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    Cover of Warlock

    Warlock

    Oakley Hall · 1958

    Sharpshooter Clay Blaisedell is called to Warlock, a wild frontier town, to restore order, but the more he tries to fix the town's problems, the more the town plunges into chaos all around him.

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    2recommend
    2mentions
    2people
    2024–2025years
    100% recommend

    Mentions per year

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    What Hacker News says

    1. scarmigOct 2025
      If the revisionist Western appeals to you, I'd also recommend Oakley Hall's Warlock.
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    2. k2enemyFeb 2024
      Love the username.

      I don't remember AtD as being particularly filthy, but it has been a long time. It remains one of my all-time favorites. If nothing else, I'm indebted to the book for encouraging me to seek out literary westerns such as Warlock by Oakley Hall and Butcher's Crossing by John Williams.

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