- By Bizarre Hands
"By Bizarre Hands" is the first collection of short stories by American writer
Joe R. Lansdale , published in1989 . The collection was nominated for aBram Stoker Award for best fiction collection, and contains two stories which won Stokers. It has an introduction byLewis Shiner List of short stories
* "Boys Will Be Boys" (1985, originally published in "Hardboiled" #3) (excerpt of novel "The Nightrunners")
* "By Bizarre Hands" {1988, originally published in "Hardboiled" #9)
* "Down By the Sea Near the Great Big Rock" (1984, originally published in "Masques" #1)
* "Duck Hunt" (1986, originally published in "After Midnight")
* "The Fat Man and the Elephant" (previously unpublished)
* "Fish Night" (1982, originally published in "Specter!")
* "Hell Through A Windshield" (1985, extended from shorter version published in "Twilight Zone Magazine" - non-fiction)
* "I Tell You It's Love" (1983, originally published in "Modern Stories",1983 )
* "Letter From the South, Two Moons West of Nacogdoches" {1986, originally published in "Last Wave" #5 (1986 )}
* "Night They Missed the Horror Show" {1988, originally published in "Silver Scream" -Bram Stoker Award winner)
* "On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert With Dead Folks" (1989, originally published in "Book of the Dead" -Bram Stoker Award winner)
* "The Pit" (1987, originally published in "TheBlack Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction", ed. Ed Gorman (1987 )}
* "The Steel Valentine" (previously unpublished)
* "Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back" (1986, originally published in "Nukes")
* "Trains Not Taken" (1987, originally published in "RE:AL")
* "The Windstorm Passes" (1986, originally published in "Pulpsmith") (excerpt of novel "The Magic Wagon"This collection contains nothing truly exclusive; although no other collection has included "Boys Will Be Boys" or "The Windstorm Passes", both are actually excerpts from novels which were sold as short stories when no company would buy the novels. The novels have been published, though they are both currently out of print.
Comics
"By Bizarre Hands" was also the name of two different comic book
limited series , a 3-issue published byDark Horse Comics and a 6-issue published byAvatar Press in2004 , where other authors and artists adapted some of Lansdale's stories to comic book form.The Dark Horse series was collected as part of "".
The stories in the Dark Horse series are, by issue:
# "Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back" (adapted byNeal Barrett Jr. - art by Phil Hester)
# "By Bizarre Hands" (adapted byJerry Prosser - art byDean Rohrer )
# "Night They Missed the Picture Show" (adapted byJerry Prosser - art byDean Rohrer )The stories in the Avatar series are, by issue:
# "By Bizarre Hands" (adapted byDheeraj Verma )
# "Not From Detroit" (adapted byArmando Rossi )
# "The Pit" (adapted byAndres Guinaldo )
# "Tight Little Stitches In A Dead Man's Back" (adapted byDheeraj Verma )
# "Night They Missed the Picture Show" (adapted byAndres Guinaldo )
# "God of the Razor" and "My Dead Dog Bobby" (adapted byDheeraj Verma )
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