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Mark Twain meets classic Stephen King--a bold new direction for widely acclaimed Edgar Award winner Joe R. Lansdale.May Lynn was once a pretty girl who dreamed of becoming a Hollywood star. Now she's dead, her body dredged up from the Sabine River.Sue Ellen, May Lynn's strong-willed teenage friend, sets out to dig up May Lynn's body, burn it to ash, and take those ashes to Hollywood to spread around. If May Lynn can't become a star, then at least her ashes will end up in the land of her dreams.Along with her friends Terry and Jinx and her alcoholic mother, Sue Ellen steals a raft and heads downriver to carry May Lynn's remains to Hollywood.Only problem is, Sue Ellen has some stolen money that her enemies will do anything to get back. And what looks like a prime opportunity to escape from a worthless life will instead lead to disastrous consequences. In the end, Sue Ellen will learn a harsh lesson on just how hard growing up can really be.
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9780316188432 | 1 edition (Little Brown & Co, March 27, 2012), cover price $25.99 | About this edition: Mark Twain meets classic Stephen King--a bold new direction for widely acclaimed Edgar Award winner Joe R.

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9780316188425 | Little Brown & Co, February 12, 2013, cover price $14.99

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Product Description: Jack Catcher's parents are dead--his mom died of a sickness and his dad of a broken heart--and he wants to get out of Oklahoma, where dust storms have killed everything green and hopeful. So when former classmate Jane Lewis and her little brother, Tony, show up in his yard with plans to steal a dead neighbor's car and make a break for Texas, Jack doesn't need much convincing to go with them...read more
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9780385739313 | Delacorte Pr, September 13, 2011, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Jack Catcher's parents are dead—his mom died of sickness and his dad of a broken heart—and he has to get out of Oklahoma, where dust storms have killed everything green, hopeful, or alive.

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9780385739320 | Random House Childrens Books, September 11, 2012, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Jack Catcher's parents are dead--his mom died of a sickness and his dad of a broken heart--and he wants to get out of Oklahoma, where dust storms have killed everything green and hopeful.

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9780385907828 | Delacorte Pr, September 13, 2011, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Jack Catcher's parents are dead—his mom died of sickness and his dad of a broken heart—and he has to get out of Oklahoma, where dust storms have killed everything green, hopeful, or alive.

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9781607013433 | Prime Books, June 6, 2012, cover price $15.95

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Product Description: H.P. Lovecraft is known as one of the key founders of modern horror, cited as a major influence by many prominent authors, such as Stephen King. In collaboration with renowned Lovecraft historian and literary caretaker Robert Weinberg, IDW is bringing you the definitive Lovecraft comics updated for a 21st century audience...read more
By Peter Bergting (illustrator), Joe R. Lansdale, Menton3 (illustrator) and Robert Weinberg
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9781613771808 | Idea & Design Works Llc, April 24, 2012, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: H.

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Product Description: If there’s one thing Hap Collins and Leonard Pine like, it’s trouble—and they especially like getting paid to find it. So when their friend and sometime boss Marvin Harmon asks the boys to look into a cold-case double homicide, they’re happy to oblige...read more
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9780307455468 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, March 6, 2012), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: If there’s one thing Hap Collins and Leonard Pine like, it’s trouble—and they especially like getting paid to find it.

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Product Description: In 1981, Joe R. Lansdale, then a noted short story writer, published his first novel, a paperback original entitled Act of Love. A ferocious account of the search for a killer known as the Houston Hacker, Lansdale's debut was written years before the Hannibal Lecter phenomenon left its mark on American popular culture, years before the 'serial killer novel' became a distinct--and highly marketable--publishing category...read more
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9781596064171 | Deluxe edition (Subterranean, February 28, 2012), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: In 1981, Joe R.

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9780786702886 | Reprint edition (Carroll & Graf Pub, September 1, 1995), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Telling the tautly plotted story of a modern Jack the Ripper's spree in Houston, Lansdale creates a powerful combination of crime, police work, and social commentary--all with an eye for graphic detail.

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Product Description: Robert Bloch's ground-breaking novel Psycho introduced the world (and renowned director Alfred Hitchcock) to Norman Bates, a killer who haunted a generation of readers hungry for psychological thrills. But Bates was not the only serial slayer to inhabit the shadows cast by Bloch's pen...read more
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9781596064249 | Deluxe edition (Subterranean, November 30, 2011), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Robert Bloch's ground-breaking novel Psycho introduced the world (and renowned director Alfred Hitchcock) to Norman Bates, a killer who haunted a generation of readers hungry for psychological thrills.

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9781600107535 | Idea & Design Works Llc, October 12, 2010, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Psycho author Robert Bloch's seminal tale of the Ripper in then-contemporary times was originally published in Weird Tales in '43.

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Product Description: Jump onboard Robert Bloch's That Hellbound Train! Martin, an out-of-luck orphan, struggles to fulfill the American dream - but fate conspires against him at every turn. On the verge of giving up hope, our young protagonist is visited by a monstrous train, one whose conductor might just have a ticket to fame and riches...read more
By Robert Bloch, John L. Landsale (adapted by) and Joe R. Lansdale (adapted by)
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9781613770719 | Idea & Design Works Llc, November 8, 2011, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Jump onboard Robert Bloch's That Hellbound Train!

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Product Description: A who's who of great storytellers that collects two of the bestselling ZOMBIE TALES graphic novels into one gigantic 220-page package! Featuring heavyweights Mark Waid, Keith Giffen, Steve Niles, William Messner-Loebs, Karl Kesel, Brian Augustyn, Michael Alan Nelson, Joe R...read more
By Carlos Magno (illustrator) and Mark Waid
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9781608860746 | Simon & Schuster, September 6, 2011, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: A who's who of great storytellers that collects two of the bestselling ZOMBIE TALES graphic novels into one gigantic 220-page package!

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Product Description: Star-studded and comprehensive, this imaginative anthology brings a myriad of modern fantasy voices under one roof. Previously difficult for readers to discover in its new modes, urban fantasy is represented here in all three of its distinct styles—playful new mythologies, sexy paranormal romances, and gritty urban noir...read more
By Joe R. Lansdale (editor)
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9781616960186 | Tachyon Pubns, August 15, 2011, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Star-studded and comprehensive, this imaginative anthology brings a myriad of modern fantasy voices under one roof.

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Product Description: What's that huge, terrifying thing clawing its way onto your bookshelf? It's the biggest, bloodiest, most creepy collection of new terror tales you'll find this year! Creepy Comics Volume 1 gathers all of the new material from the first two years of Dark Horse's celebrated new Creepy series and collects it into one gargantuan book! This 184-page monstrosity features a spellbinding assortment of gory stories about all your favorite terror-inducing topics including cannibals, lurking demons, werewolves, zombies, psychic trauma, and psychotic murderers, illustrated in glorious black and white, following the great tradition of classic Creepy...read more
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9781595827500 | Dark Horse Comics, July 5, 2011, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: What's that huge, terrifying thing clawing its way onto your bookshelf?

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Product Description: Hyenas marks the always-welcome return of Joe R. Lansdale's most indelible fictional creations: Hap Collins and Leonard Pine. Once again, the embattled but resilient duo find themselves enmeshed in a web of danger, duplicity, and escalating mayhem...read more
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9781596063563 | Subterranean, January 31, 2011, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Hyenas marks the always-welcome return of Joe R.

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Product Description: Limited to remaining stock on hand! This "Monster Lit" mash-up novella from modern horror master Joe R. Lansdale, a highlight from the recent Classics Mutilated anthology, combines Lovecraft and Mark Twain in a way that can only be described as brilliant. Or, as Lansdale.
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9781600108945 | Idea & Design Works Llc, February 22, 2011, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Limited to remaining stock on hand!

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Product Description: Michael Moorcock's Sojan The Swordsman evisits the author's veryfirst published character, the original incarnation of the Eternal Champion!Rewritten and expanded from its original appearance in Moorcock's self-publishedTarzan Adventures fanzine, this tale of swordplay, airships, and bizarrelandscapes sees the hero Sojan and his beloved Princess Noothar encounteringstrange races of men and even stranger monsters in a fast-paced adventure in thetradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Leigh Brackett...read more
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9781601252883 | Paizo Pub Llc, November 23, 2010, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Michael Moorcock's Sojan The Swordsman evisits the author's veryfirst published character, the original incarnation of the Eternal Champion!

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Product Description: You can't kill the dead! Like any good monster, the zombie has proven to be ever-evolving, monumentally mutable, and open to seemingly endless imaginative interpretations: the thralls of voodoo sorcerers, George Romero's living dead, societal symbols, dancing thrillers, viral victims, reanimated ramblers, video gaming targets, post-apocalyptic permutations, shuffling sidekicks, literary mash-ups, the comedic, and, yes, even the romantic...read more
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9781607012344 | Prime Books, October 19, 2010, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: You can't kill the dead!

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Product Description: Friday night at the Orbit Drive-in: a circus of noise, sex, teenage hormones, B-movie blood, and popcorn. On a cool, crisp summer night, with the Texas stars shining down like rattlesnake eyes, movie-goers for the All-Night Horror Show are trapped in the drive-in by a demonic-looking comet...read more
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9780980226041, titled "The Complete Drive-In: Three Novels of Anarchy, Aliens, & the Popcorn King" | 1 edition (Pgw, April 27, 2010), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Friday night at the Orbit Drive-in: a circus of noise, sex, teenage hormones, B-movie blood, and popcorn.

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Product Description: By turns absurd, hilarious, and terrifying, this outrageous collection features the best writings of the high priest of Texan weirdness. Odd-ball detectives, malicious rocks, spectral prehistoric fish, and vampire hunters permeate these vividly detailed stories...read more
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9781892391940 | Tachyon Pubns, February 15, 2010, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: By turns absurd, hilarious, and terrifying, this outrageous collection features the best writings of the high priest of Texan weirdness.

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Product Description: These short pieces, are, like The King and Other Stories, a collection of easy to read stories and articles that are designed to be treats for my readers. Nothing to hurt the head, but perhaps something to make you smile, or even think a little--but not too much...read more
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9781596062252 | Ltd sgd edition (Subterranean, December 1, 2009), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: These short pieces, are, like The King and Other Stories, a collection of easy to read stories and articles that are designed to be treats for my readers.

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Product Description: Volumes 5 through 8 collected into one boxed set with close to 400 pages of reading!
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9781597071758 | Papercutz, November 24, 2009, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Volumes 5 through 8 collected into one boxed set with close to 400 pages of reading!

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Product Description: Hap Collins and Leonard Pine find mucho trouble, this time in Mexico, when they come face to face with a nudist mobster, his seven-foot strong-arm, a octogenarian knife-touting fisherman, and, somehow, an armadillo.  When Hap Collins saves the life of his employer's daughter, he is rewarded with a Caribbean Cruise, and he convinces his best friend Leonard Pine to come along...read more
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9780307455529 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, November 10, 2009), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Hap Collins and Leonard Pine find mucho trouble, this time in Mexico, when they come face to face with a nudist mobster, his seven-foot strong-arm, a octogenarian knife-touting fisherman, and, somehow, an armadillo.

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Product Description: Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are in for an action-packed adventure when they cross paths with a towering Pentecostal preacher, a midget with a giant attitude, and a gang of bikers turned soldiers of fortune. Even though a midlife crisis just hit Hap Collins like a runaway pickup truck, he's still got his job, he knows his best friend, Leonard Pine, will always be there for him, and of course he's got his main squeeze, Brett Sawyer...read more
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9780307455512 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, November 10, 2009), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are in for an action-packed adventure when they cross paths with a towering Pentecostal preacher, a midget with a giant attitude, and a gang of bikers turned soldiers of fortune.

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9781423384441 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, November 3, 2009), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Amazon.

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By Phil Gigante (narrator) and Joe R. Lansdale
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9781423384502 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, November 10, 2009), cover price $29.99

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Product Description: Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are in for an action-packed adventure when they cross paths with a towering Pentecostal preacher, a midget with a giant attitude, and a gang of bikers turned soldiers of fortune. Even though a midlife crisis just crashed into Hap Collins like a runaway pickup, he’s still got his job, he knows his best friend, Leonard Pine, will always be there for him, and, of course, he’s got his main squeeze, Brett Sawyer...read more
By Phil Gigante (narrator) and Joe R. Lansdale
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9781423384458 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, November 3, 2009), cover price $87.97 | About this edition: Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are in for an action-packed adventure when they cross paths with a towering Pentecostal preacher, a midget with a giant attitude, and a gang of bikers turned soldiers of fortune.

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Product Description: Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are in for an action-packed adventure when they cross paths with a towering Pentecostal preacher, a midget with a giant attitude, and a gang of bikers turned soldiers of fortune. Even though a midlife crisis just crashed into Hap Collins like a runaway pickup, he’s still got his job, he knows his best friend, Leonard Pine, will always be there for him, and, of course, he’s got his main squeeze, Brett Sawyer...read more
By Phil Gigante (narrator) and Joe R. Lansdale
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9781423384472 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, November 3, 2009), cover price $39.97 | About this edition: Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are in for an action-packed adventure when they cross paths with a towering Pentecostal preacher, a midget with a giant attitude, and a gang of bikers turned soldiers of fortune.

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Product Description: Hap Collins and Leonard Pine find mucho trouble, this time in Mexico, when they come face to face with a nudist mobster, his seven-foot strong-arm, an octogenarian knife-touting fisherman, and, somehow, an armadillo. When Hap Collins saves the life of his employer’s daughter, he is rewarded with a Caribbean cruise, and he convinces his best friend, Leonard Pine, to come along...read more
By Phil Gigante (narrator) and Joe R. Lansdale
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9781423384519 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, November 3, 2009), cover price $87.97 | About this edition: Hap Collins and Leonard Pine find mucho trouble, this time in Mexico, when they come face to face with a nudist mobster, his seven-foot strong-arm, an octogenarian knife-touting fisherman, and, somehow, an armadillo.
9781423384533 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, November 3, 2009), cover price $39.97 | About this edition: Hap Collins and Leonard Pine find mucho trouble, this time in Mexico, when they come face to face with a nudist mobster, his seven-foot strong-arm, an octogenarian knife-touting fisherman, and, somehow, an armadillo.

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