Mark Nelson, Illustrator, Joe R. Lansdale, Author, Lehman, Illustrator Subterranean Press $40 (170p) ISBN 978-1-892284-03-7
Best known for his celebrated mysteries featuring Hap Collins and Leonard Pine (The Two-Bear Mambo, Bad Chili), Lansdale wrote this shopworn coming-of-age tale in 1983 when he was still sunk in obscurity. His introduction explains that he set out to
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Joe R. Lansdale. Little, Brown/Mulholland, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-316-18843-2
Edgar-winner Lansdale (Devil Red) channels Mark Twain in this chillingly atmospheric stand-alone set in Depression-era East Texas. When 16-year-old Sue Ellen Wilson finds the body of her friend May Lynn Baxter in the Sabine River, weighed down by a...
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Joe R. Lansdale, Author Mysterious Press $29 (324p) ISBN 978-0-89296-490-1
Anyone interested in the respective demands of the short story and the novel will find an object lesson in this new chiller from Lansdale ( The Nightrunners ), a pioneer of splatterpunk and dark suspense. No horror author writes a meaner short story
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Joe R. Lansdale, Author Mysterious Press $28 (284p) ISBN 978-0-89296-491-8
Veteran Lansdale brings back his incomparable Texas team of narrator Hap Collins and Leonard Pine for an encore that's just as funny and violent and gripping as their first appearance in Mucho Mojo. Police Lt. Marve Hanson agrees to forget the duo's
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Joe R. Lansdale, Author Mysterious Press $32 (242p) ISBN 978-0-89296-620-2
""Man, this was something. An East Texas bouncer, a black queer, a ex-sweet potato queen, a six-foot-four overweight retired hit man and former reverend, and a redheaded midget with an attitude. The only thing we needed to top our wagon off were a...
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Joe R. Lansdale, Author . Subterranean $16 (160p) ISBN 978-1-892284-81-5
In 1986, years before he became known for his hardboiled crime thrillers, Lansdale crafted this wry, nostalgic elegy to the Wild West published in a small print run with limited distribution. A mild-mannered precursor to his brassy The Big Blow,...
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Joe R. Lansdale, Author Mysterious Press $21.5 (304p) ISBN 978-0-89296-619-6
The opening attack of a rabid squirrel leaves Hap Collins, returning from Mucho Mojo and Two-Bear Mambo, with a prescription for a series of shots. Luckily, Nurse Brett is a doll, albeit somewhat foul-mouthed. Hap and his tough, gay, black sidekick...
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Joe R. Lansdale, Author Subterranean Press $40 (350p) ISBN 978-0-9649890-2-3
""If you're looking for primo Lansdale,"" Norman Partridge warns in his afterword to these 34 understandably uncollected stories from the celebrated mystery writer (Bad Chili; Forecasts, July 7) and fantasist, ""you've come to the wrong place.""...
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Joe R. Lansdale, Author Mysterious Press $30 (336p) ISBN 978-0-89296-704-9
In his latest suspense thriller, prolific yarn-spinner Lansdale, best known for his offbeat series featuring the mismatched East Texas Sherlocks Hap Collins and Leonard Pine (Bad Chili), presents a different voice in a coming-of-age story set in the
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Joe R. Lansdale, Author Subterranean Press $25 (162p) ISBN 978-1-892284-98-3
With hundreds of short stories and over a dozen novels to his credit, the prolific and versatile award-winning Texas storytellerDbest known for his series featuring the mismatched East Texas private eyes Hap Collins and Leonard Pine (Bad Chili)Dstriv
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Joe R. Lansdale, Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $25 (104p) ISBN 978-1-59606-356-3
In Lansdale's wry, casually violent novella about roughneck buddies Hap Collins (white and straight) and Leonard Pine (African-American and gay), the two knights-errant befriend a hapless fellow whose younger, weaker brother has fallen in with...
