The sheriff himself is a man who can’t die he has the scars to prove it, too. Jim is a boy on the run, having committed a crime back home in West Virginia. The cast is a very varied, rather all-inclusive one. If you don’t like omniscient or semi-omniscient point of view, be warned. The story is told in the third person, the viewpoint switching to many, if not most, of the towns inhabitants at one point or another. There is a lot held within these 361 pages. Things that threaten not only the town, but the universe itself. But there are other things in Golgotha, too. So when Jim Negry shows up just outside of town, half dead, with a mysterious jade eye in his pocket carved with symbols he can’t read, everyone knows he’s just found home. Golgotha’s a strange place, though, attracting the lost, the forsaken, and the not quite human. They sit on the very edge of the 40-Mile, a long stretch of inhospitable desert that’s claimed many a man, with Golgotha being the last stop for water and food. The only thing that prevents the town from emptying out and turning into one of the many ghost towns peppering the west is its location. It was a mining town once, but now the silver’s mostly been dug out and gone, a fact the new owners of the mine seem to be ignoring.

The plot is centered around Golgotha, a small town in the Midwest during the late 1800s. If you want to know what Weird Westerns are, this is a prime example and a great place to delve into the genre for the first time. The book is gritty, filled with myth, cults, fantasy, horror, and characters that stick with you long after the last page. Belcher, and it is one hell of a wild ride through the Weird West. The Six Gun Tarot is the debut novel of R. But I was good this time and started at the very beginning of the Golgotha series instead of with book two like I normally would. Belcher than I was by the synopsis of The Six Gun Tarot. I was actually more intrigued by The Shotgun Arcana by R. Other times it’s deliberate because, for whatever reason, the library just doesn’t have books one and two. I don’t bother looking at the small line under the title that says ‘Book 45 of Awesome Series You Need to Read’. I have this bad habit of starting a series right in the middle.

The Six-Gun Tarot by R.S. Belcher