“Joe Lansdale squares up to the Great Old Ones—and taps into rich veins of awe and wit, with always a backbeat thrumm of cosmic terror. You’ll never look at the howling void in the black heart of the universe the same way again.”
—Kim Newman, author of the Anno Dracula series

“Cosmic horror is alive and well in this eerie collection of what Bram Stoker Award winner Lansdale (Moon Lake) considers to be his eight best Lovecraftian tales, each with different settings and styles and often pulling from other authors’ oeuvres as well. ‘Dread Island’ riffs on Mark Twain, opening with the line ‘this here story is as true as that other story that was written down about me and Jim,’ and going on to tell of how Huck Finn risks his life to save Tom Sawyer from a mysterious evil. Lansdale’s mimicry extends to Edgar Allan Poe as well; ‘The Gruesome Affair of the Electric Blue Lightning’ is a new C. Auguste Dupin exploit, in which the sleuth looks into eyewitness accounts of oddly colored lightning. A third highlight, ‘The Tall Grass,’ evokes Algernon Blackwood, as a businessman traveling in the West has an unsettling experience when his train stops after midnight in the middle of a patch of unusually tall prairie grass that ‘shifted in the moonlight like waves of gold-green seawater pulled by the tide-making forces of the moon.’ Lansdale fans and Lovecraft devotees alike will be impressed.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Here’s Lovecraft’s trick: he uses polyphony, many voices, to build his narrative case for the existence of cosmic squids whistling in the dark. Here is Lansdale's trick: doing it better, with a wider array of voices, including those of Poe and Twain and the classic American folk tale and his own Texas noir sensibility. This collection is a box of cursed yet delicious chocolates. Take a bite of every one!”
—Nick Mamatas, author of Move Under Ground and I Am Providence

“Horror royalty Joe Lansdale’s take on cosmic horror and the Cthulhu Mythos is everything you'd hope for—bloody, profane, grimly humorous, and as vivid as Technicolor hell splashed on a 20-foot tall silver screen.”
—Laird Barron, author of Not a Speck of Light

“Joe Lansdale takes on Lovecraft, Poe, Twain, and more in this adventurous collection of stories. In the Mad Mountains is playful, ambitious, surprising and so much fun to read. What a thrill to watch a modern master play literary games with the greats.”
—Victor LaValle, author of The Ballad of Black Tom

“Lansdale proves once again with In the Mad Mountains, as he has over his long and triumphant career, to be a master of every genre he touches.”
—Rae Wilde, author of Merciless Waters and I Can Fix Her

5/5 Stars. “A wild, fun, often brilliant ride of a book.”
—Kendra Leonard, author of Neither Created Nor Destroyed

“A consistently entertaining, varied, horrifying, and vividly told collection.”
—Umney’s Alley

“Joe Lansdale is an American treasure—he’s funny and he can write whatever he wants to, in whatever genre he chooses and IT WILL BE GOOD. In these stories inspired by Lovecraft, Joe lets his imagination run wild . . . Highly recommended!”
—Char’s Horror Corner

“Exploring the darkest corners of the human psyche, here is a lethally entertaining journey through Joe Lansdale’s twisted landscape, where ancient evils lurk and sanity hangs by a rapidly fraying thread.”
—Paul Finch, author of Never Seen Again

“It should come as no surprise that Joe R. Lansdale’s take on Lovecraft is utterly original—Scary, fun, and cosmic as all hell. Lansdale is a master in just about every genre imaginable.”
—Dave Writes and Draws

“For fans of horror fiction searching for something spine-chilling, this book is exactly what you’ve been waiting for.”
—Bibliophileverse

“In The Mad Mountains is a whip-like tentacle of poison that wraps itself around you, dragging you into deep corners of darkness while your heart pistons into overdrive.”
—Read@Joes

5/5 stars. “What an eclectic, delicious collection of creepy short stories that Joe Lansdale has written.”
—Hall Ways

“Lansdale’s tales are fun, carefully constructed, and an important contribution to the opus of cosmic horror in our fallen world.”
—Steve Capone, Jr., author of Jimmy vs. Communism

Praise for Joe R. Lansdale

“A terrifically gifted storyteller.” —Washington Post Book Review

 “Joe R. Lansdale is one of the more versatile writers in America.” —Los Angeles Times

 “A zest for storytelling and gimlet eye for detail.” —Entertainment Weekly

“Lansdale is an immense talent.” —Booklist

 “Lansdale is a storyteller in the Texas tradition of outrageousness . . . but amped up to about 100,000 watts.” —Houston Chronicle

 “Lansdale’s been hailed, at varying points in his career, as the new Flannery O’Connor, William Faulkner-gone-madder, and the last surviving splatterpunk . . . sanctified in the blood of the walking Western dead and righteously readable.” —Austin Chronicle

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