The Essential Horror of Joe R. Lansdale
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In this career horror retrospective, World Horror Grandmaster Joe R. Lansdale (Bubba Ho-tep; Hap and Leonard) tackles racism and human cruelty as deftly as he conjures demon nuns and Elder Gods. Featuring an original introduction from Joe Hill, this much-anticipated volume showcases the best of Lansdale's terrifying short stories--menacing, astute, and wildly inappropriate.
"This book is flat-out incredible." --John Skipp, New York Times bestselling author-turned-filmmaker of This Is Splatterpunk
Bestselling author Joe R. Lansdale is known for his gritty mysteries and his eccentric horror. As an eleven-time Bram Stoker Award winner, Joe Lansdale cooks up an inimitable recipe of Southern Gothic and Southern fried chicken that continues to delight his many fans and influence generations of horror legends.
Lansdale mashes up crime, Gothic, mystery, fantasy, and science-fiction, filtered through a raw, violent world of dark humor and unique characters. Lansdale is one of the early American horror writers to portray racism not as abstract but as realistic, intimate, and impossible to ignore.
In Lansdale's nightmarish visions, you'll discover psychotic demon nuns, a psychopathic preacher, cannibals, 80-year-old Elvis, undead strippers, flying ghost fish, Elder Gods, possessed cars, and the worst evil of all: mankind.
Table of contents
Introduction by Joe Hill
"The Folding Man"
"Hoodoo Man and the Midnight Train"
"God of the Razor"
"My Dead Dog Bobby"
"Tight Little Stitches in a Deadman's Back"
"By Bizarre Hands"
On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folk
"Love Doll: A Fable"
"Mister Weed-Eater"
"The Bleeding Shadow"
"Not From Detroit"
"The Hungry Snow"
"Dog, Cat, and Baby"
Bubba Ho-tep
"Fish Night"
"Night They Missed the Horror Show"
About this Author
World Horror Grandmaster Joe R. Lansdale has received eleven Bram Stoker Awards as well as, the Edgar, Raymond Chandler, British Fantasy, Spur, Golden Lion, and Inkpot Awards. Lansdale has written more than forty novels and four hundred shorter works. His novels include the fourteen novel Hap & Leonard series, Dead in the West, The Nightrunners, The Drive-In, Cold in July, The Bottoms, The Thicket, Moon Lake, and The Donut Legion. His short story collections include four volumes in the Hap & Leonard series, Terror Is Our Business (with Kasey Lansdale), Things Get Ugly, and The Senior Girls Bayonet Drill Team. He has edited fifteen anthologies, including Weird Business (with Richard Klaw) and Crucified Dreams. Lansdale's works that have been adapted for film treatments include Bubba Ho-Tep, the Hap and Leonard TV series (starring James Purefoy and Michael K. Williams), and Cold in July; "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" for Masters of Horror; as well as stories for Love, Death + Robots and Creepshow. He has also written graphic novels for DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, and others.
Joe R. Lansdale lives with his wife, Karen, in Nacogdoches, Texas.
Reviews
Advance Praise for The Essentional Horror of Joe R. Lansdale
"Lansdale is a legend, and this collection is proof positive of that."
--Chuck Wendig, bestselling author of The Book of Accidents and The Staircase in the Woods
"If you call yourself a horror fan but haven't read Joe Lansdale's short fiction, shame on you. But...fear not, you can now pick up this generous retrospective with sixteen of his greatest hits."
--Ellen Datlow, editor of The Best Horror of the Year series
"Lansdale is a genre unto himself and has left an indelible mark on American literature. He has deservedly earned a place in the halls alongside Twain, Poe, Faulkner, Hemingway, Steinbeck, King, and the other greats."
--Brian Keene, bestselling author and World Horror Grandmaster Award-winner
"Legendary storyteller Joe R. Lansdale showcases his relentless versatility, raw and fearless imagination, and signature craftsmanship in this quintessential gateway into the dark heart of Lansdale's horror."
--Sadie Hartmann, Bram Stoker Award winning author of 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered
"This book contains some of the greatest and most memorable horror stories of the past half century, each infused with the art and mischief of a true original."
--Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of The Night Birds
"Prepare to be disturbed, grossed out, and laugh all at the same time. Joe R. Lansdale pulls you through the meat-grinder time after time with these stories, and his hand is always steady on that crank. I'm pretty sure he's smiling with each turn, too."
--Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
"Lansdale's horror comes at you like a midnight train that shouldn't be there but is. An effective blend of grounded and horrific, each story takes the reader into a nightmare reality close enough to our own to feel the chill of its breath down your neck."
--Laurel Hightower, author of The Day of the Door
"Joe Lansdale is an indispensable and--thank goodness, apparently inexhaustible--resource of thrilling fiction. The collection you hold in your hands is a brilliant assortment of terrors and entertainments."
--Owen King, author of The Curator
"Joe R. Lansdale's storytelling combines unflinching brutality, two-fisted weirdness, and sarcastic humor while delivering it to the reader with a distinctly Texas twang."
--Nancy A. Collins, author of Sunglasses After Dark
"If you don't know Lansdale's work, this is a great place to start. If you do know it, you're going to find some of his best and darkest works in one place."
--Richard Kadrey, author of the Sandman Slim series
"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."
--Josh Rountree, author of The Unkillable Frank Lightning
"If he'd only written a single horror story, Joe Lansdale would be remembered for it. Instead, he created a body of work almost unmatched in horror fiction, all in a voice so distinctive you recognize it immediately."
--Derek Austin Johnson, author of The Faith
"When it comes to horror, nobody throws down harder, gets the joke more ferociously, or cares more deeply about the casualties of this long-suffering earth. This book is flat-out incredible."
--John Skipp, author of This Is Splatterpunk
"Joe Lansdale is a wholly unique and quintessential American author. No one better understands and communicates the horrors, the absurdities, and the tattered hopes of our everyday lives."
--Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World
"The Essential Horror of Joe R. Lansdale is, as the title suggests, essential reading for horror fans."
--Dave Writes and Draws
Praise for Joe R. Lansdale
"A folklorist's eye for telling detail and a front-porch raconteur's sense of pace." --New York Times Book Review
"A terrifically gifted storyteller." --Washington Post Book Review
"Like gold standard writers Elmore Leonard and the late Donald Westlake, Joe R. Lansdale is one of the more versatile writers in America." --Los Angeles Times
"A zest for storytelling and gimlet eye for detail." --Entertainment Weekly
"Lansdale is an immense talent." --Booklist
"Lansdale is a storyteller in the Texas tradition of outrageousness...but amped up to about 100,000 watts." --Houston Chronicle
"Lansdale's been hailed, at varying points in his career, as the new Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner-gone-madder, and the last surviving splatterpunk . . . sanctified in the blood of the walking Western dead and righteously readable."--Austin Chronicle
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