Brian Keene

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  • Bibliography:
    72 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2001
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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Full Series List in Order

The Lost Level

1 - The Lost Level (Jan-2015)
2 - Return to the Lost Level (Feb-2018)
3 - Hole in the World (Feb-2019)

Book List in Order: 72 titles

  • No Rest for the Wicked

  • All the World's a Stage

    in The Darker Side: Generations of Horror

    An all-new collection of twenty-seven original tales by some of the finest authors of contemporary horror includes chilling works by Poppy Z. Brite, Peter Crowther, Edo van Belkom, Richard Laymon, Lucy Taylor, David Niall Wilson, Caitlin R. Kiernan, ...

  • The Rising

    When a horrifying plague turns most of the world into powerful flesh-eating zombies, Jim Thurmond, while on a cross-country quest to save his son, joins forces with an elderly preacher, a scientist, and a reformed prostitute to save civilization from...

  • Rise and Fall of Babylon

    SYNOPSIS: In the deserts of the Middle East, the Cradle of Life, where civilization began, there has always been conflict. And there has always been magic and mystery, danger and demons. The djinns exist. Whether in modern Babylon, or a Babylon forgo...

  • Fear of Gravity

    Brian Keene, best-selling author of THE RISING, CITY OF THE DEAD, and TERMINAL, unleashes his most powerful short story collection yet. Something bad is about to happen... An ancient evil awakes in the bloody sands of Iraq. A young woman struggles wi...

  • "The King" in YELLOW

    in A Walk on the Darkside: Visions of Horror

    A gruesome collection of stories delves into the mysterious creatures and dark forces that lurk in the shadows, featuring contributions from such noted horror authors as Don Tumasonis, Lee Thomas, Mark Samuels, and Joseph A. Ezzo. Original....

  • Terminal

    Tommy O'Brien once hoped to leave his run-down industrial hometown. But marriage and fatherhood have kept him running in place, working a job that doesn't even pay the bills. And now he seems fated to stay for the rest of his life. Tommy's just learn...

  • City of the Dead

    Where can you go when the dead are everywhere? Cities have become overrun with legions of the dead, all of them intent on destroying what's left of the living. Trapped inside a fortified skyscraper, a handful of survivors prepare to make their last s...

  • Sympathy for the Devil



  • Rutting Season

    Something strange is happening deep in the heart of LeHorn's Hollow. When up-and-coming novelist Adam Senft, and his faithful dog Big Steve, stumble across the secret, it plunges them, and their entire small town, into an ancient nightmare. Eerie, mu...

  • The Conqueror Worms

    One day the rain just didn't stop. As the flood waters slowly rose and coastal cities and towns disappeared, some people believed it was the end of the world. Maybe they were right. But the water wasn't the worst part. Even more terrifying was what t...

  • The Hollow

  • Ghoul

    June 1984. Timmy Graco is looking forward to summer vacation, taking it easy and hanging out with his buddies. Instead his summer will be filled with terror and a life-and-death battle against a nightmarish creature that few will believe even exists....

  • Dead Sea

    The streets of the city are no longer safe. They are filled with zombies--the living dead, rotting predators driven only by a need to kill...and eat. Some of the living have struggled to survive, but with each passing day their odds grow worse. For L...

  • The New Fear

    In the previous volumes of Brian Keene's critically-acclaimed non-fiction series, the author faced off against fellow writers, unscrupulous editors, corrupt politicians, scandalous C.E.O.s, organized religion, professional sports, the entertainment a...

  • Dark Hollow

    Something very strange is happening in LeHorn's Hollow. Eerie, piping music is heard late at night, and mysterious fires have been spotted deep in the woods. Women are vanishing without a trace overnight, leaving behind husbands and families. When up...

  • Kill Whitey

    In the Russian criminal underworld there is a man named Whitey. He is unstoppable and always gets what he wants. Some say he can't be hurt. Some say he

    can't be killed. Larry Gidson is about to find out. He is a dock worker on the run with...

  • Ghost Walk

    There are all kinds of legends about LeHorn's Hollow. Everything from ghosts to a goat man are said to haunt the woods. So it's the perfect place for Ken Ripple to set up his latest haunted attraction. Halloween is coming and Ripple knows folks will ...

  • Castaways

    They came to the lush, deserted island to compete on a popular reality TV show. Each one hoped to be the last to leave. Now they're just hoping to stay alive. It seems the island isn't deserted after all. Contestants and crew members are disappearing...



