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Yonder Stands Your Orphan

The story of how the denizens of a lakeside community in Mississippi are beset by madness, murder and sin in the form of Man Mortimer. Mortimer, a creature of the casinos who looks like the dead country singer Conway Twitty, is a killer who has turned mean and sick.

Themes
gothic
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 352 pages

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