"The line dividing commerce and art, genre work and literary fiction is one that [Joe R.] Lansdale's many volumes of over-the-top horror, weird fantasy and pulp westerns have often tried to erase," noted James Hynes in a Publishers Weekly profile of the prolific author. Add science fiction, mystery, suspense, comics, graphic novels, young adult novels, and even television and movie scripts to that list and you would have the full complement of the Lansdale oeuvre. Lansdale's fiction encompasses all of the above, frequently combining several genres in the same story or novel while defining a distinctive voice of its own. "Lansdale is sui generis," wrote a contributor for St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers. Though influences by many writers, "his voice remains distinctively original," the same contributor further noted, "and his novels and stories defy easy categorization." Lansdale's "preferred genre is the fantastic," the author once...