Description: When young Harry Collins finds the mutilated body of a black woman bound to a tree with barbed wire, he and his younger sister suspect the legendary Goat Man, who is said to lurk under the swinging bridge crossing Texas's Sabine River. The creature holds the key to a string of brutal murders--and a chilling truth. A "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year".
Review Quotes: "Wondrous...dark enchantment."
--New York Times Book Review
--Denver Post "Lansdale subtly but surely traces how race hatred can embitter, poison, and often physically destroy those who fall under its sway."
--Philadelphia Inquirer "Lansdale creates many colorful and vivid characters. . . . The Bottoms tells a great yarn of a vanished place and time."
--Bookreporter