A Savage Breed

Splatter Western

By: Patrick C. Harrison III

Narrated by: Jeff Doba

A ruthless band of outlaws makes good their escape from execution. A mountain man seeks justice following the grisly murders of his wife and daughter. A sharp-tongued teenager flees her newly widowed mother in search of adventure. Amongst the eerie peaks and crevices of the Wichita Mountains, this assembly of pariahs converge. But it isn't just each other they need be concerned about, because there's more than frigid winds in the skies over Indian Country.

©2020 Patrick C. Harrison III (P)2023 Patrick C. Harrison III

A lovely Splatter Western

Like the other works of Western Horror within Death's Head Press' Splatter Western collection, this did not disappoint. There are some gritty hate-filled characters. It's well written, engaging, has a lot of attention paid to details, and such.

One of the Weaker Books

A Savage Breed has all the No-holds-barred violence, unsettling horror, and pitch-black humor as the previous titles in DHP’s lineup. The scope, however, is much narrower, making it something more akin to a stage play than an epic. The first acts are tightly paced and waste no time getting to the story’s thrust, but then I get the impression Mr. Harrison rushed through the final climax; more than a few plot threads go unresolved or are abruptly cut off without any sense of closure, and the final battle is deceptively truncated. Altogether an enjoyable listen, but not nearly as impactful as the titles that came before it.