Joe R. Lansdale is the winner of the British Fantasy Award, the American Horror Award, the Edgar Award, and six Bram Stoker Awards. He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas.
Genres: Mystery, Horror, Science Fiction, Western, Thriller, Literary Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Urban Fantasy
Series
Hap Collins and Leonard Pine
1. Savage Season (1990)
2. Mucho Mojo (1994)
3. The Two-Bear Mambo (1995)
4. Bad Chili (1997)
5. Rumble Tumble (1998)
6. Captains Outrageous (2001)
7. Vanilla Ride (2009)
8. Devil Red (2011)
9. Honky Tonk Samurai (2016)
10. Rusty Puppy (2017)
11. Jackrabbit Smile (2018)
12. The Elephant of Surprise (2019)
1. Savage Season (1990)
2. Mucho Mojo (1994)
3. The Two-Bear Mambo (1995)
4. Bad Chili (1997)
5. Rumble Tumble (1998)
6. Captains Outrageous (2001)
7. Vanilla Ride (2009)
8. Devil Red (2011)
9. Honky Tonk Samurai (2016)
10. Rusty Puppy (2017)
11. Jackrabbit Smile (2018)
12. The Elephant of Surprise (2019)
Lost Lansdale
1. Waltz of Shadows (1999)
2. Something Lumber This Way Comes (1999)
3. Blood Dance (2000)
1. Waltz of Shadows (1999)
2. Something Lumber This Way Comes (1999)
3. Blood Dance (2000)
Hap and Leonard Collections
Veil's Visit (1999) (with Andrew Vachss)
Hap and Leonard (2016)
Blood and Lemonade (2017)
The Big Book of Hap and Leonard (2018)
Of Mice and Minestrone (2020)
Veil's Visit (1999) (with Andrew Vachss)
Hap and Leonard (2016)
Blood and Lemonade (2017)
The Big Book of Hap and Leonard (2018)
Of Mice and Minestrone (2020)
Novels
Act of Love (1981)
Dead in the West (1983)
The Nightrunners (1983)
Texas Night Riders (1983)
The Magic Wagon (1986)
Cold in July (1989)
Drive-By (1993) (with Gary Gianni)
Jonah Hex: Two Gun Mojo (1994)
The Boar (1998)
Freezer Burn (1999)
The Bottoms (2000)
The Big Blow (2000)
A Fine Dark Line (2002)
Sunset and Sawdust (2004)
Lost Echoes (2007)
The Shadows Kith and Kin (2007)
The God of the Razor (2007)
Leather Maiden (2008)
All the Earth, Thrown to the Sky (2011)
Edge of Dark Water (2012)
Deadman's Crossing (2012)
Trapped in the Saturday Matinee (2012)
The Thicket (2013)
Crawling Sky (2013) (with Brian Denham and Keith Lansdale)
Paradise Sky (2015)
Fender Lizards (2015)
Hell's Bounty (2016) (with John L Lansdale)
Jane Goes North (2020)
More Better Deals (2020)
Moon Lake (2021)
Dead in the West (1983)
The Nightrunners (1983)
Texas Night Riders (1983)
The Magic Wagon (1986)
Cold in July (1989)
Drive-By (1993) (with Gary Gianni)
Jonah Hex: Two Gun Mojo (1994)
The Boar (1998)
Freezer Burn (1999)
The Bottoms (2000)
The Big Blow (2000)
A Fine Dark Line (2002)
Sunset and Sawdust (2004)
Lost Echoes (2007)
The Shadows Kith and Kin (2007)
The God of the Razor (2007)
Leather Maiden (2008)
All the Earth, Thrown to the Sky (2011)
Edge of Dark Water (2012)
Deadman's Crossing (2012)
Trapped in the Saturday Matinee (2012)
The Thicket (2013)
Crawling Sky (2013) (with Brian Denham and Keith Lansdale)
Paradise Sky (2015)
Fender Lizards (2015)
Hell's Bounty (2016) (with John L Lansdale)
Jane Goes North (2020)
More Better Deals (2020)
Moon Lake (2021)
Omnibus
Cold in July / Savage Season (1990)
Sojan the Swordsman / Under the Warrior Star (2010) (with Michael Moorcock)
A Pair of Aces (2014)
Christmas Horror Volume 1 (2015) (with John M Skipp and Jeff Strand)
Sojan the Swordsman / Under the Warrior Star (2010) (with Michael Moorcock)
