Joe R. Lansdale Reading Order

12 books (2004–2013)

Start with 30 Days of Night(By: Steve Niles), the first of 12 books in the 30 Days of Night Graphic Novels series.

#	Title
1	30 Days of Night(By: Steve Niles) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
2	Dark Days(By: Steve Niles) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
3	Return to Barrow(By: Steve Niles) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
4	Bloodsucker Tales(By: Steve Niles,Matt Fraction) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
5	Three Tales(By: Steve Niles,Dan Wickline) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
6	Eben and Stella(By: Kelly Sue DeConnick,Steve Niles) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
7	Spreading the Disease(By: Dan Wickline) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
8	Red Snow(By: Ben Templesmith) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
9	30 Days 'Til Death(By: David Lapham) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
10	30 Days of Night / The X Files(By: Steve Niles,Adam Jones) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
11	Night, Again 2011Buy 🇺🇸
12	Final Night(By: Steve Niles) 2013Buy 🇺🇸

121 books (2002–2025)

Start with San Francisco Noir, the first of 121 books in the Akashic Noir series.

#	Title
1	San Francisco Noir 2002Buy 🇺🇸
2	Bronx Noir 2003Buy 🇺🇸
3	Seattle Noir 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	Brooklyn Noir 2004Buy 🇺🇸
5	Hasidic Noir 2004Buy 🇺🇸
6	Brooklyn Noir 2 2005Buy 🇺🇸
7	Chicago Noir 2005Buy 🇺🇸
8	Dublin Noir 2005Buy 🇺🇸
9	Baltimore Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸
10	D.C. Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸
11	London Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸
12	Manhattan Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸
13	Miami Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸
14	Twin Cities Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸
15	Detroit Noir 2007Buy 🇺🇸
16	Havana Noir 2007Buy 🇺🇸
17	Los Angeles Noir 2007Buy 🇺🇸
18	New Orleans Noir 2007Buy 🇺🇸
19	Wall Street Noir 2007Buy 🇺🇸
20	Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth 2008Buy 🇺🇸
21	D.C. Noir 2 2008Buy 🇺🇸
22	Istanbul Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸
23	Las Vegas Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸
24	Manhattan Noir 2 2008Buy 🇺🇸
25	Paris Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸
26	Queens Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸
27	Toronto Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸
28	Trinidad Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸
29	Boston Noir 2009Buy 🇺🇸
30	Delhi Noir 2009Buy 🇺🇸
31	Phoenix Noir 2009Buy 🇺🇸
32	Portland Noir 2009Buy 🇺🇸
33	Rome Noir 2009Buy 🇺🇸
34	San Francisco Noir 2 2009Buy 🇺🇸
35	Copenhagen Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
36	Haiti Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
37	Indian Country Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
38	Lone Star Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
39	Los Angeles Noir 2 2010Buy 🇺🇸
40	Mexico City Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
41	Moscow Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
42	Orange County Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
43	Philadelphia Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
44	Richmond Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
45	Barcelona Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸
46	Cape Cod Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸
47	New Jersey Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸
48	Pittsburgh Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸
49	San Diego Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸
50	Boston Noir 2 2012Buy 🇺🇸
51	Kansas City Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
52	Kingston Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
53	Long Island Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
54	Mumbai Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
55	St. Petersburg Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
56	Staten Island Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
57	Venice Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
58	Buffalo Noir 2013Buy 🇺🇸
59	Dallas Noir 2013Buy 🇺🇸
60	Haiti Noir 2 2013Buy 🇺🇸
61	Manila Noir 2013Buy 🇺🇸
62	USA Noir 2013Buy 🇺🇸
63	Belfast Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
64	Helsinki Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
65	Prison Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
66	Rio Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
67	Singapore Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
68	Tehran Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
69	Tel Aviv Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
70	Beirut Noir 2015Buy 🇺🇸
71	Chicago Noir: The Classics 2015Buy 🇺🇸
72	Marseille Noir 2015Buy 🇺🇸
73	Memphis Noir 2015Buy 🇺🇸
74	Providence Noir 2015Buy 🇺🇸
75	Zagreb Noir 2015Buy 🇺🇸
76	Brussels Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸
77	Mississippi Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸
78	New Orleans Noir: The Classics 2016Buy 🇺🇸
79	Prague Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸
80	San Juan Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸
81	St. Louis Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸
82	Stockholm Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸
83	Atlanta Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸
84	Buenos Aires Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸
85	Montana Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸
86	Montreal Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸
87	New Haven Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸
88	Oakland Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸
89	Trinidad Noir: The Classics 2017Buy 🇺🇸
90	Baghdad Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
91	Berlin Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
92	Hong Kong Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
93	Lagos Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
94	Marrakech Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
95	Santa Cruz Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
96	Sydney Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
97	São Paulo Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
98	Vancouver Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
99	Amsterdam Noir 2019Buy 🇺🇸
100	Houston Noir 2019Buy 🇺🇸
101	Milwaukee Noir 2019Buy 🇺🇸
102	Accra Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
103	Addis Ababa Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
104	Alabama Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
105	Belgrade Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
106	Berkeley Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
107	Columbus Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
108	Miami Noir: The Classics 2020Buy 🇺🇸
109	Nairobi Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
110	Santa Fe Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
111	Tampa Bay Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
112	Palm Springs Noir 2021Buy 🇺🇸
113	Denver Noir 2022Buy 🇺🇸
114	Paris Noir: The Suburbs 2022Buy 🇺🇸
115	South Central Noir 2022Buy 🇺🇸
116	Cleveland Noir 2023Buy 🇺🇸
117	East Jerusalem Noir 2023Buy 🇺🇸
118	West Jerusalem Noir 2023Buy 🇺🇸
119	Honolulu Noir 2024Buy 🇺🇸
120	Hamburg Noir 2025Buy 🇺🇸
121	Sacramento Noir 2025Buy 🇺🇸

