Welcome to Portlandtown, where no secret is safe---not even those buried beneath six feet of Oregon mud.
Joseph Wylde isnโฒt afraid of the past, but he knows some truths are better left unspoken. When his father-in-lawโฒs grave-digging awakens more than just ghosts, Joseph invites him into their home hoping that a booming metropolis and two curious grandtwins will be enough to keep the former marshal out of trouble. Unfortunately, the old manโฒs past soon follows, unleashing a terrible storm on a city already knee deep in floodwaters. As the dead mysteriously begin to rise, the Wyldes must find the truth before an unspeakable evil can spread across the West and beyond.
Rob DeBorde's Portlandtown is''ย a supernatural western, a fantastic blend of horror, magic, and zombies sure to excite even the most demanding genre fan.
Review
Deborde crafts an exhilarating hybrid of grit, guts, dusty cowpokes, and rotting flesh, honoring genre conventions without succumbing to clichรฉ and anchoring black magic in realistic contexts of politics and family dynamics. (Publishers Weekly )
"DeBorde's extraordinary first novel, a dark fantasy set in the Old West, tells a compelling tale of the battle between evil personified and a remarkable family with special abilities. Fans of Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series will enjoy discovering this accomplished writer." (Liberary Journal (starred) )
"A fantastic read, a dark supernatural Western full of curses, magical powers, hoodoo men, and resurrected outlaws. Better yet, it's thrilling, compulsive reading packed with a menagerie of very cool characters. Bring on more of the Oregon Wyldes!" --Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Father Gaetano's Puppet Catechism (Christopher Golden )
"Move over, Spaghetti. Rob DeBorde serves up his fantastical horror Western with a pioneering apple pie--spirit that is all-American genre-bending fiction at its finest." - Bryan Fuller, writer, creator, and executive producer of Hannibal, and writer, creator, and producer of Mockingbird Lane (Bryan Fuller )
A unique and fascinating horror novel. Cowboys, the supernatural, steampunk, and zombies . . . Portlandtown has enough to keep even the most demanding genre fan satisfied (David Moody, author of Autumn )
About the Author
ROB DEBORDE's''ย first book, Fish on a First-Name Basis (2006, St. Martinโฒs Press), reads suspiciously like an indispensible guide to everything wet and edible with nary a zombie in sight. His award-winning online show, Deep Fried, Live! with Tako the Octopus, does, however, feature undead clams and mutant prawns, and his forays into film, television, and videogames have been chock full of supernatural beasties (particularly Good Eats). Portlandtown is his first novel.''ย DeBorde lives downriver from Portland, Oregon, with his wife, Sue, and a pug named Chloe.