Bumper Crop Explained

Bumper Crop
Author:Joe R. Lansdale
Cover Artist:John Picacio
Country:United States
Language:English
Genre:Short story collection
Publisher:Golden Gryphon Press
Pub Date:2004
Media Type:Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages:199
Isbn:1-930846-24-X
Preceded By:A Little Green Book of Monster Stories (2003)
Followed By:Mad Dog Summer and other Stories (2004)

Bumper Crop is a collection of short stories by Joe R. Lansdale published in 2004 by Golden Gryphon Press. In his introduction, he cites it as the companion piece to High Cotton, because he had so many stories which didn't quite fit in with the "Best of" but were more like "personal favorites." Initially issued as a hardcover, it has been reissued as a trade paperback.[1] [2]

In his introduction, Lansdale explains that the term bumper crop refers to a harvest which is so plentiful that it exceeds all expectations; the excess harvest is the "bumper crop."[3]

Stories collected

TitleOriginally published in
Forward: The Remains of My Days ...
God of the RazorGrue #5, 1987
The DumpTwilight Zone Magazine, July 1981
Fish NightSpecter! ed. Bill Pronzini (1982)
ChompersTwilight Zone Magazine, July 1982
The Fat ManThe Horror Show, January 1987
On a Dark OctoberThe Horror Show, Spring 1984
The Shaggy HouseThe Horror Show, Fall 1986
The Man Who DreamedThe Horror Show, Fall 1984
WalksCemetery Dance, Fall 1997
Last of the HopefulThe Good, The Bad, and the Indifferent (1997)
Duck HuntAfter Midnight, ed. Charles L. Grant (1986)
Down by the Sea Near the Great Big RockMasques #1, ed. J. N. Williamson (1984)
I Tell You It's LoveModern Stories (1983)
Pilots [co-authored with Dan Lowry]Stalkers, ed. Gorman & Greenberg (1989)
In the Cold, Dark TimeDark Harvest Summer/Fall Preview: 1990
Bar TalkNew Blood #7 (1990)
ListenTwilight Zone Magazine, May/June 1983
Personality ProblemTwilight Zone Magazine, January/February 1983
A Change of Lifestyle [co-authored with Karen Lansdale]Twilight Zone Magazine, November/December 1984
The Companion [co-authored with Keith and Kasey Joe Lansdale]Great Writers & Kids Write Spooky Stories, ed. Greenberg, Morgan & Weinberg (1995)
Old CharlieThe Saint Magazine, August 1984
Billie SueA Fistfull of Stories (1996)
Bestsellers GuaranteedEspionage Magazine, May 1985
Fire DogThe Silver Gryphon, ed. Gary Turner & Marty Halpern (2003)
CowboyThe Good, The Bad, and the Indifferent (1997)
Master of MiseryWarriors of Blood and Dream, ed. Roger Zelazny & Greenberg (1995)

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The SF Site Featured Review: Bumper Crop.
  2. Web site: Bumper Crop by Joe R. Lansdale.
  3. Web site: What is a Bumper Crop? (With pictures).