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A wierd West Dark Fantasy Novel

A Weird West Dark Fantasy Novel

Clay Boone Author

Weird Western Novel: Where Shadows are the Darkest

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A look into unsanitized history will show that human nature is the true horror. When I wrote WSAD, I wanted to give it a darker edge.

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There are darker things waiting within our reality than could ever be made up. Take a look through human history to truly understand human nature. No one's hands come out clean. My book refines that grit with a wounded country that festers beneath the embers of civil war. The setting, backstories, and characters are loosely based on what's already been written. I just put a darker edge on it.

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Black Confederates & Black Slave Owners: Truth VS Myth

Let’s start with Black Confederates, because there are two groups of people who get it wrong. On the Lost Cause side, some say thousands of...

Why Did Union Soldiers Fight in the Civil War? Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Letters of Ordinary Men

https://youtu.be/svw6bEsRqJQ?si=BmjzkcJ-sxQu2WDX Lincoln did not send 75000 men south to free slaves. The reasons the federal government fought changed as the Civil War changed. The men doing...

Why We Study History: Stop Judging the Past and Start Understanding It

https://youtu.be/BbqD7DEdq04?si=rXEoah4Cl0i8yY-5 When the American Civil War—or any human conflict—is brought up, people run to their proverbial guns and prepare for a fight in the comment...

Religion and the Civil War: How Slavery Divided American Christianity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q5qBHaEfV8&t=2s The Great American Theological Divide: God, Slavery, and the Civil War Religion is one of those things modern readers can accidentally sand off the 1800s,...

Was the Civil War Fought Over Slavery? What Ordinary Soldiers Believed

The nineteen-year-old farm boy climbing onto a horse might have been thinking about something much closer to home.

The First Crossing: Expanding the World of WSAD

"Deep in the piney woods where fog clung low and trees whispered things when the wind died."

What Kind of Book Is Where Shadows Are the Darkest?

Because sometimes the darkest thing waiting for you isn’t hiding in the woods.

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A look into unsanitized history will show that human nature is the true horror.
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Clay Boone

Clay Boone grew up in rural Missouri, where the stories of the Civil War and Reconstruction weren't just history—they were family. Passed down through generations by word of mouth, those tales gave him a sense of that era as something lived, not studied.

He wanted to write a Western that didn't ride quietly into a golden sunset. Instead, he set his debut novel, Where Shadows Are the Darkest, in the Reconstruction-era South, a place most Western fiction skips entirely. Read More →

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