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  • Bibliography:
    159 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1982
  • Latest Book:
    October 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The Drive In

1 - The Drive In (Feb-1988)
2 - The Drive In 2 (Jul-1989)
3 - The Drive In 3: The Bus Tour (May-2010)

Hap Collins & Leonard Pine

1 - Savage Season (Jul-1990)
2 - Mucho Mojo (Sep-1995)
3 - The Two-Bear Mambo (Sep-1996)
4 - Bad Chili (Sep-1997)
5 - Rumble Tumble (Sep-1998)
6 - Captains Outrageous (Sep-2001)
7 - Vanilla Ride (Jul-2009)
8 - Devil Red (Mar-2011)
9 - Honky Tonk Samurai (Feb-2016)
9.5 - Coco Butternut (Feb-2017)
10 - Rusty Puppy (Feb-2017)
11 - Blood and Lemonade (Mar-2017)
12 - The Elephant of Surprise (Mar-2019)
13 - Sugar on the Bones (Jul-2024)
Veil's Visit: A Taste of Hap and Leonard (May-1999)

Multi-Author Series List

Bibliomysteries

31 - Hoodoo Harry (Aug-2017)

Famous Characters: Batman

Captured by the Engines (Jun-1991)
Batman in Terror on the High Skies (Nov-1992)

Book List in Order: 159 titles




  • Already renowned for his work in horror and “splatterpunk,” Joe R. Lansdale (the Hap and Leonard series, Cold in July, Bubba Ho-Tep) helped cement the Weird Western genre as we know it with THE MAGIC WAGON and several other titles beginning in th...



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    A collection of spine-chilling and unexplainable adventures that truly qualify as nightmares includes "There's Nothing Under the Bed," by Bruce Coville, and other tales of terror by Jane Yolen, Mark Garland, Mary Downing Hahn, and Michael Markiewicz....



  • Welcome to the midnight matinee, the great cinematic festival of horror. From the broken down picture palaces to glorious neon drive-ins, from the has-been stars of yesterday to the ambitious, rapacious would-be stars of tomorrow, from the tinsel ...



  • Creature Features Imagine: six giant screens, each six stories high, with six different splatter films running simultaneously. Its just another Friday All-Night Horror Show at the Orbit--until a blood-red comet sweeps past and leaves the Texas dri...



  • When Richard Dane shoots and kills a burglar in his living room in the middle of the night, there's no doubt it's self-defense. But the death of the intruder, a small-time punk, ignites a bizarre chain of events. It starts when the thief's father,...





  • MONSTER MASH 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 j...



  • To the legion of readers made captive by master author Joe R. Lansdale--creator of Mucho Mojo and The Two Bear Mambo--the rose fields of LaBorde, Texas, evoke one thing only: home turf of Hap Collins, survivor who can't quite lose his white trash reb...






  • This anthology contains: Black Boots by Robert R. McCammon; Thirteen Days of Glory by Scott Cupp; Gold by Lewis Shiner; The Tenth Toe by F. Paul Wilson; Sedalia by David J. Schow; Trapline by Ardath Mayhar; Trail of the Chromium Bandits by Al Sarrant...



  • When Gotham City falls prey to a serial murderer who operates out of his car, Batman joins forces with a former tribal leader to discover who has been killing the people intent on modernizing a local reservation...



  • Lansdale is an immense talent. — Booklist. Small-town juvenile delinquents, Pentecostal snake-handlers, zombies, psychopaths, and assorted freaks populate these witty and gritty tales of horror by a master of the genre. The suspenseful, action-...




  • If you have a taste for the bizarre... BOB THE DINOSAUR GOES TO DISNEYLAND--An inflatable toy dinosaur takes a dream vacation... that's full of hot air. MY DEAD DOG, BOBBY--He's still the greatest pet in the world ... even though he doesn't do ...



  • Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Jonah Hex: Two Gun Mojo (DC Comics Vertigo (Paperback) 1994). Collects Jonah Hex Two Gun Mojo issues 1-5. Ver good condition except very slight signs of previous sticker removal....



  • If you're tired of the same ole business. If you want something unique. If you think comic book swimsuit issues are the dumbest thing since Jesse Helms, then here it is, a hot bundle of short stories, a la graphic novel style.

    Not only does Weird ...



  • In this tautly plotted story of a modern lack the Ripper's spree in Houston, Lansdale creates a powerful combination of crime, police work, and social commentary--all with an eye for graphic detail. With each new victim the serial killer picks out, t...




  • In the field of country noir--the dark side of rural and small-town America--Lansdale staked his claim to East Texas with The Nightrunners. A '66 Chevy bears down on the countryside, with a carful of vicious teenagers and evil of Biblical proportions...






  • The basis for the third season of the new Sundance TV series Hap and Leonard coming Spring 2018. Full of savage humor, heart-stopping suspense, and a cast of characters so tough they could chew the bumper off a pickup truck, The Two Bear Ma...



  • A fist full of Stories ( and Articles) is somewhat different than the collections that have come before. I feel, that in a way, this is a sort of garage sale collection. I hope this doesn't sound too discouraging if you have put down money for this b...



  • Containing stories from the dark side, the light side, and all shades in between, this is a masterful collection by one of America's rising storytellers. Storylines include that of a woman who discovers grisly horror on a mountain road, a plastic lov...



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    A collection of Lansdale comic adaptations and other related art. This volume includes all previous comic adaptations of Lansdale's work (Dark Horse's BY BIZARRE HANDS, DEAD IN THE WEST, and three Mojo Press works) plus two never-before-seen adaptati...



  • A leather-jacketed, hog-riding biker is dead. Leonard Pine is the suspect. To help his partner in the case of one murdered lowlife, Hap Collins won't be bend-114, the law; he'll be stomping the hell out of it. Spicing the mix will be LaBorde's own Ch...



  • Hap and Leonard is now a Sundance TV series starring James Purefoy and Michael Kenneth Williams.Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are in for an action-packed adventure when they cross paths with a towering Pentecostal preacher, a midget with a giant ...




  • ONE GUY ON ICE. ONE LIVE GUY IN HOT WATER. The scene is East Texas, Lansdale country. Loner, loser, and sometime armed robber Bill Roberts says goodbye to his dead momma in the back room after a bungled raid on a fireworks stand, escapes through a b...




  • From isolated but deadly hit men to extra- terrestrial enforcers packing otherworldly weapons, from suburban punks with bad attitudes to gangstas with lethal solutions to their credit problems, this new bullet-riddled collected edition provides chill...






  • Released in time for Mother's Day, this collection of twelve true stories of motherhood celebrates the special bond between mother and son in works by Eric Jerome Dickey, Eileen Goudge, Peter Straub, Faye Kellerman, Diana Gabaldon, Lawrence Block, St...



  • An all-American badass bounty hunter pursues his target across a post-apocalyptic desert landscape overrun by zombies.Wayne is a bounty hunter, but he has the bad luck to be one in the middle of a desert filled with the undead. Still, if he wants to ...



  • The story is told as a man is nearing the end of his life and reminiscing about the most momentous event of his childhood. In East Texas, during the depression, twelve-year-old Harry Crane and his nine-year-old sister, Tom, find the body of a blac...



  • 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 -- eeri...



  • Hap and Leonard is now a Sundance TV series starring James Purefoy and Michael Kenneth Williams.Hap Collins and Leonard Pine find mucho trouble, this time in Mexico, when they come face to face with a nudist mobster, his seven-foot strong-arm, a...



  • Call them steps on the way to greatness. Early stories and experiments, some published, none of them collected previously, many appearing here for the first time, along with Lansdale's frank commentary on growing as a writer. For a Few Stories More i...



  • The companion book to the popular moving starring Bruce Campbell as Elvis and Ossie Davis as JFK, stuck in an East Texas old folks home, faces off against a redneck mummy.Includes the original novella that the film was based on, the shooting script, ...



  • It is the summer of 1958 in Dewmont, Texas, a town the great American postwar boom passed by. The kids listen idly to rockabilly on the radio and waste their weekends at the Dairy Queen. And an undetected menace simmers under the heat that clings to ...



  • It's the depression era in East Texas. The Klu Klux Klan is active and many Texas men feel that they are the king in their home and if they smack their wives around, they won't have to answer for it. Constable Pete Jones comes home drunk and beats...



