High Cotton: Selected Stories — Joe R. Lansdale

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 Step Program”) to totally terrifying ("Incident On and Off a Mountain Road”), creepily mundane (“Mister Weed-Eater”) to glimpses of alternate history (“Trains Not Taken”), Lansdale deftly stays two steps ahead, leading, misdirecting, revealing, concealing. He scratches the itch you didn't know you had, in the place you couldn't reach if you tried.