10 Books by Joe R. Lansdale
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Overview: Joe R. Lansdale is the winner of the British Fantasy Award, the American Horror Award, the Edgar Award, and six Bram Stoker Awards. He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas.
Genre: Horror, Crime, Western, Humor
Act of Love
Homicides in Houston’s Fifth Ward tend to be fairly mundane: domestic violence, gang-related shootings, that sort of thing. None of it forgivable, but all of it understandable. Crimes of passion, crimes of pride, crimes of poor impulse control. But suddenly there’s something new in the Ward at night… a sickness with human form. Someone who dissects and eviscerates and takes trophies. Someone with wet, unknowable urges to satisfy. Someone who leaves mocking notes, taunting the police for their powerlessness. Detectives Hanson and Clark are on the case, but leads are thin on the ground. It’s almost as if the killer’s among them, listening, anticipating, concealing… and increasingly, terrifyingly, he’s making it personal.
Dead in the West
Mud Creek, Texas is doing alright—a real, thriving little community with a hotel, a café and a church, in addition to the livery and saloon. Seems like just the right sort of place for Reverend Jebidiah Mercer to pitch a tent and hold a revival. They shouldn’t have gotten together and lynched that Indian medicine man, though. They really shouldn’t have done that. It’s a good thing the Reverend can shoot, because in the dark of night, the dead of Mud Creek are rising… and they’re hungry.
The Nightrunners
Splatterpunk!!!Becky and Montgomery Jones are struggling to heal their relationship in the aftermath of a terrifying rape. Haunted by waking nightmares, Becky is convinced that her visions of death are actual premonitions, and that her attacker—who hanged himself in prison—will be coming for her. Her husband thinks it more likely that she’s suffering post-traumatic hallucinations.
In fact, the gang responsible for Becky’s assault has made a pact with The God of The Razor, a malevolent entity that demands as much blood, cutting and terror as they can feed it. Its first order of business is to have them finish what was started with Becky Jones. To make sure that they do it properly, Becky’s dead rapist has decided to hijack a body and come along for the ride.
Dean R. Koontz described The Nightrunners as having a raw power that "grabs you and carries you right along," and there speaks a man who knows terrifying. A full-tilt, no-holds-barred tale of death, destruction, and moral corruption, The Nightrunners isn’t for the faint-hearted. Don’t blame Lansdale if you find your dreams haunted as well.
Waltz of Shadows
Another Splatterpunk novel. Bill, a jobless 24-year-old, is in desperate trouble. He’s being framed by some very unsavory acquaintances for a series of sadistic murders, and is in possession of a particularly gruesome photo album. Backed into a corner, he calls his uncle Hank, and in the process draws the mild-mannered family man into a dark world of unspeakable horror, where people with names like Fat Boy and Snake trade in child pornography, rape, arson and murder. Suddenly Bill’s problems have become Hank’s, and, with everything on the line, Hank and his estranged half-brother Arnold find that they only have each other to rely on.
Prisoner 489
This is a horror novella at about 20,000 words. This edition includes 11 original interior illustrations by world renowned artist Santiago Caruso. Bestselling author Joe R. Lansdale (Cold in July, Hap and Leonard series, Bubba Ho-Tep) makes a return to horror with the dark and intense new novella Prisoner 489 fully illustrated by world-renowned artist Santiago Caruso.
On an island with a prison for the most evil and powerful criminals in the world, a new prisoner is strapped to the electric chair for execution. After multiple surges of electricity and nearly knocking out power to the entire island, the prisoner is finally dead. The staff buries him in the prison graveyard with a simple marker baring three numbers: 489.
After the body is buried, a violent storm rocks the islands and a staff member goes missing. The crew rushes into the storm, searching for their lost comrade. They find that the burial site of prisoner 489 has been unearthed, and the body that was inside has gone missing. With a horrific finding and strange noises around them, a powerful threat is closing in. It’s a threat that they thought was impossible, and it will force them into a battle for their lives.
"Veteran horror/thriller author Lansdale (Hot in December) tells a tight, spooky tale about what happens when an executed prisoner doesn’t stay dead." – Publishers Weekly
Private Eye Action, As You Like It
A collection of detective fiction by award winning authors Joe R. Lansdale and Lewis Shiner. This book collects for the first time some of Lansdale’s and Shiner’s earliest works including the first piece of fiction Joe R. Lansdale ever sold.
The collection features:
The Slater Stories which include: "The Full Count," "Long Gone, Forever," and "One Blonde, Well Dead" by Joe R. Lansdale.
The Sloane Stories which include: "Deep Without Pity," "The Killing Season," and "Prodigal Son" by Lewis Shiner
The Talbot Stories which include: "Black As The Night" and "Man Drowning" which were collaboratively written by Joe R. Lansdale and Lewis Shiner.
