{"title":"Josh Rountree","description":"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 \u0026amp; 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.","products":[{"product_id":"the-unkillable-frank-lightning-paperback","title":"The Unkillable Frank Lightning - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn this riveting historical horror novel, \u003c\/i\u003eFrankenstein\u003ci\u003e 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.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"What begins as \u003ci\u003eThe Searchers\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e ends as \u003ci\u003eUnforgiven\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eThe Magicians\u003c\/i\u003e. A dark, brooding meditation on both what we'll do for love, and the callous indifference of the hardened souls of the early West.\"\u003cbr\u003e--C. Robert Cargill, co-screenwriter of \u003ci\u003eThe Black Phone\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCatherine Coldbridge is a complicated woman: A doctor, an occultist, and, briefly, a widow. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwenty-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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReaching 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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102815129823,"sku":"9781616964368","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/JmixY1-10B9781616964368.webp?v=1781087406"},{"product_id":"summer-in-the-house-of-the-departed-paperback","title":"Summer In the House Of the Departed - Paperback","description":"","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102835151071,"sku":"9798891160132","price":18.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/AsaAnGXvtC9798891160132.webp?v=1781087445"},{"product_id":"death-aesthetic-paperback","title":"Death Aesthetic - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This whole collection is obsessed with death.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJosh 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 back from the edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe are never ready for that final transition. Rountree offers no assurances with Death Aesthetic, no promises about what lies beyond that black veil. But, as a compassionate psychopomp, he will be at your side for this journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection contains the following stories: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \"See That my Grave is Kept Clean\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \"The Cure for Boyhood\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \"Sounds Like Forever\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \"Their Blood Smells of Love and Terror\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \"A Red Promise in the Palm of Your Hand\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \"We Share Our Rage with the River\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \"Love Kills\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \"Constellation Burn\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \"The Green Realm\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \"Till the Greenteeth Draw Us Down\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The Green Realm\" is original to this collection. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR JOSH ROUNTREE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Rountree blends genres like he's freestyling a casserole.\" -San Antonio Current \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Rountree's debut novel serves as an ode to Texas storytellers such as Joe Lansdale and dark-fantasy spinners such as Guillermo del Toro.\" -Library Journal \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Lean, clean prose that reads like Raymond Chandler whittled down by a Texas wind.\" -FanFiAddict \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104415125727,"sku":"9781630230951","price":18.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Wg6cjZXCvl9781630230951.webp?v=1781108259"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/josh-rountree.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}