Pandi Press

Pandi Press *Expect the unexpected*

Est. 2014. www.pandipress.com

Est. 2014. The goal of Pandi Press is simple: to publish excellent books.

While we specialize in crime novels, thrillers, horror, even supernatural suspense—we understand the importance of quality over labels. Our promise is to publish books that leave you wanting more. We proudly publish authors we believe in and support. Pandi Press: You can expect the unexpected

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07/28/2026

It's back, baby!

E-book edition:

The twentieth century is arriving, and with it comes the end of the frontier. But along the muddy back roads of East Texas, traveling medicine shows, faded gunslingers, and impossible stories still hold sway.

After a devastating tornado leaves him alone in the world, young Buster Fogg falls in with Billy Bob Daniels—a flamboyant patent-medicine salesman, expert marksman, and self-proclaimed son of Wild Bill Hickok. Alongside Albert, a wise former slave, and Rot Toe, a wrestling ape, Buster joins a ramshackle medicine show drifting from one small town to the next, where every stop promises another unlikely adventure.

As fact gives way to legend and the old myths of the American West begin to unravel, Buster discovers that heroism, magic, and memory are rarely what they seem. Rich with humor, folklore, and larger-than-life characters, The Magic Wagon is an unforgettable journey through the strange borderland between history and tall tale.

07/22/2026

🚨Ebook available only 3.99 until July 25th! 🚨

07/10/2026

Available in multiple formats and kindle unlimited

A Fine Dark Line

13-year-old Stanley Mitchel Jr. spends most of his time helping his family run the town’s drive-in movie theater, reading ten-cent comics, and playing with his dog Nub. Life in East Texas circa 1958 is not very exciting until Stanley discovers a stash of old, crumbling love letters in a pile of burnt rubble behind the drive-in. As Stanley reads through the letters, he finds himself in the middle of a town mystery and discovering the secrets of his sleepy town. Stanley, with the help of the old projectionist and his older sister, uncovers the identities of the people who penned the letters and sheds light on a shocking 20 year-old murder plot. As Stanley unearths more and more truths, he realizes the injustices of life in East Texas in the 1950’s including class, race, gender, and the cruelty of unrequited love. Stanley feels betrayed by his family and his town as he takes a closer look at the dark truth and refuses to allow himself to succumb to the darkness.

07/07/2026

Now available on kindle and kindle unlimited.

Fender Lizards
Dot waitresses on roller skates at the Dairy Bob, doesn’t care for smoking, at least partly on account of her dad having never returned from a cigarette run, and carries on the family tradition of philosophizing. Life hasn’t done her any favors in her seventeen years so far. But if there was ever a heroine built for turning things upside down and seeing what shakes out, it’s Dot.

Determined to find out who she is and why she’s the way she is, an opportunity presents itself when her heretofore-unknown uncle suddenly moves his camper into the front yard.

As in his classic novels The Bottoms and The Magic Wagon, Lansdale instills place with character and character with place. Here is an overlooked world and a cast of real folks that prove unforgettable, all rendered in one of American fiction’s most authentic voices.

07/06/2026

Available on kindle and kindle unlimited!

HIGH COTTON gathers the stories that established Joe R. Lansdale as one of the most original and fearless voices in modern American fiction. Blending horror, crime, dark fantasy, Southern Gothic, humor, and hard-boiled storytelling.

From the legendary “Night They Missed the Horror Show” to the unforgettable “Incident On and Off a Mountain Road,” Lansdale’s fiction is populated by outcasts, dreamers, monsters, killers, and ordinary people caught in extraordinary circumstances.

East Texas becomes a place where folklore, violence, heartbreak, and wicked humor collide.

Whether you’re discovering Joe R. Lansdale for the first time or returning to his early classics, High Cotton is the essential collection—the book that helped define one of America’s most acclaimed storytellers.

