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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
1994

Author
  
Joe R. Lansdale

Cover artist
  
Mark Nelson

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Language
  
English

Originally published
  
1994

Genre
  
Short story collection

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Media type
  
Print hardcover, limited edition, paperback

Followed by
  
A Fistfull of Stories (and Articles) (1996)

Preceded by
  
Electric Gumbo: A Lansdale Reader

Publisher
  
Cemetery Dance Publications

Similar
  
Joe R Lansdale books, Horror books

Writer of the Purple Rage is a collection of short works by American author Joe R. Lansdale, published in 1994. It was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award in the "Fiction Collection" category. The title is a play on the Philip José Farmer novella "Riders of the Purple Wage", and before that, the Zane Grey novel Riders of the Purple Sage.

Contents

  • "Bubba Ho-Tep" (nominated for the Bram Stoker Award; originally published in The King Is Dead, ed. Paul M. Sammon, 1994)
  • "By Bizarre Hands: play version" (originally published in Cold Blood, ed. Richard Chizmar, 1991)
  • "The Diaper" or "The Adventure of the Little Rounder" (originally published in Nova Express Summer 1990)
  • "Drive-In Date" (originally published in Night Visions 8, 1991)
  • "Everybody Plays the Fool" (originally published in Thunder’s Shadow Collector’s Magazine February 1993)
  • "Godzilla's Twelve Step Program" (first publication)
  • "Hard On For Horror" (non-fiction; extended from shorter version)
  • "In the Cold, Dark Time" (originally published in Dark Harvest Summer/Fall Preview: 1990)
  • "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" (originally published in Night Visions 8, 1991)
  • "Love Doll: A Fable" (nominated for the Bram Stoker Award; originally published in Borderlands 2, ed. Thomas F. Monteleone, 1991)
  • "The Man With Two Lives" (first publication)
  • "Mister Weed-Eater" (originally published by Cahill Press, 1993)
  • "The Phone Woman" (originally published in Night Visions 8, 1991)
  • "Pilots" (with Dan Lowry; originally published in Stalkers, ed. Ed Gorman & Greenberg, 1989)
  • "Steppin' Out, Summer, '68" (originally published in Night Visions 8, 1991)

    • This is the only collection which includes the short stories "The Diaper", "Everybody Plays the Fool", "Love Doll: A Fable" and "The Man With Two Lives", as well as the play version of "By Bizarre Hands".

    References

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