What Rough Beast

Frank Barton lives life on the run. Many lives.

Ever since the Civil War, when instead of dying from his wounds he found himself transformed into a snake crawling across the battlefield, absorbing life from others. For years Frank struggles against the killer serpent inside him that won't let him die or grow old. Sometimes, for a while, he wins. Then the bad dreams return, people die … and he flees yet another attempt to build a normal life.

Now in 1912 he's finally found the precise middle...