Looking for the latest in weird west books? We’ve got you covered. Below is a running list of featured Weird West new releases coming out in 2024 from traditional and small-press publishers. These Old West-themed stories range from supernatural horror, sci-fi, adventure, fantasy and much more. The list will be updated on an ongoing basis, so be sure to check back for new book recommendations.
View the Featured Weird West Books from 2023 here.
Title: The Transgression (chapbook)
Author: Robert P. Ottone
Type: horror western
Description: Itzel has served Master for a few years now. She’s observed the strange goings-on at the ranch. She learned how to survive in the harsh, burgeoning West. But when forced to care for the Master’s newborn after the death of his wife, Itzel finds herself in a struggle against forces from the darkest heart of man’s desire. Can Itzel survive The Transgression?
Title: Terror at Tierra de Cobre
Author: Michael Merriam
Publisher: Queen of Swords Press
Type: supernatural western
Description: An ancient evil has awakened… Strong women, ancient magic and the walking dead make for a heady mix. In Michael Merriam’s tale, seven women are called to protect a small mining town in the New Mexico Territory, Tierra De Cobre, against an evil that has killed or stolen the town’s men and is twisting the souls of the townswomen. The Sihuanaba is part siren, part shapeshifter, possessed of the body of a beautiful woman, her face a horse’s skull with flaming eyes. Once she is freed from her copper prison in the mine, she feeds off the miners to regain her strength, then consumes or twists all the men who come to rescue them. Maria Garcia, recently widowed and quietly fierce, has the answer: hire women to fight the monster. And they do. Taking the classic Western “The Magnificent Seven” as a jumping off point, the town’s defenders are assembled, all women from wildly different backgrounds, united by one mission: to defend the town and defeat the Sihuanaba. All the odds are against them, the price of failure is death or worse and all they have is each other.
Title: American Muse: Starlite Pulp Novellas, Vol. 1
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Type: supernatural western
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Title: Paranormal Frontier: Wild West
Author: M.J. Maddox
Type: supernatural western
Description: Join the hunters in this light-hearted, action-packed anthology full of monsters and gunslingers as they journey across the American frontier to reach their final destination, the City of Sacramento, where they finally come face-to-face with an unknown threat that only leaves them with more questions then answers.
Title: Zehlreg Augustus Grindstone’s Spectacular Western Oddity Emporium
Editors: Suzanna Lundale and Marc Tizura
Publisher: End of the World Publishing
Type: Fantasy western anthology
Description: Step right up, ladies & gents, elves & orcs, one & all to Zehlreg Augustus Grindstone’s Spectacular Western Oddity Emporium! Gather ‘round with us at the crossroads of Wild West and Fantasy to celebrate the arrival of the emporium, a general store like no other that travels the West bringing tales filled with dragons, gold, cowboys, and demons, along with so much more! This anthology features over 40 original pieces imagining a Wild West where horrors and wonders from other storytelling traditions dance, play, and fight on the plains, in the mines, and at the saloons alongside the usual suspects. Come on in. We can’t wait to show you!
Title: Where the Daybreak Ends
Author: Brennan LaFaro
Publisher: Brigids Gate Press
Type: Horror Western
Description: Alone in the desert and covered in blood, Josiah Dennis comes across an abandoned town, and two unlikely storytellers burdened with sharing its history—past, present, and future. Rogue gangs of vampires, young witches, flayed cadavers, giant lizards, and men with dark hearts dwell in these pages, looming over Buzzard’s Edge, a town full of people struggling to survive in an unforgiving Arizona frontier.
Title: “Here Comes the Sun“
Author: Justin M. Woodward
Publisher: Dead Sky Publishing
Type: Splatter Western
Description: There had been talk of monsters around the small, quiet town of Fort Whipple for some time before the evening of the brutal massacre. First it was the livestock. Dead, shriveled bodies lined the fields, drained of their blood. But when human bodies begin falling from the sky, a dark protector of sorts is dispatched to minimize the casualties.
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