There's many Landsdale books, but check out The Bottoms, and A Fine Dark Line. Also the dystopian short story, Thirty Stitches on a Dead Man's Back. His brother John writes too, and just came out with a book.
Robert R. McCammon's Swan Song is good and there's some others by him worth checking into.
Any good books that are set in rural England, with some bizarre shit going on?
If it isn't Krautrock, it's krap.
"And it's only the giving
That makes you what you are" - Ian Anderson
I thought of another apocalyptic book (actually a novella available in several anthologies), Harlan Ellison's A Boy and His Dog. It's quite an enjoyable story about a young man and his telepathic dog who sniffs out food and women after WWIV. It was made into a black comedy movie in 1975. Ellison didn't like it, but I thought it was fun.
Lou
Looking forward to my day in court.
More or less in the horror-genre are the books I read from Matthew Pearl, like The Dante Club.
Here's a nice introduction:
It inspired someone to make this video:
Yves - I'm in the middle of Sea of Rust, by C. Robert Cargill, which tells the tale of a "comfort robot" after the AI apocalypse. The link compares this to The Martian, but I'm not seeing it, so far. But so far a very enjoyable read.
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
Jed, I've got a story for you: "Boys Will Be Boys" from Joe Lansdale's collection By Bizarre Hands.
Get back to me.
There's another sequel? ! ? ! <rushes to Amazon...>
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
Thanks to a FB horror book group, I've been finding out that there are people who enjoy REALLY violent and gruesome horror fiction - is this some of that? Not for me! I don't really get that. I'm not into slasher movies (not since the early 80s anyway), so why would I read slasher fiction?
Lansdale's stuff can be pretty wild and violent, but I wouldn't call it slasher-y (despite the name of one antho he co-edited, "Razored Saddles"). He depicts gore and violence pretty clearly, but doesn't exactly dwell on it...I donno, maybe you would like it, maybe you wouldn't. The one story of his that everyone should read, though, is "The Night They Missed the Horror Show."
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
Actually, I've never read it...
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
More disturbing than excessively violent.
Lansdale does delve into violence, though. He's no stranger to it.
In the '80s, the "splatterpunk" horror subgenre gained popularity, thanks to writers like Lansdale, David J. Schow, Jack Ketcham, John Skipp && Craig Spector, and Poppy Z. Brite and some others. Schow is the guy responsible for the handle.
The guy to read for that is Ray Garton, particularly his earlier stuff like the stories "Punishments" and "Sinema" and the novel Crucifax Autumn. In that novel, he focuses on what can happen when parents don't pay attention to what their kids are doing. Ray was also lumped into the splatterpunk category.
Lou
Looking forward to my day in court.
One of the giants in the horror field, Jack Ketchum, shuffled off this mortal coil today from cancer.
Lou
Looking forward to my day in court.
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