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Welcome to the Weird West, a place where the line blurs between good and evil, and where heroes and villains alike must keep their wits about them and muster stoic bravery in the face of the cosmic unknown.

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Horses, cowboy hats, six-shooters. Ghosts, monsters, demons.  The Weird West genre combines the Old West aesthetic with the frontier of the supernatural. It has spawned beloved games, movies and books combining the genres of horror, scifi, dark fantasy and speculative. This website is a resource for writers, readers and fans…Continue reading “Resources”

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“Aim at a high mark and you’ll hit it. No, not the first time, nor the second time. Maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect.” 

Annie Oakley

“I aim to misbehave.”

Annie Oakley

“If a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and just be one.”

Calamity Jane


“Teach your children what we have taught our children: that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the children of the earth. If we spit upon the ground we spit upon ourselves. This we know.”

Chief Seattle

“Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.”

Wyatt Earp

Author Spotlight…

Weird West Author Spotlight: Michael Merriam

15 Sep 202216 Sep 2022
Welcome, Michael! Michael Merriam is the author of the steampunk series Sixguns & Sorcery, and his essays and stories have appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Cast of Wonders, and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine. He has published…
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Weird West Author Spotlight: Ronald Kelly

2 Sep 20222 Sep 2022
Welcome, Ronald! Born and bred in Tennessee, Ronald Kelly has been an author of Southern-fried horror and western fiction for 36 years, with fifteen novels, twelve short story collections, and a Grammy-nominated…
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Weird West Author Spotlight: Catherine Lundoff

25 Aug 202225 Aug 2022
Welcome, Catherine! Catherine Lundoff is an award-winning writer, editor and publisher. She is a recipient of a 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Writing Grant and the Author Guest of Honor…
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Weird West Author Spotlight: Rachel Aaron

18 Aug 202217 Aug 2022
Welcome, Rachel! Rachel Aaron is the author of twenty-plus novels and the bestselling nonfiction writing book, 2k to 10k: Writing Faster, Writing Better, and Writing More of What You Love,…
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Dialog and Dialect in the Old West: A Writer’s Resource

27 Jul 202217 Aug 2022
Hey there partner! So, you want to write a Weird West story? Part of capturing that atmosphere is making sure your characters sound like they're in the Old West. Like…
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Middle Grade Weird West Author Spotlight: Catt Colborn

23 Jun 202213 Jun 2022
Welcome, Catt! Catt Colborn is a writing professor at Stockton University and has three books published under PFI Press and one from Bizarro Pulp Press, an Imprint of JournalStone Publishing.…
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Weird West Author and Editor Spotlight: David Boop

12 Jun 202212 Jun 2022
Welcome, David! David Boop is an author, editor, screenwriter, and award-winning essayist. He debuted with the sci-fi/noir, She Murdered Me with Science from WordFire Press. His follow-up, The Soul Changers, is a Victorian…
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Weird West Author Spotlight: Edward J. Knight

5 Jun 202212 Jun 2022
Welcome, Edward! Edward J. Knight writes fantasy and science fiction from his home in Colorado. He’s put three satellites into orbit and is raising two children with his partner, Sarah.…
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Weird West Author Spotlight: Ken Hoover

3 Jun 20223 Jun 2022
Welcome, Ken! Ken Hoover is the word slinger of two weird western novels in the Midnight Agency series. His short fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies, and he’s been a semi-finalist…
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Weird West Author Spotlight: Julie Bozza

6 May 2022
Welcome, Julie! Julie Bozza is an Aussie-Anglo hybrid empowered by writing, fuelled by espresso, calmed by knitting, overexcited by photography, and madly in love with Amy Adams and John Keats.…

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    • Dialog and Dialect in the Old West: A Writer’s Resource
    • How To Write A Weird West Story
    • What is the Weird West: Overview and History
    • Weird West Fiction: What To Read Right Now
    • What are Splatter Westerns? (and Where to Read Them)
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