![]() ![]() ![]() Horror fans may know him as the author of Bubba Ho-Tep, which was masterfully adapted into the film of the same name by Don Coscarelli ( Phantasm, John Dies At The End) and stars Bruce Campbell (if you don't know who this is, leave and never come back) as an elderly Elvis battling a soul-sucking mummy. While plenty of his fiction is fantastical, almost all of it is grounded in some way by real life's absurdities and foibles. Lansdale is a writer that understands this, more so than many. The universe is a gargantuan, uncaring swirl of chaos step back and laugh at it, or get sucked into the void. Plenty of us can envision battling zombies and orcs, but just as many can connect to a character grinding it out in the rat race, day in day out, maybe catching a lucky break once every blue moon. While this is a valid (and often true) point, there exists a plethora of literature, music, film and art grounded in harsh realities and inconvenient truths. Entertainment is often seen as an escape, a brief respite from the daily doldrums of our collective boring lives. ![]()
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