Bumper Crop

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Bumper Crop
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Author Joe R. Lansdale
Cover artist John Picacio
LanguageEnglish
Genre Short story collection
Publisher Golden Gryphon Press
Publication date
2004
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages199
ISBN 1-930846-24-X
Preceded by A Little Green Book of Monster Stories (2003) 
Followed by Mad Dog Summer and other Stories (2004) 

Bumper Crop is a collection of short stories by Joe R. Lansdale published in 2004 by Golden Gryphon Press. In his introduction, he cites it as the companion piece to High Cotton, because he had so many stories which didn't quite fit in with the "Best of" but were more like "personal favorites." Initially issued as a hardcover, it has been reissued as a trade paperback. [1] [2]

Contents

In his introduction, Lansdale explains that the term bumper crop refers to a harvest which is so plentiful that it exceeds all expectations; the excess harvest is the "bumper crop." [3]

Stories collected

TitleOriginally published in
Forward: The Remains of My Days ...
God of the RazorGrue #5, 1987
The Dump Twilight Zone Magazine, July 1981
Fish NightSpecter! ed. Bill Pronzini (1982)
Chompers Twilight Zone Magazine, July 1982
The Fat ManThe Horror Show, January 1987
On a Dark OctoberThe Horror Show, Spring 1984
The Shaggy HouseThe Horror Show, Fall 1986
The Man Who DreamedThe Horror Show, Fall 1984
Walks Cemetery Dance , Fall 1997
Last of the Hopeful The Good, The Bad, and the Indifferent (1997)
Duck HuntAfter Midnight, ed. Charles L. Grant (1986)
Down by the Sea Near the Great Big RockMasques #1, ed. J. N. Williamson (1984)
I Tell You It's LoveModern Stories (1983)
Pilots [co-authored with Dan Lowry]Stalkers, ed. Gorman & Greenberg (1989)
In the Cold, Dark TimeDark Harvest Summer/Fall Preview: 1990
Bar TalkNew Blood #7 (1990)
Listen Twilight Zone Magazine, May/June 1983
Personality Problem Twilight Zone Magazine, January/February 1983
A Change of Lifestyle [co-authored with Karen Lansdale] Twilight Zone Magazine, November/December 1984
The Companion [co-authored with Keith and Kasey Joe Lansdale]Great Writers & Kids Write Spooky Stories, ed. Greenberg, Morgan & Weinberg (1995)
Old CharlieThe Saint Magazine, August 1984
Billie Sue A Fistfull of Stories (1996)
Bestsellers GuaranteedEspionage Magazine, May 1985
Fire DogThe Silver Gryphon, ed. Gary Turner & Marty Halpern (2003)
Cowboy The Good, The Bad, and the Indifferent (1997)
Master of MiseryWarriors of Blood and Dream, ed. Roger Zelazny & Greenberg (1995)

References