Joe Hill

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  • Bibliography:
    58 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1999
  • Latest Book:
    November 2024
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Full Series List in Order

20th Century Ghosts

1 - Best New Horror (Dec-2005)
3 - Pop Art (Feb-2001)
4 - You Will Hear the Locust Sing (Feb-2004)
5 - Abraham's Boys (Jan-2004)
6 - Better Than Home (Feb-1999)
7 - The Black Phone (Feb-2004)
8 - In the Rundown (Feb-2005)
9 - The Cape (Feb-2005)
10 - Last Breath (Feb-2009)
11 - Dead-Wood (Feb-2009)
12 - The Widow's Breakfast (Feb-2009)
13 - Bobby Conroy Comes Back from the Dead (Feb-2009)
14 - My Father's Mask (Feb-2009)
15 - Voluntary Committal (Feb-2009)
20th Century Ghosts (Oct-2007)

Locke & Key

1 - Welcome to Lovecraft (Sep-2008)
2 - Head Games (Sep-2009)
3 - Crown of Shadows (Jul-2010)
4 - Keys to the Kingdom (Jun-2011)
4.5 - Grindhouse (Aug-2012)
5 - Clockworks (Jun-2012)
6 - Alpha & Omega (Jul-2014)

Book List in Order: 58 titles

  • Better Than Home

    20th Century Ghosts - 6

    From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story -- from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts.Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every fi...

  • Pop Art

    20th Century Ghosts - 3

    From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story -- from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts.Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every fi...

  • Abraham's Boys

    in The Many Faces of Van Helsing
    20th Century Ghosts - 5

    From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story -- from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts.Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every fi...

  • The Black Phone

    20th Century Ghosts - 7

    From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short storyfrom Joe Hill's award-winning collection 20 th Century Ghosts . Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about ...

  • You Will Hear the Locust Sing

    20th Century Ghosts - 4

    From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story -- from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts.Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every fi...

  • The Cape

    20th Century Ghosts - 9

    Every little boy dreams about putting on a cape and soaring up, up, and away ... but what if one day that dream were to come true? Eric was like every other eight-year-old boy, until a tragic accident changed his life forever. THE CAPE explores the d...

  • In the Rundown

    20th Century Ghosts - 8

    From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story -- from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts.Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every fi...

  • Best New Horror

    20th Century Ghosts - 1

    From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story -- from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts.Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every fi...

  • Heart-Shaped Box

    "I will 'sell' my stepfather's ghost to the highest bidder . . . " An aging death-metal rock god, Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals ... a used hangman's noose . . . a snuff film. But nothing he possesses is as unlik...



  • The Irish Rose

    The Irish Rose is a mature love story. Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, Tara O Shea O Malley emigrates to America in 1959 at 24 years old. Eventually she marries an Irish-American at 29, becomes a mother of four children, her Four Green Fields by ...

  • 20th Century Ghosts

    20th Century Ghosts

    Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . . Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big id...

  • Welcome to Lovecraft

    Locke & Key - 1

    "Locke & Key" tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them, and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door ...

  • Bobby Conroy Comes Back from the Dead

    20th Century Ghosts - 13

    From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story -- from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts.Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every fi...

  • Dead-Wood

    20th Century Ghosts - 11

    From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story -- from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts.Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every fi...

  • Last Breath

    20th Century Ghosts - 10

    From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story -- from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts.Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every fi...

  • My Father's Mask

    20th Century Ghosts - 14

    From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story -- from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts.Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every fi...

  • Voluntary Committal

    20th Century Ghosts - 15

    From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story -- from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts.Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every fi...

  • The Widow's Breakfast

    20th Century Ghosts - 12

    From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story -- from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts.Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every fi...

  • Head Games

    Locke & Key - 2

    New York Times bestselling writer Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez, the creators behind the acclaimed "Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft," return with the next chapter in the ongoing tale, "Head Games." Following a shocking death that dredges...



  • Horns

    Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with a thunderous hangover, a raging headache...and a pair of horns growing from his temples. At first Ig thought the horns were a hallucination, the pro...

  • Crown of Shadows

    Locke & Key - 3

    The dead plot against the living, the darkness closes in on Keyhouse, and a woman is shattered beyond repair, in the third storyline of the Eisner-nominated series, Locke & Key. Dodge continues his relentless quest to find the key to the black do...

  • Keys to the Kingdom

    Locke & Key - 4

    Now a Netflix Original Series! Acclaimed suspense novelist and New York Times-bestselling author Joe Hill continues his Eisner Award-winning story of dark fantasy and wonder.

