The King and Other Stories [Hardcover]

Joe R. Lansdale (Author), Glenn Chadbourne (Illustrator)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 100 pages
• Publisher: Subterranean Press; 1st,Sgd Ltd edition (July 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1596060107
• ISBN-13: 978-1596060104
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,589,902 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Warm Up Shorts and Other Treats!, February 28, 2006

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Charles Glover - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The King and Other Stories (Hardcover)

This collects a lot of stories Lansdale wrote in order to "warm up" when he was working on a novel or some such. Some are less than a page long, a few are quite lengthy. My only complaint is that the book was far too short... I love some Lansdale and I think the "rare and uncollected stories" well has pretty much dried up considering there are three or four larger collections out there of his early and rare works. Hopefully I'm wrong, because I cherish these books, and read every one as they come out. Hopefully the next one will be more than just a hundred pages...

This one has more hilarious commentary by Lansdale, more great shorts... A must!

4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Well..., September 23, 2005

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Bad Metal Jeff - See all my reviews

This review is from: The King and Other Stories (Hardcover)

This is chock full of mostly one page stories that are mildly entertaining and is advertised as such. Really, this is just for the Lansdale completist only. That being said, its better to have it than not.