Gere Donovan Press: 155 books

There’s a massacre on Wall Street, but it’s the financial kind.The British want their old colonies back and are willing to stage a global financial collapse. Chiun becomes the head of a corporation, holds the Crown Jewels hostage and Remo has to do the dirty work to keep American from financial ruin.

The IRS and DEA have it in for Folcroft as they descend, searching for drugs and gold. While CURE is undercover, both agencies fight for the right to close and confiscate everything. The security of top secret information, dangerous criminals, and Remo and Chiun’s identities  are at risk. Then the inmates are released, and no one is safe.

A Civil War reenactment becomes neither civil nor a reenactment. Strange transmissions of laser color are causing all kinds mayhem. Can it really be a menace when cartoon characters are involved? Meanwhile, France attacks it’s own amusement park with deadly results. Can these two events be linked?...

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...

In the South, when the cotton’s high, things are looking up—you’ve got a bumper crop on the way. In High Cotton, Joe Lansdale has selected his favorite works from his own bumper crop of short stories. From fantastically weird (“Godzilla’s Twelve Step Program”) to totally terrifying ("Incident...

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...

During a sweltering East Texas summer, 13-year-old Stanley Mitchel Jr. begins a journey of awakening. His family runs the town’s drive-in movie theater, where Stanley spends his time helping out, reading ten-cent comics, playing with his dog Nub and generally living a boy’s life, circa 1958....

Mama’s dead, wrapped in black plastic, and her unsigned checks are just piling up. Bill’s eating beets because he’s run out of money. He teams up with Fat Boy and Chaplin to rob a fireworks stand, but things go bad—really bad—until Bill crawls out of the swamp so mosquito-bitten...

Confederate veterans in a Yankee’s world, Melgrhue and Bucklaw haven’t had much post-war success. Family, friends and farms lost in the conflict, they’ve been drifting for the past decade—driving sheep, punching cattle, chasing Indians. It pays a man’s bills, mostly… but just mostly....

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...

Mud Creek, Texas is doing alright—a real, thriving little community with a hotel, a café and a church, in addition to the livery and saloon. Seems like just the right sort of place for Reverend Jebidiah Mercer to pitch a tent and hold a revival. They shouldn’t have gotten together and...

Homicides in Houston's Fifth Ward tend to be fairly mundane: domestic violence, gang-related shootings, that sort of thing. None of it forgivable, but all of it understandable. Crimes of passion, crimes of pride, crimes of poor impulse control. But suddenly there's something new in the Ward at night......

A midnight train slows to a stop between stations, leading a wakeful passenger to step out and stretch his legs. The conductor really should’ve locked his compartment door better… There are thirty-three stories in this collection of Joe Lansdale short fiction, some meaty, some mini-sized. A few...

Raised in a prosperous family of 14th century Chinese merchants, Wu Johanna has grown up on camelback, in bustling city marketplaces, and in the cool, shaded depths of Silk Road caravanserai. Hers is a world of spice merchants and pearl divers, bandits and troubadours, servants and sheikhs. A world...