Already renowned for his work in horror and "splatterpunk," Joe R. Lansdale (the Hap and Leonard series, Cold in July, Bubba Ho-Tep) helped cement the Weird Western genre as we know it with THE MAGIC WAGON and several other titles beginning in the 1980s and continuing more...
When the Magic Wagon comes to town, folks get a genuine medicine show, including a wrestling ape, fancy shooting, and a peek at the petrified body of Wild Bill Hickok. But then the Magic Wagon rolls into Mud Creek, Texas, where fate and violence loom in the shadows.