Ceaseless West: Weird Western Stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine

by Scott H. Andrews (Editor), Gemma Files, Saladin Ahmed

Eighteen Weird Western short stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies, the three-time Hugo Award and four-time World Fantasy Award finalist online magazine that Locus online calls “a premiere venue for fantastic fiction, not just online but for all media.”

Authors include Kenneth Mark Hoover, Peter Darbyshire, Mark Teppo, E. Catherine Tobler, Aurealis Award finalist and winner Ian McHugh, Shirley Jackson Award finalist Gemma Files, and Hugo Award finalist Saladin Ahmed.

Their stories take readers through dusty towns and worlds alongside a gunslinging avenging angel, vicious ghosts, living trains roaming off their tracks, a thunderbird rising from a mountain's core, a steampunk ambulatory still, and an eternal warrior marshal drawn through time to face that which must be faced.

Genres: Ebooks, Weird West

288 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 28, 2015

About the author

Scott H. Andrews is a writer of science fiction. He teaches college chemistry. He is Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of the fantasy magazine Beneath Ceaseless Skies.

Andrews's short stories have appeared in Weird Tales, Space and Time, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, On Spec, Crossed Genres, and M-Brane SF.

Reviews

[Flint Weiss · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great collection of weird western short stories and is especially worth the read if you don't listen to the podcast.

[Dave Versace · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent collection of weird (i.e. horror, fantastic, steampunk etc) Western stories. There aren't any dull stories in the lot, but it's well worth it for Saladin Ahmed's "Mr Hajj's Sunset Ride", Alan Baxter's "Not the Worst of Sins" and Peter Darbyshire's improbably-titled "The Angel Azrael Rode in the Town of Burnt Church on a Dead Horse", which pretty much does what it say on the tin.

Recommended, though with the caveat - the formatting on the kindle copy I read was screwy, with a tiny font setting and no internal navigation tools. It didn't bother me much since the font size is adjustable and I read cover to cover anyway, but it made it difficult to go back and forth between stories.