High Cotton: Selected Stories of Joe R. Lansdale
High Cotton is a collection of short fiction by Joe R. Lansdale, initially published in 2000. In his introduction, Lansdale cites it as the "Best of Lansdale", and has called this work a companion piece to the 2004 collection "Bumper Crop". Initially issued as a hardcover, it has been reissued as a trade paperback. He provides a brief introduction before each story, offering a description of his intent, and contextualizing each within the history of his career. Contents. The collection contains: Reception. "The Denver Post" wrote that it "serves as a good  introduction to Lansdale's fiction... The tales are as weird and hard-edged as we've come to expect from Lansdale." The "Rocky Mountain News" called it his best collection. "Fantasy & Science Fiction" reviewed it, noting it is a compilation of "the stories that built Lansdale's reputation as one of the most audacious writers to come out of the eighties... "High Cotton" is only for the strong at heart, the fearless reader who can face its powerful subject matter as unflinchingly as did the author."