Weird western has been a long-running, long-suffering, much maligned subgenre of weird fiction. I also started to read and enjoy the Longmire books ,and watched the complete series once it came out, first on network TV and then on Netflix for the final few seasons. Steampunk was a big part of my early short story career and western elements fit nicely in that genre. He had a surprising taste for the macabre at times.Īs I became an author, I wasn’t prepared to write a straight western, but I did experiment with cross genre westerns. My father may not have recognized a splatter western as being kin to the things he loved, but I don’t know that for a fact. My father was fascinated by crime fiction, science fiction, high fantasy, and to a lesser degree, horror too. Kids born in the 1970s often had fathers born in the 40s and 50s who grew up on a heavy diet of westerns that became deep-set nostalgia by the 80s. As a kid, I couldn’t really relate at all. On Saturday afternoons, much to my chagrin, he would take over the TV and binge the old westerns, many in black and white, on the few channels we had. He read Louis L’Amour books until he needed entire shelves just for that author.
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