![]() ![]() There were no real specialty shops in my area. Joe published in the small presses back then, as he does today, but it was difficult to find that stuff for guys like me. Joe wrote horror fiction, and might be there near all the Stephen King books. That’s where you probably would have found The Magic Wagon. Or maybe he would end up in the Western area. That’s where you were likely to find his first novel, Act of Love. Maybe one would end up in the Mystery/Suspense section. ![]() His books could be found in any given spot in a store. Plus, Lansdale was a tough nut to pigeonhole. You looked in bookstores, searched the used shops, and maybe if you were lucky you could find a catalogue of stuff you wanted to order. It wasn’t so easy to find books in those days. ![]() The reviewed works in question were Act of Love, The Nightrunners, and Dead in the West. So when I read a triple review by the great Stanley Wiater in Fangoria magazine about a writer named Joe R. It was a heyday, and it seemed like every new author on the scene I heard about was well worth my time and money. And there was a new, streetwise style of horror breaking barriers, from writers like John Skipp, Craig Spector, David J. Writers were migrating from the SF field. Newer writers like Dennis Etchison, Richard Christian Matheson, Ramsey Campbell, and Michael McDowell were getting into high gear. Big names, legends, were still publishing: Robert Bloch, Ray Russell, Manly Wade Wellman, Hugh B. I had been a serious horror reader for years and things were really starting to get interesting. ![]()
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