Brian Keene Books In Order
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The Rising | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
City of the Dead | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Rising: Selected Scenes from the End of the World | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deliverance | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Earthworm Gods Books
Earthworm Gods / The Conqueror Worms | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Earthworm Gods: Selected Scenes from the End of the World | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Earthworm Gods II: Deluge | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Clickers Books
Clickers | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Clickers II: The Next Wave | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Clickers III: Dagon Rising | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Clickers vs Zombies | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Clickers Never Die | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Levi Stoltzfus Books
Ghost Walk | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Gathering of Crows | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Last of the Albatwitches | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Last Zombie Books
Inferno | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Neverland | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Before the After | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The End | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dead New World | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Lost Level Books
The Lost Level | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Return to the Lost Level | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hole in the World | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Bastards Books
King of the Bastards | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Throne of the Bastards | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Curse of the Bastards | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of LeHorn's Hollow Books
Dark Hollow / The Rutting Season | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ghost Walk | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Terminal | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hollow | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ghoul | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dead Sea | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Kill Whitey | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Castaways | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Urban Gothic | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shades | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Damned Highway | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Entombed | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
An Occurrence in Crazy Bear Valley | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Complex | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pressure | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
School's Out | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
White Fire | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Suburban Gothic | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
The Rise and Fall of Babylon | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Halves | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Darkness on the Edge of Town | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cage | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Scratch | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jack's Magic Beans | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Take The Long Way Home | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tequila's Sunrise | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alone | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sundancing | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Girl on the Glider | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
With Teeth | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
No Rest for the Wicked | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
4 X 4 | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Talking Smack | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Rise and Fall of Babylon | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
No Rest At All | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fear of Gravity | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Little Silver Book of Streetwise Stories | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Unhappy Endings | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Intermusings | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood on the Page | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Where We Live and Die | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
All Dark, All The Time | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Love Letters From A Nihilist | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Plays
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
Dead of Night | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doom Patrol, Volume 3 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Jobs in Hell | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sympathy For The Devil | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Running with the Devil | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The New Fear | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Leader of the Banned | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Trigger Warnings | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
End of the Road | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Tim Lebbon Collections
Faith in the Flesh | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
White and Other Tales of Ruin | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
As the Sun Goes Down | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Exorcising Angels | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fears Unnamed | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fourbodings | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Last Exit for the Lost | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Thief of Broken Toys | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nothing as it Seems | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ghosts: Three Haunting Tales | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Masters of the Universe: Origins of Eternia Books
Origin of Hordak | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Origin of Skeletor #1 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The X-Files Books
Goblins | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ground Zero | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Whirlwind | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ruins | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hunter | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Antibodies | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Skin | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fight the Future | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I Want to Believe | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Trust No One | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Truth Is Out There | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
The Best of Horrorfind | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Excitable Boys | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of New Terror | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Walk on the Darkside | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Undead | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 16 | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
4 Fear of... | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hellboy | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In Laymon's Terms | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Big Book of NECON | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Smoke and Mirrors | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
New Dark Voices 2 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Infernally Yours | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shroud 7 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hungry for Your Love | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shivers VI | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dust & Divorcing the Dead | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Living Dead 2 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Four Rode Out | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Grave Conditions | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Zombies: The Recent Dead | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shroud 11 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Crane House | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
21st Century Dead | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Extreme Zombies | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dueling Minds | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mister October, Volume II | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sixty-Five Stirrup Iron Road | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sixty-Five Stirrup Iron Road | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Piercing the Darkness | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In The Dark | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Operation Ice Bat | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fossil Lake II | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Library of the Dead | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Giallo Fantastique | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Trust No One | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seize the Night | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Unearthed | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Georgetown Haunts and Mysteries | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
LampLight Volume 5 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nights of the Living Dead Anthology | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My Favorite Story Podcast Author Anthology | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Apex Magazine February 2018 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lost Highways | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chiral Mad 4: An Anthology of Collaborations | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Silverwood | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Horrorfind II | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Midnight in the Pentagram | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Centralia: Epicenter | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Halldark Holidays | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bludgeon Tools: Splatterpunk Anthology | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dissonant Harmonies | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Halloween Nights | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Close to Midnight | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nursery Stories for Dumb Crotch Goblins | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
October Screams: A Halloween Anthology | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
An American writer who is primarily known for his horror and crime-fiction, along with his many comic books as well, the author Brian Keene has been writing for a number of years now, as his audience has been building steadily over the many years of his now highly regarded literary career. Winning various awards for his work, he is seen as being at the forefront of the recent trend in zombie fiction that has been enjoying mainstream appeal. Not only that, but he has also worked for a number of big name franchises as well, including such titles as Doctor Who, Superman and Hellboy.
