Historical Fiction
The Country Under Heaven
2025·321 pages
A former Civil War soldier journeys through the 1880s American West, guided by enigmatic visions, blending classic Western with historical fantasy.
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A former Civil War soldier journeys through the 1880s American West, guided by enigmatic visions, blending classic Western with historical fantasy.
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Louis L’Amour meets H.P. Lovecraft in this thrilling western epic about a former Civil War soldier wracked by enigmatic visions . . . Set in the 1880s, the story follows Ovid Vesper, a former Union soldier who has been having enigmatic visions after surviving one of the Civil War’s most gruesome battles, the Battle of Antietam. As he travels across the country following those visions, he finds himself in stranger and increasingly more dangerous encounters with other worlds hidden in the spaces o...
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Sexual content
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Violence & gore
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Graphic Civil War battle scenes and encounters with unnatural creatures; gruesome violence depicted
Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Biblical themes dispersed in quiet moments of introspection
Magic & witchcraft
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Visions, other worlds, and supernatural encounters as central elements
Occult / demonology
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Lovecraftian cosmic horrors, Old Gods, and unnatural creatures that break minds
Political content
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Post-Civil War division, trauma, and societal healing in Reconstruction era
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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War trauma, personal and societal suffering from conflict and its aftermath
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