Order of Joe R. Lansdale Books
Joe R. Lansdale is an American author of western, horror, science fiction, mystery and suspense novels and stories. He is the author of the Hap & Leonard series. Lansdale is also a prolific graphic novel writer, has written multiple episodes of animated series like Batman and Superman and is also a screenwriter. In addition to that, films have been made out of his works Incident On and Off a Mountain Road, Bubba Ho-Tep, Christmas with the Dead and Cold in July. Aside from writing, Lansdale founded a martial arts system called Shen Chuan: Martial Science and is the member of two martial arts halls of fame. He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas with his wife and their pets.
Joe R. Lansdale’s first published work was a short story collection entitled Stories by Mama Lansdale’s Youngest Boy. His first novel was the 1981 novel Act of Love. Below is a list of Joe R. Lansdale’s books in order of when they were originally published:
Publication Order of The Drive-In Books
| The Drive-In | (1988) |    |
| The Drive-In II: Not Just One of Them Sequels | (1989) | |
| The Drive-In 3: The Bus Tour | (2005) | |
Publication Order of Hap and Leonard Books
| Savage Season | (1990) | |
| Mucho Mojo | (1994) | |
| The Two-Bear Mambo | (1995) | |
| Bad Chili | (1997) | |
| Rumble Tumble | (1998) | |
| Captains Outrageous | (2001) | |
| Vanilla Ride | (2009) | |
| Devil Red | (2010) | |
| Hyenas | (2011) | |
| Dead Aim | (2012) | |
| Honky Tonk Samurai | (2015) | |
| Briar Patch Boogie | (2016) | |
| Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be | (2016) | |
| Coco Butternut | (2017) | |
| Rusty Puppy | (2017) | |
| Cold Cotton | (2017) | |
| Jackrabbit Smile | (2018) | |
| The Elephant of Surprise | (2019) | |
| Born for Trouble | (2022) | |
Publication Order of Hap & Leonard Collections
(with Andrew Vachss)
| Veil's Visit | (1999) | |
| Hap and Leonard | (2016) | |
| Hap and Leonard: Blood and Lemonade | (2017) | |
Publication Order of Joe Lansdale's Batman Books
| Batman, Captured by the Engines | (1991) | |
| Terror on the High Skies | (1992) | |
Publication Order of Lost Lansdale Books
| Waltz of Shadows | (1999) | |
| Something Lumber This Way Comes, Or, the House from Space | (1999) | |
| Blood Dance | (2000) | |
Publication Order of Ned the Seal Books
| Zeppelins West | (2001) | |
| Flaming London | (2005) | |
| Flaming Zeppelins | (2010) | |
| The Sky Done Ripped | (2019) | |
Publication Order of Author's Choice Monthly Books
| Swatting at the Cosmos | (1990) | |
| Neon Twilight | (1990) | |
| True Minds | (1990) | |
| Hedgework & Guessery | (1991) | |
| Stories by Mama Lansdales Youngest Boy | (1991) | |
| Unthreatened by the Morning Light | (1991) | |
| Nine Hard Questions About the Nature of the Universe | (1991) | |
| It's Been Fun | (1991) | |
Publication Order of Dead in the West Books
| Dead in the West | (1986) | |
Publication Order of Jonah Hex Books
| Two Gun Mojo | (1994) | |
| Shadows West | (1999) | |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Act of Love | (1981) | |
| Texas Night Riders | (1983) | |
| The Magic Wagon | (1986) | |
| The Nightrunners | (1987) | |
| Cold in July | (1989) | |
| The Boar | (1998) | |
| Freezer Burn | (1999) | |
| The Bottoms | (2000) | |
| The Big Blow | (2000) | |
| Bubba Ho-Tep | (2002) | |
| A Fine Dark Line | (2003) | |
| Sunset and Sawdust | (2003) | |
| Lost Echoes | (2005) | |
| Leather Maiden | (2008) | |
| All the Earth, Thrown to the Sky | (2011) | |
| Edge of Dark Water | (2012) | |
| The Thicket | (2013) | |
| Deadman's Crossing | (2013) | |
| I Tell You It's Love | (2014) | |
| Paradise Sky | (2015) | |
| Fender Lizards | (2015) | |
| Hell's Bounty | (2016) | |
| M.I.A. Hunter | (2016) | |
| Bubba and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers | (2017) | |
| Man With Two Lives | (2018) | |
| Driving to Geronimo's Grave | (2018) | |
