Kenneth Mark Hoover is a professional writer living in Dallas, TX. He has sold over 60 short stories and is a member of SFWA and HWA. His fiction has appeared in BENEATH CEASELESS SKIES, ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE, STRANGE HORIZONS, and many others. You can read more at Kennethmarkhoover.com.
Praise for Kenneth Mark Hoover "After 2014's brilliantly brutal
Haxan, [in Quaternity] Hoover revisits his nightmarish American
West, a blood-soaked wasteland where 'land belongs to the man
strong enough to take it, and keep it.'. . . Readers seeking a
simple horse opera should look elsewhere; the depth of Hoover's
narrative hews far closer to the moral complexities of Cormac
McCarthy than it does the straightforward adventures of Louis
L'Amour. A western of blood and violence with a marked lack of
redemption tinged with hints of the fantastic, this is a
pitch-black western that resonates."
--Publishers Weekly "The Old West wasn't all darkness and murder,
unless your name is John Marwood, a man, by his own assessment,
'with a demon coiled like a watch spring in his marrow.' Simply
put--He is a killer. Yet that isn't the half of him, and his true
nature and his destiny alike remain a secret even to himself.
Kenneth Mark Hoover tells the story of an immortal champion in an
American West that never was, and so is all the truer for it."
--Richard Parks, author of Yamada Monogatari: To Break the Demon
Gate "With Quaternity, Hoover paints a sparse and unflinching
landscape, taking the reader down the dark trail his protagonist
John Marwood rides while seeking what is lost and unremembered. As
the gnawing hunger in his soul drives Marwood toward his ultimate
destiny, the west as it was unfurls before the reader under
Hoover's steady hand. If you love realistic westerns and dark
fantasy, this is the book for you!"
--Michael Merriam, author of Last Car to Annwn Station and The
Horror at Cold Springs "With a voice both sparse and poetic, Hoover
takes on the hoary cliches of Western fiction and dismantles them
one by one. In Quaternity, Hoover's unflinching look at evil will
challenge everything you know about yourself and the world we live
in."
--Melissa Lenhardt, author of Stillwater "Hoover does it again.
Quaternity starts with a bang and doesn't quit until a satisfying
conclusion. This is my kind of weird west. Love it!"
--Jennifer Brozek, author of Apocalypse Girl Dreaming and Never Let
Me Sleep "In Quaternity, his second outing in the richly evocative
Haxan series, Kenneth Mark Hoover once again plunges us headlong
into the bloody-minded fury of the Old West, mixing the raw
violence of time and place with the eerie tenderness of a
fantastical fever dream to gripping, visceral effect."--Melia
McClure, author of The Delphi Room "Kenneth Mark Hoover's vivid
prose delivers an unflinching look at the violent horrors and the
stark beauty of the Old West."
--Amy Raby, author of Assassin's Gambit and The Fire Seer "Twice as
vicious as its predecessor, Quaternity is operatically
mythological, a poetic, doom-laden Western soaked in blood and
frenzy. This Cormac McCarthyesque terror fantasia of a prequel both
frames and outstrips Hoover's Haxan, lending it the perfect amount
of context, as Hoover's literally eternal protagonist Marshall John
Marwood excavates his past in order to accept his future. Driven by
philosophical musings both monstrous and humane, Marwood tracks an
interlocking chain of massacres towards a lost city founded on 'the
long blood of violence, ' the same dark current underlying almost
everything in Hoover's lawless, ultra-violent frontier . . . yet
certain spots of brightness still occur here and there, inevitable
collisions between fate and free will, love and justice. This is a
hard book to read, but you'll savour its bitter aftertaste."
--Gemma Files, author of the Hexslinger series, We Will All Go Down
Together, and Experimental Film
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