Big List of Western Horror Books
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Table of Contents
Western Horror Novels and Novellas
| Title | By | Year |
|---|---|---|
All of Your Dreams Will Come True When You're Dead The culling took most of the men from Cochran Texas away to a dusty old town that exists between this plane and the next. | Comunale, John Wayne | 2023 |
When Elijah Black arrives, seeking work, a moment of misjudgment threatens to send the town of Copper Creek, and those who run it, into a spiral of destruction. | Caffrey, Peter | 2025 |
The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full. | McCarthy, Cormac | 1985 |
After a deadly bank robbery, the Badlands Hellraisers find sanctuary in an idyllic small town. As night falls, the town transforms, and these outlaws learn what it really means to raise hell. | Latch, R.K. | 2023 |
An ancient evil lurks on the American frontier, and seven contestants from around the world must compete to eradicate it. | Goleman, David | 2025 |
Annette Klein and her husband have built peace between their marriage and secret relations beyond, but their serenity dies in bloodshed tonight through a cannibalistic demon and a mad preacher. | Piper, Hailey | 2023 |
Deadwood meets The Walking Dead in this wild and profane Western romp featuring zombies, werewolves, killer bees, and one pissed-off gun-slinging preacher. | Lansdale, Joe R. | 2012 |
Legend has it, when you’re down on your luck. When the law is on your tail and there’s nowhere left to run. There’s one last place to hide ... Dead Scalp. | Bark, Jasper | 2025 |
Devils Ridge: Shadows of the Old West A once-prosperous town, now stifled by its mysterious past, is home to an ancient Native American legend – the Wendigo, a malevolent spirit hungry for more than just souls. | Sackett, Joseph | 2023 |
Three families traveling through the mountains of North Carolina to claim their share of the gold rush become stranded deep in the forest, overwhelmed by the unrelenting snow and frigid temperatures. | Rufty, Kristopher | 2021 |
James Dee, bestowed with knowledge from beyond, moves through time and space, pursuing age-old horrors and ending their reign. | Miller, Chris | 2020 |
Religion, attraction, and possession collide in the wild and splatter-y west as a pair of young lovers balance their feelings for one another against their deep calling to serve their faith. | Garza, Michelle & Lason, Melissa | 2024 |
When human bodies begin falling from the sky, a dark protector of sorts is dispatched to minimize the casualties. | Woodward, Justin M. | 2024 |
Emma’s life changes when she becomes a Beguiler, a “blood thirster” which brings exciting new abilities and a deeper lust for life. But her condition comes with a steep price. | Tatum, Bradford | 2023 |
When Garrett’s sister is murdered, he, his niece, and his best friend hit the trail, seeking the killer following a trail of bodies lacking skin. | Lutzke, Chad | 2023 |
A band of teenage outlaws set out on a brutal, seemingly random killing spree across the San Gabriel Valley, igniting the ire of Los Angeles citizens. | Morrison, Chandler | 2021 |
In the heart of Indian Territory lies the sleepy town of Duncan. But something lurks in the untamed West – a powerful creature that hunts to satiate its hunger. | Ennenbach, M. | 2020 |
When the truly evil are transformed into pig creatures in a small Western town, a butcher is offered a deal whereby if he rids the land of these creatures, he’ll get his dead wife back. | Ruell, Caesar | 2024 |
As monsters and dead things rise and lay siege to the town, a band of citizens must come together to make a desperate last stand. | Smith, Bryan | 2022 |
A tale of revenge that drags a coffin of stolen confederate gold across the hellscape of Reconstruction Texas, the red dirt plains of Oklahoma, and explodes at the top of a Colorado mountain. | Graves, J.D. | 2024 |
Night Silver River Run Red, The Something far worse than any ordinary traveling show has come to town, and one thing is for certain: those who survive, if any, will never forget the night Silver River run red. | Morgan, Christine | 2020 |
The town of Brodie is infested with hungry demons and dangerous men, gold and vice drawing in the worst that humanity or demonkind have to offer, all standing between a soldier of fortune and the priest he’s hunting. | Baltisberger, John | 2023 |
