DISTURBING THE PEACEA Jeremiah Halstead WesternBy Terrence McCauleyPinnacle Western325 pgs Coming on the heels of the first Jeremiah Halstead western, “Blood on Trail,” this new book has the young U.S. Deputy Marshal traveling into northern Montana on the trail of the outlaw Ed Zimmerman. After Hastead had wiped out his
For a long time I thought I hated Westerns, until I learned that I’d just been watching the wrong ones. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly taught me that yes, there actually were Westerns for me – specifically, the subgenre of revisionist Westerns. As soon as I saw the
WHERE THE BULLETS FLYA Sheriff Aaron Mackey WesternBy Terrence McCauleyPinnacle Books345 pgs Ever since the emergence of the New Pulp movement several decades ago, we’ve noticed a resurgence in so many different genres of popular fiction long defunct. We’re not saying westerns ever went out of style; it is perhaps
THE LONG HIGH NOONBy Loren D. EstlemanForge Books271 pgs There are writers who are so damn dependable, you can pick up anything they’ve done and know before even opening the cover you are going to be entertained to the max. One such pulp scribe is Loren D. Estleman. Though known
STRAIGHT OUT OF DODGE CITYEdited by David BoopBaen Books250 pages Here we have the third in Baen Books’ weird western Straight Outta series edited by David Boop. It’s a nifty collection of fourteen stories by both veteran writers and a few newbies. As always, we judge an anthology via a
GAUGE BLACK – Hell’s Revenge By Mark Justice Self-Published Available at Amazon 128 pgs Revenge plots are a standard in westerns but in “Gauge Black – Hell’s Revenge,” author Mark Justice rips the format to shreds in this unforgiving tale. A Corporal in the Union Army during the Civil War,
ESO Network Patreon Exclusive! Box Office Buzz blogger Ashley Pauls continues her mission to finally view some films on her “Movie Bucket List.” This time, she’s focused on Westerns. Mike Gordon joins Ashley as she concludes this series (for now) with the Sergio Leone epic, Once Upon a Time in
ESO Network Patreon Exclusive! Box Office Buzz blogger Ashley Pauls continues her mission to finally view some films on her “Movie Bucket List.” This time, she’s focused on Westerns. Mike Gordon and Jay Sherer from The Story Geeks Podcast join Ashley as she reviews the Netflix series, Godless. Become a
Well, it looks like it’s time for the “Better Late than Never blog series…goes west” to ride off into the sunset. It’s been a great journey, and overall I’ve really enjoyed diving deeper into a genre I once thought I didn’t like. I’ll still always have a special place in
Have you ever watched a movie and thought, “I think that was a good movie, but I didn’t actually like it?” That’s exactly what I thought after watching “Once Upon a Time in the West.” I decided to watch “Once Upon a Time in the West” next in my Western
Well, when I posted the first part of my review of the Netflix miniseries “Godless” back on March 5, I had no idea how much my life would be changing in the next couple weeks. Since then, the university I work for has been shut down due to growing concerns
For a number of years, it seemed like television was looked on as a lesser art form than film. But thanks to the rise of prestigious and popular TV dramas like “The Sopranos,” “Game of Thrones,” and many others, we truly are living in a golden age of television storytelling.
