“During the darkest days of the Civil War, wicked cutthroats came into possession of six pistols of otherworldly power. In time, the Sixth Gun, the most dangerous of the [ … ]
Category: Literature
American Vampire – An Old West Vampire Tale
American Vampire is a graphic novel whose story features Skinner Sweet, a sociopathic outlaw in the 1880’s old west who becomes not just the first Old West Vampire, but [ … ]
Murdered on the Streets of Tombstone – The Earps Vilified
Murdered on the Streets of Tombstone, Joyce Aros, Goose Flats Publishing, (520) 457-3884, $26.99, Paper. 340 pages, Author’s Notes, Photos, Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. Countess books, movies, magazine [ … ]
Killer of Witches – Apache Witch Killer
In Killer of Witches, the Spur Award winning author W. Michael Farmer delivers a carefully researched story of a Mescalero Apache’s adventures. Beginning in 1865, the boy, along with a [ … ]
Agnes Lake Hickok: Queen of the Circus, Wife of a Legend
The amazing story of the wife of Wild Bill Hickok appears for the first time in this wonderfully written and carefully researched volume. Beginning with the early life of [ … ]
Weird Western Tales – Graphic Novel Series
The closest (and longest lasting) genre that is comparable to Gothic Western is Weird Western, which combines elements of the Western with horror, occult, fantasy or science fiction. Weird [ … ]
And the Ass Saw the Angel – Nick Cave’s Cult Classic
And the Ass Saw the Angel , Nick Cave’s first novel, is an inventive tall tale featuring (and lampooning) religious fanaticism and bizarre dogma. Euchrid Eucrow, despised and [ … ]
Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian
Could Cormac McCarthy‘s epic novel Blood Meridian be the Genesis of the Gothic Western genre? While there have been earlier missives that have been emitted (Jonah Hex, etc.) [ … ]