Anthologies#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Post Road 3. |
2001 |
Buy |
| The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories |
2004 |
Buy |
| Best American Fantasy |
2007 |
Buy |
| MOME Vol. 9 |
2007 |
Buy |
| The United States of McSweeney’s |
2009 |
Buy |
| Last Drink Bird Head |
2009 |
Buy |
| My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me |
2010 |
Buy |
| The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2011 |
2011 |
Buy |
| Supernatural Noir |
2011 |
Buy |
| Lightspeed Magazine, December 2012 |
2012 |
Buy |
| Exotic Gothic 4 |
2014 |
Buy |
| The New Black |
2014 |
Buy |
| Fearful Symmetries |
2014 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition |
2014 |
Buy |
| Letters to Lovecraft |
2014 |
Buy |
| Penumbrae |
2015 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven |
2015 |
Buy |
| Aickman’s Heirs |
2015 |
Buy |
| The Bestiary |
2015 |
Buy |
| Children of Lovecraft |
2016 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine |
2017 |
Buy |
| Looming Low: Volume I |
2017 |
Buy |
| Future Dreams |
2018 |
Buy |
| Birthing Monsters |
2018 |
Buy |
| Nox Pareidolia |
2019 |
Buy |
| The New Flesh |
2019 |
Buy |
| Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2020 Edition |
2021 |
Buy |
| Body Shocks |
2021 |
Buy |
| Conceptualisms |
2022 |
Buy |
| Howls from the Dark Ages |
2022 |
Buy |
| Screams from the Dark |
2022 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen |
2022 |
Buy |
| Diablo |
2022 |
Buy |
| Winter in the City |
2024 |
Buy |
| All Hallows Eve |
2026 |
Buy |
Best Horror of the Year Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One |
2009 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two |
2010 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three |
2011 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four |
2012 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five |
2013 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six |
2014 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven |
2015 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight |
2016 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine |
2017 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven |
2019 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve |
2020 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen |
2021 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen |
2022 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen |
2024 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen |
2024 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen |
2025 |
Buy |
Bookmarked Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| John Knowles’ A Separate Peace |
2016 |
Buy |
| Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five |
2016 |
Buy |
| Stephen King’s The Body |
2016 |
Buy |
| Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves |
2017 |
Buy |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby |
2017 |
Buy |
| Larry McMurtry’s The Last Picture Show |
2017 |
Buy |
| George Saunders’ Pastoralia |
2018 |
Buy |
| Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love |
2018 |
Buy |
| William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life |
2019 |
Buy |
| Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano |
2019 |
Buy |
| Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory |
2021 |
Buy |
| James Baldwin’s Another Country |
2021 |
Buy |
| Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood |
2021 |
Buy |
| Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway |
2022 |
Buy |
| Middlemarch and the Imperfect Life |
2022 |
Buy |
| Heaven, Hell and Paradise Lost |
2023 |
Buy |
| Christina Stead’s The Man Who Loved Children |
2023 |
Buy |
| Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels |
2024 |
Buy |
Chapbooks#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Brotherhood of Mutilation |
2003 |
Buy |
Come Join Us By The Fire II Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| If Living Is Seeing I’m Holding My Breath |
2021 |
Buy |
| The Cabin |
2021 |
Buy |
| The Song of The Lady Rose |
2021 |
Buy |
| Joren Falls |
2021 |
Buy |
| Music of the Abyss |
2021 |
Buy |
| You Will Survive This Night |
2021 |
Buy |
| Ghost Bread |
2021 |
Buy |
| Spyder Threads |
2021 |
Buy |
Dead Space Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Martyr |
2010 |
Buy |
| Catalyst |
2012 |
Buy |
Graphic Novels#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Ed vs. Yummy Fur |
