Blogs Posts on "Western Fiction"

What's Up in the Wild Wild West by Davy Crockett's Almanack of Mystery, Adventure and the Wild West on Nov 18, 2009THE STORY WITH NO NAMERay Foster (aka Jack Giles) has posted Part 16 of this round-robin western on Broken Trails. Nice job, Ray! The previous installment and links to the whole shebang can be found here.A FISTFUL OF LEGENDSExpress Westerns' follow-u...

DEATH COMES to The Story With No Name: Part 15 by James J. Griffin by Davy Crockett's Almanack of Mystery, Adventure and the Wild West on Nov 11, 2009This is it. The grisly demise of one of our beloved (or not so beloved) characters. Read on, and see what Ranger Jim Griffin has done to alter the landscape of this epic saga.Previous installments, penned by the likes of I.J. Parnham, Jack Giles, Chu...

SOMEONE WILL DIE. GUARANTEED. by Davy Crockett's Almanack of Mystery, Adventure and the Wild West on Nov 10, 2009Yes, Mr. James J. Griffin, author of tomorrow's installment of The Story With No Name, promises that one of our main characters WILL DIE. But who? Slick gent Silas Barnett? Naughty-but-nice Lola? Sheriff-turned-vigilante Zack Roden? Our hero Walt Arn...

Lust of the Lawless - a Complete SPICY WESTERN by Robert Leslie Bellem by Davy Crockett's Almanack of Mystery, Adventure and the Wild West on Nov 8, 2009Most readers of "Adult" westerns assume the concept was born back in the 70s with series like Slocum (think about it) and Longarm, the guy with the long erect cigar between his teeth. Truth is, they were around as early as 1936, when Spicy Western St...

The Story With No Name Part 14 by Yours Truly by Davy Crockett's Almanack of Mystery, Adventure and the Wild West on Nov 4, 2009The No Name Wonder marches on, this time through the desert.Parts 1-10 await you at The Culbin Trail.Part 11 is at Open Range.Part 12 at Charlie's Tokyo West Blog.Part 13 at Broken Trails.We're now three deep into Round 2, though new scribes are alwa...

A Tentative Bibliography of Ed Gorman Westerns by Davy Crockett's Almanack of Mystery, Adventure and the Wild West on Oct 29, 2009Heck, all I was planning to do was write a review of Guild. But, as always after finishing a book I enjoy, I wanted to see a list of the author's other titles so I could figure which to read next. And dag nab it, I couldn't find a good one anywhere.

Pulps for Halloween: The Ghost of Spicy Mystery by Davy Crockett's Almanack of Mystery, Adventure and the Wild West on Oct 29, 2009Yesterday we had skeleton-face guy, so today it's a ghost, emerging from this defunct diplomat to claim his Halloween treats. And being this is a Spicy pulp, those treats are likely to involve some heavy petting with the obligatory scantily-clad fema...

The Story With No Name Part 13 by Jack Giles by Davy Crockett's Almanack of Mystery, Adventure and the Wild West on Oct 28, 2009If cowboys and camels are your thing (and even if they're not) this is a good week to jump in on The Wild Bunch Wednesday Story Challenge. Jack (Ray Foster) Giles has delivered his second fine installment, this time at Broken Trails. In addition to M...

New HAXAN Story at The Western Online by Davy Crockett's Almanack of Mystery, Adventure and the Wild West on Oct 26, 2009When I read Kenneth Mark Hoover's first story on The Western Online (see Til Death Do Us Part), I thought it was simply a damn well written western tale. Well, now I find it was part of a larger concept, a series, and maybe even a lifestyle. Hoover's...

Duggan by Jack Giles by Davy Crockett's Almanack of Mystery, Adventure and the Wild West on Oct 22, 2009Duggan, I believe, was the fifth Black Horse Western from the pen of Jack Giles (aka Ray Foster), and first published 22 years ago. But this was the first Jack Giles book I could get my hands on, and I just finished reading it, so to me it’s fresh...