Joe R. Lansdale Books In Order
Book links take you to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate I earn money from qualifying purchases.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 |
Born for Trouble | (2022) | 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 Lansdale's 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
Daily Voices | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
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 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 |
Radiant Apples | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Events Concerning | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Donut Legion | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Night They Missed the Horror Show | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Love Doll | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tight Little Stitches on a Dead Man's Back | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Events Concerning a Nude Fold-Out Found in a Harlequin Romance | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Folding Man | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bullets and Fire | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Steel Valentine | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Incident On and Off a Mountain Road | (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 |
Fishing for Dinosaurs | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hoodoo Harry | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Apache Witch and Other Poetic Observations | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shooting Star | (2023) | 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 |
The Long Ones | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
High Cotton | (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 |
Sanctified and Chicken-Fried | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Unchained And Unhinged | (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 |
Gothic Wounds | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Things Get Ugly: The Best Crime Fiction of Joe R. Lansdale | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
The Drive-In | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gone to Texas | (1995) | 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 |
X-Files: Case Files | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of 30 Days of Night Graphic Novels
30 Days of Night | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Return to Barrow | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bloodsucker Tales | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Spreading the Disease | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eben and Stella | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Red Snow | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Days 'Til Death | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Days of Night / The X Files | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night, Again | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chronological Order of 30 Days of Night Graphic Novels
30 Days of Night | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Return to Barrow | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bloodsucker Tales | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eben and Stella | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Red Snow | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Days of Night / The X Files | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night, Again | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Spreading the Disease | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Days 'Til Death | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Delilah S. Dawson Graphic Novels
Ladycastle | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
X-Files: Case Files | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Spider-Man: A New Beginning | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Descendants: Fright at the Museum | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Firefly Original Graphic Novel | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Star Pig | (2020) | 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 Bibliomysteries Books
The Book of Virtue | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pronghorns of the Third Reich | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book Thing | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book Case | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
An Acceptable Sacrifice | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Leaves a Bookmark | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Final Testament | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rides a Stranger | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Long Sonata of the Dead | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of Ghosts | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Compendium of Srem | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
What's in a Name? | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Remaindered | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sequel | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Gospel of Sheba | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Book Club | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Nature of My Inheritance | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
It's in the Book | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Scroll | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of the Lion | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Little Men | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Condor in the Stacks | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mystery, Inc. | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Every Seven Years | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
From the Queen | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
From the Queen | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Travelling Companion | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Citadel | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Reconciliation Day | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dead Dames Don't Sing | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Haze | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hoodoo Harry | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Pretty Little Box | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seven Years | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hemingway Valise | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Last Honest Horse Thief | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Girl Who Did Say No | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Traitor | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dark Door | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Honeymoon Trap | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chronological Order of Bibliomysteries Books
The Book of Virtue | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Scroll | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pronghorns of the Third Reich | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
An Acceptable Sacrifice | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Leaves a Bookmark | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seven Years | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book Thing | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of Ghosts | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Book Club | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Long Sonata of the Dead | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Final Testament | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rides a Stranger | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
What's in a Name? | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
It's in the Book | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Nature of My Inheritance | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Remaindered | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Compendium of Srem | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Gospel of Sheba | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sequel | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of the Lion | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Little Men | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
From the Queen | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Every Seven Years | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Citadel | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Condor in the Stacks | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mystery, Inc. | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Travelling Companion | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Haze | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dead Dames Don't Sing | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Reconciliation Day | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hoodoo Harry | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Pretty Little Box | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hemingway Valise | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Last Honest Horse Thief | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book Case | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
From the Queen | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Girl Who Did Say No | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Traitor | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dark Door | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Honeymoon Trap | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Flinch (Single Issue) Comic Books
Publication Order of Outspoken Authors Books
