Twisted Tumbleweed Tales

How The West Was Weird

The Bony Express delivers souls across the desert plains…
Santa Claus is wanted by bounty hunters who have no Christmas spirit…
A legendary Pinkerton pursues Jack the Ripper along the Barbary Coast…
Billy the Kid leads a gang of Lost Boys in Nevertown…

Gather round the campfire for these tall tales and fourteen more in this collection of weird westerns by Paul Victor Wargelin. Saddle up with Doc Holliday, Buffalo Bill Cody, and George Armstrong Custer on uncanny adventures never covered in the history books, and where witches, werewolves, and zombies can be found among the cacti and sagebrush.

The Ballad of Adam Rib, Bony Express Rider
On a Warm October Day
Six Guns & Six Spells
Buffalo Hide
Out to Pasture
Beating a Dead Horse
Building the Better Gunfighter
Wanted: For Christmas
The First Prisoner
The Story of One Bad Ass
Black Mary
Yours Truly, Charles A. Siringo
Passin’ Through
Bought for a Song
The Human Nature of the Beast
Five Stacked Heads on a Grassy Plain
Straight On ‘Til Sunup
Remembering the Menken

“Six Guns & Six Spells [is] well-written and entertaining…[This] tale of Western witchery contains characterization so tight that even the witch’s familiar (her horse) has personality.” —Gothic.net