When severed limbs start turning up in her jurisdiction, small town police chief Emily Gallagher's investigation leads her to an End Times-worshiping cult and a sadistic follower with the power to bewitch her victims. Allies become adversaries as she finds herself trapped and at the mercy of the vilest creature she has ever encountered. PALE HORSE, by Robert J. Mendenhall, with classic tales of terror by the masters of horror, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, and Rudyard Kipling.