Stephen Graham Jones Reading Order

71 books (2007–2026)

Start with Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens, the first of 71 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens 2007Buy 🇺🇸
2	TwentiethAnnual Collection 2007Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two 2010Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition 2010Buy 🇺🇸
5	Halloween: Magic, Mystery, and the Macabre 2011Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three 2011Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition 2011Buy 🇺🇸
8	Ghosts: Recent Hauntings 2012Buy 🇺🇸
9	Heroics: Strange Tales of Absurd Superheroes 2012Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition 2012Buy 🇺🇸
11	Walking the Clouds 2012Buy 🇺🇸
12	Weird Tales 359 2012Buy 🇺🇸
13	Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny 2013Buy 🇺🇸
14	Chewing the Page: The Mourning Goats Interviews 2013Buy 🇺🇸
15	Zombies 2013Buy 🇺🇸
16	Letters to Lovecraft 2014Buy 🇺🇸
17	Nightmare Carnival 2014Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Children of Old Leech 2014Buy 🇺🇸
19	The New Black 2014Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Starry Wisdom Library 2014Buy 🇺🇸
21	Zombies: More Recent Dead 2014Buy 🇺🇸
22	Death's Realm 2015Buy 🇺🇸
23	Nightmares Unhinged 2015Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven 2015Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Monstrous 2015Buy 🇺🇸
26	Children of Lovecraft 2016Buy 🇺🇸
27	Cyber World 2016Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight 2016Buy 🇺🇸
29	The Starlit Wood 2016Buy 🇺🇸
30	Blood Business 2017Buy 🇺🇸
31	Georgetown Haunts and Mysteries 2017Buy 🇺🇸
32	Mad Hatters and March Hares 2017Buy 🇺🇸
33	People of Color Take over Fantastic Stories of the Imagination 2017Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Demons of King Solomon 2017Buy 🇺🇸
35	I Don't Want to Play This Game Anymore 2018Buy 🇺🇸
36	Mechanical Animals 2018Buy 🇺🇸
37	Nightmare Magazine, Issue 75 2018Buy 🇺🇸
38	Suspended in Dusk II 2018Buy 🇺🇸
39	Nowhereville 2019Buy 🇺🇸
40	Straight Outta Deadwood 2019Buy 🇺🇸
41	Tales of the Lost, Volume 1 2019Buy 🇺🇸
42	Terror at 5280' 2019Buy 🇺🇸
43	The Mythic Dream 2019Buy 🇺🇸
44	Edited By 2020Buy 🇺🇸
45	It Came from the Multiplex: 80s Midnight Chillers 2020Buy 🇺🇸
46	Psi-Wars: Classified Cases of Psychic Phenomena 2020Buy 🇺🇸
47	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve 2020Buy 🇺🇸
48	The Horror Writer: A Study of Craft and Identity in the Horror Genre 2020Buy 🇺🇸
49	The Midnight Exhibit, Vol. 1 2020Buy 🇺🇸
50	Tiny Nightmares 2020Buy 🇺🇸
51	Giving the Devil His Due 2021Buy 🇺🇸
52	Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers, Volume 6 2021Buy 🇺🇸
53	Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2020 Edition 2021Buy 🇺🇸
54	The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen 2021Buy 🇺🇸
55	When Things Get Dark 2021Buy 🇺🇸
56	Dark Matter Presents Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology 2022Buy 🇺🇸
57	Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror 2022Buy 🇺🇸
58	Other Terrors 2022Buy 🇺🇸
59	Screams from the Dark 2022Buy 🇺🇸
60	Shattered & Splintered 2022Buy 🇺🇸
61	The Horror Zine’s Book of Werewolf Stories 2022Buy 🇺🇸
62	Christmas and Other Horrors 2023Buy 🇺🇸
63	Unioverse: Stories of the Reconvergence 2023Buy 🇺🇸
64	Fears: Tales of Psychological Horror 2024Buy 🇺🇸
65	Human Monsters 2024Buy 🇺🇸
66	Some Of The Best From Reactor: 2024 Edition 2024Buy 🇺🇸
67	The Best of Gamut 2024Buy 🇺🇸
68	The Drive-In: Multiplex 2024Buy 🇺🇸
69	Why I Love Horror 2025Buy 🇺🇸
70	All Hallows Eve 2026Buy 🇺🇸
71	Uncanny Magazine Issue 69: March/April 2026 2026Buy 🇺🇸

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 🇺🇸

1 book (2010–2010)

#	Title
1	It Came from Del Rio 2010Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (2003–2025)

Start with Bleed into Me, the first of 9 books in the Collections series.

#	Title
1	Bleed into Me 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Ones That Got Away 2010Buy 🇺🇸
3	Three Miles Past 2012Buy 🇺🇸
4	Zombie Sharks with Metal Teeth 2013Buy 🇺🇸
5	After the People Lights Have Gone Off 2014Buy 🇺🇸
6	States of Grace 2014Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Faster Redder Road 2015Buy 🇺🇸
8	Killer on the Road & The Babysitter Lives 2025Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Ones Who Got Away: Stories 2025Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2017–2021)

Start with My Hero and read in order.

