Writer of the Purple Rage

Writer of the Purple Rage is a collection of short works by American author Joe R. Lansdale, published in 1994. It was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award in the "Fiction Collection" category. The title is a play on the Philip José Farmer novella "Riders of the Purple Wage", and before that, the Zane Grey novel Riders of the Purple Sage.

"Bubba Ho-Tep"
"By Bizarre Hands: play version"
"The Diaper" or "The Adventure of the Little Rounder"
"Drive-In Date"
"Everybody Plays the Fool"
"Godzilla's Twelve Step Program"
"Hard On For Horror"
"In the Cold, Dark Time"
"Incident On and Off a Mountain Road"
"Love Doll: A Fable"
"The Man With Two Lives"
"Mister Weed-Eater"
"The Phone Woman"
"Pilots"
"Steppin' Out, Summer, '68"

This is the only collection which includes the short stories "The Diaper", "Everybody Plays the Fool", "Love Doll: A Fable" and "The Man With Two Lives", as well as the play version of "By Bizarre Hands".

Writer of the Purple Rage

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