  • Joe R. Lansdale compiles and introduces 26 of his own favorite and most violent dark horror tales in this review of his work. "God of the Razor" introduces the dark god behind serial killers. A martial arts fight to the death between a reluctant cham...








  • Dead in the West is the story of Mud Creek, Texas, a town overshadowed by a terrible evil. An Indian medicine man, unjustly lynched by the people of Mud Creek, has put a curse on the town. As the sun sets, he will have his revenge. For when darkness ...



  • In his early days as a professional writer, Joe R. Lansdale used to warm up by penning short-short stories, from a few sentences to a few pages. This brief collection includes twenty new, not vintage stories, over half of them previously unpublished....




  • Since a mysterious childhood illness, Harry Wilkes has experienced horrific visions. Gruesome scenes emerge to replay themselves before his eyes. Triggered by simple sounds, these visions occur anywhere a tragic event has happened. Now in college, Ha...



  • The Cimmerian travels to the aid of an old ally in the wretched wastes of Stygia - a desert harboring wealth undreamed of, even for the barbarian. Soon his pursuit of the ancient treasure reveals a conniving spirit and undead guards. Dust from the de...



  • This is the third volume in the Dark Voices series, which features award-winning, best-selling authors reading their own short fiction. A copy of the story also appears in print in a high-quality chapbook. Each volume features original music written ...



  • The endlessly inventive mind of Joe R. Lansdale whips up yet another batch of stories to amaze, surprise, and entertain you. His new offering covers a lot of territory, producing what may be his best short story collection yet. One tale concerns an E...



  • The Nightrunners is considered by many to be one of the best horror/suspense novels to date. It has had a passionate following for years. On its twentieth anniversary, Subterranean Press will release this novel as part of its Signature Series, in a v...






  • After a scandalous affair costs him his job in Houston, Cason Statler--Gulf War veteran and Pulitzer Prize -- nominated journalist--returns home to the small east Texas town of Camp Rapture. Cason is a wreck. He drinks too much, he's stalking his ex-...



  • BLOOD LITE ...a collection of entertaining tales that puts the fun back into dark fiction, with ironic twists and tongue-in-cheek wit to temper the jagged edge. Charlaine Harris reveals the dark side of going green, when a quartet of die-hard env...



  • Master horror storyteller Joe R. Lansdale throws his scathing wit and wild, otherworldly creations into the mix as he brings Robert E. Howard's classic tale of dark revenge to the present . . . and into the unwilling lives of the Blassenville mansion...



  • Master of mojo storytelling, spinner of over-the-top yarns of horror, suspense, humor, mystery, science fiction, and even the Old West, Joe R. Lansdale has attracted a wide and enthusiastic following. His genre-defying work has brought him numerous a...



  • "My fingers can't find the bullet holes. They're there, because they brought me down." Like a guitar riff sharp enough to slit a throat or the devil's amplifiers shrieking through the lonely night, this bonanza of blood and brawn rings with the vib...



  • In this Texas-sized thriller, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine--best friends, freelance troublemakers, and tough guys with good intentions--find themselves in the crosshairs of the Dixie Mafia. Hap is an East Texas smart mouth with a weakness for sout...



  • These short pieces, are, like The King and Other Stories, a collection of easy to read stories and articles that are designed to be treats for my readers. Nothing to hurt the head, but perhaps something to make you smile, or even think a little--but ...



  • Continuing in the vein of the Award winning Retro Pulp Tales, Joe R. Lansdale and his son Keith Lansdale present, Son of Retro Pulp Tales. More stories in the tradition of the pulps, early digest magazines and pre sixties films, this one contains eve...



  • THE DRIVE-IN 3: THE BUS TOURJoe R. LansdaleBook Three of The Drive-In series.Synopsis from THE COMPLETE DRIVE-IN:The end of the 1980s. Drive-in movie culture is mostly dead with one significant exception: THE ORBIT DRIVE-IN. A drive-in theater so lar...



  • What do the disembodied head of Buffalo Bill Cody, Annie Oakley, Frankenstein, the Tin Man, Captain Nemo, the Flying Dutchman, and the inestimable Ned the Seal have in common? Find out as they embark upon a spectacular set of nonstop steampunk advent...



