John Skipp

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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1987
  • Latest Book:
    November 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Book of the Dead

2 - Still Dead (Jul-1992)

Book List in Order: 21 titles

  • The Cleanup

    After witnessing the brutal murder of a young woman, jailed rock musician Billy Rowe encounters a mysterious creature who grants him the power to wipe out crime and criminals from the streets of New York...

  • The Scream

    Rock 'n' Roll. Hell. Two great tastes that taste great together. Long before Elvis gyrated on the Sullivan Show or the Beatles toiled the smoky red-light bars of Hamburg, music has been sowing the seeds of liberation. Or damnation. With each new gene...

  • Film at Eleven

    in Silver Scream

    Welcome to the midnight matinee, the great cinematic festival of horror. From the broken down picture palaces to glorious neon drive-ins, from the has-been stars of yesterday to the ambitious, rapacious would-be stars of tomorrow, from the tinsel ...

  • Dead Lines

    Foreword by David Niall Wilson plus a new author's foreword by Craig Spector and Afterword by John SkippDEAD LINES is about a young writer/artist type, Jack Rowan, in NYC, whose career never took off. His life is in the toilet. He's broken up with hi...

  • Book of the Dead

    Blood-draining tales by horror masters--including Stephen King, Robert McCammon, Ramsey Campbell, and David Schow--conjure the heinous deeds of the vengeful living dead, in a collection of Zombie stories...

  • Still Dead

    Book of the Dead - 2

    An anthology of horror stories based on the universe of George A. Romero features the work of Nancy Collins, Douglas Winter, Elizabeth Massie, and others, and includes the lost original script for Romero's "Day of the Dead"...

  • Animals

    Wild Things...They've been with us forever - prowling the smoky roadhouse dives that are their watering holes and hunting grounds. Predators, lurking amidst the human herd.Changing shape at will. Lusting for blood and meat they are gods in the wild...

  • The Emerald Burrito of Oz

    It's years past the Millennium and somehow the worlds of Earth and Oz have begun to commingle. It starts when Glinda the Good Witch becomes President and before long munchkins are working at fast food restaurants....

  • The Light at the End

    The newspapers scream out headlines that spark terror across the city. Ten murders on the New York City subway. Ten grisly crimes that defy all reason, pattern, or m.o., no leads for police to pursue. The press dubs him the "Subway Psycho"; the NYPD ...



  • Stupography

    Stupography is bestselling author John Skipp's scathing, hilarious cultural critique of "media that makes us dumber, the longer we look at it". It endorses the "S" is for "Stoopid" rating, and urges readers to redraw the cultural playing field. Vote ...

  • Mondo Zombie

    Mondo Zombie edited by John Skipp illustrated by Alan M. Clark

    Welcome to Mondo Zombie!

    This is the legendary, long-lost anthology that living dead lovers have been waiting for. If you like: • samurai zombies • wrestling chainsaw zombies â€...

  • Long Last Call

    It was closing time at the strip club. The bartender was cleaning up, and the girls were looking forward to calling it a night. Then he came in, a well-dressed stranger with a lot of cash to spend. A briefcase full, in fact. But this is no normal ...

  • Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead

    From a master of zombie fiction and a founding father of "splatterpunk" comes a mind-bending anthology of 32 new and classic stories from both renowned writers and rising stars

    In the tradition of Black Dog & Leventhal's bestselling

    Va...

  • Werewolves and Shapeshifters: Encounters with the Beast Within

    Werewolves and shapeshifters have morphed into the latest pop culture stars.  This mind-bending collection includes thirty-two new and classic stories from the best writers in the genre

    Werewolves and shapeshifters are the latest literary cra...

  • Demons

    2011 BRAM STOKER WINNER for Superior Achievement in an Anthology!

    This mind-blowing anthology cracks open the lid on demonic lore, from the possessed to fallen angels and the Devil himself. The next book in Black Dog's supernatural ...

  • Sick Chick Flicks

    INTRODUCING THREE KICKASS LEADING LADIES FROM HADES! Sit back and enjoy, as mad maverick author-turned-filmmaker John Skipp unspools this twisted TRIPLE-BILL of fierce, fun, f***ed-up mind-movies for the wild at heart: AFTERPARTY She's a careta...

  • Psychos: Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane

    This collection of thirty-eight terrifying tales of serial killers at large, written by the great masters of the genre, plumbs the horrifying depths of a deranged mind and the forces of evil that compel a human being to murder, gruesomely and methodi...

  • Conscience

    If Jim Thompson wrote A CHRISTMAS CAROL, it might go a little something like this...

    CONSCIENCE is a short, fierce novel of corruption and redemption by New York Times bestselling author John Skipp. Using the terse, muscular prose of modern crime ...

  • The Art of Horrible People

    "Savor this book. Savor this writer." - from the introduction by Josh Malerman, author of Bird Box

    From Hollywood film studios to high-security psychiatric facilities, there is an art to being a horrible person. Splatterpunk legend J...



  • Fright Night

    It is hungry.It is thirsty.It lives next door to Charley Brewster.Charley has seen the coffin and the bodies drained of blood. He knows he will be the vampire’s next victim. But no one will believe him: not the police, not his girlfriend Amy, not e...

  • Don't Push the Button

    LOVE IS THE ONLY SHOCKING ACT LEFT We all know horror. It’s in our face every day. You can try to negotiate the nightmare but total chaos and destruction is just one button-push away. Horror legend John Skipp walks you through the l...

Award-Winning Books by John Skipp

Demons
2011 Bram Stoker Award -- Anthology
Mondo Zombie
2006 Bram Stoker Award -- Anthology


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Skipp has published 21 books.

John Skipp does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Don't Push the Button, was published in November 2021.

The first book by John Skipp, The Cleanup, was published in February 1987.

Yes. John Skipp has 1 series.
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