Joe McKinney

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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 2006
  • Latest Book:
    January 2018
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Full Series List in Order

Dead Lands

1 - Plague of the Undead (Oct-2014)
2 - The Dead Won't Die (Oct-2015)

Dead World

1 - Dead City (Nov-2006)
2 - Apocalypse of the Dead (Nov-2010)
3 - Flesh Eaters (Apr-2011)
4 - Mutated (Sep-2012)

Book List in Order: 22 titles

  • Dead City

    Dead World - 1

    Texas? Toast. Battered by five cataclysmic hurricanes in three weeks, the Texas Gulf Coast and half of the Lone Star State is reeling from the worst devastation in history. Thousands are dead or dying -- but the worst is only beginning. Amid the ...

  • Dodging Bullets

    On the bad side of San Antonio the Mexican Mafia runs things and small-time dealers like Peto Hurst do what they're told. But when Peto decides to get out of the Life, and get rich while he's at it, he upsets the natural order of things and brings he...

  • Apocalypse of the Dead

    Dead World - 2

    And The Dead Shall Rise... Two hellish years. That's how long it's been since the hurricanes flooded the Gulf Coast, and the dead rose up from the ruins. The cities were quarantined; the infected, contained. Any unlucky survivors were left to fend...

  • Book Of Horror 2

    Creatures of the night are everywhere. Sometimes they make themselves seen, while other times they stay in the shadows, a glimpse out of the corner of your eye all you might catch. However, once in a while, if we are lucky, things that shouldn't exis...

  • Flesh Eaters

    Dead World - 3

    Battered by three devastating hurricanes in a row, the Texas coast is flattened. But for the people of Houston -- and soon all of America -- the most terrifying events are just beginning... They Rise... Out of the flooded streets of Houston, th...

  • End of Days 5: An Apocalyptic Anthology

    Destruction, chaos, death.... Life as we know it is wiped away in the blink of an eye; starvation, disease, and rubble all that is left behind. Would there be any survivors? Or would the dead be the lucky ones? What would you do if everything around ...

  • Quarantined

    The citizens of San Antonio, Texas are threatened with extermination by a terrifying outbreak of the flu. Quarantined by the military to contain the virus, the city is in a desperate struggle to survive. Inside the quarantine walls, Detective Lily Ha...

  • The Green Hornet Casefiles

    Moonstone presents The Green Hornet Casefiles, the second anthology featuring all-new, original crime fiction tales of the man who hunts the biggest of all game - public enemies that even the FBI can't reach! On police records, the Green Hornet is ac...

  • The Red Empire and Other Stories

    Joe McKinney's debut collection, The Red Empire & Other Stories, brings together eight tales of haunted policemen and cosmic horrors...

    A chance encounter with a homeless man one hot summer night opens the doors of perception for a Houston be...



  • The Crossing

    America is divided. A massive wall has been constructed to separate Free America, where life is as normal as it ever was, from the regions of Texas and the Gulf Coast populated by millions of the flesh-eating dead and the hopeless survivors they hunt...

  • Lost Girl of the Lake

    Lake Livingston: August, 1961. Mark Gaitlin is 15, the son of one of the wealthiest men in Texas, and on the most boring summer vacation of his life. His days are filled with the pomp and circumstance of country club life, while his nights are a para...

  • Mutated

    Dead World - 4

    They outnumber the living 25 to 1. Those are the odds of being struck down - and resurrected - by the savage plague that's sweeping the country, forcing survivors to band together against the dead. Even among the living, there is dissention. A new le...

  • Inheritance

    **Nominated for the Bram Stoker Award® - Superior Achievement in Novel - 2012** Paul Henninger is a rookie cop on San Antonio's troubled East Side, where every night is a war against the gangs and the drug dealers. But Paul has a dark past, and a da...

  • Crooked House

    In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning point.

    Those words were true when Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote them in 1851, and they were true in 1933, when a fire burned half of Cr...

  • The Savage Dead

    The Voyage Begins It starts in a laboratory. A man-made strain of flesh-eating virus. Created by a power-hungry cartel. Capable of turning victims into brain-dead carnivores. Smuggled aboard a cruise ship that’s about to set sail… The Virus...

  • Dog Days

    Winner of the Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a YA Novel. It's the summer of 1983 and the suburbs of Houston are reeling from a disastrous hurricane. But the storm brought more than wind and floodwaters. In the swamps that surround Cl...

  • Plague of the Undead

    Dead Lands - 1

    A Handful Of Survivors For thirty years, they have avoided the outbreak of walking death that has consumed America's heartland. They have secured a small compound near the ruins of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Isolated from the world. Immune to the horror. Bl...

  • Dead World Resurrection

    A decade ago, if you'd walked into a bookstore looking for a zombie novel, you would have found only two: Brian Keene's The Rising and Joe McKinney's Dead City. Long recognized as one of the driving voices that launched the world's fascination with t...

  • Truth or Dare?

    Halloween night. The freaks are out and having the time of their lives. The kids of Greene Point High School have organized a massive bonfire out in the woods. One drunken teen suggests playing a game, a game called Truth or Dare. That’s always a f...



  • The Dead Won't Die

    Dead Lands - 2

    In A World Of Death. . . First, the dead rose up--and civilization fell. Those who survived struggled to rebuild, creating makeshift societies with harsh new rules and harsher punishments. Some would be leaders, others slaves. But none would ever ...

  • The Forsaken

    HORROR, FANTASY, and SCI-FI AUTHORS TAKE US ON A TOUR OF ABANDONED PLACES!We’ve all seen them.The abandoned gas station, its pumps gone to rust. The once popular diner, now boarded up, its bright colors fading. A luxury yacht, adrift and alluring. ...

  • Speculations

    From Texas to Alaska, Joe McKinney's collection of nightmares will leave you mesmerized and frightened to the very core. Prepare yourself for a tour of the macabre: Police investigating the supernatural!Vampires trying to survive under the monstrosit...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Joe McKinney has published 22 books.

Joe McKinney does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Speculations, was published in January 2018.

The first book by Joe McKinney, Dead City, was published in November 2006.

Yes. Joe McKinney has 2 series.
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