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:
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Publication Order of 30 Days of Night Graphic Novels
30 Days of Night | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Return to Barrow | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Bloodsucker Tales | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Spreading the Disease | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Eben and Stella | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Red Snow | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
30 Days 'Til Death | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
30 Days of Night / The X Files | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Night, Again | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Chronological Order of 30 Days of Night Graphic Novels
30 Days of Night | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Return to Barrow | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Bloodsucker Tales | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Eben and Stella | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Red Snow | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
30 Days of Night / The X Files | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Night, Again | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Spreading the Disease | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
30 Days 'Til Death | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Author's Choice Monthly Books
Daily Voices | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Legacy of Fire | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Swatting at the Cosmos | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Neon Twilight | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
True Minds | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Hedgework & Guessery | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Stories by Mama Lansdales Youngest Boy | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Unthreatened by the Morning Light | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Nine Hard Questions About the Nature of the Universe | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
It's Been Fun | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Wong's Lost and Found Emporium and Other Oddities | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Bibliomysteries Books
Chronological Order of Bibliomysteries Books
Publication Order of Black Labyrinth Books
The Walls of the Castle | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Prisoner 489 | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Booking | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Dead in the West Books
Dead in the West | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of The Drive-In Books
The Drive-In | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Drive-In II: Not Just One of Them Sequels | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Drive-In 3: The Bus Tour | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Flinch (Single Issue) Comic Books
(with Brian Azzarello)
Flinch#11 | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Hap and Leonard Books
Publication Order of Hap & Leonard Collections
(with Andrew Vachss)
Veil's Visit | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Hap and Leonard | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Hap and Leonard: Blood and Lemonade | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Joe Lansdale's Batman Books
Batman, Captured by the Engines | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Terror on the High Skies | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Jonah Hex Books
(by)
Two Gun Mojo | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Shadows West | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
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) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Black DahliaWhite Rose | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Lost Lansdale Books
Waltz of Shadows | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Something Lumber This Way Comes, Or, the House from Space | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Blood Dance | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Ned the Seal Books
Zeppelins West | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Flaming London | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Flaming Zeppelins | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Sky Done Ripped | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Night Visions Books
Night Visions: In the Blood | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Night Visions | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Night Visions 2 | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Night Visions 3 | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Night Visions: The Hellbound Heart | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Night Visions 6 | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Night Visions 8 | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Night Visions 9 | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Night Visions 10 | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Night Visions 11 | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Night Visions 12 | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Outspoken Authors Books
Publication Order of Preacher Graphic Novel Books
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Night They Missed the Horror Show | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Love Doll | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Tight Little Stitches on a Dead Man's Back | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Events Concerning a Nude Fold-Out Found in a Harlequin Romance | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Folding Man | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Bullets and Fire | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Steel Valentine | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Incident On and Off a Mountain Road | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Steel Valentine | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Ape Man's Brother | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Christmas with the Dead | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Hot in December | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
A Bone Dead Sadness | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Black Hat Jack | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Fishing for Dinosaurs | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Hoodoo Harry | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Apache Witch and Other Poetic Observations | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Shooting Star | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Unlikely Affair of the Crawling Razor | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
By Bizarre Hands | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with the Dead Folks | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Bestsellers Guaranteed | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Writer of the Purple Rage | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Electric Gumbo | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
A Fist Full of Stories | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Good, the Bad and the Indifferent | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Private Eye Action as You Like It | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Long Ones | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
High Cotton | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
For a Few Stories More | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Bumper Crop | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Mad Dog Summer | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The King and Other Stories | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The God of the Razor | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Deadman's Road | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Shadows, Kith and Kin | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Sanctified and Chicken-Fried | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Unchained And Unhinged | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Best of Joe R. Lansdale | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Written With a Razor - Short Stories and a Screenplay | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Trapped in the Saturday Matinee | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Bleeding Shadows | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Tall Grass and Other Stories | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Terror Is Our Business | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Driving to Geronimo's Grave and Other Stories | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Gothic Wounds | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Things Get Ugly: The Best Crime Fiction of Joe R. Lansdale | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