  • A naïve young woman witnesses a brutal murder and discovers the soul-deadening price of being a New Yorker. The family man quits smoking with the sinister assistance of a family-friendly corporation. A truck driver takes a simple shortcut and lands ...



  • Multiple award-winning Joe Lansdale is perhaps best known for his mastery in creating eccentric characters, and Deranged by Choice displays two prime examples from different decades of his career. From 1985, we have the sadistic "Boys will be Boys," ...



  • Limited to remaining stock on hand! This "Monster Lit" mash-up novella from modern horror master Joe R. Lansdale, a highlight from the recent Classics Mutilated anthology, combines Lovecraft and Mark Twain in a way that can only be described as brill...



  • Hyenas marks the always-welcome return of Joe R. Lansdale's most indelible fictional creations: Hap Collins and Leonard Pine. Once again, the embattled but resilient duo find themselves enmeshed in a web of danger, duplicity, and escalating mayhem. T...



  • Hap Collins and Leonard Pine return in a red-hot, mayhem-fueled thriller to face a vampire cult, the Dixie Mafia, and the deadliest assassin they've ever encountered -- Devil Red. When their friend Marvin asks Hap and Leonard to look into a cold-c...



  • Bill, a jobless 24-year-old, is in desperate trouble. He’s being framed by some very unsavory acquaintances for a series of sadistic murders, and is in possession of a particularly gruesome photo album. Backed into a corner, he calls his uncle Hank...



  • From George R. R. Martin's Introduction to Warriors:

    "People have been telling stories about warriors for as long as they have been telling stories. Since Homer first sang the wrath of Achilles and the ancient Sumerians set down their tales...



  • Jack Catcher's parents are dead -- his mom died of sickness and his dad of a broken heart -- and he has to get out of Oklahoma, where dust storms have killed everything green, hopeful, or alive. When former classmate Jane and her little brother Tony ...



  • Confederate veterans in a Yankee’s world, Melgrhue and Bucklaw haven’t had much post-war success. Family, friends and farms lost in the conflict, they’ve been drifting for the past decade -- driving sheep here, punching cattle there. It’s wor...



  • All new strange cases of death and magic in the city by some of the biggest names in urban fantasy.

    In this all-new collection of urban fantasy stories, editors George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois explore the places where mystery waits at the en...



    • Fleeing the site of a secondary vampire infestation in the cold, wilds of Alaska, a band of survivors arrive at a climate change facility during the final days of a long period of extended daylight. The inhabitants of the research compound a...



  • "Dad told me once, that if people don't care about where they live, the way they act, people they associate with, they get lost in the dark, can't find their way back cause there's no light left. I had taken a pretty good step into the shadows tonig...



  • "Easing her back against a tree trunk, she sat and listened, watching for that strange face, fearing it might abruptly burst through the limbs and brush, grinning its horrible teeth, or worse, that he might come up behind her, reach around the tree t...



  • “Even before Morley told him, Dennis knew things were about to get ugly. A man did not club you unconscious, bring you to his estate and tie you to a chair in an empty storage shed out back of the place if he merely intended to give you a valentine...



  • They did it -- they launched the damned nukes and the world went pretty much straight to hell. Not many survived, but some of those who did emerged twenty years later, to a world where mutant whales heaved themselves across the blackened, dry seabe...



  • This landmark anthology collects for the first-time ever the Bram Stoker Award-winning short stories and novellas from legendary authors such as Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, Dan Simmons, Peter Straub, David Morrell, Jack Ketchum, Joe R. Lansdale, Ge...



  • Six guns and zombies, a chicken eating werewolf, deals with the devil, and things that go bump in the night. John Wayne never had to deal with these kind of shenanigans, or these kinds of rowdies. But Joe R. Lansdale and John L. Lansdale aren't afrai...



  • Dead Aim marks the always welcome return of Joe R. Lansdale's most enduring fictional creations: Hap Collins and Leonard Pine. The result is a spare, beautifully crafted novella in which Lansdale's unique voice and inimitable narrative gifts are on f...



  • Darkness exists everywhere, and in no place greater than those where spirits and curses still reside. Tread not lightly on ancient lands that have been discovered by this collection of intrepid authors.

    In DARK TALES OF LOST CIVILIZATIONS, y...



