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  HIGH COTTON  - Selected Stories of Joe R. Lansdale By Joe R. Lansdale This book is available in the following formats.  Please choose your preference from the menu below before proceeding to checkout.   Mobi (Kindle) ePub (Sony / Nook / iPad / Kobo) PDF (Adobe)  PRC (Mobipocket)   This collection of Joe R Lansdale stories represents the best of the 'Lansdale' genre -- a strange mixture of dark crime, even darker humour, and adventure tales. The stories are varied in setting and theme, but they are all pure Lansdale -- eerie, amusing, and occasionally horrific. In 'The Pit', modern gladiators square off against one another using Roman methods. An alternate-history tale called 'Trains Not Taken' shows Buffalo Bill as an ambassador and Wild Bill Hickok as a clerk. Lansdale's love of large lizards and humour are evident in the stories 'Godzilla's Twelve Step Program' and 'Bob the Dinosaur Goes to Disneyland'.   COMPLETE CONTENTS:   FOREWORD THE PIT NOT FROM DETROIT BOOTY AND THE BEAST STEPPIN’ OUT, SUMMER, ‘68 INCIDENT ON AND OFF A MOUNTAIN ROAD MY DEAD DOG, BOBBY TRAINS NOT TAKEN TIGHT LITTLE STITCHES IN A DEAD MAN’S BACK DOG, CAT, AND BABY MISTER WEED-EATER BY BIZARRE HANDS THE FAT MAN AND THE ELEPHANT THE PHONE WOMAN LETTER FROM THE SOUTH, TWO MOONS WEST OF NACOGDOCHES BY THE HAIR OF THE HEAD THE JOB GODZILLA’S TWELVE STEP PROGRAM DRIVE-IN DATE BOB THE DINOSAUR GOES TO DISNEYLAND THE STEEL VALENTINE NIGHT THEY MISSED THE HORROR SHOW  

The Shadows, Kith and KinBy Joe R. LansdaleThis book is available in the following formats.  Please choose your preference from the menu below before proceeding to checkout. Mobi (Kindle)ePub (Sony / Nook / iPad / Kobo)PDF (Adobe) PRC (Mobipocket) 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.