Electric Gumbo
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Electric Gumbo: A Lansdale Reader is one of the rarer compilations of Joe R. Lansdale
's short work. It has only been published once, exclusively by the Quality Paperback Book Club in trade paperback form in 1994.
It contains:
This compilation contains nothing exclusive.
Joe R. Lansdale
Joe R. Lansdale is an American author and martial-arts expert. He has written novels and stories in many genres, including Western, horror, science fiction, mystery, and suspense...
's short work. It has only been published once, exclusively by the Quality Paperback Book Club in trade paperback form in 1994.
It contains:
- Introduction
- The Drive-In (A Novel) [full reprinting] (nominated for Bram Stoker AwardBram Stoker AwardThe Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented by the Horror Writers Association for "superior achievement" in horror writing. The awards have been presented annually since 1987, and the winners are selected by ballot of the Active members of the HWA...
) - By Bizarre Hands {originally published in Hardboiled #9 (1988)}
- Drive-In Date {originally published in Night Visions 8 (1991)}
- The Events Concerning a Nude Fold-Out Found in a Harlequin Romance (winner of Bram Stoker AwardBram Stoker AwardThe Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented by the Horror Writers Association for "superior achievement" in horror writing. The awards have been presented annually since 1987, and the winners are selected by ballot of the Active members of the HWA...
) {originally published in Dark at Heart, ed. Joe & Karen LansdaleJoe R. LansdaleJoe R. Lansdale is an American author and martial-arts expert. He has written novels and stories in many genres, including Western, horror, science fiction, mystery, and suspense...
(1992)} - The Fat Man and the Elephant {originally published in By Bizarre HandsBy Bizarre HandsBy Bizarre Hands is the first collection of short stories by American writer Joe R. Lansdale, published in 1989. The collection was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for best fiction collection, and contains two stories which won Stokers...
(1989)} - A Hard-On for Horror: Low Budget Excitement (non-fiction) {extended from shorter version, probably published in 1985 in Twilight ZoneTwilight zone-Television series and spinoffs:*The Twilight Zone, the anthology television series and its franchise:**The Twilight Zone , the 1959–1964 original television series***Twilight Zone: The Movie, a 1983 film based on the original series...
Magazine, or at some point in 1992} - Hell Through A Windshield (non-fiction) {extended from shorter version published in Twilight ZoneTwilight zone-Television series and spinoffs:*The Twilight Zone, the anthology television series and its franchise:**The Twilight Zone , the 1959–1964 original television series***Twilight Zone: The Movie, a 1983 film based on the original series...
Magazine, Mar/Apr 1985} - The Job {originally published in Razored Saddles, ed. Joe R. LansdaleJoe R. LansdaleJoe R. Lansdale is an American author and martial-arts expert. He has written novels and stories in many genres, including Western, horror, science fiction, mystery, and suspense...
& Pat LoBruttoPat LoBruttoPatrick LoBrutto is an editor, author, anthologist and a past recipient of the World Fantasy Award for editing in 1986. He has worked for Ace Books, Bantam Books, Doubleday, M. Evans, Stealth Press and Kensington among other publishing houses...
(1989)} - Mister Weed-EaterMister Weed-EaterMister Weed-Eater is a short story by American writer Joe R. Lansdale.-Editions:First published in Lansdale’s 1993 Electric Gumbo, subsequently republished in his 1994 compilation Writer of the Purple Rage, "Mister Weed-Eater" was republished again in the 2001 anthology High Cotton...
{originally published by (James) Cahill Press (1993)} - Night They Missed the Horror Show (winner of Bram Stoker AwardBram Stoker AwardThe Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented by the Horror Writers Association for "superior achievement" in horror writing. The awards have been presented annually since 1987, and the winners are selected by ballot of the Active members of the HWA...
) {originally published in Silver Scream, ed. David J. SchowDavid J. SchowDavid J. Schow is an American author of horror novels, short stories, and screenplays. His credits include films such as The Crow and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. Most of Schow's work falls into the sub-genre splatterpunk, a term he is sometimes credited with coining...
(1988)} - On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert With Dead Folks (winner of Bram Stoker AwardBram Stoker AwardThe Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented by the Horror Writers Association for "superior achievement" in horror writing. The awards have been presented annually since 1987, and the winners are selected by ballot of the Active members of the HWA...
) {originally published in Book of the Dead, ed. John M. Skipp & Craig SpectorCraig SpectorCraig Spector is a bestselling author and screenwriter whose eleven books have sold millions of copies and are reprinted in nine languages.-Biography:...
(1989)} - The Phone Woman {originally published in Night Visions 8 (1991)}
- The Pit {originally published in The Black LizardBlack LizardBlack Lizard was a publisher imprint during the 1980s. A division of the Creative Arts Book Company of Berkeley, California, Black Lizard specialized in presenting rediscovered forgotten classic crime fiction writers and novels from the decades between the 1930s and the 1960s. Creative Arts Book...
Anthology of Crime Fiction, ed. Ed GormanEdward GormanEd Gorman is an award-winning American author best known for his crime and mystery fiction. He wrote The Poker Club which is currently in post production for a film of the same name directed by Tim McCann....
(1987)} - The Steel Valentine {originally published in By Bizarre HandsBy Bizarre HandsBy Bizarre Hands is the first collection of short stories by American writer Joe R. Lansdale, published in 1989. The collection was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for best fiction collection, and contains two stories which won Stokers...
(1989)} - Steppin' Out, Summer, '68 {originally published in Night Visions 8 (1991)}
- Tight Little Stitches In A Dead Man's Back {originally published in Nukes, ed. John Maclay (1986)}
- Trains Not Taken {originally published in RE:AL, Spring 1987}
- Wild Bill's Body (excerpt from the novel The Magic Wagon)
This compilation contains nothing exclusive.