The tales in this collection come from many different genres, often blurring the distinctions between one and another: horror, fantasy, science fiction, thriller, paranormal, suspense. Despite that, most are bound by a common thread -a certain... darkness. I like to think that any of these short stories, no matter their genre, could have appeared on either The Twilight Zone or Alfred Hitchcock Presents (and, in some cases, both.) I hope you enjoy them. Troy D. Smith

Welcome to Wolf Creek. Here you will find many of your favorite authors, working together as Ford Fargo to weave a complex and textured series of Old West adventures like no one has ever seen. In the second part of our Christmas anthology set, two new people come to town and enter our saga, just in time for Christmas. HUTCH HIGGINS (Big Jim Williams) must brave the snow to get medical help for his little girl, while newcomer KELLY O'BRIAN (Charlie Steel) must live long enough to celebrate his first Wolf Creek Christmas. Meanwhile, town doctor LOGAN MUNRO (Clay More) struggles to keep up with the illnesses and injuries that plague the town; BILLY BELOW (Chuck Tyrell) helps his favorite soiled dove prepare a holiday surprise; the sister of DERRICK McCAIN (Cheryl Pierson)copes with her recent kidnapping and finds new directions for her life; and Marshal SAM GARDNER (Troy D. Smith) discovers that a lawman can't have a peaceful holiday in Wolf Creek.

WESTERN FICTIONEERS- the only professional writers' organization devoted exclusively to traditional western fiction -was founded in 2010 by Robert J. Randisi, James Reasoner, Frank Roderus, Bill Crider, Larry Sweazy, and many other western authors. WF established an award for excellence in the genre, The Peacemaker Award, that has quickly gained prestige in the western publishing field. This volume includes works by everyone who has been nominated for the Best Short Story Peacemaker Award in the first three years of its existence, including the winners. You will be hard pressed to find such a collection of new classics in one book. These stories represent the finest in Old West fiction being written today.

The legendary days of the cattle drive era come to vivid life in THE TRAIL BROTHERS by award-winning Western author Troy D. Smith. This classic novel follows a group of cowboys, young and old, as they push a thousand head of stubborn cattle north from Texas to the railhead in Kansas, encountering Indians, outlaws, and a vengeful lynch mob along the way. If they manage to survive the dangers that dog their trail, by the time they return to Texas they truly will be brothers for as long as they live. Troy D. Smith is a past winner of the Peacemaker and Spur Awards, and current president of Western Fictioneers. He teaches American Indian history at Tennessee Tech University. Smith is one of the most highly regarded young authors of Western fiction, and this compelling, action-packed novel is a good example of why he has that reputation. For a great yarn, saddle up and ride with THE TRAIL BROTHERS

Put on your Santa hat and saddle up for this collection of creepy Christmas stories from the Western Fictioneers, the world's only organization of professional authors devoted solely to Western fiction. 'Tis the season for ghosts, vampires, monsters, aliens, and other bizarre creatures to make these Old West holiday tales truly special. Legendary Western author Robert J. Randisi spins the spectral yarn of "Sheriff Santa and the Ghost of Two Gun Jim." Peacemaker and Spur Award winning author Troy D. Smith takes the reader on a murderous Christmas journey to "Bitter Mountain." New York Times bestseller and Peacemaker Award winner James Reasoner writes about a strange encounter on the Staked Plains in "Presents for One and All." Larry D. Sweazy, two-time winner of the Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western fiction, tells the story of an epic battle between good and evil in "The Longest Night." An isolated stagecoach station under siege by Apaches is the setting of Cheryl Pierson's "The Keepers of Camelot," a tale of rebirth and redemption. These and many other stories by some of today's top writers in the Western field make SIX-GUNS AND SLAY BELLS the most unusual Western Christmas anthology ever published.

Welcome to Wolf Creek. Here you will find many of your favorite authors, working together as Ford Fargo to weave a complex and textured series of Old West adventures like no one has ever seen. Each author writes from the perspective of his or her own unique character, blended together into a single novel. In our first adventure, the town of Wolf Creek is assaulted by a small army of former Confederate guerrillas, who rob the bank and leave dead innocents in their wake. Sheriff G.W. Satterlee and his posse must overtake the outlaws before they reach Indian Territory-but the chase is complicated by the secret pasts of several posse members... Appearing as Ford Fargo in this volume: Clay More James J. Griffin Troy D. Smith James Reasoner L. J. Martin Cheryl Pierson About the author: Beneath the mask, Ford Fargo is not one but a posse of America's leading western authors who have pooled their talents to create a series of rip-snortin', old fashioned sagebrush sagas. Saddle up. Read 'em Cowboy These are the legends of Wolf Creek.