Razored Saddles (Lansdale & LoBrutto 1989)

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11 • Introduction: The Cowpunk Anthology (Razored Saddles) • essay by Joe R. Lansdale and Pat LoBrutto

15 • Black Boots • short story by Robert R. McCammon

29 • Thirteen Days of Glory • short story by Scott A. Cupp [as by Scott Cupp]

37 • Gold • non-genre • novelette by Lewis Shiner

71 • The Tenth Toe • short story by F. Paul Wilson

89 • Sedalia • novelette by David J. Schow

111 • Trapline • short story by Ardath Mayhar

119 • Trail of the Chromium Bandits • short story by Al Sarrantonio

129 • Dinker's Pond • short story by Richard Laymon

143 • Stampede • short story by Melissa Mia Hall

161 • Razored Saddles • short story by Robert Petitt

175 • Empty Places • short story by Gary L. Raisor

183 • Tony Red Dog • novelette by Neal Barrett, Jr.

211 • The Passing of the Western • short story by Howard Waldrop

225 • Eldon's Penitente • short story by Lenore Carroll

237 • The Job • non-genre • short story by Joe R. Lansdale

241 • I'm Always Here • short story by Richard Christian Matheson

249 • "Yore Skin's Jes's Soft 'N Purty..." He Said. (Page 243) • short story by Chet Williamson

A real oddity this one, the "cowpunk" (per the tongue-in-cheek introduction) anthology. Only story I've read so far is the Williamson one, which is devastating.

[andydecker]

This one I missed back then.

Weird Western is such a difficult genre. Half of the time it just doesn't work.

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Jan 12, 2023 16:03:42 GMT andydecker said:

This one I missed back then.

Weird Western is such a difficult genre. Half of the time it just doesn't work.

Agreed! 

I think that's why this book has been sitting on my shelf for two years now; however, the Chet Williamson novella is fantastic and worth tracking down. 

[goathunter]

This is the cover of the Dark Harvest hardcover edition, released in trade and signed & numbered states.

The art is by Rick Araluce.