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Josh Rountree @joshrountree.bsky.social · Jul 15

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 - 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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Electric Sheep @electricsheepsf.bsky.social · 1h

“Night sits heavy against the harvested fields as my bones stir beneath the soil. They find one another, grind together, and take shape as I inhabit that old skin and prepare to play my part once again.”

Another lush story from Josh Rountree!

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Their Blood Smells of Love and Terror, by Josh Rountree - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

I don’t want the things they offer me. Warm blood and broken skulls. Grunting pigs and headless roosters. Bottles of […]

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Marguerite/Peg Turley @margueriteturl2.bsky.social · 6h

I’m off to Cape May today for our annual girls trip and of course I need to bring books. I’m still burning through @scribeofhades.bsky.social magnum opus Daytide, but I’m also bringing two of my fave authors along with me. @catrionaward.bsky.social and @nathanballingrud.bsky.social

Books against a wall Daytide by Chris Panatier nowhere burning by catriona ward and cathedral of the drowned by Nathan ballingrud

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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 1d

Really engaging story with gorgeous prose!
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Electric Sheep @electricsheepsf.bsky.social · 1d

“The air is birdsong and honeysuckle and the electric touch of approaching thunderstorms, and I can almost imagine myself happy here.”

February Moon by Josh Rountree in Beneath Ceaseless Skies!
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - February Moon by Josh Rountree

My children have spent so much time living with terrible realities that I’m afraid they no longer take the world’s dangers seriously. I wish for them to simply be children, and for myself to be burden...

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Electric Sheep @electricsheepsf.bsky.social · 1d

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - February Moon by Josh Rountree

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Electric Sheep @electricsheepsf.bsky.social · 2d

This week’s guest is Josh Rountree! We’ll look at several short stories & his novella SUMMER IN THE HOUSE OF THE DEPARTED!

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Summer in the House of the Departed | Psychopomp

Forty-four years after his grandmother and an entire West Texas town vanished, Brady returns to his childhood home, hoping to follow in her footsteps.

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Josh Rountree @joshrountree.bsky.social · 2d

I am really loving this whole series of essays about one of my favorite movies. If you like awesome stuff, follow along!

🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 2d

Today's installment in my 31-day essay series on John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN is about the illusion of middle class domestic calm in Haddonfield, how Tommy Doyle sees through it, and how Laurie Strode gets swept up in it just as the knife's about to come down.

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Tracing The Shape 12: The Boogeyman Is Outside

There's a moment just before Annie Brackett is murdered inside her car at the Wallace house that speaks to a certain thematic undercurrent running throughout Halloween. Annie, clad only in a men's dre...

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Josh Rountree @joshrountree.bsky.social · 2d

Remember checks and balances? Those were awesome.

Josh Rountree @joshrountree.bsky.social · 2d

Success!!

Josh Rountree @joshrountree.bsky.social · 3d

Selling books on the Georgetown square with @daj42.bsky.social and @ryanb4890.bsky.social Come see us!!

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Josh Rountree @joshrountree.bsky.social · 3d

Man, wish I was in Houston! Y’all have fun!

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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks, Gabino!

I'm now 10 days into my effort to write a new essay on John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN every day in October. Everyone can check it out over on my newsletter!

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Tracing The Shape - Matthew Jackson and The Scares That Shaped Us

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Josh Rountree @joshrountree.bsky.social · 4d

Come see us tomorrow on the square in Georgetown! We will definitely have books and we will have candy served from Frankenstein’s skull while supplies last!!

Let the Ryan One In @ryanb4890.bsky.social · 4d

Tomorrow morning I'll be slinging books with @joshrountree.bsky.social and @daj42.bsky.social as part of Georgetown Texas' Saturday Market Days. I've heard rumors that Josh will have Frankenstein head candy. Get there early before I eat all of it.

Derek Austin Johnson, Josh Rountree, and me sit in front of a table covered with out books at Curio Mrvosa back in April.

Josh Rountree @joshrountree.bsky.social · 5d

About 60000 words in on this new novel I’m writing, and finally came up with a working title that’s PERFECT. Of course, I still have to write the rest of it…

Josh Rountree @joshrountree.bsky.social · 5d

Holy smokes! The Unkillable Frank Lightning made Cinema Chords’ list of Best Horror Books of 2025! So cool to be included in such a killer group of books.

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CinemaChords’ Best Horror Books of 2025 (So Far): Top Horror Novels You Need to Read

Horror, much like grief, refuses to stand still. It morphs with the times, reflecting our collective anxieties back to us in freshly monstrous forms. In 2025, the genre feels especially vital – not si...

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Josh Rountree @joshrountree.bsky.social · 5d

I preordered the heck out of this! Go check it out. Chris is a GREAT writer and artist, and this sounds amazing.

Chris Panatier @scribeofhades.bsky.social · 6d

DAYTIDE is up for preorder now and I sort of buried the lede on this limited edition, illustrated, horror-fantasy.

There’s an introduction by @pfracassi.bsky.social that blew the bombas right off of my feet. I’m still reeling.

350 total books. Order: www.rapturepublishing.com/product/dayt...

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Kurt Phillips @kurtphillipstx.bsky.social · 5d

Everyone should check this one out and then get yourself a copy of The Unkillable Frank Lightning.

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Josh Rountree @joshrountree.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks from me and all the ghosts! 👻

Josh Rountree @joshrountree.bsky.social · 5d

The Deadlands fundraiser is live! Go support this fantastic magazine and publisher. All kinds of books and goodies are available!! 💀

The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 7d

it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀

buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us

we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!

please like + RT this to help spread the word

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behold!

Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 6d

Today’s the day @barnesandnoble.com recommends you read WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME. They are professionals; who are we to disagree with their assessment??

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Josh Rountree @joshrountree.bsky.social · 5d

Holiday tunes. 💀

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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 6d

I'm the author of this quote and I stand by it! Can't say enough good things about this one, y'all.

I do not get a lot of time in my life to read books in one sitting anymore, but FRANK LIGHTNING forced me. Couldn't put it down.

Josh Rountree @joshrountree.bsky.social · 6d

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Josh Rountree @joshrountree.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks again for the kind words!! So glad this hit the mark for you.

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E. Catherine Octobler @ecatherine.com · 7d

Lovely. Thank you, Elias, for the care you show all the books you cover. ♥

Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 7d

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about SUMMER IN THE HOUSE OF THE DEPARTED by Josh Rountree. A sere novella of death & haunting in east Texas, a mournful & moving read, cut through with ghosts & the dry burning heat of surreality. Our drink, a mocktail, is the Safeheart.

SUMMER IN THE HOUSE OF THE DEPARTED by Josh Rountree, a coffee colored book alongside a coffee drink on a bookshelf.

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