Early and Personal Life
Born on the 22nd of September in 1967, the author Brian Keene was brought up in Pennsylvania in the United States, before moving on to West Virginia as well, both places featuring heavily in his work later on, as he became a writer of much repute, creating a name for himself. The places would not only help to inspire him and his settings, but they also managed to provide him with the many experiences needed to create the narratives and characters within as well. All of this led up to him becoming the writer that he is today, as he took in his surroundings, along with establishing his love of literature and the written word.
Graduating from high-school he went straight into work serving for some time in the United States Navy for sometime aboard a landing platform dock, or LPD, working as a radioman for a period of time there, taking in a variety of different experiences over the duration of his stint positioned there. This also helped him to gain a worldly sense to his material, as he traveled around, giving his material an even greater level of depth than it would have had otherwise. It was then after his enlistment into the US Navy had ended that he went on to undertake a variety of other jobs as well.
Working in a whole diverse range of different roles following his time in the army, he undertook a variety of different positions such as truck driver, telemarketer, custodian, salesman, disc jockey, data entry clerk, repo man, foundry worker, daycare instructor, dockworker, store manager and bouncer. All of this is what he himself accredits to his writing of unique and interesting characters that manage to populate his novels. It has also worked in his favor in that it provides him with a great degree of material for his writing as well, enabling him to provide situations that he may not otherwise have created.
All of this has led to him becoming the successful writer that he currently is today, as he lives in York, Pennsylvania. He also maintains a weekly podcast titled ‘The Horror Show With Brian Keene’ that keeps its listeners updated with all the latest in horror. Not only that, but he works for charity as well, advocating for a group that’s called ‘Scares That Care’, which he helps fund-raise to this day for, as he continues to write.
Writing Career
Bringing out his first novel in 2003 with The Rising, Brian Keene is credited with bringing in the latest pop-cultural fascination with zombie folklore. This is an honor he shares with Robert Kirkman who wrote ‘The Walking Dead’, as they both created comic books on the subject too. With this influence being credited to him, he’s now seen as an influential figure within the horror publishing industry.
Winning awards, such as the 2001 Bram Stoker Award, which was given to him for a non-fiction title of his, he’s gained a large amount of success over the years. Not only is he critically acclaimed, but he’s commercially successful as well, Brian Keene has the best of both worlds when it comes to his work. With plenty more titles set to be released on the horizon as well, it’s clear that he’s showing no signs of stopping anytime soon, as his writing career grows from strength-to-strength.
The Rising
First published in 2003 in April, it was the first in a long running series of novels which were brought out through the Delirium publishing label. Setting up the franchise for the many subsequent novels that were to follow, this was a zombie horror themed title that was credited for helping start the recent fascination with the genre. Inspiring a number of filmmakers afterwards, along with a new generation of horror fanatics, it worked to create a style and tone all of its very own that was dark and foreboding.
Starting out with Jim Thurmond as its leading protagonist, it sees him navigate his way across a now zombie infested post-apocalyptic wasteland as he sets off to find his young son. Traveling alongside him is the preacher Martin who is determined to hold onto his faith despite the odds being stacked against him, and Frankie a now recovering heroin addict who is equally determined to survive. Going from state to each subsequent state, the group come across unspeakable horrors not only from the undead, but from their fellow man as well. Will they make it? Where is his son and is he still alive? Do they have what it takes to face up to the rising?
Dead Sea
Whilst the The Rising may have reignited an interest in zombies and the undead, this sought to take it one step further with a new series titled ‘Dead Sea’. One of two so far, it was first brought out in 2007 through the Leisure Books publishing house, as it attempted to replicate the success of his previous novels, whilst also taking it up a level in terms of suspense and horror. Whilst it may hold much of the now signature style and suspense that Brian Keene is famous for, it also manages to hold its own standing on its own two feet as a separate entity from his past works.
Featuring the story of Lamar Reed this time, a group of survivors attempt to make their way out of the zombie infested city to board an old Coast Guard ship that is situated out to sea. This will help to put a lot of water between all of them and the undead, but it appears that it isn’t quite the safe-haven they had hoped for as the boat becomes a deathtrap. Faced with no way of getting back to land they must deal with the zombie threat if they have any hope of surviving in the face almost sure death. Will they be able to get off the boat? Can they get back to mainland? What will become of them all as they face the horrors of the dead sea?
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