Here’s one more I missed back in 2016. The Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns had an expanded second edition in 2016. It’s from McFarland, so one has to double-check to see if it’s not one of their duff ones (the Dune encyclopedia, etc). But it’s reassuring to see that True West magazine gave the first edition a good review.

The second edition appears to have had no online reviews, other than a single Amazon U.S. one and a short one on a blog. Which carps on and on about ‘masked cowboys’ not being included, so it’s not much use. The lack of proper reviews seems a pity, and the book might be a candidate for someone casting around for a book to review.

By 2025 there’ll likely be a need for a third edition, given all the Weird West material that’ll have appeared in the decade since 2015. Even in the last five five years in comics, the task of updating would appear to be substantial, so a new edition is probably something for a dedicated ‘tracking blog’ to build up to over the next few years.