The Unkillable Frank Lightning - Softcover

Rountree, Josh

 
9781616964368: The Unkillable Frank Lightning
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1616964367 ISBN 13: 9781616964368
Verlag: Tachyon Publications, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

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 of the hardened souls of the early West.”
—C. Robert Cargill, co-screenwriter of The Black Phone

Catherine Coldbridge is a complicated woman: A doctor, an occultist, and, briefly, a widow.

In 1879, Private Frank Humble, Catherine's husband, was killed in a Sioux attack. Consumed by grief, she used her formidable skills to resurrect him. But Frank lost his soul after the reanimation, and disappeared after a killing spree. Unable to face her failure and its murderous consequences, Catherine fled to grieve.

Twenty-five years later, Catherine has decided she must make things right. She travels back to Texas with a pair of hired killers ready to destroy Frank. But Frank has remade himself as the Unkillable Frank Lightning, traveling with the Wild West Show.

Reaching for a last chance at redemption, Frank and Catherine are at an impasse. As time runs out, their final choices may result in considerable bloodshed.

  • This historical horror retelling of Frankenstein in the Wild West is a tale of deep loss, undead monsters, and yet ultimately, of the bonds of an improbable found family
  • Josh Rountree, who was called “inventive and electric” by Publishers Weekly
    • , is a skilled writer of Western dark-fantasy and horror that is strongly inflected with Texan regional history
  • National marketing plan to include cover reveal, launch event, local and national author appearances, social media and blog tour, radio, podcasts, features, and interviews

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    Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

    Josh Rountree is a novelist and short story writer who writes across multiple genres, and focuses mostly on horror and dark fantasy. His novel, The Legend of Charlie Fish, released by Tachyon Publications to wide acclaim in 2023, selected for the Locus Recommended Reading List and named one of Los Angeles Public Library’s best books of the year. More than seventy of Rountree’s short stories have been published in a variety of venues, including The Deadlands, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Bourbon Penn, Realms of Fantasy, PseudoPod, Weird Horror, and The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror. Several collections of his short fiction have been published, most recently, Death Aesthetic. Rountree lives in the greater Austin, Texas, metropolitan area with his lovely wife of many years and a pair of half-feral dogs who command his obedience.

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    Verlag
    Tachyon Publications
    Erscheinungsdatum
    2025
    Sprache
    Englisch
    ISBN 10 
    1616964367
    ISBN 13 
    9781616964368
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    Taschenbuch
    Anzahl der Seiten
    238
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