  • Unhappy Endings

    One of modern horror's hottest authors delivers an all-new collection. Brian Keene's Unhappy Endings features an exciting mix of never-before-published stories and hard-to-find fan favorites, ranging from a violent, post-apocalyptic novella to quiet,...

  • Urban Gothic

    When their car broke down in a dangerous neighborhood of the inner city, Kerri and her friends thought they would find shelter in the old dark row house. They thought it was abandoned. They thought they would be safe there until morning. They were wr...

  • Darkness on the Edge of Town

    One morning the residents of Walden, Virginia, woke up to find that the rest of the world was gone. Just...gone. Surrounding their town was a wall of inky darkness, casting Walden into permanent night. Nothing can get in, no light, no people, not eve...

  • Jack's Magic Beans

    It happens in a split-second...

    One moment, customers are happily shopping in the Save-A-Lot grocery store. The next instant, they are transformed into bloodthirsty psychotics, interested only in slaughtering one another and committing unimag...

  • Take The Long Way Home

    All across the world, people suddenly vanish in the blink of an eye. From their cars during the rush hour commute. From the shopping malls. Their homes. Their beds. Even from the arms of their loved ones. Airline pilots. World leaders. Teachers. Pare...

  • A Gathering Of Crows

    Brinkley Springs is a quiet little town. Some say the town is dying. They don't know how right they are...

    Five mysterious figures are about to pay a visit to Brinkley Springs. They have existed for centuries, emerging from the shadows only t...

  • Tequila's Sunrise

    Discover the secret origins of the "drink of the gods" in this dark fantasy fable by best-selling author Brian Keene.

    Chalco, a young Aztec boy, feels helpless as conquering Spanish forces near his village. But when a messenger of the gods ha...

  • Clickers II

    The first wave was just the beginning . . . The United States is in ruins. It has just suffered one of the worst hurricanes in history, the people are demoralized, and the president is a religious fanatic. Then things get really bad - the Clickers re...

  • Dead New World

    • Follow the frantic journey of a man seeking his one ray of hope in a post-apocalyptic nightmare United States. The zombies have come and (mostly) gone, but the disease is still out there, threatening the survivors. The country swarms with ro...

  • Shades

    Shadesby Brian Keene & Geoff CooperFrom Geoff Cooper and Brian Keene comes a dark coming-of-age tale.When 11-year-old Danny skips school to go hunting for crabs near theHaverstraw Marina, he finds a dead body instead and stumbles across one ofthe da...



  • Clickers III

    They thought it was over, but the second wave was only the beginning. In the aftermath of the Clickers and Dark Ones' siege and a coup against an insane President, America rebuilds. Change has come, and a better future is promised to all. But promise...

  • The Cage

    For the employees of Big Bill's Home Electronics, it's just the end of another long workday-until a gunman bursts into the store and begins shooting. Now, with some of their co-workers dead, the hostages are disappearing one-by-one, and if ...

  • Inferno

    In the dead of winter, The Last Zombie: Inferno picks up where The Last Zombie left off, as Doctor Ian Scott and his team of soldiers and scientists make their way across the wastelands of a post-zombie apocalyptic America. Infected with the virus th...

  • Alone

  • Entombed

    THERE ARE THINGS MUCH WORSE THAN ZOMBIES

    First time in paperback!

    In the long-awaited follow up to DEAD SEA, it has been several months since the disease known as Hamelin's Revenge decimated the world. Civilization has collapse...

  • An Occurrence in Crazy Bear Valley

    Strap on your six-guns and saddle up for a shoot-out against a horde of angry Sasquatch, zombies, dinosaurs, and more.

    The Old West has never been weirder or wilder than it has in the hands of master horror writer Brian Keene.

  • Scratch

    April showers bring May flowers. But as the rain-swollen creeks recede, the residents of one rural Pennsylvania town learn that April showers bring something far worse than destructive floods and property damage. This year, the April showers have bro...

  • Neverland

    • Lost somewhere between Missouri and Iowa, the team carrying the zombie cure soon encounter Neverland, an enclave of children who have survived the zombie apocalypse, apparently without any adult supervision whatsoever. What dark secret do th...

  • Earthworm Gods

    THE CULT CLASSIC RETURNS!!!

    One day, it starts raining-and never stops. Global super-storms decimate the planet, eradicating most of mankind. Pockets of survivors gather on mountaintops, watching as the waters climb higher and highe...

