Editorial Reviews
Faren Miller November 97 Locus
"Michael Moorcock's new collection Tales from the Texas Woods has much to recommend it besides its delightfully retro cover. A charming authorial introduction describes this Briton's views and links, both real and imagined, to America's Wild West, from his earliest days as a teenage talespinner for English pulps, imagining Arizona for other members of that "general zeitgeist already changing attitudes towards the Indian," in the belief "we were depicting a culture realistically, even if it was actually as romanticized and sentimentalized as Dances With Wolves....
The highlight of the collection, appropriately enough, is previously unpublished novella The Ghost Warriors!!, a tale of The Masked Buckaroo as by pulp western author extraordinaire "Warwick Colvin Jr." whose list of supposed titles ranges from "A Texan Revenge" through "Fryin' Frogs", "Suckin' Emus", and "Windy's Last Yodel", to "Scrapin' Barrels." When an eerie band of Apaches begins terrorizing the countryside, Hero Tex Brady takes on "the famous blue and red outfit with the black mask and white sombrero of his alter ego the legendary Masked Buckaroo!" someone even the Apaches respect....But any avid fan of Moorcock's work will want this book, and even the more casual follower of his career would find much to enjoy, and ponder, here.
Book Description
Michael Moorcock's first vivid encounter with the West was watching Gary Cooper, a dandified Plainsman, featured on a program with an equally dashing Joel McCrea. Buffalo Bill had been shot in old-fashioned Technicolor and captured exactly the quality of the Western annuals, with titles like Scouts in Buckskin and Heroes of the Prairie, that he inherited from his father and grandfather.
That early exposure along with Tom Mix and Hopalong Cassidy creator Clarence E. Mulford led Michael Moorcock on a life long love affair with the American West. This influence would help Moorcock to create some of the most popular characters in imaginative fiction.
Tales Of The Texas Woods has the famed Masked Buckaroo challenge the Apaches and their enigmatic leader El Lobo Blanco, the White Wolf! This original novella allows a glimpse of Elric in a Multiverse adventure. Then you learn how Sherlock Holmes solves the mystery of the Texan's honor and an adventure of the Eternal Champion in Sir Milk and Blood. Thrill to the adventures of Johnny Lonesome! Plus seven more startling stories from the mind of England and Texas' greatest author of fantasy and science fiction.
In this book of never-before-collected tales experience the many worlds of the man that the London Times called "a myth-maker" through a uniquely western slant. Complete with essays on western film and fiction, this unique collection is a book that only a master craftsman like Michael Moorcock could write. So mosey on up and take a seat, pardner and read a collection of Western tales from Texas with a little sidetrip to London thrown in.
Tales of the Texas Woods
Tales of the Texas Woods,Michael Moorcock,Mojo Press,1885418175,Fiction - General,General,Literary Criticism
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