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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.
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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 | |
19 | Born for Trouble | 2022 | 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 Lansdale's 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 | Daily Voices | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Swatting at the Cosmos | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Neon Twilight (Short Story) | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
4 | True Minds | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Hedgework & Guessery | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Stories by Mama Lansdales Youngest Boy | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Unthreatened by the Morning Light | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Nine Hard Questions About the Nature of the Universe | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
9 | It's Been Fun | 1991 | 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 by
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Two Gun Mojo | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Shadows West | 1999 | Description / Buy |
Order of Joe R. 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 | |
31 | Radiant Apples | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
32 | The Events Concerning | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
33 | The Donut Legion | 2023 | Description / Buy |
Order of Joe R. Lansdale Short Stories/Novellas
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Night They Missed the Horror Show | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Love Doll | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Tight Little Stitches on a Dead Man's Back | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Events Concerning a Nude Fold-Out Found in a Harlequin Romance | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Folding Man | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Bullets and Fire (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
7 | The Steel Valentine (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Incident On and Off a Mountain Road (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Steel Valentine | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Christmas with the Dead | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Hot in December (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
12 | A Bone Dead Sadness (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Black Hat Jack (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Fishing for Dinosaurs | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Hoodoo Harry (Short Story) | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Apache Witch and Other Poetic Observations (Short Story) | 2021 | Description / Buy |
Order of Joe R. 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 | The Long Ones | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
10 | High Cotton | 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 | Sanctified and Chicken-Fried | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Unchained And Unhinged | 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 | |
27 | Gothic Wounds | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
28 | Things Get Ugly: The Best Crime Fiction of Joe R. Lansdale | 2023 | Description / Buy |
Order of Joe R. Lansdale Graphic Novels
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Drive-In | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Lone Ranger and Tonto | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Atomic Chili | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Red Range (Short Story) | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Lansdale And Truman's Dead Folks | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Conan And The Songs Of The Dead (Short Story) | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Pigeons From Hell | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Robert Bloch's Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper (Short Story) | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
10 | H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Hell's Bounty | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
12 | The Steam Man | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Dead on the Bones | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
14 | X-Files: Case Files (Short Story) | 2018 | Description / Buy |
Order of 30 Days of Night Graphic Novels
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | 30 Days of Night | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Return to Barrow | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Bloodsucker Tales | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Spreading the Disease | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Eben and Stella | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Red Snow | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
7 | 30 Days 'Til Death | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
8 | 30 Days of Night / The X Files (Short Story) | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Night, Again | 2011 | Description / Buy |
Chronological Order of 30 Days of Night Graphic Novels
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | 30 Days of Night | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Return to Barrow | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Bloodsucker Tales | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Eben and Stella | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Red Snow | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
6 | 30 Days of Night / The X Files (Short Story) | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Night, Again | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Spreading the Disease | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
9 | 30 Days 'Til Death | 2009 | Description / Buy |
Order of Bibliomysteries Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Book of Virtue | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Pronghorns of the Third Reich (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Book Thing | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Book Case | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
5 | An Acceptable Sacrifice | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Death Leaves a Bookmark (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
7 | The Final Testament (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Rides a Stranger (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
9 | The Long Sonata of the Dead (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
10 | The Book of Ghosts (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
11 | The Compendium of Srem (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
12 | What's in a Name? (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Remaindered (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
14 | The Sequel (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
15 | The Gospel of Sheba (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
16 | The Nature of My Inheritance (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
17 | It's in the Book (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
18 | The Scroll (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
19 | The Book of the Lion (Short Story) | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
20 | The Little Men (Short Story) | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
21 | Condor in the Stacks (Short Story) | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
22 | Mystery, Inc. (Short Story) | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
23 | Every Seven Years (Short Story) | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
24 | From the Queen (Short Story) | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
25 | The Travelling Companion | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
26 | Citadel (Short Story) | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
27 | Reconciliation Day (Short Story) | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
28 | Dead Dames Don't Sing (Short Story) | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
29 | The Haze (Short Story) | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
