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Josh Rountree
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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.
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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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I was 100% thinking about this book as I watched GDT's Frankenstein last week.
Do yourself a favor and pick it up!
November 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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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
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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
Pyres cover in paperback and ebook with pull quote from Dan Howarth about the book
November 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Thanks @gabino.bsky.social !

Xmas HORRORMANCE !

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November 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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A Shadow of Your Former Self
A Shadow of Your Former Self [Grech, Amy, Buddha, Alien] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. A Shadow of Your Former Self
www.amazon.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:48 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...
Calliope Street by Josh Hanson — Moonstruck Books
A new psychedelic horror novel by author Josh Hanson
www.moonstruck-books.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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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
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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/
Four Weddings and a Funeral Director, showing a blonde woman handing some wilted flowers to a guy who looks like Hugh Grant The goth house /barbie house meme with "they're dating" superimposed
November 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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😍😍😍😍😍
scribeofhades.bsky.social Chris Panatier @scribeofhades.bsky.social · 4d
COVER REVEAL

🐦‍⬛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
www.rapturepublishing.com/product/dayt...
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.
lhardingwrites.bsky.social Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · Sep 2
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 - 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
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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
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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
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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
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
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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?
linktr.ee/authorlevai
THE GLASS GARDEN, by Jessica Lévai. The book has a kaleidoscopic cover in green and red and is shown perched in a tree of lovely autumn foliage.
November 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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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
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
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Thanks, Gabino!
My coming-of-age folk horror, The Haunting of Wounded Birds, releases in 5 days! If you love dark forests, black birds, old rituals, and haunted boys, this one's for you.
mybook.to/woundedbirds (I only need one more preorder to get me to my goal)
Book cover. A young jackdaw on a dark, misty background with red fly agaric mushrooms to the foreground, surrounded by themes/vibes. The Haunting of Wounded Birds by Beverley Lee.
November 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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tdcloud.bsky.social 🐣 Migi ➡️ SKIAMAKHIA is live! Go read it! @tdcloud.bsky.social · 4d
SKIAMAKHIA has been out for a whole slutty, slutty week and y'all have been coming through in a big way for it. Join in the vampire fun by picking it up for yourself this weekend! It's got everything and so much more 🩸

Order Now: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FVWJ7TBJ
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Have you ever read a sci-fi detective comedy narrated by a coffee machine robot? What about one that has 154 footnotes, a star from Publishers Weekly, and a "GET IT" verdict from Kirkus Reviews?

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Private detective Frank Harken could really, really use a cup of coffee. Can you blame him? His new case features a missing woman, a flaky client, a cranky security officer, a mysterious assassin, an overbearing mob boss, an ice-cold enforcer, and the best mini-golf the world has ever seen. Did we mention the fate of millions is at stake? “Stein delivers a madcap sci-fi take on the hard-boiled detective genre in this fun, near-future romp that’s chock-full of rapid-fire wit, tongue-in-cheek literary allusions, and playful futuristic absurdity… Stein keeps the stakes high and the laughs coming … Sure to appeal to fans of Douglas Adams, this zany, uproarious mystery is a constant delight.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Get ready for some super great fun! The Great American Deception is a hilarious (and deeply disturbing) voyage through a futuristic netherworld of caffeinated robots and diet pizza. Somewhere—possibly nowhere—Douglas Adams is sighing pleasurably with a combination of approval and afterlife indigestion.” —Gary Shteyngart, author of Little Failure and Lake Success “The Great American Deception is by far the most enjoyable novel told from the point of view of a futuristic coffee machine I have ever read!” —Ben Schwartz, actor and writer
November 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Why I have problems marketing my book series:

🧚 There are Fairies, but not your typical Fairies.

🏹It's an epic fantasy but focuses on dialogue and character moments, not big battles and fight scenes.

🌙Large cast of mostly women.

🔆Ceremonial magic!

💚💜🤍

www.amazon.com/dp/B08HLVPF7D
Five book covers in a pentagon.
November 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Happy #FridayReads, hermano! On Nov. 11, the new Flame Tree Press anthology, Latin American Shared Stories, will be published. Edited by V. Castro, it includes my horror-bromance story "Nacho" that you may listen to in this special podcast.
youtu.be/JjQPdKt9UBw?... #horror
Latin American Shared Stories
YouTube video by Flame Tree Press & Studio
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November 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Thanks, Gabino!
“This book (Noise Ordinance) is so good… I’m sitting on my porch reading it again. I’m dying laughing. I’m surprised you can’t hear me laughing from here.”
Kind words from a reader!
Available on digital platforms and @bookpeople.com

a.co/d/hutoMgi

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A black and white octopus on a black background. It’s the cover for Kurt Phillips’s Novella, noise ornament. Available now on all e-book platforms.
November 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Today #FridayReads I am sharing All the Way to the Top, the tale of a mediocre man who finds he has to fend for himself when the zombies arrive. He’d like to know when someone is gonna bring him his lunch.
Find all 13 stories in Revolve.

Thanks Gabino!
Linktr.ee/kdbwrites
November 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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I have a collection of horror that is weird, literary, and eerie. 38 stories, all illustrated, for only $1.99! You can pick it up on Amazon or Bookshop:

Amazon
bit.ly/4lZImtq

Bookshop
bit.ly/41USpIQ
Mad Days: Stories and Curses
Amazon.com: Mad Days: Stories and Curses eBook : Alley, Elford: Books
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November 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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I have a preorder up for the sequel story to Welcome to Cemetery!

Off with their Sleds is a fun, dark Christmas mystery just in time for the holidays.

Signup and read for free (& early)
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Or preorder now! $0.99
books2read.com/u/3yn96p
November 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Thanks for another #FridayReads, Gabino!
There's a chill in the air, and it runs deeper than just the turn of the season

Check out the book Craig DiLouie(!) called "a powerful Victorian adventure, rich in detail and set in a fully realized world ... A stunning debut!"

LINK: books2read.com/u/490zOw
Cover art for The Nightshade Cabal by Chris Patrick Carolan. Image shows a mail figured dressed in black, with his back to the viewer. A Victorian city scene in the background is shrouded in mist. Caption reads "Only the dead know the secrets of the Cabal..." A Crime Writers of Canada 2021 Awards of Excellence Finalist badge has been added. The first page of The Nightshade Cabal. Text Reads: HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, 1881 "I’m telling you, Jonathon, these so-called stage magicians are nothing more than charlatans and hucksters of the highest order.” Isaac Barrow said, raising his voice to be heard over the din of the crowded Theatre Royale. "The act is nothing but mirrors and wires and other trickery making you think you've seen something you haven’t.” Inspector Jonathon Eddings chuckled heartily, shaking his head. "And I keep telling you, Barrow, being fooled is the whole point of the bloody show!” Fifteen years in Halifax had done little to blunt the edge of his thick Mancunian brogue. His friend’s retort failed to quell Barrow's annoyance. The inspector's invitation had had all the cordiality of a press gang. Eddings had bought the tickets to thank Barrow for his help with a recent investigation. He hadn’t skimped, either; they sat just three rows back of the orchestra pit. The notion of putting down hard-earned coin with the express intention of being hoodwinked by some sham of a magician struck Barrow as inordinately foolish. He knew of the occult and the dangers of flirting with its deadly secrets. Real magic being his stock-in-trade, he considered the pretend variety, popular on stage, mildly offensive at best. It was only on his friend's repeated insistence that he had finally, against his own better judgement, agreed to attend the performance.
November 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM