Lords of the Razor is a 2006 short story anthology, featuring Joe R. Lansdale

Joe R. Lansdale

Joe R. Lansdale is an American author and martial-arts expert. He has written novels and stories in many genres, including Western, horror, science fiction, mystery, and suspense...

's character, "The God of the Razor", from the story of the same name. It includes an apparently exclusive Lansdale novella King of Shadows. The book is illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne

Glenn Chadbourne

Glenn Chadbourne is an American artist. He lives in Newcastle, Maine. He is best known for his work in the horror and fantasy genres, having created covers and illustrated books and magazines for publishers such as Cemetery Dance Publications, Subterranean Press, and Earthling Publications. Mr...

List of stories in Lords of the Razor

• "The God of the Razor" the original short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• "Jeaves and the Deteriorating Relations" by Chet Williamson
  Chet Williamson
  Chet Williamson is the author of nearly twenty books and over a hundred short stories published in The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, and many other magazines and anthologies.-Biography:...
  
  
• "The Butterfly Garden" by Stephen Gallagher
  Stephen Gallagher
  Stephen Gallagher is an English writer.He has written several novels and television scripts, including for the BBC television series Doctor Who — for which he wrote two serials, Warriors' Gate and Terminus — as well as for the series Rosemary & Thyme and Bugs, for two seasons of...
  
  
• "Old Schick" by Gary A. Braunbeck
  Gary A. Braunbeck
  Gary A. Braunbeck is an American science fiction, fantasy, mystery and horror author.-Biography:Braunbeck was born in Newark, Ohio . He writes in a number of different genres, but principally horror...
  
  
• "Fence Line" by Elizabeth Massie
  Elizabeth Massie
  Elizabeth Massie is an American author.Elizabeth Massie is a two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of horror novels and short fiction. She won her awards for Sineater and Stephen. She has also written historical fiction for young adults....
  
  
• "The Art of the Deal" by Christopher Golden
  Christopher Golden
  Christopher Golden is an American author of horror, fantasy, and suspense novels for adults, teens, and young readers.Golden was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. He is a graduate of Tufts University...
  
  
• "The Edge" by Ardath Mayhar
  Ardath Mayhar
  Ardath Frances Hurst Mayhar began her writing career as a poet when she was nineteen. She began writing science fiction in 1979 after returning with her family to Texas from Oregon. She was nominated for the Mark Twain Award, and won the Balrog Award for a horror narrative poem in Masques I...
  
  
• "Brief Stay in a Small Town" by Hugh B. Cave
  Hugh B. Cave
  Hugh Barnett Cave was a prolific writer of pulp fiction who also excelled in other genres.-Life:Born in Chester, England, Hugh B. Cave moved during his childhood with his family to Boston, Massachusetts, following the outbreak of World War I...
  
  
• "The Monster" by P.D. Cacek
• "Back in My Arms I Want You" by Thomas Tessier
  Thomas Tessier
  Thomas Tessier is an American writer of horror novels and short stories. He has also written poetry and drama.- Overview :...
  
  
• "Blackburn and the Blade" a novella by Bradley Denton
  Bradley Denton
  Bradley Clayton Denton is an American science fiction author. He has also written other types of fiction, such as the black comedy of his novel Blackburn, about a sympathetic serial killer....
  
  
• "King of Shadows" a novella by Joe R. Lansdale

Lansdale initially wrote the novel The Nightrunners as Night of the Demons, but was unable to sell it. He eventually took an excerpt, re-wrote it, and sold it as "The God of the Razor". It was published in Grue #5, in 1987. Another excerpt became the story "Boys Will Be Boys", which does not include the character featured in this anthology. He also wrote the character into a Batman short story called "Subway Jack".