#hap and leonard: blood and lemonade

[jacensolodjo]

I think these passages from Hap and Leonard Blood and Lemonade are rather apt.

“That’s the way we should have kept it. Self-defense is permissible.” 

“A stick was a little much,” I said. 

“Yeah, but these kids in school now, they’re being taught to accept being victims. Why there’s so many goddamn whiners, I think.” 

“That right?” 

“You don’t learn justice by taking it like the French. That’s not how it works. Someone doesn’t give you justice, you got to get your own.” 

“Or get out of the way of the problem.” 

“Alright, there’s that. But then the motherfucker just moves down the road a little, and picks a new victim.” 

“Here’s the thing, you get more shit from the meanies because the good folks don’t stand up, don’t know how, and don’t learn how. And they’re taught to just take it these days, and do it with a smile.”

“Everyone now, they don’t have an idea what’s just, what’s right, because they punish everyone the same. Ones that did it, and ones that didn’t. I can see that if no one knows what went down, but now, even when they know who the culprit is, one who started it, it comes out the same for both. The good and the bad.”

“Don’t treat the just and righteous the same as the bad and the willfully evil, or you breed a tribe of victims and a tribe of evil bastards. Learning to be a coward is the same as learning to be brave. It takes practice. And that, my good brother, is the parable of the stick.” 

[brigdh]

Reading Wednesday

The First Signs: Unlocking the Mysteries of the World’s Oldest Symbols by Genevieve von Petzinger. A non-fiction but breezily readable book about cave paintings. Many people are aware of the famous Ice Age paintings of animals – the horses and bison of Lascaux, the lions and bears at Chauvet – but less well-known are the abstract, geometric signs which pop up in this art just as often: dots, lines, X's, empty squares, etc. Mostly this is because the geometeric signs have been largely ignored by archaeologists themselves, who have a tradition of assuming that they're meaningless doodles, patches where the artists were testing their paints, or otherwise unimportant. Fortunately those assumptions are beginning to change. von Petzinger is an archaeologist herself, one whose research has focused on documenting and analyzing the geometric signs, but this book is very much aimed at a non-specialist audience. She does a great job at providing the background to understand why this is such a fascinating topic (short version: it's the beginning of humans' making art, and may well be evidence of the oldest human language and capacity for symbolism as well). She is also great at mixing her theories with more tactile, personal experiences of crawling around in dark caves or visiting obscure museums, keeping the book from spending too much time in the realm of the abstract. She covers various theories for what the art might "mean" (were they painting animals they wanted to hunt? painting their religious experiences? representing a battle between maleness and femaleness?), and though von Petzinger makes her own personal favorite explanation clear, she keeps from ultimately declaring any single one to be THE answer. Which I appreciate. I've seen some reviewers annoyed that the signs remain mysterious, but honestly, any book claiming to definitively solve a centuries-old scientific mystery is probably a book you should be suspicious of. Overall, a really great introduction to the topic, and one that I think could be interesting to a lot of people, especially if you like worldbuilding in fantasy or sci-fi. I always think that the Upper Paleolithic art is a great example of how utterly alien other humans can be while still being recognizable as ourselves, and it's endlessly fun to speculate on what they were like. Hap and Leonard: Blood and Lemonade by Joe Lansdale. Hap & Leonard is a mystery/thriller series that I discovered a year or two ago and have been slowly making my way through. The basic premise is that Hap is a liberal white straight ex-hippie, Leonard is a black gay conservative Vietnam vet, and together they fight crime! And also are best friends in rural East Texas, despite the problems that caused in the 60s and 70s and sometimes still today. Lansdale writes with an ironic, self-deprecating tone that makes the series appeal to me much more than a more straightforward 'tough guys beat up bad guys' take on the same idea would. This book is collection of short stories, though Lansdale himself describes it as a "mosaic novel". In summary: Hap and Leonard spend a night driving around town, shooting the shit and doing nothing much in particular. As their conservation drifts along and they pass by places they used to know, memories spark off flashbacks which lead into short stories, mostly about Hap's childhood, his parents, and particularly his relationship to racism, but also covering the first time Hap and Leonard met and the first time they got into trouble together. (Two of the stories were published previously in another context, but they're integrated so well into the rest that I wouldn't have known if I hadn't already read them: "The Boy Who Became Invisible" and "Not Our Kind".) But despite mostly taking place in the past, I don't think this would make for a good introduction to the series; a lot of the power of the stories depends on already knowing these characters and having an emotional connection to them and their relationship. On the other hand, if you do know them, this is a wonderful expansion of their history. I read this as an ARC via NetGalley.

(LJ post for easier commenting | DW, ditto)

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This here brand new JDP goodness is hotter than a billy goat in a pepper patch! On this episode, Tanky takes the topic reins again (Even the sun shines on a dog’s ass twice a day) and delves into one of his favorite TV series- “Hap and Leonard”. He expounds to Adam & Mike all about the critically acclaimed SundanceTV show adaptation and dips into the book series it’s based off of by the great author Joe R. Lansdale. Each season’s theme, the incredible actors playing the characters, and all the bloody ass kicking dark humored buddy crime noir aspects that makes the show and source material so special are discussed. So tune in and we hope you get sold on a exceptional new show(and book series) that’s sweeter than stolen honey.

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[roughjustice-crimefictionlover]

Tonight's thriller - Hap and Leonard: Blood and Lemonade, written by Joe R. Lansdale. ARC provided by Tachyon Publications. (at Boylestone)

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Happy birthday to the literary and martial arts master Joe R. Lansdale

Photo by Karen Lansdale

Probably the only person in the International Martial Arts Hall of Fame who has received an Edgar, ten Stokers, a Grandmaster of Horror, the British Fantasy, a Spur, and the Herodotus Awards, Joe R. Lansdale has written more than 40 novels, 400 shorter works, and devised the Shen Chuan Martial Science.

His novels include the Edgar Award-winning THE BOTTOMS, COLD IN JULY, NIGHTRUNNERS, FLAMING ZEPPELINS, A FINE DARK LINE, THE DRIVE-IN, THE THICKET, PARADISE SKY, and BUBBA AND THE COSMIC BLOOD-SUCKERS. Beginning with BY BIZARRE HANDS, Lansdale’s numerous short stories have been collected in several volumes including THE BEST OF JOE R. LANSDALE, WRITER OF THE PURPLE RAGE, HIGH COTTON, SANCTIFIED AND CHICKEN FRIED, DEADMAN’S ROAD, DEADMAN’S CROSSING, BLEEDING SHADOWS, MIRACLES AIN’T WHAT THEY USED BE, and DEAD ON THE BONES: PULP ON FIRE. He’s edited 15 anthologies including RAZORED SADDLES (with Pat LoBrutto), DARK AT HEART (with Karen Lansdale), WEIRD BUSINESS (with Richard Klaw), RETRO PULP TALES, CROSS PLAINS UNIVERSE (with Scott Cupp), CRUCIFIED DREAMS, and THE URBAN FANTASY ANTHOLOGY (with Peter S. Beagle). As if this wasn’t enough, Lansdale has written comics for DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, IDW, and others.

Lansdale’s most famous creation is the unlikely duo of Hap and Leonard. Hap Collins is white, liberal, and even tempered. Leonard Pine, who is quick to anger, is black, conservative and gay. In a series of nine novels, beginning with SAVAGE SEASON, and several novellas, the best friends encounter violence, racism, and adventure in their East Texas haunts. The often humorous tales have garnered much praise and a legion of loyal fans. Many of the Hap and Leonard novellas and shorter tales were collected in HAP AND LEONARD and HAP AND LEONARD RIDE AGAIN. The 10th and 11th novels, RUSTY PUPPY, and HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE came out earlier this year. In early 2018, the pair return to SUNDANCETV for a third season of HAP AND LEONARD, starring James Purefoy and Michael K. Williams.

Other works that have enjoyed the film treatment include BUBBA HO-TEP, COLD IN JULY, INCIDENT ON AND OFF A MOUNTAIN ROAD, and CHRISTMAS WITH DEAD, which Lansdale produced with a screenplay by his son, Keith. He has written many screenplays and teleplays, most notably for BATMAN THE ANIMATED SERIES and SUPERMAN THE ANIMATED SERIES. 

All of us at Tachyon wish champion Joe a happy birthday!

For more info about THE BEST OF JOE R. LANSDALE, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by John Picacio

For more info about CRUCIFIED DREAMS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Josh Beatman

For more info about THE URBAN FANTASY ANTHOLOGY, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info on HAP AND LEONARD, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story

For more info about HAP AND LEONARD RIDE AGAIN, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story

For more info about HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story

For more info about COLD IN JULY, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about FLAMING ZEPPELINS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by John Coulthart

For more info about DEADMAN’S ROAD, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art “The Quick and the Undead” by Travis J. Elston

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about DEADMAN’S CROSSING, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art “The Quick and the Undead” by Travis J. Elston

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

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Tachyon tidbits featuring Nancy Springer, James Tiptree Jr., Joe R. Lansdale, and Kate Elliott

The latest reviews and mentions of Tachyon titles and authors from around the web.

Nancy Springer (photo: Bob O’Lary), James Tiptree Jr., Joe R. Lansdale (Karen Lansdale), and Kate Elliott (April Quintanilla)

CELINE’S BOOK CORNER praises Nancy Springer’s THE ODDLING PRINCE.

I really enjoyed this book: the writing is beautiful, the story is consistent and it does transport you back to times past. Oddly enough, I had never heard of Nancy Springer before, but I will be making sure to check out some of her other books as she has written loads! This is definitely an author that I will remember.

At HARVARD BOOK STORE, James Tiptree’s HER SMOKE ROSE UP FOREVER is a staff selection.

An experiment: if you DON'T know who James Tiptree Jr. was, don't turn this book over and read the back. Don't read the introduction. Just charge right into the stories. THEN read the introduction. After. Otherwise, the secret will be spoiled. No one gets to enjoy that secret anymore, and the subsequent revelation.

These are some of my favorite stories in all of science fiction—bleak, difficult, and endearing takes on what it means to be human, how we think about gender, and how very small we are in the universe. I hope these stories haunt you the way they haunt me.

Robert Koehler for DGA QUARTERLY reveals that the latest wave of crime comedies employ a tricky balance between desperate drama and absurd humor. Hap and Leonard, the show based on Joe R. Lansdale’s popular series of books, typify this.

The current crime comedy wave—including such wide-ranging fare as Better Call Saul, Get Shorty, Good Behavior, Good Girls, Hap and Leonard, The Last O.G. and Sneaky Pete—could be considered the offspring of sometimes exceptionally dark sagas in which the ostensible bad guy is now the hero, starting emphatically with The Sopranos, in which there was almost never an episode without equal doses of violence and humor; Dexter, told from the view of an ironically narrating serial killer; Breaking Bad, the wild adventures of a chemistry teacher-turned-drug kingpin; Fargo, anthology reimaginings of the Coen brothers' Minnesota crime tale; and Justified, the ingenious adaptation of Leonard's short story Fire in the Hole.

Image: Sundance TV

A key part of figuring out the right tone is helping actors find their way into the genre's typically contradictory and quirky characters. Mickle notes that Corbin Bernsen came in as a guest star for Hap and Leonard's third season playing Cantuck, the police chief of racist-drenched Grovetown, Texas, a hard-bitten type who suffers from an enlarged testicle—the kind of detail that defines Lansdale's fiction.

"Corbin and I talked about the fun of working with that strange character trait," says Mickle. "There's always a challenge to be an actor who jumps into a show that has seasons under its belt. You need to give actors their space to find their way, and with Corbin, he'll do different takes during rehearsal and will sometimes improvise, all of which I encourage because I know that we'll find the best parts of the performance in the edit. Then, when an actor like Corbin says something funny, you need to get the reaction shots. In the first cut of a scene where Hap and Leonard meet Cantuck in episode two, Corbin's performance wasn't landing. But when we inserted Hap's and Leonard's responses, it turned into the right kind of comic scene where our two guys are trying to figure out if this police chief is putting them on or not."

These directors will readily point to key inspirations for their approach to the characters, guidelines helping them with the tricky business of juggling comedy and crime. For her ambitious first season finale episode of Good Girls, Anderson says, of a crucial moment when the forlorn husband character Dean (Matthew Lillard) crashes his car, that "it was really a steal from the Coen brothers, making the viewer feel the moment alongside the character."

The Coens' Effect is also felt in Hap and Leonard, Mickle observes, with the critical contribution of Ellen Chenoweth, the brothers' longtime casting director: "She brought to us several wonderful character actors, like Irma P. Hall and John McConnell, who seem to be born for this style." Mickle came to Hap and Leonard by way of directing his previous feature, Cold in July, based on a pre-Hap novel by Lansdale, "so it gave me a way of carrying over the mix of hijinks and high tension that I did in the movie into the series. But the thing that really inspired me for this was watching a huge number of Korean crime movies when I was in Korea. They drop in crazy twists and turns, dark stories with broad humor. I'm thinking of Bong Joon-ho for example, stuff that we haven't quite been able to do in the U.S."

Yet it's these constant shifts that can set dangerous traps for the director. "They're everywhere," says Arkin. "On one hand, you have to make sure that when you jump from a more comic scene to something more dramatic, you don't undercut one or the other. On the other hand, in television filmmaking, you risk falling into a static or imitative look and style just because everyone is so comfortable with it. I deliberately didn't study the movie version of Get Shorty because of this, so we wouldn't even be tempted to copy it. I remember it as being more comedic than Leonard's book, and we knew that we wanted to pull back the comedy a bit, while juggling tones so that we don't fall into a rut."

By contrast, Mickle wanted to direct the first two episodes of Hap and Leonard's third season since "I wanted to play with a broader comic approach early on that doesn't prepare the viewer for the dark tone that enters the story in the later episodes, a bit like the latter half of (Mickle's 2014 crime thriller) Cold in July when Don Johnson enters the movie and brings in a slapstick tone. It helps remind the viewer that they're in the world of the tall tale, where we can stage a huge storm, where colors are louder, where lighting is more extreme. It's not reality."

At TOR.COM, Sam Hawke includes Kate Elliott’s Court of Fives series among 5 SFF Books Exploring Sibling Relationships.

In this series, billed as “Little Women meets American Ninja Warrior in Greco-Roman Egypt,” the main character, Jes, is an athlete with a Commoner mother and an upper class Patron father. Her dream is to compete for the Fives, an athletic competition that offers a chance for glory, but due to the society’s strict rules and her father’s delicate position, the only way she can compete is in secret. When disaster strikes and a ruthless Lord tears Jes’s family apart, she is forced into a much more deadly game of politics and loyalty, and a desperate plan to save her mother and sisters. This story has so much going for it that I love (competitive girls in sports! Intricate political scheming and cultural clashes! Slow burn background magic!) but easily my favourite element was the portrayal of Jes’s family over the course of the trilogy, and particularly her complex, well-realised relationships between her sisters. Elliott really nails the layers of family dynamic, crafting four very distinct sisters with their own character arcs and motivations, and the complex mix of love, combativeness, defensiveness and trust that binds them together

For more info about THE ODDLING PRINCE, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Brian Giberson

Design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about HER SMOKE ROSE UP FOREVER, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by John Picacio

For more info about HAP AND LEONARD, visit the Tachyon page.

For more info about THE BIG BOOK OF HAP AND LEONARD, visit the Tachyon page.

For more info about HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE, visit the Tachyon page.

Covers by Elizabeth Story

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HAP AND LEONARD: MUCHO MOJO enjoys a strong start

For DEN OF GEEK, David S.E. Zapanta enjoys the first episode of SundanceTV’s HAP AND LEONARD: MUCHO MOJO.

Overall, “Mucho Mojo” is a strong start. Six episodes may not seem like enough, but the first season covered a lot of ground in only six hours. I’m expecting more of the same this time around. And while I may be missing Christina Hendricks, this episode certainly doesn’t suffer from her absence. What matters is that Purefoy and Williams continue to work so well together.

Irma P. Hall as MeMaw 

Crime shows like Hap and Leonard may truck in violence, but a lot of their success also resides in humorous beats. There are some genuinely funny moments between Hap and Leonard, but Irma P. Hall’s elderly matriarch MeMaw is a real scene-stealer. She may laugh off Leonard pissing in drug dealer Melton’s face (as does much of the neighborhood), but she won’t suffer raunchy talk at her breakfast table.

Melanie Mcfarland at SALON discusses the series in “Me and you ain’t you and her”: How “Hap and Leonard” challenges TV’s portrayal of masculine friendship.

Strip away the so-called “swamp noir,” a label describing the East Texas twang born of a meeting between arid and sultry. Look behind the curtain of its murder mystery, which careens through turns that are at once predictable and obscenely unfair, and see Sundance’s “Hap and Leonard” for what it is — a wonderful platonic love story.

Leonard Pine (Michael J. Williams) and Hap Collins (James Purefoy)

Grounding “Hap and Leonard” in a devoted, affectionate male friendship goes counter to the standard vision of machismo or manly identity seen elsewhere on TV. Mind you, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine fit the popular concept of what it means to be masculine. (Leonard is a brawler, in fact. In the season premiere he beats a criminal senseless for urinating on his prized rosebush, topping off the incident by repaying the offense in kind.)

Since “Hap and Leonard” establishes the intensity of their brotherhood, it can take the audience into uncomfortable places and make broader topics of prejudice and injustice personal.

It’s not as if the first season of “Hap and Leonard” ignored the fact that Hap is a white ex-convict and Leonard is an African-American with dark skin having adventures in the Reagan-era South. The previous story was a caper involving Hap’s ex-wife Trudy (Christina Hendricks), who got them into trouble with nihilistic thugs. Television writers love to punctuate the villainy of such characters by having them sprinkle their vocabulary with epithets as casually as a smoker taps cigarette ash onto concrete. Leonard sustained his share of such abuse.

But the racial divide in the second season is distinct and purposeful, adding an anxious edge to Hap and Leonard’s interactions with the law — more specifically, Leonard’s troubles. And this new act makes “Hap and Leonard” into an allegory illustrating the senselessness of America’s racial divide, showing a community where black and white people live in close proximity while leading almost entirely separate lives. The drama may take place in the late 1980s, but its observations about law enforcement bias and the prejudice corrupting the judiciary are right on time.

Barbed as its observations about race and class can be, “Hap and Leonard” nevertheless embraces its audience with liberal servings of humor and the heartfelt bond between the two leads. And actually, Hap’s crush on Florida serves to spotlight their enduring loyalty as opposed to splitting them, simultaneously speaking to the societal conflict threaded through this season.

“She black,” Leonard says to Hap, later adding, “And you ain’t.”

“That never stopped me and you,” Hap retorts, to which Leonard delivers the perfect rebuttal: “Me and you ain’t you and her.”

Leonard’s right. Plainly they mean much more to each other.

SUNDANCETV offers their second exclusive excerpt from Joe R. Lansdale’s HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE.

Journey back in time to witness one of Hap and Leonard’s young adventures in this never-before-seen story by Joe R. Lansdale, “In the River of the Dead”. 

HAP AND LEONARD: IN THE RIVER OF THE DEAD — CHAPTER 1

We were seventeen when this happened, out fishing on the Sabine River.

What we learned was if we went fishing, sat in a boat and dragged some lines in the water, we might catch dinner for our night camp, but mostly we found out about each other. That’s how I learned about Leonard’s family, his feelings about being black and gay, and he learned about my family and me.

We drifted all day, had our camping supplies in the boat, and the plan was we would find a place to stop before nightfall. The boat was pretty good sized, an open boat. The outboard motor wasn’t strong on horse power, but it puttered us along as fast as we needed to go.

The river smelled sour because the day was warm. After we motored down a ways, we killed the engine and let the boat drift beneath the shade of the overhanging trees in the narrow part of the river. It was cooler there. The wind finally picked up, which was nice, because it blew the stink and the mosquitoes away from us.

At ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, Joe R. Lansdale delivers a poignant tribute to his good friend Bill Paxton.

Bill Paxton died while I was at a hometown film festival I had hoped to rope him into attending. We thought 2018 was possible.

We talked about it in January when he told me he had to have surgery for a heart condition. Bill said he was starting to think every slight feeling he had was due to the discovery of the heart problem.

He said, “I’m an actor, Joe. I can imagine anything. Tell me I’m a dog and I start barking.”

He was a little scared about the whole business, and we joked about it to disarm his worries. I told him my brother had heart surgery more than once and was fine. We ended up laughing hard about all manner of things, most of them pretty silly, before we rang off.

Bill Paxton, Jake Lansdale, and Joe R. Lansdale

I only knew Bill for seven or eight years, possibly a little more, but to know Bill for only an hour made it seem you had known him your whole life. He was a Ft. Worth boy, a Texan. Ft. Worth is where we met. At a film festival, of course.

He was what they used to call a boon companion. Witty, fun, considerate and kind. Nothing movie star about him.

In an IHOP in Nacogdoches, Texas, me and Bill and our mutual friend, Brent Hanley, screenwriter who wrote FRAILTY, a marvelous film Bill directed and starred in, were having breakfast, and Bill was recognized.

The waiter said, “You’re a movie star,” to which Bill replied with his usual modesty. “Well, I’m an actor.”

After breakfast, Brent and I went out of the restaurant, realized we had lost Bill. We soon discovered he was inside having photographs taken and signing autographs for anyone who asked, and he did it joyfully. He was thankful for his career, and for those who loved seeing him on the screen.

We spent the day tromping around in the river bottoms with my cousin, who was helping us locate possible locations for the film we hoped to make based on my novel THE BOTTOMS.

Next day we visited with my cousin’s family. Bill seemed as if he had grown up next door. Kind and considerate as he could be. Not a movie star bone in him. He made everyone comfortable.

Damn, I miss him.

For more info about HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story

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Join HAP AND LEONARD creator Joe R. Lansdale at Killercon

Joe R. Lansdale will be at Killercon in Austin, TX, August 16-18.

Photo by Karen Lansdale

Guests of Honor

John Skipp

Elizabeth Massie

Carlton Mellick III

KillerCon Austin Wingate by Wyndham Conference Center Round Rock, TX

For more info about THE BEST OF JOE R. LANSDALE, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by John Picacio

For more info about CRUCIFIED DREAMS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Josh Beatman

For more info about HAP AND LEONARD, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story

For more info about HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story

For more info about THE BIG BOOK OF HAP AND LEONARD, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story

For more info about COLD IN JULY, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about FLAMING ZEPPELINS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by John Coulthart

For more info about DEADMAN’S ROAD, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art “The Quick and the Undead” by Travis J. Elston Cover design by Elizabeth Story

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Visit with HAP AND LEONARD creator Joe R. Lansdale, his ownself

Joe R. Lansdale will be hitting the trail this month. Be sure to stop by and say howdy to the affable Joe.

Photo: Karen Lansdale

Tuesday, February 21, 7:30PM at Wild Detectives in Dallas, TX

with Kathleen Kent

Wednesday, February 22, 6:30PM at Murder By the Book in Houston, TX

with Kathleen Kent

Thursday, February 23, 7PM at BookPeople in Austin, TX

with Kathleen Kent

Monday, February 27, 7PM at The Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale, AZ

with Kathleen Kent

Tuesday, February 28, 7PM at Eagle Eye Books in Decatur, GA

Wednesday, March 1, 7PM at Powell's Books - Cedar Hills Crossing in Beaverton, OR

Thursday, March 2, noon at Seattle Mystery Bookshop in Seattle, WA

Thursday, March 2, 7PM at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, WA

Friday, March 3, 7:30PM at The Historic Balboa Theater in San Francisco, CA

Screening of the legendary BUBBA HO-TEP followed by Q&A and signing

Saturday, March 4, 3PM at Borderlands Books in San Francisco, CA

Saturday, March 4, 7PM at Copperfield's Books in Petaluma, CA

Sunday, March 5, 2PM  at Dark Delicacies in Burbank, CA

with HAP AND LEONARD cast members Ron Rogge (Hap's Dad), Trace Masters (Little Hap), Pollyanna McIntosh (Angel - Only signing Hap & Leonard Season 1), Jeff  Pope (Chub), Neil Sandliands (tentative), Lowell Northrop, Jeremy Platt & musician Kasey Lansdale

Monday, March 6, 7PM at Book Carnival in Orange, CA

Tuesday, March 7, 7PM at Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena, CA 

Monday, March 13, 7PM at Jean Cocteau Cinema in Santa Fe, NM

Screening of first episode of HAP AND LEONARD: MUCHO MOJO followed by Q&A and signing

For more info about HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story

For more info on HAP AND LEONARD, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story

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HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE showcases Lansdale’s most personal and reflective writing to date

Photo: Karen Lansdale

With a *starred* review, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY praises Joe R. Lansdale’s forthcoming HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE.

Fans of Lansdale’s Hap and Leonard novels (RUSTY PUPPY, etc.) will welcome this wonderful compilation of vignettes and episodes from Hap Collins’s early life in East Texas, most of which deal with issues of racism and injustice. “Tire Fire” relates the full story of teenager Hap’s memorable first meeting with Leonard Pine at a nighttime “money fight” in the country. 

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Another highlight is “Apollo Red,” in which Hap tells girlfriend Brett and daughter Chance a few stories about his father, a larger-than-life character, whose kindness and charitable actions often seemed to contradict his racist talk. This loose collection of tales showcases some of Lansdale’s most personal and reflective writing to date.

BILL CRIDER’S POP CULTURE MAGAZINE likes the new book.

You might notice that I said "short pieces" instead of short stories.  Some of the pieces are stories, and all of them have a story to tell, but not all of them are stories.  One of them is even called "The Parable of the Stick," so you know what that one is.  And while they're mostly about Hap (and occasionally Leonard) all of them have something to impart beyond the simple history of a character.  They're about a time and a place and people and attitudes and growing up in an era different from the one we live in now.  I suspect that some of them are drawn from Lansdale's own life, but that's just, like, my opinion, man. 

Everything here is written in Lansdale's inimitable style of down-home East Texas storytelling, and everything is eminently readable and enjoyable.  There's humor, there's sadness, there's blood, and there's lemonade.  And some cussing, too.  Great stuff, irresistible reading.

Ian Rogers named, without comment, HAP AND LEONARD as one of his favorite collections of 2016 and “The Oak and The Pond” one of the favorite short stories.

SUNDANCETV shared more images from the forthcoming Series HAP AND LEONARD: MUCHO MOJO.

Hap Collins (James Purefoy), Leonard Pine (Michael K. Williams) Raul (Enrique Murciano) and Florida Grange (Tiffany Mack) in Episode 2. 

Raul (Enrique Murciano) and Leonard Pine (Michael K. Williams) in Episode 1. 

Leonard Pine (Michael K. Williams), Hap Collins (James Purefoy) and Illium Moon (Wayne Dehart) in Episode 2. 

For more info about HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story

For more info on HAP AND LEONARD, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story

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HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE is an emotionally compelling tale

Reviews for Joe R. Lansdale’s forthcoming HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE keep rolling in.

GINGER NUTS OF HORROR gushes.

At times this is a hard book to read, due to its cultural setting, Lansdale has captured the sociopolitical zeitgeist of the era perfectly.  A period where racism was rampant and times were excruciating for Black people and those who didn't fit in with the general feeling towards them.  Be warned the use of the N-word is utilised many times in this book, but it is never used for shock value, it drives the story to such an extent it almost feels as though your soul is taking a beating as you read it.  BLOOD AND LEMONADE is an emotionally compelling tale  which puts the reader through an emotional whirlwind in a way that only a great writer such as Lansdale can do.  

From the moving "Parable of the Stick" which takes a look bullying in school and to the shocking story of how an outcast at school can be forced to take things too far, to the deeply moving story of when Hap and his mother help a lost black kid.  These stories are written with a keen eye and an empathic heart, that can only come from a writer who grew up in the Texas of these stories. 

But don't worry BLOOD AND LEMONADE takes the lead from the book's title and balances the blood with lots of lemonade,  for every dark story there is one that shows that there were light and friendship and lots of good people around.  You will smile and chuckle in between the moments of unrelenting darkness. 

BLOOD AND LEMONADE is a great collection of stories, and unlike so many other prequels out here actually adds to the mythology of the stories that came before it.  The Hap and Leonard we knew before reading this are given an extra depth and sense of humanity with this book, BLOOD AND LEMONADE is a honorable entry in the mythology of the most righteous pair of heroes the genre has ever seen. 

Photo: Karen Lansdale

HORROR DRIVE-IN praises the book.

We've come to expect outrageous humor, situations, and violence in Hap and Leonard stories, and there is some of that stuff in HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE. But this collection is a more somber bunch of stories. Some feature crime and bloodshed. Some are funny. Some are wistful. Some are sad and thoughtful. Joe, slippery bastard that he is, even slips a ghost story into the mix.

BLOOD AND LEMONADE shows another side of Hap and Leonard. While, yes, there are introspective moments in each of the books up to now, these stories are often quiet. They give the reader pause; time for contemplation.

Joe calls Blood and Lemonade a mosaic novel. I always called this sort of thing a story cycle. Both terms amount to the same thing. There are connecting sequences with Hap and Leonard woolgathering about past events. Each story is a slice of life from when they were young, before the events of SAVAGE SEASON. Some are not even Hap and Leonard stories, but simply Hap stories. That isn't surprising as Hap's perspective has always been the driving force of the series.

Tachyon also published the previously mentioned Hap and Leonard short story collection. Unlike that one, which contains a lot of reprints, BLOOD AND LEMONADE features mostly new works, and works that will be new to most readers. Both are essential to any fan, but as I noted before, HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE, is something truly special. You are going to love it. Regardless of whether, like me, you are a (savage) seasoned Hap and Leonard veteran, or are new to the characters. Trust me.

Jim Mickle, director of COLD IN JULY and executive producer of SundanceTV’s HAP AND LEONARD, had this to say:

BLOOD AND LEMONADE is the best of Lansdale and the best of Hap and Leonard. As urgent as it is timeless. As fun as it is thoughtful. It haunts you while it kicks your ass. Joe never lets you down, just shows you over and over why he's the best.

Both ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY and TV INSIDER featured images from the forthcoming SundanceTV series HAP AND LEONARD: MUCHO MOJO.

Michael K. Williams and James Purefoy as the titular characters.

For more info about HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story

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Happy birthday to the multi-talented Rick Klaw

(Tachyon managing editor Jill Roberts has hijacked Tumblr. Control will be restored to the proper parties shortly.)

Photo by Brandy Whitten

Professional freelance editor, reviewer, publicist, marketing guru, geek maven, and optimistic curmudgeon, Richard “Rick” Klaw is the wearer of many hats.  

For the past 20 years, Klaw has provided nigh-countless reviews, essays, and fiction for a variety of publications: The Austin Chronicle, Blastr, Moving Pictures Magazine, San Antonio Current, Geek Dad, San Antonio Business Journal, Conversations With Texas Writers, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, SF Site, Science Fiction Weekly, Nova Express, STEAMPUNK, Electric Velocipede, Cross Plains Universe, Red Range, and The Steampunk Bible. Many of his essays and observations were collected in Geek Confidential: Echoes from the 21st Century.

Klaw co-founded the influential Mojo Press, one of the first publishers dedicated to both graphic novels and prose books for the general bookstore market, and co-edited (with Joe R. Lansdale) the groundbreaking original anthology of short fiction in graphic form, Weird Business. He also served as the initial fiction editor for RevolutionSF.

Klaw edited all the volumes of the Hap and Leonard crime series by Joe R. Lansdale and co-edited PIRATE UTOPIA by Bruce Sterling for Tachyon. He is the editor of the anthologies THE APES OF WRATH and Rayguns Over Texas.

In addition to other consulting and marketing activities, Klaw currently manages and develops content for the social media presence of Tachyon Publications. Recently a first-time homeowner, Klaw lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, a perpetually confused dog, a pair of adorable, high energy cats, and an impressive collection of books.

Rick can often be found pontificating on Twitter and at his award-winning blog The Geek Curmudgeon.

Tachyon wishes Rick a very happy birthday (and we thank him for allowing us to hijack his regularly scheduled social-media domination).

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Cover by Alex Solis

Design by Elizabeth Story

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Cover and by John Coulthart

For more info on HAP AND LEONARD, visit the Tachyon page. Cover by Elizabeth Story

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Cover by Elizabeth Story

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Celebrate both Halloween and the birthday of the modern master of suspense Joe R. Lansdale with a sale!

In honor of the award-winning Joe R. Lansdale’s birthday on October 28th and his favorite holiday, all Lansdale books purchased from the Tachyon site are 20% off now through Monday. Print and digital. All Lansdale titles. Complete with free shipping in the US.*

Here’s you chance to 

Catch up on or be introduced to the zany adventures of his most famous duo in HAP AND LEONARD, HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE, and THE BIG BOOK OF HAP AND LEONARD

Witness a father’s revenge in COLD IN JULY

Experience a steampunk adventure unlike any other with FLAMING ZEPPELINS

Traverse a weird west littered with zombies, werewolves, evil spirits, and one pissed-off gun-slinging preacher in DEADMAN’S ROAD.

Visit many of his outrageous, award-winning visions with THE BEST OF JOE R. LANSDALE

The sale also includes the Lansdale edited anthologies CRUCIFIED DREAMS and THE URBAN FANTASY ANTHOLOGY (co-edited with Peter S. Beagle).

So stop on by, pull up a chair, pop open a Dr. Pepper, eat some vanilla cookies, and treat yourself to some Lansdale.

Photo by Karen Lansdale

*Sale ends on Monday 11:59PM PST. Free shipping is via media mail

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Cover by John Picacio

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Cover by Josh Beatman

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Cover by Elizabeth Story

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Cover by Elizabeth Story

For more info about THE BIG BOOK OF HAP AND LEONARD, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story

For more info about COLD IN JULY, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

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Cover by John Coulthart

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Cover art “The Quick and the Undead” by Travis J. Elston

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

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Visit with HAP AND LEONARD creator Joe R. Lansdale

Photo: Karen Lansdale

Joe R. Lansdale is a Guest of Honor at KillerCon in Austin, TX, August 24-26.

