SO WELL. why the hell did i ever doubt it!?!

this was the first time i've read from steve stred, and i'll definitely be diving into his backlist! with how well the two author's stories flowed together, i'm surprised they haven't written something together sooner. i only hope they collaborate again in the future!

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Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2022
alright y'all. let's chat.

let's chat about the NERVE i have doubting david sodergren and any decision he makes when it comes to writing horror.

i put off reading this book ever since it was released. western horror? typically not my thing, but sodergren and stred did this SO WELL. why the hell did i ever doubt it!?!

this was the first time i've read from steve stred, and i'll definitely be diving into his backlist! with how well the two author's stories flowed together, i'm surprised they haven't written something together sooner. i only hope they collaborate again in the future!

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Bloody Good!
Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2021
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Writing a horror/western takes guts. And there are plenty on display in this new release. Uniting horror elements into a western makes for a beautiful marriage, and David and Steve are the perfect matchmakers. Highly recommend this one.

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Duncan Ralston
Excellent Western horror
Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2021
THE NAVAJO NIGHTMARE is a story told in two novellas. The first, "Before" by David Sodergren, is a tragic, haunting and poetic tale of revenge. The switch in style into Steve Stred's "After" can be a little jarring at first but it packs a punch in itself, more as a road trip revenge story with entertaining characters and interesting mythos. Overall an excellent Western horror novel told in two parts.

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ValerieLeeD.
Two authors, one great story!
Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2023
From the time I first started on Twitter I followed both these authors. I have followed both their writing careers, trying to keep up, reading most everything they’ve put out. I’ve also come to enjoy reading the SplatterPunk Westerns that are out there. These two authors, western theme, add horror and you have a recipe for a great story!

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Felicia or Thomas
A bloody good horror Western
Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2021
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I really enjoyed reading The Navajo Nightmare. It's full of damned and doomed characters looking for vengeance. Revenge comes with a heavy price though. Highly recommended.

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Joseph-wordsmith
An epic horror western - Bone Tomahawk meets high Plains Drifter!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 24, 2021
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I’ve always loved a good Western. I think it’s partly because the Western genre, for me, is very closely aligned with Epic Fantasy. Instead of swords, our heroes wield glinting silver revolvers capable of magically dealing death at impossible distances. Instead of taverns, there are saloons. Instead of warring fantastical kingdoms, we find the American Civil War. One thread that remains current through both genres relatively unchanged is the obsession with and value of gold. In addition, the great wastelands of the America Wild West fittingly conjure the mystical and fantastical landscapes sword and sorcery heroes often have to overcome on their quest. And speaking of quests, Westerns are rife with them, whether it’s a quest for revenge, as in High Plains Drifter (one of the most underrated films of all time), for some kind of holy grail, as in The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, or redemption, as in 3:10 To Yuma. In short, I think Westerns and Fantasies are two sides of the same coin, which is why I love them both.

This intersection of Fantasy and Western is beautifully embodied in The Navajo Nightmare, a short novel by David Sodergren and Steve Stred. There is so much to say about this epic collaboration it is hard to know where to begin.

Firstly, this book is divided into two halves, the first, “BEFORE”, written by David Sodergren, and the second, “AFTER”, by Steve Stred. I came to this book as a huge, huge fan of Steve Stred. He is not only an amazing author, but one of the nicest people I’ve ever met. However, I was unfamiliar with David Sodergren’s work, and so was intrigued to experience his writing for the first time. His prose blew me away. What could have been a hackneyed account of a dangerous gunslinger losing everything he holds dear, a trope we have seen before, instead became an earth-shaking story of loss, written with passion and conviction. Sodergren’s prose is elegant, and full of quotable lines from the very first, including the killer opening, “As is so often the way with truly blasphemous acts, it all started on a Sunday.”

Within a few short chapters, Sodergren made me completely emotionally invested in Charles Andersson and his wife, Mary. The two have a son, little Jack, and they live in a yet-to-be-built house just outside of Packer’s Mill. Both husband and wife have demons in their past they’re trying to leave behind, and as we see in both the first and second parts of the book, this is a through-line for the entire story. To what extent can we escape the shadows we think we leave behind us? To what extent can we change?

Within an equally brief space, Sodergren rips your heart out in a scene that is at once startlingly brutal and callous, yet also restrained, turning the camera away from the worst, which leaves the reader space to feel the horror and pathos of what unfolds.

Following this calamity, Charles Andersson becomes a changed man, but Sodergren neatly sidesteps the cliché of him simply becoming hungry for vengeance above all else. What’s interesting are the deeper and more destabilising character changes that come over him. He moves from an entirely cool and level-headed man, who never lets emotions cloud his judgement, to one who is irrational, lost in the mists of his own feelings, distracted. It’s this excellent character work that sets The Navajo Nightmare up for greatness. The character work continues as the Nightmare who was once Charles Andersson begins to lose his grip on who he is / was, and reality, until we reach a hair-raisingly climactic shootout worthy of being put to film, or etched onto my brain for all time.

The second half of the novel is no less potent. Though the two writers achieve a surprising synergy between their two styles, one can feel the difference when Steve Stred takes over. It’s not that one style is better than the other, merely that with Stred’s half of the story we feel a tonal shift. The title of “AFTER” is appropriate, because this is a world post-Nightmare, a cynical world, perhaps, in which everyone lives with the expectation that evil will come knocking eventually. It’s also a shift into that Epic Fantasy mode I described earlier. Sodergren’s part is High Plains Drifter, a mystical horror-thriller shrouded in trauma and the power of the past. Stred’s is Bone Tomahawk: a nightmare mission into a heart of darkness.

