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 The Rising Books

The Rising	(2003)
City of the Dead	(2005)
The Rising: Selected Scenes from the End of the World	(2007)
Deliverance	(2015)

Publication Order of The Earthworm Gods Books

Earthworm Gods / The Conqueror Worms	(2005)
Earthworm Gods: Selected Scenes from the End of the World	(2008)
Earthworm Gods II: Deluge	(2013)

Publication Order of Clickers Books

Clickers (By: J.F. Gonzalez,Mark Williams)	(1999)
Clickers II (With: J.F. Gonzalez)	(2006)
Clickers III (With: J.F. Gonzalez)	(2010)
Clickers vs Zombies (With: J.F. Gonzalez)	(2012)

Publication Order of Levi Stoltzfus Books

Ghost Walk	(2008)
A Gathering of Crows	(2010)
Last of the Albatwitches	(2013)

Publication Order of The Last Zombie Books

Inferno	(2011)
Neverland	(2013)
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	(2017)
Hole in the World	(2018)

Publication Order of The Bastards Books

(with Steven L. Shrewsbury)

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

Publication Order of LeHorn's Hollow Books

Dark Hollow / The Rutting Season	(2006)
Ghost Walk	(2008)

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Terminal	(2004)
The Hollow	(2006)
Ghoul	(2007)
Dead Sea	(2007)
Kill Whitey	(2008)
Castaways	(2009)
Urban Gothic	(2009)
Shades (With: Geoff Cooper)	(2011)
The Damned Highway (With: Nick Mamatas)	(2011)
Entombed	(2011)
An Occurrence in Crazy Bear Valley	(2012)
The Complex	(2015)
Pressure	(2016)
School's Out	(2016)
White Fire	(2018)
Suburban Gothic (With: Bryan Smith)	(2021)

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

The Rise and Fall of Babylon	(2003)
Halves	(2009)
Darkness on the Edge of Town	(2010)
Scratch	(2010)
The Cage	(2010)
Jack's Magic Beans	(2011)
Take The Long Way Home	(2011)
Tequila's Sunrise	(2011)
Alone	(2012)
Sundancing	(2012)
The Girl on the Glider	(2013)
With Teeth	(2021)

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 (With: Edward Lee)	(2009)
Four Rode Out	(2010)
INTERMUSINGS (With: )	(2012)
Blood on the Page	(2013)
Sixty-Five Stirrup Iron Road	(2013)
Where We Live and Die	(2015)
All Dark, All The Time	(2016)
Love Letters From A Nihilist	(2019)

Publication Order of Standalone Plays

Terminal: The Play (With: )

(2020)

Publication Order of Graphic Novels

Dead of Night	(2009)
Doom Patrol, Volume 3 (With: Keith Giffen)	(2011)

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Sympathy For The Devil	(2004)
Running with the Devil	(2006)
The New Fear	(2007)
Leader of the Banned	(2010)
Trigger Warnings	(2014)
End of the Road	(2020)

Publication Order of Darkside Books

Darkside: Horror for the Next Millenium	(1998)
The Darker Side: Generations of Horror	(2002)
A Walk on the Darkside: Visions of Horror (With: Brian Hodge,,,Tim Lebbon,Tom Piccirilli,Paul Finch,,,John Pelan,,Caitlín R. Kiernan,,,,,Peadar Ó Guilín)	(2004)
Lost on the Darkside: Voices From The Edge of Horror	(2005)
Alone on the Darkside: Echoes From Shadows of Horror	(2006)

Publication Order of Masters of the Universe: Origins of Eternia Books

Origin of Hordak (With: Keith Giffen)	(2012)
The Origin of Skeletor #1 (By: Joshua Hale Fialkov)	(2012)

Publication Order of Shroud Magazine Books

(with , Brian James Freeman, J.F. Gonzalez, , , , Eric Red)

Shroud 11 (With: ,Brian James Freeman,J.F. Gonzalez,,,,Eric Red)

(2011)

Publication Order of Anthologies

The Best of Horrorfind	(2001)
Excitable Boys	(2002)
A Walk on the Darkside: Visions of Horror	(2004)
The Undead: Zombie Anthology	(2005)
In Laymon's Terms	(2008)
New Dark Voices 2	(2009)
Dust & Divorcing the Dead	(2010)
Zombies: The Recent Dead	(2010)
Shroud 11	(2011)
The Crane House	(2012)
21st Century Dead	(2012)
Dueling Minds	(2013)
Mister October, Volume II - An Anthology in Memory of Rick Hautala	(2013)
Operation Ice Bat	(2014)
The Library of the Dead	(2015)
Giallo Fantastique	(2015)
X-Files: Trust No One	(2015)
Seize the Night	(2015)
Unearthed	(2016)
Nights of the Living Dead Anthology	(2017)
Silverwood	(2019)
The Best of Horrorfind II	(2020)
Dissonant Harmonies	(2021)

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.