Mad Dog Summer

Mad Dog Summer, is a collection of short stories by Joe R. Lansdale, first published in 2004 in a limited edition by Subterranean Press. It was reissued in paperback in 2006 by Golden Gryphon.

It contains:
*"Mad Dog Summer" (won a Bram Stoker Award) {originally published in "999: New Stories of Horror & Suspense", ed Al Sarrantonio (1999)}
*"The Mule Rustlers" {originally published in "The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology", ed. Freed and Malloy (2001)}
*"O’Reta: Snapshot Memories" {originally published in "Mothers and Sons", ed. Jill Morgan (2000)}
*"Rainy Weather" (won a Bram Stoker Award) (shorter version of what became "The Big Blow") {originally published in "Cemetery Dance" #30 (1998)}
*"Screwup" (co-wr: Karen Lansdale) {originally published in "Till Death Do Us Part", ed. Jill M. Morgan & Martin H. Greenberg (1999)}
*"The Steam Man of the Prairie and the Dark Rider Get Down" {originally published in "The Long Ones" (2000)}
*"Veil's Visit" (a Hap and Leonard story) {originally published in "Veil's Visit" (2001)}
*"Way Down There" {first publication}

An early, extremely limited pressing had the script for the graphic novel "Red Range", as well as the other "Hap and Leonard" story "Death by Chili".