In part 2, Tanner, a gunslinger who seems to have some kind of connection to The Nightmare, is asked to assemble a team by the feisty Linda St. James to track down and end the Nightmare once and for all. This “fellowship” of deadly fighters is a brilliant contrast to the single focus of the preceding part of the novel. There’s Hank, an ex-slave of gargantuan proportions and strength; Cutting Teeth, a Native American skinwalker; Carter, Tanner’s lackey, a young boy with a weird connection to his horse; and Linda and Tanner themselves. The assembly of the team certainly has the feeling of an old-school fantasy novel, or a legendary B-movie like Krull, and things only get better as the group sets off on a perilous journey towards Packer’s Mill.

It soon becomes clear that the team is being haunted by something. They’re tracking down a killer, but in turn being stalked. Each person believes that it is a demon from their own past. Stred cleverly uses this as a mechanism to get each person in the group to narrate their own harrowing backstory. Not only does this enrich the characters, but it also serves as a powerful way to explore the themes of The Navajo Nightmare more deeply. Each person is dealing with a trauma, and each person had committed sins they now have to confront. Each person is themselves a Nightmare, a creation of the bad (and good) choices in their past.

For those who have read other books by Steve Stred, such as The Stranger, it’s no spoiler to say that one by one each person in the group is picked off. As they get nearer their destination, the truth of what needs to happen to defeat The Nightmare is unveiled. What I loved here is that Stred has no problem giving seeming “B-characters” their moment. This makes his narratives unpredictable and sinuous, surprising just as often as they deliver the gory goods we so want. The conclusion is satisfying and oddly sweet despite how harrowing what came before it was.

The Navajo Nightmare is a must-read for those who love westerns, who love horror, and who love quests into the darkness. This one will stay with me for a long time.

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Grindhouse Presents: A Spaghetti Western
Reviewed in Canada on May 6, 2021
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Have you ever wondered what a grindhouse spaghetti western looked like? Or what if they let Romero take a stab at the The Good, The Bad and The Ugly? Well look no further.

The Navajo Nightmare, which is made up of two parts (“Before” and “After”), is a ridiculously fun read, front to back.
Both stories are balls to the walls, gore filled, rootin’ tootin’ cowboy shootin’ horror westerns that are next to impossible to put down.

These stories to fit together perfectly, complimenting each other in every respect.

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Grindhouse Presents: A Spaghetti Western

Reviewed in Canada on May 6, 2021
Have you ever wondered what a grindhouse spaghetti western looked like? Or what if they let Romero take a stab at the The Good, The Bad and The Ugly? Well look no further.

The Navajo Nightmare, which is made up of two parts (“Before” and “After”), is a ridiculously fun read, front to back.
Both stories are balls to the walls, gore filled, rootin’ tootin’ cowboy shootin’ horror westerns that are next to impossible to put down.

These stories to fit together perfectly, complimenting each other in every respect.

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Dale
A really good horror set in the Wild West
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 4, 2021
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The book is split into two sections - before, and after. One written by David, one written by Steve. Both serve different sides of a story that involve a killer-turned-civilian named Charles Andersson. During the second half of the book, the different sides collide in a blood soaked conclusion. I felt for Charles, i really did.

This is my second "western horror" that i've read this year and im becoming a fan of it.

I really enjoyed this book. It's well written by both writers. Would definitely recommend to any horror fan.

Oh, and top marks to David for the cover!

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Spiritual Squirrel
A good short horror, however Q's **spoilers**
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 29, 2024
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I liked this story very much, however I have too many questions left unanswered so I feel this could have been longer.
Such as:
1. The relationship between Tanner and the nightmare. How did they get to know each other without the nightmare killing him.
2. Why didn't Tanner target indigenous folk?

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Donna Jeffery
Amazing western horror story, must read!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 9, 2021
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I have never read a western before, let alone a western horror but this book exceeded expectations! I only discovered the authors due to the Instagram account “paperbacks and pugs” and it formed the basis of my decision to buy the book, I have no regrets... It was absolutely gripping from start to finish. My only complaint is that it didn’t last longer. I loved their writing style and everything about this book, 10/10 will definitely be getting more from these authors. My pug approves too!

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Donna Jeffery

Amazing western horror story, must read!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 9, 2021
I have never read a western before, let alone a western horror but this book exceeded expectations! I only discovered the authors due to the Instagram account “paperbacks and pugs” and it formed the basis of my decision to buy the book, I have no regrets... It was absolutely gripping from start to finish. My only complaint is that it didn’t last longer. I loved their writing style and everything about this book, 10/10 will definitely be getting more from these authors. My pug approves too!

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5.0 out of 5 stars An epic horror western - Bone Tomahawk meets high Plains Drifter!

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4.0 out of 5 stars A really good horror set in the Wild West

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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing western horror story, must read!

Amazing western horror story, must read!

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An epic horror western - Bone Tomahawk meets high Plains Drifter!

Grindhouse Presents: A Spaghetti Western

A really good horror set in the Wild West

A good short horror, however Q's spoilers

Amazing western horror story, must read!