Edward Lee Reading Order

29 books (1990–2025)

Start with Triage, the first of 29 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Triage 1990Buy 🇺🇸
2	Dark Seductions 1993Buy 🇺🇸
3	Deadly After Dark 1994Buy 🇺🇸
4	Fear the Fever 1996Buy 🇺🇸
5	Darkside: Horror for the Next Millenium 1998Buy 🇺🇸
6	Grave Tales 2000Buy 🇺🇸
7	Skull Full of Spurs 2000Buy 🇺🇸
8	Shivers 2002Buy 🇺🇸
9	Shivers II 2003Buy 🇺🇸
10	Shivers III 2004Buy 🇺🇸
11	Infernally Yours 2009Buy 🇺🇸
12	Terrible Beauty, Fearful Symmetry 2009Buy 🇺🇸
13	Necro Files 2011Buy 🇺🇸
14	Seeds of Fear 2011Buy 🇺🇸
15	Stranger by Night 2011Buy 🇺🇸
16	Extreme Zombies 2012Buy 🇺🇸
17	Sixty-Five Stirrup Iron Road 2013Buy 🇺🇸
18	Cornbread Nation 7: The Best of Southern Food Writing 2014Buy 🇺🇸
19	Horror 101: The Way Forward 2014Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Beauty of Death 2016Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Beauty of Death, Vol. 2 2017Buy 🇺🇸
22	A Very DC Halloween 2019Buy 🇺🇸
23	I Transgress 2019Buy 🇺🇸
24	Brewtality: Extreme Horror Anthology 2020Buy 🇺🇸
25	Counting Bodies Like Sheep: Extreme Horror Anthology 2022Buy 🇺🇸
26	Hot Iron and Cold Blood: An Anthology of the Weird West 2023Buy 🇺🇸
27	The Horror Collection: Lost Edition 2023Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Horror Collection: Splatterpunk Dreams 2024Buy 🇺🇸
29	The Horror Collection Hell Edition 2025Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2010–2010)

#	Title
1	Vampire Lodge 2010Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2001–2019)

Start with City Infernal, the first of 5 books in the City Infernal series.

#	Title
1	City Infernal 2001Buy 🇺🇸
2	Infernal Angel 2003Buy 🇺🇸
3	House Infernal 2007Buy 🇺🇸
4	Lucifer's Lottery 2010Buy 🇺🇸
5	Lakehouse Infernal(With: Christine Morgan) 2019Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2007–2024)

Start with The Minotauress and read in order.

3 books (1995–2016)

Start with Header and read in order.

#	Title
1	Header 1995Buy 🇺🇸
2	Header 2 2010Buy 🇺🇸
3	Header 3 2016Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (2023–2023)

Start with Babble(By: Douglas Ford), the first of 8 books in the Madness Heart Press Pocket Books series.

#	Title
1	Babble(By: Douglas Ford) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
2	Bestial(By: Lucas Mangum) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
3	Congratulations on Your Hatred(By: Charles R. Bernard) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
4	Damned Lazy(By: Christine Morgan) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
5	Failure(By: Jay Wilburn) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
6	Graven Image(By: Maxwell Bauman) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Bounce House 2023Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Hillels Have Eyes(By: John Baltisberger) 2023Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2005–2024)

Start with Practical Mysticism and read in order.

#	Title
1	Practical Mysticism 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	Bourbon Land 2024Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1997–2022)

Start with The Pig and read in order.

1 book (2001–2001)

#	Title
1	Partners in Chyme(With: Ryan Harding) 2001Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (1993–2023)

Start with Mr. Torso, the first of 8 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Mr. Torso 1993Buy 🇺🇸
2	Teratologist 1994Buy 🇺🇸
3	Room 415 2007Buy 🇺🇸
4	Trolley No. 1852 2009Buy 🇺🇸
5	You Are My Everything 2009Buy 🇺🇸
6	Pages Torn From a Travel Journal 2020Buy 🇺🇸
7	C*nt-Kick the Witch Bitch(With: Christine Morgan) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Bighead’s Junk 2023Buy 🇺🇸

18 books (1997–2024)

Start with Inside the Works, the first of 18 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Inside the Works 1997Buy 🇺🇸
2	Splatterspunk 1998Buy 🇺🇸
3	Of Pigs and Spiders 1999Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Ushers 1999Buy 🇺🇸
5	Partners in Chyme(With: Ryan Harding) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
6	Quest For Sex, Truth & Reality 2002Buy 🇺🇸
7	Sex, Drugs & Power Tools 2002Buy 🇺🇸
8	Mother Bitchfight 2003Buy 🇺🇸
9	Sleep Disorder(With: Jack Ketchum) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
10	Haunted House and other Presidential Horrors 2007Buy 🇺🇸
11	Brain Cheese Buffet 2010Buy 🇺🇸
12	Bullet Through Your Face 2010Buy 🇺🇸
13	Carnal Surgery 2011Buy 🇺🇸
14	Grimoire Diabolique 2011Buy 🇺🇸
15	Mangled Meat 2011Buy 🇺🇸
16	Edward Lee: Selected Stories 2016Buy 🇺🇸
17	Mr. Tilling's Basement & Other Stories 2022Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Jar and Other Stories 2024Buy 🇺🇸

38 books (1982–2025)

Start with Night Lust, the first of 38 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Night Lust 1982Buy 🇺🇸
2	Nightbait 1982Buy 🇺🇸
3	Ghouls 1988Buy 🇺🇸
4	Coven 1991Buy 🇺🇸
5	Incubi 1991Buy 🇺🇸
6	Succubi 1992Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Chosen 1993Buy 🇺🇸
8	Creekers 1994Buy 🇺🇸
9	Sacrifice 1995Buy 🇺🇸
10	Goon 1996Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Bighead 1997Buy 🇺🇸
12	Portrait of the Psychopath as a Young Woman 1998Buy 🇺🇸
13	Dahmer's Not Dead 1999Buy 🇺🇸
14	Operator B 1999Buy 🇺🇸
15	Stickmen 1999Buy 🇺🇸
16	Family Tradition 2002Buy 🇺🇸
17	Monstrosity 2002Buy 🇺🇸
18	Flesh Gothic 2004Buy 🇺🇸
19	Messenger 2004Buy 🇺🇸
20	Monster Lake 2005Buy 🇺🇸
21	Shifters 2005Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Backwoods 2005Buy 🇺🇸
23	Slither 2006Buy 🇺🇸
24	Gast 2007Buy 🇺🇸
25	Brides of the Impaler 2008Buy 🇺🇸
26	The Black Train 2009Buy 🇺🇸
27	The Golem / Golemesque 2009Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Haunter of the Threshold 2009Buy 🇺🇸
29	The Innswich Horror 2010Buy 🇺🇸
30	Going Monstering 2011Buy 🇺🇸
31	The Dunwich Romance 2011Buy 🇺🇸
32	Witch Water 2011Buy 🇺🇸
33	The Doll House 2017Buy 🇺🇸
34	In the Year of Our Lord: 2202 2019Buy 🇺🇸
35	White Trash Gothic Part Two 2019Buy 🇺🇸
36	Nipping Them in the Bud 2024Buy 🇺🇸
37	The Amityville Bukkake(With: Judith Sonnet,R.J. Benetti) 2024Buy 🇺🇸
38	Strange Stones(With: Mary SanGiovanni) 2025Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2025–2025)

2 books (2017–2022)

Start with White Trash Gothic and read in order.

#	Title
1	White Trash Gothic 2017Buy 🇺🇸
2	White Trash Gothic 2 2022Buy 🇺🇸