Joe R. Lansdale and Bev Vincent

Joe R. Lansdale is the author of nearly four dozen novels, including Rusty Puppy, the Edgar-award winning The Bottoms, Sunset and Sawdust, and Leather Maiden. He has received ten Bram Stoker Awards, the Spur Award for Best Western Historical Novel, the British Fantasy Award, and the Grinzane Cavour Prize for Literature. He lives with his family in Nacogdoches, Texas.

Bev Vincent has been writing the column “News from the Dead Zone” for Cemetery Dance magazine for nearly twenty-five years. He is the author of several non-fiction books, including The Road to the Dark Tower and Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences, which also has a Young Adult Reader edition. In 2018, he co-edited Flight or Fright with Stephen King, an anthology of scary tales about flying that also includes one of his over 140 published short stories. His script for the “dollar baby” Stephen King’s Gotham Café (co-written with two others) was named Best Adaptation at the International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival in 2004. His work has been translated into over twenty languages and has been nominated for the Stoker (twice), Edgar, Locus, Ignotus, Rondo Hatton Classic Horror and ITW Thriller Awards. He lives in The Woodlands with his wife. To learn more, visit bevvincent.com.

For more information or to order books, please visit: https://www.murderbooks.com/Vincent-Lansdale

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• This Thursday, 31st July, 06:30 pm, Erin Bledsoe in Houston
• Next Wednesday, 6th August, 06:30 pm, Kyle Mills in Houston
• Next Friday, 8th August, 06:30 pm, Megan Miranda in conversation with Abby Endler in Houston

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