Pretty Deadly, Vol. 1
Do you ever read something and go “I don’t know what the hell that was, but I liked it?” That …
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Through Darkest America – Neal Barrett Jr.
Howie Ryder’s pastoral childhood is torn from him as a brutal civil war comes home, sending him on a trek across the post-apocalyptic wilderness of Darkest America.
Copperhead, Vol. 2
Space western with a new sheriff in town! After the interesting if uneventful first volume introduces the main characters, things …
Copperhead, Vol. 1
After seeing the high praise from Robert Kirkman and Brian K. Vaughn, I was really expecting this one to wow …
To Hell You Ride
“A deadly curse plagues a small Colorado town, melting the flesh from its victims — the revenge that four warriors set in motion when their sacred burial grounds were disturbed by gold miners’ greed! “
Six-Gun Snow White – Catherynne M. Valente
The Snow White fairytale recast through the lens of the gritty Old West, an enchanting glimpse through the looking glass at guns, blood, women, and race.
El Camino Del Rio – Jim Sanderson
A Latino border guard tries to keep the peace—and come to terms with himself—in a desolate borderland populated by strange locals, drug runners, and illegal immigrants.
Dead in the West – Joe R. Lansdale
Reverend Jebediah Mercer picked the wrong day to hold a revival at Mud Creek—the townsfolk just hung themselves an indian shaman, who cursed the town so its dead will rise…
Desert Town – Ramona Stewart
Teenager Paula Haller makes the mistake of falling in love with a dangerous gangster twice her age, when small-town melodrama, noir, and western converge.
The Bounty Hunters – Elmore Leonard
Two Cavalrymen head south of the border after rogue Apache, only to find far worse: crooked Mexican gendarmes, American bandits, and the “Apache” scalps they traffic in…
“You’ll Never See It in Galaxy!”
An interesting little historical footnote. Back in 1950, science fiction was still trying to discover itself as a serious genre, …
Battered, Tattered, Yellowed, & Creased 