Includes a never before published short story "Bone Dead Sadness" and and interview with Joe R. Lansdale.

"Deluxe anniversary ed."--Jkt.

Set in the vividly evoked urban squalor of Houston, Texas, Act of Love moves with great authority between the disordered mind of a compulsive killer and the increasingly desperate perspectives of the policemen who hunt him. In the process, it offers a detailed portrait of a complex murder investigation and anatomizes a city under siege, a city held hostage by a latter day Jack the Ripper--publisher.