Brian Keene Reading Order

57 books (2001–2025)

Start with The Best of Horrorfind, the first of 57 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	The Best of Horrorfind 2001Buy 🇺🇸
2	Excitable Boys 2002Buy 🇺🇸
3	Shivers 2002Buy 🇺🇸
4	Shivers II 2003Buy 🇺🇸
5	A Walk on the Darkside 2004Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Dead Walk! 2004Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Mammoth Book of New Terror 2004Buy 🇺🇸
8	Best New Horror 16 2005Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Undead 2005Buy 🇺🇸
10	4 Fear of... 2006Buy 🇺🇸
11	In Laymon's Terms 2008Buy 🇺🇸
12	Jack Haringa Must Die! 2008Buy 🇺🇸
13	Hungry for Your Love 2009Buy 🇺🇸
14	Infernally Yours 2009Buy 🇺🇸
15	New Dark Voices 2 2009Buy 🇺🇸
16	Shroud 7 2009Buy 🇺🇸
17	Smoke and Mirrors 2009Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Big Book of NECON 2009Buy 🇺🇸
19	Dust & Divorcing the Dead 2010Buy 🇺🇸
20	Four Rode Out 2010Buy 🇺🇸
21	Grave Conditions 2010Buy 🇺🇸
22	Shivers VI 2010Buy 🇺🇸
23	The Living Dead 2 2010Buy 🇺🇸
24	Zombies: The Recent Dead 2010Buy 🇺🇸
25	Shroud 11 2011Buy 🇺🇸
26	21st Century Dead 2012Buy 🇺🇸
27	Extreme Zombies 2012Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Crane House 2012Buy 🇺🇸
29	Dueling Minds 2013Buy 🇺🇸
30	Mister October, Volume II 2013Buy 🇺🇸
31	Sixty-Five Stirrup Iron Road 2013Buy 🇺🇸
32	In The Dark 2014Buy 🇺🇸
33	Operation Ice Bat 2014Buy 🇺🇸
34	Piercing the Darkness 2014Buy 🇺🇸
35	Fossil Lake II 2015Buy 🇺🇸
36	Giallo Fantastique 2015Buy 🇺🇸
37	Seize the Night 2015Buy 🇺🇸
38	The Library of the Dead 2015Buy 🇺🇸
39	Trust No One 2015Buy 🇺🇸
40	Georgetown Haunts and Mysteries 2017Buy 🇺🇸
41	LampLight Volume 5 2017Buy 🇺🇸
42	My Favorite Story Podcast Author Anthology 2017Buy 🇺🇸
43	Nights of the Living Dead Anthology 2017Buy 🇺🇸
44	Chiral Mad 4 2018Buy 🇺🇸
45	Clickers Forever 2018Buy 🇺🇸
46	Lost Highways 2018Buy 🇺🇸
47	A Very DC Halloween 2019Buy 🇺🇸
48	Halldark Holidays 2020Buy 🇺🇸
49	Bludgeon Tools: Splatterpunk Anthology 2021Buy 🇺🇸
50	Dissonant Harmonies 2021Buy 🇺🇸
51	Halloween Nights 2021Buy 🇺🇸
52	Close to Midnight 2022Buy 🇺🇸
53	Deathrealm Spirits 2023Buy 🇺🇸
54	Fragile Anthology 2024Buy 🇺🇸
55	The Drive-In: Multiplex 2024Buy 🇺🇸
56	The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand 2025Buy 🇺🇸
57	The Map of Lost Places: Stories From Strange and Haunted Realms 2025Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1999–2022)

Start with Clickers(By: J.F. Gonzalez), the first of 5 books in the Clickers series.

#	Title
1	Clickers(By: J.F. Gonzalez) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	Clickers II: The Next Wave(With: J.F. Gonzalez) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
3	Clickers III: Dagon Rising(With: J.F. Gonzalez) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
4	Clickers vs Zombies(With: J.F. Gonzalez) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
5	Clickers Never Die(By: Stephen Kozeniewski,Wile E. Young) 2022Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2009–2011)

Start with Dead of Night and read in order.

#	Title
1	Dead of Night 2009Buy 🇺🇸
2	Doom Patrol, Volume 3(With: Keith Giffen) 2011Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2006–2008)

Start with Dark Hollow / The Rutting Season and read in order.

#	Title
1	Dark Hollow / The Rutting Season 2006Buy 🇺🇸
2	Ghost Walk 2008Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2008–2013)

Start with Ghost Walk and read in order.

#	Title
1	Ghost Walk 2008Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Gathering of Crows 2010Buy 🇺🇸
3	Last of the Albatwitches 2013Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2014–2018)

Start with The Lost Level and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Lost Level 2014Buy 🇺🇸
2	Return to the Lost Level 2017Buy 🇺🇸
3	Hole in the World 2018Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2012–2012)

10 books (1998–2024)

Start with Jobs in Hell(With: Kelly Laymon), the first of 10 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	Jobs in Hell(With: Kelly Laymon) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
2	Sympathy For The Devil 2004Buy 🇺🇸
3	Running with the Devil 2006Buy 🇺🇸
4	The New Fear 2007Buy 🇺🇸
5	Leader of the Banned 2010Buy 🇺🇸
6	Trigger Warnings 2014Buy 🇺🇸
7	Unsafe Spaces 2016Buy 🇺🇸
8	Other Words 2017Buy 🇺🇸
9	End of the Road 2020Buy 🇺🇸
10	Love and Hate in the Time of Covid 2024Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2015–2024)

Start with King of the Bastards, the first of 5 books in the Saga of Rogan series.

