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''Warlock'' is an American western novel by author Oakley Hall, first published in 1958. The novel is loosely based on characters and events that took place in the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.〔''Pictorial History of the Wild West'' by James D. Horan and Paul Sann ISBN 0-600-03103-9, ISBN 978-0-600-03103-1〕 Hall's most famous novel, ''Warlock'' was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1958.〔Hall, Oakley ''Warlock'' (Author Biography)〕 Writer Thomas Pynchon praised it for restoring "to the myth of Tombstone its full, mortal, blooded humanity" and showing "that what is called society, with its law and order, is as frail, as precarious, as flesh and can be snuffed out and assimilated into the desert as easily as a corpse can. It is the deep sensitivity to abysses that makes ''Warlock'' one of our best American novels."〔Pynchon, Thomas (A Review of Oakley Hall's Warlock )〕 In 1959, it was made into a film, also called ''Warlock'', starring Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark, and Anthony Quinn. Hall's 1978 novel ''The Bad Lands'' and 1986 novel ''Apaches'' are sequels to ''Warlock''. The three together form the ''Legends West'' trilogy. ==Plot summary== In the frontier boomtown of Warlock, residents attempt to keep the peace. After violence escalates, a committee determines to take a course of action against criminal cowboys and cattle rustlers. A Texas gunslinger named Clay Blaisedell is hired and, although things go smoothly at first, the morality of life in the legal no-man's-land becomes ever more ambiguous. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Warlock (Hall novel)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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