David J. Schow - Black Leather Required

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David J. Schow – Black Leather Required (Mark V. Ziesing, 1994, Hardcover, 244 p.)

Content:
Introduction - John Farris
The Shaft (1990)
Sedalia (1989)
A Week in the Unlife (1991)
Scoop Makes a Swirly
Kamikaze Butterflies (1989)
Beggar's Banquet, with Summer Sausage
Pitt Night at the Lewistone Boneyard (1990)
Jerry's Kids Meet Wormboy (1989)
Life Partner (1993)
Last Call for the Sons of Shock (1991)
Where the Heart Was (1993)
Sand Sculpture
Bad Guy Hats (1989)
Perps - Afterword

This is Schow's chronological third collection. It never made it into a paperback. The introduction by Farris is one of those gushing praise pieces; I guess Schow's macho-gun-massacre-gore prose brings this out in people. The are a few original stories included, but a lot was published first elsewhere. A few have a writer's commentary, but always short.