Foreword: Undead and online: fan communities and the undead Western / Matthias Stork and A. Bowdoin Van Riper. 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.
Summary:
Essays on the hybrid Western/horror genre in film, literature, sequential art, gaming, and fan culture.
Series:
Undead in the West ; II Miller, Cynthia J., 1958- Undead in the West ; II.
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