  • May Lynn was once a pretty girl who dreamed of becoming a Hollywood star. Now she's dead, her body dredged up from the Sabine River. Sue Ellen, May Lynn's strong-willed teenage friend, sets out to dig up May Lynn's body, burn it to ash, and take t...



    • H.P. Lovecraft is known as one of the key founders of modern horror, cited as a major influence by many prominent authors, such as Stephen King. In collaboration with renowned Lovecraft historian and literary caretaker Robert Weinberg, IDW i...



  • 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 burn...



  • With its first time in digital publication, Joe R. Lansdale’s award-winning tale “Mad Dog Summer” takes you on a twisted journey through the 1930’s of murderous mystery and madness.Included as a bonus story is “The Shadows, Kith and Kin,”...



  • A long time ago, in this very galaxy, Joe R. Lansdale created a character named The God of the Razor. The God lives in another dimension, most of the time. Certain symbols, certain acts of bloodletting and violence, certain blades - one razor in part...



  • I wrote 'Christmas with the Dead' simply because I wanted to write a holiday horror story," Lansdale admits. "This was the result....



  • In 1999, master storyteller Joe R. Lansdale introduced one of the wildest tales ever to fall into the steampunk genre, and it is now available in digital format. In “The Steam Man of the Prairie and the Dark Rider Get Down,” follow the Traveler f...




  • Fresh Blood, Old Bones showcases the work of new and established writers in horror, fantasy, and science fiction (with bizarre thrown in for good measure). Enjoy eighteen tales as true masters of the genre (including Joe R. Lansdale, Nancy Collins, a...



  • Orphaned by a plane crash, raised in the wilds of a lost world hidden somewhere beneath a constant mist, The Big Guy and his ape-man brother from another mother are living a life of danger amongst rampaging dinosaurs, giant birds, warring ape tribes,...



  • In the South, when the cotton’s high, things are looking up -- you’ve got a bumper crop on the way. In High Cotton, Joe Lansdale's selected his favorites from his own bumper crop of short stories. From fantastically weird (“Godzilla’s Twelve ...



  • Deadwood meets Cthulhu in this wild and profane Western romp featuring zombies, werewolves, evil spirits, and one pissed-off gun-slinging preacher.The Wild West has never seen the likes of Reverend Jebediah Mercer, a hard man wielding a burning Bible...



  • Jack Parker thought he'd already seen his fair share of tragedy. His grandmother was killed in a farm accident when he was barely five years old. His parents have just succumbed to the smallpox epidemic sweeping turn-of-the-century East Texas--orphan...



  • Horror novel legends Joe R. Lansdale and Keith Lansdale team up with Brian Denham (X-Files, Zombie Kid Diaries) and Antarctic Press to bring you a tale o' terror set in the wild, weird West!
    When his dad accidentally committed murder, plug-ugly No...



  • A psychological thriller in the vein of Dean Koontz and Lee Child, Hot in December is a fast-paced and entertaining novella from the author of Edge of Dark Water, The Bottoms and the Hap and Leonard novel series. One death is only the beginning for ...





  • Joe R. Lansdale, the acclaimed horror novelist of such titles as EDGE OF DARK WATER and DEAD AIM, took on DC's famed bounty hunter Jonah Hex in these darkly comic epics from the 1990s. In these twisted tales of the Old West, Hex battles a doctor dete...



  • Welcome to the wide world of paranormal pastimes, where striking out might strike you dead. Editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner are your announcers for this collection of the most peculiar plays ever made—including a story featuring ...



  • Marvin Hanson is a private investigator. Time was he worked homicide in Houston’s Fifth Ward, but that was years ago. Nowadays he’s living a quieter life, running a little one-man operation in LaBorde, Texas. You might think a sleepy East Texas t...



  • A collection of detective fiction by award winning authors Joe R. Lansdale and Lewis Shiner. This book collects for the first time some of Lansdale's and Shiner's earliest works including the first piece of fiction Joe R. Lansdale ever sold.The colle...



  • A midnight train slows to a stop between stations, leading a wakeful passenger to step out and stretch his legs. The conductor really should’ve locked his compartment door better… There are thirty-three stories in this collection of Joe Lansdale ...



