The Wicked West Volume 2: Abomination & Other Tales

Last we saw Cotton Coleridge, he'd traded in his six-guns for stakes when he fought a frontier town full of vampires. This time around the "lightning rod for the supernatural" faces zombies, ghosts, resurrectionists, giant flies, carnivorous slugs, demons and lots of pure evil!

From Publishers Weekly

A nightmarish "cowboys and vampires" Wild West setting comes alive as a bona fide horror universe in this fine anthology. Novella "Abomination" opens with a grisly tale of re-animation and sideshow freaks, told with an ample supply of black ink. Twenty-two short stories follow, of varying effectiveness. Paul Maybury's "A Man, with a Stake in His Hand" recalls the wiry, angular line art of Gahan Wilson, while Vokes and Tommy Castillo's "Night Creatures" is almost balletlike with a zombie story revealed in jagged, angular panels that feel violent by their very design. Adam Burton and Adrian Salmon offer a chiseled, Kafkaesque view in "Cotton Fly," while Michael Avon Oeming's "Von Hellsing" mixes dark humor with some wildly inventive play between white and black. The sole misfire, Livingston and Scott Keating's "The Usual Suspects," is too dark for its own good. Tying the stories together is the character of Cotton Coleridge, "lightning rod" for the "bad supernatural," a wiry and enigmatic antihero with a mysterious past and a face that is alternately cruel and kind. This very satisfying collection is set in a world that feels instantly populated with an endless number of macabre stories.Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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