Brian Keene Books in Order

This collaborative collection gathers short stories and novellas from the Jobs in Hell circle, including Keene's Stoker-recommended *Earthworm Gods*. It is a grab bag of dark fiction with real range.

Keene's first short story collection gathers early dark fiction and shows many of his favorite themes already taking shape. It later returned in expanded form as *No Rest At All*.

An early nonfiction collection of columns, commentary, and behind-the-scenes pieces from Keene's years coming up in horror. It is rough-edged, personal, and very candid.

This definitive edition of Keene's first short story collection restores the preferred text and adds more stories, including award-winning work. It is the fuller version of *No Rest for the Wicked*.

A dark, myth-soaked novella about power, collapse, and the long road to ruin. Keene turns an old name into a grim story about ambition finally meeting its limit.

Jim Thurmond crosses a zombie-ravaged America to find his son, joined by a preacher and a recovering addict. The undead here can think, talk, and enjoy the killing, which makes everything much worse.

A strong short story collection that ranges from ancient evil in Iraq to grief after September 11 and a deadly reality-show island. Keene keeps the mood dark and the variety wide.

The first Hail Saten collection gathers essays and commentary on horror, writing, publishing, and the messier side of building a career. Keene's voice is plain, funny, and never very polished on purpose.

Tommy O'Brien learns he is dying young and launches a desperate plan to leave something behind for his family. What follows becomes a rough, angry, oddly moving collision of crime, miracle, and spiritual war.

In the sequel to *The Rising*, survivors make a last stand inside a fortified skyscraper while the undead close in. The walls may hold for a while, but the end is still climbing the stairs.

Endless rain drowns the planet, leaving humanity stranded on rooftops and mountaintops as gigantic worms and stranger horrors rise with the flood. It is apocalypse horror on a gleefully huge scale.

The first Clicker attack was only the start. With America already battered, the creatures return in far greater numbers, led inland by an ancient intelligence bent on wiping humanity out.

In LeHorn's Hollow, eerie music, fires in the woods, and missing women pull Adam Senft into an ancient nightmare. This edition gathers the novel that introduced one of Keene's strongest rural horror settings.

This Hail Saten collection looks at the years around Keene's early breakout, mixing memoir, commentary, and a very unvarnished take on horror publishing. It is candid about success, pressure, and the road.

This return to LeHorn's Hollow sinks back into rural Pennsylvania dread, where old woods, local legend, and something hungry in the dark keep everyday life feeling dangerously thin.

With the city overrun by zombies, Lamar Reed and a handful of survivors head for an old Coast Guard ship offshore. The sea looks safer than land, until it turns into a trap of its own.

The rain still has not stopped, the mountains are sinking, and humanity is down to a last desperate stand. The worms are back, but the drowned world holds plenty of other monsters, too.

It is the summer of 1984, and Timmy and his friends expect comic books, freedom, and cemetery adventures. Instead, they find a corpse-eating monster and a season that will scar them for life.

This Hail Saten volume collects nonfiction pieces on horror, publishing, culture, and the day-to-day grind of the writing life. Keene is funny, irritated, thoughtful, and very direct throughout.

This story collection expands the world of *The Rising* with tales about the first zombie, the fall of mankind, and what happened after *City of the Dead*. It is broader, uglier, and still very bleak.

A compact collection of short fiction with a tougher, streetwise edge. Crime, grit, and dark turns sit right at the center.

This companion collection returns to the drowned world of *Earthworm Gods* with stories set across the flood. From the first rain to humanity's last stand, it fills in the apocalypse from multiple angles.

A new haunted attraction in LeHorn's Hollow draws crowds looking for cheap scares. Unfortunately, something in the Pennsylvania woods is very real, very old, and very hungry.

Dockworker Larry Gibson ends up on the run with exotic dancer Sondra Belov, and the ruthless Whitey wants her back. The only way to be safe may be to kill a man many believe cannot be killed.

Reality show contestants arrive on a supposedly deserted island expecting elimination games and camera drama. Instead, they get hunted by monstrous half-human creatures lurking in the jungle.

This collected Devil-Slayer story follows Sgt. Dan Sylva back to Iraq for a third tour and a descent into supernatural war. Demons, conspiracies, and the end of civilization all end up on the table.

A compact horror novella that turns division and damage into something much uglier. Keene keeps it lean, tense, and mean.

This short story collection leans into Keene's darker instincts, with sharp turns, bitter laughs, and very little interest in comforting resolutions. The title tells the truth.

A broken-down car strands Kerri and her friends in a dangerous neighborhood, then pushes them into an old row house that is much worse. Under the city, obscene things are waiting in the dark.

Five ancient destroyers descend on a dying town, leaving terror and slaughter in their wake. Ex-Amish magus Levi Stoltzfus is the one person who might stop them before sunrise.

America is rebuilding when a deeper terror stirs beneath the ocean. Trapped on a remote island, survivors and occult agents must stop Dagon, the Dark Ones, and a fresh wave of Clicker destruction.

One morning the residents of Walden, Virginia wake to find the rest of the world gone and their town sealed inside a wall of permanent darkness. Supplies vanish, panic rises, and nobody who enters the barrier returns.

Another Hail Saten nonfiction volume, this one gathers Keene's sharp, funny, and often blunt pieces on horror, publishing, fandom, and life on the road. It is opinionated in the best way.

A lean horror novella about a bad problem that refuses to stay small. Keene lets the panic build fast and keeps the consequences messy.

A gunman storms an electronics store at closing time, leaving the surviving employees trapped and terrified. Then the hostages start disappearing one by one, and the night gets even worse.

This comics volume keeps the Doom Patrol deep in bizarre superhero trouble, mixing mutant oddballs, reality-bending threats, and Keene's taste for dark humor. It is weird in the way Doom Patrol should be.

Months after the outbreak in *Dead Sea*, twenty-five survivors barricade themselves in a bunker beneath a luxury hotel. The zombies stay outside, but fear, scarcity, and each other may finish the job inside.

Ian Scott and his team keep moving through post-zombie America while wildfire, radiation, and human desperation close in from every side. Survival is hard enough before the virus inside Ian gets worse.

In a supermarket, ordinary shoppers suddenly turn into gleeful killers. A small handful of people seem immune, but staying alive long enough to learn why will be its own nightmare.

When eleven-year-old Danny skips school and finds a dead body, he stumbles into one of Brackard's Point's darkest secrets. The discovery puts him, his friends, and an old Russian outsider in real danger.

People around the world vanish in an instant, and three stranded men are left behind in the traffic and terror that follow. Their search for home becomes a secular apocalypse march through a broken world.

A slim collection of dark short pieces, anchored by the title story, with street-level grit, mythos echoes, and Keene's taste for nasty little turns. It is small in size, not in mood.

This wild mashup throws gonzo road-trip energy into Lovecraft country. Drugs, dread, satire, and cosmic horror all pile into the same car.

Daniel Miller wakes to a dead power grid, silent streets, and a world missing almost everyone in it. He may be the last person alive, but the fog outside suggests otherwise.

A gang of Old West outlaws on the run takes shelter in a valley full of bloodthirsty Sasquatch-like monsters. Their escape turns into a siege, and dawn starts looking very far away.

After quakes and tsunami send the Clickers onto the California coast, a second threat rises with them, zombies under the command of Ob. It is giant-monster carnage with the end of the world attached.

A smaller nonfiction gathering of thoughts, notes, and reflections on writing, reading, horror, and whatever else happened to be on Keene's mind. Casual in form, but not empty.

This *Masters of the Universe* one-shot goes back to show how Hordak became something closer to a demigod. It is a compact piece of villain lore with a mythic, cosmic feel.

A personal nonfiction collection of essays and reflections, looser and more intimate than the novels. Keene writes about memory, life, art, and getting older without much varnish.

A blizzard forces a band of survivors to shelter in an abandoned hotel, where boredom gives way to confession and suspicion. While the snow piles up, hidden wounds and dangerous secrets start coming loose.

The first big volume of Keene's complete short fiction gathers decades of stories, including rare pieces and mythos favorites. It is a useful map of how broad his short work really is.

Levi Stoltzfus returns in two novellas, one about a clearing where a lone tree means death, another about a cryptid legend turning a Pennsylvania forest into a killing ground. Rural occult horror suits him well.

In a shattered post-zombie world, Ian Scott's group reaches a community of children who somehow survived without adults. The refuge offers hope, but not nearly enough safety.

The final stretch turns brutal as survivors end up imprisoned in the ruins of Chicago while Ian's condition worsens fast. Rescue, revenge, and the zombie virus all hit at once.

A burned-out horror writer tries to hold onto his family and sanity while ghosts, literal and otherwise, close in around him. It is a metafictional ghost story with a very personal edge.

Occultist Aaron Pace discovers a path through the Labyrinth and gets stranded in a bizarre lost world of dinosaurs, giant robots, and murderous wilderness. Escaping it may be harder than surviving it.

