Nightrunnersstarts out as a spicy crime thriller, a revenge tale with humanity and consequences, but a deft supernatural twist will leave the reader amazed and gasping either for mercy or for more. This one is cut from the same cloth as Silence of the Lambs and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. It is just as chaotic and unflinching as it sounds and let me tell you, Mercer makes Rick Grimes look like Rick Astley. Standing in their way is recurring Lansdale hero Reverend Jebediah Mercer who is the only thing between a peaceful town and undead Western Zombie vengeance. This horror western features a recently murdered Indian medicine man whose vengeance raises a whole passel of angry dead Indians. You like zombies, right? Who doesn’t these days?īut years before The Walking Dead slammed ornery walkers into a rural Southern setting, Joe Lansdale did it in Dead in the West. So read on, pardner, and learn you something about the best damn author you might not have cottoned to yet- Joe Lansdale, hisownself. Of course, this being a Den of vast literary tastes (as well as stunning levels of debauchery and iniquity), we have taken it upon ourselves to provide a recommended Lansdale reading list. So get your ass over to Amazon, (or your favorite independent bookseller, because support small businesses whenever and wherever you can) and scoop up some bona fide Texas storytelling. So as you can see, whether you knew it or not, Lansdale is one of the most daring and original voices in genre fiction and you need to start reading him right now. Also, remember Bubba Ho-Tep (2002), the film where Bruce Campbell played an aged and not dead Elvis Presley and fought a mummy that preyed on the elderly? Yeah, that insanity was based on a Joe Lansdale short story. Both series are a must read for any comic book or dark western fan. Lansdale also penned two Jonah Hex series for Vertigo ( Jonah Hex: Two Gun Mojo in 1993 and Jonah Hex: Riders of the Worm and Such in 1995).
Remember that kickass episode of Batmanwhen Jonah Hex met a youthful Ra’s Al Ghul in the Old West? Yeah, that was Joe Lansdale. You might be familiar with Lansdale through his awesome work on the Batman: The Animated Series and Superman: The Animated Series.
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