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Weird West

(2026)
A collection of stories by

 
 
Seven horror, weird western, and hardcore pulp stories set on the American frontier.

A preacher drags a black coffin across New Mexico, promising to cleanse entire towns of their sins. Wild Bill Hickok sits down at a poker table in Deadwood against a mysterious female gambler. Doc Holliday faces the gunfight at the O.K. Corral while trying to honor an infernal pact. Clay Allison listens to conflicting accounts of a macabre dance performed around a corpse. Belle Starr carries a gemstone inside her stomach that a shapeshifting sorcerer is determined to reclaim. On the battlefield of Little Bighorn, Custer’s body conceals something no soldier can explain. Along the Missouri River, as smallpox ravages the Mandan, ancient gods beneath the earth awaken a creature that has been starving for millions of years.

Gunslingers, prostitutes, revenants, demons, shamans, soldiers, epidemics, and prehistoric monsters collide in a frontier of blood, sex, bourbon, sacrilege, and black humor—where History is dug up from the grave and dragged back into the light, stinking of gunpowder, sweat, disease, and death.



Genre: Horror

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