Undead in the West II : they just keep coming / edited by Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper.
Essays on the hybrid Western/horror genre in film, literature, sequential art, gaming, and fan culture.
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| Other title: | Undead in the West two. Undead in the West 2. They just keep coming. |
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Lanham, Maryland :
The Scarecrow Press, Inc.,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.