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Joe R. Lansdale is the author of over thirty novels, including the Edgar Award-winning Hap and Leonard mystery series (Mucho Mojo, Two Bear Mambo), and the New York Times Notable Book, The Bottoms. Over 200 of his stories have appeared in outlets such as Tales From the Crypt and Pulphouse, and his work has been adapted for The Twilight Zone and Masters of Horror. Lansdale has written graphic novels including Batman and Fantastic Four and is the writer-in-residence at Stephen F. Austin State University. He is a tenth-degree black belt and the founder of the Shen Chuan martial art. Lansdale lives in Nacogdoches, Texas, which suits him just fine, thank you very much.
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Also by Joe R. Lansdale
Flaming Zeppelins
Deadman's Road
Edited by Joe R. Lansdale
Crucified Dreams
The Urban Fantasy Anthology
$15.95/ trade paperback/ 384 pp./ 978-1-892391-94-0
March 2010
Cover Art by John Picacio, Cover Design by Ann Monn, Interior Design by John Coulthart
"A cult figure."
"I'm convinced — absolutely convinced — that if Joe R. Lansdale didn't write in the realm of horror, America would be tripping over itself to praise him and hang literary medals around his neck" - Bookgasm "Let this volume introduce you to his uncensored, unfiltered world. He is a writer deserving of a wide and appreciative audience." - UK Guardian "The Best of Joe R. Lansdale is a must-have book for the lover of the weird, the champion of the bizarre and the fan of the outrageous. If you are looking for a unique experience that will leave you equal parts stunned and nostalgic, frightened and amused, look no further." - Fatally Yours "Whether you are a die hard Lansdale fan and want to get most of his best work in one volume, or you are a neophyte to the Cult of Lansdale looking for a good staring point, this is the book for you." -Kent Allard, Dead In The South "Indisputably one of horror's most revered craftsmen." -Carl Hays, Booklist "Lansdale is as important an America Original as Mark Twain" -Zombo's Closet 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 "A zest for storytelling and gimlet for detail." -Entertainment Weekly "Lansdale is a storyteller in the Texas tradition of outrageousness...but amped up to about 100,000 watts." -Houston Chronicle "A terrifically gifted storyteller." -Washington Post Book Review "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 "laugh-out-loud funny, acquainted with the night and often acutely profound." -Dallas News "Definitely not for the fainthearted or the easily offended." -Bookgasm "The characters are so ridiculously realistic and the plots so simple that you can't help but wonder why something so uncomplicated can be so fantastic. That is the magic of Lansdale." -Horror Bound "Like gold standard writers Elmore Leonard and the late Donald Westlake, Joe R. Lansdale is one of the more versatile writers in America. Over a span of 30 years, he's written well over a dozen mystery, suspense, western and sci-fi novels and short stories with detours into graphic novels and horror. The notice from critics has been impressive -- garnering Lansdale praise for prose 'as tasty as a well-cured piece of beef jerky' (the Houston Chronicle) and awards as varied as multiple Bram Stokers for horror fiction and an Edgar for the moody, stand-alone mystery 'The Bottoms.'" -The Los Angeles Times "With Lansdale, you'll never know what you're going to get Southern Gothic, gonzo horror, suspense and humor." -Enter the Octopus "I'm laughing so hard that I'm near busting a gut. [Lansdale's] just that funny, that rednecked, and that insanely offensive in everything he puts on the page." -Bookhound "...if you haven't read one of his novels yet, then what are you waiting for?" -Mostly Fiction "...since I'm not mincing words, let me say that Mr. Lansdale doesn't mince them either. That trip from point "A" to point "B" (with some interesting stops along the way) is filled with well-wrought characters, black humor, knife-sharp dialogue and enough violence to make even the most jaded Quentin Tarantino aficionado sit up and smile." -Washington Times "The prose is unflinching in both its beauty and gore. Well into his third decade of writing, Lansdale is one of the best authors in any genre." -Book Reporter |
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