Monday, August 18, 2008

From Papercutz Comics: JOE R. LANSDALE WRITES TALES FROM THE CRYPT

JOE R. LANSDALE WRITES TALES FROM THE CRYPT
Award-Winning Novelist Contributes New Work to Classic Horror Comic

Booklist calls him “an immense talent.” The New York Times BookReview praises his “folklorist’s eye for telling detail” and “front-porch raconteur’s sense of pace.” He’s won five Bram Stokerhorror awards . . .
. . . And now Joe R. Lansdale, best-selling author of Leather Maiden,Bubba Ho-Tep, and The Bottoms, is writing TALES FROM THE CRYPT! Inissue #7’s “Moonlight Sonata,” written with Lansdale’s brother Johnand drawn by Chris Noeth, a mugger thinks he's hit the jackpot whenhis victim's keys open a millionaire's house; but things change whenhe finds werewolves in the basement. The issue also contains “IgnobleRot,” by Fred Van Lente and Steve Mannion (in which a womanizingplayer picks on the wrong female in New Orleans’ French Quarter) andblack-humor introductions by Jim Salicrup and Rick Parker.
TALES FROM THE CRYPT, published bi-monthly, is a 48-page full-colorrevival of the classic 1950s horror comic book. Issue #7,cover-priced at $3.95, is on sale now.
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