{"id":25561,"date":"2025-10-22T08:01:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25561"},"modified":"2025-10-21T22:45:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T03:45:44","slug":"library-addition-signed-first-of-joe-lansdales-essential-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25561","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: Signed First of Joe Lansdale&#8217;s Essential Horror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Lansdale book came in:<\/p>\n<p>Lansdale, Joe R. (Joe Hill) <b>The Essential Horror of Joe R. Lansdale<\/b>. Tachyon, 2025. First edition trade paperback original, a Fine copy, signed by Lansdale. According to the publisher, Joe showed up for their 30th Anniversary Party and &#8220;signed all the books.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure if it means he signed all mine, signed all preorders, or signed every single book. Joe Hill provides the introduction. Bought from the publisher at the usual discount. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Lansdale-Essential-Horror-683x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"675\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Lansdale-Essential-Horror-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Lansdale-Essential-Horror-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Lansdale-Essential-Horror-768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Lansdale-Essential-Horror-1024x1536.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Lansdale-Essential-Horror.png 1192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I will have a small number of signed copies of this available in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog, which I&#8217;ll start working on next month. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Lansdale book came in: Lansdale, Joe R. (Joe Hill) The Essential Horror of Joe R. Lansdale. Tachyon, 2025. First edition trade paperback original, a Fine copy, signed by Lansdale. According to the publisher, Joe showed up for their 30th Anniversary Party and &#8220;signed all the books.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure if it means he signed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":18,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,56],"tags":[1973,1979,46,499,793],"class_list":["post-25561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-horror","tag-books","tag-horror","tag-joe-r-lansdale","tag-small-press-publishers","tag-tachyon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25561"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25574,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25561\/revisions\/25574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}