Anthologies#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Book of the Dead |
1989 |
Buy |
| Deathport |
1993 |
Buy |
| Splatterpunks II |
1993 |
Buy |
| South From Midnight |
1994 |
Buy |
| Love in Vein |
1994 |
Buy |
| The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 7 |
1996 |
Buy |
| Dark Terrors 3 |
1997 |
Buy |
| Kiss and Kill |
1997 |
Buy |
| The Mammoth Book of Dracula |
1997 |
Buy |
| Crimes of Passion |
1997 |
Buy |
| Hot Blood X |
1998 |
Buy |
| Horrors!: 365 Scary Stories |
1998 |
Buy |
| In the Shadow of the Gargoyle |
1998 |
Buy |
| The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 9 |
1998 |
Buy |
| Dark Terrors 5 |
2000 |
Buy |
| Skull Full of Spurs |
2000 |
Buy |
| Queer Fear |
2000 |
Buy |
| Outside the Box: The Best Short Fiction from Bookface.Com |
2002 |
Buy |
| The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14 |
2003 |
Buy |
| Fatal Attractions |
2003 |
Buy |
| The Children of Cthulhu |
2003 |
Buy |
| Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection |
2003 |
Buy |
| The Many Faces of Van Helsing |
2004 |
Buy |
| Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection |
2004 |
Buy |
| A Walk on the Darkside |
2004 |
Buy |
| Mondo Zombie |
2006 |
Buy |
| Best New Horror 17 |
2006 |
Buy |
| Shivers VI |
2010 |
Buy |
| A Book of Horrors |
2011 |
Buy |
| Stranger by Night |
2011 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three |
2011 |
Buy |
| Necro Files |
2011 |
Buy |
| Halloween: Magic, Mystery, and the Macabre |
2011 |
Buy |
| Roots and All |
2011 |
Buy |
| Best New Horror 22 |
2011 |
Buy |
| Danse Macabre |
2012 |
Buy |
| Messing With Your Head |
2012 |
Buy |
| Extreme Zombies |
2012 |
Buy |
| Psychos |
2012 |
Buy |
| Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth |
2013 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six |
2014 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition |
2014 |
Buy |
| New Cthulhu 2: More Recent Weird |
2015 |
Buy |
| Eulogies III |
2015 |
Buy |
| The Monstrous |
2015 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight |
2016 |
Buy |
| Children of Lovecraft |
2016 |
Buy |
| Corruption at the Crossroad |
2017 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine |
2017 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten |
2018 |
Buy |
| Miscreations |
2020 |
Buy |
| Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles |
2020 |
Buy |
| Screams from the Dark |
2022 |
Buy |
| The Horror Collection Onyx Edition |
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 Nine |
2017 |
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 Twelve |
2020 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight |
2016 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three |
2011 |
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 Thirteen |
2021 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven |
2019 |
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 |
Chronicles of Darkness#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Dawn of Heresies |
2017 |
Buy |
Hellboy Graphic Novel Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Hellboy |
2004 |
N/A |
| Hellboy: The Lost Army |
1997 |
N/A |
| The Lost Army |
2001 |
Buy |
| Hellboy: The Bones of Giants |
2001 |
N/A |
| The Bones of Giants |
2001 |
Buy |
| Odd Jobs |
2001 |
Buy |
| On Earth As It Is In Hell |
2005 |
Buy |
| Odder Jobs |
2004 |
Buy |
| Hellboy: The God Machine |
2006 |
N/A |
| Unnatural Selection |
2006 |
Buy |
| The God Machine |
2006 |
Buy |
| Hellboy: Emerald Hell |
2008 |
N/A |
| The Dragon Pool |
2007 |
Buy |
| Hellboy: The All-Seeing Eye |
2008 |
N/A |
| Emerald Hell |
2008 |
Buy |
| Hellboy: The Fire Wolves |
2009 |
N/A |
| Hellboy II: The Golden Army |
2008 |
Buy |
| Hellboy: The Ice Wolves |
2009 |
N/A |
| Oddest Jobs |
2008 |
Buy |
| The All-Seeing Eye |
2008 |
Buy |
| The Fire Wolves |
2009 |
Buy |
| Lobster Johnson: The Satan Factory |
2009 |
Buy |
| The Ice Wolves |
2009 |
Buy |
| An Assortment of Horrors |
2017 |
Buy |
| Hellboy in Love |
2023 |
Buy |
| Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1955-1957 |
2024 |
Buy |
Short Stories/Novellas#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Alchemy of the Throat |
1994 |
N/A |
| Madame Babylon |
1997 |
N/A |
| As Above, So Below |
1998 |
N/A |
| The Dripping of Sundered Wineskins |
1998 |
Buy |
| The Weight of the Dead |
2016 |
Buy |
| I’ll Bring You the Birds From out of the Sky |
2018 |
Buy |
Short Story Collections#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Convulsion Factory |
1996 |
Buy |
| Falling Idols |
1998 |
Buy |
| Picking the Bones |
2011 |
Buy |
| Dark City |
2015 |
Buy |
| The Immaculate Void |
2018 |
Buy |
| Skidding Into Oblivion |
2019 |
Buy |
Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Dark Advent |
1988 |
Buy |
| Oasis |
1988 |
Buy |
| Nightlife |
1991 |
Buy |
| Deathgrip |
1992 |
Buy |
| The Darker Saints |
1993 |
Buy |
| Prototype |
1996 |
Buy |
| Wild Horses |
1999 |
Buy |
| Lies & Ugliness |
2002 |
Buy |
| Mad Dogs |
2007 |
Buy |
The Lovecraft Squad Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| All Hallows Horror |
2017 |
Buy |
| Waiting |
2017 |
Buy |
| Dreaming |
2018 |
Buy |
| Rising |
2020 |
Buy |
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition |
2015 |
Buy |
| 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, 2016 Edition |
2016 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2017 Edition |
2017 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition |
2014 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition |
2013 |
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 |
Worlds of Hurt#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| World of Hurt |
2006 |
Buy |
Brian Hodge is a horror and dark fiction author with over 140 published works since his debut novels Dark Advent and Oasis in 1988. His novels include Nightlife (1991), Deathgrip (1992), The Darker Saints (1993), Prototype (1996), Wild Horses (1999), and Mad Dogs (2007). He has also written for the Hellboy franchise, with contributions to multiple Hellboy novels and anthologies.
His short fiction is collected in volumes like The Convulsion Factory (1996), Falling Idols (1998), Dark City (2015), The Immaculate Void (2018), and Skidding Into Oblivion (2019). Hodge is one of the most frequently anthologized horror authors, appearing in the Best Horror of the Year series (18 volumes) and The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror (15 volumes), plus over 50 additional anthologies.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Brian Hodge written?
Brian Hodge has written 140 books across ten series.
What was Brian Hodge's first book?
Brian Hodge’s first book is Dark Advent, published in 1988.
What is Brian Hodge best known for?
Brian Hodge is known for his horror novels like Prototype (1996) and Wild Horses (1999), his short fiction collections like The Convulsion Factory (1996), and his frequent appearances in Best Horror of the Year and other major horror anthologies.