JOE R. LANSDALE – TIGHT LITTLE STITCHES IN A DEAD
MAN’S BACK
Browsing Amazon and looking for availability on a
couple of Lansdale’s missing Hap and Leonard books, I happened upon a few Lansdale
freebies, of which this was one. Not sure if this should really count towards
my year end books read total, as it could be a short story or a novella, but
has been released on its own as a chapbook in the past. Anyway I’m claiming it.
I think Lansdale, the “Champion Mo-jo Storyteller”
(self-proclaimed?), won the Bram Stoker award for this tale of survival in a
post-apocalyptical world.
Descriptive, bleak, disturbing but ultimately
unsatisfying..... It’s hard to feel a connection to the characters which makes
you actually interested in how it all ends.
That’s a problem I have with most short stories I
read
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