A Pair of Aces (2014)
Christmas Horror Volume 1 (2015) (with John M Skipp and Jeff Strand)
Collections
Stories by Mama Lansdale's Youngest Boy (1975)
The Long Ones (1985)
Bestsellers Guaranteed (1986)
On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with the Dead Folks (1988)
Tight Little Stitches on a Dead Man's Back (1988)
aka Tight Little Stitches
By Bizarre Hands (1989)
Electric Gumbo (1994)
Writer of the Purple Rage (1994)
A Fist Full of Stories (and Articles) (1996)
High Cotton (1997)
The Good, the Bad and the Indifferent (1997)
Atomic Chili (1997)
Private Eye Action As You Like It (1998) (with Lewis Shiner)
For a Few Stories More (2002)
Bumper Crop (2004)
Mad Dog Summer (2004)
The King and Other Stories (2005)
Sanctified and Chicken-Fried (2009)
Unchained and Unhinged (2009)
The Best of Joe R. Lansdale (2010)
Deadman's Road (2010)
Zombies: The Recent Dead (2011) (with Max Brooks, Tobias S Buckell, Neil Gaiman, Brian Keene, Tim Lebbon, Kelly Link and Kit Reed)
Shadows West (2012) (with John L Lansdale)
Horror For Good (2012) (with Ramsey Campbell, Ray Garton, Jack Ketchum, Joe McKinney, Lisa Morton, Jeff Strand, Lee Thomas and F Paul Wilson)
Written With a Razor (2012) (with Neal Barrett Jr)
Bleeding Shadows (2013)
Fear & Haunting (2014) (with John L Lansdale, Rick Remender, Ben Templesmith and El Torres)
I Tell You It's Love (2014)
Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be (2016)
Dead on the Bones (2016)
Terror Is Our Business (2018) (with Kasey Lansdale)
Christmas Horror Vol. 1 (2018) (with J F Gonzalez, Cody Goodfellow, Shane McKenzie, William Meikle, Stephen Mark Rainey, John M Skipp, Nate Southard and Jeff Strand)
Cosmic Interruptions (2018)
Driving to Geronimo's Grave (2018)
The Horror Zine's Book of Ghost Stories (2020) (with Sebastian Crow, Dawn G Harris, Kitty Kane, Bentley Little, Elizabeth Massie, Graham Masterton, Maureen O'Leary, Jeff Parsons and Tim Waggoner)
Fishing for Dinosaurs (2020)
The Long Ones (1985)
Bestsellers Guaranteed (1986)
On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with the Dead Folks (1988)
Tight Little Stitches on a Dead Man's Back (1988)
aka Tight Little Stitches
By Bizarre Hands (1989)
Electric Gumbo (1994)
Writer of the Purple Rage (1994)
A Fist Full of Stories (and Articles) (1996)
High Cotton (1997)
The Good, the Bad and the Indifferent (1997)
Atomic Chili (1997)
Private Eye Action As You Like It (1998) (with Lewis Shiner)
For a Few Stories More (2002)
Bumper Crop (2004)
Mad Dog Summer (2004)
The King and Other Stories (2005)
Sanctified and Chicken-Fried (2009)
Unchained and Unhinged (2009)
The Best of Joe R. Lansdale (2010)
Deadman's Road (2010)
Zombies: The Recent Dead (2011) (with Max Brooks, Tobias S Buckell, Neil Gaiman, Brian Keene, Tim Lebbon, Kelly Link and Kit Reed)
Shadows West (2012) (with John L Lansdale)
Horror For Good (2012) (with Ramsey Campbell, Ray Garton, Jack Ketchum, Joe McKinney, Lisa Morton, Jeff Strand, Lee Thomas and F Paul Wilson)
Written With a Razor (2012) (with Neal Barrett Jr)
Bleeding Shadows (2013)
Fear & Haunting (2014) (with John L Lansdale, Rick Remender, Ben Templesmith and El Torres)
I Tell You It's Love (2014)
Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be (2016)
Dead on the Bones (2016)
Terror Is Our Business (2018) (with Kasey Lansdale)
