Undead in the West II: They Just Keep Coming

Synopsis

Essays On The Hybrid Western/horror Genre In Film, Literature, Sequential Art, Gaming, And Fan Culture. Foreword: In The Beginning--frederick Faust's Western Fantasies / William F. Nolan -- Vaqueros And Vampires In The Pulps: Robert E. Howard And The Dawn Of The Undead West / Jeffrey Shanks And Mark Finn -- Weird Western Comic Books Of The 1950s / Paul Green -- Filling Up The West With Dead Folks: Joe R. Landsale / Cynthia J. Miller -- On Death's Horizon: Wandering Spirits And Otherworldly Landscapes In Western Art And Cinema / Courtney Fellion -- Genre Exchange On The Supernatural In Stephen King's The Gunslinger: The Gunfighter Archetype Meets The Ravenous Other / Adam S. Kozaczka -- Vampires And Vermin: The Ambivalence Of Historical And Generic Revision Of The West(ern) In Darkwatch / Christina V. Cedillo -- Finding A Noble Purpose In The Postapocalyptic Zombie West: Identity Development In Jonathan Maberry's Rot And Ruin / Julia Saric -- Allegorical Confrontation Meets Gaming System: Rhetoric And Trauma Within Red Dead Redemption/undead Nightmare / M. Melissa Elston -- Go West, Young Fang! Skinner Sweet As Outlaw And American Vampire / Andrew John Sneddon And Aspasia Stephanou -- A Baptism Of Blood: Priest And The Regeneration Of Violence On Min-woo Hyung's Frontier / William Grady -- Ghosts Of Texas: The Duke, The Vampire, And The Saint Of Killers In Preacher / Jim Casey And Marc Petersen -- And Hell Followed With Him: Gothic Economics In Clint Eastwood's Pale Rider (1985) / John Edgar Browning -- Scratching Open Old Wounds: The Supernatural Brujo And The Undead Body In The Missing And The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada / Jericho Williams -- Days Gone Bye: Robert Kirkman's Reenvisioned Western The Walking Dead / Jeffrey A. Sartain -- Genre Mashing In The Role-playing Game Deadlands: The Weird West, The Horror Steampunk Western / Rachel Mizsei Ward -- Unsettled: Ghosts, Zombies, And Indians In The American West / C. Richard King -- Undead And Online: Fan Communities And The Undead Western / Matthias Stork And A. Bowdoin Van Riper. Edited By Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.