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Lansdale is an immense talent. -- Booklist.
Small-town juvenile delinquents, Pentecostal snake-handlers, zombies, psychopaths, and assorted freaks populate these witty and gritty tales of horror by a master of the genre. The suspenseful, action-packed tales range from visions of a post-apocalyptic world (Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back, On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks) to alternative histories (Trains Not Taken, Letter from the South, Two Moons West of Nacogdoches). A dozen other stories of gruesome violence and utter depravity include The Pit, in which car trouble develops into a life-or-death struggle; Night They Missed the Horror Show, involving an encounter with ornery rednecks; and Hell Through a Windshield, in which a drive-in movie provides a one-way ticket to another dimension.
By Bizarre Hands, Joe R. Lansdale's debut collection of short stories, was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction, and two of its tales have received Stoker awards. Lansdale's novella Bubba Ho-Tep was adapted into a 2002 film, and his Hap and Leonard detective stories inspired the Sundance Channel television series. This edition features an Introduction by science-fiction novelist Lewis Shiner and an Afterword by horror fiction author Ramsey Campbell. Suggested for mature readers.