Clay Chapman Books in Order

Ordinary settings become sources of dread in these darkly comic stories, from family homes to camping trips. In the title tale, a father waits at a roadside rest stop for his daughter, who never returns from the bathroom.

Two grieving men set out on separate road trips after discovering the deaths of loved ones. Traveling through the South to honor unfulfilled wishes, Will and Phil encounter a succession of strangers as their journeys move toward collision.

At his new middle school, Spencer Pendleton discovers a hidden community of runaway students surviving on cafeteria food and improvised weapons. The Tribe invites him to join, but initiation would mean abandoning his mother and ordinary life.

Searching for the Tribe and the girl he misses, Spencer Pendleton arrives at a secluded camp for troubled boys. When the group plans to recruit and expand there, he must prevent its rebellion from turning dangerous.

After fleeing into the woods, Spencer Pendleton is caught and confined at the Kesey Reclamation Center. Constant surveillance and a feared punishment known as the Black Hole make escape urgent, but finding somewhere safe to go proves difficult.

Chris Smith makes his living buying abandoned storage units and reselling their contents. Discovering an undead woman named Jessica in one locker turns his routine business into a disturbing dilemma about whether to keep his unexpected acquisition.

Forty stories from The Pumpkin Pie Show explore domestic life through the voices of murderers, drifters, and outsiders. Their disturbing confessions combine dark humor with psychological horror, finding fear in familiar households and damaged relationships.

A pandemic interrupts move-in day at Yersin University, trapping students inside a quarantined dormitory. With adults unable to intervene, their initial exhilaration at independence gives way to a brutal struggle over power, survival and a new social order.

Deaths among New York's fortune tellers and palm readers draw Danny Rand into an occult investigation. As a sinister force targets believers in the supernatural, Iron Fist confronts a danger that may exceed his abilities alone.

The deaths of a mother and daughter accused of witchcraft become a local legend, then inspire horror films and a true-crime investigation. Actress Amber Pendleton's life is repeatedly damaged as successive storytellers revive the same haunting narrative.

Typhoid Mary moves to seize control of Hell's Kitchen while Daredevil is occupied with Mayor Fisk. Spider-Man, the X-Men and Iron Fist become entangled in her escalating chaos as her powers threaten the surrounding city.

Haunted by her previous bond with a symbiote, Patricia Robertson must face Carnage’s return by embracing Scream’s power. Elsewhere, the Life Foundation symbiotes hear Knull’s call, drawing more dangerous forces into the confrontation.

A millennium after artificial intelligence eliminates humanity, android Chloe revives David Adams, the creator responsible for the catastrophe. Together they begin seeking a way to restore human life while confronting the machine rulers his inventions produced.

An attack on David and Chloe's hidden sanctuary forces the last human and his android protector onto a dangerous journey. Seeking answers in the world his technology destroyed, David must return toward the origins of the catastrophe.

With Venom absent, Andi Benton and the Scream symbiote become caught between New York's vigilantes. An emerging threat to vulnerable children and troubling visions of an armored king complicate their efforts to understand the city's unfolding danger.

Following Carnage's assault, the Scream symbiote searches for a new place in New York's superhero world. Encounters with web-slinging heroes unfold while a malevolent presence in the surrounding waters calls to it with a mysterious song.

David and Chloe discover a forgotten city inhabited by robots that once served humanity. Their arrival confronts its residents with a living human after generations without one, leaving the travelers uncertain whether they have found allies or enemies.

When the Network locates their shelter, David and Chloe face a costly escape. Continuing across frozen wastelands toward David's laboratory requires help from recently encountered allies, whose assistance may determine whether the last human survives.

Reaching David's buried workshop, he, Chloe and their robot companions prepare to defend their future. The Network deploys a concealed weapon as it presses its campaign to eradicate organic life, threatening their hopes of restoring humanity.

At the conclusion of their journey, David and Chloe face an opponent neither anticipated. This final issue brings their effort to restore humanity to a decisive confrontation, with the possibility of a human future still uncertain.

A disturbing discovery at a Virginia school threatens art teacher Richard's carefully rebuilt life. Decades earlier, childhood accusations fueled a moral panic, and someone now appears to know the connection between his present identity and that past.

After her troubled former boyfriend dies of an overdose, Erin tries a drug said to let users see the dead. Her search for closure opens a terrifying connection to the supernatural that refuses to end when the experience should.

Palm reader Madi Price returns to her Virginia hometown and reconnects with a fisherman whose infant son vanished years earlier. Disturbing visions suggest the child may still live, drawing her toward a nightmare that threatens her own family.

Decades after his teenage son’s unsolved murder, Glenn Partridge joins a writing workshop and turns the tragedy into fiction. As he invents the closure life denied him, someone connected to the crime is forced out of hiding.

These twenty-five stories turn parenthood, addiction, and political division into unsettling horror. A veteran returns with a terrible craving, a fireplace yields something monstrous, and ordinary communities discover threats hidden within the things they trust.

After the Civil War, an asylum doctor recruits medium Alicia Wilkinson to help traumatized soldiers through séances. The patients begin behaving as though possessed, forcing Alicia to discover whether their treatment has invited something dangerous into the hospital.

Sixteen-year-old Kyra watches a new party drug transform her classmates and family into unsettling strangers. Joining another teenager who has avoided the drug, she investigates its effects while confronting trauma from her mother’s addiction.

Noah finds his parents transfixed by television and violently changed when he visits their Virginia home. As a possession epidemic spreads through screens, he and his young nephew must escape to Brooklyn before their own family destroys them.

Church janitor Winston Kemper secretly creates an elaborate artwork using the lives and voices of women he murders. When his victims begin whispering to him, the ignored artist finds himself pursued by spirits demanding revenge.

Recovering from a near-fatal accident, Jordan forms an intense connection with Lilith, who then disappears. When she returns wearing another woman’s face, his search for love pulls him toward possession and a disturbing loss of reality.