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| Title: | High Cotton
: Selected Stories of Joe R Lansdale |
| Author: | Joe R Lansdale |
| ISBN: | 1930846177 : 9781930846173 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 267 |
| Weight: | .36 Kg. |
| Published: | IPG (Golden Gryphon Press) - July 2003 |
| List Price: | 10.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Adventure/thriller: Short stories |
This collection of Joe R Lansdale stories represents the best of the 'Lansdale' genre -- a strange mixture of dark crime, even darker humour, and adventure tales. The stories are varied in setting and theme, but they are all pure Lansdale -- eerie, amusing, and occasionally horrific. In 'The Pit', modern gladiators square off against one another using Roman methods. An alternate-history tale called 'Trains Not Taken' shows Buffalo Bill as an ambassador and Wild Bill Hickok as a clerk. Lansdale's love of large lizards and humour are evident in the stories 'Godzilla's Twelve Step Program' and 'Bob the Dinosaur Goes to Disneyland'.
