Dead Man's Hand: An Anthology of the Weird West

HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD! From a kill-or-be-killed gunfight with a vampire to an encounter in a steampunk bordello the weird western is a dark gritty tale where the protagonist might be playing poker with a sorcerous deck of cards or facing an alien on the streets of a dusty frontier town. Here are twenty-three original talesstories of the Old West infused with elements of the fantasticproduced specifically for this volume by many of todays finest writers. Included are Orson Scott Cards first Alvin Maker story in a decade and an original adventure by Fred Van Lente writer of Cowboys & Aliens. Other contributors include: Tobias S. Buckell David Farland Alan Dean Foster Jeffrey Ford Laura Anne Gilman Rajan Khanna Mike Resnick Beth Revis Fred Van Lente Walter Jon Williams Ben H. Winters Christie Yant Charles Yu