- Electric Gumbo
"Electric Gumbo: A Lansdale Reader" is one of the rarer compilations of
Joe R. Lansdale 's short work. It has only been published once, exclusively by the Quality Paperback Book Club intrade paperback form in1994 .It contains:
*"Introduction"
*The Drive-In (A Novel) [full reprinting] (nominated forBram Stoker Award )
*By Bizarre Hands {originally published in "Hardboiled" #9 (1988 )}
*Drive-In Date {originally published in "Night Visions 8" (1991 )}
*The Events Concerning a Nude Fold-Out Found in a Harlequin Romance (winner ofBram Stoker Award ) {originally published in "Dark at Heart", ed. Joe & Karen Lansdale (1992 )}
*The Fat Man and the Elephant {originally published in "By Bizarre Hands " (1989 )}
*A Hard-On for Horror: Low Budget Excitement (non-fiction) {extended from shorter version, probably published in1985 in "Twilight Zone Magazine", or at some point in 1992}
* Hell Through A Windshield (non-fiction) {extended from shorter version published in "Twilight Zone Magazine", Mar/Apr1985 }
*The Job {originally published in "Razored Saddles", ed.Joe R. Lansdale &Pat LoBrutto (1989 )}
*Mister Weed-Eater {originally published by (James) Cahill Press (1993 )}
*Night They Missed the Horror Show (winner ofBram Stoker Award ) {originally published in "Silver Scream", ed.David J. Schow (1988 )}
* On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert With Dead Folks (winner ofBram Stoker Award ) {originally published in "Book of the Dead", ed.John M. Skipp &Craig Spector (1989 )}
*The Phone Woman {originally published in "Night Visions 8" (1991 )}
*The Pit {originally published in "TheBlack Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction", ed. Ed Gorman (1987 )}
*The Steel Valentine {originally published in "By Bizarre Hands " (1989 )}
*Steppin' Out, Summer, '68 {originally published in "Night Visions 8" (1991 )}
*Tight Little Stitches In A Dead Man's Back {originally published in "Nukes", ed.John Maclay (1986 )}
*Trains Not Taken {originally published in "RE:AL", Spring1987 }
*Wild Bill's Body (excerpt from the novel "The Magic Wagon")This compilation contains nothing exclusive.
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