The Long Ones [Hardcover]

Joe R. Lansdale (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2000

A collection of 4 novellas, including a brand new horror tale from his ownself Joe R. Lansdale includes these three classics: "Bubba Ho-Tep", "On The Far Side of the Cadillac Desert With Dead Folks", "The Events Concerning A Nude Fold-Out Found In a Harlequin Romance". Plus an all new horror novella, "The Steam Man of the Prairie and the Dark Rider Get Down: A Dime Novel". Plus an afterword from Joe himself explaining how the novellas came about.

Editorial Reviews

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As has become customary, Lansdale manages to blend manic entertainment with sinewy story. -- Ed Bryant, LOCUS

Here we have gnashing zombies, gun-toting porno nuns, a rampant technoJesus, good stuff like that, yeah -- but there's also a story about, well, good manners. -- Bel Wilson, MIDNIGHT HOUR MAGAZINE

It's blue-collar but outrageous . . . When reading these stories, one is struck by how pulpy Lansdale's prose is -- in a good way. -- Thomas Deja, FANGORIA

Product Details

• Hardcover: 217 pages
• Publisher: Necro Publications; 1 edition (February 1, 2000)
• ISBN-10: 1889186155
• ISBN-13: 978-1889186153
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,714,716 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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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Four Novellas, February 27, 2006

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This review is from: The Long Ones (Hardcover)

I review this so the readers will know what they are getting for their hard earned cash and so they can know where to find these for far less. This reprints four novellas:

1) Bubba Ho-Tep - Published on its own after the movie and also in "Writer of the Purple Rage."
2) On the Far Side of Cadillac Desert With Dead Folks - In "Electric Gumbo" and "By Bizarre Hands." Also recently adapted into a comic.
3) The Events Concerning a Nude Fold-Out Found in a Harlequin Romance - in "Bestsellers Guaranteed" which may also be hard to find. This is a hilarious read, though, one of his best short stories.
4) The Steam Man of the Prairie and the Dark Rider Get Down: A Dime Novel - in "Mad-Dog Summer."

I loaned my copy to someone back when it only cost $45. It never came back to me. "Steam Man" wasn't one of my favorites, but it was the draw to buy this as it was the only unpublished novella in it. The rest of them are some of the best writing I ever read. You can find them all for less elsewhere though.