The Good, The Bad, and the Indifferent

This is a collection of early stories from Joe R. Lansdale's career, published in 1997, many of which were never published before and none of which have ever been collected before (or, apparently, will ever be again).

The title is a play on Sergio Leone's western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. It is the part of a trilogy-of-sorts of Lansdale anthologies, preceded by A Fistfull (sic) of Stories and followed by For a Few Stories More.

The original, full extended title was The Good, The Bad, and the Indifferent: Early Stories and Commentaries by Joe R. Lansdale

It contains:

• "All the Little Animals"
• "The Amusement Park"
• "At the Mouth of Time"
• "Cowboy"
• "A Debt to Pay"
• "Devil in the Hole"
• Escape Artist"
• "For Whom the Bell Blows"
• "A Frog-Strangler"
• "From Little Things"
• "Full Report at Ten"
• "Futility"
• "Hang in There"
• "Hickory, Dickory, Dock"
• "The Honeymoon"
• "Huitzilopochtli"
• "The Hungry Locust"
• "The Junkyard" {originally published in Dark Regions #3 (1989)}
• "Knock Knock"
• "The Last of the Hopeful"
• "The Man Who Could Not Get Four in a Row"
• "The Man Who Dreamed"
• "Night Drive"
• "One Death, Two Episodes"
• "The Pit of Kundolkan"
• "The Princess" {originally published in Mummy!, ed. Bill Pronzini (1980)}
• "Quack"
• "Saved"
• "Trapped in the Saturday Matinee"
• "The Valley of the Swastika"
• "Walks" {originally published in Cemetery Dance Fall 1997}
• "Waziah" (originally published in Creature! ed. Bill Pronzoni (1981)}
• "Why Does It Cry?"
• "The Yard Man"