Reply To: The Weird West

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A great genre to explore with a lot of options…let’s see if I can get my wild thoughts in some form of coherent list:

Fiction: Straight Outta Deadwood (anthology), The Weird Wild West (anthology), Dead Man’s Hand (Nancy A Collins anthology), Down Darker Trails: Edge of Sundown (anthology), Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter (I loved the book…the movie was meh, in my opinion),

I’d also check out the Doomtown card game fiction, some great short stories there: http://dispatch.pineboxentertainment.com/chronological-order/

RPGs: Deadlands Savage Worlds (newer than the D20 version), This Favored Land (Arc Dream Publishing’s gritty Civil War Supers setting for Wild Talents 2nd Edition), Werewolf: The Wild West (White-Wolf Publishing), Call of Cthulhu: Down Darker Trails

You might check out Wyrd Miniatures’ Malifaux and Through the Breach game/book lines as well.  I don’t have anything specific to recommend though.

Movies: Cowboys vs. Aliens, House II (you don’t need to see House I, though I loved it), Tremors 4: The Legend Begins, Wild Wild West (not a great movie, but fits the genre),

Graphic Novels: Ghost Rider: Trail of Tears, Caliber: First Canon of Justice (this is the Excaliber/Arthur/Merlin myth set in the wild west…loved it!).

That should be a pretty good start off the top of my head.  If I remember more, I’ll post it.

Happy hunting!