These stories are boring. I read the first four and couldn't take anymore. The plot is identically the same in each story. Only the names of the bad guys have been changed to protect the guilty. There is zero character development in the main character. There is nothing weird or fantastic about these stories. They are like bad gothic tales. A hint of ghosts and then it is all explained away. They aren't even spooky. I find it difficult to believe the author was able to sell even one of these. Robert E Howard's tales of two decades earlier are far better weird westerns. That he could is perhaps a reflection on the '50s and the dying days of the pulps.
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