| More Better Deals | (2020) | |
| Jane Goes North | (2020) | |
| Fishing for Dinosaurs and Other Stories | (2020) | |
| Moon Lake | (2021) | |
| Radiant Apples | (2021) | |
| The Events Concerning | (2022) | |
| The Donut Legion | (2023) | |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| Night They Missed the Horror Show | (1988) | |
| Love Doll | (1991) | |
| Tight Little Stitches on a Dead Man's Back | (1992) | |
| The Events Concerning a Nude Fold-Out Found in a Harlequin Romance | (1992) | |
| The Folding Man | (2010) | |
| Bullets and Fire | (2011) | |
| The Steel Valentine | (2011) | |
| Incident On and Off a Mountain Road | (2011) | |
| Steel Valentine | (2011) | |
| Christmas with the Dead | (2012) | |
| Hot in December | (2013) | |
| A Bone Dead Sadness | (2014) | |
| Black Hat Jack | (2014) | |
| Fishing for Dinosaurs | (2014) | |
| Hoodoo Harry | (2017) | |
| Apache Witch and Other Poetic Observations | (2021) | |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| By Bizarre Hands | (1989) | |
| On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with the Dead Folks | (1991) | |
| Bestsellers Guaranteed | (1993) | |
| Writer of the Purple Rage | (1994) | |
| Electric Gumbo | (1994) | |
| A Fist Full of Stories | (1996) | |
| The Good, the Bad and the Indifferent | (1997) | |
| Private Eye Action as You Like It | (1998) | |
| The Long Ones | (2000) | |
| High Cotton | (2000) | |
| For a Few Stories More | (2002) | |
| Bumper Crop | (2004) | |
| Mad Dog Summer | (2004) | |
| The King and Other Stories | (2005) | |
| The God of the Razor | (2007) | |
| Deadman's Road | (2007) | |
| The Shadows, Kith and Kin | (2007) | |
| Sanctified and Chicken-Fried | (2009) | |
| Unchained And Unhinged | (2009) | |
| The Best of Joe R. Lansdale | (2010) | |
| Written With a Razor - Short Stories and a Screenplay | (2012) | |
| Trapped in the Saturday Matinee | (2012) | |
| Bleeding Shadows | (2013) | |
| The Tall Grass and Other Stories | (2014) | |
| Terror Is Our Business | (2018) | |
| Driving to Geronimo's Grave and Other Stories | (2018) | |
| Things Get Ugly: The Best Crime Fiction of Joe R. Lansdale | (2023) | |
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
(with John L. Lansdale, Delilah S. Dawson, Keith Lansdale, , Garth Ennis)
| The Drive-In | (1988) | |
| Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas | (1995) | |
| The Lone Ranger and Tonto | (1995) | |
| Atomic Chili | (1997) | |
| Red Range | (1999) | |
| Lansdale And Truman's Dead Folks | (2000) | |
| Conan And The Songs Of The Dead | (2007) | |
| Pigeons From Hell | (2009) | |
| Robert Bloch's Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper | (2010) | |
| H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror | (2012) | |
| Hell's Bounty | (2016) | |
| The Steam Man | (2016) | |
| Dead on the Bones | (2016) | |
| X-Files: Case Files | (2018) | |
Publication Order of 30 Days of Night Graphic Novels
| 30 Days of Night | (2004) | |
| Dark Days | (2004) | |
| Return to Barrow | (2004) | |
| Bloodsucker Tales | (2005) | |
| Spreading the Disease | (2007) | |
| Eben and Stella | (2007) | |
| Red Snow | (2008) | |
| Beyond Barrow | (2008) | |
| 30 Days 'Til Death | (2009) | |
| 30 Days of Night / The X Files | (2010) | |
| Night, Again | (2011) | |
Chronological Order of 30 Days of Night Graphic Novels
| 30 Days of Night | (2004) | |
| Dark Days | (2004) | |
| Return to Barrow | (2004) | |
| Bloodsucker Tales | (2005) | |
| Eben and Stella | (2007) | |
| Red Snow | (2008) | |
| Beyond Barrow | (2008) | |
| 30 Days of Night / The X Files | (2010) | |
| Night, Again | (2011) | |
| Spreading the Disease | (2007) | |
| 30 Days 'Til Death | (2009) | |
Publication Order of Delilah S. Dawson Graphic Novels
(with Delilah S. Dawson, Keith Lansdale)
| Ladycastle | (2017) | |
| X-Files: Case Files | (2018) | |
| Spider-Man: A New Beginning | (2019) | |