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Joe R. Lansdale, Knopf, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-307-27098-6
In Lansdale's rollicking eighth Hap and Leonard novel (after Vanilla Ride), the East Texas crime-fighting duo, Hap Collins (white and straight) and his partner, Leonard Pine (black and gay), look into a two-year-old unsolved murder. They step into...
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Joe R. Lansdale, Author Mysterious Press $30 (256p) ISBN 978-0-89296-703-2
Professional loser Bill Roberts's mother has died, and if he buries her he'll lose her pension checks, which he's also afraid to cash. Out of money and food, he joins two idiot friends and concocts a robbery of a neighboring firecracker stand. They...
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Joe R. Lansdale. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $40 (256p) ISBN 978-1-59606-417-1
Thirty-two years after its original release, Lansdale’s pivotal first novel still retains its shocking horror and clarity. Houston police detective Marvin Hanson, nicknamed Gorilla because he’s “black as the pit and ugly as an ape,” has been...
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Joe R. Lansdale. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $25 (104p) ISBN 978-1-59606-525-3
Tart, smart, and dangerous, Lansdale’s favorite roughneck detectives, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, take on an apparently straightforward assignment—discourage a man from harassing his estranged wife—in this dark and twisty novella, the 10th entry...
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Joe R. Lansdale. Little, Brown/Mulholland, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-18845-6
Set in early 20th-century East Texas, this satisfying novel from Edgar-winner Lansdale (Edge of Dark Water) takes 16-year-old Jack Parker to darker places than he ever imagined. After Jack’s parents die of smallpox, his preacher grandfather...
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Joe R. Lansdale. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $40 (488p) ISBN 978-1-59606-599-4
Texas native Lansdale (Edge of Dark Water) uses 20 tales and 10 poems to explore the shadier impulses of human (and nonhuman) nature in this superlative collection. Straight-up noir about a triple-crossed bounty hunter (“Six-Finger Jack”) shares the
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Joe R. Lansdale. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $25 (128p) ISBN 978-1-59606-677-9
Based on a true story, this novella-length Western from Lansdale (The Thicket) offers a potent concoction of witty repartee and a rousing battle. Black Hat Jack and Nat, who goes by Deadwood Dick, make an unlikely pair. Although the former is white...
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Joe R. Lansdale. Dark Regions/Black Labyrinth, $14.95 trade paper (102p) ISBN 978-1-62641-073-2
Veteran horror/thriller author Lansdale (Hot in December) tells a tight, spooky tale about what happens when an executed prisoner doesn’t stay dead. When the United Nations builds a prison designed for criminals unworthy of charges or a trial, they...
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Joe R. Lansdale. Little, Brown/Mulholland, $26 (416p) ISBN 978-0-316-32937-8
Edgar-winner Lansdale’s folksy, cinematic fictional memoir tells the story of a man who was born a slave before the Civil War but grew up to become the
legendary Deadwood Dick. Willie Jackson is just running an errand in a nameless East Texas town...
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Joe R. Lansdale. Subterranean (subterraneanpress.com), $40 (232p) ISBN 978-1-59606-717-2
Edgar-winner Lansdale (The Bottoms), a master of the coming-of-age novel, takes on similar themes in this remarkable tale of a young woman on the precipice of adulthood. In the East Texas town of Piney Woods, 17-year-old Dorothy "Dot" Sherman serves
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Joe R. Lansdale. LB/Mulholland, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-316-32940-8
At the start of Edgar-winner Lansdale’s terrific 11th entry in his Hap and Leonard series (after 2013’s Dead Aim), Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, who are doing some freelance detective work, are on a stakeout in their car watching a house in an East...
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Joe Lansdale. Mulholland, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-0-316-31156-4
The murder of Jamar Elton, a young black man, propels Edgar-winner Lansdale’s dark, moving 12th novel featuring crime fighters Hap Collins and Leonard Pine (after 2016’s Honky Tonk Samurai). A witness, recidivist criminal Timpson Weed, claims to...