Christmas Horror Vol. 1 (2018) (with J F Gonzalez, Cody Goodfellow, Shane McKenzie, William Meikle, Stephen Mark Rainey, John M Skipp, Nate Southard and Jeff Strand)
Cosmic Interruptions (2018)
Driving to Geronimo's Grave (2018)
The Horror Zine's Book of Ghost Stories (2020) (with Sebastian Crow, Dawn G Harris, Kitty Kane, Bentley Little, Elizabeth Massie, Graham Masterton, Maureen O'Leary, Jeff Parsons and Tim Waggoner)
Fishing for Dinosaurs (2020)
Chapbooks
Picture Books
Graphic Novels
Red Range (1999)
Dead Folks (2004)
The Night They Missed the Horror Show (2006)
Conan and the Songs of the Dead (2007)
Pigeons From Hell (2009)
Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper (2010) (with Robert Bloch, Kevin Colden and John L Lansdale)
H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror (2012) (with H P Lovecraft)
Jonah Hex (2014)
The Steam Man (2016) (with Mark Alan Miller)
Bubba Ho-Tep and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers (2019) (with Joshua Jabcuga)
Dead Folks (2004)
The Night They Missed the Horror Show (2006)
Conan and the Songs of the Dead (2007)
Pigeons From Hell (2009)
Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper (2010) (with Robert Bloch, Kevin Colden and John L Lansdale)
H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror (2012) (with H P Lovecraft)
Jonah Hex (2014)
The Steam Man (2016) (with Mark Alan Miller)
Bubba Ho-Tep and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers (2019) (with Joshua Jabcuga)
Novellas
Christmas with the Dead (2010)
Dread Island (2011)
That Hellbound Train (2011) (with Robert Bloch and John L Lansdale)
In Waders from Mars (2012) (with Karen Lansdale and Keith Lansdale)
Hot in December (2013)
The Ape Man's Brother (2014)
Black Hat Jack (2014)
Man With Two Lives (2018)
Dread Island (2011)
That Hellbound Train (2011) (with Robert Bloch and John L Lansdale)
In Waders from Mars (2012) (with Karen Lansdale and Keith Lansdale)
Hot in December (2013)
The Ape Man's Brother (2014)
Black Hat Jack (2014)
Man With Two Lives (2018)
Series contributed to
Anthologies edited
Best of the West (1986)
The New Frontier (1989)
Razored Saddles (1989) (with Pat LoBrutto)
Dark at Heart (1992) (with Karen Lansdale)
Weird Business (1995) (with Richard Klaw)
The Horror Hall of Fame (2004)
Retro Pulp Tales (2006)
Lords of the Razor (2006) (with William Schafer and Bill Sheehan)
Son of Retro Pulp Tales (2009) (with Keith Lansdale)
Crucified Dreams (2011)
The Urban Fantasy Anthology (2011) (with Peter S Beagle)
The New Frontier (1989)
Razored Saddles (1989) (with Pat LoBrutto)
Dark at Heart (1992) (with Karen Lansdale)
Weird Business (1995) (with Richard Klaw)
The Horror Hall of Fame (2004)
Retro Pulp Tales (2006)
Lords of the Razor (2006) (with William Schafer and Bill Sheehan)
Son of Retro Pulp Tales (2009) (with Keith Lansdale)
Crucified Dreams (2011)
The Urban Fantasy Anthology (2011) (with Peter S Beagle)
Anthologies containing stories by Joe R Lansdale
Fears (1983)
Shadows 6 (1983)
100 Great Fantasy Short Short Stories (1984)
Masques (1984)
After Midnight (1986)
Masques 2 (1987)
Best of the Horror Show (1987)
Silver Scream (1988)
The Year's Best Fantasy Second Annual Collection (1989)
aka Demons and Dreams
Book of the Dead (1989)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Third Annual Collection (1990)
Urban Horrors (1990)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection (1991)