| Descendants: Fright at the Museum | (2019) | |
| Firefly Original Graphic Novel | (2019) | |
| Star Pig | (2020) | |
Publication Order of Black Labyrinth Books
| The Walls of the Castle | (2012) | |
| Prisoner 489 | (2014) | |
| The Booking | (2016) | |
Publication Order of Picture Books
| In Waders From Mars | (2012) | |
Publication Order of The Diogenes Club Books
| Shadows Over Innsmouth | (1994) | |
| White of the Moon | (1999) | |
| Infinity Plus One | (2001) | |
| Embrace the Mutation | (2002) | |
| Adventure | (2005) | |
| The Man from the Diogenes Club | (2006) | |
| Infinity Plus | (2007) | |
| The Fair Folk | (2008) | |
| Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction & Fantasy | (2010) | |
| Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth | (2013) | |
| The Mammoth Book of the Mummy | (2015) | |
| The Mammoth Book of the Mummy | (2015) | |
Publication Order of Bibliomysteries Books
| The Book of Virtue | (2012) | |
| Pronghorns of the Third Reich | (2012) | |
| The Book Thing | (2012) | |
| The Book Case | (2012) | |
| An Acceptable Sacrifice | (2012) | |
| Death Leaves a Bookmark | (2012) | |
| The Final Testament | (2013) | |
| Rides a Stranger | (2013) | |
| The Long Sonata of the Dead | (2013) | |
| The Book of Ghosts | (2013) | |
| The Compendium of Srem | (2014) | |
| What's in a Name? | (2014) | |
| Remaindered | (2014) | |
| The Sequel | (2014) | |
| The Gospel of Sheba | (2014) | |
| The Nature of My Inheritance | (2014) | |
| It's in the Book | (2014) | |
| The Scroll | (2014) | |
| The Book of the Lion | (2015) | |
| The Little Men | (2015) | |
| Condor in the Stacks | (2015) | |
| Mystery, Inc. | (2015) | |
| Every Seven Years | (2015) | |
| From the Queen | (2015) | |
| The Travelling Companion | (2016) | |
| Citadel | (2016) | |
| Reconciliation Day | (2016) | |
| Dead Dames Don't Sing | (2016) | |
| The Haze | (2016) | |
| Hoodoo Harry | (2017) | |
| The Pretty Little Box | (2018) | |
| Seven Years | (2018) | |
| The Hemingway Valise | (2018) | |
| The Last Honest Horse Thief | (2018) | |
| The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository | (2018) | |
| The Dark Door | (2022) | |
Chronological Order of Bibliomysteries Books
| The Book of Virtue | (2012) | |
| The Scroll | (2014) | |
| Pronghorns of the Third Reich | (2012) | |
| An Acceptable Sacrifice | (2012) | |
| Death Leaves a Bookmark | (2012) | |
| Seven Years | (2018) | |
| The Book Thing | (2012) | |
| The Book of Ghosts | (2013) | |
| The Long Sonata of the Dead | (2013) | |
| The Final Testament | (2013) | |
| Rides a Stranger | (2013) | |
| What's in a Name? | (2014) | |
| It's in the Book | (2014) | |
| The Nature of My Inheritance | (2014) | |
| Remaindered | (2014) | |
| The Compendium of Srem | (2014) | |
| The Gospel of Sheba | (2014) | |
| The Sequel | (2014) | |
| The Book of the Lion | (2015) | |
| The Little Men | (2015) | |
| From the Queen | (2015) | |
| Every Seven Years | (2015) | |
| Citadel | (2016) | |
| Condor in the Stacks | (2015) | |
| Mystery, Inc. | (2015) | |
| The Travelling Companion | (2016) | |
| The Haze | (2016) | |
| Dead Dames Don't Sing | (2016) | |
| Reconciliation Day | (2016) | |
| Hoodoo Harry | (2017) | |
| The Pretty Little Box | (2018) | |
| The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository | (2018) | |
| The Hemingway Valise | (2018) | |
| The Last Honest Horse Thief | (2018) | |
| The Book Case | (2012) | |
| The Dark Door | (2022) | |
Publication Order of Flinch (Single Issue) Comic Books
| Flinch#11 | (2000) | |
Publication Order of Outspoken Authors Books
| The Human Front | (2001) | |
| The Left Left Behind | (2009) | |
| Lucky Strike | (2009) | |
| The Underbelly | (2010) | |
| Mammoths of the Great Plains | (2010) | |
| The Wild Girls | (2011) | |
| Modem Times 2.0 | (2011) | |
| The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow | (2011) | |
| Surfing the Gnarl | (2012) | |
