Joe R. Lansdale Books In Order
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30 Days of Night | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Return to Barrow | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Bloodsucker Tales | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Spreading the Disease | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Eben and Stella | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
30 Days of Night: Red Snow | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Doctor Who Whispering Gallery | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Presidents of the United States | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
30 Days 'Til Death | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
30 Days of Night / The X Files | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Night, Again | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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Chronological Order of 30 Days of Night Graphic Novels
30 Days of Night | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Return to Barrow | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Bloodsucker Tales | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Eben and Stella | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
30 Days of Night / The X Files | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Night, Again | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Spreading the Disease | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
30 Days of Night: Red Snow | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Doctor Who Whispering Gallery | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Presidents of the United States | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
30 Days 'Til Death | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Author's Choice Monthly Books
The Old Funny Stuff | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Daily Voices | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Heroines | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Peripheral Vision | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Swatting at the Cosmos | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Neon Twilight | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Tales from a Vanished Country | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
True Minds | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Hedgework & Guessery | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Stories by Mama Lansdales Youngest Boy | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Unthreatened by the Morning Light | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Nine Hard Questions About the Nature of the Universe | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
It's Been Fun | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Wong's Lost and Found Emporium and Other Oddities | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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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 | ||
Prisoner 489 | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Booking | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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Publication Order of Dead in the West Books
Dead in the West | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of The Drive-In Books
The Drive-In | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Drive-In II: Not Just One of Them Sequels | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Drive-In 3: The Bus Tour | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Flinch (Single Issue) Comic Books
Flinch#11 | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Hap and Leonard Books
Publication Order of Hap & Leonard Collections
Veil's Visit | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Hap and Leonard | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Hap and Leonard: Blood and Lemonade | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Joe Lansdale's Batman Books
Batman, Captured by the Engines | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Terror on the High Skies | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Jonah Hex Books
Two Gun Mojo | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Shadows West | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories Books
L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Black DahliaWhite Rose | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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Publication Order of Lost Lansdale Books
Waltz of Shadows | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Something Lumber This Way Comes, Or, the House from Space | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Blood Dance | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Ned the Seal Books
Zeppelins West | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Flaming London | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Flaming Zeppelins | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Sky Done Ripped | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Night Visions Books
Night Visions: In the Blood | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Night Visions | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Night Visions 2 | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Night Visions 3 | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Night Visions: The Hellbound Heart | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Night Visions 6 | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Night Visions 8 | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Night Visions 9 | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Night Visions 10 | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Night Visions 11 | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Night Visions 12 | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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Publication Order of Outspoken Authors Books
The Human Front | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Left Left Behind | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Lucky Strike | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Underbelly | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Mammoths of the Great Plains | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Wild Girls | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Modem Times 2.0 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Report from Planet Midnight | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Science of Herself | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
New Taboos | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Raising Hell | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
My Life, My Body | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Gypsy | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Fire. | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Totalitopia | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Atheist in the Attic | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Thoreau's Microscope | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Beatrix Gates | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
A City Made of Words | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Night They Missed the Horror Show | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Love Doll | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Tight Little Stitches on a Dead Man's Back | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Events Concerning a Nude Fold-Out Found in a Harlequin Romance | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Folding Man | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Bullets and Fire | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Steel Valentine | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Incident On and Off a Mountain Road | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Steel Valentine | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Ape Man's Brother | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Christmas with the Dead | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Hot in December | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Bone Dead Sadness | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Black Hat Jack | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Fishing for Dinosaurs | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Hoodoo Harry | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Apache Witch and Other Poetic Observations | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Shooting Star | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Unlikely Affair of the Crawling Razor | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
By Bizarre Hands | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with the Dead Folks | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Bestsellers Guaranteed | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Writer of the Purple Rage | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Electric Gumbo | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Fist Full of Stories | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Good, the Bad and the Indifferent | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Private Eye Action as You Like It | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Long Ones | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
High Cotton | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
For a Few Stories More | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Bumper Crop | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Mad Dog Summer | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The King and Other Stories | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The God of the Razor | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Deadman's Road | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Shadows, Kith and Kin | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Sanctified and Chicken-Fried | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Unchained And Unhinged | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Best of Joe R. Lansdale | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Written With a Razor - Short Stories and a Screenplay | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Trapped in the Saturday Matinee | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Bleeding Shadows | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Tall Grass and Other Stories / After the People Lights Have Gone Off | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Terror Is Our Business | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Driving to Geronimo's Grave and Other Stories | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Gothic Wounds | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Things Get Ugly: The Best Crime Fiction of Joe R. Lansdale | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
In the Mad Mountains | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
The Drive-In | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Lone Ranger and Tonto | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Tarzan the Lost Adventure | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Atomic Chili | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Red Range | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Lansdale And Truman's Dead Folks | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Conan And The Songs Of The Dead | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Pigeons From Hell | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Robert Bloch's Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Hell's Bounty | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Steam Man | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Dead on the Bones | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
X-Files: Case Files | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Picture Books
In Waders From Mars | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Delilah S. Dawson Graphic Novels
Ladycastle | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
X-Files: Case Files | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Spider-Man: A New Beginning | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Descendants: Fright at the Museum | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Firefly Original Graphic Novel | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Star Pig | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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Publication Order of Flash in a Flash Books
Baby Shoes | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Flash! | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Itty Bitty Writing Space | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Worth 1,000 Words | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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Publication Order of The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF Books
The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF 2015 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of PM's Outspoken Authors Books
The Presidential Papers | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Human Front | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Underbelly | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Mammoths of the Great Plains | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Modem Times 2.0 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Surfing the Gnarl | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Raising Hell | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Gypsy | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Fire. | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Atheist in the Attic | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Beatrix Gates | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Talk Like a Man | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Big Girl | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Planetbreaker’s Son | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Utopias of the Third Kind | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Night Shift | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Collapsing Frontier | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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Publication Order of Anthologies
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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