From a kill-or-be-killed gunfight with a vampire to an encounter in a steampunk bordello, the weird western is a dark, gritty tale where the protagonist might be playing poker with a sorcerous deck of cards, or facing an alien on the streets of a dusty frontier town. Here are twenty-three original talesstories of the Old West infused with elements of the fantasticproduced specifically for this volume by many of today’s finest writers. Included are Orson Scott Card’s first Alvin Maker" story in a decade, and an original adventure by Fred Van Lente, creator of Cowboys & Aliens. Other contributors include Tobias Buckell, David Farland, Alan Dean Foster, Jeffrey Ford, Laura Anne Gilman, Rajan Khanna, Mike Resnick, Beth Revis, Ben H. Winters, Christie Yant, and Charles Yu

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Personen: Armstrong, Kelley Card, Orson Scott