| Report from Planet Midnight | (2012) | |
| The Science of Herself | (2013) | |
| Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials | (2013) | |
| New Taboos | (2013) | |
| Raising Hell | (2014) | |
| My Life, My Body | (2015) | |
| Gypsy | (2015) | |
| Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be | (2016) | |
| Fire. | (2017) | |
| Totalitopia | (2017) | |
| The Atheist in the Attic | (2018) | |
| Thoreau's Microscope | (2018) | |
| The Beatrix Gates | (2019) | |
| A City Made of Words | (2019) | |
Publication Order of Preacher Books
(with , Garth Ennis)
| Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas | (1995) | |
| Preacher, Volume 2: Until the End of the World | (1997) | |
| Preacher, Volume 3: Proud Americans | (1997) | |
| Preacher, Volume 5: Dixie Fried | (1998) | |
| Ancient History | (1998) | |
| Preacher, Volume 7: Salvation | (1999) | |
| Preacher, Volume 6: War in the Sun | (1999) | |
| Preacher, Volume 8: All Hell's a-Coming | (2000) | |
| Preacher, Volume 9: Alamo | (2001) | |
Publication Order of L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories Books
(with Lawrence Block, Joyce Carol Oates, Megan Abbott, Duane Swierczynski, Andrew Vachss, Francine Prose, Jonathan Santlofer)
| L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories | (2010) | |
| Black DahliaWhite Rose | (2011) | |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Book of the Dead | (1989) | |
| Razored Saddles | (1989) | |
| The New Frontier | (1989) | |
| The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection - Demons and Dreams | (1989) | |
| The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection | (1989) | |
| The Year's Best Fantasy 2 / Demons and Dreams | (1990) | |
| Splatter-Punks: The Definitive Anthology | (1990) | |
| Cold Blood | (1991) | |
| The Horror Hall of Fame | (1991) | |
| Obsessions | (1991) | |
| The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection | (1991) | |
| The Little Book of Horrors: Tiny Tales of Terror | (1992) | |
| Dark at Heart | (1992) | |
| The Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1991 | (1992) | |
| The Giant Book of Zombies | (1993) | |
| 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories | (1993) | |
| Dark Crimes 2 | (1993) | |
| The Mammoth Book of Zombies | (1993) | |
| Sea-Cursed | (1994) | |
| Ten Tales | (1994) | |
| The King is Dead: Tales of Elvis Postmortem | (1994) | |
| 100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories | (1995) | |
| 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories | (1995) | |
| Weird Business | (1995) | |
| The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology: Celebrating 25 Years | (2001) | |
| The Campfire Collection: Ghosts, Beasts, and Things That Go Bump in the Night | (2003) | |
| The Silver Gryphon | (2003) | |
| Retro Pulp Tales | (2006) | |
| Cross Plains Universe | (2006) | |
| The Mammoth Book of Monsters | (2007) | |
| Dark Delicacies II: Fear | (2007) | |
| Hellboy | (2008) | |
| The Living Dead | (2008) | |
| Best New Horror 19 | (2008) | |
| The Best of Cemetery Dance II | (2008) | |
| Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead | (2009) | |
| Smoke and Mirrors | (2009) | |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One | (2009) | |
| Son of Retro Pulp Tales | (2009) | |
| Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary | (2009) | |
| The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010 | (2009) | |
| The Dead That Walk | (2009) | |
| Haunted Legends | (2010) | |
| L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories | (2010) | |
| Never Again | (2010) | |
| Werewolves and Shape Shifters: Encounters with the Beasts Within | (2010) | |
| Robert Bloch's Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper | (2010) | |
| Lone Star Noir | (2010) | |
| House of Fear | (2011) | |
| Down These Strange Streets | (2011) | |
