Stephen Graham Jones Reading Order
14 series · 208 books · Born 1972
Stephen Graham Jones is a prolific horror and fantasy author whose dark, genre-bending work has earned recognition from major award organizations including the Shirley Jackson Award and the International Horror Guild Award. With over two hundred books published across multiple series since 2000, Jones brings an expansive imagination to horror, thriller, and speculative fiction, while also contributing significantly to anthologies and collections that shape contemporary horror literature. An academically trained writer holding a Ph.D. from Florida State University, Jones teaches creative writing at the University of Colorado at Boulder and draws on his West Texas background to create distinctive, culturally informed narratives.
Anthologies Series
Ongoing71 books (2007–2026)
Start with Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens, the first of 71 books in the Anthologies series.
Start this series with Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens
Buy Book 1 🇺🇸🎧 Listen free on Audible| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens |
| 2 |  TwentiethAnnual Collection |
| 3 |  The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two |
| 4 | The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition |
| 5 |  Halloween: Magic, Mystery, and the Macabre |
| 6 | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three |
| 7 | The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition |
| 8 | Ghosts: Recent Hauntings |
| 9 |  Heroics: Strange Tales of Absurd Superheroes |
| 10 | The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition |
| 11 |  Walking the Clouds |
| 12 | Weird Tales 359 |
| 13 | Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny |
| 14 | Chewing the Page: The Mourning Goats Interviews |
| 15 |  Zombies |
| 16 |  Letters to Lovecraft |
| 17 |  Nightmare Carnival |
| 18 |  The Children of Old Leech |
| 19 |  The New Black |
| 20 |  The Starry Wisdom Library |
| 21 | Zombies: More Recent Dead |
| 22 |  Death's Realm |
| 23 |  Nightmares Unhinged |
| 24 |  The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven |
| 25 | The Monstrous |
| 26 |  Children of Lovecraft |
| 27 | Cyber World |
| 28 |  The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight |
| 29 | The Starlit Wood |
| 30 | Blood Business |
| 31 | Georgetown Haunts and Mysteries |
| 32 | Mad Hatters and March Hares |
| 33 | People of Color Take over Fantastic Stories of the Imagination |
| 34 | The Demons of King Solomon |
| 35 | I Don't Want to Play This Game Anymore |
| 36 | Mechanical Animals |
| 37 | Nightmare Magazine, Issue 75 |
| 38 |  Suspended in Dusk II |
| 39 |  Nowhereville |
| 40 | Straight Outta Deadwood |
| 41 | Tales of the Lost, Volume 1 |
| 42 |  Terror at 5280' |
| 43 | The Mythic Dream |
| 44 | Edited By |
| 45 | It Came from the Multiplex: 80s Midnight Chillers |
| 46 | Psi-Wars: Classified Cases of Psychic Phenomena |
| 47 | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve |
| 48 | The Horror Writer: A Study of Craft and Identity in the Horror Genre |
| 49 | The Midnight Exhibit, Vol. 1 |
| 50 |  Tiny Nightmares |
| 51 |  Giving the Devil His Due |
| 52 | Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers, Volume 6 |
| 53 | Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2020 Edition |
| 54 | The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen |
| 55 |  When Things Get Dark |
| 56 | Dark Matter Presents Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology |
| 57 |  Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror |
| 58 | Other Terrors |
| 59 |  Screams from the Dark |
| 60 | Shattered & Splintered |
| 61 |  The Horror Zine’s Book of Werewolf Stories |
| 62 | Christmas and Other Horrors |
| 63 | Unioverse: Stories of the Reconvergence |
| 64 |  Fears: Tales of Psychological Horror |
| 65 | Human Monsters |
| 66 | Some Of The Best From Reactor: 2024 Edition |
| 67 | The Best of Gamut |
| 68 | The Drive-In: Multiplex |
| 69 |  Why I Love Horror |
| 70 |  All Hallows Eve |
| 71 | Uncanny Magazine Issue 69: March/April 2026 |
Best Horror of the Year Series
Ongoing19 books (2009–2026)
Start with The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One, the first of 18 books in the Best Horror of the Year series.
Start this series with The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One
Buy Book 1 🇺🇸🎧 Listen free on Audible| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 |  The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One |
| 2 | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two |
| 3 | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three |
| 4 |  The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four |
| 5 | The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five |
| 6 |  The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six |
| 7 | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven |
| 8 | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight |
| 9 |  The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine |
| 10 | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten |
| 11 | The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction |
| 12 | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven |
| 13 | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve |
| 14 | The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen |
| 15 | The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen |
| 16 |  The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen |
| 17 |  The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen |
| 18 |  The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen |
| 19 | Best Horror of the Year, Volume Eighteen |
Bunnyhead Chronicles Series
Complete1 book (2010–2010)
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 |  It Came from Del Rio |
Collections Series
Ongoing9 books (2003–2025)
Start with Bleed into Me, the first of 9 books in the Collections series.