This nonfiction collection gathers essays, commentary, and behind-the-scenes pieces on horror, writing, publishing, and the business around them. It is sharp, personal, and very much in Keene's own voice.

Set after civilization's collapse, this post-zombie story follows survivors learning the hard rules of a ruined America. The dead are still dangerous, but the new world around them may be worse.

As the zombie apocalypse begins, Reverend Martin shelters two survivors inside his church and watches his faith buckle under the strain. It is a grim, intimate Rising story about belief, fear, and endurance.

Rogan is a hard-used barbarian trying to leave old crowns and old wars behind. Dark powers, bloody politics, and unfinished business make that impossible.

A naked, sadistic horde overruns an apartment complex without warning, trapping eleven strangers inside. To survive the night, they will have to fight together, even with a serial killer in the mix.

This X-Files anthology sends Mulder and Scully into a fresh stack of creepy investigations, from monsters to conspiracies. Gini Koch's story, "Sewers," follows a string of teen disappearances into very dangerous underground territory.

This collection focuses on stories about the writing life, the myths around it, and the damage it can do. It also includes some of Keene's most personal and self-aware short fiction.

The second volume of Keene's complete short fiction keeps widening the picture, pulling together more stories from across decades and modes. Expect range, recurring mythos echoes, and plenty of darkness.

Free diver and marine biologist Carrie Anderson joins an expedition off Mauritius to investigate a collapsing ocean floor. What waits below is older, hungrier, and far worse than a natural disaster.

After a global pandemic leaves him alone, eight-year-old Alan sets out to return to his third-grade classroom. His journey turns into a tender, dangerous post-apocalyptic adventure seen through a child's eyes.

A nonfiction collection of essays and commentary from a tense stretch of public life. Keene writes bluntly about culture, publishing, horror, and the strange spaces where they overlap.

A later nonfiction collection of essays, introductions, and reflections on horror, storytelling, fandom, and the work around the work. It is conversational, thoughtful, and rarely polished smooth.

War reaches the Lost Level, and Aaron Pace joins a desperate trek to strike back at the Anunnaki and rescue the people they have taken. Dinosaurs, deadly wilderness, and old-world pulp danger come with the trip.

Rogan returns to his former kingdom when family and throne alike come under siege. Foreign invaders, supernatural forces, and his own bastard son turn the fight into something far bloodier than a simple war.

Nineteen strangers on an airport shuttle vanish into a deadly alternate dimension filled with prehistoric beasts and impossible technology. To get home, they will have to trust one another long enough to survive.

A freak storm hits just as a government-made super virus escapes into a quiet Illinois town. Disease spreads fast, but it is not the only terror moving through the chaos.

This volume of Keene's complete short fiction continues the deep dive into his shorter work. It is full of bleak humor, sharp ideas, and the many different tones he can hit in miniature.

Part memoir, part travelogue, and part state-of-the-genre meditation, this nonfiction book follows Keene through years on the road. It is candid, funny, and blunt about horror, publishing, and the people who live inside both.

A stage adaptation of *Terminal*, this version reshapes Tommy O'Brien's desperate, spiritual, working-class story for live performance. The heart of the novel remains, but the tension gets even tighter.

This crossover sequel to *Urban Gothic* and Bryan Smith's *The Freakshow* drags extreme horror out of the city and into suburbia. What begins around an abandoned mall turns into a much bigger fight for survival.

The Labyrinth that links Keene's worlds is breaking, and seven unlikely warriors from across time and space are called to stop the Thirteen. If they fail, reality itself comes apart.

A group of middle-aged friends head into the woods planning a criminal money fix, not a fight for survival. Once night falls, something fast and ferocious starts hunting them.

Rogan, older and more worn than ever, is pulled into one last brutal campaign when his nephew vanishes and old legends turn into fresh trouble. Gods, devils, and an undead dragon wait at the end of the road.

After the first victory against the Thirteen, the surviving heroes are thrown into a flooded Earth and back into war with Behemoth, Leviathan, and Ob. Shared-universe horror does not get much bigger than this.

Shipwrecked on an unknown island after an apocalyptic storm, enslaved barbarian Einar and his enemies are forced into the same fight. The island is full of undead, and death is not the worst thing waiting there.

This pandemic-era nonfiction collection mixes diary-like reflection, commentary, and Keene's usual plainspoken honesty. It is about a strange time, but also about the people trying to live through it.

Thor and Loki team up for a loud, cosmic chase after a cursed crown that has fallen into the hands of a rock singer named Nihilator. Space opera, apocalypse stakes, and god-level sibling trouble all come bundled together.