Electric Gumbo: A Lansdale Reader: Difference between revisions

1994 compilation of Joe R. Lansdale’s short works

Electric Gumbo: A Lansdale Reader is a compilations of Joe R. Lansdale‘s short works. It has only been published once, exclusively by the Quality Paperback Book Club in trade paperback form in 1994.^[1]

It contains:

• Introduction
• The Drive-In (A Novel) [full reprinting] (nominated for Bram Stoker Award)
• 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 Award) {originally published in Dark at Heart, ed. Joe & Karen Lansdale (1992)}
• The Fat Man and the Elephant {originally published in By Bizarre Hands (1989)}
• A Hard-On for Horror: Low Budget Excitement (non-fiction) {extended from shorter version, probably published in 1985 in Twilight Zone Magazine, or at some point in 1992}
• Hell Through A Windshield (non-fiction) {extended from shorter version published in Twilight Zone Magazine, Mar/Apr 1985}
• The Job {originally published in Razored Saddles, ed. Joe R. Lansdale & Pat LoBrutto (1989)}
• Mister Weed-Eater {originally published by (James) Cahill Press (1993)}
• Night They Missed the Horror Show (winner of Bram Stoker Award) {originally published in Silver Scream, ed. David J. Schow (1988)}
• On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert With Dead Folks (winner of Bram Stoker Award) {originally published in Book of the Dead, ed. John M. Skipp & Craig Spector (1989)}
• The Phone Woman {originally published in Night Visions 8 (1991)}
• The Pit {originally published in The Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction, ed. Ed Gorman (1987)}
• The Steel Valentine {originally published in By Bizarre Hands (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.

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