Joe Lansdale: High Cotton: Selected Stories of Joe R. Lansdale

They got in the truck and Vinnie cranked it.

"I think we did them boys a favor," Pork said. "Them running around with niggers and what they did to that dog and all. They weren't worth a thing."

"I know it," Vinnie said. "We should have filmed this, Pork, it would have been good. Where the car and that nigger-lover went off in the water was choice."

"Nah, there wasn't any women."

"Point," Vinnie said, and he backed around and drove onto the trail that wound its way out of the bottoms.

"The Pit," first published in The Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction , 1987.

"Not From Detroit," first published in Midnight Graffiti , Fall, 1988.

"Booty and the Beast," first published in Archon Gaming , 1995.

"Steppin' Out, Summer, '68," first published in Night Visions , 8, 1991.

"Incident On and Off a Mountain Road," first published in Night Visions, 8 , 1991.

"My Dead Dog, Bobby," first published in The Horror Show , Sum. '87.

"Trains Not Taken," first published in RE: AL, Spring 1987.

"Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back," first published in Nukes , 1986.

"Dog, Cat, and Baby," first published in Masques #2 , 1987.

"Mister Weed-Eater," first published by Cahill Press, 1993.

"By Bizarre Hands," first published in Hardboiled #9, 1988.

"The Fat Man and the Elephant," first published in By Bizarre Hands , 1989.

"The Phone Woman," first published in Night Visions , 8, 1991.

"Letter from the South, Two Moons West of Nacogdoches," first published in Last Wave , #5, 1986.

"By the Hair of the Head," first published in Shadows , #6, 1983.

"The Job," first published in Razored Saddles , 1989.

"Godzilla's Twelve Step Program," first published in Writer of the Purple Rage , 1994.

"Drive-In Date," first published in Night Visions , 8, 1991.

"Bob the Dinosaur Goes to Disneyland," first published in Midnight Graffiti , Fall 1989.

"The Steel Valentine," first published in By Bizarre Hands , 1989.

"Night They Missed the Horror Show," first published in Silver Scream , 1988.

JOE R. LANSDALE has written over twenty books and over two hundred short stories, comprising an eclectic mixture of horror, crime, suspense, humor, science fiction, and Western. His champion Mojo storytelling has won him the British Fantasy Award, the American Mystery Award, five Bram Stoker Awards from the Horror Writers of America, the International Crime Writer's Award, the Booklist Editor's Award, and a New York Times Notable Book Award.

In addition to his writing, Lansdale is a student of the martial arts, and founder of Shen Chuan, and divides his time each day between the typewriter and his martial-arts studio, where he teaches.

Lansdale recently completed another novel, Freezer Burn , which is available in hardback, paperback or eBook form. He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas with is wife Karen, writer and editor.

Four thousand copies of this book have been printed by the Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group, Binghamton, NY, for Golden Gryphon Press, Urbana, IL. The typeset is Elante, printed on 55# Sebago. The binding cloth is Arrestox B. Typesetting by The Composing Room, Inc., Kimberly, WI.