30 | Hoodoo Harry (Short Story) | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
31 | The Pretty Little Box (Short Story) | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
32 | Seven Years (Short Story) | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
33 | The Hemingway Valise | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
34 | The Last Honest Horse Thief | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
35 | The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
36 | The Dark Door | 2022 | Description / Buy |
Chronological Order of Bibliomysteries Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Book of Virtue | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Scroll (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Pronghorns of the Third Reich (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
4 | An Acceptable Sacrifice | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Death Leaves a Bookmark (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Seven Years (Short Story) | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
7 | The Book Thing | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
8 | The Book of Ghosts (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
9 | The Long Sonata of the Dead (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
10 | The Final Testament (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Rides a Stranger (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
12 | What's in a Name? (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
13 | It's in the Book (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
14 | The Nature of My Inheritance (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Remaindered (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
16 | The Compendium of Srem (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
17 | The Gospel of Sheba (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
18 | The Sequel (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
19 | The Book of the Lion (Short Story) | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
20 | The Little Men (Short Story) | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
21 | From the Queen (Short Story) | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
22 | Every Seven Years (Short Story) | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
23 | Citadel (Short Story) | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
24 | Condor in the Stacks (Short Story) | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
25 | Mystery, Inc. (Short Story) | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
26 | The Travelling Companion | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
27 | The Haze (Short Story) | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
28 | Dead Dames Don't Sing (Short Story) | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
29 | Reconciliation Day (Short Story) | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
30 | Hoodoo Harry (Short Story) | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
31 | The Pretty Little Box (Short Story) | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
32 | The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
33 | The Hemingway Valise | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
34 | The Last Honest Horse Thief | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
35 | The Book Case | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
36 | The Dark Door | 2022 | Description / Buy |
Order of L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories Series with Lawrence Block, Joyce Carol Oates, Megan Abbott, Duane Swierczynski, Andrew Vachss, Francine Prose, Jonathan Santlofer
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Black Dahlia White Rose | 2011 | Description / Buy |
Order of Joe R. Lansdale Picture Books
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | In Waders From Mars (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy |
Order of Delilah S. Dawson Graphic Novels with Delilah S. Dawson, Keith Lansdale
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Ladycastle (Short Story) | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
2 | X-Files: Case Files (Short Story) | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Spider-Man: A New Beginning (Short Story) | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Descendants: Fright at the Museum (Short Story) | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Firefly Original Graphic Novel (Short Story) | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Star Pig (Short Story) | 2020 | 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 Outspoken Authors Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Human Front (Short Story) | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Left Left Behind (Short Story) | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Lucky Strike | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Underbelly (Short Story) | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Mammoths of the Great Plains (Short Story) | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Wild Girls (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Modem Times 2.0 (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
8 | The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Surfing the Gnarl (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Report from Planet Midnight (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
11 | The Science of Herself (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
13 | New Taboos | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Raising Hell (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
15 | My Life, My Body (Short Story) | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Gypsy | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Fire. (Short Story) | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Totalitopia (Short Story) | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
20 | The Atheist in the Attic (Short Story) | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
21 | Thoreau's Microscope (Short Story) | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
22 | The Beatrix Gates (Short Story) | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
23 | A City Made of Words (Short Story) | 2019 | Description / Buy |
Order of Preacher Series with Garth Ennis
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Preacher, Volume 2: Until the End of the World | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Preacher, Volume 3: Proud Americans | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Preacher, Volume 5: Dixie Fried | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Ancient History | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Preacher, Volume 7: Salvation | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Preacher, Volume 6: War in the Sun | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Preacher, Volume 8: All Hell's a-Coming | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Preacher, Volume 9: Alamo | 2001 | Description / Buy |
Order of Flinch (Single Issue) Comic Series with Brian Azzarello
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Flinch #11 (Short Story) | 2000 | Description / Buy |
Order of The Diogenes Club Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Shadows Over Innsmouth | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
2 | White of the Moon | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Infinity Plus One | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Embrace the Mutation | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Adventure | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Man from the Diogenes Club | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Infinity Plus | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
8 | The Fair Folk | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction & Fantasy | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth | 2013 | Description / Buy |
Joe R. Lansdale Anthologies
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Book of the Dead | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Razored Saddles | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The New Frontier | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Second Annual Collection | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Third Annual Collection | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Year's Best Fantasy 2 / Demons and Dreams | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Splatter-Punks: The Definitive Anthology | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Cold Blood | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
