Electric Gumbo: A Lansdale Reader Explained

Electric Gumbo: A Lansdale Reader is one of the rarer compilations of Joe R. Lansdale's short works. It has only been published once, exclusively by the Quality Paperback Book Club in trade paperback form in 1994.^{[1] [2]}

It contains:

• Introduction
• The Drive-In (A Novel) [full reprinting] (nominated for Bram Stoker Award)
• By Bizarre Hands
• Drive-In Date
• The Events Concerning a Nude Fold-Out Found in a Harlequin Romance (winner of Bram Stoker Award)
• The Fat Man and the Elephant
• A Hard-On for Horror: Low Budget Excitement (non-fiction)
• Hell Through A Windshield (non-fiction)
• The Job
• Mister Weed-Eater
• Night They Missed the Horror Show (winner of Bram Stoker Award)
• On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert With Dead Folks (winner of Bram Stoker Award)
• The Phone Woman
• The Pit
• The Steel Valentine
• Steppin' Out, Summer, '68
• Tight Little Stitches In A Dead Man's Back
• Trains Not Taken
• Wild Bill's Body (excerpt from the novel The Magic Wagon)

This compilation contains nothing exclusive.

External links

Author's Official Website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Electric Gumbo. www.goodreads.com.
2. Book: Lansdale, Joe R.. Electric Gumbo: A Lansdale Reader. 1994. Quality Paperback Book club.