Tag: western fantasy

  • An explosive (and stinky) new weird western

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    Patrick Dorn
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    — I just wrote and submitted a short story for a new weird western anthology. In “A Taste of Purgatory,” a defrocked preacher faces his own damnation when a gateway to Hell, or possibly a geological event, opens and erupts beneath him. This one was a blast to write and includes an exploding outhouse, followed…

  • A snappy new Weird Western

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    Attack of the Lightning Bugs A Weird Western Tale of Dry Gulch When stinging, sparking gnats swarm a crowded saloon, the citizens of Dry Gulch must find a way to squash the threat before it grows into a full-blown conflagration. This fast and funny weird western story features a town and stock characters originally created…

  • Hoping this is weird enough

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    Patrick Dorn
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    I just finished and submitted a weird western story. “Six Toes in a Boot” is about a Pueblo Indian vampire who looks 15 but is more than 300 years old and works as a bounty hunter for the Catholic Church. He’s tasked with recovering a stolen relic, the third toe from the left foot of…

  • Fiction Update: Weird Western series in the works

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    I’m currently developing a series of short stories in the Weird Western genre. The tales will take place around 1780, during the California Mission period, and involve cryptozoological (creature of the week) storylines. My hero is Otto Eisenschaf, a Hessian mercenary who lost his left hand and part of his arm in the first battle…