The Complete Drive-In - by Joe R Lansdale (Paperback)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

THE COMPLETE DRIVE-IN
Includes all three Drive-In novels from Mojo Storyteller Joe R. Lansdale in one paperback.

THE DRIVE-IN: A B-Movie with Blood and Popcorn, Made in Texas

THE DRIVE-IN 2: Not Just One of Them Sequels

THE DRIVE-IN 3: The Bus Tour

The end of the 1980s. Drive-in movie culture is mostly dead with one significant exception: THE ORBIT DRIVE-IN. A drive-in theater so large it houses multiple stories-high screens that fill the sky, and can hold four thousand cars and all the people who can squeeze in them. It's a lit city that fills to the brim on Friday nights, crowds gather for the Dusk-to-Dawn Horror Shows. Horns honk, BBQ grills sizzle, people yell and act the fool, ready for the marathon of one low-budget horror film after another. But then suddenly the world changes in front of their eyes, not on the screens. A comet, red and smiling with jagged teeth, flashes across the sky. People try to leave but find they are trapped by some acidic goo surrounding the entire drive-in. They grow hungry, homicidal and suicidal. Then along comes the Popcorn King, a jiving, rhyming creature formed by blue-white lightning, with four arms and a popcorn bucket on its head. A monster as strange and dangerous and mesmerizing as the creatures and villains on the screens. It offers the starving masses food, but there's always a price to pay for survival. And THEN things start to get wicked...

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The author of fifty novels and more than three hundred short stories, his work has appeared in national anthologies, magazines, and collections, as well as numerous foreign publications. He has written for comics, television, film, newspapers, and Internet sites. His work has been collected in at least thirty short-story collections, and he has edited or co-edited over a dozen anthologies. Lansdale has received the Edgar Award, eleven Bram Stoker Awards, the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Grinzani Cavour Prize for Literature, the Herodotus Historical Fiction Award, the Inkpot Award for Contributions to Science Fiction and Fantasy, and many others.

SELECT TITLES FROM JOE R. LANSDALE

The 'Hap & Leonard' Series
Savage Season
Mucho Mojo
The Two-Bear Mambo
Bad Chili
Rumble Tumble
Captains Outrageous
Vanilla Ride
Devil Red
Honky Tonk Samurai
Rusty Puppy
Jackrabbit Smile
The Elephant of Surprise

The 'Drive-In' Series
The Drive-In: A "B" Movie with Blood and Popcorn, Made in Texas
The Drive-In 2: Not Just One of Them Sequels
The Drive-In 3: The Bus Tour

The 'Ned the Seal' Series
Zeppelins West
Flaming London
Flaming Zeppelins

Other Novels
Act of Love
Texas Night Riders
Dead in the West
The Magic Wagon
The Nightrunners
Cold in July
The Boar
Freezer Burn
The Big Blow
The Bottoms
A Fine Dark Line
Sunset and Sawdust
Lost Echoes
Leather Maiden
All the Earth, Thrown to the Sky
Edge of Dark Water
The Thicket
Paradise Sky
Fender Lizards
Shadows West (with John L. Lansdale)
Hell's Bounty (with John L. Lansdale)
Bubba and the Cosmic Bloodsuckers / Bubba Ho-Tep

Review Quotes

"For all the amazing work Joe has given his readers, I think The Drive-In is one of his best." - Cemetery Dance

"...a rocket-ship ride through the heart of darkness, full of junk-food thrills and doom, and not to be missed." - The A.V. Club

"Joe Lansdale is a born storyteller." - Robert Bloch

CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR THE MAGIC WAGON

"To the 1980s what True Grit was to its decade."--Dean R. Koontz

"Part tall tale, part suspense story, part dark fantasy, The Magic Wagon is wholly unique and unfailingly SUCCESSFUL."--Ed Gorman, Trails West

"A delight."-- Books of the Southwest

"An assortment of colorful, often humorous characters gives this insightful and gritty tale authenticity and a sense of wonder."-- Booklist

"Pure escapist reading."-- The Antioch Review

"This is a rare, wonderful book."--Lewis Shiner, The Austin Chronicle

"Joe R. Lansdale proves he can show his readers a good time--and leave them a little something to think about afterward."-- The New York Times Book Review

CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR BUBBA AND THE COSMIC BLOOD-SUCKERS

"A worthy follow-up to a modern cult classic." - San Francisco Book Review (Glenn Dallas)

"It makes [Bubba Ho-Tep] seem like a Sunday School lesson in comparison." - Cemetery Dance (Blu Gilliand)

"Pure, unabashed pulp fun. It doesn't skimp on the stakes (or the gore, for that matter), but it's not all grim and gritty, either. It's vintage Lansdale, and the best part of all is that it proves there's plenty of room for more Bubba stories down the line." - Cemetery Dance (Blu Gilliand)

"In this gore-spattered funfest, master of the macabre Lansdale (the Hap and Leonard series) fills in the backstories of the characters from his novella Bubba Ho-Tep (which became a cult classic film)." - Publishers Weekly

"Joe R. Lansdale does a great job with the characters and building the dread. The author grabs you from the first scene and doesn't let go until the last page. The story is filled with wild fights, strange monsters, sex, and ghosts. The pink Cadillac even makes an appearance." - Cedar Hollow Horror Reviews

JOE R. LANSDALE TITLES FROM BOOKVOICE PUBLISHING:
The Magic Wagon [Limited Edition Hardcover and eBook]
Bubba Ho-Tep / Bubba and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers [Paperback]
The Complete Drive-In: The Drive-In 1/2/3 [Paperback and eBook]

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