124 books (1989–2026)

Start with Book of the Dead, the first of 124 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Book of the Dead 1989Buy 🇺🇸
2	Razored Saddles 1989Buy 🇺🇸
3	The New Frontier 1989Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection 1989Buy 🇺🇸
5	Third Annual Collection 1989Buy 🇺🇸
6	Splatter-Punks: The Definitive Anthology 1990Buy 🇺🇸
7	Cold Blood 1991Buy 🇺🇸
8	Fourth Annual Collection 1991Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Horror Hall of Fame 1991Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection 1991Buy 🇺🇸
11	Dark at Heart 1992Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Little Book of Horrors: Tiny Tales of Terror 1992Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1991 1992Buy 🇺🇸
14	100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories 1993Buy 🇺🇸
15	Dark Crimes 2 1993Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Giant Book of Zombies 1993Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Mammoth Book of Zombies 1993Buy 🇺🇸
18	Sea-Cursed 1994Buy 🇺🇸
19	Ten Tales 1994Buy 🇺🇸
20	The King is Dead: Tales of Elvis Postmortem 1994Buy 🇺🇸
21	100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories 1995Buy 🇺🇸
22	100 Wicked Little Witch Stories 1995Buy 🇺🇸
23	Weird Business 1995Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology: Celebrating 25 Years 2001Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Silver Gryphon 2003Buy 🇺🇸
26	Cross Plains Universe 2006Buy 🇺🇸
27	Retro Pulp Tales 2006Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Mammoth Book of Monsters 2007Buy 🇺🇸
29	Best New Horror 19 2008Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Best of Cemetery Dance II 2008Buy 🇺🇸
31	The Living Dead 2008Buy 🇺🇸
32	Smoke and Mirrors 2009Buy 🇺🇸
33	Son of Retro Pulp Tales 2009Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One 2009Buy 🇺🇸
35	The Dead That Walk 2009Buy 🇺🇸
36	Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary 2009Buy 🇺🇸
37	Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead 2009Buy 🇺🇸
38	Classics Mutilated 2010Buy 🇺🇸
39	Curse of the Full Moon: A Werewolf Anthology 2010Buy 🇺🇸
40	Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror 2010Buy 🇺🇸
41	Haunted Legends 2010Buy 🇺🇸
42	L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories 2010Buy 🇺🇸
43	Never Again 2010Buy 🇺🇸
44	Robert Bloch's Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper 2010Buy 🇺🇸
45	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition 2010Buy 🇺🇸
46	Werewolves and Shape Shifters: Encounters with the Beasts Within 2010Buy 🇺🇸
47	Zombies: The Recent Dead 2010Buy 🇺🇸
48	A Hacked-Up Holiday Massacre 2011Buy 🇺🇸
49	Best New Horror 22 2011Buy 🇺🇸
50	Crucified Dreams 2011Buy 🇺🇸
51	Down These Strange Streets 2011Buy 🇺🇸
52	House of Fear 2011Buy 🇺🇸
53	Lightspeed: Year One 2011Buy 🇺🇸
54	Necro Files 2011Buy 🇺🇸
55	Supernatural Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸
56	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three 2011Buy 🇺🇸
57	The Book of Cthulhu 2011Buy 🇺🇸
58	The Urban Fantasy Anthology 2011Buy 🇺🇸
59	Triumph of The Walking Dead: Robert Kirkman's Zombie Epic on Page and Screen 2011Buy 🇺🇸
