Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One | 2018 | Jack Townsend | Buy |
| 2 | Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two | 2019 | Jack Townsend | Buy |
| 3 | Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Three | 2020 | Jack Townsend | Buy |
| 4 | Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Four | 2022 | Jack Townsend | Buy |
The Tales from the Gas Station series by Jack Townsend spans four volumes published between 2018 and 2022. The books follow Jack, a gas station night-shift worker who records the strange things happening at his workplace: eldritch creatures beneath the building, phantom customers, dream-invading entities, and a body count that keeps rising.
The series started on Reddit’s r/NoSleep and won Best Series of 2017 before moving to print. What makes it work is the tone: Townsend writes horror that is genuinely unsettling one paragraph and laugh-out-loud funny the next. The gas station narrator treats cosmic horror with the same deadpan resignation he brings to dealing with broken pumps and weird customers.