The most part the reader is left with the impression that these occult menaces Supernatural creatures, and although occasionally they were explained away, for His duties, Winters ran up against witches, ghouls, werewolves, and other Which featured as its hero a deputy marshal named Lee Winters. Most notably a long-running series by Lon Williams in the pulp REAL WESTERN "The Trail of the Blue Snake" by Gunnison Steele (the pseudonym ofīennie Gardner), but these stories invariably fell back on the "Scooby-Doo"Įnding, where all the mysterious happenings turn out to have logicalĭuring the Fifties, however, some genuine Weird Westerns began to appear again, Supernatural element in a Western story, such as the Masked Rider novel Every now and then an author would introduce a seemingly HOWARD'S WESTERN TALES, forĪs usual, Howard was ahead of his time, and Weird Westerns continued to be rareĭuring the Forties. Massive, soon-to-be-published collection ROBERT E. All of these stories are available in the Published in ARGOSY, is a stylistically daring ghost story unlike anything elseīeing done in the pulps at that time. "The Man on the Ground", "The Horror From the Mound", and Howard combined the supernatural with the traditional Western in such yarns as Stories published, appropriately enough, in the pulp magazine WEIRD TALES. Howard created the Weird Western during the 1930s with several This is a subgenre that cuts across allįormats, from pulp fiction and paperbacks to movies, TV, and video games. Look at the long-standing tradition of mixing horror with the Western, Since tomorrow is Hallowe'en, it seems appropriate to take a
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