Western Gothic requires an intense commitment. It has taken us an average of 4.25 years per book. Not only are we experts in Western Gothic, we’re also pretty good with numbers. Our fourth and final book in the series - The Cowboy and the Vampire: The Last Sunset - will hit the shelves of bookstores on June 9. We wrote the first book - The Cowboy the Vampire: A Very Unusual Romance - in 1999. We’re pretty sure we invented the genre with The Cowboy and the Vampire Collection, a series of four books set in the modern west and featuring sexy, brooding vampires bent on world domination. So what is Western Gothic? It 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). We say that as recognized (by each other) experts in the field of Western Gothic Studies, a field and (and likely a genre) we created, and with all the confidence an exhaustive, seconds-long Google search can bestow (see sidebar). Western Gothic is a fairly narrow but very deep and wildly entertaining literary genre. By Clark Hays and Kathleen McFall, noted (at least by each other) authorities in the field of Western Gothic studies
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