60	Warriors 3 2011Buy 🇺🇸
61	A Clutch of Zombies 2012Buy 🇺🇸
62	A Feast of Frights from The Horror Zine 2012Buy 🇺🇸
63	Best New Horror 23 2012Buy 🇺🇸
64	Extreme Zombies 2012Buy 🇺🇸
65	Ghosts: Recent Hauntings 2012Buy 🇺🇸
66	Obsession: Tales of Irresistible Desire 2012Buy 🇺🇸
67	Protectors: Stories to Benefit PROTECT 2012Buy 🇺🇸
68	Psychos 2012Buy 🇺🇸
69	The Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade 2012Buy 🇺🇸
70	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition 2012Buy 🇺🇸
71	Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny 2013Buy 🇺🇸
72	Best New Horror 24 2013Buy 🇺🇸
73	Beyond Rue Morgue Anthology: Further Tales of Edgar Allan Poe's 1st Detective 2013Buy 🇺🇸
74	Black Pulp 2013Buy 🇺🇸
75	Impossible Monsters 2013Buy 🇺🇸
76	Old Mars 2013Buy 🇺🇸
77	The Time Traveler's Almanac 2013Buy 🇺🇸
78	The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs 2013Buy 🇺🇸
79	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition 2013Buy 🇺🇸
80	Zombies!: Tales of the Walking Dead 2013Buy 🇺🇸
81	Dark Duets 2014Buy 🇺🇸
82	Dead Man's Hand 2014Buy 🇺🇸
83	Lovecraft's Monsters 2014Buy 🇺🇸
84	Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror 2014Buy 🇺🇸
85	Piercing the Darkness 2014Buy 🇺🇸
86	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition 2014Buy 🇺🇸
87	Zombies: More Recent Dead 2014Buy 🇺🇸
88	Christmas Horror Volume 1 2015Buy 🇺🇸
89	Flinch 2015Buy 🇺🇸
90	Insidious Assassins 2015Buy 🇺🇸
91	The Gods of HP Lovecraft 2015Buy 🇺🇸
92	Horror Anthology 2016 2016Buy 🇺🇸
93	Last Night, a Superhero Saved My Life 2016Buy 🇺🇸
94	The Highway Kind 2016Buy 🇺🇸
95	Alive in Shape and Color 2017Buy 🇺🇸
96	Shadows Over Main Street Volume 2 2017Buy 🇺🇸
97	Tales from The Lake Vol. 4 2017Buy 🇺🇸
98	Fantastic Tales of Terror 2018Buy 🇺🇸
99	It's Alive 2018Buy 🇺🇸
100	Lost Highways 2018Buy 🇺🇸
101	The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories 2018Buy 🇺🇸
102	A Time For Violence 2019Buy 🇺🇸
103	At Home in the Dark 2019Buy 🇺🇸
104	The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories 2019Buy 🇺🇸
105	In League with Sherlock Holmes 2020Buy 🇺🇸
106	Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers Vol 5 2020Buy 🇺🇸
107	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve 2020Buy 🇺🇸
108	Bullets and Other Hurting Things: A Tribute to Bill Crider 2021Buy 🇺🇸
109	Collectibles 2021Buy 🇺🇸
110	Conan: The Songs of the Dead and Other Stories 2021Buy 🇺🇸
111	Love, Death and Robots: The Official Anthology: Volume One 2021Buy 🇺🇸
112	Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the MostHaunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World 2021Buy 🇺🇸
113	When a Stranger Comes to Town 2021Buy 🇺🇸
114	Black is the Night: Stories inspired by Cornell Woolrich 2022Buy 🇺🇸
115	Love, Death + Robots: The Official Anthology: Volumes 2 & 3 2022Buy 🇺🇸
116	Revelations 2022Buy 🇺🇸
117	Screams from the Dark 2022Buy 🇺🇸
118	Deathrealm Spirits 2023Buy 🇺🇸
119	Hot Iron and Cold Blood: An Anthology of the Weird West 2023Buy 🇺🇸
120	Playing Games 2023Buy 🇺🇸
121	Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers Vol 8 2023Buy 🇺🇸
122	Shakespeare Unleashed 2023Buy 🇺🇸
123	The Drive-In: Multiplex 2024Buy 🇺🇸
124	Rough Country 2026Buy 🇺🇸

