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Contents
Foreword: In the Beginning—Frederick Faust’s Western Fantasies
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Pioneers on a Wide-Open Frontier
Chapter 1: Vaqueros and Vampires in the Pulps: Robert E. Howard and the Dawn of the Undead West
Chapter 2: Weird Western Comic Books of the 1950s
Chapter 3: Filling Up the West with Dead Folks: Joe R. Lansdale
Chapter 4: On Death’s Horizon: Wandering Spirits and Otherworldly Landscapes in Western Art and Cinema
Part II: Lawmen and Gunmen in the Badlands
Chapter 5: Genre Exchange on the Supernatural Frontier in Stephen King’s The Gunslinger: The Gunfighter Archetype Meets the Ravenous Other
Chapter 6: Vampires and Vermin: The Ambivalence of Historical and Generic Revision of the West(ern) in Darkwatch
Chapter 7: Finding a Noble Purpose in the Postapocalyptic Zombie West: Identity Development in Jonathan Maberry’s Rot and Ruin
Chapter 8: Allegorical Confrontation Meets Gaming System: Rhetoric and Trauma within Red Dead Redemption / Undead Nightmare
Chapter 9: Go West, Young Fang! Skinner Sweet as Outlaw and American Vampire
Part III: Men of God on Hallowed Ground
Chapter 10: A Baptism of Blood: Priest and the Regeneration of Violence on Min-Woo Hyung’s Frontier
Chapter 11: Ghosts of Texas: The Duke, the Vampire, and the Saint of Killers in Preacher
Chapter 12: “And Hell Followed with Him”: Gothic Economics in Clint Eastwood’s Pale Rider (1985)
Chapter 13: Scratching Open Old Wounds: The Supernatural Brujo and the Undead Body in The Missing and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Part IV: Communities at the Edge of the Unknown
Chapter 14: Days Gone Bye: Robert Kirkman’s Reenvisioned Western The Walking Dead
Chapter 15: Genre Mashing in the Role-Playing Game Deadlands: The Weird West, the Horror Steampunk Western
Chapter 16: Unsettled: Ghosts, Zombies, and Indians in the American West
Chapter 17: Undead and Online: Fan Communities and the Undead Western
Afterword
About the Contributors
About the Editors
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