High Cotton is a collection of short fiction by Joe R. Lansdale, initially published in 2000.

Initially issued as a hardcover, it has been reissued as a trade paperback.

He provides a brief introduction before each story, offering a description of his intent, and contextualizing each within the history of his career.

[1][2] The collection contains: The Denver Post wrote that it "serves as a good introduction to Lansdale's fiction...

[4] Fantasy & Science Fiction reviewed it, noting it is a compilation of "the stories that built Lansdale's reputation as one of the most audacious writers to come out of the eighties... High Cotton is only for the strong at heart, the fearless reader who can face its powerful subject matter as unflinchingly as did the author.