2023: Bedlam in Print
Looking back over last year’s books!
BUBBA HO-TEP at 20
Here’s a film that hasn’t been getting too many retrospectives, but I say it’s deserving of at least one
More Illustrated Oddments
Here we have a new batch of Illustrated Oddments, books that deserve some ink on this site, even if I can’t justify writing full reviews.
2017: Bedlam in Print
Assembling a best-books-of-the-year list is always a dicey proposition. Quite simply, nobody can be expected to track down and read every worthwhile book printed over the course of the previous year…
RED RANGE
This graphic novel, initially published in 1999, would appear to be the wild card among Joe Lansdale’s comic work
THE NEW DEAD
I wish I could say this zombie-themed anthology was the landmark it so desperately wants to be
THE MAGIC WAGON
There’s never been a western novel quite like THE MAGIC WAGON, an insightful and touching account of Texas circa 1909 that incorporates elements of comedy and the supernatural.
HOT IN DECEMBER
This blistering novella by the incomparable Joe Lansdale is something of a companion-piece to his 1989 psycho-noir masterpiece COLD IN JULY..
THE GOD OF THE RAZOR
An essential volume for Joe Lansdale fans, this is a 20th anniversary hardcover reprinting of Lansdale’s splat happy 1987 classic THE NIGHTRUNNERS.
Freezer Burn
A wildly profane and plain crazy concoction that reads like a deranged collaboration between Flannery O’Connor and Jim Thompson.