By Bizarre Hands
Author: | Joe R. Lansdale |
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Dover Publications, 2016 Avon, 1991 Ziesing Books, 1989 |
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Book Type: | Collection |
Genre: | Fantasy / Horror |
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Synopsis
This collection of sixteen tales of horror and the macabre contains the kinds of stories one reads compulsively -- helplessly enthralled by their seductive allure, their perversions and truths, their violence and centered peace. The morbid curiosity you might not knowingly possess is unstoppably aroused, teased, provoked, and ultimately driven to a consummately satisfying, eminently unsurpassed conclusion of literary pleasure. Alternately terrifying and fascinating, this collection is more than a nightmarish excursion into the hellish simplicity of honest emotion and authentic humanity, full of the flashback persistence of unwholesome eroticism and an addiction to sin. It is also a furious wellspring of insight and virtue -- a painfully funny one, in fact, alive with the bittersweet irony that insinuates itself into so much of life and fiction alike.
Table fo Contents
- Author's Preface (1989) - essay by Joe R. Lansdale
- Introduction (1989) - essay by Lewis Shiner
- Fish Night - (1982) - short story
- The Pit - (1987) - short story
- Duck Hunt - (1986) - short story
- By Bizarre Hands - (1988) - short story
- The Steel Valentine - (1989) - short story
- I Tell You It's Love - (1983) - short story
- Letter from the South, Two Moons West of Nacogdoches - (1986) - short story
- Boys Will Be Boys - (1985) - novelette
- The Fat Man and the Elephant - (1989) - short story
- Hell Through a Windshield - (1985) - essay
- Down by the Sea Near the Great Big Rock - (1984) - short story
- Trains Not Taken - (1987) - short story
- Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back - (1986) - short story
- The Windstorm Passes - (1986) - short story
- Night They Missed the Horror Show - (1988) - short story
- On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks - (1989) - novelette
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