TY - BOOK AU - Rountree,Josh TI - The Unkillable Frank Lightning SN - 9781616964368 CY - [Place of publication not identified] PB - Tachyon Publications KW - Occultists KW - Resurrection KW - Horror fiction KW - local KW - Western fiction KW - Women physicians KW - Sideshows KW - Gothic fiction KW - Historical fiction KW - Novels KW - lcshac KW - Texas N1 - new book 2025 fall N2 - In this riveting historical horror novel, Frankenstein is vividly reimagined in the Wild West. With equal parts Cormac McCarthy, Mary Shelley, and Stephen Graham Jones, Rountree deftly navigates the terrible aftermath of love and death. Catherine Coldbridge is a complicated woman: A doctor, an occultist, and, briefly, a widow. In 1879, Private Frank Humble, Catherine’s husband, was killed in a Sioux attack. Consumed by grief, she used her formidable skills to resurrect him. But Frank lost his soul after the reanimation, and disappeared after a killing spree. Unable to face her failure and its murderous consequences, Catherine fled to grieve. 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 has remade himself as the Unkillable Frank Lightning, traveling with the Wild West Show. Reaching for a last chance at redemption, Frank and Catherine are at an impasse. As time runs out, their final choices may result in considerable bloodshed ER -