In this riveting historical horror novel, Frankenstein is vividly reimagined in the Wild West. With equal parts Cormac McCarthy, Mary Shelley, and Stephen Graham Jones, Rountree deftly navigates the terrible aftermath of love and death.“What begins as The Searchers meets Frankenstein ends as Unforgiven meets The Magicians. A dark, brooding meditation on both what we’ll do for love, and the callous indifference o...

“Odd, creepy, funny, The Black Lagoon meets the Six Gun universe. High up on the way-cool factor. You need this.”—Joe R. Lansdale, Edgar Award–winning author of the Hap and Leonard seriesAs an unlikely found-family flees toward Galveston, a psychic young girl bonds with Charlie Fish, an enigmatic gill-man. Meanwhile, they are pursued by bounty hunters determined to profit from the spectacle of ...

This is a sometime place not an all the time place…Summer 1981: Brady’s grandmother vanishes—along with an entire West Texas town. There’s no explanation, except those that don’t hold any logic. Brady doesn’t worry too much about that, having spent his childhood listening to his grandmother’s stories and playing with the pencil-sketched ghosts in her old Victorian: the young Shirley, the injured cowboy Glen, and others.People slipping away into another world is...

The eighteenth Tarot card is the Moon, and those who raise their arms to her know she offers Mercy and Severity in equal measure. This is the great river at night, where wolves howl and all doors are open. All futures are possible, and every truth is elusive. This is the source and passion of Eighteen: Stories of Mischief & Mayhem. These twenty-four stories from voices—old and new—celebrate the inevitability of fate, the horror of prophecy, and the shivering delight of not knowing...

Underland Arcana reveals the numinous, the esoteric, the supernatural, and the weird. This issue contains stories by A. P. Howell, Louis Evans, Christopher Hawkins, Jon Lasser, Josh Rountree, Nikoline Kaiser, Breanna Bright, and J. A. W. McCarthy. Stories about family, stories about theft, stories about ghosts, stories about the weight of history, stories about weight we bring to history, stories about being lost and being found, and stories about the gravity of grief. These are the storie...

A risen Moctezuma Threatens Texas once again with a zombie army from the south. The Queen/s finest steam gear rolls in from the California colony. Shapeshifting Comanche form a war party to take back their lands. It's all building toward an epic second battle of the Alamo, and this time the fate of all Texas hangs on a handful of disgraced Rangers, determined cowgirls, revolutionary veterans, and the mysterious Comanche child who could save them all.

Yesterday . . . a giant lost himself in America, forever running from the supernatural killers who pursued him, and a witch formed one last spell in hopes of resurrecting her murdered son.Today . . . a desperate mother bargains with wolves, and a man frozen in memories chases a magic portal that might finally lead him to his true love.Tomorrow . . . survivors of the apocalypse will hunt deadly dirt angels, and escaped artificial intelligences will relive the Cold War until ...

"This whole collection is obsessed with death."Josh Rountree makes no bones about the mood in Death Aesthetic, his third collection of short fiction. Rountree explores the boundaries set by grief and guilt. He cracks open all manner of skeletons to peer inside the chest cavity, wondering what remains after everything else has left. He sniffs the night air, leaps and transforms into something both more human and not human at all. He knows all the words to the songs that bring us bac...

Odd, creepy, funny, The Black Lagoon meets the Six Gun universe. High up on the way-cool factor. You need this.Joe R. Lansdale, Edgar Award winning author of the Hap and Leonard seriesAs an unlikely found-family flees toward Galveston, a psychic young girl bonds with Charlie Fish, an enigmatic gill-man. Meanwhile, they are pursued by bounty hunters determined to profit from the spectacle of Cha...