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Cover artist J.K. Potter Language English Publication date 2000 Preceded by The Long Ones Page count 267 | 4.2/5 Country United States Genre Short Story Collection Originally published 2000 Publisher Golden Gryphon Press Followed by Lost Lansdale Series | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Media type Print hardcover, trade paperback Similar Joe R Lansdale books, Horror books |
High Cotton is a collection of short fiction by Joe R. Lansdale, initially published in 2000. In his introduction, Lansdale cites it as the "Best of Lansdale", and has called this work a companion piece to the 2004 collection Bumper Crop. Initially issued as a hardcover, it has been reissued as a trade paperback.
Contents
He provides a brief introduction before each story, offering a description of his intent, and contextualizing each within the history of his career.
Contents
The collection contains:
Reception
The Denver Post wrote that it "serves as a good introduction to Lansdale's fiction... The tales are as weird and hard-edged as we've come to expect from Lansdale." The Rocky Mountain News called it his best collection. Fantasy & Science Fiction reviewed it, noting it is a compilation of "the stories that built Lansdale's reputation as one of the most audacious writers to come out of the eighties... High Cotton is only for the strong at heart, the fearless reader who can face its powerful subject matter as unflinchingly as did the author."