  • The story of African-Americans in the West has been confined to the dusty, bottom shelf of recorded history and American literature. But in the vein of the old dime novels containing stories about such heroes as Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hickok, and Je...




  • This edition includes 11 original interior illustrations by world renowned artist Santiago Caruso. Bestselling author Joe R. Lansdale (Cold in July, Hap and Leonard series, Bubba Ho-Tep) makes a return to horror with the dark and intense new novella ...



  • 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...



  • Introducing the new annual Dark Regions Press holiday anthology: Christmas Horror. Volume 1 features all new and original stories from authors Joe R. Lansdale, John Skipp, Cody Goodfellow, Jeff Strand, J. F. Gonzalez, Stephen Mark Rainey, Nate Southa...



  • The unmistakable accent of the Piney Woods of East Texas rolls from the pages of ''Fender Lizards,'' Joe R. Lansdale's tale of the life and love and work of one Dot Sherman, who delivers on her promise that her story is ''the real thing from beginnin...



  • Something Lumber This Way Comes is a children's book influenced by Ray Bradbury's classic novel (Something Wicked This Way Comes). It's inspired by, and set on the scene of, Lansdale's classic horror novel, The Nightrunners. While it shares that grap...



  • Soon to be a 2016 SundanceTV miniseries starring Michael K. Williams (The Wire), James Purefoy (Rome), and Christina Hendricks (Mad Men).Hap and Leonard don't fit the profile. Hap Collins looks like a good 'ol boy, but his liberal politics don't matc...



  • Only Hap and Leonard would catch a cold case with hot cars, hot women, and ugly skinheads. The story starts simply enough when Hap, a former 60s activist and self-proclaimed white trash rebel, and Leonard, a tough black, gay Vietnam vet and Repu...



  • A SundanceTV series starring Michael K. Williams (The Wire), James Purefoy (Rome), and Christina Hendricks (Mad Men).
    Hap and Leonard have never fit the profile. Hap Collins looks like a good ’ol boy, but his liberal politics don’t match. ...



  • If the Western town of Falling Rock isn't dangerous enough due to drunks, fast guns and greedy miners, it gets a real dose of ugly when a soulless, dynamite-loving bounty hunter named Smith rides into town to bring back a bounty, dead or alive -- pre...



  • BURY THE DEAD … NOT THE LIVING To ex-P.O.W. Mark Stone it is a matter of honor. The government could bury the Vietnam War but not America's forgotten heroes--the soldiers listed as M.I.A. A former Green Beret, Stone will keep searching until eve...



  • A DEBT OF HONOR TO BE PAID IN BLOOD America's M.I.A.s. The government has turned its back on them, but former Green Beret Mark Stone never will. A former P.O.W., he has a debt to repay. To his brothers-in-arms. To their families. And most of al...



  • STREETS OF FIRE Ho Chi Minh City. U.S. representatives have come to this godforsaken hellhole to determine whether or not American servicemen are still being held prisoners of the Vietnamese government. The terrible truth will, of course, be denie...



  • Nominated for the 2017 Anthony Award for Best Anthology/Collection *** Proceeds from the sales of Unloaded will benefit the nonprofit States United To Prevent Gun Violence (CeaseFireUSA.org) *** For the first time, more than two dozen crime and myst...



  • Arguably (and who doesn’t like to argue?) the world’s bestselling cult author, Joe R. Lansdale is celebrated across several continents for his dark humor, his grimly gleeful horror, and his outlaw politics. Welcome to Texas. With hits like Bubba ...



  • On the great plains of the old American west, enormous steam-powered robots march across the countryside. Their mission: to defend the populace against invading Martians and armies of killer albino apes! The Steam Man, a giant metal man operated by a...



  • Coco Butternut marks the always-welcome return of Joe R. Lansdale's dysfunctional duo: Hap Collins and Leonard Pine. As usual, wherever Hap and Leonard go, trouble seems to already be there, awaiting their arrival. And in the case of this twisty, hil...



  • Hap and Leonard investigate a racially motivated murder that threatens to tear apart their East Texas town. While Hap, a former 60s activist and self-proclaimed white trash rebel, is recovering from a life-threatening stab wound, Louise Elton come...