    The Locke children have grown accustomed to the myriad magical k...

  • Clockworks

    Locke & Key - 5

    The sprawling tale of the Locke family and their mastery of the whispering iron thunders to new heights as the true history of the family is revealed to Tyler and Kinsey. Zack Wells assumes a new form, Tyler and Kinsey travel through time, and surpri...

  • The Ghost Is the Machine

    WINNER 2012 P&E Readers Poll - Best Anthology of 2012!

    An Anthology of Steampunk Inspired Ghost Stories

    The Ghost IS the Machine - Steampunk meets Horror and the machines might just win.

    Machines define human society.

    But that doe...

  • Grindhouse

    Locke & Key - 4.5

    THIS is the blood-splashed, bare-knuckled Locke & Key standalone story you've been waiting for! In the glare of a Depression-era summer, three Canuck gangsters pull the heist of their dreams and take off for the perfect hiding spot-- an isolated mans...

  • Thumbprint

    A short story from critically acclaimed, bestselling author Joe Hill about a young woman who returns home from a military tour in the Middle East . . . and her dark past follows closely behind. ...

  • The Cape: 1969

    It’s 1969 and the war in Vietnam rages on. Captain Chase, a Medevac helicopter pilot for the US Army, is shot down over enemy territory. He and his crew are in a fight for their lives as they play a deadly game of cat and mouse with the Vietcong. W...

  • Nos4a2

    NOS4A2 is a spine-tingling novel of supernatural suspense from master of horror Joe Hill, the New York Times bestselling author of Heart-Shaped Box and Horns. Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing p...

  • Twittering from the Circus of the Dead

    Come one, come all. The show's about to begin. Step right up for the Circus of the Dead: where YOU are the concessions....



  • More

    Grace Livingston Hill (April 16, 1865 -- 1947) was an early 20th century novelist and wrote both under her real name and the pseudonym Marcia Macdonald. She wrote over 100 novels and numerous short stories. Her characters were most often young fema...

  • The Wraith: Welcome to Christmasland

    Three escaped convicts are looking for a set of wheels that can carry them to freedom. Charlie Manx has just the ride they need... but when they get to Christmasland, they'll wish they went to prison instead. Ten years of hard time looks pretty easy ...

  • Wolverton Station

    Saunders made his fortune as a hatchet man for hire and has come to England to do what he does best: chop down the little guys to clear the way for a global firm. But his train north just made an unexpected stop to let on some passengers straight out...

  • By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain

    Little Gail London and her friend Joel Quarrel are out on a cold and lonely morning at the end of summer, when they make the find of the century: a dead plesiosaur, the size of a two-ton truck, washed up on the sand. With the fog swirling about them,...

  • Alpha & Omega

    Locke & Key - 6

    The shadows have never been darker and the end has never been closer. Turn the key and open the last door; it's time to say goodbye. The final arc of New York Times bestselling Locke & Key comes to a thunderous and compelling conclusion. An event not...

  • Shadow Show: Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury

    WINNER OF THE BRAM STOKER AWARD FOR BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL - 2016!

    In Shadow Show, acclaimed writers and artists such as Joe Hill, Mort Castle, Audrey Niffeneffer, Charles Paul Wilson III, Maria Frohlich, Eddie Campbell, Neil Gaiman, and more com...

  • The Fireman

    Dragonscale is a terrifying new plague. A highly contagious, deadly spore imprints its hosts with beautiful black and gold marks across their bodies -- before causing them to burst into flames. Millions are infected. There is no cure. No one is safe....

  • Tales from the Darkside

    The storied history of TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE winds ever darker and weirder with this collection of scripts by JOE HILL from the never-broadcast 2015 television reboot. TV’s loss is your gain as these all-new tales break out of the shadows and spr...

  • Joe Hill: The Graphic Novel Collection

    Get into the mind of the bestselling author with these five graphic novels, spanning genres from straight up horror to psychological thriller!

    New York Times Best Seller Joe Hill is the creative force behind this collection of graphic novels t...

  • Small World

    Now a Netflix Original Series! Three years after wrapping up their award-winning, bestselling Locke & Key saga, the team that built Keyhouse returns to Lovecraft, Massachusetts with a new tale of terror and suspense! An impossible birthday gift for ...



  • Heaven and Earth

    Now a Netflix Original Series! Three never-before-collected stories set in the world of Keyhouse, showcasing the depths of depravity and heart-breaking heights that New York Times best-selling author Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez have...

