Joe Lansdale is an American author, writer martial arts instructor and martial arts expert. He written stories in different genres like mystery, suspense, Western horror and science fiction. To date he has written and published 45 novels and 30 short story collections, and many comic book adaptations. Many of the novels became film adaptations as well.
Order of The Drive-In Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Drive-In | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Drive-In II: Not Just One of Them Sequels | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Drive-In 3: The Bus Tour | 2005 | Description / Buy |
Order of Hap and Leonard Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Savage Season | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Mucho Mojo | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Two-Bear Mambo | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Bad Chili | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Rumble Tumble | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Captains Outrageous | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Vanilla Ride | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Devil Red | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Hyenas | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Dead Aim | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Honky Tonk Samurai | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Briar Patch Boogie | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Coco Butternut | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Rusty Puppy | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Cold Cotton (Short Story) | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Jackrabbit Smile | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
18 | The Elephant of Surprise | 2019 | Description / Buy |
Order of Hap & Leonard Collections with Andrew Vachss
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Veil's Visit | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Hap and Leonard | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Hap and Leonard: Blood and Lemonade | 2017 | Description / Buy |
Order of Joe Lansdales Batman Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Batman, Captured by the Engines | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Terror on the High Skies | 1992 | Description / Buy |
Order of Lost Lansdale Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Waltz of Shadows | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Something Lumber This Way Comes, Or, the House from Space | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Blood Dance | 2000 | Description / Buy |
Order of Ned the Seal Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Zeppelins West | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Flaming London | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Flaming Zeppelins | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Sky Done Ripped | 2019 | Description / Buy |
Order of Author's Choice Monthly Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Swatting at the Cosmos | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Neon Twilight (Short Story) | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
3 | True Minds | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Hedgework & Guessery | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Stories by Mama Lansdales Youngest Boy | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Unthreatened by the Morning Light | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Nine Hard Questions About the Nature of the Universe | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
8 | It's Been Fun | 1991 | Description / Buy |
Order of Bibliomysteries Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Remaindered (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Nature of My Inheritance (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository | 2018 | Description / Buy |
Order of Dead in the West Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Dead in the West | 1986 | Description / Buy |
Order of Jonah Hex Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Two Gun Mojo | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Shadows West | 1999 | Description / Buy |
Order of Joe Lansdale Standalone Novels
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Act of Love | 1981 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Texas Night Riders | 1983 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Magic Wagon | 1986 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Nightrunners | 1987 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Cold in July | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Boar | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Freezer Burn | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
8 | The Bottoms | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
9 | The Big Blow | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Bubba Ho-Tep | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
11 | A Fine Dark Line | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Sunset and Sawdust | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Lost Echoes | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Leather Maiden | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
15 | All the Earth, Thrown to the Sky | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Edge of Dark Water | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
17 | The Thicket | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Deadman's Crossing | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
19 | I Tell You It's Love (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
20 | Paradise Sky | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
21 | Fender Lizards | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
22 | Hell's Bounty | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
23 | M.I.A. Hunter | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
24 | Bubba and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
25 | Man With Two Lives (Short Story) | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
26 | Driving to Geronimo's Grave | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
27 | More Better Deals | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
28 | Jane Goes North | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
29 | Fishing for Dinosaurs and Other Stories | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
30 | Moon Lake | 2021 | Description / Buy |
Order of Joe Lansdale Short Stories/Novellas
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Tight Little Stitches on a Dead Man's Back | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Tight Little Stitches In A Dead Man's Back | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Bullets and Fire (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Incident On and Off a Mountain Road (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Steel Valentine (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Steel Valentine | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Christmas with the Dead | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Hot in December (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
9 | A Bone Dead Sadness (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Black Hat Jack (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Hoodoo Harry (Short Story) | 2017 | Description / Buy |
Order of Joe Lansdale Short Story Collections
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | By Bizarre Hands | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
2 | On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with the Dead Folks (Short Story) | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Bestsellers Guaranteed | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Writer of the Purple Rage | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Electric Gumbo | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
