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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”

Quote of the Day

“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

“I aim to misbehave.”

Annie Oakley

“Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.”

Wyatt Earp

“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

Author Spotlight…

Weird West Author Spotlight: Stephanie Rabig

26 Oct 20229 Mar 2023

Welcome, Stephanie! Stephanie Rabig has been into horror ever since she could read (a librarian remembered her decades later because she tried to check out Dracula in kindergarten). When not…

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Weird West Author Spotlight: Craig E. Sawyer

13 Oct 202222 Oct 2025

Welcome, Craig! Craig E. Sawyer is an American writer known for horror, western, sci-fi, and crime. He has been published by Quill & Crow Publications, Brigid's Gate Press, Shotgun Honey,…

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Weird West Author Spotlight: V.S. McGrath

28 Sep 202220 Feb 2023

Welcome, V.S.! V.S. McGrath (pseudonym) is the author of the four-book Weird West series The Devil’s Revolver. Vicki has also published six contemporary romances with Harlequin Enterprises under the pen…

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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 202220 Feb 2023

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,…

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 202220 Feb 2023

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…