Start this series with Bleed into Me
Buy Book 1 🇺🇸🎧 Listen free on Audible| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 |  Bleed into Me |
| 2 |  The Ones That Got Away |
| 3 | Three Miles Past |
| 4 |  Zombie Sharks with Metal Teeth |
| 5 |  After the People Lights Have Gone Off |
| 6 | States of Grace |
| 7 |  The Faster Redder Road |
| 8 |  Killer on the Road & The Babysitter Lives |
| 9 | The Ones Who Got Away: Stories |
Graphic Novels Series
Likely Complete2 books (2017–2021)
Start with My Hero and read in order.
Start this series with My Hero
Buy Book 1 🇺🇸🎧 Listen free on Audible| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | My Hero |
| 2 |  Memorial Ride |
Heroic Legends / Savage Tales Short Fiction Series
Ongoing7 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.
Start this series with Conan: Black Starlight(By: John C. Hocking)
Buy Book 1 🇺🇸🎧 Listen free on Audible| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Conan: Black Starlight(By: John C. Hocking) |
| 2 | Conan: Lord of the Mount |
| 3 | Conan: The Child(By: Brian D. Anderson) |
| 4 | Solomon Kane: The Hound of God(By: Jonathan Maberry) |
| 5 | Bran Mak Morn(By: Steven L. Shrewsbury) |
| 6 | Bêlit: Shipwrecked(By: V. Castro) |
| 7 | Conan: The Shadow of Vengeance(By: Scott Oden) |
Non-Fiction Series
Complete1 book (2025–2025)
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Why Horror |
Rewind or Die Series
Ongoing40 books (2017–2024)
Start with Church(By: Renee Miller), the first of 40 books in the Rewind or Die series.
Start this series with Church(By: Renee Miller)
Buy Book 1 🇺🇸🎧 Listen free on Audible| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Church(By: Renee Miller) |
| 2 |  The Grimhaven Disaster(By: Leo X. Robertson) |
| 3 | The Grimhaven Disaster: Radioactive Edition(By: Leo X. Robertson) |
| 4 | All You Need is Love and a Strong Electric Current(By: ) |
| 5 | Benny Rose, the Cannibal King(By: Hailey Piper) |
| 6 | Blood Lake Monster(By: Renee Miller) |
| 7 | Cirque Berserk(By: Jessica Guess) |
| 8 | Dancing on the Edge of a Blade: The Extended Director’s Cut(By: Todd Rigney) |
| 9 | Dead Eyes(By: E.V. Knight) |
| 10 | Dead and Breakfast(By: Gary Buller) |
| 11 | Food Fright(By: Nico Bell) |
| 12 | Hairspray and Switchblades(By: V. Castro) |
| 13 | Hell's Bells(By: Lisa Quigley) |
| 14 | Hooker(By: M. Lopes da Silva) |
| 15 | Infested(By: Carol Gore) |
| 16 | Offstage Offerings(By: Priya Sridhar) |
| 17 | Sole Survivor(By: Zachary Ashford) |
| 18 | Tales From the Meat Wagon(By: Eddie Generous) |
| 19 | The Catcreeper(By: Kevin Arthur Lewis) |
| 20 | The Kelping(By: Jan Stinchcomb) |
| 21 | The Midnight Exhibit Vol. 2(By: Kaaron Warren,Eddie Generous,Jessica McHugh,Declan Burnett) |
| 22 | The Midnight Exhibit, Vol. 1(With: Eddie Generous,Philip Fracassi,Renee Miller) |
| 23 | Trampled Crown(By: Kirby Kellogg) |
| 24 | Camp Neverland(By: Lisa Quigley) |
| 25 | Chopping Spree(By: Angela Sylvaine) |
| 26 | City of the Creeps(By: Ernie Kaltenbrunner Jr.) |
| 27 | Desperado Dini(By: Dunkie Tang) |
| 28 | She Ain't Pretty(By: Renee Miller) |
| 29 | Skin Deep(By: Renee Miller) |
| 30 | Sole Survivor II: Drop Bears on the Loose(By: Zachary Ashford) |
| 31 | Transmuted(By: Eve Harms) |
| 32 | Who Will Save Your Soul?(By: Jody Smith) |
| 33 | Kidnap Torture Strangle(By: Declan Burnett) |
| 34 | Tales From the Typewriter(By: Mark Allan Gunnells) |
| 35 | Fuzzy(By: Roni Stinger) |
| 36 | Sloe(By: Marc Ruvolo) |
| 37 | The Midnight Exhibit, Vol. 3(By: William Meikle,Eddie Generous,Declan Burnett) |
| 38 | ...And Out Come the Toys(By: Matt Brandenburg) |
| 39 | Intro to Chaos(By: TonyaWalter) |
| 40 | Portable Magic(By: Mark Allan Gunnells) |
Short Stories/Novellas Series
Ongoing15 books (2009–2025)
Start with Lonegan's Luck, the first of 15 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.
