Freezer Burn (novel)

Freezer Burn
Cover art by George Pratt
Author	Joe R. Lansdale
Cover artist	George Pratt
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	Crossroads Press, Mysterious Press
Publication date	September 1999
Media type	Print - Limited edition Hardcover, Trade Hardcover, Trade paperback
Pages	245
ISBN	978-0986259425
Preceded by	The Boar (novel) (1995)
Followed by	Waltz of Shadows (1999)

Freezer Burn is a 1999 crime novel by American writer Joe R. Lansdale.

Plot summary

Down on his luck, loner, loser, Bill Roberts tries his hand at robbing the fireworks stand across the road from his house. Things don't go well, and he barely escapes with his life into an East Texas swamp. A day later, his head swollen with insect bites, he stumbles into a low rent traveling freak show carnival. His appearance allows him to fit in, and seeing no other way to escape his predicament, he joins the group and travels with them putting on shows.

Befriended by the group's leader, John Frost, who has a dead twin's arm attached to his chest, Bill soon has eyes for John's luscious wife Gidget who is, besides Bill, the only non-freak among them. The show's main attraction is the mysterious Iceman, who has his own trailer. Soon Frost trusts Bill with running the Iceman act. As Bill gets closer to Gidget, he soon realizes she has plans of her own, and remaining the wife of a sideshow freak isn't one of them.^[1]^[2]

Editions

This book was published both as a limited edition by Crossroads Press^[3] and as a trade hardcover by Mysterious Press.^[4] It has been re-issued as a trade paperback by several different publishing houses.

Mysterious Press edition

References

↑ "Review". The Austin Chronicle. December 24, 1999. Retrieved December 27, 2012.
↑ "Review: Freezer Burn". Fright.com. Retrieved December 27, 2012.
↑ Lansdale, Joe R. Freezer Burn (Limited ed.). Crossroads Press. Retrieved December 27, 2012.
↑ Lansdale, Joe R. Freezer Burn. Mysterious Press. Retrieved December 27, 2012.

External links

Joerlansdale.com. The author's official website.

Works by Joe R. Lansdale
Hap and Leonard series	Savage Season (1990) Mucho Mojo (1994) The Two-Bear Mambo (1995) Bad Chili (1997) Rumble Tumble (1998) Veil's Visit: a Taste of Hap and Leonard (1999) Captains Outrageous (2001) Vanilla Ride (2009) Devil Red (2011) Hyenas: a Hap and Leonard Novella (2011) Dead Aim (2013) Briar Patch Boogie: A Hap and Leonard Novelette (2015) Honky Tonk Samurai (2016) Hap and Leonard Ride Again (2016) Hoodoo Harry (2016) Coco Butternut: A Hap and Leonard Novella (2017) Rusty Puppy (Hap Collins and Leonard Pine) (2017) Hap and Leonard: Blood and Lemonade (2017) Cold Cotton: A Hap and Leonard Novella (2017) Jackrabbit Smile (2018) The Elephant of Surprise (2019) The Big Book of Hap and Leonard (2019) Of Mice and Minestrone: Hap and Leonard: The Early Years (2020) Born for Trouble: The Further Adventures of Hap and Leonard (2022)
Novels	Act of Love (1981) Texas Night Riders (1983) Dead in the West (1986) The Magic Wagon (1986) The Nightrunners (1987) Cold in July (1989) Tarzan: The Lost Adventure (1995) The Boar (1998) Freezer Burn (1999) Waltz of Shadows (1999) The Big Blow (2000) Blood Dance (2000) The Bottoms (2000) A Fine Dark Line (2002) Sunset and Sawdust (2004) Lost Echoes (2007) Leather Maiden (2008) All the Earth, Thrown to the Sky (2011) Edge of Dark Water (2012) In Waders from Mars (2012) The Thicket (2013) Paradise Sky (2015) Fender Lizards (2015) Hell's Bounty (2016) Bubba and the Cosmic Bloodsuckers (2017) Jane Goes North (2020) More Better Deals (2020) Big Lizard (2020) Moon Lake (2021) The Donut Legion (2023)
Novellas	On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks (1989) Bubba Ho-Tep (1994) Something Lumber This Way Comes (1999) Under the Warrior Star (2010) Christmas with the Dead (2010) A Bone Dead Sadness (2012) The Ape Man's Brother (2013) Hot in December (2013) Prisoner 489 (2014) Black Hat Jack (2014)
Short story collections	By Bizarre Hands (1989) Stories by Mama Lansdale's Youngest Boy (1991) Bestsellers Guaranteed (1993) Electric Gumbo: A Lansdale Reader (1994) Writer of the Purple Rage (1994) The Good, the Bad, and the Indifferent (1996) Private Eye Action, as You Like It (1998) Atomic Chili (1998) The Long Ones (1999) Triple Feature (1999) High Cotton: Selected Stories of Joe R. Lansdale (2000) For a Few Stories More (2002) A Little Green Book of Monster Stories (2003) Bumper Crop (2004) Mad Dog Summer and Other Stories (2004) The King and Other Stories (2005) The God of the Razor (2007) The Shadows, Kith and Kin (2007) Sanctified and Chicken Fried (2009) Unchained and Unhinged (2009) The Best of Joe R. Lansdale (2010) Deadman's Road (2010) By Bizarre Hands Rides Again (2010) Trapped in the Saturday Matinee (2012) Bleeding Shadows (2013) A Pair of Aces (2014) The Tall Grass and Other Stories (2015) Dead on the Bones: Pulp on Fire (2016) Terror is Our Business (2018)
Graphic novels	Crawling Sky (2013) Jonah Hex: Shadows West (2014)
Anthologies edited	Retro-Pulp Tales (2006) Son of Retro Pulp Tales (2009)
Essays and Memoirs	Miracles Ain't What They Used To Be (2016)
Other works	Mark Stone: MIA Hunter

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