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The Case of the Bleeding Wall #1 gets a new printing and new cover from Dustin Nguyen
The Case of the Bleeding Wall #1 gets a new printing and new cover from Dustin Nguyen #comics #comicbooks
On September 20th, Dead Sky Publishing‘s The Case of the Bleeding Wall #1 hit comic shops on September 20 and quickly sold out. The publisher has announced a second printing, arriving in shops on January 24th with a new cover by Dustin Nguyen.
The second printing covers and variant cover pre-orders are available for pre-order which end on Monday, December 18. Readers are encouraged to visit…
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Following Classic Monsters Unleashed - the highest-funded horror anthology in Kickstarter history - Shakespeare Unleashed is up next from Crystal Lake Publishing and Monstrous Books. It reimagines Shakespeare’s greatest works as short horror stories and sonnets.
Edited by Weird Tales Magazine editor James Aquilone, the horror anthology features new writing from Joe R. Lansdale, Kasey Lansdale, Jonathan Maberry, Cullen Bunn, Seanan McGuire, Ian Doescher, Tim Waggoner, and more. It features cover and interior art by J.K. Woodward.
Shakespeare Unleashed is currently crowd funding on Kickstarter, where you can reserve limited hardcover editions ($39), supplementary comic books ($15), e-books ($15), digital comics ($8), and more. Perks are expected to be delivered in April 2023.
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'Shakespeare Unleashed' Horror Anthology is Live on Kickstarter
‘Shakespeare Unleashed’ Horror Anthology is Live on Kickstarter
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Shakespeare Unleashed is the latest horror anthology to hit the Kickstarter circuit. Following the Classic Monsters Unleashed Kickstarter, the creators decided it was time to take on Shakespeare with a horror reimagining. Edited by James Aquilone, the new collection includes Joe R. Lansdale (Moon Lake) and Kasey Lansdale (Terror Is Our Business), Ian Doescher (William…
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LA Screening of All Hail the Popcorn King: Joe R Lansdale Documentary
LA Premiere Screening of All Hail The Popcorn King with Special Guest Performer, Kasey Lansdale.
About this Event
LA Premiere Screening of All Hail The Popcorn King,: The Joe R. Lansdale Documentary with Special Guest Performer, Kasey Lansdale
Hosted by Filmmaker Hansi Oppenheimer and Moderated by Bill Thill.
"Documentary films about authors are few and far between. That's chiefly because the act of putting pen to paper or fingers to keyboard isn't anyone's idea of high drama.
Not so with New York-based documentarian and self-professed fangirl Hansi Oppenheimer's All Hail the Popcorn King, a tribute to and examination of Joe Lansdale, the Lone Star State's "writer of the purple rage."
Marc Savlov, The Austin Chronicle
"Lansdale shares stories from his life and career in Nacogdoches, Texas while a wide range of artists and fans, including Joe Hill, Mick Garris, Brian Keene, Bruce Campbell, Don Coscarelli, and more, share what they love the most about the man and his work. All Hail the Popcorn King paints a vivid picture of iconoclastic creator Joe R Lansdale, who isn’t just a talented writer, but seems to be a genuinely good person, to boot. The interviews included here are in such a down-to-earth, conversational manner that you can’t help but just get drawn in by his charisma and sense of humor. I can’t imagine watching this and not being compelled to go grab the first book you can find and dive right in. Hell, I’ve read a fair chunk of his work and this made me want to go back and reread everything while scouring bookshop shelves for the ones I haven’t found yet."
Paul Brian McCoy, Psycho Drive-In
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On the set of “Cold In July”
Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard, Kasey Lansdale (daughter of Joe Lansdale, author of the book “Cold In July”) and Don Johnson.
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Born for Trouble: The Further Adventures of Hap and Leonard by Joe R. Lansdale
My Review (5):
I don't think there's a specific category for Hap&Leonard stories: they are gripping thriller and very funny at the same time. They feature a copy of likeable characters who are also excellent PIs.
This is a collection of novellas and it's another page turner I couldn't put down.
Almost all the stories were new to me and I had a lot of fun: there's action, gore, and plenty of humour.
I assume that Hap&Leonard is a sort of bookish cult and I know plenty of Italian that love this series and consider it their favorite.
As I'm a member of this cult I think that more people should be reading this stories as they're well plottted, highly entertaining, and a lot of fun.
That said I strongly recommend this book.
Many thanks to Tachyon Publications for this arc, all opinions are mine
The Book:
In Edgar Award winner Joe R. Lansdale’s newest Hap and Leonard story collection, the boys are back, with more righteous ass-kickings, highly improbable adventures, and disastrous fishing trips. These never-before collected tales showcase the popular not so dynamic duo, who are a little bit older, but not a whole lot wiser—Hap and Leonard were truly born for trouble.
