Books by Sam Knight

Aliens, Madmen, Swindlers, Ghosts, Gods, and Monsters live in the Wild West. May God have mercy on those poor souls unlucky enough to run into them. This is a collection of 10 Weird Western short stories by Sam Knight.

In the throes of a convention full of geeks, Frog Jones told a story.That story is found in this book's foreword, but the key line from the story became the title of this anthology. The authors seized upon that line, much like an out-of-control bovine seizing its own halter, and stampeded into the volume you see before you.This is not just a comedy anthology. Nor is it horror, or romance, or literary, or…well, any one thing. Rather, it is all those things. Each story starts exactly in the same place. But each author immediately leaps from there into their own world. This anthology celebrates the creativity of these authors, because it does not shackle them to a theme. The starting line is the same-the finish line is on other planets, in other times, and in alternate realities. You're not going to feel cohesiveness reading this thing. It's not going to be several stories hitting the same note. But you are going to experience a wider panoply of stories than you would in other anthologies. And as to what you make of them, or what stories they may inspire in you? Well…that's your cow.

Based upon the story of The Barber's Fifth Brother, often referred to as Alnaschar and the Tray of Glasses, a fable from One Thousand and One Nights, Sam Knight adds a Steampunk twist to this classic tale.