The Elmer McCurdy Mummy
Elmer McCurdy is not exactly a household name. In life, Elmer McCurdy was a hard-drinking drifter. In death, he crisscrossed the country touring the carnival circuit, hit the Hollywood scene, [ … ]
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Nighthawk Rising: Female Cattle Rustler
This fascinating story is the biography of “Queen” Ann Bassett, an accused female cattle rustler living in Brown’s Park in the 1880s through the turn of the century. Brown’s Park [ … ]
The Crossing – Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy Pt. 2
The Crossing, publicized as the second installment of Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy. Like its predecessor, All the Pretty Horses (1992), The Crossing is a coming-of-age novel set on the border between the southwest United States and Mexico. The plot [ … ]
Pauline Cushman – Female Spy of the Civil War
Born in New Orleans on June 10, 1833, Pauline Cushman grew up to be a raven haired woman so beautiful that, when arrested as a female spy of the Civil [ … ]
Heathen Apostles – New Southern Gothic Music Out Today
Gothic Americana and Southern Gothic Music are genres that are fast taking hold around the world, in that they combines the sub-genres of gothic country, dark blues and depression-era jazz. [ … ]
The Mysterious Private Thompson, Female Civil War Soldier
The Mysterious Private Thompson, Laura Leedy Gansler, Free Press a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., $25.00, Hardcover. It is not unusual for women to become soldiers in our day [ … ]
The Sundance Kid: The Life of Harry Alonzo Longabaugh
Old West outlaw history has many “kids”, and the Sundance Kid is among the most popular. He teamed up with Butch Cassidy, and the two robbed banks, blew up railroad [ … ]
Heathen Apostles Gothic Noir Video “Death Came a Ridin'”
The new Heathen Apostles Gothic Noir themed video Death Came a Ridin’ has debuted. It is the first music video from their current album Bloodgrass Vol. I & II (Ratchet [ … ]
Rachel Brooke – Gothic Country Roots
Incendiary young country singer and songwriter Rachel Brooke channels the darkest nights of American Southern music, pulling forth influences from raw, early country singing to Chicago blues greats, vintage New [ … ]
Wyatt in Wichita by Cyberpunk Author John Shirley
While not strictly a Gothic Western novel, Wyatt in Wichita is written by cyberpunk author John Shirley, and he brings alot of that style to this story. In the novel [ … ]