The Cowboy and the Vampire: The Last Sunset (The Cowboy and the Vampire Collection) - Softcover

Hays, Clark; McFall, Kathleen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0997411309 ISBN 13: 9780997411300

Publisher: Pumpjack Press, 2016

Synopsis

Take one long, last look at LonePine, Wyoming, population 438. It’s been two years since the vampires quit the quirky little town and things are mostly back to normal—broken dreams and never enough whiskey. But all that’s about to go to hell.

Hold on tight for a midnight showdown when a psychotic religious order takes the entire town hostage—including Tucker's long-lost brother—to lure Lizzie from her frozen exile in Russia. The mad monks know Lizzie’s murder will strand the ruling vampire elite in a disembodied afterlife so the cult can impose their twisted beliefs on the living and undead alike. It’s a rip-roarin’ stampede as a cowboy and a vampire try to round up the shattered pieces of their unusual romance.

With the fate of the world on the line yet again, can Tucker and Lizzie put aside their broken hearts to face one last sunset together?

Slap leather or reach for the sky.

The Cowboy and the Vampire: The Last Sunset is the fourth (and final) book in the award-winning The Cowboy and the Vampire Collection, a series called everything from cult classic to trailblazer in a new genre: Western Gothic.

About this title

From the Author

The Cowboy and the Vampire Collection is western gothic fiction. Western gothic is a style of fiction that transplants the moody, death-obsessed themes of classic gothic fiction (think Castle of Otranto or, of course, Dracula) to the wide open, inspiring vistas of the modern west (Riders of the Purple Sage or All the Pretty Horses).

Western Gothic exists in the negative space between dark and light. Gothic fiction uses the darkness--the creepy atmosphere, curious, obsessive behavior and morbid thoughts--to focus on the light, providing the perfect backdrop to illuminate the best in people: the desire to overcome death, to hope and to love.Westerns, ironically, use the light to set off the dark, weaving stories of good men pushed to the limits by the cruelty and avarice of others (usually tyrannical land owners) or the blind apathy of nature. Western Gothic lives in the borderlands between the two worlds, a forever twilight of gray nights and last sunsets. To put it in contemporary terms, it's Longmire meets Preacher.

It differs from "Weird Westerns" in that the latter genre transplants occult elements to the Old West--the genre has existed for decades, and is most often associated with the golden age of pulp paperbacks. Weird Westerns reached their apogee (in our opinion) with the cool and spooky Jonah Hex comics of the 70s. Western Steampunk is a more recent energetic offspring and heir to the crown.

About the Author

Between the two of them, Clark Hays and Kathleen McFall have worked in writing jobs ranging from cowboy-poet to energy journalist to restaurant reviewer to university press officer. After they met, their writing career took center stage when they wrote the first book in The Cowboy and the Vampire Collection as a test for marriage. They passed. Clark and Kathleen now live in Portland, Oregon.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pumpjack Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0997411309
• ISBN 13: 9780997411300
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 372