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Weird West is a literary subgenre that combines elements of the Western with another literary genre, usually horror, occult, or fantasy. DC's ''Weird Western Tales'' appeared in the early 1970s and the weird Western was further popularized by Joe R. Lansdale who "is best known for his tales of the 'weird west,' a genre mixing splatterpunk with alternate history Western almost entirely defined by the author in the early 1990s. His work reads a little like the sort of folklore in which Mark Twain dabbled (or the Gothic in which Flannery O'Connor was involved), but with zombies and gore."〔(Bubba Ho-Tep review )〕 Examples of these cross-genres include ''Deadlands'' (Western/horror),〔 ''The Wild Wild West'' and its later film adaptation (Western/steampunk),〔 ''Jonah Hex'' (Western/supernatural), ''BraveStarr'' (Western/science fiction), and many others. ==Background== When supernatural menaces of horror fiction are injected into a Western setting, it creates the horror Western. Writer G. W. Thomas〔(Of Men & Monsters )〕 has described how the two combine: "Unlike many other cross-genre tales, the weird Western uses both elements but with very little loss of distinction. The Western setting is decidedly 'Western' and the horror elements are obviously 'horror.'"〔(Crossing Horror: Using Horror in Other Genres ), by G.W. Thomas〕 Jeff Mariotte's comic book series ''Desperadoes'' has been running, off and on, for a decade now and he still remains bullish about the genre:〔(How the West was Weird: Mariotte talks “Desperadoes” Return ), Comic Book Resources, October 30, 2006〕 As far as Mariotte is concerned, the potential for Weird West stories is limitless. “The West was a weird place. There are ghost towns and haunted mines and when you bring Native American beliefs into it, then the possibilities are even greater.” 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Weird West」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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