  • Strange Weather

    A collection of four chilling novels, ingeniously wrought gems of terror from the brilliantly imaginative, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman, Joe Hill. "One of America's finest horror writers" (Time magazine), Joe Hill has been h...

  • Road Rage

    On the isolated road of the American highway... terror rides on 18 wheels! Tales of diesel-fueled fear from three masters of horror fiction.

    With Throttle, acclaimed novelist/Eisner-winning graphic novelist Joe Hill collaborated with his fathe...

  • You Are Released

    in Flight or Fright

    #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of horror Stephen King teams up with Bev Vincent of Cemetery Dance to present a terrifying collection of sixteen short stories (and one poem) that tap into one of King’s greatest fears -- air travel -...

  • At Home in the Dark

    "Noir fiction comes in many forms, as multiple award"winning thriller and mystery writer Block points out in this stellar collection. Sometimes noir carries the trappings of the hard-boiled style -- dangling cigarettes, mean streets, gunsels -- but...

  • Dark Carousel

    Joe Hill, "the best horror writer of our generation” (Michael Koryta), returns with a brand new short story.A balmy summer night in 1994. Four teenagers out for an evening of fun on the boardwalk take a ride on the “Wild Wheel” " an antique c...

  • Full Throttle: Stories

    In this masterful collection of short fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including “In The Tall Grass,” one of two stories co-written with Stephen King and the basis for the ...

  • The Cape: Fallen

    If power corrupts, then surely with great power comes even greater corruption. New York Times-bestselling author Joe Hill's darkest creation returns in an unsettling new tale!

    Writer Jason Ciaramella and artist Zach Howard uncover new folds in...

  • Late Returns

    • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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  • A Little Silver Book of Sharp Shiny Slivers

    A Little Silver Book of Sharp Shiny Slivers collects some of Joe Hill's most offbeat writing. Here he reflects on the end of the world, explains why horror fiction matters, and offers up his own rules for writing. The author encounters one of literat...



  • Basketful of Heads

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill asks, "With a cursed Viking axe, what can you accomplish?" and June Branch is ready to answer! June Branch visits her boyfriend, Liam, on Brody Island for a relaxing last weekend of summer. Aft...

  • Dying is Easy

    Comedy is hard... but dying is easy! From New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill (Locke & Key) comes this new graphic novel mystery.

    Meet Syd "Sh*t-Talk" Homes, a disgraced ex-cop turned bitter stand-up comic turned... possible felon? Carl...

  • Plunge

    In the aftermath of a devastating tsunami, an exploration vessel known as the Derleth begins sending an automated distress signal from a remote atoll in the Bering Strait. The only problem is that the Derleth has been missing for 40 years. Marine bio...

  • Locke and Key, Volume 1:: (Locke and Key, Volume 1: Welcome to Lovecraft Spanish Edition)

  • Phantoms

    "A stunning new ghost story anthology featuring stories from bestselling authors Joe Hill, Josh Malerman, Paul Tremblay and M.R. Carey.

    The brightest names in horror showcase a ghastly collection of eighteen ghost stories that will have you wa...

  • Locke & Key: The Golden Age

    The beloved graphic novel series turned Netflix hit continues! Take a trip through the past and unlock moments from Keyhouse's long history that expand the saga of the Locke family in this collection of stories including the crossover with Neil Gaima...

  • The Black Phone and Other Stories

  • Joe Hill's Rain

    On a seemingly normal August day in Boulder, Colorado, the skies are clear and Honeysuckle Speck couldn’t be happier. She’s finally moving in with her girlfriend Yolanda. But their world is literally torn apart when dark clouds roll in and releas...

  • Ushers: A Short Story

    A young man who has improbably escaped death twice reveals his secret in a spine-tingling short story by New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill. Martin Lorensen is a twenty-three-year-old counselor for disturbed teenagers. He’s bright, compa...

Award-Winning Books by Joe Hill

The Fireman
2016 Goodreads Choice Award -- Horror
2017 Locus Award -- Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel
Heart-Shaped Box
2007 Bram Stoker Award -- First Novel
2008 Locus Award -- First Novel
Shadow Show: Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury
2015 Bram Stoker Award -- Graphic Novel
Strange Weather
2017 Bram Stoker Award -- Fiction Collection
Voluntary Committal
2006 World Fantasy Award -- Novella


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Joe Hill has published 58 books.

Joe Hill does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Ushers: A Short Story, was published in November 2024.

The first book by Joe Hill, Better Than Home, was published in February 1999.

Yes. Joe Hill has 2 series.
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