“The stories that built Lansdale’s reputation as one of the most audacious writers to come out of the eighties.”
—The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

07/05/2026

Waltz of Shadows

When Bill and his friends accidentally witness a homicide committed by two hitmen known only as Fat Boy and Cobra Man, their lives are shattered in an instant. Bill alone escapes the massacre. Desperate and hunted, he turns to his Uncle Hank, who reluctantly agrees to help. Together, they begin a clandestine hunt for the killers, determined to settle the score before they become the next victims.

But what begins as a search for answers becomes a journey into the worst corners of human nature. As Bill and Hank dig deeper, they uncover something far darker and more disturbing than murder or revenge—something that exposes a world where brutality is commonplace, and justice comes at a terrible cost.

Dark and uncompromising, Waltz of Shadows is widely regarded as one of Joe R. Lansdale’s bleakest and most harrowing novels, it explores violence, abuse, and moral corruption with fearless honesty. This is Lansdale at his darkest.

Available now on kindle & kindle unlimited ✨

07/03/2026

Available in all formats!

Peculiar weather settles over a bustling Texas sea port, a city made prosperous off the cotton trade and thick with racial inequality. The sky above Galveston, Texas darkens to the sickly green of a healing bruise, the sea turns black, and the inhabitants of the city have no idea the force of the hammer about to drop on them. The wild wind blows boxer John McBride into town, a white prize fighter with seemingly superhuman fury and skill. As black boxer Jack L’il Arthur Johnson prepares to fight this fierce opponent, the storm closes in. If he can survive the ring and the vicious undercurrents of the Jim Crow south, L’il Arthur will still have to fight his way through the storm winds, the rising flood waters, and the violent night. On September 8th, 1900, a hurricane ripped apart Galveston, Texas, killing nearly 8,000 people and nearly obliterating the town. Lansdale’s story brings dimension to many who lost their lives that day, and a few who survived.

07/02/2026

By Bizarre Hands is the electrifying origin point of a modern master.

Whether you’re discovering Joe R. Lansdale for the first time or returning to where it all began, By Bizarre Hands showcases one of the most original imaginations in modern American fiction. Written in the 1980s, these stories remain raw, fearless, and startlingly relevant, hitting just as hard today as they did more than thirty years ago.

This landmark collection includes the Bram Stoker Award winning “Night They Missed the Horror Show” and “On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks,” the haunting “Fish Night” (adapted for Netflix’s Love, Death & Robots), and the World Fantasy Award nominated “Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man’s Back,” alongside fan favorites like “The Pit,” “Hell Through a Windshield,” and more.

Blending horror, crime, fantasy, and razor-sharp social satire, Lansdale shatters genre boundaries with blistering energy and pitch-perfect dialogue, like Mark Twain raised on drive-ins and midnight horror movies.

07/01/2026

The Nightrunners is back for Kindle and Kindle Unlimited. And check out that art from !!

Book overview
THE NIGHTRUNNERS
By Joe R. Lansdale

When a small East Texas town is invaded by a pack of drug-fueled young killers, an ordinary night explodes into unimaginable violence. What begins as random terror soon reveals something far darker lurking beneath the bloodshed—a primal, supernatural force that feeds on chaos and fear. As civilization unravels, survival becomes a desperate battle against both human monsters and an ancient evil eager to claim new worshippers.

One of Joe R. Lansdale’s earliest and most relentless horror novels, The Nightrunners blends visceral suspense, brutal action, and cosmic dread into a nightmarish tale/ Its unforgettable villain—the God of the Razor—would go on to become one of Lansdale’s most iconic creations.

This special edition also includes two bonus stories:

“God of the Razor” – The legendary short story featuring Lansdale’s infamous deity of madness and murder, expanding the mythology behind one of horror’s most unforgettable creations.

“King of Shadows” – A chilling tale where darkness wears many faces, proving that the greatest horrors often lie just beyond the edge of reason.

Savage, fast-paced, and deeply unsettling, The Nightrunners showcases the raw energy that established Joe R. Lansdale as one of modern horror’s most distinctive voices.

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