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Joe R. Lansdale
Exploring the darkest corners of the human psyche, here is a lethally entertaining journey through Joe Lansdale's twisted landscape, where ancient evils lurk and sanity hangs by a rapidly fraying…
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W R Miller
Volume 4 of a 5 volume set of interviews and essays on Batman: The Animated Series.
Stephen Graham Jones
Winner, This Is Horror Award Finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award Finalist for the Bram Stoker Award
A collection of 15 stories that feature, among others, zombies, a hardboiled detective…
Brings together interviews from newspapers, magazines, and podcasts conducted throughout Joe R. Lansdale’s career. The collection includes conversations between Lansdale and other noted peers like Robert McCammon and James Grady…
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Featuring cult-classic award-winning tales such as The Night They Missed the Horror Show, Mad Dog Summer, and Dog, along with non-fiction forays into drive-in theatres and low budget films, this…
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In this holy mess of a case for the "perpetual bad boy" (New York Times) sleuths in the beloved Hap and Leonard series, PI Duo Hap and Leonard investigate the…
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In Edgar Award winner Joe R. Lansdale’s newest Hap and Leonard story collection, the boys are back with more righteous ass-kickings, highly improbable adventures, and disastrous fishing trips. These never…
In this standalone, Edgar-award winning author, Joe R. Lansdale, whom "few can match" (Booklist) beams a light on an East Texas town where a QAnon-style, evangelist cult is brewing trouble.
Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author Joe R. Lansdale (the Hap and Leonard series) returns to the piney, dangerous woods of East Texas. In this career retrospective…
Joe R Lansdale, Keith Lansdale
Christmas with the Dead is a must-have for fans of Joe R. Lansdale's sardonic universe, and anyone who enjoys a blend of suspense, humor, and holiday cheer-served with a merry…
Abrash amalgam of terrifying suspense, raw humor, and intriguing mystery that unfolds in the vividly rendered shadowy lowlands of East Texas.
After a harrowing stint in the Iraq war, Cason…
Unlikely partners Hap and Leonard save a woman from a mob hit, only to find themselves confronted by an adversary who challenges their friendship.
May Lynn dreams of becoming a Hollywood starNuntil her dead body is dredged up from the Sabine River. Her friends and mother set out to dig up May Lynn’s body…
In this Texas-sized thriller, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine–best friends, freelance troublemakers, and tough guys with good intentions–find themselves in the crosshairs of the Dixie Mafia.
Companion volume to the second season of the Hap and Leonard television series.
When faced with an armed intruder, Richard Dane shoots the man dead. The police say it is a clear-cut case of self-defence. No one blames Richard… except the dead man’s…
Includes an excerpt from Jackrabbit smile.
A rollicking novel about Nat Love, an African-American cowboy with a famous nickname: Deadwood Dick. Young Willie is on the run, having fled his small Texas farm when an infamous…
From a six-time Bram Stoker Award winner comes this masterful thriller of a young man plagued by murderous and violent images that lead him to secrets from the past.
May Lynn is a pretty girl who dreams of becoming a Hollywood star, until her dead body is dredged up from the Sabine River. May Lynn’s friends and mother set…
Crossing noir with the supernatural, this anthology attacks polite society and plunges into the unthinkable horrors lurking in its underbelly. Offering tales of private dicks, serial killers, lurking demons, and…
Bouncing at a local club by night and living by the grace of his best friend Leonard Pine and his good woman Brett Sawyer by day, Hap Collins is down…
Hap Collins and Leonard Pine return in a red-hot, mayhem-fueled thriller to face a vampire cult, the Dixie Mafia, and the deadliest assassin they’ve ever encountered–Devil Red.
Florida Grange, Leonard’s gorgeous lawyer and Hap’s former lover, has vanished while in pursuit of the real story behind a jailhouse death. Fearing the worst, Hap and Leonard set out…
Years before facing off against a cowboy hat-wearing mummy, Elvis went up against the evil Big Mama. Joining Elvis on his journey is the clairvoyant Blind Man, master-planner Jack, hammer-swinging…
Includes Reader’s Guide (5 p.) and Author Q & A: a conversation with Joe Lansdale (12 p.)
Hap and Leonard investigate the disappearance of a revivalist cult leader’s daughter.
Includes excerpt from the novel Rusty puppy.
From the Edgar Award-winning author of the Hap and Leonard series, a hard-boiled novel set in 1960s Texas in which a no-nonsense car salesman faces a tempting decision, a dangerous…
A fast-moving, steamy murder mystery set in depression-era East Texas, this new story is from a writer the Washington Post has praised as a terrifically gifted storyteller with a sharp…
Leonard Pine is the prime suspect in the murder of a local cop. Black, gay, and outrageously unconventional, Leonard is in deep trouble, and his old pal, Hap Collins, is…
Tells the tall tales of narrator Buster Fogg and the group of traveling merchant marauders he takes up with after his family is killed by a tornado. Their adventures take…
From the Edgar-winning author of The Bottoms comes a funny, violent, testosterone-laden, and satisfying new novel. The repartee between Hap and Leonard tramples all over any standard of political correctness…
Arguably (and who doesn’t like to argue?) the world’s bestselling cult author, Joe R. Lansdale is celebrated across several continents for his dark humor, his grimly gleeful horror, and his…
Love and vengeance at the dark dawn of the East Texas oil boom from Joe Lansdale, a true American original (Joe Hill, author of Heart-Shaped Box). Jack Parker thought he’d…
This re-release of the cult classic offers a rip-roaring, high-octane, Texas-sized thriller, featuring two friends, one vixen, a crew of washed-up radicals, loads of money, and bloody mayhem.
Lansdale’s classic Hap and Leonard characters return in this incredible, mad-dash, Edgar Award-winning mystery, loaded with crack addicts, a serial killer, and a body count.
Edgar award-winning author Joe Lansdale returns with a standalone novel, told with his trademark wit, East Texas grit, and the dark humor his longtime fans love
Mark Twain crossed with crime fiction - a Depression-era noir by fan favourite Joe Lansdale.
An utterly unique historical thriller from master storyteller and fan favourite Joe Lansdale - set in a time when America was still a wild and unsafe place to venture…
‘True American original’ Joe Lansdale’s wildly entertaining novel based on the real-life figure of Nat Love, an African-American cowboy and Buffalo Soldier. If you enjoyed Deadwood or Django Unchained, this…
Hap and Leonard are back - the first new book starring Joe Lansdale’s beloved crime-fighting duo in five years.
The unlikely detective duo Hap and Leonard return in a brand new adventure from master storyteller Joe R. Lansdale.