#	Title
1	King of the Bastards 2015Buy 🇺🇸
2	Throne of the Bastards 2017Buy 🇺🇸
3	Curse of the Bastards 2022Buy 🇺🇸
4	Killer of Giants(By: Steven L. Shrewsbury) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
5	BladeSpell(By: Steven L. Shrewsbury) 2024Buy 🇺🇸

12 books (2003–2021)

Start with The Rise and Fall of Babylon, the first of 12 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	The Rise and Fall of Babylon 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	Halves 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	Darkness on the Edge of Town 2010Buy 🇺🇸
4	Scratch 2010Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Cage 2010Buy 🇺🇸
6	Jack's Magic Beans 2011Buy 🇺🇸
7	Take The Long Way Home 2011Buy 🇺🇸
8	Tequila's Sunrise 2011Buy 🇺🇸
9	Alone 2012Buy 🇺🇸
10	Sundancing 2012Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Girl on the Glider 2013Buy 🇺🇸
12	With Teeth 2021Buy 🇺🇸

13 books (2001–2019)

Start with 4 X 4, the first of 13 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	4 X 4 2001Buy 🇺🇸
2	No Rest for the Wicked 2001Buy 🇺🇸
3	Talking Smack 2002Buy 🇺🇸
4	No Rest At All 2003Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Rise and Fall of Babylon 2003Buy 🇺🇸
6	Fear of Gravity 2004Buy 🇺🇸
7	A Little Silver Book of Streetwise Stories 2008Buy 🇺🇸
8	Unhappy Endings 2009Buy 🇺🇸
9	Intermusings(With: John Lee) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
10	Blood on the Page 2013Buy 🇺🇸
11	Where We Live and Die 2015Buy 🇺🇸
12	All Dark, All The Time 2016Buy 🇺🇸
13	Love Letters From A Nihilist 2019Buy 🇺🇸

18 books (2004–2024)

Start with Terminal, the first of 18 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Terminal 2004Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Hollow 2006Buy 🇺🇸
3	Dead Sea 2007Buy 🇺🇸
4	Ghoul 2007Buy 🇺🇸
5	Kill Whitey 2008Buy 🇺🇸
6	Castaways 2009Buy 🇺🇸
7	Urban Gothic 2009Buy 🇺🇸
8	Entombed 2011Buy 🇺🇸
9	Shades(With: Geoff Cooper) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Damned Highway(With: Nick Mamatas) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
11	An Occurrence in Crazy Bear Valley 2012Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Complex 2015Buy 🇺🇸
13	Pressure 2016Buy 🇺🇸
14	School's Out 2016Buy 🇺🇸
15	White Fire 2018Buy 🇺🇸
16	Suburban Gothic(With: Bryan Smith) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
17	Island of the Dead 2024Buy 🇺🇸
18	Thor: Metal Gods(With: Yoon Ha Lee,Jay Edidin,Aaron Stewart-Ahn) 2024Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2020–2020)

3 books (2005–2008)

Start with Earthworm Gods / The Conqueror Worms and read in order.

#	Title
1	Earthworm Gods / The Conqueror Worms 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	Earthworm Gods II: Deluge 2007Buy 🇺🇸
3	Earthworm Gods: Selected Scenes from the End of the World 2008Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2021–2022)

Start with The Seven and read in order.

5 books (2011–2015)

Start with Inferno, the first of 5 books in the The Last Zombie series.

#	Title
1	Inferno 2011Buy 🇺🇸
2	Before the After 2013Buy 🇺🇸
3	Neverland 2013Buy 🇺🇸
4	The End 2013Buy 🇺🇸
5	Dead New World 2015Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2003–2015)

Start with The Rising and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Rising 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	City of the Dead 2005Buy 🇺🇸
3	Deliverance 2015Buy 🇺🇸

12 books (1994–2024)

Start with Goblins(By: Charles L. Grant), the first of 12 books in the The X-Files series.

#	Title
1	Goblins(By: Charles L. Grant) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
2	Ground Zero(By: Kevin J. Anderson) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
3	Hunter(By: Charles L. Grant) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
4	Ruins(By: Kevin J. Anderson) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
5	Whirlwind(By: Charles L. Grant) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
6	Antibodies(By: Kevin J. Anderson) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
7	Fight the Future(By: Elizabeth Hand) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
8	Skin(By: Ben Mezrich) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
9	I Want to Believe(By: Max Allan Collins) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
10	Trust No One(With: Gayle Lynds,Heather Graham,Jonathan Maberry,Max Allan Collins,Kevin J. Anderson,Tim Lebbon,Keith R.A. DeCandido,Peter Clines,Gini Koch) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Truth Is Out There(By: Jonathan Maberry,Kelley Armstrong,David Farland,Rachel Caine,Hank Schwaeble,Kami Garcia,Jon McGoran,Hank Phillippi Ryan) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
12	Perihelion(By: Claudia Gray) 2024Buy 🇺🇸