Bentley Little Books in Order

Trouble comes quietly to Randall, Arizona, a pregnancy that should be impossible, desecration in a church, slaughter in the fields. Then an itinerant preacher arrives, and the town realizes it is facing an evil far older than itself.

After the town's mailman commits suicide, a new carrier arrives with letters that feel like weapons. As secrets turn lethal and fear spreads house to house, even the most respectable residents are no longer safe.

Cathy was only six when the man next door killed his wife and himself in the Lauter house. Years later a new arrival stirs up fresh terror, and Cathy is forced to face the evil she has tried to keep buried.

When someone moves into the long-empty Lauter house, old violence begins echoing through the neighborhood again. Cathy, who heard the murder-suicide there as a child, realizes the house is waking up and it knows her secret.

In Rio Verde, Arizona, corpses are turning up drained of blood and fear is spreading fast. As night falls, a desert evil older than history rises, and the town begins to suspect its vampire legends are true.

UC Brea looks like a typical Southern California campus by day, but at night the school comes alive in all the wrong ways. Students and staff begin finding stairwells, libraries, and classrooms ruled by a predatory force.

Dion Semele moves to Napa wanting a normal new start, but he and outsider Penelope are changing in frightening ways. As desire, bloodshed, and supernatural pressure build, they find themselves caught in a battle over their very souls.

This anthology revives the legend of James Dean through stories, poems, and pop-culture riffs from multiple writers, including Bentley Little. It is less a single narrative than a strange, playful, and sometimes dark tribute to an icon.

A giant retail chain opens in tiny Juniper, Arizona, promising low prices and convenience. Bill Davis sees the evil behind the smiles, but stopping the store means fighting a force already feeding on the town.

This early selected collection rounds up some of Little's short fiction from his first phase as a horror writer. The stories are sharp, odd, and full of the everyday settings he loves to push into nightmare territory.

Five strangers share the same impossible memory, a childhood house that looked exactly the same no matter where they lived. Reunited by that secret, they are forced back toward the place that shaped their worst nightmares.

Bob Jones is so ordinary that people barely seem to notice he exists. When he finds others who suffer the same eerie neglect, their shared invisibility turns into a hunger for revenge that no one will be able to ignore.

Gregory Tomasov returns to McGuane, Arizona, hoping his family can build a quiet life in his old hometown. But something buried in an abandoned farm is waking up, and the town has already learned not to go out after dark.

The dead are rising, not to attack, but to walk with eerie purpose toward an unknown destination. Investigator Miles Huerdeen follows the phenomenon because his father is among them, and the trail leads into something ancient and hellish.

Barry and Maureen think they have found the perfect home in a gated Utah community. Then the homeowners association starts controlling their decor, their friendships, and their freedom with rules enforced by violence.

Thirty-two stories fill this big early collection, ranging from hitchhiker horror to hellish family secrets and historical grotesquerie. It is one of the best places to sample Little's mix of satire, shock, and strange Americana.

Springerville lives off the legend of the Mogollon Monster, until an excavation uncovers grotesque objects that should not belong together. Soon the smell, the noises, and the killings make the old campfire story feel horribly real.

After a divorce, Hunt Jackson thinks he is finally building a better life in Tucson. Then a gaunt insurance agent starts pressuring him to buy more coverage, and refusing the offer brings disasters that should be impossible.

Lowell Thurman books a five-day family retreat at an isolated desert spa called the Reata. Strange staff, bizarre behavior, and vanishing guests turn the vacation into a trap with no easy way out.

Jason learns that a well-aimed complaint letter can get results, then discovers his talent has real power. As the letters reshape his life and a mysterious employer takes notice, that gift starts feeling more like a curse.

Four strangers across America are linked by visions of a black-smoke train racing through the night. As the ghostly locomotive draws closer, buried violence and old wrongs rise with it.

A bloody rampage in Beverly Hills, a letter from an estranged husband, and a wave of disturbing changes in children across California seem unrelated at first. A social worker and a reporter dig for answers and uncover a spreading horror.

Tyler High becomes a charter school, and at first the change looks like freedom. Then the principal turns authoritarian, the students see impossible things, and the campus starts feeling ruled by something much darker than policy.

Steve Nye's ordinary life cracks open when his father attacks his mother, lands in an asylum, and calmly whispers, "I killed her." Chasing the meaning of those words sends Steve into family secrets and a nightmare of his own.

A fun trip to Burning Man turns terrifying when Joan vanishes and every trace of her life begins to disappear as well. Gary's search leads toward a warning scroll, a missing roommate, and something called the Outsiders.

This slim horror chapbook pairs Bentley Little with Ramsey Campbell and Ray Garton. Little's contribution, "Conversation Between Two Women Overheard at My Dentist's Office," packs grisly humor and sudden violence into a very short space.

A later collection of short fiction, this book gathers darkly funny, unsettling stories built around warped everyday obsessions. Teeth, parking, birthday wishes, faith healing, and childhood fears all get the Bentley Little treatment.

Life on William Tell Circle goes strange in several different ways, from lavish gifts to dangerous wishes and a neighborhood shrine. This short novella turns one quiet suburban street into a compact, surreal nightmare.

Julian and Claire Perry move their family into a bigger house in the historic district, but the place feels wrong from the start. Bad dreams, obscene messages, and something lurking in the basement make it clear they were never alone.

Ross Lowry heads to tiny Magdalena, Arizona, hoping for a reset after losing his job. After a New Year's Eve accident unleashes a corrupting force, luck twists, children vanish, and the whole town starts sliding into monstrous chaos.

Software employee Craig Horne thinks the new consultant is just another corporate headache. Then Regus Patoff's meetings, memos, and restructuring start invading every part of life, turning office jargon into a grotesque nightmare.

Daniel Martin has never forgotten Frank Watkins, the unnerving handyman who built his family's flimsy summer house. Years later, old memories and a new encounter drag Daniel back toward the same evil presence that shattered his childhood.

This edition gathers Bentley Little's original story, the script adaptation, and behind-the-scenes material from the screen version. At the center is a darkly funny nightmare about a secret history of George Washington and the murderous people guarding it.

This short story collection shows Little in quick, sharp bursts, mixing brand-new pieces with later work from across his career. Ordinary notes, errands, conversations, and routines turn vicious or absurd with very little warning.

In Montgomery, Arizona, bookseller Kyle Decker hopes a new bank next door will bring business. Instead it begins tightening its grip on the town, offering eerie personal service and pushing customers toward a bargain far worse than debt.

After her mother's funeral, Gloria Jaymes is stunned when her mother turns up at the house looking younger and straight out of the 1980s. No one else recognizes who she is, and that impossible return starts pulling Gloria's family life into something far stranger.

Todd Klein just wants to renew his license, but one visit to the DMV starts a chain reaction of dread. A failed job seeker and a bored programmer get pulled in too, as the agency reveals itself as a bureaucratic horror machine.

As a boy, Alex Lowry was the only person who could see the house behind his house. Years later, after the pandemic upends his life, the singing from that impossible place returns and starts pulling him into another reality.

Paul Wardlow is thrilled to land an administrative job at Arovista city hall. Then he finds hallways that shouldn't exist, employees who come back changed, and whispered rumors about a place called the Corp Yard.