Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Book of the Dead | 1989 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 2 | Razored Saddles | 1989 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 3 | The New Frontier | 1989 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 4 | The Year’s Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection | 1989 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 5 | Third Annual Collection | 1989 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 6 | The Year’s Best Fantasy 2 / Demons and Dreams | 1990 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 7 | Splatter-Punks: The Definitive Anthology | 1990 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 8 | Cold Blood | 1991 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 9 | The Horror Hall of Fame | 1991 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 10 | The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection | 1991 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 11 | Fourth Annual Collection | 1991 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 12 | The Little Book of Horrors: Tiny Tales of Terror | 1992 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 13 | Dark at Heart | 1992 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 14 | The Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1991 | 1992 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 15 | The Giant Book of Zombies | 1993 | Joe R. Lansdale | N/A |
| 16 | 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories | 1993 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 17 | Dark Crimes 2 | 1993 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 18 | The Mammoth Book of Zombies | 1993 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 19 | Sea-Cursed | 1994 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 20 | Ten Tales | 1994 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 21 | The King is Dead: Tales of Elvis Postmortem | 1994 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 22 | 100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories | 1995 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 23 | 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories | 1995 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 24 | Weird Business | 1995 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 25 | The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology: Celebrating 25 Years | 2001 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 26 | The Silver Gryphon | 2003 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 27 | Retro Pulp Tales | 2006 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 28 | Cross Plains Universe | 2006 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 29 | The Mammoth Book of Monsters | 2007 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 30 | The Living Dead | 2008 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 31 | Best New Horror 19 | 2008 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 32 | The Best of Cemetery Dance II | 2008 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 33 | Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead | 2009 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 34 | Smoke and Mirrors | 2009 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 35 | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One | 2009 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 36 | Son of Retro Pulp Tales | 2009 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 37 | Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary | 2009 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 38 | The Dead That Walk | 2009 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 39 | Curse of the Full Moon: A Werewolf Anthology | 2010 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 40 | L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories | 2010 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 41 | Haunted Legends | 2010 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 42 | Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror | 2010 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 43 | Never Again | 2010 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 44 | Werewolves and Shape Shifters: Encounters with the Beasts Within | 2010 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 45 | Robert Bloch’s Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper | 2010 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 46 | Zombies: The Recent Dead | 2010 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 47 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition | 2010 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 48 | Classics Mutilated | 2010 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 49 | Down These Strange Streets | 2011 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 50 | House of Fear | 2011 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 51 | Crucified Dreams | 2011 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 52 | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three | 2011 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 53 | Supernatural Noir | 2011 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 54 | The Urban Fantasy Anthology | 2011 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 55 | Warriors 3 | 2011 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 56 | The Book of Cthulhu | 2011 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 57 | Necro Files | 2011 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 58 | Best New Horror 22 | 2011 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 59 | A Hacked-Up Holiday Massacre | 2011 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 60 | Triumph of The Walking Dead: Robert Kirkman’s Zombie Epic on Page and Screen | 2011 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 61 | Lightspeed: Year One | 2011 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 62 | The Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade | 2012 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 63 | A Feast of Frights from The Horror Zine | 2012 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 64 | Obsession: Tales of Irresistible Desire | 2012 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 65 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition | 2012 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 66 | A Clutch of Zombies | 2012 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 67 | Extreme Zombies | 2012 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 68 | Ghosts: Recent Hauntings | 2012 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 69 | Protectors: Stories to Benefit PROTECT | 2012 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 70 | Psychos | 2012 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 71 | Best New Horror 23 | 2012 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 72 | Beyond Rue Morgue Anthology: Further Tales of Edgar Allan Poe’s 1st Detective | 2013 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 73 | Black Pulp | 2013 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 74 | Zombies!: Tales of the Walking Dead | 2013 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 75 | Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny | 2013 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 76 | Impossible Monsters | 2013 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 77 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition | 2013 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 78 | Best New Horror 24 | 2013 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 79 | Old Mars | 2013 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 80 | The Time Traveler’s Almanac | 2013 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 81 | The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs | 2013 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 82 | Piercing the Darkness | 2014 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 83 | Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror | 2014 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 84 | Dark Duets | 2014 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 85 | Lovecraft’s Monsters | 2014 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 86 | Dead Man’s Hand | 2014 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 87 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition | 2014 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 88 | Zombies: More Recent Dead | 2014 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 89 | Insidious Assassins | 2015 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 90 | The Gods of HP Lovecraft | 2015 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 91 | Flinch | 2015 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 92 | Christmas Horror Volume 1 | 2015 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 93 | Last Night, a Superhero Saved My Life | 2016 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 94 | Horror Anthology 2016 | 2016 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 95 | The Highway Kind | 2016 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 96 | Shadows Over Main Street Volume 2 | 2017 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 97 | Tales from The Lake Vol. 4 | 2017 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 98 | Alive in Shape and Color | 2017 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 99 | Lost Highways | 2018 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 100 | The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories | 2018 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 101 | Fantastic Tales of Terror | 2018 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 102 | It’s Alive | 2018 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 103 | At Home in the Dark | 2019 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 104 | The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories | 2019 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 105 | A Time For Violence | 2019 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 106 | The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve | 2020 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 107 | Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers Vol 5 | 2020 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 108 | Bullets and Other Hurting Things: A Tribute to Bill Crider | 2021 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 109 | When a Stranger Comes to Town | 2021 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 110 | Love, Death and Robots: The Official Anthology: Volume One | 2021 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 111 | Collectibles | 2021 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 112 | Conan: The Songs of the Dead and Other Stories | 2021 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 113 | Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the MostHaunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World | 2021 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 114 | Revelations | 2022 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 115 | Screams from the Dark | 2022 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 116 | Love, Death + Robots: The Official Anthology: Volumes 2 & 3 | 2022 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 117 | Black is the Night: Stories inspired by Cornell Woolrich | 2022 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 118 | Playing Games | 2023 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 119 | Shakespeare Unleashed | 2023 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 120 | Hot Iron and Cold Blood: An Anthology of the Weird West | 2023 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 121 | Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers Vol 8 | 2023 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 122 | Deathrealm Spirits | 2023 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
| 123 | The Drive-In: Multiplex | 2024 | Joe R. Lansdale | Buy |
Joe R. Lansdale is one of the most anthologized genre writers in American fiction, with contributions to over 120 multi-author collections spanning nearly four decades. From early entries in Book of the Dead (1989) and Razored Saddles (1989) to recent appearances in Shakespeare Unleashed (2023) and The Drive-In: Multiplex (2024), his short fiction has been a fixture in the horror and crime fiction anthology world.
His anthology appearances cover horror (The Living Dead, Screams from the Dark), crime (Down These Strange Streets, Black is the Night), western (Hot Iron and Cold Blood), and cross-genre collections. Lansdale’s ability to write across genres makes him a go-to contributor for editors assembling themed anthologies, and his stories consistently rank among the strongest in any table of contents.