Women of the Weird West

KC Grifant
Publisher: Brigids Gate Press, LLC
June 16 2026
EAN: 9781963355529
ISBN: 1963355520
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Synopsis:

Saddle up. The Old West is weirder than you think.

In this bold reimagining of the Old West, dive into haunted canyons, frontier towns hiding cosmic horrors, vast deserts, and far-flung worlds where women take center stage.Women of the Weird West features 25 original speculative poems and short stories set in landscapes both familiar and strange. Gunslingers, outlaws, dreamers, and survivors face overwhelming forces both human and supernatural.Subversive and genre-bending, this anthology captures the wonder, violence, and resilience at the heart of the Old West while featuring women all too often left off the page.Edited by KC Grifant and with a foreword by Kasey Lansdale, the book features short stories and poems by: Eugen Bacon, Jennifer Brody, V. Castro, K.M. Chavez, Deborah Daughetee, Sarah Faxon, Jendia Gammon, Anastasia Jill, R.J. Joseph, Nicole Givens Kurtz, Angela Liu, Christine Lucas, Anna Madden, Tiffany Morris, Donna J.W. Munro, SJ Myles, Nico Martinez Nocito, Cynthia Pelayo, Grace Quon, Stephanie Rabig, Rebecca Rowland, Tammy Salyer, Lisa Timpf, Angelica Urquizo and Mathilda Zeller.Perfect for readers who enjoy supernatural westerns, dark fantasy, cosmic horror, historical reimaginings and speculative fiction.