Dark Voices 4 (1992)
Midnight Graffiti (1992)
Nursery Crimes (1993)
The King Is Dead (1994)
Tales of the Batman (1995)
Warriors of Blood and Dream (1995)
100 Wicked Little Witch Stories (1995)
Great Writers and Kids Write Spooky Stories (1995)
100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories (1995)
Adventures of the Batman (1995)
100 Tiny Tales of Terror (1996)
Wild Women (1997)
Millennium (1997)
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment (1998)
999 (1999)
100 Hilarious Little Howlers (1999)
Shadows 6 (1983)
100 Great Fantasy Short Short Stories (1984)
Masques (1984)
After Midnight (1986)
Masques 2 (1987)
Best of the Horror Show (1987)
Silver Scream (1988)
The Year's Best Fantasy Second Annual Collection (1989)
aka Demons and Dreams
Book of the Dead (1989)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Third Annual Collection (1990)
Urban Horrors (1990)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection (1991)
Dark Voices 4 (1992)
Midnight Graffiti (1992)
Nursery Crimes (1993)
The King Is Dead (1994)
Tales of the Batman (1995)
Warriors of Blood and Dream (1995)
100 Wicked Little Witch Stories (1995)
Great Writers and Kids Write Spooky Stories (1995)
100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories (1995)
Adventures of the Batman (1995)
100 Tiny Tales of Terror (1996)
Wild Women (1997)
Millennium (1997)
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment (1998)
999 (1999)
100 Hilarious Little Howlers (1999)
Short stories
The Dump (1981) | |||
Mummy Buyer (1981) | |||
The White Rabbit (1981) | |||
Chompers (1982) | |||
Fish Night (1982) | |||
By the Hair of the Head (1983) | |||
Personality Problem (1983) | |||
A Change of Lifestyle (1984) (with Karen Lansdale) | |||
Down By the Sea Near the Great Big Rock (1984) | |||
On a Dark October (1984) | |||
Bestsellers Guaranteed [short story] (1985) | |||
Duck Hunt (1986) | |||
The Shaggy House (1986) | |||
Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back (1986) | World Fantasy (nominee) | ||
Boo, Yourself (1987) | |||
Dog, Cat, and Baby (1987) | |||
The Fat Man (1987) | |||
The God of the Razor [short story] (1987) | |||
My Dead Dog, Bobby (1987) | |||
By Bizarre Hands [short story] (1988) | |||
Night They Missed the Horror Show (1988) | World Fantasy (nominee) Bram Stoker | ||
Not from Detroit (1988) | |||
Bob the Dinosaur Goes to Disneyland (1989) | |||
The Job (1989) | |||
On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks (1989) | World Fantasy (nominee) Bram Stoker | ||
Pentecostal Punk Rock (1989) | |||
The Steel Valentine [short story] (1989) | |||
Subway Jack (1989) | |||
Bar Talk (1990) | |||
Belly Laugh, or The Joker's Trick or Treat (1990) | |||
Incident On and Off a Mountain Road (1991) | |||
Love Doll: A Fable (1991) | Bram Stoker (nominee) | ||
The Phone Woman (1991) | |||
The Events Concerning a Nude Fold-Out Found in a Harlequin Romance (1992) | Bram Stoker | ||
Buba Ho-tep (1994) | Bram Stoker (nominee) | ||
Bubba Ho-Tep [short story] (1994) | |||
The Companion (1995) (with Keith and Kasey Jo Lansdale) | |||
Master of Misery (1995) | |||
The Big Blow [short story] (1997) | Bram Stoker | ||
Mad Dog Summer [short story] (1999) | Bram Stoker |
Awards
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Joe R Lansdale recommends