Occurrence In Crazy Bear Valley, An Strap on your six-guns and saddle up for a shoot-out against a horde of angry Sasquatch! | Keene, Brian | 2024 |
A ragtag posse must hunt down a witch through a wild west beset by demons and ghosts, where death is always just around the bend. | Grecian, Alex | 2023 |
There is a house overlooking the vast, rolling plains. A place where blood and bones feed the land. For four stagecoach passengers, their night at the Station has only just begun. | Jennings, Kenzie | 2020 |
When a duel leaves Mel’s boy dead, he' s desperate to fix his mistake... but can you fix death? | Garza, Michelle | 2024 |
Among the eerie peaks and crevices of the Wichita Mountains, an assembly of pariahs converge. But it isn't just each other they need be concerned about. | Harrison III, Patrick C | 2023 |
Southwest Arizona, a century ago. here's a tall, dark stranger in town, who rode in wearing the dead men's clothes. A stranger who may not be entirely human. | Matheson, Richard | 2010 |
Utah Territory, 1882. Tyler Cabe has come to the mining town of Whisper Lake, hunting for a sadistic killer. But there is a far worse evil in town and it has a name: James Lee Cobb. | Curran, Tim | 2023 |
Disgraced former marshall Eli Cooke finds himself pitted against a group of rival bandits and murderous strangers from his past looking for revenge. However, their showdown is interrupted when they are ambushed by an ancient creature from beyond their wildest nightmares. | McAnulty, Nick | 2023 |
Montana Territory, 1878. Wolf Creek is under siege by a vicious, flesh-eating evil that stalks the night, leaving dismembered and devoured corpses in its wake. | Curran, Tim | 2013 |
Power clashes between witches, warriors, brutes and innocents, and over it all hovers the shadow of the vulture. | Mitchell, Regina Garza | 2021 |
Three musicians have been singing death songs, terrorizing the locals. | Essig, Robert | 2024 |
To most, 1865 was an eye-opening year. To a young Arizonan, his fateful desert homecoming marked the end to all he once knew. | Miller, C. Derrick | 2020 |
A chance encounter between a sideshow owner and a man with his fair share of secrets unleashes an unholy terror on the folk of Randall's Oasis and Professor Morris' Pageant of Curiosities. | Brandt, J.M. | 2023 |
A young Mexican American woman detects uncanny creatures stalking her on a cattle drive toward a canyon soaked in blood. | Belardes, Nicholas | 2025 |
They Built a Gallows for You and Me As a mysterious sickness starts killing the children in the town of Salinas, the townsfolk find themselves distraught and searching for answers. | Higgins, Cody | 2021 |
When an unspeakable ancient evil returns, an orphan girl’s secret may be the world’s only hope. | Gregory, Barry K | 2023 |
He has the will to kill and plenty of guns... but he' s almost out of the magic liquor that makes him bulletproof. | Wilson, Scott Bryan | 2023 |
Carol Evers is a woman with a dark secret. She has died many times, but her many deaths are not final. | Malerman, Josh | 2019 |
Unkillable Frank Lightning, The In 1879, Private Frank Humble, Catherine's husband, was killed in a Sioux attack. Consumed by grief, she used her formidable skills to resurrect him. But Frank lost his soul after the reanimation, and disappeared after a killing spree. | Rountree, Josh | 2025 |
It’s time the world heard what really happened to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. | O'Neill, Gene & Rollo, Gord | 2023 |
A journey populated with dried husks of towns and people both odd and anything but ordinary. Hornets, reverse-werewolves and one of the most vicious villains you’ll ever know are all part of it. | Boden, John | 2019 |
A 13 year old city kid wanted for murder, a fastidious and psychopathic bounty hunter, and an army officer drunk on destructive power. | Tichy, Michael | 2024 |
A savage Western experience that combines elements of horror, noir and Asian ultra-violence. | Zahler, S. Craig | 2013 |
Western Horror Book Series
This is a list of western horror book series where there is more than 1 book of western horror.
If a western horror book is part of a series, but the series is not all western horror, then the book will be in the table above or the one below.
