Writer of the Purple Rage
by Joe R. Lansdale
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As new/as new
- ISBN 10
- 1881475085
- ISBN 13
- 9781881475088
- Seller
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Gridley, California, United States
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About This Item
Baltimore: CD Publications [Cemetery Dance], 1994. Limited Edition; First edition. Cloth. As new/as new. Mark Nelson. A Fine first limited edition in a fine dustjacket and slipcase. As New. SIGNED by the suthor and the illustrator on the limitation page. This is number 400 of 500 copies printed. Slipcased Limited Edition of 500 signed and numbered copies featuring a comic book script, the comic, and an essay not collected in the trade edition, with introductions by Joe R. Lansdale. Yellow cloth boards, red endpapers. 227 pp. plus unnumbered pages. Octavo. The weird. The terrible. The fantastic. The real. It's all here in Joe R. Lansdale's latest and best collection yet. Stories from the dark side, the light side, and all shades in between, this is a masterful collection by one of the short story's modern masters. It doesn't get any stranger, more original, or better than this.Sample these fantastic and horrible delights from the mind of Joe R. Lansdale: Elvis Presley, and black John F. Kennedy, whose brain resides in a battery-powered fruit jar at the White House, battle an Egyptian mummy who feeds on souls and writes hieroglyphics on bathroom stalls. A strange man with a weed-eater takes over another man's life through religion, wrestling, and a craving for home-cooked meals. Aided by Reptilicus and King Kong, Godzilla attempts to stop destroying cities and scorching people with his fire breath, but his good intentions go awry. A strange woman with a penchant for self-abuse and using her neighbors' phones, arrives at a family man's house and awakens deep, dark desires. A plastic love doll becomes liberated. Three boys in search of sex and adventure receive footwear fashion tips and bite off more than they can chew one summer night in 1968. A father who hates bad weather and fat thighs, makes a startling discovery when a tornado strikes a tornado magnet -- a double-wide mobile home -- and he and his son take a wild ride. A woman collides with a car on a mountain road and discovers strange and grisly horror. A baby's I.Q. is boosted dramatically when an alien possesses his diaper. But the diaper has a mind of its own. A cowardly trucker is pursued by a weird menace on a dark Texas highway.And then things get weird!" -- Publisher's website
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Details
- Seller
- Uncommon Works (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1230
- Title
- Writer of the Purple Rage
- Author
- Joe R. Lansdale
- Illustrator
- Mark Nelson
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- New As new
- Jacket Condition
- as new
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition; First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1881475085
- ISBN 13
- 9781881475088
- Publisher
- CD Publications [Cemetery Dance]
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- Horror
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- Diaper
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- Octavo
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- New
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Cloth
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