6 | A Fist Full of Stories | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
7 | The Good, the Bad and the Indifferent | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Private Eye Action as You Like It | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
9 | High Cotton | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
10 | The Long Ones | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
11 | For a Few Stories More | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Bumper Crop | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Mad Dog Summer | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
14 | The King and Other Stories | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
15 | The God of the Razor | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Deadman's Road | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
17 | The Shadows, Kith and Kin | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Unchained And Unhinged | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Sanctified and Chicken-Fried | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
20 | The Best of Joe R. Lansdale | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
21 | Written With a Razor - Short Stories and a Screenplay | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
22 | Trapped in the Saturday Matinee | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
23 | Bleeding Shadows | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
24 | The Tall Grass and Other Stories (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
25 | Terror Is Our Business | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
26 | Driving to Geronimo's Grave and Other Stories | 2018 | Description / Buy |
Order of Joe Lansdale Graphic Novels
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Drive-In | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Lone Ranger and Tonto | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Atomic Chili | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Red Range (Short Story) | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Lansdale And Truman's Dead Folks | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Conan And The Songs Of The Dead (Short Story) | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Pigeons From Hell | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Robert Bloch's Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper (Short Story) | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
9 | H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Hell's Bounty | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
11 | The Steam Man | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Dead on the Bones | 2016 | Description / Buy |
Order of 30 Days of Night Graphic Novel Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | 30 Days of Night | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
2 | 30 Days of Night: Dark Days | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
3 | 30 Days of Night: Annual 2004 | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
4 | 30 Days of Night: Return to Barrow | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
5 | 30 Days of Night: Bloodsucker Tales | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
6 | 30 Days of Night: Annual 2005 | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
7 | 30 Days of Night: Dead Space #3 | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
8 | 30 Days of Night: Spreading the Disease | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
9 | 30 Days of Night: Eben and Stella | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
10 | 30 Days of Night: Red Snow | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
11 | 30 Days of Night: Beyond Barrow | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
12 | 30 Days of Night: 30 Days 'Til Death | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
13 | 30 Days of Night / The X Files (Short Story) | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
14 | 30 Days of Night: Night, Again | 2011 | Description / Buy |
Chronological Order of 30 Days of Night Graphic Novel Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | 30 Days of Night | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
2 | 30 Days of Night: Dark Days | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
4 | 30 Days of Night: Return to Barrow | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
5 | 30 Days of Night: Bloodsucker Tales | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
6 | 30 Days of Night: Eben and Stella | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
7 | 30 Days of Night: Red Snow | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
8 | 30 Days of Night: Beyond Barrow | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
10 | 30 Days of Night / The X Files (Short Story) | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
12 | 30 Days of Night: Night, Again | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
X|X | 30 Days of Night: Annual 2004 | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
X|X | 30 Days of Night: Annual 2005 | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
X|X | 30 Days of Night: Dead Space #3 | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
X|X | 30 Days of Night: Spreading the Disease | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
X|X | 30 Days of Night: 30 Days 'Til Death | 2009 | Description / Buy |
Order of Joe Lansdale Picture Books
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | In Waders From Mars (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy |
Order of Black Labyrinth Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Walls of the Castle (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Prisoner 489 (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Booking (Short Story) | 2016 | Description / Buy |
Order of The Book of Cthulhu Series with Kage Baker, Cherie Priest, Gene Wolfe, Ramsey Campbell, Elizabeth Bear, Charles Stross, Brian Lumley, , David Drake, , Thomas Ligotti, Bruce Sterling, John Langan, Tim Pratt, Laird Barron, , , Caitlín R. Kiernan, , , , , , Silvia Moreno-Garcia, , , John Hornor Jacobs
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Book of Cthulhu | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Book of Cthulhu II | 2012 | Description / Buy |
Joe Lansdale Anthologies
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Razored Saddles | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Horror Hall of Fame | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Dark at Heart | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Weird Business | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Retro Pulp Tales | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Son of Retro Pulp Tales | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Down These Strange Streets | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Crucified Dreams | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
9 | The Urban Fantasy Anthology | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
10 | The Book of Cthulhu | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
11 | A Hacked-Up Holiday Massacre | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Old Mars | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Horror Anthology 2016 | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
14 | The Highway Kind | 2016 | Description / Buy |
His best known works include the Hap and Leonard series that comprises of nine novels, three novellas, as well as two short story collections. They story revolves around two friends Leonard Pine and Hap Collins who reside in the fictional town of Laborde that is located in East Texas. Together, they are found solving different sort of crimes in each of the books.
