Season 2 is based on the second Hap and Leonard novel Mucho Mojo and season 3, which premiered on 3/7/18, is based on the third novel The Two-Bear Mambo. These books have been adapted into a TV series for the SundanceTV channel and a series of graphic novels in 2017. His novels are also characterized by sharp humor and "wisecracking" dialogue. Lansdale depiction of East Texas is essentially "good" but blighted by racism, ignorance, urban and rural deprivation and corrupt public officials. The stories (told from Hap's point of view) are violent, and characterized by strong language and sexual situations. Hap is a white working class laborer in his mid forties who once protested against the war in Vietnam and spent time in federal prison rather than be drafted, and Leonard is a gay black Vietnam vet. His Hap and Leonard series of twelve novels, four novellas, and three short story collections feature Hap Collins and Leonard Pine who live in the fictional town of Laborde, in East Texas, where they find themselves solving a variety of crimes. Kennedy battling a soul-sucking Egyptian mummy in a nursing home (the plot of his Bram Stoker Award-nominated novella, Bubba Ho-Tep, which was made into a movie by Don Coscarelli). Lansdale's writing is characterized by a deep sense of irony, and features strange or absurd situations or characters, such as Elvis Presley and John F.
Lansdale grew up in East Texas, the son of a mechanic. He is the winner of the British Fantasy Award, the American Horror Award, the Edgar Award, and eleven Bram Stoker Awards. Several of his novels have been adapted for film and television. A prose writer in a variety of genres, including Western, horror, science fiction, mystery, and suspense, he has also written comic books and screenplays. Joe Richard Lansdale (born October 28, 1951) is an American writer and martial arts instructor. Here's your chance to leap back into Lansdale's classic universe and take a whirl on the amusement rides of one of this generation's most unusual novelistic minds." | SHIPS AIRMAIL INTERNATIONALLY!.Horror, mystery, western, adventure, crime The Drive-in, a B Movie with Blood and Popcorn, first published in the eighties, was a milestone for horror fiction as satire, and influenced writers in many genres, from horror to science fiction to fantasy to humor to the literary novel of the strange. Lansdale at his ironic best, dissecting humanity with a scalpel and a chainsaw. Horrid creatures almost as evil as man, and a look at the very machinery of the Drive-In Cosmos, and beyond. A catfish that would swallow Jonah's whale. If you thought the first two books in the series were wacky, this one moves into a whole new realm of whacked and confused. "The wild and weird wonders of the Drive-In world continue in this third volume, The Drive-In: The Bus Tour.
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