The Human Front | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Left Left Behind | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lucky Strike | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Underbelly | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mammoths of the Great Plains | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wild Girls | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Modem Times 2.0 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Surfing the Gnarl | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Report from Planet Midnight | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Science of Herself | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
New Taboos | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Raising Hell | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My Life, My Body | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gypsy | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fire. | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Totalitopia | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Atheist in the Attic | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Thoreau's Microscope | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Beatrix Gates | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A City Made of Words | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Preacher Graphic Novel Books
Gone to Texas | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Preacher, Book Two | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Book 1 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Book 2 - Until the End of the World | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Proud Americans | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Good Old Boys | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dixie Fried | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood and Whiskey | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
One Man's War | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ancient History | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Salvation | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
War in the Sun | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tall in the Saddle | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dead or Alive | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
All Hell's a-Coming | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alamo | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Book 3 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Book 4 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Book 5 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Book 6 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Caliban | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Absolute Preacher Vol. 1 | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Absolute Preacher Vol. 2 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Absolute Preacher Vol. 3 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Preacher: The 25th Anniversary Omnibus Vol. 1 | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Preacher: The 25th Anniversary Omnibus Vol. 2 | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories Books
L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Black DahliaWhite Rose | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Book of the Dead | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Razored Saddles | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The New Frontier | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Second Annual Collection | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Third Annual Collection | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy 2 / Demons and Dreams | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Splatter-Punks: The Definitive Anthology | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cold Blood | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Horror Hall of Fame | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Obsessions | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fourth Annual Collection | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Little Book of Horrors: Tiny Tales of Terror | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark at Heart | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1991 | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Giant Book of Zombies | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Crimes 2 | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Zombies | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sea-Cursed | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ten Tales | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The King is Dead: Tales of Elvis Postmortem | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
100 Wicked Little Witch Stories | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Weird Business | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology: Celebrating 25 Years | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Campfire Collection: Ghosts, Beasts, and Things That Go Bump in the Night | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Silver Gryphon | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Retro Pulp Tales | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cross Plains Universe | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Monsters | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Delicacies II: Fear | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hellboy: Oddest Jobs | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Living Dead | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 19 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Cemetery Dance II | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Smoke and Mirrors | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Son of Retro Pulp Tales | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dead That Walk | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Haunted Legends | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Never Again | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Werewolves and Shape Shifters: Encounters with the Beasts Within | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Robert Bloch's Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lone Star Noir | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Classics Mutilated | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
House of Fear | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Down These Strange Streets | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crucified Dreams | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Supernatural Noir | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Urban Fantasy Anthology | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Warriors 3 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of Cthulhu | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Necro Files | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 22 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Hacked-Up Holiday Massacre | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Feast of Frights from The Horror Zine | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Clutch of Zombies | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Extreme Zombies | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ghosts: Recent Hauntings | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Psychos | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 23 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Beyond Rue Morgue Anthology: Further Tales of Edgar Allan Poe's 1st Detective | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Black Pulp | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Zombies! | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 24 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Old Mars | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Time Traveler's Almanac | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Piercing the Darkness | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lovecraft's Monsters | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Zombies: More Recent Dead | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Insidious Assassins | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Gods of HP Lovecraft | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Flinch | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Christmas Horror Volume 1 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Last Night, a Superhero Saved My Life | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Horror Anthology 2016 | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Highway Kind | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shadows Over Main Street Volume 2 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tales from The Lake Vol. 4 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alive in Shape and Color | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lost Highways | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fantastic Tales of Terror | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
At Home in the Dark | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bullets and Other Hurting Things: A Tribute to Bill Crider | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Love, Death and Robots: The Official Anthology: Volume One | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conan: The Songs of the Dead and Other Stories | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the MostHaunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Attack From the '80s | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Revelations: Horror Writers for Climate Action | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Screams from the Dark | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Classic Monsters Unleashed | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Black is the Night: Stories inspired by Cornell Woolrich | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hot Iron and Cold Blood: An Anthology of the Weird West | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Road Kill | (2023) | 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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