Joe R. Lansdale
1) The thicket
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Pub. Date
2013.
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"Jack Parker knows all too well how treacherous turn-of-the-century East Texas can be. His parents did not survive a smallpox epidemic. His grandfather was murdered. Now his sister Lula has been kidnapped by a criminal who may believe wearing a dead man's clothes protects him from death. With bounty hunter Shorty, a charismatic and cunning dwarf, and Eustace, a gravedigging son of an ex-slave, the heartbroken young Jack sets off on an epic quest to...
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Tachyon
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
The iconic Texan crime-fighting, bigot-bashing duo meet in this companion to the breakout Hap and Leonard TV series.
As a liberal young man in East Texas, Hap Collins is discovering his passion for two-fisted justice in a redneck world. Leonard Pine-black, gay, and the ultimate outsider-is already fighting his own battles against racists and bullies. So when Hap sees Leonard demolishing an angry mob with his fists (and taunts), it's immediately clear...
3) Rusty puppy
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Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Mismatched private detectives Hap and Leonard investigate the murder of a young black man who was conducting his own civilian investigation into the white cop who was stalking his sister.
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Deadwood meets Cthulhu in this wild and profane Western romp featuring zombies, werewolves, evil spirits, and one pissed-off gunslinging preacher.
The Wild West has never seen the likes of the Reverend Jebidiah Mercer, a hard man wielding a burning Bible in the battle between God and the devil, in an endless struggle he's not sure he cares who wins. With its five stories laced with fast-paced action, nonstop humor, and spine-tingling
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008
Description
After a scandalous affair costs him his job in Houston, Cason Statler--Gulf War veteran and Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist--returns home to the small east Texas town of Camp Rapture. Cason is a wreck. He drinks too much, he's stalking his ex-girlfriend, and he's wallowing in envy of his successful older brother. To get back on his feet, he takes a job at the local paper, and when he stumbles across his predecessor's notes on a cold case murder...
10) Devil red
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Series
Hap Collins and Leonard Pine novels volume 8
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Description
"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. When their friend Marvin asks Hap and Leonard to look into a cold-case double murder, they're more than happy to play private investigators: they like trouble, and they especially like getting paid to find it. It turns out that both of the victims were set to inherit serious...
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Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
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"Daniel Russell was only thirteen years old when his father tried to kill them both by driving their car into Moon Lake. Miraculously surviving the crash and growing into adulthood, Daniel returns to the site of this traumatic incident in the hopes of recovering his father's car and bones. As he attempts to finally put to rest the memories that have plagued him for years, he discovers something even more shocking among the wreckage that has ties to...
14) The donut legion
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Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Charlie Garner has a bad feeling. His ex-wife, Meg, has been missing for over a week and one quick peek into her home shows all her possessions packed up in boxes. Neighbors claim she's running from bill collectors, but Charlie suspects something more sinister is afoot. Meg was last seen working at the local donut shop, a business run by a shadow group most refer to as -- The Saucer People -- a space-age, evangelist cult...Along with his brother...
15) Bleeding shadows
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Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
A collection of stories, poems, and novellas, supplemented by the author's introduction and an invaluable set of story notes, moves effortlessly from horror, adventure, and suspense to literary pastiche.
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Best horror of the year (Ellen Datlow) volume 12
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"The Best Horror of the Year showcases the previous year's best offerings in horror short fiction. This edition includes award-winning and critically acclaimed authors Paul Tremblay, Joe R. Lansdale, Sarah Langan, Gemma Files, Stephen Graham Jones, and others. For more than three decades, award-winning editor and anthologist Ellen Datlow has had her finger on the pulse of the latest and most terrifying in horror writing. Night Shade Books is proud...
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Lightspeed is the critically acclaimed, online science fiction magazine edited by bestselling anthologist John Joseph Adams.
Lightspeed: Year One collects all of the fiction published during Lightspeed's first journey around the sun: Nebula Award finalists like Vylar Kaftan's "I'm Alive, I Love You, I'll See You in Reno," Hugo Award nominees like Carrie Vaughn's "Amaryllis," and great classic reprints by Stephen King, Ursula K. Le Guin, George R.R....