Joe R Lansdale: 102 books

A long-lost bookmobile opens a wild new chapter in the lives of dysfunctional Texas detectives Hap and Leonard—stars of the hit Sundance TV series.   Hap Collins is a straight, white, liberal, blue-collar tough guy. Leonard Pine is a gay, black, Republican combat veteran. Together, they’re the...

Bestsellers Guaranteed contains sixteen unforgettable short stories from Bram Stoker Award-winner Joe R. Lansdale, as well as an introduction by the author. Stories included in this collection: The White Rabbit; The Dump; God of the Razor; Chompers; The Fat Man; Bob the Dinosaur Goes to Disneyland;...

The story of African-Americans in the West has been confined to the dusty, bottom shelf of recorded history and American literature. But in the vein of the old dime novels containing stories about such heroes as Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hickok, and Jesse James, comes the true story of one of those...

Joe R. Lansdale's rare short story “Man With Two Lives” is the latest addition to the BookVoice Pocket Stories series. Written around the same time as THE MAGIC WAGON, "Man With Two Lives" catches up with an Old West legend past his prime. An excerpt from "Man With Two Lives" It...

Reverend Jebidiah Mercer weiß die Bibel ebenso gut zu handhaben wie seine Revolver. Von seinem schlechten Gewissen verfolgt hetzt er durch den Wilden Westen und legt sich mit allem an, was sich ihm in den Weg stellt: indianischen Zombies, hungrigen Ghulen, Gespenstern, Werwölfen und anderen grässlichen...

Hap und Leonard sind wirklich nicht auf Ärger aus, doch der Ärger läuft ihnen hinterher wie ein halb verhungerter Straßenköter. Meist fängt alles ganz harmlos an, doch dann nimmt die Sache Fahrt auf und am Ende gibt es gebrochene Knochen, weggeschossene Kniescheiben und Chaos vom Feinsten. Was...

Eigentlich wollte Willie Jackson nur ein paar Besorgungen machen. Doch dann erhascht er unfreiwillig einen Blick auf die Unterwäsche einer weißen Frau. Deren Mann nimmt die Sache persönlich, und Willie muss Hals über Kopf fliehen. Joe R. Lansdale erzählt die filmreife Lebensgeschichte eines ehemaligen...

"Easing her back against a tree trunk, she sat and listened, watching for that strange face, fearing it might abruptly burst through the limbs and brush, grinning its horrible teeth, or worse, that he might come up behind her, reach around the tree trunk with his knife and finish her in a bloody...

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...

“Even before Morley told him, Dennis knew things were about to get ugly. A man did not club you unconscious, bring you to his estate and tie you to a chair in an empty storage shed out back of the place if he merely intended to give you a valentine. Morley had found out about him and Julie.”...

Marvin Hanson is a private investigator. Time was he worked homicide in Houston’s Fifth Ward, but that was years ago. Nowadays he’s living a quieter life, running a little one-man operation in LaBorde, Texas. You might think a sleepy East Texas town wouldn’t rate its own PI, but there’s just...

It’s the summer of ’33 and the Depression has the Dale family living “close to the bone.” While his father travels with the carnival, hoping to win prize money for wrestling, fifteen year-old Ricky takes charge of the farm and family. All he really wants to do, though, is be a writer. “The...

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—is going to come for her. Her husband...

“The sea had turned black as a dutch oven, the sky the color of gangrene, and between sea and sky there appeared to be something rising out of the water, something huge and oddly shaped, like a horrible sea god, and then Simmons realized what it was.” Galveston, Texas. September 4, 1900....