| Crucified Dreams | (2011) | |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three | (2011) | |
| Supernatural Noir | (2011) | |
| The Urban Fantasy Anthology | (2011) | |
| Warriors 3 | (2011) | |
| The Book of Cthulhu | (2011) | |
| Necro Files | (2011) | |
| Best New Horror 22 | (2011) | |
| A Hacked-Up Holiday Massacre | (2011) | |
| Triumph of The Walking Dead: Robert Kirkman's Zombie Epic on Page and Screen | (2011) | |
| The Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade | (2012) | |
| A Feast of Frights from The Horror Zine | (2012) | |
| A Clutch of Zombies | (2012) | |
| Extreme Zombies | (2012) | |
| Ghosts: Recent Hauntings | (2012) | |
| Psychos | (2012) | |
| Best New Horror 23 | (2012) | |
| Beyond Rue Morgue Anthology: Further Tales of Edgar Allan Poe's 1st Detective | (2013) | |
| Zombies! | (2013) | |
| Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny | (2013) | |
| The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs | (2013) | |
| Best New Horror 24 | (2013) | |
| Old Mars | (2013) | |
| The Time Traveler's Almanac | (2013) | |
| Nightmare Magazine 15: December 2013 | (2013) | |
| Piercing the Darkness | (2014) | |
| Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror | (2014) | |
| The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition | (2014) | |
| Zombies: More Recent Dead | (2014) | |
| Insidious Assassins | (2015) | |
| The Mammoth Book of the Mummy | (2015) | |
| The Gods of HP Lovecraft | (2015) | |
| Flinch | (2015) | |
| Christmas Horror Volume 1 | (2015) | |
| Last Night, a Superhero Saved My Life | (2016) | |
| Horror Anthology 2016 | (2016) | |
| The Highway Kind | (2016) | |
| Tales from The Lake Vol. 4 | (2017) | |
| Alive in Shape and Color | (2017) | |
| Lost Highways | (2018) | |
| The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories | (2018) | |
| Fantastic Tales of Terror: History's Darkest Secrets | (2018) | |
| At Home in the Dark | (2019) | |
| The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories | (2019) | |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve | (2020) | |
| Bullets and Other Hurting Things: A Tribute to Bill Crider | (2021) | |
| Conan: The Songs of the Dead and Other Stories | (2021) | |
| Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the MostHaunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World | (2021) | |
| Attack From the '80s | (2021) | |
| Revelations: Horror Writers for Climate Action | (2022) | |
| Screams from the Dark | (2022) | |
| Classic Monsters Unleashed | (2022) | |
| Black is the Night: Stories inspired by Cornell Woolrich | (2022) | |
| Hot Iron and Cold Blood: An Anthology of the Weird West | (2023) | |
Notes: Veil’s Visit also has stories by Andrew Vachss. In Waders from Mars was written with Karen Lansdale and Keith Lansdale. Crawling Sky was written with Brian Denham and Keith Lansdale. Tight Little Stitches on a Dead Man’s Back was also published as Tight Little Stitches. Hell’s Bounty was co-authored by John L. Lansdale.
Horror for Good also has stories by Ramsey Campbell, Ray Garton, Jack Ketchum, Joe McKinney, Lisa Morton, Jeff Strand, Lee Thomas and F. Paul Wilson. Fear & Haunting also has stories by John L. Lansdale, Rick Remender, Ben Templesmith and El Torres. Razored Saddles was edited with Pat LoBrutto. Dark Heart was edited with Karen Lansdale. Weird Business was edited with Richard Klaw. Son of Retro Pulp Tales was edited with Keith Lansdale. The Urban Fantasy Anthology was edited with Peter S. Beagle.
Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper and That Hellbound Train are graphic novel adaptations of novels by Robert Bloch. The Dunwich Horror is a graphic novel based on the novel by H.P. Lovecraft.Tarzan: The Lost Adventure is based on an unpublished Tarzan manuscript by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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