Driving to Geronimo's Grave and Other Stories by Joe R. Lansdale

Crack this book full of the unexpected, and dive in. So, pull up a chair, seat yourself with a big glass of ice tea or a Dr Pepper, and have a stack of vanilla cookies close at hand for sustenance. Then have a sip of blood and Lemonade, as we learn of an event in the past of one of Lansdale’s best-known characters, Hap Collins.Īnd there’s more. Then drive on out to Geronimo’s grave and battle a dangerous bank robber. Go down into a pit and watch two brave men in a mad, mad world, fight for a championship that ends in death for one of them. Meet a wrestler well past his prime who grapples with an opponent over a long-lost love. Follow the path of a World War soldier returning home only to find home isn’t what it used to be. Meet a blind man with a weed eater who has nefarious plans. Venture onto the Sabine River with Hap and Leonard and find a sunken boat full of death and treasure. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Signed Driving to Geronimo's Grave and Other Stories by Joe R. Theres even killer machines, a big ole grizzly bear, and entertaining story notes. Read about a bizarre mule race, a movie projectionist’s obsession with a beautiful young woman that leads to a violent event. Lansdale returns with a pack of stories for your consumption and enjoyment.

Driving to Geronimos Grave and Other Stories. Get out your hip boots and your skeeter spray, and you might want to bring a horse and saddle for when the tales move out West, but most importantly bring your imagination. Lansdale has been writing novels and stories, as well as screenplays and comics, for over forty-five years, and this is his latest concoction, encompassing stories informed by a variety of genres, but not quite comfortably fitting into any of them. Meet real life horrors and old mythologies in these dark and sometimes humorous and satirical stories of adventures and mysteries, suspense and strange moments in the backwoods. Gothic Wounds oozes stories of grim doings in the Southern climes of East Texas, with a few stories outside the usual Lansdale realm. “Lansdale reaches the reader on a gut level…a terrific writer.”

Driving to Geronimo's Grave and Other Stories by Joe R. Lansdale