Undead in the West : vampires, zombies, mummies, and ghosts on the cinematic frontier. 2, They just keep coming

The undead are back! In Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier, Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper assembled a collection of essays that explored the unique intersection of two seemingly distinct genres in cinema: the western and the horror film. In this new volume, Undead in the West II: They Just Keep Coming, Miller and Van Riper expand their examination of undead Westerns to include not only film, but literature, sequential art, gaming, and fan culture (fan fiction, blogging, fan editing, and zombie walks). These essays run the gamut from comics and graphic novels such as American Vampire, Preacher, and Priest, and games like Darkwatch and Red Dead Redemption, to novels and short stories by celebrated writers including Robert E. Howard, Joe R. Lansdale, and Stephen King. Featuring a foreword by renowned science fiction author William F. Nolan (Logan's Run) and an afterword by acclaimed game designer Paul O'Connor (Darkwatch), this collection will appeal to scholars of literature, gaming, and popular culture, as well as to fans of this unique hybrid. Essays On The Hybrid Western/horror Genre In Film, Literature, Sequential Art, Gaming, And Fan Culture. Foreword: In The Beginning--frederick Faust's Western Fantasies / William F. Nolan -- Vaqueros And Vampires In The Pulps: Robert E. Howard And The Dawn Of The Undead West / Jeffrey Shanks And Mark Finn -- Weird Western Comic Books Of The 1950s / Paul Green -- Filling Up The West With Dead Folks: Joe R. Landsale / Cynthia J. Miller -- On Death's Horizon: Wandering Spirits And Otherworldly Landscapes In Western Art And Cinema / Courtney Fellion -- Genre Exchange On The Supernatural In Stephen King's The Gunslinger: The Gunfighter Archetype Meets The Ravenous Other / Adam S. Kozaczka -- Vampires And Vermin: The Ambivalence Of Historical And Generic Revision Of The West(ern) In Darkwatch / Christina V. Cedillo -- Finding A Noble Purpose In The Postapocalyptic Zombie West: Identity Development In Jonathan Maberry's Rot And Ruin / Julia Saric -- Allegorical Confrontation Meets Gaming System: Rhetoric And Trauma Within Red Dead Redemption/undead Nightmare / M. Melissa Elston -- Go West, Young Fang! Skinner Sweet As Outlaw And American Vampire / Andrew John Sneddon And Aspasia Stephanou -- A Baptism Of Blood: Priest And The Regeneration Of Violence On Min-woo Hyung's Frontier / William Grady -- Ghosts Of Texas: The Duke, The Vampire, And The Saint Of Killers In Preacher / Jim Casey And Marc Petersen -- And Hell Followed With Him: Gothic Economics In Clint Eastwood's Pale Rider (1985) / John Edgar Browning -- Scratching Open Old Wounds: The Supernatural Brujo And The Undead Body In The Missing And The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada / Jericho Williams -- Days Gone Bye: Robert Kirkman's Reenvisioned Western The Walking Dead / Jeffrey A. Sartain -- Genre Mashing In The Role-playing Game Deadlands: The Weird West, The Horror Steampunk Western / Rachel Mizsei Ward -- Unsettled: Ghosts, Zombies, And Indians In The American West / C. Richard King -- Undead And Online: Fan Communities And The Undead Western / Matthias Stork And A. Bowdoin Van Riper. Edited By Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. This companion to Undead in the West (Scarecrow 2012) explores the blending of the Western genre with zombies, vampires, mummies, ghosts, and spirits in comics, graphic novels, literature, games, new media, fandom and material culture.