When the Priest tried to turn the sheriff into a zombie as well, the spell failed - you can't reanimate someone who isn't dead yet - turning the sheriff into a ghoul-like being who must feed on the flesh of the dead to survive. Figures into the backstory of The Goon, when the Zombie Priest turned a frontier town into zombies, leaving the sheriff - the only living human left - to kill them all.Magazine Enterprises had a supernatural Western character the Ghost Rider, who was later taken over by Marvel Comics, renamed the Phantom Rider, made mundane, and eventually re-supernaturalized.They would, amongst other things, involve voodoo and giant man-eating desert worms.
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Landsdale wrote three limited Jonah Hex series based around this trope. The Amalgam Universe one-shot Generation Hex was essentially this, combining the mutants of Generation X with the Old West setting of Jonah Hex.Also, there are talking eyeballs and living lakes. Cowboy versions of the four horsemen of the apocalypse bump shoulders with powerful witches from the Endless Nation of the Indians. East of West by Jonathan Hickman is this in spades.Originally, Lazarus Lane was a bank teller but after almost being killed by thieves and then struck by lightning, Lane was revived by the shaman Wise Owl who possessed him with a demon that emerges whenever Lane is asleep. Another DC Comics character, El Diablo, was basically made of this.