Joe R. Lansdale - By Bizarre Hands

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Joe R. Lansdale – By Bizarre Hands (Mark V. Ziesing, 1989, hc, 246 pages)

Cover: J. K. Potter

Content:

Interior artwork by Mark A. Nelson - By Bizarre Hands (1989)
Author's Preface
Lewis Shiner - Introduction
Fish Night (1982)
The Pit (1987)
Duck Hunt (1986)
By Bizarre Hands (1988)
The Steel Valentine (1989)
I Tell You It's Love (1983)

Letter from the South, Two Moons West of Nacogdoches (1986)

Boys Will Be Boys (1985)

The Fat Man and the Elephant (1989)
Hell Through a Windshield (1985) - essay
Down by the Sea Near the Great Big Rock (1984)
Trains Not Taken (1987)
Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back (1986)
The Windstorm Passes (1986)
Night They Missed the Horror Show (1988)
On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks (1989)

This is the first of Lansdale's many, many collections over the years, his next one Thinks Get ugly – The best Crime Stories of Joe R. Lansdale can be ordered.

This came in hardcover first, a nice edition, and collects some of the early classics. Later there also was a paperback edition by Avon Books and NEL. There is also an expanded edition in one of those limited to 300 signed hardcover copies. All are OOP.