13 books (1989–1991)

Start with Daily Voices(By: Lisa Goldstein), the first of 13 books in the Author's Choice Monthly series.

#	Title
1	Daily Voices(By: Lisa Goldstein) 1989Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Old Funny Stuff(By: George Alec Effinger) 1989Buy 🇺🇸
3	Heroines(By: James Patrick Kelly) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
4	Neon Twilight(By: Edward Bryant) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
5	Peripheral Vision(By: Karen Joy Fowler) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
6	Swatting at the Cosmos(By: James K. Morrow) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
7	Tales from a Vanished Country(By: Elizabeth Lynn) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
8	True Minds(By: Spider Robinson) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
9	Hedgework & Guessery(By: Charles de Lint) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
10	It's Been Fun(By: Esther M. Friesner) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
11	Nine Hard Questions About the Nature of the Universe(By: Lewis Shiner) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
12	Stories by Mama Lansdales Youngest Boy 1991Buy 🇺🇸
13	Unthreatened by the Morning Light(By: Karl Edward Wagner) 1991Buy 🇺🇸

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 🇺🇸

40 books (2012–2022)

Start with An Acceptable Sacrifice(By: Jeffery Deaver), the first of 40 books in the Bibliomysteries series.

#	Title
1	An Acceptable Sacrifice(By: Jeffery Deaver) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	Death Leaves a Bookmark(By: William Link) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
3	Pronghorns of the Third Reich(By: C.J. Box) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Book Case(By: Nelson DeMille) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Book Thing(By: Laura Lippman) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Book of Virtue(By: Ken Bruen) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
7	Rides a Stranger(By: David Bell) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Book of Ghosts(By: Reed Farrel Coleman) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Final Testament(By: Peter Blauner) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Long Sonata of the Dead(By: Andrew Taylor) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
11	Book Club(By: Loren D. Estleman) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
12	It's in the Book(By: Max Allan Collins,Mickey Spillane) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
13	Remaindered(By: Peter Lovesey) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Compendium of Srem(By: F. Paul Wilson) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Gospel of Sheba(By: Lyndsay Faye) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Nature of My Inheritance(By: Bradford Morrow) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Scroll(By: Anne Perry) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Sequel(By: R.L. Stine) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
19	What's in a Name?(By: Thomas H. Cook) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
20	Condor in the Stacks(By: James Grady) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
21	Every Seven Years(By: Denise Mina) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
22	From the Queen(By: Carolyn Hart) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
23	Mystery, Inc.(By: Joyce Carol Oates) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Book of the Lion(By: Thomas Perry) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Little Men(By: Megan Abbott) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
26	Citadel(By: Stephen Hunter) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
27	Dead Dames Don't Sing(By: John Harvey) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
28	Reconciliation Day(By: Christopher Fowler) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
29	The Haze(By: James W. Hall) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Travelling Companion(By: Ian Rankin) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
31	Hoodoo Harry 2017Buy 🇺🇸
32	Seven Years(By: Peter Robinson) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
33	The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository(By: John Connolly) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Hemingway Valise(By: Robert Olen Butler) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
35	The Last Honest Horse Thief(By: Michael Koryta) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
36	The Pretty Little Box(By: Charles Todd) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
37	The Girl Who Did Say No(By: David Handler) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
38	The Dark Door(By: Lisa Unger) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
39	The Honeymoon Trap(By: Peter Swanson) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
40	The Traitor(By: Martin Edwards) 2022Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2012–2016)

