Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author Joe R. Lansdale (the Hap and Leonard series) returns to the piney, dangerous woods of East Texas. In this career retrospective of his best crime stories, Lansdale shows exactly why critics continue to compare him to Elmore Leonard, Donald Westlake, Flannery O'Connor, and William Faulkner. "Pulpy, blackly humorous, compulsively readable, and somehow both wildly surreal and down-to-earth. Lansdale is a national fucking treasure." -Christa Faust, author of Money Shot - In the 1950s, a young small-town projectionist mixes it up with a violent gang. - When Mr. Bear is not alerting us to the dangers of forest fires, he lives a life of debauchery and murder. - A brother and sister travel to Oklahoma to recover the dead body of their uncle. - A lonely man engages in dubious acts while pining for his rubber duckie. In this collection of nineteen unforgettable crime tales, Joe R. Landsdale brings his legendary mojo and witty grit to harrowing heists, revenge, homicide, and mayhem. No matter how they begin, things are bound to get ugly-and fast. Joe R. Lansdale (Savage Season, The Donut Legion) is the internationally-bestselling author of over fifty novels, including the popular, long-running Hap and Leonard novels. Many of his cult classics have been adapted for television and film, most famously the films Bubba Ho-Tep and Cold in July, and the Hap and Leonard series on Sundance TV and Netflix. Lansdale has written numerous screenplays and teleplays, including the iconic Batman: The Animated Series. He has won an Edgar Award for The Bottoms and ten Stoker Awards, and he has been designated a World Horror Grandmaster. Lansdale, like many of his characters, lives in East Texas, with his wife, Karen. - This retrospective collection from bestselling, Edgar award-winner Joe R. Lansdale (The Bottoms, Hap and Leonard showcases his sharp wit and startling insight in the best of his gritty crime fiction - Lansdale appeals to fans of humorous, insightful, hard-boiled genre fiction including crime, mysteries, and thrillers by authors from Elmore Leonard to Flannery O'Connor, to whom Lansdale has been compared - National marketing plan to include promotion targeting mystery, crime, thriller, and Texas media and publications; regional Texas, national, and international author appearances; consumer and trade advertising; interviews, blog tour, and podcasts; and author and publisher social media campaign; ARC giveaways on Goodreads, NetGalley, and Edelweiss Table of Contents Introduction by Joe R. Lansdale Foreword by S. A. Crosby The Steel Valentine Driving to Geronimo's Grave Mr Bear The Job Six Finger Jack The Shadows, Kith and Kin The Ears Santa at the Cafe I Tell You It's Love Dead Sister Booty and the Beast Boys Will Be Boys Billie Sue The Phone Woman Dirt Devils Drive in Date Rainy Weather Incident On and Off a Mountain Road The Projectionist 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 "An American original." -Joe Hill, author of Heart-Shaped Box "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 "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." -Austin Chronicle "While Lansdale's work is as varied as the regions of Texas, there is one common link through all of it: his brilliant storytelling." -Grimdark Magazine "There are writers who are prolific and writers who are brilliant: Joe R. Lansdale is one of the few who is both." -Christopher Farnsworth,

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