Coco Butternut – Joe Lansdale

  Coco Butternut is the name of a prize-winning dachshund that was mummified by it’s eccentric owner after it died and the body was stolen and held for ransom. It is also the title of Lansdale’s latest short Hap and Leonard novella. The mystery is something out of The Hardy Boys, i.e. Not very hard

Hell’s Bounty – Joe Lansdale

Smith, a bounty hunter in the old west, is one mean and selfish SOB. He lets a prostitute get beaten from an inch of her life by his latest bounty while sitting downstairs in the saloon. While attempting to gun down Quill, his bounty, he blows himself up with his signature weapon – dynamite. The

Book of the Dead – edited by John Skipp & Craig Spector

In the 1980s, the only person that was doing anything significant with zombies was the Godfather himself, George Romero. In horror fiction, zombie stories were as dead as the zombies themselves. Then, in 1989, this little gem of a collection came along and among it’s pages were some heavy hitters from the horror and sci-fi