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| Author | Oakley Hall |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | Legends West trilogy |
| Genre | Western |
| Publisher | Viking Press |
Publication date | September 5, 1958 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 471 |
| 813'.54-dc22 | |
| LC Class | PS3558.A373W3 |
| Followed by | The Bad Lands |
Warlock is a Western novel by the American author Oakley Hall. It was published on September 5, 1958 by Viking Press.[1] The story is set in the early 1880s, in a fictional southwestern mining town called Warlock and its vicinity. The novel's characters and many elements of its plot are loosely based on actual people and events from Tombstone, Arizona during the same time period, including Wyatt Earp and the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.[2] It has been described as a precursor to, or early example of, the revisionist western, due to its moral ambiguity and satirical commentary on Cold-War-era American society.[3] The novel was a finalist for the 1958 Pulitzer Prize.
Hall's subsequent novels The Bad Lands (1978) and Apaches (1986) are sequels to Warlock, though they do not portray the same principal characters or setting. The three novels together form the Legends West trilogy.
In 1959, the novel was adapted into a film, Warlock starring Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark and Anthony Quinn.
- ^ "Novelist: Oakley Hall". The Republican. 28 August 1958. p. 28 – via Newspapers.com.
Oakley Hall is the author of 'Warlock' ... which will be published by Viking N.Y., on Sept. 5.
- ^ James D. Horan and Paul Sann , Pictorial History of the Wild West ISBN 0-600-03103-9 ISBN 978-0-600-03103-1
- ^ "Ron Hansen on the Western, a "distinctly American mythology"". Library of America. 19 November 2020. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
...Warlock (1958) introduces both a new note of satire and moral ambiguity to the Western genre.... does Hall anticipate the changes in sensibility that led to the revisionist or "dirty" Westerns of a later era?