Guests of Honor

Joe R. Lansdale

Brian Keene

Edward Lee

Lucy Taylor

KillerCon Austin Wingate by Wyndham Conference Center Round Rock, TX

For more info about HAP AND LEONARD, visit the Tachyon page.

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Covers by Elizabeth Story

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HAP AND LEONARD tackles societal problems in an unapologetic yet humorous manner

The cancellation of the popular and acclaimed SundanceTV series Hap and Leonard has not sat well with fans.

Jonita Davis for BLACK GIRL NERDS argues that the show was cancelled because tv execs were not comfortable with the show’s uncomfortable content.

There hasn’t been a show in a long tine that embodied so many important tropes depicted in such natural forms. Thee now-cancelled AMC  SundanceTV show ��Hap and Leonard” took on several problem areas in modern society with an unapologetic yet humorous manner.  From the toxic white feminine complacency to the conservative black gay man and the black woman driven to her death by racism and misogyny, the show never shed away from a subject.

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There won’t be another show like “Hap and Leonard”, In fact, the next shows lined up bu SundanceTV center whiteness once again with three white women in the lead and no POC to be found so far. Fortunately, we will have Lansdale’s extensive collection of books about our characters on display and ready to read.

The whole fiasco shows us that, until the tv execs get comfortable airing uncomfortable content, we will never be able to keep a great show like “Hap and Leonard”.

Fans have started the petition: Netflix or Amazon should pick up future seasons of Hap and Leonard!

The Sundance Channel cancelled a much-beloved show with many loyal viewers (that they did little to promote) and after 3 great seasons, there's are many more Hap and Leonard books ready to be adapted.

One of the prime streaming channels like Netflix or Amazon should and allow the current fans and future fans to find this wonderful series!

For 1428 ELM, Susan Leighton shares a lengthy 2 part interview with Joe R. Lansdale.

From Part 1:

1428 Elm: Let’s talk Bubba Ho-Tep. Knowing that Elvis spent time in Gladewater, were you a fan? What was the genesis for the short story that became one of the most beloved cult classics of all time?

JL: First of all, the genesis for it would be that I grew up with Elvis. Of course, my brother had that loose connection with him. It was almost like he was a distant cousin in a strange way.

In many ways because of him, I discovered all of these different types of music. Without Elvis, a lot of white kids would never have known about black music, country music and folk music because they were all connected to what he did.

That meant a lot to me. So, when I was asked to write an Elvis story, I had this title in my head. Bubba Ho-Tep which I thought would be a funny thing for a mummy story.

Photo by Ulf Andersen/Getty Images

Part 2:

428 Elm: Sorry to hear about the cancellation of this terrific show. What are your takeaways from your time with Sundance and being one of the producers?

JL: James Purefoy and I were talking via email and neither one of us are sad. We had three great seasons. If we would have been able to continue we would have been more enthusiastic to do so. We’re both very content.

Fans were even disappointed and angry. I don’t think there is anything to be angry about. My takeaway is that Sundance treated me very well.

We were hoping it would move somewhere else but it didn’t. It was a wonderful experience. I met some great people.

I am working on the Bottoms which my friend Bill Paxton was supposed to direct. He was such a great guy with such a great vision of the film and his direction would have been awesome.

We have other plans, I’m not going to say what because that’s confidential. I am excited about it. I will be a producer on it. Although I am not the absolute producer on it, I hope to be more involved with it.

I am trying to be a more active producer on other projects of mine or a more absolute producer. So, we’ll see what happens.

Michael Patrick Hicks at HIGH FEVER BOOKS praises the forthcoming collection Terror Is Our Business: Dana Roberts' Casebook of Horrors by Joe R Lansdale and Kasey Lansdale.

Terror is Our Business collects the Dana Roberts stories, previously published elsewhere, into a single volume, along with a new story, “The Case of the Ragman’s Anguish,” that is exclusive to this story. The book is split pretty evenly, with the first half devoted to stories written solely by Joe R. Lansdale, with the back-half featuring stories co-written by Joe and his daughter, Kasey Lansdale.

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Following Kasey's introduction to this collection, we are introduced to a woman named Jana, initially in a stand-alone story focused solely on her encounter with the paranormal, before joining Dana's investigations for the final two casebooks. Jana is a bit more my style - she's fun, witty, has a bit of mouth on her, says things without thinking, and is pretty much always in way over her head. Dana, on the other hand, is very reserved and proper, an upper-class sort of personality. Jana is her Watson to Dana's Holmes, and becomes our window into the world of the supernormal for the collection's back-half. Once Kasey and Jana hit the pages, the stories become livelier and Dana finally has a counterpoint, a polar opposite, to act against. The burgeoning friendship between these personalities present an entertaining foil. The last two stories present supernormal threats that are also unabashedly Lovecraftian, which hit a particular sweet spot for me. While Jana presents an airier narrative voice than the stuffier gentleman author transcribing a moneyed ghost hunter's adventures, the introduction of cosmic threats really tickled me, even if the stories still follow the by-now well-established Dana Roberts' Casebook story formula. 

All in all, Terror is Our Business: Dana Roberts' Casebook of Horrors is a largely delightful introduction to this investigator, but it took a while for me to connect with the work as a whole. It's not really until the last couple stories that everything began to click for me, and it's clear that Kasey Lansdale's influence was key to the development of Dana Roberts and helped give the series a fresher perspective. I do hope to see more of Dana and Jana, as well as Joe and Kasey as collaborators, in the future though. 

