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The Crossings
Jack Ketchum
Synopsis "The Crossings"
It's the Arizona Territory. The year, 1848. The year the Mexican War ended. Fate and blazing pistols have just thrown together reporter and part-time drunk Marion T. Bell and the very nearly legendary John Charles Hart, mustanger and scout, in the Little Fanny Saloon. Plying the river-trade across the Colorado to the gold fields of California in the north, and war-torn Mexico to the south, the town of Gable's Ferry has sprung up overnight-lacking only a church, a schoolhouse and a jail. Though some would say that only the jail was needed. A rough place in a lawless era. About to become a hell of a lot more so one night when Hart, Bell and the easy-going giant Mother Knuckles stumble upon Elena, a fierce, young, badly wounded Mexican woman near the banks of the Colorado. She's naked. She's been bullwhipped, knifed and branded. And she tells them about the kidnap, rape and servitude she and her sister have endured at the hands of las hermanas de lupo, the deadly Valenzura Sisters and their henchman, the deserter Paddy Ryan, at the well-manned slave-camp across the river aptly called Garanta del Diablo-Mouth of the Devil. It's just three hundred years since Cortez. Only three hundred years since the Old Gods of Mexico were in their full and fearsome flower. Tezcatlipoca, god of the moon and the night. Tlazolteotl, Eater of Filth. Xipe, Lord of the Flayed. Blood for rain. Blood for bounty. For many, like the Valenzura Sisters, they have never died. And Elena's sister's still there.
Escritor americano, Jack Ketchum (1946-2018) es considerado una de las voces del terror más importantes en el panorama contemporáneo estadounidense. Seudónimo de Dallas Mayr, la obra de Ketchum ha sido tildada de obscena y pornográfica por su exceso de violencia.
Ya en su infancia era un niño poco sociable y solitario, prefiriendo pasear por el bosque o leyendo sus libros y cómics favoritos a pasar tiempo con otros niños. En esa época conoció a quien sería su mentor y amigo Robert Bloch, autor de Psicosis.
Sus obras han recibido elogios de grandes autores del género como Stephen King. A lo largo de su trayectoria recibió premios tan importantes como el Stoker, tanto en relato corto como en novela. También varios de sus trabajos fueron adaptados al cine y a la televisión.