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Joe R. Lansdale, Author . Subterranean $40 (170p) ISBN 978-1-931081-00-9
Irrepressible, irreverent and unpredictable, this hilarious fantasy with nostalgic touches of yesterday's SF shows off the narrative skills of an inventive author altogether comfortable in his métier. Legends of the Old West, plus...
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Joe R. Lansdale, Author . Vintage/Black Lizard $13.95 (341p) ISBN 978-0-307-27544-8
In this superior East Texas crime thriller from Stoker-winner Lansdale (Sunset and Sawdust
), Harry Wilkes discovers after a severe childhood ear infection that he has a peculiar "hindsight." Harry can not only see dead people but see and...
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Joe R. Lansdale, Author . Subterranean $35 (287p) ISBN 978-1-59606-081-4
Lansdale's restlessness with the conventions of any one genre is proved once again by this marvelously mixed collection whose nine stories provoke responses ranging from cold chills to gut-busting belly laughs. The unsettling title tale puts the
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Joe R. Lansdale, Author . Subterranean $40 (300p) ISBN 978-1-931081-29-0
Lansdale (A Fine Dark Line
, etc.) shows himself at the top of his form in this varied collection with something to suit every reader's taste. Half of the book's eight selections are novellas, two of which grew into novels. The title story,...
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Joe R. Lansdale, Author . Knopf $25 (287p) ISBN 978-0-375-41452-7
Cason Statler, a Pulitzer Prize–nominated journalist with a checkered past, returns to his small hometown of Camp Rapture, Tex., to work as a columnist for the local newspaper in this fine stand-alone from Lansdale (Lost Echoes
). On the hunt...
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Joe R. Lansdale, Author . Golden Gryphon $24.95 (275p) ISBN 978-1-930846-24-1
In his foreword to this chicken-fried and jalapeño-laced story collection, a follow-up to High Cotton
(2000), Lansdale (The Bottoms
) describes these 26 tales as graduates from the "twist and surprise and ain't that damn weird school.
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Joe R. Lansdale, Author . Knopf $22 (336p) ISBN 978-0-375-41453-4
The prolific Lansdale's novels (The Bottoms
; Rumble Tumble
; Bad Chili
) are always wild and wooly, and this redneck noir stand-alone is no exception. Lansdale has shifted the time frame to the 1930s, but the novel is still set in his usual...
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Joe R. Lansdale, Author . Mysterious $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-89296-729-2
The atmosphere is as thick as an East Texas summer day in Edgar-winner Lansdale's (The Bottoms) engaging, multilayered regional mystery, which harks back to 1958. Thirteen-year-old Stanley Mitchel, Jr., has enough on his hands just growing up in
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Joe R. Lansdale, Author . Knopf $23.95 (243p) ISBN 978-0-307-27097-9
Last seen in 2001's Captains Outrageous
, Lansdale's East Texas twosome of Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, who specialize in daring jobs for hire, are in fine fettle—slightly older and wiser, still prone to down-home philosophical...
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Joe R. Lansdale, Author . Mysterious $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-89296-728-5
Edgar-winner Lansdale's (The Bottoms) fifth Hap and Leonard mystery marvel is sure to keep you laughing amid the carnage. No good deed goes unpunished, especially when Hap Collins becomes a reluctant hero down in East Texas while working as a...
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Joe R. Lansdale, Author . Subterranean $40 (144p) ISBN 978-1-59606-225-2
Horror Grand Master Lansdale (Sanctified and Chicken-Fried
) serves up a mishmash of essays and short fiction in his usual unapologetically cheerful style. “Just Do It” and “Typewriter Mystique, the Bull of It” offer advice...
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Joe R. Lansdale, Author . Tachyon $15.95 (369p) ISBN 978-1-892391-94-0
Always entertaining, champion storyteller Lansdale (Vanilla Ride
) shares his best weird yarns in this terrific collection. “Crucified Dreams,” an emotional introduction (“I speak uncensored, unfiltered, and full of madness”),
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Joe R. Lansdale, Author, Mark A. Nelson, Author, Mark A. Nelson, Illustrator Subterranean Press $50 (300p) ISBN 978-1-892284-29-7
Bill, who's 24, hooks up with the Disaster Club, four hedonistic youths obsessed with sex and death who plan to throw a scare into a philandering doctor. While they stake out the doctor, they stumble into a hit on his wife. The hired assassins are...
