In the bounty hunter drama The Thicket, award-winning novelist Joe R. Lansdale lets loose like never before, in a rip-roaring adventure equal parts True Grit and Stand by Me: Jack [ … ]
Category: Literature
Sins of the Shovel – Looting of Indigenous Sites
American archaeology was forever scarred by an 1893 business proposition between cowboy-turned-excavator Richard Wetherill and socialites-turned-antiquarians Fred and Talbot Hyde. Wetherill had stumbled upon Mesa Verde’s spectacular cliff dwellings and [ … ]
Mongrels – Gothic Western Werewolf Novel
Stephen Graham Jones’ Mongrels is a spellbinding and surreal coming-of-age story about a young boy living on the fringe with his family – who are secretly werewolves – and struggling [ … ]
Canary – A Western Horror Story
“In 1891 a mine collapsed into itself. What was the dark substance found 666 feet underground? Blending a western horror story, historical fact, and Western lore, Scott Snyder and Dan [ … ]
Post-Apocalyptic Western “The Day After Never – Blood Honor”
Russell Blake’s post-apocalyptic Western “The Day After Never – Blood Honor” shows us that in the wake of utter devastation, the line between good and evil gets blurry as hell… [ … ]
Monkey Beach by Indigenous Author Eden Robinson
Monkey Beach is a supernatural mystery novel written by the Indigenous author Eden Robinson. It was published by Vintage Canada in 2000, being Eden’s first novel. It was the recipient [ … ]
Robbie Coburn – Gothic Western Poet
Robbie Coburn is a Gothic Western poet based in Melbourne. Robert Adamson wrote that Robbie Coburn’s poems “come from tough experiences, yet are created with a muscular craft that glows [ … ]
The Legend Of Charlie Fish – Neo-Gothic Western Novel
Josh Rountree’s debut neo-Gothic Western novel, The Legend of Charlie Fish, is a bit difficult to describe briefly. It is definitely a western given the time period, and some of [ … ]
Cormac McCarthy Has Died
Cormac McCarthy has died of natural causes at his home in Santa Fe, N.M. McCarthy, long considered one of the great novelists of American literature, was 89. His death was [ … ]
Gunslinger Spawn – Todd McFarlane Fires Out of the Old West
Spawn was searching for answers when he found his ancestors journal and found out that his great-great-grandfather was a Buffalo Soldier and that he had crossed paths with another Hellspawn of that era, [ … ]