The Unheld (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781368117227)

Startling monsters and occult oddities abound in the Montana Territory when a girl sets out on a perilous journey to find her father after he is carried off by an otherworldly creature in this chilling horror Western.

Charlie's life is a lonely one. While other twelve-year-olds are in school, she spends her days skinning the animals her mercurial father hunts in the woods just outside their cabin. And the woods and its twisted creatures--an owl with four wings, a boar with two heads, a fox with gills--are becoming stranger by the day.

One night, a nightmarish beast appears and drags Charlie's father into the wilderness. To find him, she enlists the aid of two unlikely allies also in search of the beast: an Englishman with a connection to a mysterious occult society and a Northern Cheyenne policeman exiled for a crime he didn't commit. Yet as the trio pursues the beast across the vast and haunted Montana Territory, Charlie must decide if her father, a brusque man who has always withheld his affection, is ultimately worth saving.

With its blend of Western grit and supernatural menace, The Unheld is an unsettling and atmostpheric horror novel about loneliness, human connection, and how we find each other in a world that seems designed to alienate. With this assured debut, Luke Larkin marks his arrival in the genre and proves the American frontier still harbors untapped stories in its shadows.

Author: Luke Larkin
ISBN-10: 1368117228
ISBN-13: 9781368117227
Publisher: Hyperion Avenue
Language: English
Published: 08/25/2026
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback