18 Best Joe Hill Books

After being blamed for his girlfriend’s murder, Ig Perrish wakes up with devilish horns that make people spill their ugliest secrets. He turns this unwanted power toward finding the real killer and confronting what really happened to the woman he loved.

A spore called Dragonscale tattoos its victims with gold-and-black patterns before they spontaneously combust. As society collapses, pregnant nurse Harper Grayson flees to a hidden camp led by a mysterious man who can control the fire burning inside him.

Victoria McQueen can find lost things by riding through a magical covered bridge; Charles Manx drives kidnapped children to his nightmare playground, Christmasland, in a Rolls-Royce with the plate NOS4A2. When Manx targets Vic’s son, her strange gift becomes his only hope.

20th Century Ghosts collects early stories that move from haunted movie theaters and inflatable best friends to serial-killer editors and doomed magicians. Together they explore how ordinary people live with grief, obsession, and the uncanny just outside the frame.

Retired metal star Judas Coyne collects morbid curios, but buying a dead man’s suit online brings him a ghost that won’t be boxed up. Hounded across the South with his girlfriend, he must face a vengeful spirit and his own worst mistakes.

Full Throttle gathers thirteen tales that range from haunted highways and cursed carnivals to quiet, uncanny heartbreaks. Featuring collaborations with Stephen King and several stories adapted for screen, it showcases Joe Hill’s nastiest, strangest short fiction.

Strange Weather brings together four short novels: a memory-stealing Polaroid camera, a mass shooting and media circus, a man stranded on a living cloud, and a deadly rain of crystal shards. Each novella tackles a different kind of modern nightmare.

On storm-lashed Brody Island in 1983, college student June Branch grabs an antique Viking axe to defend herself from escaped convicts. She discovers it can lop off heads that keep talking, and sets out with a basketful of them to rescue her kidnapped boyfriend and uncover a local conspiracy.

Wraith: Welcome to Christmasland expands the world of NOS4A2, following Charles Manx and the eerie passengers of his Rolls-Royce Wraith. The comic explores how his twisted holiday playground came to be and what it costs the children who never leave.

At an elite college in Maine, bookish Arthur Oakes and his friends steal a skin-bound grimoire for a black-market dealer and accidentally summon King Sorrow, a dragon-like entity that demands a human sacrifice every Easter. Their bargain binds them to decades of guilt, terror, and impossible choices.

After their father’s murder, the Locke children move with their mother to Keyhouse, a rambling New England mansion full of impossible doors. Youngest brother Bode begins finding keys that unlock powers—and a hungry presence in the well that wants them all.

Alpha & Omega brings the core Locke & Key saga to its climax, pitting the Lockes against the demon behind the Black Door once and for all. It’s a bloody, emotional finale about sacrifice, family, and what stays locked away.

Clockworks dives into Keyhouse’s past, revealing how an earlier generation of Lockes first opened a door into another realm and forged the keys. As Tyler and Kinsey explore time itself, they finally learn the truth about the demon stalking their family.

Crown of Shadows sees the villain wielding the Shadow Key and an army of living darkness against Keyhouse. While the adults struggle with grief and addiction, the Locke children fight back with the very magic that has already cost them so much.

In the second Locke & Key arc, the Lockes discover the Head Key, which literally opens a person’s skull to reveal their memories and fears. Playing with what’s inside their heads is intoxicating—and exactly what the demon hiding among them wants.

Keys to the Kingdom mixes some of the series’ wildest visual experimentation with big plot turns, as new keys surface and alliances in Lovecraft shift. Tyler begins to understand who their enemy really is, even as the cost of confronting him rises.

This one-shot revisits Keyhouse in two shorter tales, including a story where the family uses the Animal Key to give their dog a day as a human boy. It’s a lighter, bittersweet side trip in the larger Locke & Key saga.

Decades after the research vessel Derleth vanished in a freak storm, its automated distress signal suddenly reactivates in the Arctic. A salvage crew and a marine biologist are sent to investigate, only to find the crew disturbingly alive and something alien stirring beneath the ice.