Josh Rountree was born in 1973 and is a US author who began publishing work of genre interest with “Fool’s Tile” in Glyph in December 2002. He emerged from the [ … ]
Category: Literature
Stephen Graham Jones “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter” – Rez Gothic
Stephen Graham Jones is the NYT bestselling author of thirty-five or so books, and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter may well be the one for which he is ultimately remembered. Though [ … ]
The Thicket – Bounty Hunter Drama
In the bounty hunter drama The Thicket, award-winning novelist Joe R. Lansdale lets loose like never before, in a rip-roaring adventure equal parts True Grit and Stand by Me: Jack [ … ]
Sins of the Shovel – Looting of Indigenous Sites
American archaeology was forever scarred by an 1893 business proposition between cowboy-turned-excavator Richard Wetherill and socialites-turned-antiquarians Fred and Talbot Hyde. Wetherill had stumbled upon Mesa Verde’s spectacular cliff dwellings and [ … ]
Mongrels – Gothic Western Werewolf Novel
Stephen Graham Jones’ Mongrels is a spellbinding and surreal coming-of-age story about a young boy living on the fringe with his family – who are secretly werewolves – and struggling [ … ]
Canary – A Western Horror Story
“In 1891 a mine collapsed into itself. What was the dark substance found 666 feet underground? Blending a western horror story, historical fact, and Western lore, Scott Snyder and Dan [ … ]
Post-Apocalyptic Western “The Day After Never – Blood Honor”
Russell Blake’s post-apocalyptic Western “The Day After Never – Blood Honor” shows us that in the wake of utter devastation, the line between good and evil gets blurry as hell… [ … ]
Monkey Beach by Indigenous Author Eden Robinson
Monkey Beach is a supernatural mystery novel written by the Indigenous author Eden Robinson. It was published by Vintage Canada in 2000, being Eden’s first novel. It was the recipient [ … ]
Robbie Coburn – Gothic Western Poet
Robbie Coburn is a Gothic Western poet based in Melbourne. Robert Adamson wrote that Robbie Coburn’s poems “come from tough experiences, yet are created with a muscular craft that glows [ … ]
The Legend Of Charlie Fish – Neo-Gothic Western Novel
Josh Rountree’s debut neo-Gothic Western novel, The Legend of Charlie Fish, is a bit difficult to describe briefly. It is definitely a western given the time period, and some of [ … ]