Tachyon Publications
July 2025
On Sale: July 5, 2025
Featuring: Catherine Coldbridge; Frank Humble
240 pages ISBN: 1616964367 EAN: 9781616964368 Trade Paperback Add to Wish List
Catherine Coldbridge is a complicated woman: a doctor, an occultist, and, briefly, a widow.
In 1879, Catherine's husband, Private Frank Humble, was killed in a Sioux attack. Consumed by grief, she used her formidable skills to resurrect her husband. But after the reanimation, Frank lost his soul, becoming a vicious undead monster.
Twenty-five years later, Catherine has decided she must make things right. She travels to Texas with a pair of hired killers. But Frank is no longer a monster. He has remade himself as the Unkillable Frank Lightning, traveling with the Wild West Show.
With his signature lean, clean prose reminiscent of 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.
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