The Bible Repairman and Other Stories

Praise for The Best of Joe R. Lansdale "Always entertaining, champion storyteller Lansdale shares his best weird yarns in this terrific collection.... This is a great introduction to the raunchy, cheerfully unclassifiable East Texan bon vivant." --Publishers Weekly "Let this volume introduce you to his uncensored, unfiltered world. He is a writer deserving of a wide and appreciative audience." --The Guardian ...
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Praise for The Best of Joe R. Lansdale

"Always entertaining, champion storyteller Lansdale shares his best weird yarns in this terrific collection.... This is a great introduction to the raunchy, cheerfully unclassifiable East Texan bon vivant."
--Publishers Weekly

"Let this volume introduce you to his uncensored, unfiltered world. He is a writer deserving of a wide and appreciative audience."
--The Guardian

"Indisputably one of horror's most revered craftsmen."
--Booklist

"The Best of Joe R. Lansdale is a must-have book for the lover of the weird, the champion of the bizarre, and the fan of the outrageous. If you are looking for a unique experience that will leave you equal parts stunned and nostalgic, frightened and amused, look no further."
--Fatally Yours

"Whether you are a die-hard Lansdale fan and want to get most of his best work in one volume or you are a neophyte to the Cult of Lansdale looking for a good starting point, this is the book for you."
--Kent Allard, Dead in the South

"Powers knows the ways we get haunted--by ambition, loss, greed, and heartbreak--and you finish reading this handful of beautifully crafted tales wishing he'd tell us more."
--Locus

"Most fantasy authors aim at persuading you of the reality of their invented worlds. Mr. Powers makes you doubt the reality of your own. Are there still sin-eaters and ghost-talkers quietly pursuing their trade in tenements and behind weed-infested yards, with regular tariffs and specializations? If there are, what do they know that you don't? That's what creates a true frisson."
--Wall Street Journal

"Poignant."
--Publishers Weekly

"Tim Powers's first collection of short fiction in over half a decade, The Bible Repairman and Other Stories is a potent six-story collection that plays effortlessly with many of the author's favorite themes."
--Green Man Review

"Powers specializes in hidden histories and all of these stories present a very real exterior and another world inside its cracks."
--Denver Post

"Powers's first new collection since 2005 assembles five stories and a novella, where he exhibits his extraordinary talent as a fantasist and his uncommon imaginative power."
--SF Site

"Superb.... Here, in potent, distilled form, you will find Powers's trademarked secret histories, heroically damaged (or damagedly heroic) losers, creepy supernatural phenomena, and macabre humor."
--Barnes & Noble Review