Joe R. Lansdale - Awards

Awards

Joe Lansdale has won eight Bram Stoker Awards over the course of his long career. The short story "Night They Missed the Horror Show" won the award for "Short Fiction" in 1988. In the "Long Fiction" category (which is for novellas, though it also initially included comic book work as well), he won in 1989 for "On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert With Dead Folks", 1997 for "The Big Blow", and 1999 for "Mad Dog Summer" (a shared award with Brian A. Hopkins' "Five Days in April"). In 1992 the story "The Events Concerning a Nude Fold-Out Found in a Harlequin Romance" shared the "Long Fiction" award with "Aliens: Tribes" by Steve Bissette. In 1993, Jonah Hex: Two Gun Mojo won in the newly created "Other Media" category. Lansdale's anthology "Retro Pulp Tales" won for the "Anthology" category.

He was also nominated nine other times. The Drive-In and Savage Season were nominated in the "Novels" category in 1988 and 1990, respectively. By Bizarre Hands and Writer of the Purple Rage were nominated for "Fiction Collection" in 1989 and 1994. The short story "Love Doll: A Fable" was nominated in "Short Fiction" in 1991. The novella "Bubba Ho-Tep" was nominated for "Long Fiction" in 1994. Something Lumber This Way Comes was nominated in a new "Work for Younger Readers" category, and Jonah Hex: Shadows West #1 was nominated for "Illustrated Narrative", both in 1999. "Red Romance" (published in DC Comics' Flinch #11) was nominated for "Illustrated Narrative" in 2000.

Other nominations include:

• 2007, Cross Plains Universe: Texans Celebrate Robert E. Howard for a World Fantasy Award

Other awards include:

• 1990, "On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks" won the British Fantasy Award for best short story.
• 1994, Mucho Mojo was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
• 2000, The Bottoms was given the Edgar Award for Best Novel by the Mystery Writers of America. It was also named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and the Herodotus Award for best historical mystery novel. It was also nominated for a Dashiell Hammett Award for "Best Novel", as well as "Best Mystery Novel" in the Mystery Readers International's Macavity Awards.

He is also frequently cited as winning the American Mystery Award, the Horror Critics Award, the "Shot in the Dark" International Crime Writer’s award, the Booklist Editor’s Award, and the Critic’s Choice Award. The specifics are difficult to track down at present, but it is likely that at least some of these were awarded to The Bottoms, which is by far his most acclaimed novel.

The Horror Writers Association gave him the Lifetime Achievement Award for 2011, which he received at the Bram Stoker Awards Banquet in Salt Lake City, Utah on March 31, 2012.

On 19 October 2012 he was inducted into The Texas Literary Hall of Fame.