Start with The Walls of the Castle(By: Tom Piccirilli) and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Walls of the Castle(By: Tom Piccirilli) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	Prisoner 489 2014Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Booking(By: Ramsey Campbell) 2016Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1986–1986)

#	Title
1	Dead in the West 1986Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (2017–2025)

Start with Ladycastle(By: Delilah S. Dawson), the first of 7 books in the Delilah S. Dawson Graphic Novels series.

#	Title
1	Ladycastle(By: Delilah S. Dawson) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
2	X-Files: Case Files 2018Buy 🇺🇸
3	Descendants: Fright at the Museum(By: Delilah S. Dawson) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
4	Firefly Original Graphic Novel(By: Delilah S. Dawson) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
5	Spider-Man: A New Beginning(By: Delilah S. Dawson) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
6	Star Pig(By: Delilah S. Dawson) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
7	Thor & Loki: Epic Tales from Marvel Mythology(By: Delilah S. Dawson) 2025Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2015–2020)

Start with Baby Shoes(With: Walter Jon Williams,Jason Brick,Dani J. Caile,Wes Choc,Katherine Valdez,Linda Needham), the first of 4 books in the Flash in a Flash series.

#	Title
1	Baby Shoes(With: Walter Jon Williams,Jason Brick,Dani J. Caile,Wes Choc,Katherine Valdez,Linda Needham) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
2	Flash!(By: Jason Brick,Dani J. Caile,David E. Sharp,Walt Socha,Michelle Simkins) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
3	Itty Bitty Writing Space(By: Jason Brick,Dani J. Caile,Peter J. Foote,Christine Hanolsy,TerriClifton,Jean Harkin) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
4	Worth 1,000 Words(By: Jason Brick,Dani Caile) 2020Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2000–2000)

14 books (1988–2018)

Start with The Drive-In, the first of 14 books in the Graphic Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Drive-In 1988Buy 🇺🇸
2	Tarzan the Lost Adventure 1995Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Lone Ranger and Tonto 1995Buy 🇺🇸
4	Atomic Chili 1997Buy 🇺🇸
5	Red Range 1999Buy 🇺🇸
6	Lansdale And Truman's Dead Folks 2000Buy 🇺🇸
7	Conan And The Songs Of The Dead 2007Buy 🇺🇸
8	Pigeons From Hell 2009Buy 🇺🇸
9	Robert Bloch's Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper(With: Robert Bloch,John L. Lansdale) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
10	H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror(With: H.P. Lovecraft) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
11	Dead on the Bones 2016Buy 🇺🇸
12	Hell's Bounty 2016Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Steam Man(With: Mark Alan Miller) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
14	X-Files: Case Files(With: Delilah S. Dawson,Keith Lansdale) 2018Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1999–2017)

Start with Veil's Visit(With: Andrew Vachss) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Veil's Visit(With: Andrew Vachss) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	Hap and Leonard 2016Buy 🇺🇸
3	Hap and Leonard: Blood and Lemonade 2017Buy 🇺🇸

22 books (1990–2025)

Start with Savage Season, the first of 22 books in the Hap and Leonard series.

#	Title
1	Savage Season 1990Buy 🇺🇸
2	Mucho Mojo 1994Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Two-Bear Mambo 1995Buy 🇺🇸
4	Bad Chili 1997Buy 🇺🇸
5	Rumble Tumble 1998Buy 🇺🇸
6	Captains Outrageous 2001Buy 🇺🇸
7	Vanilla Ride 2009Buy 🇺🇸
8	Devil Red 2010Buy 🇺🇸
9	Hyenas 2011Buy 🇺🇸
10	Dead Aim 2012Buy 🇺🇸
11	Honky Tonk Samurai 2015Buy 🇺🇸
12	Briar Patch Boogie 2016Buy 🇺🇸
13	Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be(With: Eleanor Arnason) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
14	Coco Butternut 2017Buy 🇺🇸
15	Cold Cotton 2017Buy 🇺🇸
16	Rusty Puppy 2017Buy 🇺🇸
17	Jackrabbit Smile 2018Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Elephant of Surprise 2019Buy 🇺🇸
19	Of Mice and Minestrone 2020Buy 🇺🇸
20	Born for Trouble 2022Buy 🇺🇸
21	Sugar on the Bones 2024Buy 🇺🇸
22	Hatchet Girls 2025Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1991–1992)

