Book Tour: Things Get Ugly by Joe R. Lansdale

 

THINGS GET UGLY:

The Best Crime Stories of

Joe R. Lansdale

Crime Fiction / Mystery / Short Stories

Publisher: Tachyon Publications

Date of Publication: August 15, 2023

Number of Pages: 352 pages 

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Edgar Award winner Joe R. Lansdale (the Hap and Leonard series) returns to the piney, dangerous woods of East Texas. In this career retrospective of his best crime stories, Lansdale shows exactly why critics continue to compare him to Elmore Leonard, Donald Westlake, Flannery O’Connor, and William Faulkner.

• In the 1950s, a young small-town projectionist mixes it up with a violent gang.
• When Mr. Bear is not alerting us to the dangers of forest fires, he lives a life of debauchery and murder.
• A brother and sister travel to Oklahoma to recover the dead body of their uncle.
• A lonely man engages in dubious acts while pining for his rubber duckie.

In this collection of nineteen unforgettable crime tales, Joe R. Lansdale brings his legendary mojo and witty grit to harrowing heists, revenge, homicide, and mayhem. No matter how they begin, things are bound to get ugly—and fast.

PRAISE FOR THINGS GET UGLY:

“A terrifically gifted storyteller.” -– Washington Post Book Review

“One of the best crime writers in the business.” -- Ace Atkins, New York Times bestselling author of The Revelators

“While Lansdale’s work is as varied as the regions of Texas, there is one common link through it all: his brilliant storytelling.” –- Grimdark Magazine

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Joe R. Lansdale (Savage Season, The Donut Legion) is the internationally bestselling author of more than fifty novels, including the popular, long-running Hap and Leonard novels. 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, including for the iconic Batman: The Animated Series. He has won an Edgar Award for The Bottoms and ten Stoker Awards, and he has been designated a World Horror Grandmaster. Lansdale, like many of his characters, lives in East Texas, with his wife, Karen.

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The short story: Violent, clever, at times funny, crime stories

Things Get Ugly by crime author Lansdale is a compilation of his best short stories and together they pack quite a punch. If you are not familiar with the setting of Lansdale’s characters, prepare yourself; it's a dark, gritty, dog-eat-dog world and not for the faint of heart. Lansdale drills down into the genesis of crime: greed, jealousy, desperation and a total absence of morality. His characters are laced with violence, anger, a strong survival instinct and a total lack of compassion for their fellow humans. For every bad dude there’s an ever badder one lurking around the corner. Most would probably terrify their psychiatrist, if they had one. 

The stories, for the most part, are set in rural Texas locations which lends them a Deliverance vibe. Most are contemporary but my favorite, Driving to Geronimo’s Grave, is set in the past and is laugh out loud funny with a killer ending.

It’s not just the humans that are committing the crimes, as the author offers up stories of talking bears, ghosts and ghouls. Nothing and no one is off limits. 

Well crafted with a stiletto sharp wit, Lansdale carves up his victims with imaginative glee, dispatching them in the most horrific of manners. Hannibal could take lessons from this book. 

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