Redeeming the Cisco Kid: Stories of the Supernatural

By David Farren

David Farren's Living with Magic , was a nonfiction account of the counterculture's interest in the occult and his novel Mendaga's Morning reflected his role as a participant-observer in Wicca. This collection of short stories deals with many of the same themes but typically seen from a new angle. In the title story we again meet the character invented by O'Henry, a ruthless gunslinger on the run who falls into the hands of a seemingly mad Franciscan friar intent on redeeming his soul. Fray Luis Montenegro is a demonmonger, a welcome addition to a genre overrun with vampires and zombies. We meet still more such figures in other stories, including a sequel to Farren's novel, and collectively they reflect a new orientation to the supernatural. As the author explains, "I imagine my demons and their vendors as more wistful than evil, not so much ill-intentioned as confused about what they are supposed to be-in short, not too different from the rest of us." The final story in the collection is a satirical look at the United States as it might have become shortly before the millennium. Although originally written in the 1970s, "The Prometheus Deception" is startingly relevant at a time when the management of both information and disinformation is an international concern.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1490583084
• ISBN13: 9781490583082
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.4" x 8.5"