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VJ Books Presents Joe R. Lansdale! Joe R. Lansdale - born October 28, 1951, Gladewater, Texas - is an American author and martial-arts expert. He has written novels and stories in many genres, including Western, horror, science fiction, mystery, and suspense. He has also written for comics as well as Batman: The Animated Series.
Frequent features of Lansdale's writing are usually deeply ironic, strange or absurd situations or characters, such as Elvis and JFK battling a soul-sucking Ancient Egyptian mummy in a nursing home (the plot of his Bram Stoker Award-nominated novella, "Bubba Ho-Tep," which was made into a movie by Don Coscarelli). He is the winner of the British Fantasy Award, the American Horror Award, the Edgar Award, and six Bram Stoker Awards. The World Horror Convention recently made him the recipient of the 2007 Grand Master Award for contributions to the field of Horror fiction.
He is perhaps best known for his "Hap and Leonard" series of novels which feature two friends, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, who live in the town of Laborde, Texas and find themselves solving a variety of often unpleasant crimes. The characters themselves are an unlikely pairing; Hap is a white working class laborer in his mid forties, and Leonard is a gay black man. Both of them are accomplished fighters, and the stories (told from Hap's narrative point of view) feature a great deal of violence, profanity and sex. Lansdale paints a picture of East Texas which is essentially "good" but blighted by racism, ignorance, urban and rural deprivation and corruption in public officials. Some of the subject matter is extremely dark, and has included pedophilia and anti-gay violence. The novels are characterised by sharp humour and "wisecracking" dialogue.
Lansdale lives in Nacogdoches, Texas, with his wife, Karen, writer and editor.
To see Joe Lansdale's bibliography, click here or scroll to the bottom of the page.
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Joe R. Lansdale Bibliography
Drive-In Series
1. The Drive-In (1988)
2. The Drive-In 2: Not Just One of Them Sequels (1989)
The Complete Drive-In (omnibus) (2010)
Hap Collins and Leonard Pine Series
1. Savage Season (1990)
2. Mucho Mojo (1994)
3. The Two-Bear Mambo (1995)
4. Bad Chili (1997)
5. Rumble Tumble (1998)
6. Captains Outrageous (2001)
7. Vanilla Ride (2009)
8. Devil Red (2011)
9. Hyenas (2011)
Ned the Seal Series
1. Zeppelins West (2001)
2. Flaming London (2005)
3. Flaming Zeppelins (2010)
Lost Lansdale Series
Something Lumber This Way Comes (1999)
Waltz of Shadows (1999)
Other Novels
Act of Love (1980)
The Nightrunners (1983)
Texas Night Riders (1983)
Dead in the West (1983)
The Magic Wagon (1986)
Cold in July (1989)
Drive-By (1993) (with Gary Gianni)
Jonah Hex: Two Gun Mojo (1994)
The Boar (1998)
Freezer Burn (1999)
Blood Dance (2000)
The Bottoms (2000)
The Big Blow (2000)
A Fine Dark Line (2002)
Bubba Ho-Tep (2003)
Sunset and Sawdust (2004)
Lost Echoes (2006)
The God of the Razor (2007)
The Shadows Kith and Kin (2007)
Leather Maiden (2008)
All the Earth, Thrown to the Sky (2011)
Deranged By Choice (2011)
Edge of Dark Water (2012)
Omnibus
Sojan the Swordsman / Under the Warrior Star (2010) (with Michael Moorcock)
Collections
Stories by Mama Lansdale's Youngest Boy (1975)
The Long Ones (1985)
Bestsellers Guaranteed (1986)
By Bizarre Hands (1987)
On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with the Dead Folks (1988)
Tight Little Stitches on a Dead Man's Back (1988)
aka Tight Little Stitches
Electric Gumbo (1994)
Writer of the Purple Rage (1994)
A Fist Full of Stories (and Articles) (1996)
High Cotton: Selected Stories of Joe R. Lansdale (1997)
Atomic Chili (1997)
The Good, the Bad and the Indifferent (1997)
Private Eye Action As You Like It (1998) (with Lewis Shiner)
Selected Stories by Joe R. Lansdale (2001)
For a Few Stories More (2002)
Bumper Crop (2004)
Mad Dog Summer: And Other Stories (2004)
The King and Other Stories (2005)
Sanctified and Chicken-Fried: The Portable Lansdale (2009)
Unchained and Unhinged (2009)
The Best of Joe R. Lansdale (2010)
Deadman's Road (2010)
Horror Hall of Fame (2011) - Editor
Chapbooks
The Steel Valentine (1986)
Graphic Novels
Dead Folks (2004)
The Night They Missed the Horror Show (2006)
Conan and the Songs of the Dead (2007)
Tales from the Crypt Boxed Set: Vol. #5 - 8 (2009) (with Greg Farshtey, John L Lansdale, Fred Van Lente, Stefan Petrucha and Jim Salicrup)
Pigeons From Hell (2009)
Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper (2010) (with Robert Bloch, Kevin Colden and John L Lansdale)
Novellas
Christmas with the Dead (2010)
Dread Island: A Classics Mutilated Tale (2011)
Series contributed to:
Batman
Captured by the Engines (1991)
Terror on the High Skies (1992)
Tarzan 2 (with Edgar Rice Burroughs)
The Lost Adventure (1995)
Anthologies edited
Best of the West (1986)
Razored Saddles (1989) (with Pat LoBrutto)
Dark at Heart: All New Tales of Dark Suspense (1992) (with Karen Lansdale)
Weird Business (1995) (with Richard Klaw)
Retro Pulp Tales (2004)
Lords of the Razor (2004) (with William Schafer and Bill Sheehan)
The Horror Hall of Fame: The Stoker Winners (2004)
Son of Retro Pulp Tales (2009) (with Keith Lansdale)
Crucified Dreams (2011)
Anthologies containing stories by Joe R Lansdale:
Fears (1983)
Shadows 6 (1983)
100 Great Fantasy Short Short Stories (1984)
Masques: All New Works of Horror and the Supernatural (1984)
After Midnight (1986)
Best of the Horror Show: An Adventure in Terror (1987)
Masques 2 (1987)
Silver Scream (1988)
Book of the Dead (1989)
The Year's Best Fantasy Second Annual Collection (1989)
aka Demons and Dreams
Urban Horrors (1990)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Third Annual Collection (1990)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection (1991)
Dark Voices 4: The Pan Book of Horror (1992)
Midnight Graffiti (1992)
Nursery Crimes (1993)
The King Is Dead: Tales of Elvis Post-Mortem (1994)
100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories (1995)
100 Wicked Little Witch Stories (1995)
Adventures of the Batman (1995)
Great Writers and Kids Write Spooky Stories (1995)
Tales of the Batman (1995)
Warriors of Blood and Dream (1995)
100 Tiny Tales of Terror (1996)
Millennium (1997)
Wild Women (1997)
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment (1998)
100 Hilarious Little Howlers (1999)
999 (1999)
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