9 | The Horror Hall of Fame | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Obsessions | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
11 | The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Fourth Annual Collection | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
13 | The Little Book of Horrors: Tiny Tales of Terror | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Dark at Heart | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
15 | The Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1991 | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
16 | The Giant Book of Zombies | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
17 | 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Dark Crimes 2 | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
19 | The Mammoth Book of Zombies | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
20 | Sea-Cursed | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
21 | Ten Tales | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
22 | The King is Dead: Tales of Elvis Postmortem | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
23 | 100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
24 | 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
25 | Weird Business | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
26 | The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology: Celebrating 25 Years | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
27 | The Campfire Collection: Ghosts, Beasts, and Things That Go Bump in the Night | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
28 | The Silver Gryphon | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
29 | Retro Pulp Tales | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
30 | Cross Plains Universe | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
31 | The Mammoth Book of Monsters | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
32 | Dark Delicacies II: Fear | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
33 | Hellboy | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
34 | The Living Dead | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
35 | Best New Horror 19 | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
36 | The Best of Cemetery Dance II | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
37 | Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
38 | Smoke and Mirrors | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
39 | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
40 | Son of Retro Pulp Tales | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
41 | Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
42 | The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010 | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
43 | The Dead That Walk | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
44 | L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
45 | Haunted Legends | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
46 | Never Again | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
47 | Werewolves and Shape Shifters: Encounters with the Beasts Within | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
48 | Robert Bloch's Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
49 | Lone Star Noir | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
50 | Classics Mutilated | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
51 | House of Fear | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
52 | Down These Strange Streets | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
53 | Crucified Dreams | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
54 | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
55 | Supernatural Noir | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
56 | The Urban Fantasy Anthology | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
57 | Warriors 3 | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
58 | The Book of Cthulhu | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
59 | Necro Files | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
60 | Best New Horror 22 | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
61 | A Hacked-Up Holiday Massacre | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
62 | Triumph of The Walking Dead: Robert Kirkman's Zombie Epic on Page and Screen | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
63 | The Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
64 | A Feast of Frights from The Horror Zine | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
65 | A Clutch of Zombies | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
66 | Extreme Zombies | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
67 | Ghosts: Recent Hauntings | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
68 | Psychos | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
69 | Best New Horror 23 | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
70 | Beyond Rue Morgue Anthology: Further Tales of Edgar Allan Poe's 1st Detective | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
71 | Zombies! | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
72 | Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
73 | The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
74 | Best New Horror 24 | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
75 | Old Mars | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
76 | The Time Traveler's Almanac | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
77 | Piercing the Darkness | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
78 | Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
79 | The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
80 | Zombies: More Recent Dead | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
81 | Insidious Assassins | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
82 | The Gods of HP Lovecraft | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
83 | Flinch | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
84 | Christmas Horror Volume 1 | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
85 | Last Night, a Superhero Saved My Life | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
86 | Horror Anthology 2016 | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
87 | The Highway Kind | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
88 | Shadows Over Main Street Volume 2 | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
89 | Tales from The Lake Vol. 4 | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
90 | Alive in Shape and Color | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
91 | Lost Highways | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
92 | The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
93 | Fantastic Tales of Terror | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
94 | At Home in the Dark | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
95 | The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
96 | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
97 | Bullets and Other Hurting Things: A Tribute to Bill Crider | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
98 | Conan: The Songs of the Dead and Other Stories | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
99 | Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
100 | Attack From the '80s | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
101 | Revelations: Horror Writers for Climate Action | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
102 | Screams from the Dark | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
103 | Classic Monsters Unleashed | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
104 | Black is the Night: Stories inspired by Cornell Woolrich | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
105 | Hot Iron and Cold Blood: An Anthology of the Weird West | 2023 | 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 R. Lansdale book come out?
Joe R. Lansdale doesn't seem to have an upcoming book. Their newest book is Things Get Ugly: The Best Crime Fiction of Joe R. Lansdale and was released on August, 15th 2023. It is the newest book in the Joe R. Lansdale Short Story Collections.