Hot Iron and Cold Blood : an anthology of the weird west.

1. Chapter 1 -- 2. Chapter 2 -- Contents -- 3. Set A Spell, The West Has A Story To Tell: A Foreword -- 4. Ruthless -- 5. Texas Macabre -- 6. Holes -- 7. Soiled Doves -- 8. About Her Given Name -- 9. The Night of El Maldito -- 10. The Deviltry of Elemental Valence -- 11. Old World Birds -- 12. Sedalia -- 13. Rope and Limb -- 14. Dread Creek -- 15. It Calls -- 16. Old Habits -- 17. Hungry -- 18. The Redheaded Dead -- 19. Seeking A Grave In Canaan -- 20. An Exploration of the Weird West: An Afterword -- 21. About the Authors

Desperados and yellow-bellies be warned: These ain’ t your typical westerns… Herein find legendary masters of anomalous Western and Horror stories— along with a posse of budding word-slingers— who all bring you an electrifying and frightening collection of extraordinary tales set in the Old West and beyond... Within these pages, the improbable is made real: cowboys encounter a chimeric critter of the night; dinosaurs return as massive poltergeists; Chinese railroad workers are haunted by invisible frights; outlaws experience Cronenbergian body-horror; fallen-light stalks mother and daughter upon a wintry prairie; a headless horseman roams the badlands; otherworldly creatures hunt within our domain; screaming spectral birds nest within the damned; and gunslinging women with murderous skills annihilate foolish notions of a man’ s world. These are just a handful of the offerings in this body of macabre lore. So, mount your saddle-horse and join this gang of rogue authors for a ride down dark trails of terror and unsettling thoroughfares that lead deep into strange, nightmarish territory.