Josh Rountree
@joshrountree.bsky.social
Fantasy / Horror / SciFi / Whatever
The Unkillable Frank Lightning
The Legend of Charlie Fish
Death Aesthetic
Stories in The Deadlands, PseudoPod, Bourbon Penn, and other cool places.
The Unkillable Frank Lightning
The Legend of Charlie Fish
Death Aesthetic
Stories in The Deadlands, PseudoPod, Bourbon Penn, and other cool places.
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Josh Rountree
@joshrountree.bsky.social
· Jul 15
The Unkillable Frank Lightning - Tachyon Publications
[STARRED REVIEW] “Like Elmore Leonard by way of Mary Shelley, Josh Rountree’s Western spin on Frankenstein is a propulsive, haunting adaptation.” —Bookpage In this riveting historical horror novel, Fr...
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It’s alive!! Alive!!!
The Unkillable Frank Lightning is officially released today. So excited for you to finally meet Catherine and Frank and all the others.
Please help me spread the word, and thanks to all the folks who have already embraced this book. ⚡️
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The Unkillable Frank Lightning is officially released today. So excited for you to finally meet Catherine and Frank and all the others.
Please help me spread the word, and thanks to all the folks who have already embraced this book. ⚡️
tachyonpublications.com/product/the-...
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"Fear is the mind-killer…..
Where the fear has gone
there will be nothing.
Only I will remain."
Heads up, #DUNE Fans: Mailing list members are getting first dibs on my DUNE graphite originals right now. If you want in, hit me up. 👀
Where the fear has gone
there will be nothing.
Only I will remain."
Heads up, #DUNE Fans: Mailing list members are getting first dibs on my DUNE graphite originals right now. If you want in, hit me up. 👀
November 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
"Fear is the mind-killer…..
Where the fear has gone
there will be nothing.
Only I will remain."
Heads up, #DUNE Fans: Mailing list members are getting first dibs on my DUNE graphite originals right now. If you want in, hit me up. 👀
Where the fear has gone
there will be nothing.
Only I will remain."
Heads up, #DUNE Fans: Mailing list members are getting first dibs on my DUNE graphite originals right now. If you want in, hit me up. 👀
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Find your new favorite #horrorauthor
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November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
That’s 88000 words in the rear view on my novel in progress. Getting pretty close to the end now.
November 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
That’s 88000 words in the rear view on my novel in progress. Getting pretty close to the end now.
Need more monsters in your life? How about “Creature From the Black Lagoon set during the great Galveston hurricane of 1900” or “Frankenstein but it’s a western?”
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November 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Need more monsters in your life? How about “Creature From the Black Lagoon set during the great Galveston hurricane of 1900” or “Frankenstein but it’s a western?”
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Oh hey, I have a new short story coming soon in the Final Curtain anthology, tales about The Phantom of the Opera! Mine’s called “Now We Sing the Killing Song” and if you’ve been keeping up with my western monster stories, this is one of them!
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Final Curtain | Lethe Press
edited by Steve Berman A mysterious dirge in human form, Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera is both man and monster, the villain of one of the more famous novels of the early 20th century. Fittingly...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Oh hey, I have a new short story coming soon in the Final Curtain anthology, tales about The Phantom of the Opera! Mine’s called “Now We Sing the Killing Song” and if you’ve been keeping up with my western monster stories, this is one of them!
www.lethepressbooks.com/product-page...
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For the morning crowd.
My son’s girlfriend was recently diagnosed with cancer. She’s a really awesome person and could use some help. Details are in the photo. Any help, even spreading the word, would be so appreciated. Can’t wait to see her kick cancer’s ass!
November 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
For the morning crowd.
My son’s girlfriend was recently diagnosed with cancer. She’s a really awesome person and could use some help. Details are in the photo. Any help, even spreading the word, would be so appreciated. Can’t wait to see her kick cancer’s ass!
November 19, 2025 at 2:01 AM
My son’s girlfriend was recently diagnosed with cancer. She’s a really awesome person and could use some help. Details are in the photo. Any help, even spreading the word, would be so appreciated. Can’t wait to see her kick cancer’s ass!
All set up at Then & Now Bookshop in Galveston! I’ll be here selling and signing books for the next few hours.
November 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
All set up at Then & Now Bookshop in Galveston! I’ll be here selling and signing books for the next few hours.
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In Galveston at Then & Now Bookshop
In Galveston at Then & Now Bookshop
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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In Galveston at Then & Now Bookshop
In Galveston at Then & Now Bookshop
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I was 100% thinking about this book as I watched GDT's Frankenstein last week.
Do yourself a favor and pick it up!
Do yourself a favor and pick it up!
Need more Frankenstein in your life?
The Unkillable Frank Lightning has black magic and gunfights and secret occult orders and, yeah, a few people cheating death.
Just $7.99 for the digital copy.
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The Unkillable Frank Lightning has black magic and gunfights and secret occult orders and, yeah, a few people cheating death.