When you meet him, Hap Collins seems just like a good ol’ boy. But even in his misspent youth, his best pal was Leonard Pine: black, gay, and the ultimate outsider. Together, they have sort of found their way as partners in crime-solving—and, at least as often, as hired muscle.
In these latest adventures, the boys continue their crime-solving shenanigans as they uncover the sordid secret of a missing bookmobile, compete in a warped version of the Most Dangerous Game, regroup after Hap’s visit to the psychologist goes terribly awry, and much more.
So sit yourself back and settle in—Born for Trouble is East Texas mayhem as only the master mojo storyteller Lansdale could possibly tell.
Book page: https://tachyonpublications.com/product/born-for-trouble/
The author:
“A folklorist’s eye for telling detail and a front-porch raconteur’s sense of pace.”
—New York Times Book Review
Joe R. Lansdale is the internationally bestselling author of more than fifty novels, including the popular, long-running Hap and Leonard series. Many of his cult classics have been adapted for television and film, most famously the films Bubba Ho-Tep and Cold in July and the Hap and Leonard series on Sundance TV and Netflix. Lansdale has written numerous screenplays and teleplays and has won the Edgar Award and ten Stoker Awards. He has also been designated a World Horror Grandmaster. Lansdale, like many of his characters, lives in East Texas, with his wife, Karen, and their pit bull, Nicky.
Social Links:
Site: http://www.joerlansdale.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/joelansdale
Contact: Kasey Lansdale, Publicist [email protected] 415.285.5615
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So, I'm on a bit of a Holmes kick, RN; two of the books I read last week had vague Holmes ties...
-Murder In Old Bombay by Nev March, a mystery set in 19th Century India who's protagonist decides to become a detective after reading the then-recently published The Sign of the Four.
-The Dark Archive by Genevieve Cogman, who's protagonist chose to name herself after The Woman, and who's supporting cast includes Peregrine Vale, a Great Detective from an alternate universe weird steampunk Victorian London who is repeatedly noted as being very Holmes-like.
...and the two books I finished this week and the third I've begun and will finish next week, are even more so. In backwards order...
-There's A Murder Afoot by Vicki Delany, the secondmost recent installment (which I missed on initial publication due to the Current COVID Crisis) in the "Sherlock Holmes Bookshop" series of cozy mysteries, about an expat British woman who runs a Sherlock Holmes-themed bookstore in a small New England resort town and keeps solving mysteries with the Holmesian intellectual abilities she refuses to acknowledge she has. This book has her return to the UK, and introduces the fact that she has a more intelligent older sister who supposedly is a minor functionary in the British Government but clearly is of greater importance.
-The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars by Anthony Boucher, a recently-republished 1940 novel set in then-contemporary Hollywood. When Metropolitan Pictures announces that their upcoming film adapatation of The Speckled Band will be written by Stephen Worth, an ex-PI who's a devotee of the hardboiled subgenre of detective fiction an has made his utter disdain for the Great Detective genre and of Holmes in particular, that early fandom society launches a campaign to get him fired. In an effort to appease the BSI, who's number include quite a few influential public figures, five of them are invited to come to Hollywood and consult on the film. When Worth is murdered, they become the chief suspects...
And finally...
-In League With Sherlock Holmes, the latest anthology of "stories inspired by the Sherlock Holmes canon" edited by Laurie B. King and Leslie S. Klinger. It comprises...
"The Strange Juju Affair At the Gacy Mansion" by Kwei Quartey. In contemporary Ghana, a police detective consults Superindentendent Mensah Blay, a legendary former member of the Ghana Police Service who has retired to make wooden children's toys, to help solve a crime that has him stumped. Very good, feels pretty Holmesiean despite, y'know...
"What My Father Never Told Me" by Tess Gerritsen. A young woman comes to Britain to dispose of her late father's ashes, and discovers he was part of something grander than she ever imagined. Yecch. This isn't a story, it's the prologue to a story, and also hinges on the idea that Holmes was actually a villain.
"The Case of the Wailing Ghosts" by Joe R. Lansdale and Kasey Lansdale. A duo of occult detectives are hired to break a ghost, and end up dealing with a supernatural murderer. Great story, not sure what it's doing in this book, asides from the two protagonists having a somewhat Holmes-and-Watson relationship.
"The Twenty-Five Year Engagement" by James W. Ziskin. A proper pastiche, pretty good.
"When You Hear Hoofbeats" by Robin Burcell. A contemporary detective story, with minimal Holmesian content, asides from some proper names (the victim is a plastic surgeon named John H. Watson, the suspects are his wife Mary and his business partner Joseph Bell), and the police detective narrator enlisting a former colleague who's become a PI to help solve the case. Good though.