Joe Lansdale Awards
Joe Lansdale has received several awards for his superb writings over the course of many years. He was awarded Bram Stoker awards eight times which is unlike any other author. Then, he earned the Edgar Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Horror Writers Association Lifetime, the Herodotus Historical Fiction Award, the Grinzani Cavour Prize for Literature, as well as the Inkpot Award for Contributions to Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Joe Lansdale Books Turned into TV/Movies
Many of Joe’s books have also got published in several different languages. Furthermore, many of the stories have been adapted to television and films as well. The popular ones include Drive-in Date, The Job, Bubba Ho-Tep, Christmas with the Dead, Cold in July, Incident on and off a Mountain Road, Drunken Moon, By the Hair of the Head and Hap and Leonard.
Apart from writing books, Joe also managed to write for television as well. He wrote four episodes each for Batman –The Animated Series, Perchance to Dream and one episode for the Superman: The Animated Series as well.
Best Joe Lansdale Books
Three of the popular and much liked books by Joe Lansdale are as follows:
The Bottoms: This book is one of the best classic American storytelling in its most darkest, affecting and truest form respectively. Set in the East Texas it shows the year 1933 when the Great Depression has swept over the country and is moving like a slow storm towards this area.
It is the time when young Harry Collins with his little sister stumble across the dead body of a woman. This woman had been brutally mutilated and left to die in the bottoms of the River Sabine. The news of the dead woman leaves the whole town in shock and tension. Soon, another dead body turns up and it’s of the white woman and all Harry was left to do was to stop the killing spree with his Klan neighbors. So, he with his sister set out to investigate who the real killer is, but the truth is ever so dark and gruesome apart from the killings themselves.
Edge of Water: This book narrates the terrifying tale of a pretty girl May Lynn who was all set to become a Hollywood celebrity. But she appears dead one day and the place where she is found is the Sabine River.
Sue Ellen is the best friend of May. Their other good friends are Jinx and Terry. Together, they along with May’s mother dig up May’s dead body and burnt it to ashes. The ashes are then taken to Hollywood. This was done in the hopes that at least her remains would be spread in the land of her dreams.
The Thicket: This book got short-listed for the Ala Reading List Award for History seeing its powerful and gripping story that was much better than other books.
The story unfolds with the character Jack Parker who had already experienced much tragedy in life. At five years of age, his grandmother had died in a farm accident. Then, his parents had just become victim to the smallpox and died eventually. This left him and his sister Lula orphaned all too regrettably so. Soon, other catastrophes strike soon at their uncle’s farm. First, a group of bank robber murder Jack’s grandfather and then they kidnap Jack’s sister as well.
With no other relative or elder left for miles, Jack has to grow up fast and form a group of heroes to rescue his sister quickly. But all he could manage is the support of a bounty-hunting dwarf and charismatic person Shorty and Jimmie Sue. Shorty is the son of a grave-digger named Eustace and he along Jimmie Sue have some very intimate knowledge about the bandits. Only time reveals how much they are successful in their mission.
When Does The Next Joe Lansdale book come out?
The next book by Joe Lansdale is Moon Lake and will be released on June, 22nd 2021.