Yesterday . . . a giant lost himself in America, forever running from the supernatural killers who pursued him, and a witch formed one last spell in hopes of resurrecting her murdered son. Today . . . a desperate mother bargains with wolves, and a man frozen in memories chases a magic portal that might finally lead him to his true love. Tomorrow . . . survivors of the apocalypse will hunt deadly dirt angels, and escaped artificial intelligences will relive the Cold War until the very end of the universe. ​Travel an American landscape of endless highways, video stores that never close, and lonesome cabins stalked by nightmares. Josh Rountree’s second collection gathers fifteen years of stories, including two originals never before published.

A risen Moctezuma Threatens Texas once again with a zombie army from the south. The Queen/s finest steam gear rolls in from the California colony. Shapeshifting Comanche form a war party to take back their lands. It's all building toward an epic second battle of the Alamo, and this time the fate of all Texas hangs on a handful of disgraced Rangers, determined cowgirls, revolutionary veterans, and the mysterious Comanche child who could save them all.

Eighteen stories of found footage horror. Featuring stories by: Bev Vincent, Ali Seay, Holly Rae Garcia, Clay McLeod Chapman, Nick Kolakowski, Ally Wilkes, Alan Baxter, Tim McGregor, Jeremy Hepler, Angela Sylvaine, Josh Rountree, Donna Lynch, Kurt Fawver, Robert Levy, Joe Butler, Fred Fischer, Georgia Cook, and Aristo Couvaras. An anthology edited by Andrew Cull and Gabino Iglesias.

Acclaimed short-story writer Josh Rountree's (Fantastic Americana) long-awaited debut novel wades into the literary waters of True Grit and Lonesome Dove by way of The Creature From the Black Lagoon. This powerful tale of Texas in the 1900s pits found-family against relentless villains, all set against the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. "Odd, creepy, funny, the Black Lagoon meets the Six Gun universe. High up on the way-cool factor. You need this." --Joe R. Lansdale, Edgar Award-winning author of the Hap and Leonard series After burying his father, Floyd Betts returns home to Galveston, Texas. He is not be alone in his journey, riding out of town with the orphaned siblings Nellie and Chuck. On the way, they have also rescued the mysterious, not-quite human, Charlie Fish. Now dangerous men planning to profit from the spectacle of Charlie are on their trail, and winds are picking up from the impending hurricane Descended from a long line of a witches, Nellie struggles with visions she experiences from other people's minds. Her younger brother Chuck just wants to use his oversized revolver, a legacy from his father. Floyd is struggling to protect his young charges. Meanwhile, all Charlie Fish wants is to go home. With the taut intensity of an impending storm, Josh Rountree's neo-Gothic Western is a mesmerizing tale from a rising star of American fiction.

There's talk of a hole in the sky¿ In the summer of 1981, Brady's grandmother vanishes-along with an entire Texas town. There's no explanation, except those that don't hold any logic. Brady doesn't worry too much about that, having spent his childhood listening to his grandmother's stories and playing with the pencil-sketched ghosts in her old Victorian: the young Shirley, the injured cowboy Glen, and others. This is a sometime place not an all the time place¿ In the summer of 2025, a world-weary Brady returns to his grandmother's house, to reunite with old friends as he makes an effort to understand what happened, where his grandmother went. Brady holds a hope close to his heart: That he can duplicate whatever magic his grandmother conjured, to follow in her footsteps as his own ghost-tattered life comes to its close. People slipping away into another world is fantasy. It's impossible. I was there. I know what I saw¿

In this adventurous retelling of Frankenstein in the Wild West, a resourceful woman struggles with the man she loved before she made him into a monster. Catherine Coldbridge is a complicated woman: a doctor, an occultist, and briefly, a widow. In 1879, her husband, Private Frank Humble, was killed in a Sioux attack. Consumed by grief, Catherine used her formidable skills to resurrect her husband. But after the reanimation, Frank lost his soul, becoming a vicious undead monster. Unable to face her failure or its murderous consequences, Catherine fled to grieve her failure. 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 is no longer a monster; he is once again the kind man she knew. He has remade himself as the Unkillable Frank Lightning, traveling with the Wild West Show, and even taking on a mysterious young ward. Now Catherine must face a series of moral dilemmas that cannot be resolved without considerable bloodshed. With his signature lean, clean prose that reads like Raymond Chandler, Josh Rountree (The Legend of Charlie Fish) has penned a Frankenstein-inspired tale unlike any other. With equal parts Cormac McCarthy and Stephen Graham Jones, Rountree coalesces myth and legend into a dramatic tale of love, death, and its terrible aftermath.

"Weird Horror edited by Michael Kelly is a new, very promising twice-yearly horror magazine featuring fiction, articles, and reviews. The fiction in the first issue is excellent and I look forward to more." Ellen Datlow, editor of The Best Horror of the Year. Welcome to the new pulp! Weird Horror magazine is a new venue for fiction, articles, reviews, and commentary. We expect to publish twice-yearly. Long live the new pulp! FICTION: Rex Burrows; Donyae Coles; J.R. McConvey; Saswati Chatterjee; Theresa DeLucci; S. E. Clark; Josh Rountree; Jack Lothian; GordonB. White. NON-FICTION: Tom Goldstein; Orrin Grey; Lysette Stevenson; and Simon Strantzas. COVER ART: Fernando JFL INTERIOR ART: Dan Rempel DESIGN: Vince Haig

This issue contains stories about family, stories about theft, stories about ghosts, stories about the weight of history, stories about weight we bring to history, stories about be- ing lost and being found, and stories about the gravity of grief.These are the stories that whisper to us in the sweaty shade under the old trees that have grown over the graves of generations that have been forgotten. This is the ripening season, the time before the harvest, before the nights get long . . . Includes stories by A. P. Howell, Louis Evans, Christopher Hawkins, Jon Lasser, Josh Rountree, Nikoline Kaiser, Breanna Bright, and J. A. W. McCarthy.

This volume collects nine stories of rock and roll and twisted history from aTexas writer.