Joe Hart Books in Order

This short story collection moves from haunted houses to afterlife visitations and voyages that end in horror. It's a compact introduction to Hart's early macabre fiction, built around dread, twists, and supernatural unease.

Novelist Lance Metzger, scarred by childhood abuse and blocked as a writer, is drawn to a house on Lake Superior that seems to restore his gift. What waits there may hold the answer to his past, and the end of his sanity.

A remote fishing trip in the Canadian wilderness turns sinister after four friends keep a fish they should have left alone. When they return to the outpost, they realize something from the lake has come back with them.

A man opens his front door and finds his life shattered by an impossible ultimatum. Suddenly accused of murdering his family and stalked by something otherworldly, he must decide what he's willing to do to get them back.

When a monstrous storm tears Michael Brennan's family away in a flash of lightning, he chases them into a nightmarish version of Earth. To save them, he must cross a world of horrors and stop a darkness spreading between realms.

Special Agent Sullivan Shale investigates a grotesque prison murder at a penitentiary cut off by floodwaters in the Minnesota swamp. Trapped inside, he uncovers a decades old secret and a threat that may be more than human.

After discovering his wife's affair, a man who has spent his life being pushed around finally lashes out. One deadly encounter forces him to confront the darkness in himself, and the horror waiting just beyond it.

Ex-homicide detective Liam Dempsey is drawn into a brutal murder investigation after his brother is killed in a quiet river town. With local politics closing in and bodies piling up, clearing his name may cost him everything.

Widower Evan Tormer and his injured son head to an island house in northern Minnesota hoping to start over. Instead they find a place warped by grief, fear, and the terrifying question of whether the haunting is real.

After a deadly virus wipes out most of the population, isolated young man Quinn Kelly is left alone in an empty America. Crossing the ruins with two unlikely companions, he searches for safety and a truth that may break him.

In a future that claims to have eliminated psychopathy, Sheriff MacArthur Gray believes a serial killer has somehow slipped through. Back in his hometown, he races to stop more deaths while everyone around him insists such a monster can't exist.

On the Maine coast, Jason Kingsley thinks he has finally escaped the life planned for him when he falls for Delphi Arans. But as strange events multiply, love gives way to dread and long buried secrets surface.

After his father dies in a logging accident, Chicago artist Mickey Bannon returns to northern Minnesota with his disabled son. There he finds unsettling visions, family secrets, and a snowbound home where the past refuses to stay buried.

In 1936, with the Great Depression still crushing small town America, evil takes hold in Rath, Minnesota. What begins as hardship and fear turns into a darker spiritual threat that changes the community for good.

Searching for the truth about her identity, Zoey travels with her allies to an Idaho missile silo said to hold vital records. What they find instead leads them toward a vicious trade in women and a darker kind of evil.

In a world where almost no girls are born, Zoey has spent her life imprisoned inside a research compound. When she escapes, she finds a brutal society and learns freedom may demand more violence than she imagined.

Trying to rebuild his life, Liam Dempsey gets pulled into a case involving a kidnapped politician's wife and a ransom soaked in blood. The deeper he digs, the more the investigation reopens his own wounds.

Zoey heads for Seattle, the last American city, after evidence suggests she may hold the key to humanity's future. Hunted from all sides, she must learn who she is before others decide what she's worth.

Dr. Gillian Ryan joins a mission to a space station after a terrifying dementia like illness begins destroying lives on Earth, including her daughter's. In orbit, paranoia, violence, and hidden agendas make the search for a cure feel like a trap.

Hart's second horror collection gathers ten stories about ordinary lives cracking open to reveal the monstrous beneath. From a lonely fire tower to guilt that turns literally haunting, the book mixes occult menace with human cruelty.

After David is left in a coma, seventeen year old Londyn is drawn into a distorted version of her Colorado hometown that may exist inside his fading mind. To save the boy she loves, she has to cross a landscape of broken memories.

Clare Murdock survived a mass cult suicide as a child, but lost her memories of what happened. Years later, news that her sister may still be alive pulls her back to northern Minnesota, where hallucinations and buried truths close in.

When novelist Andy Drake returns home to care for his father, an affair with married childhood friend Rachel turns deadly. After Rachel's husband is murdered and she disappears, Andy has to untangle a neighborhood full of secrets.

House flipper Greg Havel buys an isolated country home that seems wrong the moment he steps inside. Rooms change, the well feels bottomless, and escaping the house means facing the past he thought he'd outrun.

When a family vlogger's private plane crashes, child protective services agent Nora McTavish refuses to accept the easy answer. As she investigates the surviving mother and three foster children's hidden lives, the perfect family image collapses.

Family advocate Nora McTavish tries to help a childhood friend locked in a vicious custody fight with her ex-husband, a professor linked to murder rumors. As old lies surface and another body falls, Nora becomes a target herself.

Nora McTavish sets out to find the mother who abandoned her, only to stumble into a far more dangerous fight. Her search pulls her across Mexico and back to Oregon as she tries to protect an abused boy from a ruthless father.

Ten days into their marriage, Imogen suspects Lev of cheating, and a honeymoon fight sends him overboard. When he survives with memory loss, her search through his past uncovers a missing woman and a marriage built on fear.

Mira Caine takes a job caring for a troubled heiress on a remote estate in the St. Lawrence River, hoping to secure a better life for her brother. Instead she walks into a gothic maze of family violence, strange writings, and unraveling identity.