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Ten-time Bram Stoker Award-winner Joe R. Lansdale (Bubba Ho-tep) returns with this wicked short story collection of his irreverent Lovecraftian tributes. Lansdale is scarily down-home in these tales, merging his classic gonzo stylings with the eldritch vibes of H. P. Lovecraft. Knowingly skewering Lovecraft’s paranoid mythos, Lansdale embarks upon haunting yet sly explorations of the unknown, capturing the essence of cosmic dread.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Joe R. Lansdale
“The Bleeding Shadow”
Dread Island
“The Gruesome Affair of the Electric Blue Lightning”
“The Tall Grass”
“The Case of the Stalking Shadows”
“The Crawling Sky”
“Starlight, Eyes Bright”
In the Mad Mountains


“Joe Lansdale takes on Lovecraft, Poe, Twain, and more in this adventurous collection of stories. In the Mad Mountains is playful, ambitious, surprising and so much fun to read. What a thrill to watch a modern master play literary games with the greats.”
—Victor LaValle, author of The Ballad of Black Tom

“Joe Lansdale squares up to the Great Old Ones—and taps into rich veins of awe and wit, with always a backbeat thrum of cosmic terror.”
—Kim Newman, author of the Anno Dracula series

“Lansdale proves once again with In the Mad Mountains, as he has over his long and triumphant career, to be a master of every genre he touches.”
—Rae Wilde, author of Merciless Waters and I Can Fix Her

“Here’s Lovecraft’s trick: he uses polyphony, many voices, to build his narrative case for the existence of cosmic squids whistling in the dark. Here is Lansdale’s trick: doing it better, with a wider array of voices, including those of Poe and Twain and the classic American folk tale and his own Texas noir sensibility. This collection is a box of cursed yet delicious chocolates. Take a bite of every one!”
—Nick Mamatas, author of Move Under Ground and I Am Providence

“Horror royalty Joe Lansdale’s take on cosmic horror and the Cthulhu Mythos is everything you’d hope for—bloody, profane, grimly humorous, and as vivid as Technicolor hell splashed on a 20-foot tall silver screen.”
—Laird Barron, author of Not a Speck of Light

“Cosmic horror is alive and well in this eerie collection of what Bram Stoker Award winner Lansdale (Moon Lake) considers to be his eight best Lovecraftian tales, each with different settings and styles and often pulling from other authors’ oeuvres as well. ‘Dread Island’ riffs on Mark Twain, opening with the line ‘this here story is as true as that other story that was written down about me and Jim,’ and going on to tell of how Huck Finn risks his life to save Tom Sawyer from a mysterious evil. Lansdale’s mimicry extends to Edgar Allan Poe as well; ‘The Gruesome Affair of the Electric Blue Lightning’ is a new C. Auguste Dupin exploit, in which the sleuth looks into eyewitness accounts of oddly colored lightning. A third highlight, ‘The Tall Grass,’ evokes Algernon Blackwood, as a businessman traveling in the West has an unsettling experience when his train stops after midnight in the middle of a patch of unusually tall prairie grass that ‘shifted in the moonlight like waves of gold-green seawater pulled by the tide-making forces of the moon.’ Lansdale fans and Lovecraft devotees alike will be impressed.” (Oct.)
—Publishers Weekly