Moonbane (1989)
Al Sarrantonio
"Al Sarrantonio's Moonbane is a stylish B-movie of a novel. Fast paced and poetic, and scary in the old-fashioned sense of such fine B-chillers as The Cat People and I Walked With a Zombie."

Yellow Moon (1994)
David Searls
"Creepy and atmospheric, Yellow Moon is full of small-town authenticity. Itâs like an alternate universe horror version of The Andy Griffith Show."

Recycled (2003)
(Queen of Denial, book 2)
Selina Rosen
"RECYCLED is one hot SOB. It rocks with writerly rhythm and a beautiful and funny vulgarity."

Twisted City (2004)
Jason Starr
"Streamlined as a model's hips, dark as the inside of a dog's gut, Twisted City is a hip, white collar update on the James Cain, Jim Thompson style novel with a seasoning of its own."

Through Violet Eyes (2004)
(Violet Eyes , book 1)
Stephen Woodworth
"One cool idea and Stephen Woodworth makes it work like fine oiled machinery. Full of energy and suspense."

Eat the Dark (2007)
Joe Schreiber
"Eat the Dark is a tight novel of terror. Well written, fast paced, with a grip like a claw. I loved it."

The Successful Novelist (2008)
David Morrell
"The Successful Novelist is the vehicle you want if you plan to drive your way to successful fiction."

Dry Bones in the Valley (2014)
(Henry Farrell, book 1)
Tom Bouman
"So smooth it's as if it was written on spring water. Shadowy, swift, impossible to put down. I was enraptured. Any justice and this writer will soon be a major star."

Tropic of Kansas (2017)
Christopher Brown
"A unique blend of Philip K. Dick, Kafka (just a smidgen), and a whole lot of Christopher Brown. Adventure novel meets political satire and the finest elements of realistic sci-fi, and it’s so well written it goes down like a greased eel. It’s hopeful dystopia. What a book."

A World of Hurt (2017)
(Wilkie John Western, book 1)
Tim Bryant
"If you appreciate a good story and good writing, grab anything Tim Bryant writes and prepare to be hooked and fully entertained."

The Book of Hidden Things (2018)
Francesco Dimitri
"What a joy to have this in English. Francesco Dimitri's fantastic fantasy novel has everything I like. A sensation of damp shadows moving just out of sight, and a slow, joyful, and mysterious unravelling of events. I can't recommend it too highly."

A Friend is a Gift You Give Yourself (2019)
William Boyle
"A brilliant and nasty piece of joyful ambiguity that I loved deeply. What a marvelous and unexpected bunch of female characters, in particular. With this one, William Boyle vaults into the big time, or he damn sure should."

Medici: Ascendancy (2019)
(Medici Chronicles, book 1)
Matteo Strukul
"Matteo Strukul is one of the most important new voices in Italian crime fiction."

The Keeper of Chernobyl (2019)
Alessandro Manzetti
"Alessandro Manzetti is attracting a lot of attention in the horror field, and my guess he's about to attract a lot more."

Carbon (2019)
Andrew Vachss
"This is a fantastic departure for Vachss. Lean as a prehistoric corpse and full of magic without an overabundance of geegaws and wizard hats. One of his most original and among his best. And that's saying something."

Dead Girl Blues (2020)
Lawrence Block
"Dark and cold as the far side of the moon, but with prose as lean as a starving model, DEAD GIRL BLUES is like the dead body you can't help but look at. Sharp writing, characterization that comes right out of the reptilian brain, creepy crawly identification with the narrator that makes you squirm. I couldn't quit reading, and damn sure didn't want to. An honest look at the mind of someone of a cheerfully anti-social mindset, who just might frighteningly remind us of humanity's flip-side and our universal connection to it. A grim masterpiece of storytelling."

Building Strange Temples (2020)
Don Webb
"Nobody...has such a unique and varied, and frequently brilliant take on Lovecraftian influenced fiction as Don Webb."

When These Mountains Burn (2020)
David Joy
"This is the sort of novel I love. No world wide conspiracies, or super crimes. Just flawed folks making bad choices, then having to live with the deadly consequences. David Joy has quickly become one of my favorite authors in the tradition of such fine novelist as Larry Brown and William Gay. Highly recommended."

Night of the Mannequins (2020)
Stephen Graham Jones
"Wicked and wry, this is a terrific story by one of my favorite writers, Stephen Graham Jones. Tip-top with a twist of dread."
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