Joe R. Lansdale
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Joe R. Lansdale
- 2001 Edgar–Novel winner
- 2001 Anthony-Novel nominee
- 2001 Macavity-Novel nominee
- 2000 Hammett nominee
- 2000 IHG–Novel nominee
- Score: 34.51
Today, the Sabine River runs as before, yet the bottoms have been drained. Long gone are the alligators, and the few birds that take to the air cast tiny shadows over concrete surfaces.
But way back then, during the thick of the Great Depression that squeezed Deep East Texas in its impoverishing grip, a boy could hear the crickets and the frogs in the star-studded southern night. And in this primordial time a killer stalked the land.
When young Harry Crane discovers the black woman’s body, mutilated and bound to a tree with barbed wire, he unwittingly…
Joe R. Lansdale
When a group of friends decided to spend a day at the world’s largest Drive-In theater horror fest, they expected to see tons of bloody murders, rampaging madmen, and mayhem—but only on the screen. As a mysterious force traps all the patrons inside the Drive-In, the worst in humanity comes out. Filled with Lansdale’s razor whit and black humor, The Drive-In is a darkly humorous masterpiece!
Joe R. Lansdale
The endlessly inventive mind of Joe R. Lansdale whips up yet another batch of stories to amaze, surprise, and entertain you. His new offering covers a lot of territory, producing what may be his best short story collection yet.
Read about an East Texas mule race in the early 1900s, the disturbed mind of a mass murderer and his friendship with the shadow, the supernatural adventures of Reverend Rains, a poetic collaboration with Melissa Mia Hall about the nature of loneliness and loss, a famous, award winning novella about a clutch of unusual crime solvers. Read about a world where the dead almost rule, and venture into an alternate universe that is the background for perhaps the strangest tale of all, an adventure concerning an earnest and horny steam shovel named Bill.
It’s the usual wild and crowd pleasing display of what has become a subgenre of modern literature as only Joe R. Lansdale can present it: Tales Lansdalien. Welcome to his world.
Mad Dog Summer and Other Stories
Joe R. Lansdale
Before such classic novels as The Drive-In, The Bottoms, Cold in July, and the Hap and Leonard suspense novels, Joe R. Lansdale made his reputation with short stories like “Night They Missed the Horror Show,” “The Pit,” and “Steel Valentine.”
Mad Dog Summer and Other Stories continues hisownself’s mastery of the short story, with tales of a very weird future, a nostalgic past, and two Hap and Leonard short stories—one written in collaboration with Andrew Vachss.
Joe R. Lansdale
Hap and Leonard are two friends who are always looking for a fast buck. So when Hap’s old flame, Trudy, waltzes back into town with a money-making scam, it sounds easy—a quick dive into the icy Sabine River for a half-million dollars in lost hold-up money. But things go bad, and when Hap and Leonard meet Soldier, they know they’ve entered a nightmare with no escape.
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