Each group of stories includes introductions by the authors.
Mad Dog Summer
Joe Lansdale returns with his characteristic dark take on the horrors that lurk beneath the surface of mundane life in this collection of short stories and novellas. Originally available only in limited-edition hardcover, these tales run the gamut from devilish fantasy to twisted courtroom drama to vampire-robot western. Each story has an introduction in which the author relates the background of and inspiration for the story, whether it was drawn from history, literature, or pure imagination. The title story, about a serial killer in Texas in the 1930s, won the 1999 Bram Stoker Horror Award for long fiction.
Stories included in this collection:
Mad Dog Summer
The Mule Rustlers
O’Reta: Snapshot Memories
Rainy Weather
Screwup
The Steam Man of the Prairie and the Dark Rider Get Down
Veil’s Visit
Way Down There
The Shadows, Kith and Kin
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.
One tale concerns an East Texas mule race in the early 1900s that proves to be an unexpected turning point and learning experience for the main character, a lifelong loser. It also chronicles the unusual circumstances of the race, which include a friendship between a rare white mule that can run like the wind, and his friend, a loyal, spotted pig.
Another tale drops us into the disturbed mind of a mass murderer and his friendship with the shadows.
Two others stories reintroduce us to the supernatural adventures of Reverend Rains, the flawed hero from Lansdale’s cult favorite novel, Dead in the West. Here ghouls prowl and werewolves howl.
There’s a poetic collaboration with Melissa Mia Hall about the nature of loneliness and loss that echoes back to science fiction stories of an earlier time, as well as a famous, award winning novella reprinted here for the first time in several years 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, and his challenge to do the right thing at all costs.
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.
Contents of this collection include:
The Shadows, Kith and Kin
Deadman’s Road
The Long Dead Day
White Mule, Spotted Pig
Bill, the Little Steam Shovel
Alone
The Events Concerning a Nude Fold-Out Found in a Harlequin Romance
The Gentleman’s Hotel
Bleeding Shadows
Bleeding Shadows is Joe R. Lansdale’s largest, most varied collection to date. Weighing in at 488 pages and 150,000 words, these stories, poems, and novellas–supplemented by the author’s introduction and by an invaluable set of story notes–move effortlessly from horror, adventure, and suspense to literary pastiche. It is, by any measure, a major addition to an already impressive body of work.
The volume opens with ‘Torn Away,’ in which a small town sheriff encounters a man on the run from his own predatory shadow. The stories that follow come from all points of the narrative compass. In ‘Morning, Noon, and Night,’ a young boy stumbles across a monstrous, multi-faceted killer from which there is no escape. ‘The Bleeding Shadow’ is a tale of music, monsters, and deals-with-the devil set in post-WWII Texas. In ‘Star Light, Eyes Bright,’ an ordinary husband makes a startling discovery, one that leads to an unimaginable act of personal transformation. Elsewhere, the author offers us twisted Christmas stories (‘Santa at the Cafe’), tales of a zombie apocalypse (‘A Visit with Friends’), and one story–‘Christmas with the Dead’–that encompasses both of these elements. Other highlights include a pair of informed, affectionate acts of literary homage. ‘Metal Men of Mars’ pays tribute to the Martian novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, while in ‘Dread Island,’ the masterful novella that concludes this collection, the world of Huckleberry Finn merges seamlessly with the worlds of H. P. Lovecraft and Joel Chandler Harris.
Sometimes funny, often horrifying, and always compulsively readable, this generous gathering of stories–few of which have previously appeared in book form–constitutes a significant publishing event. Bleeding Shadows is an indispensable, vastly entertaining volume, one that no admirer of Joe R. Lansdale’s distinctive brand of fiction can afford to miss.
The Tall Grass and Other Stories
A midnight train slows to a stop between stations, leading a wakeful passenger to step out and stretch his legs. The conductor really should’ve locked his compartment door better… There are thirty-three stories in this collection of Joe Lansdale short fiction, some meaty, some mini-sized. A few are so short that if you blink, you might miss them, but maybe that’s all part of Lansdale’s plan: slipping an innocent-looking seed in your subconscious, there to sprout when you least expect it. Sometimes the shortest stories stick with you the longest, because you wind up filling in most of the details yourself. Tricky, that, but don’t think Lansdale didn’t set it all up like a complicated carom shot. Hello, cue ball.
Completists take note: many of these stories appeared in “The King and Other Stories” and “Unchained and Unhinged,” neither of which are available electronically. Added to them are several, "The Tall Grass" included, which have never been featured in any Lansdale collection, digital or otherwise. They run the gamut from weird to horrifying to thought provoking, stories that Lansdale feels have a “sharp and memorable impact, like ice pick pokes that hopefully left no wounds.” Poke poke.
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