Description:

From automatons to zombies, many fantastic elements have been cross-pollinated with the western genre. This A-to-Z encyclopedia of the Weird Western covers film, television, animation, dime novels, pulp fiction, comic books, novels, short stories and video and role-playing games.

Review

"a useful and entertaining guide to the mind-bending and genre-blending world that resides outside the mainstream..." --Wild West History Journal

"All-encompassing coverage...a stunning amount of research...Green has done the Western genre a great service." -- True West

"This unique volume covers ground that has generally eluded researchers." -- Starlog

"In the extraordinarily useful and detailed Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns, Green identifies horrific and supernatural departures and twists over the last 150 years of the Western...Green's Encyclopedia covers considerable ground...it is certainly deserving of recognition." --Ray Merlock, University of South Carolina Upstate, The Journal of American Culture

From the Inside Flap

From automatons to zombies, many fantastic elements have been cross-pollinated with the western genre. This A-to-Z encyclopedia of the Weird Western covers film, TV, animation, dime novels, pulp fiction, comic books, novels, short stories and video and role-playing games.

From the Back Cover

From automatons to zombies, many fantastic elements have been cross-pollinated with the western genre. This A-to-Z encyclopedia of the Weird Western covers film, TV, animation, dime novels, pulp fiction, comic books, novels, short stories and video and role-playing games.

About the Author

Paul Green is a biographer specializing in film and television history. He lives in Rustburg, Virginia.