Order of Brian Keene Books

Brian Keene is an American author of horror, dark fantasy, crime and thriller novels, graphic novels and comic books. His novel The Rising is credited with helping to inspire pop culture’s fascination with zombies, alongside Robert Kirkman‘s Walking Dead series and the film 28 Days Later. His films Ghoul, The Ties That Bind and Fast Zombies Suck have been adapted for film (and several others are in development or have been optioned). Keene has written for such franchises as Doctor Who, Hellboy, Masters of the Universe and Superman. He lives in rural Pennsylvania and has two sons.

Brian Keene made his debut as a published author in 2001 with the collection No Rest for the Wicked. Below is a list of Brian Keene’s books in order of when they were originally published:

Publication Order of Rising Books

The Rising	(2003)
City of the Dead	(2005)
The Rising: Selected Scenes from the End of the World	(2013)
Deliverance	(2015)

Publication Order of Earthworm Gods Books

Earthworm Gods	(2006)
Earthworm Gods: Selected Scenes from the End of the World	(2012)
Earthworm Gods II: Deluge	(2013)

Publication Order of Clickers Books

Clickers II: The Next Wave	(2008)
Clickers III: Dagon Rising	(2010)
Clickers vs. Zombies	(2012)

Publication Order of Levi Stoltzfus Books

Dark Hollow	(2008)
Ghost Walk	(2008)
A Gathering of Crows	(2010)
Last of the Albatwitches	(2014)

Publication Order of Last Zombie Graphic Novels

The Last Zombie	(2011)
Inferno	(2012)
Neverland	(2012)
Before the After	(2013)
The End	(2013)
Dead New World	(2015)

Publication Order of Lost Level Books

The Lost Level	(2014)
Return to the Lost Level	(2018)

Publication Order of King of the Bastards Books

King of the Bastards	(2015)
Throne of the Bastards	(2017)

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Terminal	(2004)
The Rutting Season	(2006)
The Hollow	(2006)
Ghoul	(2007)
Dead Sea	(2007)
Kill Whitey	(2008)
Castaways	(2009)
Urban Gothic	(2009)
Shades	(2011)
The Damned Highway	(2011)
Entombed	(2012)
An Occurrence in Crazy Bear Valley	(2012)
The Complex	(2016)
Pressure	(2016)

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

The Rise and Fall of Babylon	(2003)
The Rising: Necrophobia	(2004)
Halves	(2009)
Darkness on the Edge of Town	(2010)
Scratch	(2010)
The Cage	(2010)
Dust/Divorcing the Dead	(2010)
Jack's Magic Beans	(2011)
Take the Long Way Home	(2011)
Tequila's Sunrise	(2011)
Alone	(2012)
Sundancing	(2012)
The Crane House	(2012)
The Girl on the Glider	(2013)

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

No Rest for the Wicked	(2001)
4 x 4	(2001)
Talking Smack	(2002)
The Rise and Fall of Babylon	(2003)
No Rest At All	(2003)
Fear of Gravity	(2004)
A Little Silver Book of Streetwise Stories	(2008)
Unhappy Endings	(2009)
Infernally Yours	(2009)
Four Rode Out	(2010)
Zombies: The Recent Dead	(2011)
Intermusings	(2012)
Blood on the Page: The Complete Short Fiction of Brian Keene, Volume 1	(2013)
Sixty-Five Stirrup Iron Road	(2013)
Where We Live and Die	(2015)
All Dark, All the Time: The Complete Short Fiction of Brian Keene, Volume 2	(2016)

Publication Order of Standalone Plays

Terminal: The Play

(2008)

Publication Order of Graphic Novels

Dead of Night: Devil-Slayer	(2009)
Doom Patrol: Fire Away	(2011)

Publication Order of Anthologies

The Best of Horrorfind	(2001)
The Best of Horrorfind II	(2003)
New Dark Voices II	(2009)

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Sympathy for the Devil	(2006)
Running with the Devil	(2006)
The New Fear	(2007)
Leader of the Banned	(2010)
Trigger Warnings	(2014)

Notes: The Clickers series is written with J.F. Gonzales. The Last Zombie was written with Fred Perry. Shades was written with Geoff Cooper. The Damned Highway was written with Nick Mamatas. King of the Bastards was written with Steven L. Shrewksbury. Earthworm Gods was originally titled The Conqueror Worms.

4 x 4 also has stories by Geoff Cooper, Michael T. Huyck and Michael Oliveri. The Rise and Fall of Babylon also has stories by John Urbancik. Infernally Yours also has stories by John Everson, Charlee Jacob, Edward Lee, John Shirley and Maynard Sims. Four Rode Out also has stories by Tim Curran, Tim Lebbon and Steve Vernon. Zombies: The Recent Dead also has stories by Max Brooks, Tobias S. Buckell, Neil Gaiman, Joe R. Lansdale, Tim Lebbon, Kelly Link and Kit Reed. Intermusings also includes stories by Brian A. Hopkins, Patricia Lee Macomber, Stephen Mark Rainey, John B. Rosenman, Richard Rowand, Brett Alexander Savory and David Niall Wilson. Sixty-Five Stirrup Iron Road also includes stories by J.F. Gonzalez, Ryan Harding, Jack Ketchum, Edward Lee, Shane McKenzie, Bryan Smith, James Bryan Smith, Nate Southard and Wrath James White.

The Crane House was written with Kealan Patrick Burke, Al Sarrantonio, Rick Hautala, Bev Vincent, Brian Freeman, James A. Moore, James Newman, Ronald Kelly, Norman Prentiss, and Ray Garton. Terminal: The Play was written with Roy C. Booth. Dust/Divorcing the Dead was written with Kelli Owen.

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Brian Keene Synopsis: The Rising by Brian Keene is the first book in the Rising series. It is the story of Jim Thurmond, a determined father battling his way across a post-apocalyptic zombie landscape, to find his young son. Accompanied by Martin, a preacher still holding to his faith, and Frankie, a recovering heroin addict with an indomitable will to survive, Jim travels from state to state and town to town, facing an endless onslaught of undead hordes, and the evils perpetrated by his fellow man.