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  • Bibliography:
    31 Books
  • First Book:
    September 1994
  • Latest Book:
    September 2024
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Book List in Order: 31 titles



  • "Brian Evenson has added an O. Henry Award–winning short story, ""Two Brothers,"" to this controversial book and a new afterword, in which he describes the troubling aftermath of the book''s publication in 1994."...



  • A woman carries a dying baby across a desert waste, moving toward a fortress harboring a mysterious resurrection cult. Menaced by scavengers, she nevertheless begins to suspect that the reality within the fortress may be even more unsettling than the...




  • Brian Evenson's fifth story collection constructs a human landscape as unearthly as it is mundane. Replete with the brutality, primordial waste, and savage blankness familiar to readers of his earlier works, Evenson's Kafkaesque allegories entice the...



  • "There is not a more intense, prolific, or apocalyptic writer of fiction in America than Brian Evenson." -- George Saunders"A contemporary gothic tale about the apocalyptic connection between religion and violence." -- Publishers Weekly When Rudd, a ...



  • To find a cult leader’s killer, a former detective must literally give up his body in this award-winning work of literary horror -- “A dark treat” (AV Club). Nominated for the Shirley Jackson award and winner of the ALA/RUSA Best Horror novel...



  • From the “the Donald Barthelme of psychological horror” (Los Angeles Times) comes this collection of “satisfying and surreal stories” (The Plain Dealer). Illustrated by graphic novelist Zak Sally, Brian Evenson’s hallucinatory and darkly ...



  • Fiction. CONTAGION AND OTHER STORIES is one of Brian Evenson's most sought after and lauded collections of fiction. It has been out of print for nearly a decade. With short stories like the O. Henry Award-winning "Two Brothers," Evenson takes his rea...



  • When you open your eyes things already seem to be happening without you. You don't know who you are and you don't remember where you've been. You know the world has changed, that a catastrophe has destroyed what used to exist before, but you can't re...






  • Haunting, gripping, and psychologically fierce tales that illuminate an unsettling side of humanity from “one of the treasures of American story writing” (Jonathan Lethem). Featuring the O. Henry Prize"winning short story “Windeye,” this ...



  • The New Black is a collection of twenty neo-noir stories exemplifying the best authors currently writing in this dark sub-genre. A mixture of horror, crime, fantasy, science fiction, magical realism, and the grotesque -- all with a literary bent -...



  • Brian Evenson delves deeply into the pages of Chester Brown's (Louis Riel, Paying for It) seminal comic book Yummy Fur. Brian's comics archaeology excavates the discarded fragments of Brown's masterpiece Ed The Happy Clown, examines the never re-prin...



  • 'The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.’ So begins H. P. Lovecraft’s essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature,” arguably the most important analysis of horror ev...



  • A stuffed bear’s heart beats with the rhythm of a dead baby, Reno keeps receding to the east no matter how far you drive, and in a mine on another planet, the dust won’t stop seeping in. In these stories, Evenson unsettles us with the everyday an...



  • "[Evenson's] scary fictional treatment of church hypocrisy has the feeling of a reasoned attack on blind religious obedience." -- Publishers Weekly Provost Eldon Fochs may be a sexual criminal. His therapist isn't sure, and his church is determined t...



  • X doesn’t have a name. He thought he had one―or many―but that might be the result of the failing memories of the personalities imprinted within him. Or maybe he really is called X. He’s also not as human as he believes himself to be. Bu...



  • Experience five stunning science fiction visions of the future. From pay-to-play immortality to simulated reality, from crowdsourced AI to multiverse theory, these Tor.com novellas have everything you could ask for. Featuring: The Burning Light by Br...



  • A newborn’s absent face appears on the back of someone else’s head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome lengths to achieve the silence he’s after for his final scene, and a therapist begins, impossibly, to appear in a troubled patient's room late ...



  • SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD-WINNER (Vol. 7)

    WORLD FANTASY AWARD FINALIST (Vol. 6)

    "Michael Kelly's Shadows and Tall Trees is a smart, soulful, illuminating investigation of the many forms and tactics available to those writers involved in on...






  • As climate change wreaks havoc on the earth and the fate of humanity grows dire, a scientist makes a plan to save humanity that would shame the devil.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM...



  • An anthology of ocular horror, featuring 20 visionary tales: Seán Padraic Birnie, Brian Evenson, Elana Gomel, Douglas Ford, Shannon Scott, Timothy Granville, LC von Hessen, Mark Howard Jones, Rhonda Eikamp, Charles Wilkinson, James Pate, J.A...



  • The trap has been set. What terror awaits those who stumble across it?"The Cabin" by Brian Evenson is one of 27 short horror stories in Nightfire's audio anthology.Come Join Us by the Fire Season 2 is the second installment of Nightfire's audio-only ...



  • “Here is how monstrous humans are.”A sentient, murderous prosthetic leg; shadowy creatures lurking behind a shimmering wall; brutal barrow men: of all the terrors that populate The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell, perhaps the most alarming are the ...



  • “There is not a more intense, prolific, or apocalyptic writer of fiction in America than Brian Evenson.” (George Saunders)In Dark Property, a woman carries a dying baby across a desert waste, moving toward a fortress harboring a mysteriou...



  • Though published second after Altmann's Tongue, The Din of Celestial Birds (1997) consists of the best of Evenson's early stories. They take place in a country (perhaps several countries) that seems at once everywhere and nowhere, haunted by birds, g...



  • Imagine having recurring nightmares of a woman who has one normal leg and one baby leg, and then waking up to wonder if today will be the day when they—whoever “they” are—find you and kill you. Unless you're missing the p...



  • A newborn's absent face appears on the back of someone else's head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome lengths to achieve the silence he's after for his final scene, and a therapist begins, impossibly, to appear in a troubled patient's room late at night. ...



  • The definition of scary changes from person to person. For some, it might be ghosts and haunted houses. For others, serial killers. For still others, the most frightening things are the ones that go bump in the night, unseen.Despite the width of this...



  • A series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction.From Black Shuck Books and Brian Evenson comes Black Bark, the thirty-second in the Black Shuck SHADOWS series....






  • A post-human civilization of synthetic beings, fixated on the concept of children, grapples with the meaning of life…after all life ceases to exist.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM...



  • “Perhaps tomorrow I will wake up another person. Perhaps tomorrow I will wake up not a person at all.”From the “master of literary horror” (GQ) comes a collection of new stories tracing the limits and consequences of artificia...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Brian Evenson has published 31 books.

The next book by Brian Evenson, Good Night, Sleep Tight, will be published in September 2024.

The first book by Brian Evenson, Altmann's Tongue, was published in September 1994.

No. Brian Evenson does not write books in series.