03/05/2026 Women in Horror: Book of the Day! Red Station by Kenzie Jennings!
- Candace Nola
- 4 days ago
- 3 min read
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RED STATION
By Kenzie Jennings
There is a house overlooking the vast, rolling plains. A home station where a traveler will be welcomed with a piping hot meal and a downy bed.
It is a refuge for the weary. A beacon for the lost.
A place where blood and bones feed the land.
For four stagecoach passengers...
A doctor in search of a missing father and daughter...
A newlywed couple on the way to their homestead...
And a lady in red with a bag filled with secrets...
Their night at the station has only just begun.
REVIEW FROM CANDACE NOLA
Red Station is another Splatter Western published by Death’s Head Press. If you have not yet heard of these books from Death’s Head, you really should take the time to pick one up and read it. I have loved each one that I have read so far, and Red Station is just one more shining example of excellence.
This story follows a weary band of travelers on a stagecoach, on their way to their respective new lives in the American frontier. This leg of their journey will see them to a halfway house of sorts, where they will rest for the night, enjoy a hot meal, and warm beds, before they set off on the final leg of their journey. As you might imagine, the travelers are tired, sore, and hungry after so long in the cramped quarters of the rickety coach as it bounces along the dirt and dust of the prairie.
They spend the hour or so of their journey chatting with each other as they begin to look forward to their rest stop for the evening. There is a doctor who is searching for a missing friend, a young pair of newlyweds on their way to join family out west and an elegant young woman named Clyde, in a beautifully made red dress.
Clyde seems to be the most mysterious of the set with the doctor running a close second behind her. The newlyweds are just honest to goodness kind folk with a baby on their way and their lives ahead of them. Clyde and the doctor both have seen more and experienced more and their mannerisms and reluctance to share too much tells us that there is much more to be discovered.
Once at the rest stop, a massive homestead owned by a friendly German family with two young daughters, things begin to go awry, as the family are not as nice as they seem. Before dinner is over, the long anticipated restful night unfolds into an evening of blood, gore, and pain. Chaos strikes from all directions as the weary travelers try to survive “Red Station.”
I will say that for my personal preference, I would have liked a bit more backstory on the travelers and the German family as well but that does not distract from the overall story. I was left with a few questions, but I do hope that maybe Kenzie Jennings will share another part of this story with us sometime in the future, because I can easily see a second or third installment.
GET IT HERE:
Amazon.com: Red Station: Splatter Western, Book 7 (Audible Audio Edition): Kenzie Jennings, Cynthia Hemminger, Death's Head Press: Books
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