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Sanctified and Chicken-Fried: The Portable Lansdale<\/span><\/a> by Joe R. Lansdale<\/span><\/p>\n Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n Master of mojo storytelling, spinner of over-the-top yarns of horror, suspense, humor, mystery, science fiction, and even the Old West, Joe R. Lansdale has attracted a wide and enthusiastic following. His genre-defying work has brought him numerous awards, including the Grand Master of Horror from the World Horror Convention, the Edgar Award, the American Horror Award, seven Bram Stoker awards, the British Fantasy Award, Italy’s Grinzane Prize for Literature, as well as Notable Book of the Year recognition twice from the New York Times<\/span>. Sanctified and Chicken-Fried<\/span> is the first "true best of Lansdale" anthology. It brings together a unique mix of well-known short stories and excerpts from his acclaimed novels, along with new and previously unpublished material. In this collection of gothic tales that explore the dark and sometimes darkly humorous side of life and death, you’ll meet traveling preachers with sinister agendas, towns lost to time, teenagers out for a good time who get more than they bargain for, and gangsters and strange goings-on at the end of the world. Out of the blender of Lansdale’s imagination spew tall tales about men and mules, hogs and races, that are, in his words, "the equivalent of Aesop meets Flannery O’Connor on a date with William Faulkner, the events recorded by James M. Cain." Whether you’re a long-time fan of Joe R. Lansdale or just discovering his work, this anthology brings you the best of a writer whom the New York Times Book Review has praised for having "a folklorist’s eye for telling detail and a front-porch raconteur’s sense of pace."<\/p>\n I first blogged about this book<\/a> back in November ’08 and my thoughts on the matter have not changed one lick.<\/span><\/p>\n \n A Madness of Angels: Or The Resurrection of Matthew Swift<\/span><\/a> by Kate Griffin<\/span><\/p>\n Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n For Matthew Swift, today is not like any other day. It is the day on which he returns to life.<\/p>\n Two years after his untimely death, Matthew Swift finds himself breathing once again, lying in bed in his London home.<\/p>\n Except that it’s no longer his bed, or his home. And the last time this sorcerer was seen alive, an unknown assailant had gouged a hole so deep in his chest that his death was irrefutable…despite his body never being found.<\/p>\n He doesn’t have long to mull over his resurrection though, or the changes that have been wrought upon him. His only concern now is vengeance. Vengeance upon his monstrous killer and vengeance upon the one who brought him back.<\/p>\n \nAbout the Author Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived in the mail here at the Geek Compound. Sanctified and Chicken-Fried: The Portable Lansdale by Joe R. Lansdale Promo copy: Master of mojo storytelling, spinner of over-the-top yarns of horror, suspense, … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/www.orbitbooks.net\/banners\/spsum09\/moa.jpg\")
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\nKate Griffin is the name under which Carnegie Medal-nominated author Catherine Webb<\/a>, writes fantasy novels for adults. An acclaimed author of young adult books under her own name, Catherine’s amazing debut, Mirror Dreams, was written when she was only 14 years old, and garnered comparisons with Terry Pratchett and Philip Pullman. She read History at the London School of Economics, and is now studying at RADA. A Madness of Angels is her first adult fantasy novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"