Start this series with Lonegan's Luck
Buy Book 1 🇺🇸🎧 Listen free on Audible| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Lonegan's Luck |
| 2 |  Sterling City |
| 3 | Chapter Six |
| 4 |  Not for Nothing |
| 5 | The Elvis Room |
| 6 | The Night Cyclist |
| 7 | Mapping the Interior |
| 8 | Attack of the 50 Foot Indian |
| 9 |  Night of the Mannequins |
| 10 | Wait for Night |
| 11 | Men, Women, and Chainsaws |
| 12 | The Backbone of the World |
| 13 | The Clown Brigade |
| 14 | Parthenogenesis |
| 15 | The Belle of the Ball |
Standalone Novels Series
Ongoing19 books (2000–2025)
Start with The Fast Red Road, the first of 19 books in the Standalone Novels series.
Start this series with The Fast Red Road
Buy Book 1 🇺🇸🎧 Listen free on Audible| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 |  The Fast Red Road |
| 2 |  All the Beautiful Sinners |
| 3 |  The Bird is Gone |
| 4 | Seven Spanish Angels |
| 5 |  Demon Theory |
| 6 |  Ledfeather |
| 7 |  The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti |
| 8 |  Growing Up Dead in Texas |
| 9 |  The Last Final Girl |
| 10 | Zombie Bake-Off |
| 11 |  Flushboy |
| 12 |  The Least of My Scars |
| 13 |  Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn't Fly(With: Paul Tremblay) |
| 14 |  The Gospel of Z |
| 15 |  Mongrels |
| 16 |  The Only Good Indians |
| 17 | The Babysitter Lives |
| 18 | I Was A Teenage Slasher |
| 19 | The Buffalo Hunter Hunter |
The Lake Witch Trilogy Series
Ongoing3 books (2021–2024)
Start with My Heart Is a Chainsaw and read in order.
Start this series with My Heart Is a Chainsaw
Buy Book 1 🇺🇸🎧 Listen free on Audible| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 |  My Heart Is a Chainsaw |
| 2 |  Don't Fear the Reaper |
| 3 | The Angel of Indian Lake |
The Only Good Indians Series
Complete1 book (2026–2026)
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Off the Reservation |
The Shivers Collection Series
Ongoing5 books (2025–2025)
Start with Jackknife(By: Joe Hill), the first of 5 books in the The Shivers Collection series.
Start this series with Jackknife(By: Joe Hill)
Buy Book 1 🇺🇸🎧 Listen free on Audible| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Jackknife(By: Joe Hill) |
| 2 | Letter Slot(By: Owen King) |
| 3 | Night and Day in Misery(By: Catriona Ward) |
| 4 | The Blanks(By: Grady Hendrix) |
| 5 | The Indigo Room |
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror Series
Ongoing15 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.
Start this series with The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition
Buy Book 1 🇺🇸🎧 Listen free on Audible| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition |
| 2 | The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition |
| 3 | The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition |
| 4 | The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition |
| 5 |  The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition |
| 6 |  The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition |
| 7 | The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition |
| 8 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2017 Edition |
| 9 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition |
| 10 | The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2019 Edition |
| 11 | The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 1 |
| 12 | The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 2 |
| 13 | The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 3 |
| 14 | The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 4 |
| 15 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 5 |
Frequently Asked Questions
- How many books has Stephen Graham Jones written?
- Stephen Graham Jones has written 208 books across 14 series. Their published works span from 2000 to 2026.
- What is the first book in each Stephen Graham Jones series?
- Here are the first books in Stephen Graham Jones's series: Anthologies: Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens; Best Horror of the Year: The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One; Collections: Bleed into Me; Graphic Novels: My Hero; Heroic Legends / Savage Tales Short Fiction: Conan: Black Starlight(By: John C. Hocking).
- What order should I read Stephen Graham Jones's books?
- We recommend reading Stephen Graham Jones's series in publication order. Each series can be read independently.
- Is Stephen Graham Jones still writing new books?
- Yes, Stephen Graham Jones has 10 ongoing series: Anthologies, Best Horror of the Year, Collections, Heroic Legends / Savage Tales Short Fiction, Rewind or Die and 5 more.