Let’s take a quick look to see what’s arrived at the Geek Compound.
Hyenas
by Joe R. Lansdale
Cover by Glen Orbik
Promo copy:
Hyenas marks the always-welcome return of Joe R. Lansdale’s most indelible fictional creations: Hap Collins and Leonard Pine. Once again, the embattled but resilient duo find themselves enmeshed in a web of danger, duplicity, and escalating mayhem. The result is a tightly compressed novella that is at once harrowing, hilarious, and utterly impossible to put down.
The story begins with a barroom brawl that is both brutal and oddly comic. The ensuing drama encompasses abduction, betrayal, robbery, and murder, ending with a lethal confrontation in an East Texas pasture. Along the way, readers are treated to moments of raucous, casually profane humor and to scenes of vivid, crisply described violence, all related in that unmistakable Lansdale voice. An essential addition to an already imposing body of work, Hyenas shows us both the author and his signature characters at their inimitable best. It doesn’t get better than this.
Hyenas also includes the bonus Hap Collins short story, "The Boy Who Became Invisible".
Crucified Dreams
Edited by Joe R. Lansdale
Promo copy:
Crossing noir with the supernatural, this luridly visceral anthology attacks polite society and plunges into the unthinkable horrors lurking in its underbelly. Searching for some beauty in a time of increasing poverty and neglect, the desperate are all the more menacing, and in a brief moment, ordinary people turn into something far less human. Offering stylish yet savage tales of private dicks, serial killers, lurking demons, and femme fatales, these surreal and often bloody tales provide glimpses into sinister worlds that mirror our own. Boasting an intriguing assortment of stories from celebrated authors such as Harlan Ellison, David Morrell, and the infamous editor himself, each gritty and sensational undertaking proves that being human is a far cry from being civilized.
Table of Contents
- Introduction by Joe R. Lansdale
The Whimper of Whipped Dogs by Harlan Ellison®
The Monster by Joe Haldeman
The Mojave Two-Step by Norman Partridge
Front Man by David Morrell
Interrogation B by Charlie Huston
The Quickening by Michael Bishop
The Evening and the Morning and the Night by Octavia E. Butler
Love in Vain by Lewis Shiner
Beast of the Heartland by Lucius Shepard
Coffins on the River by Jeffrey Ford
Game Night at the Fox and Goose by Karen Joy Fowler
Copping Squid by Michael Shea
Access Fantasy by Jonathan Lethem
Singing on a Star by Ellen Klages
Quitters, Inc. by Stephen King
Nightbeat by Neal Barrett, Jr.
Window by Bob Leman
The Pit by Joe R. Lansdale
Loss by Tom Piccirilli
Christmas With the Dead
by Joe R. Lansdale
Cover by Glenn Chadbourne
Promo copy:
The Christmas spirit never dies… even after people started becoming zombies. Haunted by memories of Christmas past, and after years of monotony of loneliness and the grief of losing his family and everyone he knows, Calvin, feeling he can take it no more… decides its Christmas.
Legendary genre author Joe R. Lansdale gives us the gift of a holiday story about madness, loss, and the will to survive when everything worth living for in life is dead.
Soon to be a motion picture, executive produced by Lansdale, his ownself, directed by Terrill Lee Lankford with a script by Keith Lansdale.