  • The iconic Texan crime-fighting, bigot-bashing duo meet in this companion to the breakout Hap and Leonard TV series As a liberal young man in East Texas, Hap Collins is discovering his passion for two-fisted justice in a redneck world. Leonard Pine -...



  • Hap and Leonard is now a Sundance TV series starring James Purefoy and Michael Kenneth Williams.Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are up to their ears in trouble once more, when a kinky, psychotherapist client and her household end up dead with a crazy, n...



  • In a tale of hope set amidst the hyper violence of America’s 19th century, this new edition tells the tale of Red Mask, a tough as nails vigilante who rides to fight the tragic racism of a Klan-dominated Texas. 

    Written by multiple Bram S...



  • A long-lost bookmobile opens a wild new chapter in the lives of dysfunctional Texas detectives Hap and Leonard -- stars of the hit Sundance TV series.   Hap Collins is a straight, white, liberal, blue-collar tough guy. Leonard Pine is a gay, bl...



  • An all-new graphic novel adapting the original story which is the basis for the first season of the Sundance TV series. A rip-roaring, high-octane, Texas-sized thriller, featuring two friends, one vixen, a crew of washed-up radicals, loads of money, ...



  • The Legend Continues...

    Twenty-four heart-rending tales with elements of terror, mystery, and a nightmarish darkness that knows no end.

    Welcome to my lake. Welcome to where dreams and hope are illusions...and pain is God.

    • ...



  • 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, ...



  • 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, Vietn...



  • Hap and Leonard are an unlikely pair -- Hap, a self-proclaimed white trash rebel, and Leonard, a tough-as-nails black gay Vietnam vet and Republican -- but they're the closest friend either of them has in the world. Hap is celebrating his wedding to ...



  • Award-winning author and “Champion Mojo Storyteller” Joe R. Lansdale (Hap & Leonard, Bubba Ho Tep) and his daughter, author / country singer Kasey Lansdale, have joined forces to bring you a short story collection showcasing the new dynamic duo o...



  • The BookVoice Publishing Pocket Stories series continues with this rare short story from Joe R. Lansdale. From the story: "It was July the Fourth and Nacogdoches, the oldest town in Texas, was hung with banners declaring the holiday. The old man read...



  • Christmas and a birthday collide, criminals get a holiday surprise, a man drifts through a life he once knew and Santa gets hungrier with each passing year. These are just some of the tales of terror found in Christmas Horror Volume 2, featuring all ...



  • Return to the world of the cult-classic film with this prequel from the mind of its original creator!President Nixon has discovered an alien threat, and he knows there's only one man he can reach out to for help: Elvis Presley. But will Elvis be e...




  • Hap and Leonard are an unlikely pair--Hap, a self-proclaimed white trash rebel, and Leonard--a tough-as-nails Black, gay, Vietnam vet and Republican--but they're the closest friend either of them has in the world. After years of crime-solving com...



  • You might think two books of adventure involving Ned the brain-enhanced Seal would be enough for any little seal's lifetime, but not so.Ned is back.Ned and H. G. Wells, returning from correcting wounds in the fabric of time, not to mention a brief tr...



  • From Edgar Award winner Joe R. Lansdale comes a laugh out loud road novel full of outrageous wit, driven by the power of storytelling as only Lansdale can offer. Jobless, broke, and stuck in East Texas without wheels, Jane is desperate to attend her ...



  • A brand-new Hap and Leonard series collection chock full of Joe R. Lansdale’s inimitable blend of humor, mayhem, and insight, Of Mice and Minestrone delivers never-before-seen stories, a selection of the boys’ favorite recipes, by Kasey Lansdale,...



  • Edgar award-winning author Joe Lansdale returns with the hard-boiled story of a no-nonsense used car salesman ready to turn his life around Ed Edwards is in the used car business, a business built on adjusted odometers, extra-fine print, and the b...



  • The third in the first series of Little Books from Borderlands Press is A Little Green Book of Monster Stories. This collection of short fiction is by ten-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author Joe R. Lansdale.Stories included in this collection:Arti...



  • A little boy and girl disappear at Bible camp in the Big Thicket. An amateur sleuth discovers the true meaning of the phrase dead end in his pursuit of a Lovecraftian imp. A kitchen appliance becomes a portal to another dimension. A Nacogdoches jogge...