Just $7.99 for the digital copy.
www.amazon.com/Unkillable-F...
The Unkillable Frank Lightning
The Unkillable Frank Lightning - Kindle edition by Rountree, Josh. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Unkillable Frank Lightning.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I was 100% thinking about this book as I watched GDT's Frankenstein last week.
Do yourself a favor and pick it up!
Do yourself a favor and pick it up!
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Check out my viscerally cinematic dark fantasy/horror novel, THE MONSTERS AMONG US, which recently won the Firebird Book Award and has been nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award!
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November 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Check out my viscerally cinematic dark fantasy/horror novel, THE MONSTERS AMONG US, which recently won the Firebird Book Award and has been nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award!
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Thank you as always, Gabino!
My second novel, #Pyres is picking up new reviews and readers, but I'd still love more people to check it out! 🔥🔥🔥
Books2read.com/pyresnovel
My second novel, #Pyres is picking up new reviews and readers, but I'd still love more people to check it out! 🔥🔥🔥
Books2read.com/pyresnovel
November 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Thank you as always, Gabino!
My second novel, #Pyres is picking up new reviews and readers, but I'd still love more people to check it out! 🔥🔥🔥
Books2read.com/pyresnovel
My second novel, #Pyres is picking up new reviews and readers, but I'd still love more people to check it out! 🔥🔥🔥
Books2read.com/pyresnovel
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November 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Thanks, Gabino!
Preorders are up for my upcoming novel, Calliope Street.
A story that digs into the relationship between tragedy and art, love and madness, with cult movies, crazy poets, and an actual cult.
www.moonstruck-books.com/shop/p/calli...
Preorders are up for my upcoming novel, Calliope Street.
A story that digs into the relationship between tragedy and art, love and madness, with cult movies, crazy poets, and an actual cult.
www.moonstruck-books.com/shop/p/calli...
Calliope Street by Josh Hanson — Moonstruck Books
A new psychedelic horror novel by author Josh Hanson
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November 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Thanks, Gabino!
Preorders are up for my upcoming novel, Calliope Street.
A story that digs into the relationship between tragedy and art, love and madness, with cult movies, crazy poets, and an actual cult.
www.moonstruck-books.com/shop/p/calli...
Preorders are up for my upcoming novel, Calliope Street.
A story that digs into the relationship between tragedy and art, love and madness, with cult movies, crazy poets, and an actual cult.
www.moonstruck-books.com/shop/p/calli...
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Thanks, Gabino! ON COMICS AND GRIEF combines an exploration with the comics of 1976 with creative nonfiction about my mother and her death. It’s fragmented and experimental, and the reader is asked to make connections as they read.
November 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Thanks, Gabino! ON COMICS AND GRIEF combines an exploration with the comics of 1976 with creative nonfiction about my mother and her death. It’s fragmented and experimental, and the reader is asked to make connections as they read.
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FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL DIRECTOR (by me, as Hazel Graves, Harper) is currently 99p in ebook!
It's a wild ride of a romcom about a funeral parlour and a bridal parlour that undergo a switcheroo...and the poor couple who have to clean up the mess. 🎂 🖤 🪦 💍
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DK8L8BHV/
It's a wild ride of a romcom about a funeral parlour and a bridal parlour that undergo a switcheroo...and the poor couple who have to clean up the mess. 🎂 🖤 🪦 💍
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DK8L8BHV/
November 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL DIRECTOR (by me, as Hazel Graves, Harper) is currently 99p in ebook!
It's a wild ride of a romcom about a funeral parlour and a bridal parlour that undergo a switcheroo...and the poor couple who have to clean up the mess. 🎂 🖤 🪦 💍
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DK8L8BHV/
It's a wild ride of a romcom about a funeral parlour and a bridal parlour that undergo a switcheroo...and the poor couple who have to clean up the mess. 🎂 🖤 🪦 💍
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DK8L8BHV/
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DAYTIDE is BLACK METAL WIZARD OF OZ in an illustrated, hardcover edition with an introduction by @pfracassi.bsky.social and an original poem from @carolinehardaker.bsky.social.
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🐦⬛THE DAYTIDE COMETH🐦⬛
DAYTIDE is BLACK METAL WIZARD OF OZ in an illustrated, hardcover edition with an introduction by @pfracassi.bsky.social and an original poem from @carolinehardaker.bsky.social.
From: @rapturepublishining.bsky.social
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November 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Thanks for another #FridayReads Gabino!
Today I'll plug Old Habits Die Hard, a dark fantasy monk-heist novellette, in which Brother Statius must conduct a heist on his own monastery to defeat a demonic conspiracy.
Today I'll plug Old Habits Die Hard, a dark fantasy monk-heist novellette, in which Brother Statius must conduct a heist on his own monastery to defeat a demonic conspiracy.
Featuring:
Old Habits Die Hard
12000 words of dark monastic fantasy, in which Brother Statius must steal relics from his former brethren and save his saint.