The Drive-In | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Gone to Texas | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Lone Ranger and Tonto | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Atomic Chili | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Red Range | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Lansdale And Truman's Dead Folks | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Conan And The Songs Of The Dead | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Pigeons From Hell | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Robert Bloch's Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Hell's Bounty | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Steam Man | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Dead on the Bones | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
X-Files: Case Files | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Picture Books
In Waders From Mars | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Delilah S. Dawson Graphic Novels
(with Delilah S. Dawson, Keith Lansdale)
Ladycastle | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
X-Files: Case Files | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Spider-Man: A New Beginning | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Descendants: Fright at the Museum | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Firefly Original Graphic Novel | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Star Pig | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF Books
(with Sharon Lee, Brendan DuBois, David Weber, Steve Miller, David Brin, David Drake, Sarah Pinsker, David Afsharirad)
The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF 2015 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of PM's Outspoken Authors Books
Publication Order of Anthologies
Book of the Dead | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Razored Saddles | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The New Frontier | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Second Annual Collection | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Third Annual Collection | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Year's Best Fantasy 2 / Demons and Dreams | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Splatter-Punks: The Definitive Anthology | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Cold Blood | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Horror Hall of Fame | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Obsessions | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Fourth Annual Collection | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Little Book of Horrors: Tiny Tales of Terror | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Dark at Heart | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1991 | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Giant Book of Zombies | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Dark Crimes 2 | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Mammoth Book of Zombies | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Sea-Cursed | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Ten Tales | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The King is Dead: Tales of Elvis Postmortem | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
100 Wicked Little Witch Stories | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Weird Business | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology: Celebrating 25 Years | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Campfire Collection: Ghosts, Beasts, and Things That Go Bump in the Night | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Silver Gryphon | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Retro Pulp Tales | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Cross Plains Universe | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Mammoth Book of Monsters | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Living Dead | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Best New Horror 19 | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Best of Cemetery Dance II | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Smoke and Mirrors | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Son of Retro Pulp Tales | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010 | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Dead That Walk | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Haunted Legends | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Never Again | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Werewolves and Shape Shifters: Encounters with the Beasts Within | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Robert Bloch's Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Lone Star Noir | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Classics Mutilated | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Down These Strange Streets | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
House of Fear | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Crucified Dreams | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Supernatural Noir | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Urban Fantasy Anthology | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Warriors 3 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Book of Cthulhu | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Necro Files | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Best New Horror 22 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
A Hacked-Up Holiday Massacre | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
A Feast of Frights from The Horror Zine | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
A Clutch of Zombies | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Extreme Zombies | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Ghosts: Recent Hauntings | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Psychos | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Best New Horror 23 | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Beyond Rue Morgue Anthology: Further Tales of Edgar Allan Poe's 1st Detective | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Black Pulp | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Zombies!: Tales of the Walking Dead | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Best New Horror 24 | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Old Mars | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Time Traveler's Almanac | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Piercing the Darkness | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Lovecraft's Monsters | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Zombies: More Recent Dead | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Insidious Assassins | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Gods of HP Lovecraft | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Flinch | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Christmas Horror Volume 1 | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Last Night, a Superhero Saved My Life | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF 2015 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Horror Anthology 2016 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Highway Kind | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Shadows Over Main Street Volume 2 | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Tales from The Lake Vol. 4 | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Alive in Shape and Color | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Lost Highways | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Fantastic Tales of Terror | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
At Home in the Dark | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Bullets and Other Hurting Things: A Tribute to Bill Crider | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
When a Stranger Comes to Town | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Love, Death and Robots: The Official Anthology: Volume One | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Conan: The Songs of the Dead and Other Stories | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the MostHaunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Attack From the '80s | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Revelations: Horror Writers for Climate Action | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Screams from the Dark | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Classic Monsters Unleashed | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Black is the Night: Stories inspired by Cornell Woolrich | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Hot Iron and Cold Blood: An Anthology of the Weird West | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Road Kill | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
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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