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The Lon Williams Weird Western Megapack
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COPYRIGHT INFO
The Lon Williams Weird Western Megapack is copyright © 2014 by Wildside Press LLC. All rights reserved. Cover art copyright © 2014 by Poulsons Photography / Fotolia. For more information, contact the publisher.
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“King Solomon’s Throne” originally appeared in Real Western, October 1952.
“Fountain of Youth” originally appeared in Real Western, December 1952.
“Satan’s Wool-Merchant” originally appeared in Real Western, February 1953.
“Master of Indecision” originally appeared in Real Western, April 1953.
“A Desert Hippocrates” originally appeared in Real Western, October 1953
“The Haunted Town” originally appeared in Real Western, October, 1953.
“Phantom Cargo” originally appeared in Real Western, December, 1953.
“Wizard of Forlorn Gap” originally appeared in Real Western, April 1954.
“A Portion to Seven” originally appeared in Real Western, June 1954.
“Mark of the Wampus Cat” originally appeared in Real Western, October, 1954.
“Golden City” originally appeared in Real Western, December 1954.
“Long Live the King” originally appeared in Real Western, April 1955.
“Lantern in the Sky” originally appeared in Real Western, June 1955.
“The Salt Wagons” originally appeared in Real Western, August 1955.
“The Honey Jug” originally appeared in Real Western, October 1955.
“Trail of Painted Rocks” originally appeared in Real Western, February 1956.
“The Cuckoo’s Nest” originally appeared in Real Western, April 1956.
“The Water Carriers” originally appeared in Real Western, August 1956.
“The Strange Piper” originally appeared in Real Western, December 1956.
“Men Burning Brush” originally appeared in Real Western, February, 1957.
“The Banshee Singer” originally appeared in Real Western, April 1957.
“The Dancing Trees” originally appeared in Real Western, August 1957.
“The Deadly Slowpoke” originally appeared in Real Western, October 1957.
“The Three Fates” originally appeared in Real Western, February 1958.
“The Magic Grindstone” originally appeared in Real Western, October, 1958.
A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER
Lon Thomas Williams (1890 – 1978) was an American western author, teacher, and lawyer who lived in Andersonville, Tennessee. He is best known for writing a large number of traditional and weird western stories for the pulp magazines, especially Western Action and Real Western Stories. He also wrote a number of books, including Hill Hoyden, Hill Hellion, and Shack Baby. Williams’ most popular series were the Judge Steele stories (combining the western genre with the legal drama) and the Deputy Marshal Lee Winters stories (Weird Westerns) which are collected in this volume.
Enjoy!
—John Betancourt
Publisher, Wildside Press LLC
www.wildsidepress.com
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