Range of terror

the long version

Pat Harmon, sometime lawman, sometime cowboy, pressed himself against the cliffs in the dark night. He had been a fool to accept the job of ridding the county of an unseen but deadly menace, known as the 'Ghost Dog', which had left a trail of dead and mutilated people. Even now, he wished he could saddle up and ride away, but he couldn't -- not if it meant leaving Callie Hebert. Suddenly, tiny sounds break the stillness of the night, and pandemonium erupts ...