  • Earthworm Gods: Selected Scenes from the End of the World

    One day it started raining-and it never stopped...

    So began Brian Keene's Earthworm Gods, a novel that straddled the lines between the horror and bizarro genres. Fans have long marveled over that post-apocalyptic landscape-a flooded ...



  • The Girl on the Glider

    Considered by many critics to be one of Brian Keene’s best works, The Girl on the Glider has been long out of print " until now!The year is 2009, and the world’s financial and publishing sectors are in chaos. In the midst of this disarray, a bu...

  • Deluge

    In Brian Keene's cult-classic, Earthworm Gods, global super-storms decimated the planet, eradicating most of mankind. In the midst of this ecological nightmare, the remnants of humanity fought against a supernatural menace in a war that ran...

  • Blood on the Page

    “This is my gift. This is my legacy. This is my curse…”BLOOD ON THE PAGE is the first book in a series collecting all of Keene’s short fiction. Included in this volume are such critically-acclaimed and fan favorite stories as “Burying Betsy...

  • Before the After

    • As Ian Scott's group continue their trek eastward, Ian desperately struggles to conceal his slowly worsening infection from the others. When a vicious blizzard halts their progress, the team takes shelter in an abandoned hotel. As the snow p...

  • The End

    • The explosive final chapter! In the aftermath of "Before the After's" shocking cliffhanger, the team are imprisoned by a brutal despot, the last surviving member of pre-apocalypse Chicago's notorious political machine. Warner faces torture, ...

  • The Last Zombie: Zomnibus

    • Dr. Ian Scott has spent two years in a Colorado bunker, working on a cure for a zombie virus that devastated the U.S. Just shy of perfecting his vaccine, he loses contact with the West Virginia bunker housing his fiancée, Jen. Now he and a ...

  • Last of the Albatwitches

    Fan favorite ex-Amish occult detective Levi Stolzfus, the star of Ghost Walk and A Gathering of Crows, returns in two novellas of demons and monsters!

    The Witching Tree

    In the woods of Pennsylvania there is a clearing with onl...

  • Trigger Warnings

    This incendiary new non-fiction collection by World Horror Grandmaster Award winning author Brian Keene walks the line between profound and profane, poking and prodding everything from pop culture to politics. Whether it’s the downfall of America...

  • The Lost Level

    The Lost Level - 1

    When modern-day occultist Aaron Pace discovers the secrets of inter-dimensional travel via a mystical pathway called The Labyrinth, he wastes no time in exploring a multitude of strange new worlds and alternate realities. But then, Aaron finds him...

  • Deliverance

    Go back to the beginning of the end of the world...

    Hell has come to earth as sadistic zombies rampage and massacre the human population. Reverend Thomas Martin has lost his congregation to the chaos but he found two wayward survivor...



  • Where We Live and Die

    The muses are monsters. With them, we live and die.

    Since his earliest stories, Brian Keene has deconstructed the mystique of the writing life. Isolation, relationships lost, long hours, inconsistent paychecks, and professional heart...

  • All Dark, All The Time

    ALL DARK, ALL THE TIME is the second book in a series collecting all of Brian Keene's short fiction. Included in this volume are such critically-acclaimed and fan favorite stories as "The Girl on the Glider", "Fetish", "The Siqqusim Who Stole Christm...

  • The Complex

    For fans of Garth Ennis' CROSSED and THE EVIL DEAD comes a new novel of savage terror.

    There was no warning. No chance to escape. They came suddenly. Naked. Bloodthirsty. Sadistic. They descended upon the Pine Village Apartment Compl...

  • Pressure

    Off the coast of tropical Mauritius, an ecological catastrophe with global implications is occurring. The ocean's floor is collapsing at a rapid rate. World-champion free diver and marine biologist Carrie Anderson joins a scientific expedition determ...

  • School's Out

    Eight-year-old Alan doesn’t like going to school, but when a global pandemic leaves him orphaned, cold, starving, and lonely, he has no choice but to set out on a dangerous quest to return to his third-grade classroom. SCHOOL’S OUT, an all-new po...

  • Return to the Lost Level

    The Lost Level - 2

    War has come in this sequel to the best-selling novel THE LOST LEVEL. The snake-like Anunnaki have always been a blight for the people living in the hidden dimension known as the Lost Level, but now, the denizens are fighting back. After their commun...

