He is a tall, dark, top-hatted figure with stickpin teeth and skulls for shoes. He is the King of Shadows, the Lord of All Things Sharp, and he has an insatiable appetite for pain, terror, death, and despair. He is the God of the Razor, a creation of Joe R. Lansdale.

Lords of the Razor is an anthology in which ten writers (among them Chet Williamson, Thomas Tessier, Bradley Denton, Christopher Golden, and Hugh B. Cave) offer their own visions of this dark icon. Bookended by a pair of Lansdale stories (the 1985 tale in which the God makes his first appearance and a novella written for this volume), Lords of the Razor is a collection filled with horrific encounters, characters, and moments of humor.

The stories range in setting from Boston to Vietnam, from Texas to the American Midwest, from the poverty stricken rural South to the stately homes of England.