Josh Rountree has published more than sixty stories in a wide variety of magazines and anthologies, including Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Realms of Fantasy, The Deadlands, Bourbon Penn, PseudoPod, PodCastle, Daily Science Fiction, and A Punk Rock Future. Several of his stories have received honorable mentions in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth and Twenty-First Annual Collections, as well as The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection. His latest short fiction collection is Fantastic Americana: Stories from Fairwood Press.
Josh lives somewhere in the untamed wilds of Texas with his wife and children, and he tweets about books, records, and guitars at @josh_rountree.
Genres: Horror
Novels
Alamo Rising (2020) (with Lon Prater)
The Legend of Charlie Fish (2023)
The Unkillable Frank Lightning (2025)
Summer In the House Of the Departed (2025)
The Legend of Charlie Fish (2023)
The Unkillable Frank Lightning (2025)
Summer In the House Of the Departed (2025)
Collections
Books containing stories by Josh Rountree

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume Five (2024)
(Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, book 5)
edited by
Paula Guran
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Josh Rountree recommends

The Essential Horror of Joe R. Lansdale (2025)
Joe R Lansdale
"A Texas literary legend and one of the best short story writers alive. And the horror tales contained in these pages are indeed essential.... Every one of these stories is a stone-cold killer."

Thrift Store Puzzles (2025)
John Boden
"Thrift Store Puzzles finds John Boden at his brilliant bloody best."

The Adventures of Mary Darling (2025)
Pat Murphy
"Full of mystery and fairy magic, grand adventure, and deft character revelations."
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