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High Cotton: Selected Stories of Joe R. Lansdale
| Author: | Joe R. Lansdale |
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Golden Gryphon Press, 2000 |
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| Genre: | Fantasy / Horror |
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Synopsis
This collection of Joe R. Lansdale stories represents the best of the "Lansdale" genre--a strange mixture of dark crime, even darker humor, 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 humor are evident in the stories "Godzilla's Twelve Step Program" and "Bob the Dinosaur Goes to Disneyland."
Table of Contents:
- Foreword - essay by Joe R. Lansdale
- The Pit - (1987) - short story
- Not from Detroit - (1988) - short story
- Booty and the Beast - short story
- Steppin' Out, Summer, '68 - (1991) - short story
- Incident On and Off a Mountain Road - (1991) - novelette
- My Dead Dog, Bobby - (1987) - short story
- Trains Not Taken - (1987) - short story
- Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back - (1986) - short story
- Dog, Cat, and Baby - (1987) - short story
- Mister Weed-Eater - (1993) - novelette
- By Bizarre Hands - (1988) - short story
- The Fat Man and the Elephant - (1989) - short story
- The Phone Woman - (1990) - short story
- Letter from the South, Two Moons West of Nacogdoches - (1986) - short story
- By the Hair of the Head - (1983) - short story
- The Job - (1989) - short story
- Godzilla's Twelve-Step Program - (1994) - short story
- Drive-In Date - (1991) - short story
- Bob the Dinosaur Goes to Disneyland - (1989) - short story
- The Steel Valentine - (1989) - short story
- Night They Missed the Horror Show - (1988) - short story
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