2013 |
Buy |
MOME Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| MOME Vol. 1 |
2004 |
Buy |
| MOME Vol. 2 |
2006 |
Buy |
| MOME Vol. 3 |
2006 |
Buy |
| MOME Vol. 4 |
2006 |
Buy |
| MOME Vol. 5 |
2006 |
Buy |
| MOME Vol. 6 |
2007 |
Buy |
| MOME Vol. 7 |
2007 |
Buy |
| MOME Vol. 8 |
2007 |
Buy |
| MOME Vol. 9 |
2007 |
Buy |
| MOME Vol. 10 |
2008 |
Buy |
| MOME Vol. 11 |
2008 |
Buy |
| MOME Vol. 12 |
2008 |
Buy |
| MOME Vol. 13 |
2008 |
Buy |
| MOME Vol. 14 |
2009 |
Buy |
| MOME Vol. 15 |
2009 |
Buy |
| MOME Vol. 16 |
2009 |
Buy |
| MOME Vol. 17 |
2010 |
Buy |
| MOME Vol. 18 |
2010 |
Buy |
| MOME Vol. 19 |
2010 |
Buy |
| MOME Vol. 20 |
2010 |
Buy |
| MOME Vol. 21 |
2011 |
Buy |
| MOME Vol. 22 |
2011 |
Buy |
Non-Fiction#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Understanding Robert Coover |
2003 |
Buy |
Short Stories/Novellas#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Baby Leg |
2009 |
N/A |
| The Drownable Species |
2010 |
N/A |
| The Warren |
2016 |
Buy |
| Solution |
2020 |
Buy |
| After the Animal Flesh Beings |
2023 |
Buy |
Short Story Collections#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Altmann’s Tongue |
1994 |
Buy |
| Prophets and Brothers |
1997 |
N/A |
| The Din of Celestial Birds |
1997 |
Buy |
| Contagion and Other Stories |
2000 |
Buy |
| The Wavering Knife |
2004 |
Buy |
| Fugue State |
2009 |
Buy |
| Windeye |
2010 |
Buy |
| A Collapse of Horses |
2016 |
Buy |
| Reports |
2018 |
N/A |
| Song for the Unraveling of the World |
2019 |
Buy |
| Good Night, Sleep Tight |
2024 |
Buy |
Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Father of Lies |
1998 |
Buy |
| Dark Property |
2002 |
Buy |
| The Open Curtain |
2006 |
Buy |
| Selected Writings, Vol. 3 |
2006 |
Buy |
| Last Days |
2009 |
Buy |
| Immobility |
2012 |
Buy |
| The Lords of Salem |
2012 |
Buy |
| The Deaths of Henry King |
2016 |
Buy |
| Feral |
2017 |
Buy |
| The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell |
2021 |
Buy |
| None of You Shall Be Spared |
2023 |
Buy |
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition |
2010 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition |
2011 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition |
2012 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition |
2013 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition |
2014 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition |
2015 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition |
2016 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2017 Edition |
2017 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2019 Edition |
2020 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 1 |
2020 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 2 |
2021 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 3 |
2022 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 4 |
2023 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 5 |
2024 |
Buy |
Brian Evenson has been publishing unsettling, precisely written fiction since 1994. His work sits at the intersection of literary fiction and horror, with stories that create dread through what is left unsaid as much as through what happens on the page. His debut collection, Altmann’s Tongue, announced a writer willing to push into uncomfortable territory, and he has continued to do so across dozens of books.
Evenson’s short fiction has been widely anthologized and has appeared in the Best Horror of the Year, PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and Best American Fantasy collections. He has also written tie-in fiction for the Dead Space video game franchise and published non-fiction on writers he admires. His work is taught in creative writing programs and has earned him a devoted readership among fans of literary horror.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Brian B.K. Evenson written?
Brian B.K. Evenson has written 148 books across thirteen series.
What was Brian B.K. Evenson's first book?
Brian B.K. Evenson’s first book is Altmann’s Tongue, published in 1994.
What is Brian Evenson best known for?
Evenson is best known for his short fiction collections, which have won the Shirley Jackson Award, the O. Henry Prize, and an International Horror Guild Award. Books like A Collapse of Horses, Song for the Unraveling of the World, and The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell are considered modern horror classics. He also wrote the Dead Space tie-in novels.