  • From Wild to Wilder, you are offered a journey into the Worlds of Joe R. Lansdale. Go on a fishing trip for dinosaurs in the arctic and meet numerous characters from adventure novels and pulps, as a man unsure of his identity awa...



  • From an Edgar award-winning author comes the gripping and unexpected tale of a lost town and the dark secrets that lie beneath the glittering waters of an East Texas lake.Daniel Russell was only thirteen years old when his father tried to kill them b...



  • Blood in the Gears is the second in a four volume set of stories by Joe R. Lansdale. Each, as best is possible, covers a certain branch of his career. While none of the volumes neatly fit into a box, this volume attempts to point to those stories of ...



  • Cosmic Interruptions is a collection of speculative fiction by Joe R. Lansdale. The stories here have been grouped as part of a four part set, this first volume loosely falling into the speculative fiction, science fiction, and off-beat fantasy realm...



  • Nat Love has had enough adventures for ten men. From son of a former slave, to buffalo soldier, to gun hand, to Marshal for Hanging Judge Parker.Now, entering old age, he's a train porter. A job he's happy to have, but not exactly the cream of his li...




  • In Edgar Award winner Joe R. Lansdale’s newest Hap and Leonard story collection, the boys are back with more righteous ass-kickings, highly improbable adventures, and disastrous fishing trips. These never before collected tales showcase the popular...



  • Lansdale reaches the reader on a gut level...a terrific writer.—Ellery Queen's Mystery MagazineGothic Wounds oozes stories of grim doings in the Southern climes of East Texas, with a few stories outside the usual Lansdale realm.Meet real life ...



  • In this standalone, Edgar-award winning author, Joe R. Lansdale, whom "few can match" (Booklist) beams a light on an East Texas town where a QAnon-style, evangelist cult is brewing trouble.  Charlie Garner has a bad feeling. His ex-wife, Meg, ha...



  • Back in the nineties a novella, The Events Concerning a Nude Fold-Out Found in a Harlequin Romance, about jobless Plebin Cook, his daughter Jasmine, and a used bookstore owner named Martha, received a Bram Stoker Award and appeared to be the start of...



  • Edgar Award winner and bestselling author Joe R. Lansdale (the Hap and Leonard series), one of America's most essential crime writers, heads back to the dangerous woods of East Texas. In his first crime career-retrospective, including previously unco...



  • With time running out, the supernatural sleuthers must explore the spectral realm beyond the bleeding wall, without getting trapped inside for all eternity. Dana's brief stent at clown college comes in handy as we navigate the terrifying nuptials bet...




  • PI Duo Hap & Leonard investigate the untimely death of a woman whose family stood much to gain from her passing. It's a holy mess of a case for the "perpetual bad boy" (New York Times) sleuths in this beloved series. Minnie Polson is dead. Burned...



  • Ten-time Bram Stoker Award-winner Joe R. Lansdale (Bubba Ho-tep) returns with this wicked collection of irreverent Lovecraftian tributes. In these unlikely tales, Lansdale is scarily down-home, merging his classic gonzo stylings with the eldritch vib...



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    It's the Great Depression in East Texas, and a fifteen year-old boy has to face down a wild boar that threatens his family. But if his Dad, a tough carnie wrestler, can't stop the beast, what hope does a kid who wants to be a writer have?Skyhorse Pub...




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    A ravenous cowboy hat-wearing mummy invades a rest home where possibly Elvis and John Kennedy reside, and it's up to them to protect their home and stop its stealing of souls. A top hat wearing, razor-carrying demon from another dimension is found in...



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    A tribute to such works as Richard Brautigan's Hawkline Monster, and Philip Jose Farmer's wackier novels, like The Adventure of the Peerless Peer, Zeppelin's West is a wild parody of Westerns, Alternate Universe novels, classic science fiction and ho...


Award-Winning Books by Joe R. Lansdale

The Bottoms
2001 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Novel
Paradise Sky
2016 Spur Award -- Historical Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Joe R. Lansdale has published 159 books.

The next book by Joe R. Lansdale, Lansdale's Lovecraft, will be published in October 2024.

The first book by Joe R. Lansdale, Personality Problem, was published in January 1982.

Yes. Joe R. Lansdale has 2 series.