Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only the Thunder Knows – East End Girls | 2013 | Joe McKinney | Buy |
| 2 | Smog - Baggage of Eternal Night | 2013 | Joe McKinney | Buy |
| 3 | Dog Days - Deadly Passage | 2013 | Joe McKinney | Buy |
| 4 | Biters / The Reborn | 2014 | Joe McKinney | Buy |
| 5 | Secrets / Outcast | 2014 | Joe McKinney | Buy |
| 6 | Paleo - The Doomsday Prepper | 2015 | Joe McKinney | Buy |
| 7 | Frozen Shadows/WildWoman | 2015 | Joe McKinney | Buy |
JournalStone’s DoubleDown imprint used a distinctive back-to-back format: flip the book over and you have a second novella, bound in the same volume. The series ran seven entries between 2013 and 2015, with Joe McKinney contributing to several of them alongside other horror writers.
The format worked well for novellas, which are long enough to develop a full story but often too short to publish alone. Pairing two writers in one volume also gave readers a built-in comparison and introduced McKinney’s audience to writers they might not have encountered otherwise.
Titles in the series include Dog Days - Deadly Passage and Only the Thunder Knows - East End Girls, among others. The DoubleDown volumes are primarily of interest to readers who want to explore McKinney’s novella-length work alongside his novels and anthologies.