How Lost Can It Be If You Know About It: Joe R. Lansdale’s “Sixty-Eight Barrels On Treasure Lake”

For this month’s final weird western consideration, we will take a look at one of Joe R. Lansdale’s newest releases, a novella length adventure called “Sixty-Eight Barrels on Treasure Lake,” which is found in his 2020 collection, Fishing For Dinosaurs and Other Stories. The story concerns a seventeen-year-old lad called Rabbit by his parents on […]

To Make Good Men Her Slaves: Fear Street: 1978

Although the title suggests this is completely set in a different era than the first film, Fear Street: 1994 (2021), in fact Fear Street: 1978 (also 2021) picks up right where the last one left off, with survivors in their right minds bringing a possessed member of their troupe to the survivor from a previous […]

Who is Speaking: Ramsey Campbell’s Somebody’s Voice

A new novel from Ramsey Campbell is a cause for celebration in this house. The man has been penning peculiar, psychological horrors and literary suspense yarns for decades. Back in the 80s, 90s, and early 00s, Campbell’s fiction regularly appeared from Tor Books. Then, for whatever reason, that publisher stopped releasing his works. For the […]

Don’t Mess With Girls in the Park: Alley Cat

Some movies are so trashy, so cheap, so deliriously made, that they demand more of your life than they could ever possibly hope to give back. Time wasters, those flicks are. The kinds of movies that you hopefully shut off midway through before you sacrifice more than 45 minutes of your life. If you do […]

“A New Method for Spiritualists” appears parABnormal magazine

My story, ” A New Method for Spiritualists ” appears in the June 2021 issue of parABnormal, Hiraeth Publishing’s magazine celebrating dark fantasy and paranormal terror. The background of this particular story is an interesting one. I wrote the Dr. Smythe character and Miss Peabody in a completely different tale, a steampunk story that revisits […]

My Story “Wish I May, Wish I Might” appears in Last Love anthology

My 14k word, weird western/romance novella “Wish I May, Wish I Might” is included in the Last Love anthology from Dragon Soul Press. When I was writing this piece, I knew it was going to be a kind of companion piece to my 15k word weird western, “Sharp As Serpents’ Teeth,” but I did not […]

Mostly Ghostly: High Plains Drifter

He comes from the haze, and to the haze he will return. However, during his stay in the small town of Lago, the man known only as The Stranger (Clint Eastwood) will leave his mark. His arrival is heralded by big birds. The townsfolk stare, uncertain what to make of him. He rides along neither […]

How the West was Ripped Apart: Kristopher Triana’s The Thirteenth Koyote

Up until the release of the eighth volume of the Splatter Western series, all the entries were tight little reads. All that changed with Kristopher Triana’s entry. Instead of a streamlined story, Triana gives his readers an epic. This is the Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) entry in the splatter western series, […]

My Story “Sharp As Serpents’ Teeth” appears in Wolf Night.

My 15k word weird west novella Sharp As Serpents’ Teeth is included in the Wolf Night anthology from Dragon Soul Press. The book is available in both eBook or paperback editions. Here’s an excerpt: # Sharp As Serpents’ Teeth By: Daniel R. Robichaud Moira Debundy of the flaming red hair and even fierier disposition cursed […]

Riding with the Brand: Joe R. Lansdale & John L. Lansdale’s Hell’s Bounty

When Smith comes to the out of the way town of Falling Rock, he’s on the trail of a bounty not a bloody adventure involving a war between Hell and Lovecraftian horror. He will find his expectations challenged. Falling Rock was a once prosperous silver mining town, which has since gotten itself washed up. There’s […]

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Month: July 2021