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

Orson Scott Card, Kelley Armstrong, John Joseph Adams

• Publisher: Titan Books
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781781164501
• eBook ISBN:
  9781781164518
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Science Fiction
• Index: Literature

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 tales—stories of the Old West infused with elements of the fantastic—produced specifically for this volume by many of today's finest writers. Included are Orson Scott Card's first "Alvin Maker" story in a decade, and an original adventure by Fred Van Lente, creator of Cowboys and Aliens. Other contributors include Tobias Buckell, David Farland, Alan Dean Foster, Jeffrey Ford, Laura Anne Gilman, Rajan Khanna, Mike Resnick, Beth Revis, Ben H. Winters, Christie Yant, and Charles Yu.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Also by John Joseph Adams
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• The Red-Headed Dead
• The Old Slow Man and His Gold Gun From Space
• Hellfire on the High Frontier
• The Hell-Bound Stagecoach
• Stingers and Strangers
• Bookkeeper, Narrator, Gunslinger
• Holy Jingle
• The Man With No Heart
• Wrecking Party
• Hell from the East
• Second Hand
• Alvin and the Apple Tree
• Madam Damnable’s Sewing Circle
• Strong Medicine
• Red Dreams
• Bamboozled
• Sundown
• La Madre Del Oro
• What I Assume You Shall Assume
• The Devil’s Jack
• The Golden Age
• Neversleeps
• Dead Man’s Hand
• Acknowledgments
• About the Contributors
• About the Editor
• Coming Soon from Titan Books
• Now Available from Titan Books