A while back I offered to review Strange Trails, an anthology edited by James Palmer, for Amazing Stories Magazine. I’m not sure what to call this genre, other than, of course, strange. It’s a Wild West, all right, with robots, ghosts, bound spirits, Pinkerton Men, and a large dollop of Lovecraftian Horror. I grew up reading Western novels by the likes of Zane Grey and Louis L’Amour, and watching the Duke on the small screen with my Dad, who was a huge fan. Reading these stories I am struck by how they remind me much more of the movie versions of the Wild West, and some of the more modern interpretations, at that, not the old White Hat/Black Hat films.