Order of Joe R. Lansdale Books
Joe R. Lansdale is an American author of western, horror, science fiction, mystery and suspense novels and stories. He is the author of the Hap & Leonard series. Lansdale is also a prolific graphic novel writer, has written multiple episodes of animated series like Batman and Superman and is also a screenwriter. In addition to that, films have been made out of his works Incident On and Off a Mountain Road, Bubba Ho-Tep, Christmas with the Dead and Cold in July. Aside from writing, Lansdale founded a martial arts system called Shen Chuan: Martial Science and is the member of two martial arts halls of fame. He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas with his wife and their pets.
Joe R. Lansdale’s first published work was a short story collection entitled Stories by Mama Lansdale’s Youngest Boy. His first novel was the 1981 novel Act of Love. Below is a list of Joe R. Lansdale’s books in order of when they were originally published:
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Publication Order of 30 Days of Night Graphic Novels
| 30 Days of Night | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Return to Barrow | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Bloodsucker Tales | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Spreading the Disease | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Eben and Stella | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| 30 Days of Night: Red Snow | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Doctor Who Whispering Gallery | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Presidents of the United States | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| 30 Days 'Til Death | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| 30 Days of Night / The X Files | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Night, Again | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Chronological Order of 30 Days of Night Graphic Novels
| 30 Days of Night | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Return to Barrow | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bloodsucker Tales | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Eben and Stella | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 30 Days of Night / The X Files | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Night, Again | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Spreading the Disease | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 30 Days of Night: Red Snow | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Doctor Who Whispering Gallery | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Presidents of the United States | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 30 Days 'Til Death | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Author's Choice Monthly Books
| The Old Funny Stuff | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Daily Voices | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Heroines | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Peripheral Vision | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Swatting at the Cosmos | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Neon Twilight | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Tales from a Vanished Country | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| True Minds | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Hedgework & Guessery | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Stories by Mama Lansdales Youngest Boy | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Unthreatened by the Morning Light | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| God's Nose | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Nine Hard Questions About the Nature of the Universe | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| It's Been Fun | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Wong's Lost and Found Emporium and Other Oddities | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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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.com | ||
| Prisoner 489 | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Booking | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Dead in the West Books
| Dead in the West | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of The Drive-In Books
| The Drive-In | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Drive-In II: Not Just One of Them Sequels | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Drive-In 3: The Bus Tour | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Flinch (Single Issue) Comic Books
| Flinch#11 | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Hap and Leonard Books
Publication Order of Hap & Leonard Collections
| Veil's Visit | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hap and Leonard | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hap and Leonard: Blood and Lemonade | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Joe Lansdale's Batman Books
| Batman, Captured by the Engines | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Terror on the High Skies | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Jonah Hex Books
(with Gil Kane, Robert Kanigher, Michael L. Fleisher, Arnold Drake, John Albano)
| Two Gun Mojo | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shadows West | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Jonah Hex, Volume One | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Jonah Hex Classic Tales: Welcome to Paradise | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Jonah Hex, Vol. 2 | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories Books
(with Lawrence Block, Joyce Carol Oates, Megan Abbott, Duane Swierczynski, Andrew Vachss, Francine Prose, Jonathan Santlofer)
| L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Black DahliaWhite Rose | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Lost Lansdale Books
| Waltz of Shadows | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Something Lumber This Way Comes, Or, the House from Space | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Blood Dance | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Ned the Seal Books
| Zeppelins West | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Flaming London | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Flaming Zeppelins | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Sky Done Ripped | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Night Visions Books
| Night Visions: In the Blood | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Night Visions | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Night Visions 2 | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Night Visions 3 | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Night Visions: The Hellbound Heart | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Night Visions 6 | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Night Visions 8 | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Night Visions 9 | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Night Visions 10 | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Night Visions 11 | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Night Visions 12 | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Outspoken Authors Books
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| Night They Missed the Horror Show | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Love Doll | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tight Little Stitches on a Dead Man's Back | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Events Concerning a Nude Fold-Out Found in a Harlequin Romance | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Folding Man | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bullets and Fire | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Steel Valentine | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Incident On and Off a Mountain Road | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Ape Man's Brother | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Christmas with the Dead | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hot in December | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Bone Dead Sadness | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Black Hat Jack | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fishing for Dinosaurs | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hoodoo Harry | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Apache Witch and Other Poetic Observations | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Shooting Star | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Unlikely Affair of the Crawling Razor | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| By Bizarre Hands | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with the Dead Folks | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bestsellers Guaranteed | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Writer of the Purple Rage | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Electric Gumbo | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Fist Full of Stories | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Good, the Bad and the Indifferent | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Private Eye Action as You Like It | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Long Ones | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| High Cotton | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| For a Few Stories More | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bumper Crop | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mad Dog Summer | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The King and Other Stories | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The God of the Razor | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Deadman's Road | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Shadows, Kith and Kin | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sanctified and Chicken-Fried | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Unchained And Unhinged | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best of Joe R. Lansdale | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Written With a Razor - Short Stories and a Screenplay | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Trapped in the Saturday Matinee | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bleeding Shadows | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Tall Grass and Other Stories / After the People Lights Have Gone Off | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Terror Is Our Business | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Driving to Geronimo's Grave and Other Stories | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Gothic Wounds | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Things Get Ugly: The Best Crime Fiction of Joe R. Lansdale | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| In the Mad Mountains | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
| The Drive-In | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Lone Ranger and Tonto | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tarzan the Lost Adventure | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Atomic Chili | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Red Range | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lansdale And Truman's Dead Folks | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Conan And The Songs Of The Dead | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Pigeons From Hell | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Robert Bloch's Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hell's Bounty | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Steam Man | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dead on the Bones | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| X-Files: Case Files | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Picture Books
| In Waders From Mars | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Delilah S. Dawson Graphic Novels
(with Delilah S. Dawson, Keith Lansdale)
| Ladycastle | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| X-Files: Case Files | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Spider-Man: A New Beginning | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Descendants: Fright at the Museum | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Firefly Original Graphic Novel | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Star Pig | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Flash in a Flash Books
| Baby Shoes | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Flash! | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Itty Bitty Writing Space | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Worth 1,000 Words | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF Books
(with Sharon Lee, Brendan DuBois, David Weber, David Brin, David Drake, Sarah Pinsker, Brad R. Torgersen, David Afsharirad)
| The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF 2015 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of PM's Outspoken Authors Books
Publication Order of Anthologies
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Notes: Veil’s Visit also has stories by Andrew Vachss. In Waders from Mars was written with Karen Lansdale and Keith Lansdale. Crawling Sky was written with Brian Denham and Keith Lansdale. Tight Little Stitches on a Dead Man’s Back was also published as Tight Little Stitches. Hell’s Bounty was co-authored by John L. Lansdale.
Horror for Good also has stories by Ramsey Campbell, Ray Garton, Jack Ketchum, Joe McKinney, Lisa Morton, Jeff Strand, Lee Thomas and F. Paul Wilson. Fear & Haunting also has stories by John L. Lansdale, Rick Remender, Ben Templesmith and El Torres. Razored Saddles was edited with Pat LoBrutto. Dark Heart was edited with Karen Lansdale. Weird Business was edited with Richard Klaw. Son of Retro Pulp Tales was edited with Keith Lansdale. The Urban Fantasy Anthology was edited with Peter S. Beagle.
Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper and That Hellbound Train are graphic novel adaptations of novels by Robert Bloch. The Dunwich Horror is a graphic novel based on the novel by H.P. Lovecraft.Tarzan: The Lost Adventure is based on an unpublished Tarzan manuscript by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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