Contents (view Concise Listing)

• ix • Foreword (High Cotton: Selected Stories of Joe R. Lansdale ) • essay by Joe R. Lansdale
• 3 • The Pit • (1987) • short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• 18 • Not from Detroit • (1988) • short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• 29 • Booty and the Beast • (1995) • short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• 45 • Steppin' Out, Summer, '68 • (1991) • short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• 65 • Incident On and Off a Mountain Road • (1991) • novelette by Joe R. Lansdale
• 86 • My Dead Dog, Bobby • (1987) • short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• 89 • Trains Not Taken • (1987) • short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• 102 • Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back • (1986) • short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• 119 • Dog, Cat, and Baby • (1987) • short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• 122 • Mister Weed-Eater • (1993) • novelette by Joe R. Lansdale
• 147 • By Bizarre Hands • (1988) • short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• 161 • The Fat Man and the Elephant • (1989) • short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• 173 • The Phone Woman • (1991) • short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• 187 • Letter from the South, Two Moons West of Nacogdoches • (1986) • short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• 192 • By the Hair of the Head • (1983) • short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• 205 • The Job • non-genre • (1989) • short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• 210 • Godzilla's Twelve-Step Program • (1994) • short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• 218 • Drive-In Date • (1991) • short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• 231 • Bob the Dinosaur Goes to Disneyland • (1989) • short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• 235 • The Steel Valentine • (1989) • short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• 252 • Night They Missed the Horror Show • (1988) • short story by Joe R. Lansdale