By calling his horror noir detective novel The Long Shalom (paperback, Kindle), writer Zachary Rosenberg knew some people might wonder if it was a parody. But as he explains in the following email interview about this otherwise serious story, while it does have some humor, it’s more the gallows kind than anything Mel Brooks-esque.
It’s been a while since we’ve seen any Jewish people in The Old West. 1974’s Blazing Saddles, to be exact. And even then, it was the regular Old West, not the horror Old West. But the latter is what you get with Zachary Rosenberg’s new Weird West / historical horror / Jewish horror / LGBTQ+ horror novella Hungers As Old As This Land (paperback, Kindle). In the following email interview, Rosenberg discusses what inspired and influenced this multi-genre mash-up that even Mel Brooks wouldn’t have thought to mix together.