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Hyenas<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n Hyenas<\/span> marks the always-welcome return of Joe R. Lansdale\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n 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\u2019t get better than this.<\/p>\n Hyenas<\/span> also includes the bonus Hap Collins short story, “The Boy Who Became Invisible”.<\/p>\n \n Crucified Dreams<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Table of Contents<\/span> <\/p>\n \n Christmas With the Dead<\/span><\/a> Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n The Christmas spirit never dies\u2026 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\u2026 decides its Christmas.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Soon to be a motion picture<\/a>, executive produced by Lansdale, his ownself, directed by Terrill Lee Lankford with a script by Keith Lansdale.<\/span><\/p>\n Books received 4\/19\/11 Joe R. Lansdale edition<\/a> was originally published on The Geek Curmudgeon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s 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\u2019s most indelible fictional creations: Hap Collins and … Continue reading
\nby Joe R. Lansdale
\nCover by Glen Orbik<\/span><\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51HvALnbJ2L._SL500_AA300_.jpg\")
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\nEdited by Joe R. Lansdale<\/span><\/p>\nIntroduction by Joe R. Lansdale
\nThe Whimper of Whipped Dogs by Harlan Ellison\u00ae
\nThe Monster by Joe Haldeman
\nThe Mojave Two-Step by Norman Partridge
\nFront Man by David Morrell
\nInterrogation B by Charlie Huston
\nThe Quickening by Michael Bishop
\nThe Evening and the Morning and the Night by Octavia E. Butler
\nLove in Vain by Lewis Shiner
\nBeast of the Heartland by Lucius Shepard
\nCoffins on the River by Jeffrey Ford
\nGame Night at the Fox and Goose by Karen Joy Fowler
\nCopping Squid by Michael Shea
\nAccess Fantasy by Jonathan Lethem
\nSinging on a Star by Ellen Klages
\nQuitters, Inc. by Stephen King
\nNightbeat by Neal Barrett, Jr.
\nWindow by Bob Leman
\nThe Pit by Joe R. Lansdale
\nLoss by Tom Piccirilli<\/ul>\n![](\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51Lfnwflv3L._SL500_AA300_.jpg\")
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\nby Joe R. Lansdale
\nCover by Glenn Chadbourne<\/span><\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/www.fangoria.com\/images\/stories\/MAR11_2\/christmaswithdeadposternews.jpg\")
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