Joe R. Lansdale Books In Order
Publication Order of The Drive-In Books
The Drive-In | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Drive-In II: Not Just One of Them Sequels | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Drive-In 3: The Bus Tour | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Hap and Leonard Books
Savage Season | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mucho Mojo | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Two-Bear Mambo | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bad Chili | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rumble Tumble | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Captains Outrageous | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Vanilla Ride | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Devil Red | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hyenas | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dead Aim | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Honky Tonk Samurai | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Briar Patch Boogie | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Coco Butternut | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rusty Puppy | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cold Cotton | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jackrabbit Smile | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Elephant of Surprise | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Hap & Leonard Collections
Veil's Visit | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hap and Leonard | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hap and Leonard: Blood and Lemonade | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Joe Lansdales Batman Books
Batman, Captured by the Engines | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Terror on the High Skies | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Lost Lansdale Books
Waltz of Shadows | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Something Lumber This Way Comes, Or, the House from Space | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood Dance | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Ned the Seal Books
Zeppelins West | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Flaming London | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Flaming Zeppelins | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sky Done Ripped | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Author's Choice Monthly Books
Swatting at the Cosmos | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Neon Twilight | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
True Minds | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hedgework & Guessery | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stories by Mama Lansdales Youngest Boy | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Unthreatened by the Morning Light | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nine Hard Questions About the Nature of the Universe | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
It's Been Fun | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Bibliomysteries Books
Remaindered | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Nature of My Inheritance | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Dead in the West Books
Publication Order of Jonah Hex Books
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Act of Love | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Texas Night Riders | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Magic Wagon | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Nightrunners | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cold in July | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Boar | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Freezer Burn | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Bottoms | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Big Blow | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bubba Ho-Tep | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Fine Dark Line | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sunset and Sawdust | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lost Echoes | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Leather Maiden | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
All the Earth, Thrown to the Sky | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Edge of Dark Water | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Thicket | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deadman's Crossing | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I Tell You It's Love | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Paradise Sky | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fender Lizards | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hell's Bounty | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
M.I.A. Hunter | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bubba and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Man With Two Lives | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Driving to Geronimo's Grave | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
More Better Deals | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jane Goes North | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fishing for Dinosaurs and Other Stories | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Moon Lake | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Tight Little Stitches on a Dead Man's Back | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tight Little Stitches In A Dead Man's Back | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bullets and Fire | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Incident On and Off a Mountain Road | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Steel Valentine | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Steel Valentine | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Christmas with the Dead | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hot in December | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Bone Dead Sadness | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Black Hat Jack | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hoodoo Harry | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
By Bizarre Hands | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with the Dead Folks | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bestsellers Guaranteed | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Writer of the Purple Rage | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Electric Gumbo | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Fist Full of Stories | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Good, the Bad and the Indifferent | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Private Eye Action as You Like It | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
High Cotton | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Long Ones | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
For a Few Stories More | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bumper Crop | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mad Dog Summer | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The King and Other Stories | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The God of the Razor | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deadman's Road | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Shadows, Kith and Kin | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Unchained And Unhinged | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sanctified and Chicken-Fried | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Joe R. Lansdale | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Written With a Razor - Short Stories and a Screenplay | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Trapped in the Saturday Matinee | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bleeding Shadows | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Tall Grass and Other Stories | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Terror Is Our Business | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Driving to Geronimo's Grave and Other Stories | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
The Drive-In | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lone Ranger and Tonto | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Atomic Chili | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Red Range | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lansdale And Truman's Dead Folks | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conan And The Songs Of The Dead | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pigeons From Hell | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Robert Bloch's Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hell's Bounty | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Steam Man | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dead on the Bones | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of 30 Days of Night Graphic Novel Books
30 Days of Night | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Days of Night: Dark Days | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Days of Night: Annual 2004 | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Days of Night:Return to Barrow | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Days of Night: Bloodsucker Tales | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Days of Night: Annual 2005 | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Days of Night: Dead Space #3 | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Days of Night: Spreading the Disease | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Days of Night: Eben and Stella | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Days of Night: Red Snow | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Days of Night: Beyond Barrow | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Days of Night: 30 Days 'Til Death | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Days of Night / The X Files | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Days of Night: Night, Again | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chronological Order of 30 Days of Night Graphic Novel Books
30 Days of Night | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Days of Night: Dark Days | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Days of Night:Return to Barrow | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Days of Night: Bloodsucker Tales | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Days of Night: Eben and Stella | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Days of Night: Red Snow | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Days of Night: Beyond Barrow | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Days of Night / The X Files | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Days of Night: Night, Again | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Days of Night: Annual 2004 | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Days of Night: Annual 2005 | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Days of Night: Dead Space #3 | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Days of Night: Spreading the Disease | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Days of Night: 30 Days 'Til Death | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Black Labyrinth Books
The Walls of the Castle | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Prisoner 489 | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Booking | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Picture Books
Publication Order of Anthologies
Razored Saddles | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Horror Hall of Fame | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark at Heart | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Weird Business | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Retro Pulp Tales | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Son of Retro Pulp Tales | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Down These Strange Streets | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crucified Dreams | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Urban Fantasy Anthology | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Old Mars | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Horror Anthology 2016 | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Highway Kind | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
American author Joe R. Lansdale is well known and well regarded for his unique brand of comic-book fantasy and horror. Having written for some of the biggest names in comic-book publishing, such as DC comics, he’s created a name for himself that is well established within the industry. Not only that, but he’s also been at the forefront of his genre, being a pioneer within his field.
