The God of the Razor

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The God of the Razor
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Author Joe R. Lansdale
Cover artist Timothy Truman
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Horror, short story collection
Publisher Subterranean Press
Publication date
2007
Media typePrint hardcover, limited edition
Pages295
ISBN 978-1-59606-115-6
Preceded by The King and Other Stories (2005) 
Followed by The Shadows, Kith and Kin (2007) 

The God of the Razor is a collection of short stories by American writer Joe R. Lansdale. It also contains the early Lansdale novel The Nightrunners . It was published by Subterranean Press in 2007. Interior illustrations are by artist Glenn Chadborne. Cover artist is Timothy Truman. This book was published as a limited edition and a deluxe lettered edition. Both editions have long sold out. [1] [2]

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The character of the God Of the Razor was the basis for the comic book limited series Blood and Shadows published by DC Vertigo in 1996 with art by Mark Nelson. [3] The character also appeared in the Batman story Subway Jack written by Lansdale for the 1989 prose collection The Further Adventures of Batman.

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<i>Trapped in the Saturday Matinee</i>

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<i>A Pair of Aces</i>

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<i>Black Hat Jack</i>

Black Hat Jack: The True Life Adventures of Deadwood Dick as told by His Ownself is a novella written by American author Joe R. Lansdale. It tells the story about African-American cowboy Nat Love, also known as "Deadwood Dick" and his friend Black Hat Jack. The story is told from Nat's narrative point of view and takes place in the old west in 1874 during the Second Battle of Adobe Walls fought against various tribes of Native Americans.

<i>Dead on the Bones: Pulp on Fire</i>

Dead on the Bones: Pulp on Fire is a collection of novellas and short stories written by American author Joe R. Lansdale. He dedicated this work to his major influences of his youth: Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. Howard. All the stories were written by Lansdale. This book was also dedicated to longtime collaborator artist Timothy Truman and is limited to 1500 copies published by Subterranean Press of Burton, Michigan. It's also available as a Kindle E-Book.

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