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Joe R. Lansdale, Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $40 (272p) ISBN 978-1-59606-330-3
Rev. Jebidiah Mercer rides through the haunted backwoods of post–Civil War Texas, battling werewolves and eldritch horrors in the name of his cruel and distant Old Testament God in five creepy, gory, and dark pulpy yarns by Southern horror author...
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Joe R. Lansdale, Author, Phil Gigante, Performed by , read by Phil Gigante. Brilliance Audio $29.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-8450-2
Hap Collins is working as a security guard for a poultry plant when he saves a young woman from a brutal assault only to find that she is the daughter of the plant’s owner. As a reward the owner gives Hap $100,000, enough for Hap and his best...
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Joe R. Lansdale, Author, Phil Gigante, Performed by , read by Phil Gigante. Brilliance Audio $29.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-8444-1
Lansdale’s iconic—and occasionally scandalous—crime-fighting duo rides again in this incredible yarn. Hap and Leonard find that the road to Hootie Hoot, Okla., is paved with extraordinary circumstances, a prostitute in peril, and a
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Joe R. Lansdale. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $20 (104p) ISBN 978-1-59606-618-2
Although the tale of the lord of the jungle—here called the Big Guy—has been told many times, rarely has it been told from the perspective of one of his hominid companions. Before the Big Guy’s future lover, the Woman, arrived from outside the...
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Joe R. and John L. Lansdale. Subterranean (subterraneanpress.com), $40 (192p) ISBN 978-1-59606-745-5
Fans of Joe Lansdale’s charismatic, genre-jumping storytelling (Fender Lizards) will eat up this collaboration with his brother: it’s a whimsical save-the-world gunslinger zombie mash-up with a bit of black-winged Lovecraftian horror tossed in....
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Joe R. Lansdale. Tachyon, $15.95 trade paperback (240p) ISBN 978-1-61696-191-6
Last seen in the novel Honky Tonk Samurai, Lansdale’s incomparable East Texas crime fighting duo show their chops in this remarkable story collection. Hap Collins, a straight, white liberal, and Leonard Pine, a black, gay conservative, have long...
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Joe R. Lansdale. Subterranean, $40 (296p) ISBN 978-1-59606-747-9
Needing to “dig directly into that pulp well in my head,” Lansdale (the Hap and Leonard series) unleashes eight tales of two-fisted action that invoke the spirits of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. Howard. Heroes (“determined”) and villains (“evil
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Joe R. Lansdale, Author, Timothy Truman, Illustrator . Subterranean $40 (177p) ISBN 978-1-59606-025-8
Against the backdrop of a Martian invasion à la The War of the Worlds
, Lansdale's ripsnorting sequel to Zeppelins West
(2001) chronicles the fantastic adventures of two elderly authors, Samuel Langhorne Clemens (aka Mark Twain) and...
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Joe R. Lansdale, Author, Timothy Truman, Illustrator, Glenn Chadbourne, Illustrator . Subterranean $40 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59606-115-6
Lansdale's The Nightrunners
(1987), the centerpiece of this chilling collection, set new standards for the depiction of graphic violence and is probably the best novel of its type between Psycho
and The Silence of the Lambs
. Monty Jones, the
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Joe R. Lansdale, Author, Nathan Fox, Illustrator, Dave Stewart, Illustrator . Dark Horse $13.95 (93p) ISBN 978-1-59582-237-6
Classic pulp writer Robert E. Howard (Conan the Barbarian
; Red Sonja
) is enjoying a renaissance among comics creators. Veteran horror novelist Lansdale (Bubba Ho-Tep
) and Nathan Fox (DMZ
) have turned their hands to updating one of Howard's...
