As well as the films Night of the Living Dead and Panic in Year Zero had something to do with it. I’m sure other things, like Day of the Triffids, novel and the early film, were influences. But, it was a trope of the old films, and a lot of the science fiction written at that time, so I used that idea as the back beat of the story. I knew that I wasn’t actually writing Science Fiction, so much as I was writing science fantasy, as far as the idea of the immediately created bomb creatures, instead of an evolution altered by radiation that might lead to some kind of monstrous change. I also grew up on numerous science fiction and monster stories about creatures created by radiation and so on. I think there are way too many places for me to know for sure, but I did grow up in the fifties and sixties, when the fear of The Bomb, was at its height. Where did the idea for this story come from? In this Author Spotlight, we asked author Joe Lansdale to tell us a bit about the background of his story for Lightspeed, “ Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man’s Back.” Series: The Tales of Gorlen Vizenfirthe.Series: From the Lost Travelers’ Tour Guide.People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!.

No matter how they begin, things are bound to get ugly-and fast. Lansdale brings his legendary mojo and gritty, dark humor to harrowing heists, revenge, homicide, and mayhem. In this collection of nineteen unforgettable crime tales, Joe R. A lonely man engages in dubious acts while pining for his rubber duckie. A brother and sister travel to Oklahoma to recover the dead body of their uncle. Bear is not alerting us to the dangers of forest fires, he lives a life of debauchery and murder. In the 1950s, a young small-town projectionist mixes it up with a violent gang. Lansdale is a national fucking treasure.' 'Pulpy, blackly humorous, compulsively readable, and somehow both wildly surreal and down-to-earth. In his first crime career-retrospective, including previously uncollected work, Lansdale shows exactly why critics continue to compare him to Elmore Leonard, Donald Westlake, Flannery O'Connor, and William Faulkner. Lansdale (the Hap and Leonard series), one of America's most essential crime writers, heads back to the dangerous woods of East Texas. Edgar Award winner and bestselling author Joe R.

Things Get Ugly by Joe R. Lansdale