Featuring:
- heists
- monks
- demons
- demon monks
- relic cults
- battle trauma
#booksky 📚💙
Old Habits Die Hard
12000 words of dark monastic fantasy, in which Brother Statius must steal relics from his former brethren and save his saint.
Featuring:
- heists
- monks
- demons
- demon monks
- relic cults
- battle trauma
#booksky 📚💙
Old Habits Die Hard - Lawrence Harding's Ko-fi Shop
In this fantasy novelette, Brother Statius must break into his old monastery to save the relics of his saint before they're used for nefarious ends - ...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Thanks for another #FridayReads Gabino!
Today I'll plug Old Habits Die Hard, a dark fantasy monk-heist novellette, in which Brother Statius must conduct a heist on his own monastery to defeat a demonic conspiracy.
Today I'll plug Old Habits Die Hard, a dark fantasy monk-heist novellette, in which Brother Statius must conduct a heist on his own monastery to defeat a demonic conspiracy.
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Thank you, Gabino! Next week is my last in-person event of AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION book tour, so I'm still hoping to signal-boost this new release where we examine real history & ghost lore through the lens of Gothic Literature! 🖤 bookshop.org/p/books/amer...
America’s Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger than Fiction
Haunted History Stranger than Fiction
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November 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Thank you, Gabino! Next week is my last in-person event of AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION book tour, so I'm still hoping to signal-boost this new release where we examine real history & ghost lore through the lens of Gothic Literature! 🖤 bookshop.org/p/books/amer...
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Thanks, Gabino! I have a novelette included in this banger anthology, available in audio and ebook. 16 long crime stories, like an advent calendar of our worst impulses.
Myopic Duplicity: Do the Ends Ever Justify the Means?
Amazon.com: Myopic Duplicity: Do the Ends Ever Justify the Means? (Audible Audio Edition): Jeff Circle, Chris Ciulla, Eli Cranor, Hillary Huber, Suzanne Elise Freeman, Megan Tusing, Matt Godfrey, Andrea Emmes, Justin Price, Leonardo Audio: Books
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November 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Thanks, Gabino! I have a novelette included in this banger anthology, available in audio and ebook. 16 long crime stories, like an advent calendar of our worst impulses.
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So, I have this zombie apocalypse romance short. Like most zombie stories, it's not really about them. It’s about depression, isolation, immigrant experiences, and mistakes made. With some sex thrown in. People can grab Kick at the Darkness for $1.99: books2read.com/u/4Xrqqv
#fridayreads
#fridayreads
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Kick at the Darkness by Suleikha Snyder
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November 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
So, I have this zombie apocalypse romance short. Like most zombie stories, it's not really about them. It’s about depression, isolation, immigrant experiences, and mistakes made. With some sex thrown in. People can grab Kick at the Darkness for $1.99: books2read.com/u/4Xrqqv
#fridayreads
#fridayreads
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Happy #FridayReads and Happy #Novellavember!
Got this picture of my youngest playing in a tree.
But seriously, if the horror you're reading doesn't have a mysterious, maybe alive, stained glass window in it, what are you even reading?
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Got this picture of my youngest playing in a tree.
But seriously, if the horror you're reading doesn't have a mysterious, maybe alive, stained glass window in it, what are you even reading?
linktr.ee/authorlevai
November 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Happy #FridayReads and Happy #Novellavember!
Got this picture of my youngest playing in a tree.
But seriously, if the horror you're reading doesn't have a mysterious, maybe alive, stained glass window in it, what are you even reading?
linktr.ee/authorlevai
Got this picture of my youngest playing in a tree.
But seriously, if the horror you're reading doesn't have a mysterious, maybe alive, stained glass window in it, what are you even reading?
linktr.ee/authorlevai
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Thanks, Gabino!
The paperback of my grief horror soaked autobiography, 41, is only $7 on Amazon right now! This is the story of a horror author’s journey through pop culture, social events, cyclical trauma, and breaking out of those cycles—plus my personal ghost stories!
#FridayReads
The paperback of my grief horror soaked autobiography, 41, is only $7 on Amazon right now! This is the story of a horror author’s journey through pop culture, social events, cyclical trauma, and breaking out of those cycles—plus my personal ghost stories!
#FridayReads
41: An Autobiography
41: An Autobiography [Buffington, J D] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. 41: An Autobiography
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November 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Thanks, Gabino!
The paperback of my grief horror soaked autobiography, 41, is only $7 on Amazon right now! This is the story of a horror author’s journey through pop culture, social events, cyclical trauma, and breaking out of those cycles—plus my personal ghost stories!
#FridayReads
The paperback of my grief horror soaked autobiography, 41, is only $7 on Amazon right now! This is the story of a horror author’s journey through pop culture, social events, cyclical trauma, and breaking out of those cycles—plus my personal ghost stories!
#FridayReads