Something Lumber This Way Comes (The Lost Lansdale Series) [Hardcover]

Joe R. Lansdale (Author), Doug Potter (Illustrator)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 64 pages
• Publisher: Subterranean (July 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1892284332
• ISBN-13: 978-1892284334
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,775,007 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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5.0 out of 5 stars More for kids than adults., May 22, 2000

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This review is from: Something Lumber This Way Comes (The Lost Lansdale Series) (Hardcover)

Vol. 2 of The Lost Lansdale series is a children's story. It's a skimpy tale of innocence and growing up, of adults vs. kids and just a smooth story that only Joe Lansdale could pull off.

The neighborhood is looking sick...and 2 boys decide it is because of a new house that showed up recently and without any of the adult's noticing. The kids decide to stalk it at night to see if what they think is true.

What they find out is so out-of-this-world and unbelievable that when they are confronted with saving their neighborhood, all they can do is go by instinct. The scenes of this fight are so vivid and hilarious, and the ending is solid. A good, if somewhat pricey, story that may go over very well with kids more so than adults.