the author grabs you from the first scene and doesn't let go until the last page. lansdale does a great job with the characters and building the dread.

it’s vintage lansdale, and the best part of all is that it proves there’s plenty of room for more bubba stories down the line.” – cemetery dance (blu gilliand) it doesn’t skimp on the stakes (or the gore, for that matter), but it’s not all grim and gritty, either. “a worthy follow-up to a modern cult classic.” – san francisco book review (glenn dallas) “in this gore-spattered funfest, master of the macabre lansdale (the hap and leonard series) fills in the backstories of the characters from his novella bubba ho-tep (which became a cult classic film).” – publishers weekly if you think you know all about elvis, well then mister you don’t know joe.he was just getting the band warmed up for this gonzo barnburner!” – joshua jabcuga, writer of bubba ho-tep & the cosmic blood-suckers comic book adaptation. it's dark terrain but at its core is a heart as golden as a hit record. lansdale's prequel manages to blast his alternate history of the king of rock 'n roll into a psychedelic over-the-top pulp frenzy chock-full of swashbuckling action, high-stakes adventure, trippy horror, and 70’s drug-fueled bizarro government conspiracies. “the highly anticipated, much requested follow-up to the cult classic novella (and don coscarelli film adaptation) - and it’s high time to tcb, baby! joe r.

Reviews for BUBBA AND THE COSMIC BLOOD-SUCKERS by Joe R. Lansdale has received the Edgar Award, eleven 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 work has been collected in at least thirty short-story collections, and he has edited or co-edited over a dozen anthologies. He has written for comics, television, film, newspapers, and Internet sites. The author of fifty novels and more than three hundred short stories, his work has appeared in national anthologies, magazines, and collections, as well as numerous foreign publications. Down in New Orleans awaits the Big Mama, who would like nothing more than to drain the 'Jacked-Up Mojo' from the group. Joining him on this journey is clairvoyant Blind Man, master-planner Jack, hammer-swinging John Henry, bodyguard Johnny Smack, and trainee Jenny Jo Dallas. Years before facing the cowboy hat-wearing mummy Bubba Ho-Tep in the Shady Acres Convalescent Home, Elvis found himself battling interdimensional body-dessicating beings at the behest of his manager, Colonel Parker. Now available in paperback for the first time!Īlso includes the award-winning BUBBA HO-TEP novella, inspiration behind the Don Coscarelli film starring Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis.

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