The Nightrunners is considered by many to be one of the best horror/suspense novels to date. It has had a passionate following for years. On its twentieth anniversary, Subterranean Press will release this novel as part of its Signature Series, in a volume that also contains stories that were inspired by, or drawn from, the novel while Lansdale waited for it to sell. The novel and stories have influenced numerous writers over the years, and are now gathered for the first time (with a new, never-before-published tale) in this unique tribute volume celebrating one of the most influential and award-winning writers of the last two decades. The God of the Razor will be designed as a companion volume to the Lansdale tribute anthology, Lords of the Razor, featuring a full color cover by TimothyTruman, and twenty full page black-and-white illustrations for the short stories and novel by Glenn Chadborne.
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Starred Review. Lansdale's The Nightrunners (1987), the centerpiece of this chilling collection, set new standards for the depiction of graphic violence and is probably the best novel of its type between Psycho and The Silence of the Lambs. Monty Jones, the very model of the modern sensitive male, is badly shaken after the gang-rape of his wife, Becky. Having left their home in Galveston, Tex., the couple hope to restore their damaged relationship at a friend's country cabin, but unbeknownst to them, Becky's assailants are coming back to finish what they started. This upsetting look at the human capacity for evil breaks with crime novel conventions when a supernatural element enters the story in the form of the grotesque deity known as the God of All Things Sharp. Twenty years later, The Nightrunners retains its ability to awe and to horrify. Six short stories that grew out of the novel, one previously unpublished, round out the volume. Glenn Chadbourne provides suitably disturbing illustrations. (Nov.)
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Joe R. Lansdale is the author of over thirty novels and numerous short stories. His work has appeared in national anthologies, magazines, and collections, as well as numerous foreign publications. He has written for comics, television, film, newspapers, and Internet sites. His work has been collected in eighteen short-story collections, and he has edited or co-edited over a dozen anthologies. He has received the Edgar Award, eight Bram Stoker Awards, the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Grinzani Cavour Prize for Literature, the Herodotus Historical Fiction Award, the Inkpot Award for Contributions to Science Fiction and Fantasy, and many others. His novella Bubba Hotep was adapted to film by Don Coscarelli, starring Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis. His story "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" was adapted to film for Showtime's "Masters of Horror." He is currently co-producing several films, among them The Bottoms, based on his Edgar Award-winning novel, with Bill Paxton and Brad Wyman, and The Drive-In, with Greg Nicotero. He is Writer In Residence at Stephen F. Austin State University, and is the founder of the martial arts system Shen Chuan: Martial Science and its affiliate, Shen Chuan Family System. He is a member of both the United States and International Martial Arts Halls of Fame. He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas with his wife, dog, and two cats.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Pulp-Horror Classic In Simply A Beautiful Edition,
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Joe Lansdale's God of the Razor was a cult creation from way back (twenty or so years ago) that you had to be in the know to, well, know. Now he's an influence attested to by a host of writers; there's few characters that have been as wonderfully startling and grotesque (WARNING: SPOILERS HEREAFTER): rising out of a mystical razor forged from ancient sacrifical devices, wearing heads for shoes that squish wetly, wearing a hatband of razors and sporting razors for teeth, razors for fingernails, walking like an unstoppable force even though his as thin as a finely, surgically honed piece of thin surgical steel . . . The story centers around the God of the Razor transferring his drive for murder to others. I don't want to say more than that for fear or ruining the story for you. As to the particulars of this edition, you get _The God of the Razor_ packaged together with its precursor, _The Nightrunners_, (a novella about a couple's living an intellectual and philosophical joyride, if you will, until the wife is raped and the husband wants to murder practically everything that moves in the world to get revenge on the rapist) that Joe published long back and never quite felt satisfied as the evil character just hadn't risen to that level of mindbending evilness that Joe felt could be his destiny. Neither of these books are hard to find in other editions, but 1) You'd miss the wonderful Tim Truman rendition of The God of the Razor that is unique to this edition, and, 2) you may end up paying just as much for both together as you would for this hardback or much more depending on how rare a copy you're looking for (_Nightrunners_ was only issued for the mass market in paperback and those usually go for $14-$25; there was an extremely limited run that you can sometimes find for $250-$500 - not joking). This book is perfect for someone looking for an affordable edition of these two stories, and, considering the earlier copies weren't all that well made (not trying to be mean, they just weren't; I own them all; the paperback is fading every day; the hardback is nice, but the paper, being cheap, is yellowing and tanning), this is a nice, current standard of a well-made edition of a wonderfully well-made villain.
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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A great collection of Lansdale stories,
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The Nightrunners is an excellent novel, and the centerpiece of this collection. The other stories are darn fine as well.
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