High Cotton: Collected Stories of Joe R. Lansdale

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."

Contents:

• Foreword by Joe R. Lansdale
• Bob the Dinosaur Goes to Disneyland
• Booty and the Beast
• By Bizarre Hands
• By the Hair of the Head
• Dog, Cat, and Baby
• Drive-In Date
• Godzilla's Twelve-Step Program
• Incident On and Off a Mountain Road
• Letter from the South, Two Moons West of Nacogdoches
• Mister Weed-Eater
• My Dead Dog, Bobby
• Night They Missed the Horror Show
• Not from Detroit
• Steppin' Out, Summer, '68
• The Fat Man and the Elephant
• The Job
• The Phone Woman
• The Pit
• The Steel Valentine
• Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back
• Trains Not Taken