Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers Vol 5

Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers

by Joe R. Lansdale, Kasey Lansdale, William Jensen

A little boy and girl disappear at Bible camp in the Big Thicket.

An amateur sleuth discovers the true meaning of the phrase “dead end” in his pursuit of a Lovecraftian imp.

A kitchen appliance becomes a portal to another dimension.

A Nacogdoches jogger tries a hellish cure for his nicotine addiction.

And, an aging, iconic monster confronts an existential quandary in West Texas...

These horrors - and more - await you in this, the fifth volume of Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers

265 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 11, 2020

About the author

Champion Mojo Storyteller Joe R. Lansdale is the author of over forty novels and numerous short stories. His work has appeared in national anthologies, magazines, and collections, as well as numerous foreign publications. He has written for comics, television, film, newspapers, and Internet sites. His work has been collected in more than two dozen short-story collections, and he has edited or co-edited over a dozen anthologies. He has received the Edgar Award, eight Bram Stoker Awards, the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Grinzani Cavour Prize for Literature, the Herodotus Historical Fiction Award, the Inkpot Award for Contributions to Science Fiction and Fantasy, and many others. His novella Bubba Ho-Tep was adapted to film by Don Coscarelli, starring Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis. His story "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" was adapted to film for Showtime's "Masters of Horror," and he adapted his short story "Christmas with the Dead" to film hisownself. The film adaptation of his novel Cold in July was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and the Sundance Channel has adapted his Hap & Leonard novels for television.

He is currently co-producing several films, among them The Bottoms, based on his Edgar Award-winning novel, with Bill Paxton and Brad Wyman, and The Drive-In, with Greg Nicotero. He is Writer In Residence at Stephen F. Austin State University, and is the founder of the martial arts system Shen Chuan: Martial Science and its affiliate, Shen Chuan Family System. He is a member of both the United States and International Martial Arts Halls of Fame. He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas with his wife, dog, and two cats.

Reviews

[Gavin Gardiner · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was the contribution by the brilliant writer and teacher of horror Madison Estes that drew my attention to Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers vol. 5, published by the ever-awesome HellBound Books, and it’s safe to say my attention remained throughout.

Although all the writers did an ace job, Madison’s Twilight Zone-esque episode of insanity exhibited profound imagination and, I have to say, depravity, as well as a black humour perfectly fitting of the ordeal at hand. I can’t give anything away with a story so rich in concept and inventiveness, but I will say I’ll never hear the bleep of a microwave the same way ever again.

As always from HellBound Books, the talent in this collection is stellar, and Madison’s opening nightmare only paves the way for stories that descend deeper into darkness with every turn of the page.

Congrats to all the contributors and HellBound Books on a grotesquely brilliant volume.