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Bull Ingram, a recent World War II veteran, works as muscle when a Memphis DJ hires him to locate the legendary bluesman Ramblin’ John Hastur. Hastur’s music, broadcast on a phantom station at shifting frequencies, is rumored to drive living men insane and bring the dead back to life.
First publish date: 2011
Genre: Horror/Cosmic Horror
Authors: John Hornor Jacobs
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