By Bizarre Hands

By Bizarre Hands is the first collection of short stories by American writer Joe R. Lansdale, published in 1989. The collection was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award[1] for best fiction collection, and contains two stories which won Stokers. It has an introduction by Lewis Shiner. This book was re-issued as By Bizarre Hands Rides Again in 2010. The re-issue contains a new introduction by Joe R. Lansdale and new artwork by Alex McVey. This book is limited to 300 copies and is signed by both writer and artist. It also contains two stories not in the original issue.

List of short stories

This collection contains nothing truly exclusive; although no other collection has included "Boys Will Be Boys" or "The Windstorm Passes", both are actually excerpts from novels which were sold as short stories when no company would buy the novels. The novels have been published, though they are both currently out of print.

Comics

Cover of the first Dark Horse issue

By Bizarre Hands was also the name of two different comic book limited series, a 3-issue published by Dark Horse Comics and a 6-issue published by Avatar Press in 2004, where other authors and artists adapted some of Lansdale's stories to comic book form.

The Dark Horse series was collected as part of Atomic Chili: The Illustrated Joe R. Lansdale.

The stories in the Dark Horse series are, by issue:

  1. "Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back" (adapted by Neal Barrett Jr. - art by Phil Hester)
  2. "By Bizarre Hands" (adapted by Jerry Prosser - art by Dean Rohrer)
  3. "Night They Missed the Picture Show" (adapted by Jerry Prosser - art by Dean Rohrer)

The stories in the Avatar series are, by issue:

  1. "By Bizarre Hands" (adapted by Dheeraj Verma)
  2. "Not From Detroit" (adapted by Armando Rossi)
  3. "The Pit" (adapted by Andres Guinaldo)
  4. "Tight Little Stitches In A Dead Man's Back" (adapted by Dheeraj Verma)
  5. "Night They Missed the Picture Show" (adapted by Andres Guinaldo)
  6. "God of the Razor" and "My Dead Dog Bobby" (adapted by Dheeraj Verma)

References

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