Start with Batman, Captured by the Engines and read in order.

#	Title
1	Batman, Captured by the Engines 1991Buy 🇺🇸
2	Terror on the High Skies 1992Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1994–2014)

Start with Two Gun Mojo, the first of 5 books in the Jonah Hex series.

#	Title
1	Two Gun Mojo 1994Buy 🇺🇸
2	Shadows West 1999Buy 🇺🇸
3	Jonah Hex, Volume One(By: Gil Kane,Robert Kanigher,Michael L. Fleisher,Arnold Drake,John Albano) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
4	Jonah Hex Classic Tales: Welcome to Paradise(By: Michael L. Fleisher) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
5	Jonah Hex, Vol. 2(By: Michael L. Fleisher) 2014Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2018–2018)

#	Title
1	Terror Is Our Business(With: Kasey Lansdale) 2018Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2010–2011)

Start with L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories and read in order.

#	Title
1	L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories 2010Buy 🇺🇸
2	Black DahliaWhite Rose(By: Joyce Carol Oates) 2011Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1999–2000)

Start with Something Lumber This Way Comes, Or, the House from Space and read in order.

#	Title
1	Something Lumber This Way Comes, Or, the House from Space 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	Waltz of Shadows 1999Buy 🇺🇸
3	Blood Dance 2000Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2001–2019)

Start with Zeppelins West, the first of 4 books in the Ned the Seal series.

#	Title
1	Zeppelins West 2001Buy 🇺🇸
2	Flaming London 2005Buy 🇺🇸
3	Flaming Zeppelins 2010Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Sky Done Ripped 2019Buy 🇺🇸

11 books (1984–2006)

Start with Night Visions: In the Blood, the first of 11 books in the Night Visions series.

#	Title
1	Night Visions: In the Blood 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	Night Visions 1985Buy 🇺🇸
3	Night Visions 2 1985Buy 🇺🇸
4	Night Visions 3 1986Buy 🇺🇸
5	Night Visions: The Hellbound Heart 1986Buy 🇺🇸
6	Night Visions 6 1988Buy 🇺🇸
7	Night Visions 8 1990Buy 🇺🇸
8	Night Visions 9 1991Buy 🇺🇸
9	Night Visions 10 2001Buy 🇺🇸
10	Night Visions 11 2004Buy 🇺🇸
11	Night Visions 12 2006Buy 🇺🇸

32 books (1984–2026)

Start with The Presidential Papers(By: John H. Kessel), the first of 32 books in the Outspoken Authors series.

