With the help of the fine folks at GoodReads, we’re giving away a copy of IN THE MAD MOUNTAINS: STORIES INSPIRED BY H. P. LOVECRAFT by the acclaimed, award-winning Joe R. Lansdale.

Joe Lansdale takes on Lovecraft, Poe, Twain, and more in this adventurous collection of stories. In the Mad Mountains is playful, ambitious, surprising and so much fun to read. What a thrill to watch a modern master play literary games with the greats.
—Victor LaValle, author of The Ballad of Black Tom

Joe Lansdale squares up to the Great Old Ones—and taps into rich veins of awe and wit, with always a backbeat thrum of cosmic terror. You’ll never look at the howling void in the black heart of the universe the same way again.
—Kim Newman, author of the Anno Dracula series

Ten-time Bram Stoker Award-winner Joe R. Lansdale (Bubba Ho-tep) returns with this wicked short story collection of his irreverent Lovecraftian tributes. Lansdale is scarily down-home in these tales, merging his classic gonzo stylings with the eldritch vibes of H. P. Lovecraft. Knowingly skewering Lovecraft’s paranoid mythos, Lansdale embarks upon haunting yet sly explorations of the unknown, capturing the essence of cosmic dread.

Lansdale fans and Lovecraft devotees alike will be impressed.” (Oct.)
—Publishers Weekly

A sinister blues recording pressed on vinyl in blood conjures lethal shadows with its unearthly wails. In order to rescue Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn traverses the shifting horrors of the aptly named Dread Island. In the weird Wild West, Reverend Jebidiah Mercer rides into a possessed town where the unspeakable lurks in the crawling sky. Legendary detective C. Auguste Dupin uncovers the gruesome secrets of both the blue lightning bug and the Necronomicon.

Exploring the darkest corners of the human psyche, here is a lethally entertaining journey through Joe Lansdale’s twisted landscape, where ancient evils lurk and sanity hangs by a rapidly fraying thread.

Table of Contents

• Introduction by Joe R. Lansdale
• “The Bleeding Shadow”
• Dread Island
• “The Gruesome Affair of the Electric Blue Lightning”
• “The Tall Grass”
• “The Case of the Stalking Shadows”
• “The Crawling Sky”
• “Starlight, Eyes Bright”
• In the Mad Mountains