Joe Lansdale: 106 books

During a sweltering East Texas summer, 13-year-old Stanley Mitchel Jr. begins a journey of awakening. His family runs the town’s drive-in movie theater, where Stanley spends his time helping out, reading ten-cent comics, playing with his dog Nub and generally living a boy’s life, circa 1958....

Deadwood meets The Walking Dead in this wild and profane Western romp featuring zombies, werewolves, killer bees, and one pissed-off gun-slinging preacher. The Wild West has never seen the likes of Reverend Jebidiah Mercer, a hard man wielding a burning Bible and a bottle of whiskey in the...

A Library Journal Best Book of 2015! A rollicking novel about Nat Love, an African-American cowboy with a famous nickname: Deadwood Dick. Young Willie is on the run, having fled his small Texas farm when an infamous local landowner murdered his father. A man named Loving takes him in...

Mud Creek, Texas is doing alright—a real, thriving little community with a hotel, a café and a church, in addition to the livery and saloon. Seems like just the right sort of place for Reverend Jebidiah Mercer to pitch a tent and hold a revival. They shouldn’t have gotten together and...

Homicides in Houston's Fifth Ward tend to be fairly mundane: domestic violence, gang-related shootings, that sort of thing. None of it forgivable, but all of it understandable. Crimes of passion, crimes of pride, crimes of poor impulse control. But suddenly there's something new in the Ward at night......

Abrash amalgam of terrifying suspense, raw humor, and intriguing mystery that unfolds in the vividly rendered shadowy lowlands of East Texas. After a harrowing stint in the Iraq war, Cason Statler returns home to the small East Texas town of Camp Rapture, where he drinks too much, stalks his...

Just when they thought it was safe to leave the drive-in, the survivors of the Orbit's weekly All Night Horror Show discover that their old world has been reduced to a single cracked highway surrounded on all sides by a prehistoric jungle filled with man-eating dinosaurs. For a while, Jack and his...

Before Bubba Ho-Tep, there was Bubba and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers. Part of a secret government organization designed to protect civilians, Elvis Presley and a handful of hardcore warriors set out to save the world from an invasion of hive-minded, shape-shifting vampire-like creatures...

The boys are back, and just in time for Season 3 of the Hap and Leonard TV series, starring Michael K. Williams (The Wire) and James Purefoy (Altered Carbon). Hap Collins looks like a good ’ol boy, but his lefty politics don’t match. His buddy, Vietnam veteran Leonard Pine, is even more...

Un coin sympa. Oui, ce lac bordé de pins aurait pu être un coin sympa pour des vacances. Idyllique, même. Becky et Monty sont venus s'y réfugier pour tenter de rebâtir leur couple et d'oublier l'horreur de ce viol dont Becky a été victime sous les yeux de son mari. Un mari qui n'a pas eu le...

Osttexas in den 30er Jahren: In Camp Rapture ist die Sägemühle der Familie Jones der größte Arbeitgeber. Pete, einziger Sohn der Familie und Constable des kleinen Orts, prügelt und vergewaltig regelmäßig seine Frau Sunset, bis diese ihn eines Tages in Notwehr erschießt. Ganz Camp Rapture steht...

Beruflich und persönlich gescheitert kehrt Cason Statler, Veteran des ersten Irak-Kriegs und einst vielversprechender Journalist, als menschliches Wrack in seine Heimatstadt Camp Rapture zurück. Er trinkt zu viel, kann sich nicht damit abfinden, dass ihm seine Freundin den Laufpass gegeben hat,...

Sue Ellen findet, dass ihre tote Freundin May Lynn etwas Besseres verdient hat. Wenn schon kein Filmstar aus ihr wird, wie sie sich immer erträumte, soll wenigstens ihre Asche in Hollywood verstreut werden. Beim Durchsuchen von May Lynns Habseligkeiten stößt sie mit ihren Freunden Terry und Jinx...

Let there be Blood Tod, Blut und Gewalt sind keine Unbekannten im Fifth Ward, einem berüchtigten Viertel von Houston. Doch die bestialische Hinrichtung einer Prostituierten stellt alles bisher Dagewesene in den Schatten. Ein perverser Killer sucht sich gezielt weibliche Opfer aus, um sein...