Trade Yer Coffin for a Gun

Jackanapes Press presents a new editIon of Mer Whinery's Trade Yer Coffin For a Gun, which has been out of print and, of late, unobtainable. Combining Spaghetti Westerns with Italian horror cinema and a touch of the Lovecraftian, this is likely the strangest Weird Western you'll ever encounter!A SPAGHETTI WESTERN STRAIGHT FROM HELL!Jubilee “Sugar” Bava and her brothers are coming for Coffin Mills, and there will be blood!THE CULT OF THE COLD HAND...The town of Coffin Mills is in deep shit. Already cursed by its history of dark arts and shameful secrets, something wicked is now stealing the town’s children. Whispers say it’s the work of the ghoulish Cult of the Cold Hand, but the real cause of this perverse evil may something worse—not of this world, or even the next.THE HAINTS...Their only salvation is a trio of mysterious gunslingers known throughout the South as the Haints—legendary bounty hunters specializing in prey of a supernatural variety. Micah Bava and his younger twin siblings Sugar and Cutter are dab hands at killing monsters. In fact, the blood-drinking Sugar—also known as the Witch of Fulci Holler—is beholden to a sinister darkness... and may well be a monster herself.THE VENDETTA...The Bava clan harbors a burning, deep-seated grudge against Coffin Mills that will only be sated with rivers of blood. They may save the town from its otherworldly predator, but at what horrific price? Will all be lost to something worse than eternal damnation? Who, if anyone, will survive the cataclysmic reckoning?High Plains Drifter meets Hellraiser in this energetic, disturbing, apocalyptic weird western!“I have no hesitation in calling this one of the best ‘Weird West’ novels that I’ve ever read, near-rivalling Merkabah Rider: High Planes Drifterby Edward M. Erdelac in quality.” —The Sci-Fi and Fantasy Reviewer"...Mer Whinery’s Trade Yer Coffin For a Gun is a fun, scary romp through the Wild West. Fans of Weird Westerns, especially those drenched in blood and horror, will thoroughly enjoy this tale, but any horror readers interested in demon hunting, folk horror, and revenge plots will want to have this title on their shelf as well." —Cemetery Dance Online”Trade Yer Coffin for a Gun by Mer Whinery is one truly weird Western. It reads like a mash up of From Dusk Till Dawn, High Plains Drifter, and Zombie—this is a big, bold, B movie of a book that revels in its inspirations. Let’s face it: any tale that brings in references to Mario Bava and Lucio Fulci right from the start is going for a certain tone. And it achieves it. Trade Yer Coffin For A Gun is an entertaining page-turner for those with a taste for horror and gleefully excessive gore. . . . good, old-fashioned, gross-out fun.” —Erica Ruppert, Author of Imago and Other Transformations“This book is straight-up fun, guilty pleasure, and true to form it’s all about revenge and the twists, turns and deceptions it takes to get there. If Lovecraft’s verbiage defined the Cthulhu mythos, Whinery’s prose defines the modern weird western like fine silver filigree without coming off as purple. It’s old and arcane, moldering and grimy and grisly and everything I suspect an Occult Spaghetti Western should be.” —A. P. Sessler, Author of Living Large and Dr. Sand’s Maritime Museum of Nautical Oddities Read more