For a Few Stories More
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A limited edition collection of extremely rare Joe R. Lansdale
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...

 stories, which he decided to publish to prove that not everything he wrote was as great as what's widely available. Published as Volume 4 of Subterranean Press
Subterranean Press
Subterranean Press is a small press publisher in Michigan. Subterranean is best known for publishing genre fiction, primarily horror, suspense and dark mystery, fantasy, and science fiction...

's "Lost Lansdale" series in 2002.

The title is a pun, referring to Sergio Leone
Sergio Leone
Sergio Leone was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter most associated with the "Spaghetti Western" genre.Leone's film-making style includes juxtaposing extreme close-up shots with lengthy long shots...

's film For a Few Dollars More
For a Few Dollars More
For a Few Dollars More is a 1965 Italian spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Gian Maria Volonté. German actor Klaus Kinski also plays a supporting role as a secondary villain...

. Previously Lansdale anthologies were published under the titles A Fistfull (sic) of Stories
A Fistfull of Stories (and Articles)
A Fistfull of Stories is a collection of short work by Joe R. Lansdale, published in 1996, which contains more non-fiction work than any of the other collections, as well as short stories some of which are exclusive to this collection....

 and The Good, The Bad, and the Indifferent
The Good, The Bad, and the Indifferent
This is a collection of early stories from Joe R. Lansdale's career, published in 1997, many of which were never published before and none of which have ever been collected before ....

.

It includes:

Unpublished Stories

  • Depression
  • A Halloween Story (written under the pseudonym Josephine Richards)
  • Jailbait (co-wr: Bill Crider
    Bill Crider
    Bill Crider was born in Mexia, Texas. He received an M.A. at the University of North Texas . Later, he taught English at Howard Payne University for twelve years, before earning a Ph.D. at the University of Texas, where he wrote a dissertation on the hardboiled detective novel...

    )
  • A Little Halloween Talk (written under the pseudonym Richard Dale)
  • The Living Room God: A Play
  • Looters
  • Loving Care (written under the pseudonym Richard Dale)
  • Metadorquesis
  • My Kind of Luck
  • Partners (co-wr: Scott A. Cupp)
  • Sweet Revenge (written under the pseudonym Richard Dale)
  • Something Rides with the Western Star
  • Untitled Film Proposal
  • White Face (co-wr: Ardath F. Mayhar
    Ardath Mayhar
    Ardath Frances Hurst Mayhar began her writing career as a poet when she was nineteen. She began writing science fiction in 1979 after returning with her family to Texas from Oregon. She was nominated for the Mark Twain Award, and won the Balrog Award for a horror narrative poem in Masques I...

    )

as well as The Long Fall an unpublished Ray Slater
Private Eye Action, As You Like It
A collection of short stories from early in the careers of Joe R. Lansdale and Lewis Shiner, published in a limited edition by Crossroads Press in 1998. They have never been made available in other collections....

 private eye novel.

Obscurities

  • For Just One Hour {previously published in Triple Feature
    Triple Feature
    Triple Feature consists of a few lesser works by Joe R. Lansdale published in a very limited edition by Subterranean Press in 1999.It contains:*For Just One Hour*The Headstone...

    }
  • In the Night {published in 1984?}
  • Mayfly {published in Bloodrake (1982)}
  • The Original Lengueenies {previously published in Triple Feature
    Triple Feature
    Triple Feature consists of a few lesser works by Joe R. Lansdale published in a very limited edition by Subterranean Press in 1999.It contains:*For Just One Hour*The Headstone...

    }
  • The Panther Stalks (co-wr: Ardath F. Mayhar
    Ardath Mayhar
    Ardath Frances Hurst Mayhar began her writing career as a poet when she was nineteen. She began writing science fiction in 1979 after returning with her family to Texas from Oregon. She was nominated for the Mark Twain Award, and won the Balrog Award for a horror narrative poem in Masques I...

    ) {originally published in Weirdbook #26 1991}
  • Red is the Color of Blood and Roses
  • A Right to Be Dead (co-wr: Bill Crider
    Bill Crider
    Bill Crider was born in Mexia, Texas. He received an M.A. at the University of North Texas . Later, he taught English at Howard Payne University for twelve years, before earning a Ph.D. at the University of Texas, where he wrote a dissertation on the hardboiled detective novel...

    ) {originally published in Black Cat Mystery Magazine #3 (1981)}
  • This Little Piggy (co-wr: Dan Lowry) {originally published in Skullduggery 1981}

Limited Edition

As limited as the original printing was, there was an even more limited (lettered) edition which included the otherwise unpublished young-adult novel Shadow Time, about vampires.
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