Early and Personal Life
Born in Gladewater in Texas on the 28th of October, 1951, Joe R. Lansdale has become an American institution in his own right over the many years of his career. Continuing to live in Texas to this day, he now resides in Nacogdoches where carries on writing and creating his many well received works. Taking inspiration from the environment about him from an early age, he has been a writer with a lot to say. Working as the writer in residence at the Austin State University, he also finds time to teach martial arts as well, operating from his own Shen Chuan school titled ‘Lansdale’s Self Defence Systems’ which he runs in his home-town. Martial arts has been one of his most favored past-times over the years. He also happens to be a member of both the national and international ‘Martial Arts Hall of Fame’ too.
Living with his wife in Nacogdoches, he continues to happily write his unique brand of fiction, along with all his other various activities. Being brought up around creativity due to his musician father, he carries on injecting this into his work. With still more to come yet as more is available on the horizon, he shows no signs of stopping anytime soon.
Writing Career
Creating his first full-length novel, ‘Act of Love’, in 1981 he hasn’t looked back since as he’s continued writing to this very day. Building a large body of work behind him, he’s largely focused on fantasy and science-fiction, with a penchant for more absurdist scenarios. A good example of this can be found in his novella ‘Bubba Ho-Tep’ which saw an elderly Elvis and JFK working together to battle an Egyptian-mummy.
Working within the world of comics, Lansdale has managed to produce some work for big-name franchises like Batman, where he’s worked on the animated series, along with some other properties for DC Comics. This has led to him becoming one of the biggest, most sought after names in the industry, with a long body of work surrounding him. He has also had a large number of films created using his work as well, such as the film version of ‘Bubba Ho-Tep’ starring Bruce Campbell.
Not without critical acclaim either, Joe R. Lansdale has earned the respect of his peers and managed to gain himself a large number of awards over the years. Winning an Edgar and the British Fantasy award, he’s accumulated plenty of accolades throughout his career. These will continue to come as his career progresses. With both critical and commercial success, his career grows from strength-to-strength with every passing year. Working across a variety of different mediums, he’s always willing to adapt to new formats and material. This looks like something that’s set to carry on from now into the foreseeable future as there’s plenty more work on the horizon.
Act of Love
Originally published in 1981, this was the first full-length novel that introduced Joe R. Lansdale onto the literary scene. Working as a crime novel, it’s an extremely graphic read that is the ideal book for anyone looking to understand the author better. Establishing both his style and his tone, it operates as an accessible way into his body of work.
Set in the city of Houston, Texas, it features a serial killer set on the loose as he wreaks his havoc in a ‘Jack the Ripper’ slew of bloody murders and killings. Using a lot of strong and graphic imagery it leaves nothing up to the imagination, as it charts every grisly detail of his murder spree. As a depraved killer goes on the rampage, it also manages to capture a lot of the on-goings within society at the time as well. Operating as a form of social-commentary, it works in examining the inside details of the police department and how they deal with such a case. The murderer himself is also a misogynist of the most unpleasant kind, another detail which is also explored in-depth. All in all, it manages to capture a certain tone at a time when serial-killers were en-vogue in literature. Will they be able to capture the killer, or will they strike again and where? What will it take to stop the killer and who will they attack next in their bloody murder spree? Why is the murderer doing this and what is motivating them to conduct such a horrific act?
Savage Season
First released in 1990, this was a novel released some time into Lansdale’s writing career as it was already underway. It’s another crime novel that follows in the vein of a lot of his previous style of work as it manages to capture a dark and gritty tone. The book was also nominated for a ‘Bram Stoker’ award on the year of its release as well.
This is the first in a series of eight novels overall featuring the characters Hap and Leonard, two Texas men in their mid-forties looking to get away from their low-wage lifestyles. Getting into trouble on numerous occasion, they usually end up on the wrong side of the tracks, as they get mixed up with the local criminal element. Living LaBorde, a fictional town set in East Texas, they have all sorts of adventures over the course of the series of novels. In this particular novel they find themselves helping out a woman from their youth who offers them the chance to make some big money. What she proposes is picking up some stolen money which she’s using to help fund her radical extreme left organization. Not everything is as it seems though and soon the pair find themselves in over their heads, as they look back upon the politics of their past. Will they be able to recover the money and live the good life? Can they make amends with their past and the cynicism that’s encroached them and their politics over the years leading them towards middle-age? What will become of them both as they start to enter the savage season?
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