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July 21, 2023

Join the celebration for THINGS GET UGLY: THE BEST CRIME STORIES OF JOE R. LANSDALE

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Edgar Award winner Joe R. Lansdale hits the road, literally and virtually, in celebration of THINGS GET UGLY: THE BEST CRIME STORIES OF JOE R. LANSDALE. Be sure to stop by and chat with the affable and entertaining legend.

Wildly entertaining, binge-worthy, and a total escape from hum drum reality, Things Get Ugly is pure Joe Lansdale on terrific display. In this collection of his greatest crime fiction stories, Lansdale’s scalpel-sharp wit and prose will have you cackling one minute while it chills you to the bone the next. A rollicking, sometimes haunted trip through his piney-woods soaked noir landscape, Things Get Ugly confirms that Joe Lansdale is to crime fiction what Willie Nelson is to country music: wholly original, genre-defying, raw, gritty, soulful, and lastly, timeless. I could not put this book down!
—May Cobb, author of The Hunting Wives

August 4-6 ArmadilloCon Austin, TX

Sunday, August 6 Violet Crown 4PM Austin, TX

screening of Cold in July with signing and q & a. Ticket includes a copy of THINGS GET UGLY. Book People will supply additional Lansdale books for sale at the screening

August 19 Murder by the Book 3PM Houston, TX

with Reavis Z. Wortham

Things Get Ugly, cover by John Coulthart — Design by John Coulthart

September 5 Los Angeles Public Library 4PM PDT

Virtual event

September 9 Texas Theater 7PM Dallas, TX

screening of Bubba Ho-tep with signing and q&a. Book sales by Interabang Books

October 19 Lone Star College–Montgomery TBD Conroe, TX

March 29, 2019

The trippy, groundbreaking collection THE VERY BEST OF CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN is pure genius

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For THE NEW YORK TIMES, Danielle Trussoni praises THE VERY BEST OF CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN.

If there’s a writer out there worth surviving for, it is Caitlin R. Kiernan, whose trippy, groundbreaking collection THE VERY BEST OF CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN (Tachyon, paper, $18.95) is pure genius. Paging through it, I found references to David Bowie, the fossil record, H. P. Lovecraft, the Hindu Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, the massacre of a unicorn, life on Mars, Gustave Doré, absinthe, South American jungles and King Kong — and that’s just a cursory glance. There is simply nothing out there quite like her.

Which may explain why Kiernan, who has published over 250 short stories and 14 novels, is usually classified as a horror writer, that genre for all things weird and amorphous. In his introduction, Richard Kadrey suggests we call her a writer of “dark fantasy” or “weird tales” instead. I don’t care where you shelve her books — good writing is good writing, however you classify it — as long as we call Kiernan what she is: an underappreciated master whose vision expresses itself through vast geographic expanses, gender fluidity, geological upheaval, lingering forces of evil, the horror and beauty of the natural world and the mythic architecture of the human mind. Kiernan is transformative. Read her and be changed.

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Whatever feelings her stories raise for you, they are sure to be intense. If you haven’t read her work before, these stories are a good place to begin. Like Hannah, you might find yourself getting lost in the mirror. The scary thing is, you’ll want to stay there.

Photo: Kyle Cassidy

At Austin’s BookPeople, the Nightmare Factory Book Club’s April selection is THE VERY BEST OF CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN.

Come join our crypt-keepers, Joe and Jerome, every third Tuesday of the month with our horrific book club, THE VERY BEST OF CAITLÍN R. KIERNANy. This month’s book is The Very Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan.

Book club books are 10% off for those attending the meeting!

Event date:
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 – 7:00pm

For more info about THE VERY BEST OF CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Hannes Hummel
Design by Elizabeth Story