Razored Saddles [Hardcover]

Joe R. Lansdale (Author), Pat Lobrutto (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 268 pages
• Publisher: Dark Harvest Books; 1st edition (July 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0913165492
• ISBN-13: 978-0913165492
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #586,386 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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5 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars good stories, but expected more, July 5, 2002

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Anthony Hogg (VIC., AUSTRALIA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Razored Saddles (Paperback)

I picked up my copy of this book in a used book store, the only reason for doing so, is that I knew it had a Richard Laymon contribution in it ("Dinker's Pond"), being, of course, a little bit of a Laymon fan.

The other stories in the book are by: Robert R. McCammon, Scott Cupp, Lewis Shiner, F. Paul Wilson, David J. Schow, Ardath Mayhar, Al Sarrantonio, Melissa Mia Hall, Robert Petitt, Gary L. Raisor, Neal Barrett Jr., Howard Waldrop, Lenore Carroll, Joe R. Lansdale (also co-editor with Pat LoBrutto), Richard Christian Matheson and Chet Williamson.

I have an interest in the Wild West and Horror, so i was expecting this book to be a specific combination of the two, only to find that it has sci-fi entries and several set in modern times (albeit, with a Western setting).

The mixture may appeal to others but i prefer things to be a little more specific when it comes to genre tales.

Good, well-written tales in whole, but don't expect anything spectacular.