"Mr. Holmes I Presume" by Joe Hill. This is a short essay written as an introduction to...
"Dying Is Easy" a short comic written by Hill, illustrated by Martin Simonds, apparently an installment of a series they did a few years back about a '90s cop-turned-standup-comedian who keeps having to solve crimes anyways named Syd "Shit-talk" Holmes. Not very Holmes-y, but fun.
"The Observance of Trifles" by Martin Edwards. the tale, in the form of a rather ramble-y blog posts and some comments on it, of how a Sherlockian becomes convinced that another Sherlockian who has become wealthy and famous with his works analyzing the Canon, has been plagiarizing him, and sets out to murder the man. All the characters are given pseudonyms drawn from the Canon, and vaste swathes of the text are quotes or paraphrases thereof. Fun, if a bit depressing.
"Infinite Loop" by Naomi Hirahara. An R.A. in 1980s Stanford University, Joann Wat, is forced to enlist the aid of Shel Rock, a Junior who is the dorm's resident drug dealer, when the parents of one of the Freshmen under her ostensible care may or may not have gone missing. Good stuff, not very original flavor-y of course, but there are some neat Holmesian touches asides from the proper names.
"A Seance in Liverpool" by Lisa Morton. A young ACD, about to set out on his stint as a ship's surgeon, before completing his Doctorate, is convinced bya friend to attend a seance. Things do not go as planned, but he gets an idea for a new character...Good stuff, not what you'd expect.
"Benchley" by Derek Haas. A printer's apprentice finds a body and summons the police. More I cannot say without spoiling. I love it, although it isn't quite Canon compliant.
"The Murderer's Paradox" by David Corbett. A tale narrated by Prof. Moriarty, which seems to follow the take that he was a Fennian. Or he's posing as one in order to enlist two young people as part of an effort to mess with Holmes, it's not clear. ACD's defense of the Boer War is crucial to the plot, though I wonder if some of the language used is anachronistic; did the terms "racist" and "Imperialist" in the modern, derogatory sense exist in 1902? Not a bad story by any means, but not for me.
"A Scandal On The Jersey Shore" by Brad Parks. In which a modern-day descendant of The Woman must prove her BFF isn't guilty of murder. A fun romp.
"The Adventure of the Northwood Bilker" by James Lincoln Warren. A contemporary Forensic Linguist, Shirley Ho, is hired to find a missing journalist who infiltrated a cult. Very good stuff, if a bit technical in places.
"Cumberbachelor" by Maria Alexander. In modern LA, a young woman must find a way to save her sister's wedding when their mother becomes convinced she's become engaged to Benedict Cumberbatch. Good story, not very Holmes-y.
"A Case of Mistaken Identity" by Chelsea Quinn Yarboro. A somewhat unethical therapist treats (or pretends to treat) a brilliant serial killer who believes himself to be Sherlock Holmes. The story hints that the POV character has A Plan in mind for his patient, but never states what said plan is. Not my cuppa.
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Terror is Our Business by Joe and Kasey Lansdale #BookReview
Terror is Our Business by Joe and Kasey Lansdale - a #collection of supernormal #horror stories - #BookReview
Title: Terror is Our Business | Authors: Joe R. Lansdale & Kasey Lansdale | Publisher: Cutting Block Books | Pub. Date: 2018-5-29 | Pages: 248 | ISBN13: 9781732009004 | Genre: Paranormal Mystery Horror | Language: English | Triggers: Suicide | Rating: 4 out of 5 | Source: Received a copy from Smith Publicity for review consideration.
Terror is Our Business: Dana Roberts’ Casebook of Horrors
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Review: Terror Is Our Business: Dana Roberts' Casebook of Horrors by Joe R. Lansdale and Kasey Lansdale
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
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.
Inspired by works from Algernon Blackwood, William Hope Hodgson, and the mid-1970s TV series Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Lansdale presents a female investigator who specializes in the supernormal. An atheist (yay! Let's hear it for atheist representation in horror!), Dana does not believe in the supernatural, and believes that there is a scientific explanation for all those things that go bump in the night that we merely do not yet understand.
For the Joe Lansdale stories, the setup is simple - Dana is a guest at a men's club, invited to share a story as a paid speaker. Her stories are transcribed by one of the gentlemen, who includes an intro and outro that each of Dana's stories are couched between. I'm typically not a fan of such framed narratives, but it's a literary tradition Lansdale invokes here, along with a deliberate writing style, to pay homage to those earlier influences. While the stories are well-told, ultimately I found the narratives to be a bit stuffy and old fashioned for my tastes, in addition to formulaic. Each story follows a very episodic three-act format, with its introduction of the characters and the initial problem at hand, some examination of the supernormal conceit, typically a haunting of some sort, followed by a tidy resolution. None of the stories break this mold or shake up the story presentation, although the last three stories do carry a fresher sense of energy with the injection of Kasey Lansdale's sensibilities.
