Joe Hill Reading Order

24 books (2003–2023)

Start with The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14, the first of 24 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	Best New Fantasy 2006Buy 🇺🇸
3	Best New Horror 17 2006Buy 🇺🇸
4	Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection 2006Buy 🇺🇸
5	Best New Horror 19 2008Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Living Dead 2008Buy 🇺🇸
7	Smoke and Mirrors 2009Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Dead That Walk 2009Buy 🇺🇸
9	Best New Horror 21 2010Buy 🇺🇸
10	Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror 2010Buy 🇺🇸
11	Demons: Encounters with the Devil and His Minions, Fallen Angels, and the Possessed 2011Buy 🇺🇸
12	A Carnivàle of Horror 2012Buy 🇺🇸
13	Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury 2012Buy 🇺🇸
14	Flotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013 2013Buy 🇺🇸
15	Four For Fantasy 2013Buy 🇺🇸
16	Shadow Show: Stories In Celebration of Ray Bradbury 2015Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 2015Buy 🇺🇸
18	Flight or Fright 2018Buy 🇺🇸
19	Phantoms 2018Buy 🇺🇸
20	At Home in the Dark 2019Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven 2019Buy 🇺🇸
22	When a Stranger Comes to Town 2021Buy 🇺🇸
23	Revelations 2022Buy 🇺🇸
24	Twice Cursed 2023Buy 🇺🇸

18 books (2009–2025)

Start with The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One, the first of 18 books in the Best Horror of the Year series.

#	Title
1	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One 2009Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two 2010Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three 2011Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four 2012Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five 2013Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six 2014Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven 2015Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight 2016Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine 2017Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten 2018Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction 2018Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven 2019Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve 2020Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen 2021Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen 2022Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen 2024Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen 2024Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen 2025Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2023–2023)

Start with Ankle Snatcher(By: Grady Hendrix), the first of 5 books in the Creature Feature Collection series.

1 book (2019–2019)

3 books (2020–2020)

Start with Basketful of Heads and read in order.

#	Title
1	Basketful of Heads 2020Buy 🇺🇸
2	Dying is Easy(With: Gabriel Rodríguez,Martin Simmonds) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
3	Plunge 2020Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2022–2022)

#	Title
1	Rain(With: David M. Booher) 2022Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2007–2013)

Start with Joe Hill's Thumbprint and read in order.

9 books (2008–2022)

Start with Welcome to Lovecraft, the first of 9 books in the Locke & Key Graphic Novels series.

#	Title
1	Welcome to Lovecraft 2008Buy 🇺🇸
2	Head Games 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	Crown of Shadows 2010Buy 🇺🇸
4	Keys to the Kingdom 2011Buy 🇺🇸
5	Clockworks 2013Buy 🇺🇸
6	Alpha & Omega 2014Buy 🇺🇸
7	Heaven and Earth 2017Buy 🇺🇸
8	Small World 2017Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Golden Age 2022Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2020–2021)

Start with Locke & Key/Sandman: Hell & Gone #0(With: Gabriel Rodríguez) and read in order.

3 books (2020–2020)

Start with Locke & Key: ...In Pale Battalions Go… #1(With: Gabriel Rodríguez) and read in order.

3 books (2011–2019)

Start with The Guide To Known Keys and read in order.

2 books (2013–2014)

Start with NOS4A2 / NOS4R2 and read in order.

#	Title
1	NOS4A2 / NOS4R2 2013Buy 🇺🇸
2	Wraith 2014Buy 🇺🇸

22 books (2005–2024)

Start with Voluntary Committal, the first of 22 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Voluntary Committal 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	Abraham's Boys 2007Buy 🇺🇸
3	Better Than Home 2007Buy 🇺🇸
4	Bobby Conroy Comes Back from the Dead 2007Buy 🇺🇸
5	Dead-Wood 2007Buy 🇺🇸
6	In the Rundown 2007Buy 🇺🇸
7	Last Breath 2007Buy 🇺🇸
8	My Father's Mask 2007Buy 🇺🇸
9	Pop Art 2007Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Black Phone 2007Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Widow's Breakfast 2007Buy 🇺🇸
12	You Will Hear the Locust Sing 2007Buy 🇺🇸
13	In the Tall Grass(With: Stephen King) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
14	Throttle(With: Stephen King) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
15	Twittering from the Circus of the Dead 2013Buy 🇺🇸
16	By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain 2014Buy 🇺🇸
17	Wolverton Station 2014Buy 🇺🇸
18	Dark Carousel 2018Buy 🇺🇸
19	You Are Released 2018Buy 🇺🇸
20	Late Returns 2019Buy 🇺🇸
21	A Sign of the Times 2023Buy 🇺🇸
22	Ushers 2024Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2007–2025)

Start with Heart-Shaped Box, the first of 6 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Heart-Shaped Box 2007Buy 🇺🇸
2	Gunpowder 2008Buy 🇺🇸
3	Horns 2009Buy 🇺🇸
4	Locke & Key Audio Drama 2015Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Fireman 2016Buy 🇺🇸
6	King Sorrow 2025Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2017–2017)

#	Title
1	Tales from the Darkside 2017Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2016–2016)

Start with Tales From The Darkside #1, the first of 4 books in the Tales from the Darkside Comic series.

2 books (2007–2013)

Start with The Cape and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Cape 2007Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Cape: 1969 2013Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2025–2025)

Start with Jackknife, the first of 5 books in the The Shivers Collection series.