I played this game about 10 yrs ago. It was a wierd freaky western supposed to be scary but not that scary. In a part of the game the main character has to put a chair under the door handle so that the creature wouldn't eat him while he slept, also in the same room he breaks open part of a wall and finds a diary. Also I remember that he went to a barn and found a dying man warning him about something. And I also remember that I could never get that far everytime I got to the manor house something killed me and it shows a buzzard pecking at me.
It was a game from my past that I would like to find again.
If you could help thanks, if not thanks anyways

that kind of sounds like burntime, but if memory serves me i think that came out on the amiga.......... mite of been made for pc after a awhile tho

http://www.adventuregamers.com/article/id,27 ?

I think you are talking about "Outlaws" from Lucas Arts. It was published in 1997. I played the game several years ago and from your description, I believe this is the game.

10 years ago ?
www.wulfram.com?mkid=17776 ?