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  I picked up my ticket and placed the bucket down tenderly. I sat by the window with the ticket in my hand, waiting for the first crack of light.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Joe R. Lansdale is the author of more than a dozen novels, including Vanilla Ride, Leather Maiden, Sunset and Sawdust, and Lost Echoes. He has received the British Fantasy Award, the American Mystery Award, the Edgar Award, the Grinzane Cavour Prize for Literature, and eight Bram Stoker Awards. His novella “Bubba Ho-Tep” was made into a film, starring Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis and directed by Don Coscarelli. His short story “Incident On and Off a Mountain Road” was also adapted to film, starring Bree Turner and directed by Don Coscarelli, for Showtime. He lives with his family in Nacogdoches, Texas.

  Also by Joe R. Lansdale

  Leather Maiden

  Lost Echoes

  Sunset and Sawdust

  The Bottoms

  A Fine Dark Line

  Freezer Burn

  The Hap and Leonard Series

  Devil Red

  Vanilla Ride

  Captain Outrageous

  Rumble Tumble

  Bad Chili

  The Two-Bear Mambo

  Mucho Mojo

  Savage Season

  Contents

  Title Page

  Dedication

  Epigraph

  Part One: Of Ash and Dreams

  1

  2

  3

  4

  5

  6

  7

  8

  9

  10

  11

  Part Two: The Kingdom of the Snake

  12

  13

  14

  15

  16

  17

  Part Three: Skunk

  18

  19

  20

  21

  22

  23

  24

  25

  26

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  About the Author

  Also by Joe R. Lansdale

  Copyright

  The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

  Copyright © 2012 by Joe R. Lansdale

  Cover design by Julianna Lee

  Cover photograph © Robert Jones / Arcangel Images

  Copyright © 2012 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.

  All rights reserved. In accordance with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, the scanning, uploading, and electronic sharing of any part of this book without the permission of the publisher constitute unlawful piracy and theft of the author’s intellectual property. If you would like to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), prior written permission must be obtained by contacting the publisher at permission[email protected]. Thank you for your support of the author’s rights.

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  First e-book edition: March 2012

  Mulholland Books is an imprint of Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. The Mulholland Books name and logo are trademarks of Hachette Book Group, Inc.

  The publisher is not responsible for websites (or their content) that are not owned by the publisher.

  ISBN 978-0-316-21519-0

 


 

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