Review: Watch out who you run into on dark mountain roads...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 24, 2012
This is a beyond great short story by Joe Lansdale, one of my favorite authors.Ellen is a strong female protagonist, who takes on a psychopathic moon-faced guy with silver teeth, using skills she learned from her ex, a survivalist - and this is after being in a car wreck. Every word in this story is perfect, ramping up to a "killer" surprise ending. I understand that this is one of Lansdale's "more popular, better known stories" and I definitely can understand why after reading it - three times so far.I just ordered the Showtime DVD based on this storyMasters of Horror - Don Coscarelli - Incident on and off a Mountain Roadstarring Bree Turner. The author, in his introduction to the story, considers it to be a "terrific adaptation."  Good enough for me!