<div>A long-lost bookmobile opens a wild new chapter in the lives of dysfunctional Texas detectives Hap and Leonard&mdash;stars of the hit Sundance TV series. Hap Collins is a straight, white, liberal, blue-collar tough guy. Leonard Pine is a gay, black, Republican combat veteran. Together, they&rsquo;re the truest Lone Stars living in America&rsquo;s most independently minded state. Best friends who&rsquo;ve shared a succession of low-wage odd jobs that have gotten them into even odder situations dealing with lowlifes, now the duo delivers their own brand of ass-kicking justice as private investigators. In this brand-new story, a day&rsquo;s fishing lands Hap and Leonard their biggest catch ever: the Rolling Literature bookmobile. A pillar of rural African American communities in East Texas, the renovated school bus vanished fifteen years ago&mdash;along with its driver, Harriet Hoodalay, aka Hoodoo Harry&mdash;reappearing just in time to crash Leonard&rsquo;s pickup into a creek. Behind the wheel was a twelve-year-old boy who didn&rsquo;t survive the accident. The kid was clearly running scared, but who was he running from and how did he end up in the driver&rsquo;s seat of the missing bookmobile? The first solid lead in a case that started more than a decade earlier with Hoodoo Harry, this mystery of a small town&rsquo;s dark and disturbing past will take all of Hap and Leonard&rsquo;s wits&mdash;and fists&mdash;to solve. Known for his &ldquo;zest for storytelling and a gimlet eye for detail,&rdquo; multiple award&ndash;winning author Joe R. Lansdale brings his rapid-fire dialogue, no-holds-barred action, and gut-busting humor to this original Hap and Leonard novella (Entertainment Weekly). The Bibliomysteries are a series of short tales about deadly books, by top mystery authors. </div>

Hoodoo Harry

<div>Sixteen tales that combine the otherworldly with hardboiled crime fiction&mdash;from Joe R. Lansdale, Caitl&iacute;n R. Kiernan, Paul G. Tremblay, Melanie Tem, and others. Here are the femme fatales, the tough guys, the down-on-their-luck detectives&mdash;but with a twist. Collected by Hugo and Bram Stoker Award&ndash;winning editor Ellen Datlow, these stories of the murderous and macabre will take you onto the dark streets of worlds unlike our own, where the monstrous stalk their prey. At the behest of a beautiful blonde client, a small-town East Texas private eye is drawn into a case of grave robbing by someone&mdash;or something&mdash;with an unholy interest in &ldquo;Dead Sister&rdquo; by Joe R. Lansdale. Elizabeth Bear&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Romance&rdquo; takes partygoers on a wild ride when the centerpiece of a birthday celebration turns out to be a haunted merry-go-round. After robbing a pawnshop, a group of small-time crooks get their shocking comeuppance as they flee the scene in &ldquo;The Getaway&rdquo; by Paul G. Tremblay. &ldquo;Little Shit&rdquo; by Melanie Tem follows a college student with a very unique skill set as she makes money on the side taking down criminals. Supernatural Noir also includes bone-chilling tales from Lucius Shepard, Laird Barron, Brian Evenson, Gregory Frost, Richard Bowes, Jeffrey Ford, Lee Thomas, Tom Piccirilli, Nate Southard, Nick Mamatas, and John Langan. &ldquo;This anthology has some of the most exciting fiction published in 2011. This is fiction that will make you uncomfortable, that will haunt you, that will show up in your dreams. . . . Horrifyingly wonderful.&rdquo; &mdash;Fantasy Literature</div>

Supernatural Noir

<div>A Bram Stoker Award&ndash;winning anthology featuring twenty stories based on local legends and ghost stories from around the world. Wherever you&rsquo;re from, there are local stories of ghosts, unexplained phenomena, or some thing that people are afraid to talk about. You can dismiss them as old wives&rsquo; tales, and yet they stay with us, haunting our everyday lives. In Haunted Legends, these tales are brought disturbingly to life by some of the best horror and dark fantasy writers in the world. Among the contributors are award-winners Ramsey Campbell, Caitl&iacute;n R. Kiernan, and many others. Here are stories from America&rsquo;s big cities and small towns, as well as far-flung corners of the globe. Discover the fox spirits of Vietnam, the specter of communism still haunting Russia in the form of Comrade Beria&rsquo;s ghost, the famed vampires of Rhode Island, a haunted amusement park in the Pacific Northwest, the Indian ghost city of Fatehpur Sikri, and more.</div>

Haunted Legends

<div>&ldquo;When the full story is finally revealed in this disturbing nightmare of a whodunnit, it will well leave readers reeling. A must-read masterpiece.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist (starred review) After the death of Inis St. Erme, Dr. Henry Riddle retraces the man&rsquo;s final moments, searching for the moment of his fatal misstep. Was it when he and his bride-to-be first set out to elope in Vermont? Or did his deadly error occur later&mdash;perhaps when they picked up the terrifying sharp-toothed hitchhiker, or when the three stopped at &ldquo;Dead Bridegroom&rsquo;s Pond&rdquo; for a picnic? As he searches for answers, Riddle discovers a series of bizarre coincidences that leave him questioning his sanity and his innocence. After all, he too walked those wild, deserted roads the night of the murder, stranded and struggling to get home to New York City. The more he reflects, his own memories become increasingly uncertain, arresting him with nightmarish intensity and veering into the irrational territory of pure terror&mdash;that is until an utterly satisfying solution emerges from the depths, logical enough to send the reader back through the narrative to see the clues they missed. An extraordinary whodunnit that is as puzzling as it is terrifying, Joel Townsley Rogers&rsquo;s The Red Right Hand is a surreal masterpiece that defies classification. It was identified by crime fiction scholar Jack Adrian as &ldquo;one of the dozen or so finest mystery novels of the 20th century.&rdquo; &ldquo;It is a strange and terrifying story, and the solution of the mystery, while perfectly logical, is not at all what one is led to suspect.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times</div>

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