


Bubba Ho-Tep the novella is still available via the Best of Joe R. It was originally published in a 1994 Elvis-themed anthology called “The King Is Dead: Tales of Elvis Post Mortem.” Joyce Carol Oates, Harlan Ellison, Lou Reed, Roger Ebert and Clive Barker also have stories in this out-of-print book. Lansdale, first paragraph of Bubba Ho-Tep.īubba Ho-Tep is a novella by Joe R. The truth was, he hadn’t had a hard-on in years.”-Joe R.

Or he liked to think that’s what he’d do. If it had, he was going to name the bump Priscilla, after his ex-wife, and bust if by jacking off. “ Elvis dreamed he had his dick out, checking to see if the bump on the head of it had filled with pus again. Bubba Hotep-the memorable movie starring the one and only Bruce Campbell as a still-alive, elderly Elvis suffering through his dotage in a Texas nursing home that’s under attack by a soul-stealing Egyptian mummy-was a book first? Welcome to Page to Screen, where I will opine on the film (and TV) adaptations of horror and fantasy short stories, books and novellas.
