{"id":38715,"date":"2025-04-10T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38715"},"modified":"2025-04-09T17:46:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T21:46:34","slug":"the-essential-horror-by-joe-r-lansdale-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38715","title":{"rendered":"THE ESSENTIAL HORROR by Joe R. Lansdale is Coming!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/42BsHtA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z041025lansdale_essentialhorror.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Any time Joe R. Lansdale has a new book out, it is cause to celebrate.\u00a0 Get the streamers ready!\u00a0 On October 7, 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/42BsHtA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THE ESSENTIAL HORROR<\/a> drops.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the lowdown&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Joe R. Lansdale<\/strong> is known for his gritty mysteries (the <em>Hap and Leonard<\/em> series) and his eccentric horror (<em>Bubba Ho-tep<\/em>), for which he has won ten <em>Bram Stoker Awards<\/em>. He is also cited by many of horror\u2019s most acclaimed writers as a huge influence upon them: <strong>Stephen Graham Jones, Josh Malerman, Gabino Iglesias, Brian Keene,<\/strong> and <strong>Joe Hill<\/strong>, who contributes an original introduction to this collection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Lansdale\u2019s<\/strong> horror stories mash up crime, Southern Gothic, fantasy, and science fiction, filtered through a raw, violent world of dark humor and unique characters. He was one of the first horror writers to portray American racism not as abstract or impersonal, but as realistic, intimate, in-your-face, and impossible to ignore.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In <strong>Lansdale\u2019s<\/strong> nightmarish visions, discover psychotic demon nuns, a god fueled by hatred, a psychopathic preacher, a weed-eater wielding blind man, cannibals, 80-year-old Elvis, undead strippers, flying ghost fish, elder gods, possessed cars, and the worst evil of all: man.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/42BsHtA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Preorders<\/a> are available now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any time Joe R. Lansdale has a new book out, it is cause to celebrate.\u00a0 Get the streamers ready!\u00a0 On<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,52,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-horror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38716,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38715\/revisions\/38716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}