Alan (on Stratford hiatus) Teder’s Reviews > Hot Iron and Cold Blood: An Anthology of the Weird West > Status Update

16. Seeking A Grave in Canaan ***** Wile E. Young. A demonic sort of vigilante is hired by a family of Mormons to rescue two of their own who have succumbed to the enchantment of a rival religion.

14. Hungry **** by Jesse Allen Champion. A group of Chinese railroad workers are camped near the site of a historic disaster and find themselves haunted and attacked by mysterious forces.

13. Old Habits *** by L.M. Labat. A son is writing a journal about his journeys with his father who is a doctor during a Scarlet Fever epidemic in the old west. An entity is hovering in the background.

12. It Calls ***** by Patrick R. McDonough. Surrealistic tale about a family trapped by a force of light (with tentacles) which seeks to entrap them.

11. Dread Creek **** by Briana Morgan. A gang of outlaws with relationship issues with girlfriends and wives find themselves with a limited choice of water sources.

10. Rope and Limb *** by Jeff Strand. A planned hanging degenerates into a bungled effort by a cost-cutting mayor and the residents of a western town.

9. Sedalia *** by David J. Schow. In a world where dinosaurs have returned to Earth, a group of drovers are now in the dino herding business.

8. Old World Birds *** by Drew E. Huff. Surrealistic and erotic tale of a sorceress who bewitches through birds which are released from her body.

8. Old World Birds *** by Drew E. Huff. Surrealistic and erotic tale of a sorceress who bewitches through birds which are released from her body.

7. The Deviltry of Elemental Violence ***** by Edward Lee. A gravedigger is paid to secretly exhume a grave with shocking results. This one has an H.P. Lovecraft Cthulhu Mythos tie-in.