Winters, “The Old Slow Man and His Gold Gun From Space.” Alien from Neptune approaches a duo of prospectors in early 1850’s California with a proposition. Howard and I would also throw in Manly Wade Wellman who wrote more weird westerns in the 1930s than Howard. A story very pulp in execution with plenty of action. Reverend Mercer, protagonist of Dead in the West, fights a Progeny of Judas, a form of vampire. The first story is Joe Lansdale’s “The Red Headed Dead.” It is dedicated to Robert E. I had to get a new set of tires on my car and took the book with me while I waited. Howard and Joe Lansdale’s novel Dead in the West. The weird western “is typically a darker, grittier take on a similar notion.” He mentions The Wild Wild West, The Dark Tower, The Phantom Empire. In the introduction, John Joseph Adams distinguishes that that steampunk can be anywhere and often has an urban setting. A total of 397 pages plus a section on the contributors in the back. Dead Man’s Hand is a trade paperback edited by John Joseph Adams. A couple weeks back, I was at the main library for the county and happened to notice a weird western anthology that I knew of but had not read was on the shelves.
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