An interesting conversation about westerns and whether a genre can actually die.

Winnette verifies what I suspected (and said here) about Haint's Stay. Namely that its influences were film and that he didn't/doesn't read much in the genre:

"Haints Stay was more intentionally built from movies than novels or experiences, though I’m pretty sure all the movies I watched were based on books or short stories — something that is notably common in the Western. I was interested in the stage dressing of the Western. But I didn’t let myself read many Westerns, though I wanted to. If they influenced Haints Stay, it was through gauzy layers of interpretation or my own bad memory." -- Colin Winnette