Joe R. Lansdale

Lansdale was a contributing writer for Batman: The Animated Series, credited with three episodes, namely "Perchance to Dream" (season 1, episode 26, which aired October 29, 1992), "Read My Lips" (season 1, episode #59 that aired May 10, 1993), and "Showdown" (season 4, episode 2, aired September 12, 1995). Lansdale also wrote "Identity Crisis" on Superman: The Animated Series (season 2, episode 6, airing September 15, 1997), and "Critters" (with Steve Gerber) for The New Batman Adventures (season 2, episode 2, airing September 19, 1998). Lansdale's first film adaptation was Bubba Ho-Tep, based on his novella of the same and released in 2002. The film featured Elvis Presley and a man who believes himself to be John F. Kennedy, confined to an old-age rest home, teaming up to fight a mummy who is stealing their friends' souls. In 2010, Lansdale wrote the screenplay for the animated short DC Showcase: Jonah Hex. The short story Incident On and Off a Mountain Road was adapted for the first episode of the first season of Masters of Horror. It aired on October 28, 2005. Lansdale's story "The Job" was made into an 11-minute short in 1997 by A.W. Feidler. It is available on the out-of-print DVD collection, Short 5 – Diversity, on Warner Home Video. The short story "Drive-In Date" was filmed as a short by James Cahill, from a script written by Lansdale, published in A Fist Full of Stories. The film Christmas with the Dead, based on the Lansdale short story of the same name, was filmed in East Texas in Summer 2011. The film starring Brad Maule, Damian Maffei, and Kasey Lansdale is currently showing on the film festival circuit and at private screenings. The DVD has been released. Actor and director Bill Paxton worked for six years on a film adaptation of Lansdale's novel The Bottoms. In a 2015 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Paxton admitted having difficulty getting the project off the ground. Paxton's death left unfinished projects, including The Bottoms movie. Backup Media and Memento Films International financed Cold in July, an adaptation of Lansdale's cult novel was directed by Jim Mickle, with acting by Michael C. Hall and Sam Shepard. Filming began in 2013. Accompanied by a movie tie-in edition of the original story released by Tachyon Publications, the film was screened at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. Nick Damici and Jim Mickle developed a Hap and Leonard private investigator series for the Sundance Channel, which premiered in March 2016. On June 27, 2016, SundanceTV renewed the series for a six-episode second season, which aired in 2017 and was based on the second novel, Mucho Mojo. Season 3 is based the third book, The Two-Bear Mambo On May 14, 2018, SundanceTV announced the cancellation of the series. Lansdale is the executive producer of the film The Pale Door. • Illustration — The Walking Dead Executive Producer Greg Nicotero with Lansdale

Among his awards, Joe Lansdale has won nine Bram Stoker Awards and nominated for the World Fantasy Award eleven times over the course of his long career. • Work — Year & Award — Category — Result — Ref. • Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back — 1987 World Fantasy Award — Short Fiction • Night They Missed the Horror Show — 1988 Bram Stoker Award — Short Fiction • 1989 World Fantasy Award — Short Fiction • The Drive-In — 1988 Bram Stoker Award — Novel • 1989 Locus Award — Horror Novel • 1989 World Fantasy Award — Novel • 2004 Seiun Award — Translated Long Work • "On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks" — 1989 Bram Stoker Award — Long Fiction • 1990 British Fantasy Award — Short Fiction • 1990 World Fantasy Award — Novella • By Bizarre Hands — 1989 Bram Stoker Award — Fiction Collection • 1990 Locus Award — Collection • 1990 World Fantasy Award — Collection • The Steel Valentine — 1990 Locus Award — Short Story • Razored Saddles (with Pat LoBrutto) — 1990 World Fantasy Award — Anthology • 1990 Locus Award — Anthology • Savage Season — 1990 Bram Stoker Award — Novel • "Love Doll: A Fable" — 1991 Bram Stoker Award — Short Fiction • The Events Concerning a Nude Fold-Out Found in a Harlequin Romance — 1992 Bram Stoker Award — Long Fiction • Jonah Hex: Two-Gun Mojo — 1993 Bram Stoker Award — Other Media • 1994 International Horror Guild Award — Graphic Story/Illustrated Narrative • Writer of the Purple Rage — 1994 Bram Stoker Award — Fiction Collection • Bubba Ho-Tep — 1994 Bram Stoker Award — Long Fiction • Weird Business (with Richard Klaw) — 1996 Eisner Awards — Anthology • The Big Blow — 1997 Bram Stoker Award — Long Fiction • 2001 Grand prix de l'Imaginaire — Foreign Short story/Collection of Foreign Short Stories • Something Lumber This Way Comes — 1999 Bram Stoker Award — Work for Young Readers • Jonah Hex: Shadows West #1 — 1999 Bram Stoker Award — Illustrated Narrative • Mad Dog Summer — 1999 Bram Stoker Award — Long Fiction • The Bottoms — 2000 International Horror Guild Award — Novel • 2000 Hammett Prize • 2001 Anthony Awards — Novel • 2001 Edgar Allan Poe Award — Novel • 2001 Macavity Awards — Mystery Novel • High Cotton: Selected Stories of Joe R. Lansdale — 2001 Locus Award — Collection • A Fine Dark Line — 2004 Audie Awards — Mystery • Mad Dog Summer and Other Stories — 2005 World Fantasy Award — Collection • Retro-Pulp Tales — 2006 Bram Stoker Award — Anthology • 2007 World Fantasy Award — Anthology • Cross Plains Universe: Texans Celebrate Robert E. Howard (with Scott A. Cupp) — 2007 World Fantasy Award — Anthology • The Shadows, Kith and Kin — 2007 International Horror Guild Award — Collection • Leather Maiden — 2008 Black Quill Awards — Dark Genre Novel of the Year • The Folding Man — 2010 Bram Stoker Award — Short Fiction • Edge of Dark Water — 2012 Goodreads Choice Awards — Horror • Fishing for Dinosaurs — 2014 Bram Stoker Award — Long Fiction • I Tell You It's Love (with Daniele Serra) — 2014 Bram Stoker Award — Graphic Novel • The Thicket — 2014 RUSA CODES Reading List — Historical Fiction • The Steam Man (with Mark Alan Miller) — 2016 Bram Stoker Award — Graphic Novel • Paradise Sky — 2016 RUSA CODES Reading List — Historical Fiction • 2016 Spur Award — Western Historical Novel • Apache Witch and Other Poetic Observations — 2021 Bram Stoker Award — Poetry Collection • Moon Lake — 2022 Locus Award — Horror Novel • Other awards or recognitions: • 1994: Mucho Mojo was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. • 2001: Received the Inkpot Award. • 2007: Received the World Horror Convention Grand Master Award • 2011: SUGARPRIZE for a body of work during the Sugarpulp Festival & the Grinzane Cavour Prize for Literature for a body of work. • 2012: Edge of Dark Water was listed Booklist Editors' Choice for Adult Books for Young Adults by the American Library Association. • 2012: The Horror Writers Association gave him and the late Rick Hautala Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement for 2011, which they received at the Bram Stoker Awards Banquet in Salt Lake City, Utah on March 31, 2012 • October 2012: Was inducted into The Texas Literary Hall of Fame. • 2013: His novel The Thicket was voted one of the best historical novels by the Library Journal. • 2014: Received the Mondello Prize for best Foreign Author. • 2015: He received the Raymond Chandler lifetime achievement award.