Three Weird Westerns

I’ve read three weird westerns more-or-less consecutively in the past few weeks: The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King, The Half-made World by Felix Gilman and The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt. The first two have far more in common than the last, and deWitt’s novel falls under the description more by its dream-like nature and by evoking cosmic horror rather than any overt supernatural elements.

Weird westerns seem like a natural genre development to me. Westerns evoke an Americ...