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Cover by Elizabeth Story

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Cover by Elizabeth Story

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Cover design by Elizabeth Story

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Cover by John Picacio

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With the suspenseful COLD IN JULY, Joe R. Lansdale, as always, tells a good story

TZER ISLAND praises Joe R. Lansdale’s COLD IN JULY.

COLD IN JULY is the kind of story that confronts relatively good people with hard moral choices. The story eventually gives Dane the opportunity to act as a vigilante in what seems to him (and possibly the reader) to be a just cause. Typical vigilante fiction features a resolute and self-righteous protagonist with military training and lots of guns who makes the world a better place by cleaning up the polluting people he defines as scum. Dane is just an ordinary guy. He doesn’t see himself killing anyone. Whether he will or won’t take on the vigilante role and what effect that choice will have on him is the question than builds suspense in the novel’s second half. Readers can debate whether Dane makes the right choice, which is part of the reason to read a book like COLD IN JULY. Lansdale makes clear that there really is no choice that can clearly be viewed as morally correct.  Whatever Dane does will lead to harm, and any choice he makes will leave a permanent scar on his soul.

Lansdale always tells a good story and he doesn’t waste words doing it. His characters are as real as they need to be. Readers understand a character's essential characteristics without wading through every detail of their formative years. Lansdale avoids making the villains stereotypes by largely ignoring them. We know what they did, but we don’t know them as people. Nor do we need to know them. The focus instead is on the good guys, who are flawed but far from evil, making it easy for the reader to hope for the best when the shooting starts.

COLD IN JULY builds suspense until the story reaches its bloody climax. It isn’t possible to close one’s eyes when reading a book, but readers might find themselves holding their breath. I don’t know if the movie adaptation is any good (Roger Ebert didn’t think so), but COLD IN JULY played as a thumbs up movie in my mind.

Craig Terlson on his WOOFREAKINHOO blog profiles Lansdale and his seminal creation Hap & Leonard.

About a dozen or more years ago I was working on my first novel, Correction Line, and I was swapping chapters with a friend from Rhode Island. My story was a combination of a lot of things I loved, literary fiction, the prairies, baseball, bad guys with guns, and oh yeah Marquez and other magical realists. Let’s just say I was trying to put a lot of things together.

While my friend was reading the excerpts he asked, “Anyone ever tell you that you kinda write like Joe Lansdale?”

“Who?”

Anyway, like I said, lots has been written, including by me at this blog, on my love of all things Lansdale. At the centre of this praise are his two best, and most well-known characters, Hap and Leonard. Trying to keep this intro short, so let’s just say working class white, liberal, draft dodger Hap teams up with black, gay, conservative, Vietnam vet, Leonard and they… wait, what do they do? Solve cases? Help people? Are their own kind of knight errants? Kick a lot of ass? Well, yes to all those things. It’s kind of hard to describe. They do get into their own sort of trouble, and end up helping people because it is the right thing to do. But really, for me, it’s all about who they are—I read them just to find out what they’re up to. And the characters are so sharp and original that I’d read a story about the two of them going to the grocery store to pick up a box of Vanilla wafers for Leonard (his favourite).

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The first few chapters of Bad Chili revolve around Hap getting treatment for his possibly rabid squirrel bite. I know some editors and agents would say that the conflict has to be there right on the first page, and don’t fuck around getting there. Lansdale eventually gets there (the novel is not about rabid squirrels—but for three of four chapters it is). Because he has created such great characters, you don’t feel one ounce of impatience in the doling out of the story… or I sure didn’t. And it is a damn good story.

Photo: Ulf Anderson

KENDALL REVIEWS interviews Lansdale.

KR: What kind of research do you do, and how long do you spend researching before beginning a book?

I usually read things that interest me and they lead to my desire to write a certain story. I research when I have to, or to make sure I have something right, or at least I try to do that. But sometimes I’m reading something for fun, and that leads to my interest in writing something. I’m rarely aware I’m researching. There have certainly been things through where I felt I needed to delve deeper than the books I read that got me interested in the first place.

KR: Describe your usual writing day?

When I wake up, I get my coffee and something light to eat, and go to work. I work for about three hours, but it can be less, and now and again is more, if I decide to drop in later in the day. But three hours is usually about all I have in me everyday. I write a lot daily then I get diminishing returns. I have a plan to get three to five pages, and it is rare indeed that I don’t get that, and frequently I get more, six or seven, sometimes ten or twelve, depending. I do most of my proofing as I go, so I don’t have multiple drafts that are visible. I write the story and then do a polish, and I’m done. I’m willing to make any changes that make sense, however, and always listen to editorial suggestions, but I also feel fine ignoring them if I think I should.

The rare short story “Man With Two Lives” is the latest addition to the BookVoice Pocket Stories series.

Written around the same time as The Magic Wagon, "Man With Two Lives" catches up with an Old West legend past his prime. An excerpt from "Man With Two Lives" It was July the Fourth and Nacogdoches, the oldest town in Texas, was hung with banners declaring the holiday. The old man read them and continued walking. He was not in a festive mood at all. It was too hot and he was too old. He continued around the square toward the general store.

Yes, too hot and too old, but he kept going full steam ahead, for this was how he had always lived, and he knew no other way.

Sometimes, especially when it was hot he had noticed, he thought perhaps it would have been better had he really died in that saloon facedown on the card table; really been buried in a good hard box in that dark, rocky ground.

Certainly it would have been better than this. Less painful than this; wasting away of old age, being a man out of place and time, a nobody. Considering the fact that in his first life he had been very important made this all the worse.

Once he had carried a brace of revolvers, but now it was all he could do to carry himself down the street.

CAMPFIRE RADIO THEATER presents the audio adaptation of Lansdale terrifying short story “God of the Razor.”

A man investigates an old Texas mansion searching for antiques but soon finds more than he bargained for. Because in this lonely stretch of land, ancient gods walk the earth and their followers have little choice but to obey their twisted demands

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