  • Welcome to the Show

    17 horror Stories. One legendary music venue. We all know the old cliché Sex, drugs and rock and roll. Now, add demons, other dimensions, monsters, revenge, human sacrifice, and a dash of the truly inexplicable. This is the story of the (fiction...

  • White Fire

    From Grandmaster of Horror, Brian Keene, comes a pandemic tale of survival and terror.

    When a freak storm hits, time is the enemy as a government-created super virus gets loose and spreads through the quiet little town of Godfrey, Illinois. ...

  • Hole in the World

    The Lost Level - 3

    An hour ago, they were nineteen strangers on an airport shuttle, braving travel delays and a freak blizzard. Then they fell through a hole in the world. Now, they are nineteen strangers trapped in a dangerous dimension filled with prehistoric monster...

  • Love Letters From A Nihilist

    LOVE LETTERS FROM A NIHILIST is the third book in a series collecting all of Brian Keene's short fiction. The stories in this volume span over two decades of publication, and include critically-acclaimed works like "The King, in: YELLOW", "Intersecti...

  • A Little Silver Book of Streetwise Stories

    This is the fourteenth book in series one of the Borderlands Press Little Books.Contents of this collection:Silver Bullets (an Introduction)Burying BetsyThe Ties That BindDustTwo-Headed Alien Love ChildGolden BoyBunnies In AugustTake Me To The RiverT...

  • Halldark Holidays

  • Nemesai

    It starts with the red dreams. Everyone has them every night. But they're just a precursor, because something deep within the bowels of the earth has awakened-something we defeated and sent back thousands of years ago. First, there are scouts which d...

  • The Damned Highway

    A hilarious, shocking, terrifying thrill-ride across the American landscape, The Damned Highway combines two great flavors of weird: the gonzo journalism of Hunter S. Thompson and the uncanny terrors of H.P. Lovecraft. Horror legend Brian Keene and c...

  • Dissonant Harmonies

    Inspired by specially curated mixtapes, Bev Vincent and Brian Keene present two new spine-chilling novellas...As a blizzard descends upon the sleepy town of Bayport, Rhode Island, brothers Joey and Frank Shaw investigate the mysterious disappearances...

  • With Teeth

    For a group of middle-aged friends, the trip into the forest was supposed to be simple. All they had to do was find a place to set up their criminal enterprise, and all of their financial problems would be solved. But now, night is falling, and with ...

  • Suburban Gothic

    Two titans of modern horror-Brian Keene and Bryan Smith-team up for the terrifying crossover sequel to both Keene's URBAN GOTHIC and Smith's THE FREAKSHOW.The Westgate Galleria Mall was once a sprawling, shining monument to American consumerism and s...

  • The Seven

    The Labyrinth — an interconnected mythos that binds all of Brian Keene's works together.The Labyrinth — an interdimensional construct that binds all of reality together.Now, the Labyrinth is threatened. A group of malevolent cosmic enti...

  • Submerged

    The Seven have won the first battle against the Thirteen, but it cost them one of their number. Now Frankie, Teddy, LeHorn, Tony, Bloom, and the Exit find themselves in the middle of a global superstorm on a flooded Earth, reunited with old friends a...

  • Silverwood

    In the forest of Silverwood you won't just lose your way, you'll lose your mind. Deep within the forest of Silverwood, California, a crack between dimensions has appeared. A dark force that lurks among the trees is growing stronger, determined to ...

  • Clickers vs. Zombies

    From best-selling writers J. F. Gonzalez and Brian Keene comes the wildest, pulpiest, most over-the-top B-movie installment in the Clickers series yet!In the aftermath of a devastating tsunami and a series of undersea earthquakes, hordes of Clickers ...

  • Dagon Rising

    They thought it was over, but the second wave was only the beginning...In the aftermath of the Clickers and Dark Ones' siege and a coup against an insane President, America rebuilds. Change has come, and a better future is promised to all. But promis...

  • Splintered

    All is lost in the aftermath of The Seven's confrontation with Behemoth, Leviathan, and Nodens. Frankie, Bloom, and Lucifer are missing and feared dead. Tony is in ancient Rome. The Exit is imprisoned outside of space and time. Teddy, LeHorn, and Sar...

Award-Winning Books by Brian Keene

The Rising
2004 Bram Stoker Award -- First Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Brian Keene has published 72 books.

Brian Keene does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Splintered, was published in November 2023.

The first book by Brian Keene, No Rest for the Wicked, was published in October 2001.

Yes. Brian Keene has 1 series.
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