#	Title
1	The Presidential Papers(By: John H. Kessel) 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Human Front(By: Ken MacLeod) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
3	Lucky Strike(By: Kim Stanley Robinson) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Left Left Behind(By: Terry Bisson,Eleanor Arnason) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
5	Mammoths of the Great Plains(By: Eleanor Arnason) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Underbelly(By: Gary Phillips,Eleanor Arnason) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
7	Modem Times 2.0(By: Michael Moorcock,Eleanor Arnason) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow(By: Cory Doctorow,Eleanor Arnason) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Wild Girls(By: Ursula K. Le Guin,Eleanor Arnason) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
10	Report from Planet Midnight(By: Nalo Hopkinson,Eleanor Arnason) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
11	Surfing the Gnarl(By: Rudy Rucker) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
12	New Taboos(By: John Shirley) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
13	Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials(By: Eleanor Arnason,Paul Krassner) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Science of Herself(By: Karen Joy Fowler,Eleanor Arnason) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
15	Raising Hell(By: Norman Spinrad,Eleanor Arnason) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
16	Gypsy(By: Carter Scholz,Eleanor Arnason) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
17	My Life, My Body(By: Marge Piercy) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
18	Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be(With: Eleanor Arnason) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
19	Fire.(By: Elizabeth Hand,Eleanor Arnason) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
20	Totalitopia(By: John Crowley) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Atheist in the Attic(By: Samuel R. Delany,Eleanor Arnason) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
22	Thoreau's Microscope(By: Michael Blumlein,Eleanor Arnason) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
23	A City Made of Words(By: Paul Park) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
24	Talk Like a Man(By: Nisi Shawl) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Beatrix Gates(By: Rachel Pollack) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
26	Big Girl(By: Meg Elison) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
27	Planetbreaker’s Son(By: Nick Mamatas) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
28	Utopias of the Third Kind(By: Vandana Singh) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
29	Night Shift(By: Eileen Gunn) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Collapsing Frontier(By: Jonathan Lethem) 2024Buy 🇺🇸
31	Not What I Intended(By: Nancy Kress) 2025Buy 🇺🇸
32	She is Here(By: Nicola Griffith) 2026Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2012–2012)

#	Title
1	In Waders From Mars(With: Keith Lansdale) 2012Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2011–2017)

Start with Rocketeer Adventures Volume 1 and read in order.

#	Title
1	Rocketeer Adventures Volume 1 2011Buy 🇺🇸
2	Rocketeer Adventures Volume 2(By: Peter David,Matt Wagner,Michael Golden,David Lapham,Kyle Baker,Paul Dini,Louise Simonson,David Mandel,Marc Guggenheim,Stan Sakai,Tom Taylor,Walter Simonson) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Rocketeer: High Flying Adventures(By: Bruce Timm,Kurt Busiek,Darwyn Cooke,Marc Guggenheim,Walter Simonson) 2017Buy 🇺🇸

19 books (1988–2024)

Start with Night They Missed the Horror Show, the first of 19 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Night They Missed the Horror Show 1988Buy 🇺🇸
2	Love Doll 1991Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Events Concerning a Nude Fold-Out Found in a Harlequin Romance 1992Buy 🇺🇸
4	Tight Little Stitches on a Dead Man's Back 1992Buy 🇺🇸
5	Dread Island 2010Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Folding Man 2010Buy 🇺🇸
7	Bullets and Fire 2011Buy 🇺🇸
8	Incident On and Off a Mountain Road 2011Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Steel Valentine 2011Buy 🇺🇸
10	Christmas with the Dead 2012Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Ape Man's Brother 2012Buy 🇺🇸
12	Hot in December 2013Buy 🇺🇸
13	A Bone Dead Sadness 2014Buy 🇺🇸
14	Black Hat Jack 2014Buy 🇺🇸
15	Fishing for Dinosaurs 2014Buy 🇺🇸
16	Hoodoo Harry 2017Buy 🇺🇸
17	Apache Witch and Other Poetic Observations 2021Buy 🇺🇸
18	Shooting Star 2023Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Unlikely Affair of the Crawling Razor 2024Buy 🇺🇸

31 books (1989–2025)

Start with By Bizarre Hands, the first of 31 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	By Bizarre Hands 1989Buy 🇺🇸
2	On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with the Dead Folks 1991Buy 🇺🇸
3	Bestsellers Guaranteed 1993Buy 🇺🇸
4	Electric Gumbo 1994Buy 🇺🇸
5	Writer of the Purple Rage 1994Buy 🇺🇸
6	A Fist Full of Stories 1996Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Good, the Bad and the Indifferent 1997Buy 🇺🇸
8	Private Eye Action as You Like It 1998Buy 🇺🇸
9	High Cotton 2000Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Long Ones 2000Buy 🇺🇸
11	For a Few Stories More 2002Buy 🇺🇸
12	Bumper Crop 2004Buy 🇺🇸
13	Mad Dog Summer 2004Buy 🇺🇸
14	The King and Other Stories 2005Buy 🇺🇸
15	Deadman's Road 2007Buy 🇺🇸
16	The God of the Razor 2007Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Shadows, Kith and Kin 2007Buy 🇺🇸
18	Sanctified and Chicken-Fried 2009Buy 🇺🇸
19	Unchained And Unhinged 2009Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Best of Joe R. Lansdale 2010Buy 🇺🇸
21	Trapped in the Saturday Matinee 2012Buy 🇺🇸
22	Written With a Razor - Short Stories and a Screenplay 2012Buy 🇺🇸
23	Bleeding Shadows 2013Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Tall Grass and Other Stories / After the People Lights Have Gone Off 2014Buy 🇺🇸
25	Driving to Geronimo's Grave and Other Stories 2018Buy 🇺🇸
26	Terror Is Our Business(With: Kasey Lansdale) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
27	Gothic Wounds 2022Buy 🇺🇸
28	Things Get Ugly: The Best Crime Fiction of Joe R. Lansdale 2023Buy 🇺🇸
29	In the Mad Mountains 2024Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Senior Girls Bayonet Drill Team and Other Stories 2024Buy 🇺🇸
31	The Essential Horror of Joe R. Lansdale 2025Buy 🇺🇸

