50 Westerns From The 50s. | Riding the long, dusty trail through 50s Westerns.
Black Horse Extra appeared as a quarterly online magazine for six years from March 2006. It promoted the western genre and the work of authors published by Robert Hale Ltd in the Black Horse Western series of hardback novels sold mainly to the UK public lending libraries. Today, most of the active authors run personal blogs and websites. Links to some can be found lower in the column to the right, while past editions of Black Horse Extra can be accessed using the links to the left.
In December 2015 Robert Hale Ltd ceased operations, stopped trading, and has been described since as "inactive". Companies House, a UK Government body, reported the Hale publishing house was dissolved on 5 December 2017 with last accounts made up to 30 June 2015. The Hale imprint "Black Horse Westerns" passed to a small press, The Crowood Press, based in rural Wiltshire. In November 2020 this company, which claims to be "unable to ship to customers outside the UK", announced Black Horse Westerns were no lon
Happily readers can still purchase modestly priced ebooks by former BHW writers online. These are published in digital formats by several companies, including Piccadilly Publishing and our own Black Horse Extra Books. Excerpts can be read (and the books conveniently downloaded) at leading ebook retailers like Smashwords, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo.
50 Westerns From The 50s. | Riding the long, dusty trail through 50s Westerns.