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Joe R. Lansdale, Author, Phil Gigante, Read by , read by Phil Gigante. Brilliance Audio $29.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-8384-0
Hap and Leonard put in long days of work for little reward. When Hap’s old girlfriend Trudy struts in with a plan to make some serious money, Hap and Leonard cautiously get involved. Just as the money is acquired, Hap and Leonard quickly lose...
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Joe R. Lansdale, Author, Phil Gigante, Read by , read by Phil Gigante. Brilliance $29.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-8438-0
After Leonard's boyfriend and the biker he has run off with are gruesomely murdered, Leonard turns to his (straight) buddy Hap for help clearing his name. So begins this fast and funny East Texas shoot-'em-up tall tale that brims with very
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Joe R. Lansdale, Author, Phil Gigante, Read by , read by phil Gigante. Brilliance Audio $29.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-8432-8
In bringing Lansdale's rollicking Edgar Award–winning novel to life, Phil Gigante goes to tremendous lengths to capture the ambience of good-old-boy charm met with darkly comic dysfunction. Unlikely best friends and crime-fighting...
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Joe R. Lansdale, Author, Tim Truman, Illustrator . Dark Horse $14.95 (136p) ISBN 978-1-59307-718-1
Two old pros have fun in this latest installment of the Conan saga. Robert E. Howard's muscle-bound barbarian is usually presented as a grim loner; thus, it's surprising when, coming upon the thief Alvazar buried in hot sand up to his neck,...
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Joe R. Lansdale, Author, Mark A. Nelson, Illustrator Subterranean Press $40 (175p) ISBN 978-1-892284-66-2
Though this old-fashioned pulp western, the third volume in the Lost Lansdale series by the award-winning author of The Two-Bear Mambo, was written in the early 1980s, the vicissitudes of the publishing industry caused its publication to be delayed...
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Edited by Paula Guran. Prime (www.prime-books.com), $15.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-60701-354-9
Fall is the traditional time for ghost stories, and readers will find a wealth of unnatural shades and haunted places in this far-ranging anthology of 29 reprints and Stephen Graham Jones’s grim original “Uncle.” Richard Bowes’s “There’s a Hole in...
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John Farris, Author, Joe R. Lansdale, Author Dark Harvest $19.95 (241p) ISBN 978-0-913165-16-4
Farris's ( The Fury ; Wildwood ) latest novel is eerie, fast-paced and original. As a child in 1906, Arne Horsfall finds a sealed crate, addressed to a professor at a local college, that has fallen off a train. His father stores the object in the...
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Michael Moorcock and Joe R. Lansdale, Paizo/Planet Stories (www.paizo.com), $15.99 trade paper (260p) ISBN 978-1-60125-288-3
Even fans of Moorcock (Elric: The Stealer of Souls) and Lansdale (Flaming Zeppelins) will find these pulp SF novellas unimpressive. Moorcock's "Sojan the Swordsman" is a set of linked episodes, first published in the 1950s and expanded here, in...
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Edited by Paula Guran. Prime, $19.95 trade paper (576p) ISBN 978-1-60701-431-7
In Guran’s fifth edition of eclectic nightmares, new and veteran authors blend psychological terror and supernatural wonder into disturbing hybrid tales, which confront “that which we do not know.” Many of these stories first appeared in small-press
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Edgar Rice Burroughs, Author, Joe R. Lansdale, Author, Thomas R. Yeates, Author Dark Horse Comics $19.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-56971-083-8
The Ape Man rampages through the African jungle once again in a brawny, brutal adventure that Burroughs (1875- 1950) left unfinished at his death. It was recently completed by Lansdale in a series of paperbacks (1995), which have now been combined...
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Mark Finn, Author, Joe R. Lansdale, Author Monkeybrain $15.95 (264p) ISBN 978-1-932265-21-7
Conan the Barbarian is an internationally known icon. His creator, Robert E. Howard, remains to most an Oedipal figure who created the Cimmerian swordsman as a wish-fulfillment fantasy. Finn quietly and expertly demolishes these and other...
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