The Hanging Tree

By James Roy Daley

In the old west punishment comes swiftly. Especially when the crime is murder. Mort Clancy - a pathetic drunk - had one to many drinks at the local watering hole and he did something stupid: he shot the sheriff. Now there's a new law in town, and Mort's on his way to the hanging tree. But the hanging tree has a terrible reputation, and what dies on the tree doesn't always stay dead.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books of the Dead Press
• Release date: Mar 22, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301592906

James Roy Daley

James Roy Daley is a writer, editor, and a professional musician. He studied film at the Toronto Film School, music at Humber College, and English at the University of Toronto. In 2007 his first novel, The Dead Parade, was released in 1,110 bookstores across America. In 2009 he founded a book company called Books of the Dead Press, where he enjoyed immediate success working with many of the biggest names in horror. His first two anthologies, Best New Zombie Tales Volume One, and Best New Zombie Tales Volume Two, far exceeded sales predictions, leading many of the top horror writers in the world to view his little company as one worth watching. 13 Drops of Blood is his first collection.

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[ogrezed · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

A quick short story about the dead rising in the old west. The story is about the journey to the ending of the story, because the ending is ever so predictable.