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    The Gun Fight

    By Richard Matheson

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    John Benton was one of the toughest men ever to wear a Texas Ranger badge. But eight years ago, in August 1871, he hung up his guns for good.

    Or so he hoped.

    Then young Robby Coles challenged him to a fight over some imagined slight to the boy's sixteen-year-old girlfriend. At first Benton tried to laugh off the affair. Why, the boy was little more than a child. But rumors and gossip spread like wildfire through their dusty frontier town and soon enough the entire community seems to be goading both men towards a fatal confrontation neither one truly wants.



    Benton doesn't want to kill again. Robby is secretly terrified of facing the legendary gunfighter. Yet, with both men's honor on the line, is there any way to avoid a duel to the death?



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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateNov 3, 2009
    ISBN9781429976602
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    Richard Matheson

    Richard Matheson was one of the great writers of modern science fiction and fantasy. A New York Times bestselling author and screenwriter, his novels included I Am Legend, The Incredible Shrinking Man and many others. Stephen King called Matheson 'the author who influenced me the most as a writer'. A Grand Master of Horror and past winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement, He also won multiple other awards including the Edgar, the Hugo, the Spur, and the Writer's Guild awards. Richard Matheson passed away in June 2013.

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      A 30-minute episode of Gunsmoke elongated into a 90-minute format. It's almost shocking how sloppy and blase this is, considering the author has a relatively high reputation in the mystery/horror/sci-fi genre. Obviously, he has little relish for the western, so why in heaven's name would he take it up in mid-to-late career. As a genre it's in its death agony, with limbs still twitching while the CNS has shut down.