Full name: High Cotton: Selected Stories of Joe R. Lansdale

Author: Joe R. Lansdale Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Horror, Short Stories, Fiction, Mystery, Crime Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781930846173 1930846177

This collection of Joe R. Lansdale stories represents the best of the "Lansdale" genre--a strange mixture of dark crime, even darker humor, 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 humor are evident in the stories "Godzilla's Twelve Step Program" and "Bob the Dinosaur Goes to Disneyland." Similar books: The Best of Joe R. Lansdale by Joe R. Lansdale Occultation and Other Stories by Laird Barron Waking Nightmares by Ramsey Campbell Writer of the Purple Rage by Joe R. Lansdale The Nightmare Factory by Thomas Ligotti Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti By Bizarre Hands by Joe R. Lansdale Peaceable Kingdom by Jack Ketchum Songs of a Dead Dreamer by Thomas Ligotti Nightmare at 20,000 Feet by Richard Matheson Teatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti The Three Impostors and Other Stories by Arthur Machen Every House Is Haunted by Ian Rogers The White People and Other Stories by Arthur Machen Bumper Crop by Joe R. Lansdale Bleeding Shadows by Joe R. Lansdale Freezer Burn by Joe R. Lansdale Edge of Dark Water by Joe R. Lansdale Lost Echoes by Joe R. Lansdale