We wrote the first book- A Very Unusual Romance-in 1999. Add in the quirky humor natural to small towns and a long-suffering cowdog with the soul of a poet-and some pretty steamy undead erotica-and we hope it makes for an unforgettable reading experience. We love writing in the Western Gothic genre because we get to explore huge, archetypal themes about human consciousness, love and death, AND we get to move our characters across stunning natural landscapes with deconstructed shootouts and heart-pounding action.
Why did you choose Western Gothic and when did you first start writing in the genre? Since the first book's publication in 1999, we're happy to see a few others trying out the genre.Ģ. We suspect we may have unintentionally invented the genre with The Cowboy and the Vampire Collection, a series of four books set in the modern rural west and featuring sexy, brooding vampires bent on world domination. To put it in contemporary terms, it's Longmire meets Preacher. Western Gothic lives in the borderlands between the two worlds, a forever twilight of gray nights and last sunsets. 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. 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. Western Gothic exists in the negative space between dark and light. 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). You write in a relatively unknown genre you call Western Gothic. An interview with authors Clark Hays and Kathleen McFall (excerpted from multiple articles/blog posts)ġ.
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