Three reasons to pick up the latest edition (Feb/Mar 07) of
Weird Tales magazine: 1.) It will be the last one with the classic "Weird Tales" logo on the cover. 2.) It features an interview with
Joe R. Lansdale, who talks about morality, religion and country music, among other topics. And last, but good God, not least: 3.) It contains a reprint of Lansdale's classic zombie novella, "On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks." Which comes highly, highly recommended. I first read this story in John Skipp and Craig Spector's zombie-thology,
The Book of the Dead, and it stunned my 18-year-old self into submission. Here's a sample:
"The last bounty hunter had been the famous Pink Lady McGuire--one mean mama--three hundred pounds of rolling, ugly meat that carried a twelve-gauge Remington pump and a bad attitude. Story was, Calhoun jumped her from behind, cut her throat, and as a joke, fucked her before she bled to death. This not only proved to Wayne that Calhoun was a dangerous sonofabitch, it also proved he had bad taste."
And that's just the second paragraph, people. I re-read "Cadillac Desert" yesterday on the way to work, and it hasn't lost a single bit of muscle.
Three reasons to pick up the latest edition (Feb/Mar 07) of Weird Tales magazine: 1.) It will be the last one with the classic "Weird Tales" logo on the cover. 2.) It features an interview with Joe R. Lansdale, who talks about morality, religion and country music, among other topics. And last, but good God, not least: 3.) It contains a reprint of Lansdale's classic zombie novella, "On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks." Which comes highly, highly recommended. I first read this story in John Skipp and Craig Spector's zombie-thology, The Book of the Dead, and it stunned my 18-year-old self into submission. Here's a sample:
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