#	Title
1	My Hero 2017Buy 🇺🇸
2	Memorial Ride 2021Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (2023–2024)

Start with Conan: Black Starlight(By: John C. Hocking), the first of 7 books in the Heroic Legends / Savage Tales Short Fiction series.

1 book (2025–2025)

#	Title
1	Why Horror 2025Buy 🇺🇸

40 books (2017–2024)

Start with Church(By: Renee Miller), the first of 40 books in the Rewind or Die series.

#	Title
1	Church(By: Renee Miller) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Grimhaven Disaster(By: Leo X. Robertson) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Grimhaven Disaster: Radioactive Edition(By: Leo X. Robertson) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
4	All You Need is Love and a Strong Electric Current(By: ) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
5	Benny Rose, the Cannibal King(By: Hailey Piper) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
6	Blood Lake Monster(By: Renee Miller) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
7	Cirque Berserk(By: Jessica Guess) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
8	Dancing on the Edge of a Blade: The Extended Director’s Cut(By: Todd Rigney) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
9	Dead Eyes(By: E.V. Knight) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
10	Dead and Breakfast(By: Gary Buller) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
11	Food Fright(By: Nico Bell) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
12	Hairspray and Switchblades(By: V. Castro) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
13	Hell's Bells(By: Lisa Quigley) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
14	Hooker(By: M. Lopes da Silva) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
15	Infested(By: Carol Gore) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
16	Offstage Offerings(By: Priya Sridhar) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
17	Sole Survivor(By: Zachary Ashford) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
18	Tales From the Meat Wagon(By: Eddie Generous) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Catcreeper(By: Kevin Arthur Lewis) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Kelping(By: Jan Stinchcomb) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Midnight Exhibit Vol. 2(By: Kaaron Warren,Eddie Generous,Jessica McHugh,Declan Burnett) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Midnight Exhibit, Vol. 1(With: Eddie Generous,Philip Fracassi,Renee Miller) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
23	Trampled Crown(By: Kirby Kellogg) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
24	Camp Neverland(By: Lisa Quigley) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
25	Chopping Spree(By: Angela Sylvaine) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
26	City of the Creeps(By: Ernie Kaltenbrunner Jr.) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
27	Desperado Dini(By: Dunkie Tang) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
28	She Ain't Pretty(By: Renee Miller) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
29	Skin Deep(By: Renee Miller) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
30	Sole Survivor II: Drop Bears on the Loose(By: Zachary Ashford) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
31	Transmuted(By: Eve Harms) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
32	Who Will Save Your Soul?(By: Jody Smith) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
33	Kidnap Torture Strangle(By: Declan Burnett) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
34	Tales From the Typewriter(By: Mark Allan Gunnells) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
35	Fuzzy(By: Roni Stinger) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
36	Sloe(By: Marc Ruvolo) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
37	The Midnight Exhibit, Vol. 3(By: William Meikle,Eddie Generous,Declan Burnett) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
38	...And Out Come the Toys(By: Matt Brandenburg) 2024Buy 🇺🇸
39	Intro to Chaos(By: TonyaWalter) 2024Buy 🇺🇸
40	Portable Magic(By: Mark Allan Gunnells) 2024Buy 🇺🇸

15 books (2009–2025)

Start with Lonegan's Luck, the first of 15 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Lonegan's Luck 2009Buy 🇺🇸
2	Sterling City 2013Buy 🇺🇸
3	Chapter Six 2014Buy 🇺🇸
4	Not for Nothing 2014Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Elvis Room 2014Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Night Cyclist 2016Buy 🇺🇸
7	Mapping the Interior 2017Buy 🇺🇸
8	Attack of the 50 Foot Indian 2020Buy 🇺🇸
9	Night of the Mannequins 2020Buy 🇺🇸
10	Wait for Night 2020Buy 🇺🇸
11	Men, Women, and Chainsaws 2022Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Backbone of the World 2022Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Clown Brigade 2022Buy 🇺🇸
14	Parthenogenesis 2024Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Belle of the Ball 2025Buy 🇺🇸

19 books (2000–2025)

Start with The Fast Red Road, the first of 19 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Fast Red Road 2000Buy 🇺🇸
2	All the Beautiful Sinners 2003Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Bird is Gone 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	Seven Spanish Angels 2005Buy 🇺🇸
5	Demon Theory 2006Buy 🇺🇸
6	Ledfeather 2008Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti 2008Buy 🇺🇸
8	Growing Up Dead in Texas 2012Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Last Final Girl 2012Buy 🇺🇸
10	Zombie Bake-Off 2012Buy 🇺🇸
11	Flushboy 2013Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Least of My Scars 2013Buy 🇺🇸
13	Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn't Fly(With: Paul Tremblay) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Gospel of Z 2014Buy 🇺🇸
15	Mongrels 2016Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Only Good Indians 2020Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Babysitter Lives 2022Buy 🇺🇸
18	I Was A Teenage Slasher 2024Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Buffalo Hunter Hunter 2025Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2021–2024)

Start with My Heart Is a Chainsaw and read in order.

#	Title
1	My Heart Is a Chainsaw 2021Buy 🇺🇸
2	Don't Fear the Reaper 2023Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Angel of Indian Lake 2024Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2025–2025)

Start with Jackknife(By: Joe Hill), the first of 5 books in the The Shivers Collection series.

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 🇺🇸