34 books (1981–2025)

Start with Act of Love, the first of 34 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Act of Love 1981Buy 🇺🇸
2	Texas Night Riders 1983Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Magic Wagon 1986Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Nightrunners 1987Buy 🇺🇸
5	Cold in July 1989Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Boar 1998Buy 🇺🇸
7	Freezer Burn 1999Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Big Blow 2000Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Bottoms 2000Buy 🇺🇸
10	Bubba Ho-Tep 2002Buy 🇺🇸
11	A Fine Dark Line 2003Buy 🇺🇸
12	Sunset and Sawdust 2003Buy 🇺🇸
13	Lost Echoes 2005Buy 🇺🇸
14	Leather Maiden 2008Buy 🇺🇸
15	All the Earth, Thrown to the Sky 2011Buy 🇺🇸
16	Edge of Dark Water 2012Buy 🇺🇸
17	Deadman's Crossing 2013Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Thicket 2013Buy 🇺🇸
19	I Tell You It's Love 2014Buy 🇺🇸
20	Fender Lizards 2015Buy 🇺🇸
21	Paradise Sky 2015Buy 🇺🇸
22	Hell's Bounty 2016Buy 🇺🇸
23	M.I.A. Hunter 2016Buy 🇺🇸
24	Bubba and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers 2017Buy 🇺🇸
25	Driving to Geronimo's Grave 2018Buy 🇺🇸
26	Man With Two Lives 2018Buy 🇺🇸
27	Fishing for Dinosaurs and Other Stories 2020Buy 🇺🇸
28	Jane Goes North 2020Buy 🇺🇸
29	More Better Deals 2020Buy 🇺🇸
30	Moon Lake 2021Buy 🇺🇸
31	Radiant Apples 2021Buy 🇺🇸
32	The Events Concerning 2022Buy 🇺🇸
33	The Donut Legion 2023Buy 🇺🇸
34	Big Lizard(With: Keith Lansdale) 2025Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2016–2023)

Start with The Case of the Bleeding Wall(With: Kasey Lansdale), the first of 4 books in the The Case of the Bleeding Wall series.

#	Title
1	The Case of the Bleeding Wall(With: Kasey Lansdale) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Case of the Bleeding Wall, Vol 2(With: Kasey Lansdale,Tom E. Napolitano) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Case of the Bleeding Wall, Vol 3(With: Kasey Lansdale,Tom E. Napolitano) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Case of the Bleeding Wall, Vol 4(With: Kasey Lansdale,Tom E. Napolitano) 2023Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2017–2018)

Start with Where Nightmares Come From and read in order.

3 books (1988–2005)

Start with The Drive-In and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Drive-In 1988Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Drive-In II: Not Just One of Them Sequels 1989Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Drive-In 3: The Bus Tour 2005Buy 🇺🇸

15 books (2010–2024)

Start with The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition, the first of 15 books in the The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror series.

#	Title
1	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition 2010Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition 2011Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition 2012Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition 2013Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition 2014Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition 2015Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition 2016Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2017 Edition 2017Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition 2018Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2019 Edition 2020Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 1 2020Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 2 2021Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 3 2022Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 4 2023Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 5 2024Buy 🇺🇸