The old west town of Red Canyon was founded in blood, and it shall end in blood. Strangled by the grip of a crooked land baron and haunted by the specter of a headless gunman, the arrival of a traveling freak show portends a doom four centuries in the making.
For 30 years New Mexico has lived in terror of a beast that hungers for blood. Now, a lone farmer has done the impossible. The beast has been captured alive! Now the small town of Hobbsbad has been thrown into chaos as cryptozoologists, crackpots and reporters invade to be the first to catch a glimpse of El Chupacabra! But even in a town this small, more than one terror prowls the night.