| Title | By | Year |
|---|---|---|
Aggie's Adventures Book 1 of 2 Getting under Judge Ray Spencer’s skin doesn’t get you sent to prison. He’ll drag you to the Screaming House. | Winchester, D.L. | 2024 |
Aggie's Adventures Book 2 of 2 Have you ever wondered where exorcised demons end up? | Winchester, D.L. | 2025 |
American Paladin Book 1 of 2 Texas Ranger Jewel T. Lightfoot’s pursues a resurrected horror from another age - a manifestation of the Mayan god of darkness, unearthed from its ancient crypt in the wastelands of the Chihuahuan Desert and set loose to kill again. | McCandless III, Bruce | 2021 |
American Paladin Book 2 of 2 It’s 1911. Someone, or something, is leaving the good citizens of East Texas's Ochiltree County savagely mutilated and drained of blood. | McCandless III, Bruce | 2011 |
Amid the Vastness of All Else Book 1 of 6 The Miller and Ptolemy families are pitted against mundane and supernatural forces. | Humble, C.S. | 2025 |
Amid the Vastness of All Else Book 2 of 6 The fated threads of the Ptolemy and Miller family intertwine again as they face enemies new and old, casting all their strength against beings of tremendous and malevolent power. | Humble, C.S. | 2025 |
Amid the Vastness of All Else Book 3 of 6 Annie and Carson, their lives now fully knotted together as members of the Peregrine Society and dear friends, work together with their allies to strike back against the vampiric horde, all while striving to set the world right. | Humble, C.S. | 2025 |
Amid the Vastness of All Else Book 4 of 6 To Carry a Body to Its Resting Place Dedicated to preventing a bloody war between rival werewolf packs in the Little Kansas Barony, the Peregrine Estate calls on Ashley, Willow, and their brother Ellery to help fulfill a long-standing promise by their father. | Humble, C.S. | 2025 |
Amid the Vastness of All Else Book 5 of 6 Inside a mission in San Antonio, Sarah and Gilbert discover the depth of human horror - an act of cruelty that demands vengeance. | Humble, C.S. | 2025 |
Amid the Vastness of All Else Book 6 of 6 Baroness of the Eastern Seaboard In a world governed by steel and smoke, Larry Cornish and Sven Erickson live by the code of the Gunfighters Guild - an elite order of twenty-five deadly gunfighters, each marked by a numbered Silver Pin, where becoming the One Pin is everything, and nothing is allowed to stop the gunfighter game. | Humble, C.S. | 2025 |
Black Magpie Trilogy Book 1 of 2 An unrelenting tale of revenge, with precise brutality and extreme violence. | Young, Wile E | 2020 |
Black Magpie Trilogy Book 2 of 2 Six years have passed since Salem Covington, the Black Magpie, rode a vengeance trail against those who killed his mentor. Now another lies on her deathbed and she has a message for her former student: He will soon follow her into the next world. | Young, Wile E | 2023 |
Buzzard’s Edge Saga, The Book 1 of 2 Fifteen years after Rory was orphaned, one of the gang members responsible for the deaths of his parents returns and Rory’s life is violently upended. | Lafaro, Brennan | 2022 |
Buzzard’s Edge Saga, The Book 2 of 2 Dark forces conspire to chase Rory Daggett and his mute adopted daughter, Alice, into exile, framed for a crime they didn't commit. | Lafaro, Brennan | 2024 |
Buzzard’s Edge Saga, The Stories Alone in the desert and covered in blood, Josiah Dennis comes across an abandoned town, and two unlikely storytellers burdened with sharing its history-past, present, and future. | Lafaro, Brennan | 2024 |
Cthulhu Armageddon Book 1 of 3 The story of a world which has been reduced to a giant monster-filled desert and pockets of human survivors (along with Deep Ones, ghouls, and other ‘talking’ monsters). | Phipps, C.T. | 2016 |
Cthulhu Armageddon Book 2 of 3 Cursed with a slow transformation into a monster, John Henry Booth has begun a doomed relationship with fellow escapee Mercury Halsey as they seek some way to arrest his transformation. | Phipps, C.T. | 2017 |
Cthulhu Armageddon Book 3 of 3 John Henry Booth is not content to die and seeks out an old enemy to provide him an escape from the dying Earth. | Phipps, C.T. | 2023 |
Dark Frontiers Book 1 of 2 A new secret branch of the United States Marshalls Service takes on the challenge of hunting the nightmares other men fear. They’ll clean up the territory or die trying. | Roberts, D.A. | 2023 |
Dark Frontiers Book 2 of 2 A series of grizzly deaths near the small settlement of Fair Grove come to the attention of the Marshals. | Roberts, D.A. | 2023 |
Deadlands Book 1 of 3 A gun-for-hire, literally haunted by his bloody past, becomes embroiled in a deadly conflict between a besieged community and a diabolically brilliant alchemist who is building terrible new weapons of mass destruction and an army of the living dead. | Maberry, Jonathan | 2015 |
