Five Short Stories

by Joe R. Lansdale

Collection of five short stories

Contains:
The Job
The Pit
By Bizarre Hands
Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Chest
Hell Thing on a Windshield

Genres: Horror

Unknown Binding

About the author

Champion Mojo Storyteller Joe R. Lansdale is the author of over forty novels and numerous short stories. His work has appeared in national anthologies, magazines, and collections, as well as numerous foreign publications. He has written for comics, television, film, newspapers, and Internet sites. His work has been collected in more than two dozen short-story collections, and he has edited or co-edited over a dozen anthologies. He has received the Edgar Award, eight Bram Stoker Awards, the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Grinzani Cavour Prize for Literature, the Herodotus Historical Fiction Award, the Inkpot Award for Contributions to Science Fiction and Fantasy, and many others. His novella Bubba Ho-Tep was adapted to film by Don Coscarelli, starring Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis. His story "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" was adapted to film for Showtime's "Masters of Horror," and he adapted his short story "Christmas with the Dead" to film hisownself. The film adaptation of his novel Cold in July was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and the Sundance Channel has adapted his Hap & Leonard novels for television.

He is currently co-producing several films, among them The Bottoms, based on his Edgar Award-winning novel, with Bill Paxton and Brad Wyman, and The Drive-In, with Greg Nicotero. He is Writer In Residence at Stephen F. Austin State University, and is the founder of the martial arts system Shen Chuan: Martial Science and its affiliate, Shen Chuan Family System. He is a member of both the United States and International Martial Arts Halls of Fame. He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas with his wife, dog, and two cats.

Reviews

[Lyle Boylen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Five unusual short stories here by lansdale. The Pit is especially good.

[Peter · Rating 4 out of 5]

A collection of 5 brilliant short stories that were often on the edge, extremely disturbing and sometimes outright disgusting. Starting with The Job (you don't want to meet that Elvis impersonator and listen to that language here), The Pit (dog fight and two humans against each other till death, incredibly revolting), By Bizarre Hands (would be preacher with a penchant for retarded girls), Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Chest (nuclear fallout with a group of survivors, very bizarre), Hell Thing on a Windshield (the world of drive in movies). Well this is the set. The stories were written in a fantastic way but the content is extremely hard to digest. Recommendation? Definitely not for the faint hearted, all others might risk a glimpse!

[Greg Kerestan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Joe R. Lansdale is the Flannery O'Connor of pulp and the Joyce Carol Oates of horror, with his hard-edged, often brutal tales of white trash terror. At times shocking in their portrayal of "of their generation" casual racists, sexists and such, the grimy and unpolished edges of Lansdale's characters give his stories their seedy charm. From an Elvis-impersonating assassin, to a racist hillbilly cult hosting their own perverse version of backyard wrestling, Lansdale's heroes and villains are cut from the same dirty cloth.