This is a collection of early stories from 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...

's career, published in 1997, many of which were never published before and none of which have ever been collected before (or, apparently, will ever be again).

The title is a play on 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 western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a 1966 Italian epic spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach in the title roles. The screenplay was written by Age & Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni and Leone, based on a story by Vincenzoni and Leone...

. It is the part of a trilogy-of-sorts of Lansdale anthologies, preceded by 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 followed by For a Few Stories More

For a Few Stories More

A limited edition collection of extremely rare Joe R. Lansdale 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's "Lost Lansdale" series in 2002....

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The original, full extended title was The Good, The Bad, and the Indifferent: Early Stories and Commentaries by 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...

It contains:

• "All the Little Animals"
• "The Amusement Park"
• "At the Mouth of Time"
• "Cowboy"
• "A Debt to Pay"
• "Devil in the Hole"
• Escape Artist"
• "For Whom the Bell Blows"
• "A Frog-Strangler"
• "From Little Things"
• "Full Report at Ten"
• "Futility"
• "Hang in There"
• "Hickory, Dickory, Dock"
• "The Honeymoon"
• "Huitzilopochtli"
• "The Hungry Locust"
• "The Junkyard" {originally published in Dark Regions #3 (1989)}
• "Knock Knock"
• "The Last of the Hopeful"
• "The Man Who Could Not Get Four in a Row"
• "The Man Who Dreamed"
• "Night Drive"
• "One Death, Two Episodes"
• "The Pit of Kundolkan"
• "The Princess" {originally published in Mummy!, ed. Bill Pronzini
  Bill Pronzini
  Bill Pronzini is an American writer of detective fiction. He is also an active anthologist, having compiled more than 100 collections, most of which focus on mystery, western, and science fiction short stories....
  
   (1980)}
• "Quack"
• "Saved"
• "Trapped in the Saturday Matinee"
• "The Valley of the Swastika"
• "Walks" {originally published in Cemetery Dance Fall 1997}
• "Waziah" (originally published in Creature! ed. Bill Pronzoni (1981)}
• "Why Does It Cry?"
• "The Yard Man"