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Eleven-time Bram Stoker Award-winner Joe R. Lansdale (Bubba Ho-tep) returns with this wicked short story collection of his irreverent Lovecraftian tributes. Lansdale is terrifyingly down-home while merging his classic gonzo stylings with the eldritch horrors of H. P. Lovecraft. Knowingly skewering Lovecraft's paranoid mythos, Lansdale embarks upon haunting yet sly explorations of the unknown, capturing the essence of cosmic dread. A sinister blues recording pressed on vinyl in blood conjures lethal shadows with its unearthly wails. In order to rescue Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn traverses the shifting horrors of the aptly named Dread Island. In the weird Wild West, Reverend Jebidiah Mercer rides into a possessed town to confront the unspeakable in the crawling sky. Legendary detective C. Auguste Dupin uncovers the gruesome secrets of both the blue lightning bug and the Necronomicon. Exploring the darkest corners of the human psyche, here is a lethally entertaining journey through Joe Lansdale's twisted landscape, where ancient evils lurk and sanity hangs by a rapidly fraying thread. 'Joe Lansdale squares up to the Great Old Ones and taps into rich veins of awe and wit, with always a backbeat thrum of cosmic terror.' Kim Newman, author of the Anno Dracula series

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"Praise for Joe R. Lansdale ""A folklorist's eye for telling detail and a front-porch raconteur's sense of pace."" --New York Times Book Review ""A terrifically gifted storyteller."" --Washington Post Book Review ""Like gold standard writers Elmore Leonard and the late Donald Westlake, Joe R. Lansdale is one of the more versatile writers in America."" --Los Angeles Times ""A zest for storytelling and gimlet eye for detail."" --Entertainment Weekly ""Lansdale is an immense talent."" --Booklist ""Lansdale is a storyteller in the Texas tradition of outrageousness...but amped up to about 100,000 watts."" --Houston Chronicle ""Lansdale's been hailed, at varying points in his career, as the new Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner-gone-madder, and the last surviving splatterpunk . . . sanctified in the blood of the walking Western dead and righteously readable."" --Austin Chronicle"

"""Joe Lansdale squares up to the Great Old Ones--and taps into rich veins of awe and wit, with always a backbeat thrum of cosmic terror. You'll never look at the howling void in the black heart of the universe the same way again."" --Kim Newman, author of the Anno Dracula series ""Here's Lovecraft's trick: he uses polyphony, many voices, to build his narrative case for the existence of cosmic squids whistling in the dark. Here is Lansdale's trick: doing it better, with a wider array of voices, including those of Poe and Twain and the classic American folk tale and his own Texas noir sensibility. This collection is a box of cursed yet delicious chocolates. Take a bite of every one!"" --Nick Mamatas, author of Move Under Ground and I Am Providence ""Horror royalty Joe Lansdale's take on cosmic horror and the Cthulhu Mythos is everything you'd hope for--bloody, profane, grimly humorous, and as vivid as Technicolor hell splashed on a 20-foot tall silver screen."" --Laird Barron, author of Not a Speck of Light ""Joe Lansdale takes on Lovecraft, Poe, Twain, and more in this adventurous collection of stories. In the Mad Mountains is playful, ambitious, surprising and so much fun to read. What a thrill to watch a modern master play literary games with the greats."" --Victor LaValle, author of The Ballad of Black Tom ""Joe Lansdale is an American treasure--he's funny and he can write whatever he wants to, in whatever genre he chooses and IT WILL BE GOOD. In these stories inspired by Lovecraft, Joe lets his imagination run wild . . . Highly recommended!"" --Char's Horror Corner ""Lansdale proves once again with In the Mad Mountains, as he has over his long and triumphant career, to be a master of every genre he touches."" --Rae Wilde, author of Merciless Waters and I Can Fix Her ""A consistently entertaining, varied, horrifying, and vividly told collection."" --Umney's Alley ""Exploring the darkest corners of the human psyche, here is a lethally entertaining journey through Joe Lansdale's twisted landscape, where ancient evils lurk and sanity hangs by a rapidly fraying thread."" --Paul Finch, author of Never Seen Again ""In The Mad Mountains is a whip-like tentacle of poison that wraps itself around you, dragging you into deep corners of darkness while your heart pistons into overdrive."" --Read@Joes Praise for Joe R. Lansdale ""A folklorist's eye for telling detail and a front-porch raconteur's sense of pace."" --New York Times Book Review ""A terrifically gifted storyteller."" --Washington Post Book Review ""Like gold standard writers Elmore Leonard and the late Donald Westlake, Joe R. Lansdale is one of the more versatile writers in America."" --Los Angeles Times ""A zest for storytelling and gimlet eye for detail."" --Entertainment Weekly ""Lansdale is an immense talent."" --Booklist ""Lansdale is a storyteller in the Texas tradition of outrageousness...but amped up to about 100,000 watts."" --Houston Chronicle ""Lansdale's been hailed, at varying points in his career, as the new Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner-gone-madder, and the last surviving splatterpunk . . . sanctified in the blood of the walking Western dead and righteously readable."" --Austin Chronicle"

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Internationally bestselling author Joe R. Lansdale has received the Edgar, Raymond Chandler, Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Inkpot Awards. His work includes mysteries, Westerns, horror, thrillers, pulp, crime, and science fiction. He has written more than forty novels, including Dead in the West, The Bottoms, The Thicket, Moon Lake, and The Donut Legion. Lansdale's short story collections include The Best of Joe R. Lansdale, Things Get Ugly, and Born for Trouble. Lansdale's short fiction has also been adapted for Masters of Horror; Netflix's Love, Death & Robots; and Creepshow; Bubba Ho-Tep and Cold in July were adapted as major motion pictures; his two most famous characters are the basis for the Hap and Leonard TV series on Netflix. He has BTPS Fall/Winter 2024 Adult Catalog also written graphic novels for DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, IDW, and others. Lansdale lives with his wife, Karen, in Nacogdoches, Texas.

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