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About the Author

Joe R. Lansdale is the author of more than three dozen novels, including The Thicket, Edge of Dark Water, The Bottoms, and A Fine Dark Line. He has received the British Fantasy Award, the American Mystery Award, the Edgar Award, the Grinzane Cavour Prize, and nine Bram Stoker Awards. He lives with his family in Nacogdoches, Texas.

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Contents

Cover

Title Page

Welcome

Dedication

Epigraph

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Author’s Note

Also by Joe R. Lansdale

About the Author

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Copyright

The characters and events in this book are fictitious.

Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

Copyright © 2015 by Joe R. Lansdale

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