Skull Full of Spurs
by Allen G. Douglas, Brian Hodge, Jack Ketchum, Jason Bovberg, Kirk Whitman, Richard Laymon, Yvonne Navarro

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Book Review: A great collection of Tall Weird Westerns!
Summary: 5 Stars

Let's focus on the great, shall we? Brian Hodge has the unenviable task of having the leadoff story, "Pages Stuck by a Bowie Knife to a Cheyenne Gallows". A tale of a cowboy unable to be killed. The genius of the story is Hodge's explanation of how this predictament came to be and how the man handles it. A very disturbing moment is Hodge's description of the condition. The retribution he must pay for his past deeds make him a living allegory.

Richard Laymon's "The Hangman" spins a yarn of a revengeful hanged ghost. Laymon has one of the hunted meet a father and son out camping and telling them what/who is trailing him. A armful of gooseflesh follows, especially with the eerie ending.

"The Magic Bullet Theory" by Adam-Troy Castro is a very original and vivid tale of a bullet that was shot by a stranger in town, moves about an inch a year down the center of Main Street and how one or two people look death in the face by staring the bullet down.

Nancy A. Collins turns in a solid take on Day of the Dead in "Calaverada". Yvonne Navarro's contribution, "Divine Justice" asks the question, what if you and a friend came across something that resembled a whole hell of a lot like an Angel? The answer is intriguing.

Robert Devereaux' "Showdown at Stinking Springs" is the last piece of this Weird Western puzzle and it is an over the top meditation on what happens when one nymphomaniacal woman and one well endowed man meet in the center of town for a shootout, so to speak. Hilarious stuff!

What may be the best thing about this collection is at the end of every story is the author's most up to date bibliography, a very handy tool to hunt down fiction and non-fiction by your favorite writers. An all around good anthology and hopefully more with this theme will be released in the not too distant future.

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