“Shadows from Boot Hill”
by L. Ron Hubbard

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Publication date: June 1940

Original publication: Wild West Weekly

Genre: Western

Story description: A hired gun, desperate for cash, kills a man thought to possess unearthly powers—a killing that brings with it, not a sheriff’s posse, but a deadly curse.

Currently available as part of the Stories from the Golden Age series, in the book Shadows from Boot Hill.