Deadlands Book 2 of 3 Fear is abroad in the Deadlands as a string of brutal killings and cattle mutilations trouble a Western frontier town in the Arizona Territory. | Mariotte, Jeffery J. | 2016 |
Deadlands Book 3 of 3 Step right up to see the oddities and marvels of The Blackstone Family Circus and Travelling Wonder Show. | McGuire, Seanan | 2017 |
Koyote Trilogy, The Book 1 of 2 When a grave robber unearths the corpse of Jasper Thurston, a piece of the body is stolen, one that will call the Koyotes from across the plains. They are a vicious company of outlaws, part madmen and part wolves. | Triana, Kristopher | 2020 |
Koyote Trilogy, The Book 2 of 2 Years after battling the dreaded outlaws known as the Koyotes, Delia Van Vracken travels mountains and valleys, hunting demons that managed to escape Hell. | Triana, Kristopher | 2023 |
Light Sublime, The Book 1 of 3 The Miller and Ptolemy families are pitted against mundane and supernatural forces in this Weird West adventure. | Humble, C.S. | 2023 |
Light Sublime, The Book 2 of 3 The fated threads of the Ptolemy and Miller family intertwine again as they face enemies new and old, casting all their strength against beings of tremendous and malevolent power. | Humble, C.S. | 2023 |
Light Sublime, The Book 3 of 3 The sunless world brings to bear the great and terrible armies of The Red Kingdom, the hidden body of vampires who have decided that the eclipse is heralding their time to rise in full force and conqueror. | Humble, C.S. | 2023 |
Monster Gunslingers Book 1 of 2 Melinda West: Monster Gunslinger In an Old West overrun by monsters, a stoic gunslinger must embark on a dangerous quest to save her friends and stop a supernatural war. | Grifant, KC | 2023 |
Monster Gunslingers Book 2 of 2 Melinda West and the Gremlin Queen In an alternate Old West, monsters rule the land—but one deadly duo is humanity’s last hope. | Grifant, KC | 2025 |
Saga of Dead-Eye, The Book 1 of 3 With the help of a Louisiana mojo man, Joshua Wingade is resurrected as the stoic, steel-nerved Dead-Eye with his blind eye aglow and a gun hand as swift and deadly as greased lightning. | Kelly, Ronald | 2022 |
Saga of Dead-Eye, The Book 2 of 3 Werewolves, Swamp Critters, & Hellacious Haints The pursuit for the renegade vampire, Jules Holland, and his hellish followers continues across a war-torn South. | Kelly, Ronald | 2022 |
Saga of Dead-Eye, The Book 3 of 3 Man-Eaters, Mummies, & Murderous Maniacs As Dead-Eye and Job travel across the scorching deserts of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, horrors await them in the form of flesh-devouring critters, rampaging mummies bent on revenge, and the town of Hellbound, a haven for deranged and bloodthirsty desperados who kill at the drop of a hat. | Kelly, Ronald | 2024 |
Western Horror Anthologies and Collections
| Title | By | Year |
|---|---|---|
Six dark tales from the Old West, including two previously unpublished stories, Perro Negro and Beneath the Valley Oak. | McDonnell, Sean Thomas | 2024 |
Blood in the Soil, Terror on the Wind Whether in an old weathered mine shaft, somewhere off the beaten path, out in the woods, or right here in the middle of this ghost town, danger awaits. | Brigids Gate Press | 2022 |
Journey far and wide into the vast expanse that is the sub-genre known as Western Horror. | Blankenship, B.L. | 2022 |
Dead by Dawn: The Files of Virgil Everness The great frontier is overrun. Not by bandits and outlaws, but by monsters, sorcerers, and things that shouldn't exist. | LaPoint, N.R. | 2025 |
Twenty of the freshest voices in the Weird West genre in one massive anthology of short fiction that will take you on a wild ride unlike anything you've experienced before. | Williamson, Ryan & West, Jessica (editors) | 2022 |
Desperados and yellow-bellies be warned: These ain’t your typical westerns… | Death's Head Press | 2023 |
Tales from Buzzard Hill Book 1 of 2 Recently widowed and alone, Elwood Andcor sits at his Appalachian mountain homestead remembering his past in the Arizona ghost town of Buzzard Hill. Eight tales of the macabre in the weird west. | Andrews, Cory | 2023 |
Tales from Buzzard Hill Book 2 of 2 For the few who survive their time in this wicked settlement deep in the bowels of the Northern Arizona Territory, they are left with nothing but Nightmares of Buzzard Hill. Ten tales of western horror. | Andrews, Cory | 2025 |
Triptych: Three Tales Of Frontier Horror This ain’t the west you read about in history books. Best keep that trigger finger limber. Hell comes at high noon. | Beauchamp, Richard | 2023 |
How the West was Weird. Three weird Western short stories. | Meikle, William | 2019 |
Jonathan Crowley, the Hunter, and his new associate, Lucas Slate have only just begun their trek through the weird, wild west. | Moore, James A | 2019 |
Updated: 30 November 2025
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