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.
[Note: I received an advanced copy of this title from the publisher, Cutting Block Books.]
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Exclusive: Get a look at Russ Braun's art for Dead Detectives & Society
Exclusive: Get a look at Russ Braun's art for Dead Detectives & Society #horror #kickstarter
In the tradition of the great pulps of yesteryear, contemporary masters of the macabre Kevin J. Anderson, David Avallone, Nancy A. Collins, Nancy Holder and Alan Phillipson, John Jennings, Kasey Lansdale and Joe R. Lansdale, Rena Mason, Jonathan Maberry, Lisa Morton, Steve Niles, Jeff Strand, Tim Waggoner, and writer and editor James Aquilone are joining forces for Dead Detectives Society. This…
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Pop the Clutch: Thrilling Tales of Rockabilly, Monsters, and Hot Rod Horror, edited by Eric J. Guignard, illustrated by Steve Chanks, Dark Moon Books, 2019. Info: darkmoonbooks.com.
Welcome to the cool side of the 1950s, where the fast cars and revved-up movie monsters peel out in the night. Where outlaw vixens and jukebox tramps square off with razorblades and lead pipes. Where rockers rock, cool cats strut, and hot rods roar. Where you howl to the moon as the tiki drums pound and the electric guitar shrieks and that spit-and-holler jamboree ain't gonna stop for a long, long time... maybe never. This is the '50s where ghost shows still travel the back roads of the south, and rockabilly has a hold on the nation's youth; where lucky hearts tell the tale, and maybe that fella in the Shriners' fez ain't so square after all. Where exist noir detectives of the supernatural, tattoo artists of another kind, Hollywood fix-it men, and a punk kid with grasshopper arms under his chain-studded jacket and an icy stare on his face. This is the '50s of Pop the Clutch: Thrilling Tales of Rockabilly, Monsters, and Hot Rod Horror. This is your ticket to the dark side of American kitsch... the fun and frightful side!
Contents:
Introduction by Eric J. Guignard
"The Golden Girls of Fall" by Seanan McGuire
"Sea Lords of the Columbia" by Weston Ochse
"Tremble" by Kasey Lansdale and Joe R. Lansdale
"The Demon of the Track" by Gary Phillips
"Outlawed Ink" by Jason Starr
"We Might Be Giants" by Nancy Holder
"Universal Monster" by Duane Swierczynski
"Draggers" by David J. Schow
"The Starlite Drive-In" by John M. Floyd
"Dr. Morbismo’s InsaniTERRORium Horror Show" by Lisa Morton
"Hot Babe" by Bill Pronzini
"The Prom Tree" by Yvonne Navarro
"I’m with the Band" by Steve Perry
"Mystery Train: An Arcane Investigation" by Max Allan Collins and Matthew V. Clemens
"Lab Experiment Turf War" by Jeff Strand
"The She-Creature" by Amelia Beamer
"Fish out of Water" by Will Viharo
"I Was a Teenage Shroom Fiend" by Brian Hodge
Editor’s Request
About Editor Eric J. Guignard
About Illustrator Steve Chanks
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Photos from the LA screening of the Joe R Lansdale documentary All Hail the Popcorn King with Joe R Lansdale, Keith Lansdale, Danni Tresst, Yuri Lowenthal, Neil Sandlands, Del Howison, Brian Harrison Mack, Kasey Lansdale, Vince White, Bill Thill and filmmaker Hansi Oppenheimer. Photos © https://www.fotojedi.com
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Squee Project Celebrates Prolific Author, Joe Lansdale's Work in Documentary, All Hail The Popcorn King. Premiere and Screening Party at The Alamo Drafthouse in Brooklyn NY With Guest Kasey Lansdale
Squee Project Celebrates Prolific Author, Joe Lansdale's Work in Documentary, All Hail The Popcorn King. Premiere and Screening Party at The Alamo Drafthouse in Brooklyn NY With Guest Kasey Lansdale
“All Hail the Popcorn King is easily one of the most entertaining documentaries ever made about an author.”
Diabolique Magazine
NEW YORK, NY, October 17, 2019 /24-7PressRelease/ — From Bubba Ho-Tep to Hap and Leonard, Joe Lansdale has left his indelible mark on popular culture. For fans that have followed the author’s storied career, All Hail the Popcorn King is something of a monument.
Joe…
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