Clay McLeod Chapman

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  • Bibliography:
    26 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 2003
  • Latest Book:
    June 2025
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Full Series List in Order

The Tribe

1 - Homeroom Headhunters (May-2013)
2 - Camp Cannibal (Apr-2014)
3 - Academic Assassins (Nov-2015)

Book List in Order: 26 titles

  • Miss Corpus

    Will has just returned home from sea to find his wife lying dead on the kitchen floor. Four states away, Phil has been waiting for his son to return home, only to discover his body decomposing at the bottom of a nearby swamp. Will's wife always wante...

  • Rest Area

    This edgy, darkly humorous short story collection will take hold of your imagination and won't let go.

    Sharply tuned, haunting, and darkly humorous, these stories take readers from the country fair to the suburban home to the boy scout camp...

  • Homeroom Headhunters

    The Tribe - 1

    All Schools are the same and Spencer Pendleton expects no less from Greenfield Middle. But Spencer hasn't met them yet-the Tribe, a group of runaway students who secretly own the school. They live off cafeteria food and wield weapons made out of ever...

  • Camp Cannibal

    The Tribe - 2

    Since being expelled for giving the Greenfield Middle School student body an "explosive" case of food poisoning and sent to live with his father, Spencer Pendleton hasn't exactly been doing his best to put the past behind him and settle into his new ...

  • Academic Assassins

    The Tribe - 3

    Once the Tribe laid siege to Camp New Leaf, Spencer was left with no choice but to call in the reinforcements: their parents. But when he sees that his own mom and dad have left him high and dry, Spencer runs into the woods and never looks back. Afte...

  • Lazaretto

    After a pandemic strikes, a dorm complex at a small American college is quarantined with all of the students trapped within. What first starts out as youthful freedom from authority soon devolves into a violent new society -- it’s Lord of the Flies...

  • Lazaretto #3

  • Ink Stains, Volume 9

    Relationships are complicated at best. Some are beautiful, some are beautiful disasters, and some are just deadly.

    This edition of Ink Stains explores some of the most fantastic, frightening, and fascinating dysfunctional relationships ever ...

  • The Remaking

    From Clay McLeod Chapman, “the twenty-first century’s Richard Matheson” (Richard Chizmar), comes an “original and chilling” (Buzzfeed) ghost story that follows the legend of the Witch Girl of Pilot’s Creek as it evolves every twenty years...



  • Scream: Curse of Carnage Vol. 1

    Collects Scream: Curse Of Carnage (2019) #1-5. Out of ABSOLUTE CARNAGE comes a new symbiotic sensation -- and it’ll be a Scream! Patricia Robertson, Andi Benton, Donna Diego -- their stories have all been leading to this. Now one of Venom’s o...

  • Origins #1

    A thousand years after humans are killed off by artificial intelligence, one man is brought back to life - David Adams, who created the technology that destroyed his people. Now with the help of the android Chloe who revived him, David will try to re...

  • Scream Vol. 2: Suffer the Children

  • Origins #2

    Nowhere is safe on the planet that David helped destroy, including the secret hideout where he was brought back to life as the last living human. When enemy AI attacks, David and his robot guardian, Chloe, must face an impossible mission in search of...

  • Origins #4

    When the Network discovers David and Chloe’s refuge, they’re forced to make a devastating sacrifice to escape. To continue into the desolate frozen wastelands towards David’s lab, they’ll need the help of their new-found allies if they want t...

  • Origins #5

    After reaching his long-buried workshop, David, Chloe, and his robot followers must make one final stand to protect their future. But the Network has a secret weapon and will stop at nothing from achieving their ultimate goal of destroying all organi...

  • Origins #6

    Humanity rests in the balance as David and Chloe near the end of their journey. * And in their way stands the last enemy either of them ever expected. * Final issue....

  • Whisper Down the Lane

    “A diabolically creepy hybrid of horror and psychological suspense that thrills as much as it unsettles.” -- Riley Sager, New York Times best-selling author of Home Before DarkA pulse-pounding, true-crime-based horror novel inspired by the McMart...

  • King in Black: Planet of the Symbiotes

    Darkness reigns over the Marvel Universe! As Knull makes his long-dreaded arrival, no corner of the world is safe - and all-star talents unite to explore key moments in the saga! Featuring epic clashes between Knull's army and Earth's heroes, the ret...

  • Origins

    HUMANITY IS NO MORE. One thousand years after humans have gone extinct and artificial intelligence has taken over the world, a single man is brought back to life -- David Adams, the genius whose technology was responsible for the destruction of his ...



  • Devil's Reign: Villains For Hire

    Collects Devil's Reign: Villains for Hire #1-3 and Devil's Reign: Moon Knight. As Mayor Wilson Fisk wages war on all super heroes, New York City is on a razor's edge. There's only one force fighting for the rule of law amidst the chaos: The Thunderbo...

  • Ghost Eaters

    “A Gothic-punk graveyard tale about what haunts history and what haunts the human soul. An addicting read that draws you into its descent from the first page.” -- Chuck Wendig, New York Times best-selling author of The Book of AccidentsOne of Vul...

  • What Kind of Mother

    A New York Times Book Review Best Horror of 2023 selection. “Packed with profoundly unsettling scenes that’ll slither under your skin and stay there long after you turn the last page.” -- Gabino Iglesias, author of The Devil Takes You HomeAfter...

  • Stay on the Line

    This book is a literary punch to the heart. -New York TimesAfter a small coastal town is devastated by a hurricane, the survivors gravitate toward a long out-of-service payphone in hopes of talking out their grief and saying goodbye to loved ones, on...

  • Kill Your Darling

    The acclaimed author of Ghost Eaters and What Kind of Mother comes to Bad Hand Books.The body of Glenn Partridge's 15-year-old son was discovered in a vacant lot nearly forty years ago. The police are still no closer to finding the murderer decades l...

  • Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

    “Clay McLeod Chapman is one of my favorite horror storytellers working today.” -- Jordan Peele“Surreal, hypnotic, unrelenting, profoundly claustrophobic, and an absolutely scathing send-up of the pitfalls of American divisiveness.” -- Keith R...

  • Seance in the Asylum

    Séance in the Asylum will have you questioning what is real, and what’s not…or in this case, who’s mad, who’s sane, or who’s actually possessed?1865. The Civil War finally reaches its grueling end. Soldiers retur...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Clay McLeod Chapman has published 26 books.

The next book by Clay McLeod Chapman, Seance in the Asylum, will be published in June 2025.

The first book by Clay McLeod Chapman, Miss Corpus, was published in February 2003.

Yes. Clay McLeod Chapman has 1 series.
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