The Last Ranch Hand

The Bent-Spur Ranch is always hiring.

For a young man looking to escape his past, it seems like the perfect opportunity. The work is hard, the pay is decent, and the ranch hands are a friendly bunch. Foreman Harlan is a man of few words, but he knows how to run a ranch.

There's just one rule.

Stay out of the old barn after sundown.

At first, the warnings seem like nothing more than local superstition. But strange chanting in the darkness, unsettling symbols carved into the earth, and the ranch hands' peculiar behavior soon convince him that something is terribly wrong.

Beneath the Bent-Spur lies an ancient hunger. Every year, the land demands an offering, and the ranch has developed a horrifying tradition to keep it satisfied.

When the young newcomer discovers the truth, he finds himself bound in the darkness, surrounded by men he thought were his friends. As the ritual begins, he realizes that the ranch's secrets are far more terrible than he could have imagined.

Some places don't just employ you.

They keep you.