Victor LaValle Books in Order

These linked stories roam through Queens, following kids and young adults as they crash into family trouble, faith, violence, and bad luck. LaValle writes the neighborhood with humor and hurt, making even small moments feel loaded.

Anthony James is back in Queens after college, heavy, hurting, and possibly losing his grip on reality. LaValle turns his family chaos into something funny, sad, and strange without ever looking away from the pain.

Ricky Rice, an ex addict and the lone survivor of a suicide cult, gets summoned to rural Vermont by a secret order of paranormal investigators. What follows is part road novel, part spiritual mystery, and all wonderfully weird.

When her sick best friend Sunny disappears, Lucretia climbs into apartment 6D and enters a shadow world of missing children and monsters. It's a dark little quest story about friendship, fear, and what kids will risk for each other.

Pepper is dumped into a Queens psychiatric ward for what should be a short stay, then learns a horned, bison-headed devil stalks the halls at night. To survive, he has to trust fellow patients and fight a system that feels monstrous all by itself.

Horse is about to get married, Ahab is about to join the Marines, and both know their old life in Queens is ending. This short story turns a day at the beach into a bittersweet goodbye to friendship and neighborhood memory.

In Jazz Age New York, hustler Charles Thomas Tester makes a living running small jobs until one delivery pulls him toward occult power. LaValle turns cosmic horror into a sharp story about survival, rage, and what the city asks of Black men.

After her son is killed by police, brilliant scientist Josephine Baker turns to forbidden science and revives the Frankenstein legacy. Her act of grief sets her on a collision course with the original Monster and a much larger reckoning.

While authorities close in on Dr. Baker, Frankenstein's Monster heads toward the U.S.-Mexico border and gets pulled into another human crisis. The issue widens the story beyond one family and shows how rage travels.

In her hidden lab, Dr. Baker finally reveals what she has done to bring Akai back. As old grief turns into new horror, the book asks whether love can survive a second creation.

Akai and Frankenstein's Monster clash over Josephine Baker's fate in a remote Montana cabin. Before the family can catch its breath, outside forces arrive ready to erase the evidence and everyone attached to it.

Government forces close in on Akai, Dr. Baker, and the Monster as the hunt grows more desperate. A new player enters the chase, pushing the Frankenstein family toward an even uglier showdown.

The final issue brings Akai and Frankenstein's Monster into open battle amid the ruins of the lab. Family legacy, grief, and revenge all crash together as the series reaches its final reckoning.

Apollo Kagwa thinks the hard part is becoming a father, until his wife vanishes after a terrible act. His search pulls him through a dark fairy-tale New York where folklore, grief, and parenthood become impossible to separate.

After a deadly train wreck, a Black man thinks back on the stranger who revealed the inhuman truth about his family and origins. LaValle mixes cosmic horror, race, and buried history into a fierce Lovecraftian tale.

After climate collapse and a hidden disease devastate humanity, a girl named Eve wakes from virtual safety into a ruined America. With only her robotic guardian Wexler beside her, she sets out on a mission that could restore life.

Eve and Wexler try to cross the ruins of New York while staying ahead of mutants that want to devour them. When the pair are separated, Eve learns the wasteland holds dangers even Wexler did not prepare her for.

Reaching dry land does not make Eve safer. A mysterious group of children forces her to question Wexler's story and wonder how much of her mission, and her past, has been built on lies.

With the Vault finally in sight, Eve faces the hardest stretch of her journey yet. A new ally changes the mission, while Wexler races to catch up before humanity's last chance slips away.

Eve reaches the sunken Vault off Washington State and comes face to face with the truth waiting inside. The finale asks whether her long quest will heal the planet or finish destroying it.

Grimace believes the voices in his soda cans have given him a mission, and runaway Kim decides to follow him. Their trip through New York can read like madness, faith, or both at once.

This Marvel anthology celebrates Black heroes across the line, and Victor LaValle contributes a Moon Girl story to the mix. It's a brisk, varied collection built around legacy, history, and what heroism can pass forward.

Buried alive in Krakoa's Pit, Sabretooth discovers prison is not as empty or as silent as it seems. This opening trade turns a mutant punishment story into a tense study of power, manipulation, and the people a utopia throws away.

In 1915, Adelaide Henry heads to Montana as a lone homesteader with a locked trunk and a secret she cannot outrun. The novel blends frontier survival, sisterhood, and horror into a tense story about what follows a woman west.

Free from the Pit but far from safe, Victor Creed finds himself hunted by former allies and trapped in another brutal experiment. This follow-up keeps the Krakoa politics sharp while leaning hard into pursuit, betrayal, and survival.