Dennis Latham

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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1999
  • Latest Book:
    December 2017
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Book List in Order: 27 titles

  • The Bad Season

    Something stalks Owenton Hollow...in rural Kentucky during certain summers known as the bad season. Locals bury their dead and keep the events secret so the media will avoid Owenton County, which had become a prime marijuana source. By 1995, several ...

  • Michael in Hell

    Michael In Hell is a non-stop action tragedy about a tortured Vietnam veteran who turns his inner darkness toward avenging the murder of children.

    Tucker is a bigger than life anti-hero with no future other than death if caught for administering h...

  • Driving with Ace

    Spend a typical day with John Elvin during the summer of 1982. Lose your job. Fight a war. Attack your crazy psychiatrist. Have conversations with your most private body parts and set your dateââ,¬(tm)s dress on fire. Dodge gangster bullets and be c...

  • Lord of Homicides

    Who is Nathan Bright? He's a drunken chronic gambler, living alone on a farm in Aurora, Indiana. His dog bites. His wife ran away. He watches cable on a nine-inch black and white and he's about to get fired for missing work...until a massive finger b...

  • Sudden Victims

    Climb aboard the Alternate Reality Train for a trip to bizarre worlds where reality ends and terror creates sudden victims. Dennis Latham, author of the acclaimed dark thrillers, Michael In Hell and The Bad Season, selected 18 of his strange tales fo...

  • Last Chance of a Crazy Virgin

    Spend a typical day with John Elvin during the summer of 1982. Lose your job. Fight a war. Fire your bizarre psychiatrist. Have conversations with your most private body parts and set your date's dress on fire. Lose your car and destroy a motel while...

  • Assassins

    Robert Carson lost his wife to a junkie with a gun, and now he wants revenge. He joins the Assassins, a small group dedicated to eliminating drug dealers...but he will soon discover the physical act of killing a person is difficult when the victim wo...

  • Bad Night In The Holding Cell

    During the summer of 1987, four minor criminals spend a night in jail with a corpse pulled from a river. The morgue road is flooded so the body is dropped at the justice center until the rain stops. Their situations as minor criminals are strange, fu...

  • The Gambler, A Dog, And The Demons

    Published in 2006 in Death Grip: Exit Laughing, the last collection from editor Walt Hicks and HellBound Books, this long short story is the original basis for Dennis Latham's insane destroy the world novel, Lord of Homicides, about demons and angels...



  • Night Call

    Jack gets a call at midnight to meet Bill at his nightclub, the Corral. Bill tells him to come armed, and Jack knows it's not going to be a fun visit. When Jack arrives, he realizes they are not alone, and something wants to hurt them. The nightclub ...

  • Party Favors

    In this intense short tale, David Wilson and his object of lust, Maybelle Marino, go to a Halloween party in Gulfshore, Alabama, where she has been hired to perform her magic. David hit big at a casino and rented a house next to Maybelle. She lives i...

  • Shadows

    This story begins with a set of severed legs and takes place during the Vietnam War in a valley west of Danang. Johnny Pueblo Spencer narrates the tale of how his Marine battalion is attacked by an unknown force they call the Shadows. When Johnny and...

  • Shrieks

    Things get weird after Mark Wright and Jenna Sparks watch a young man do a swan dive off the 15th floor of an office tower into a Chinese restaurant. When something only Mark can see rises from the hole in the restaurant roof and slips into Jenna's n...

  • Squeeze

    First published in Gothic.net in 2002, this story is like a sudden punch in the face you don't see coming. Michael and Gina are going to have a last dinner together in a kind of a cold shoulder celebration of their divorce after they leave court. Gin...

  • Side Effect

    Logothanex Number Six is a new psychiatric drug the VA is testing on several combat veterans to help with sleep disorder nightmares. They gave it to Dan Jenning's brother Tom, a disabled Vietnam Marine. There could be possible side effects, but nothi...

  • Three Short Tales of Maxwell Monk from the Holey Grail

    Holey Grail is about Maxwell Monk, who was almost named Chip, beginning ten years after his service in Vietnam as a Marine and ending twenty years after the war. Max can't live his father's post WW2 Holy Grail beliefs that a job with benefits and a h...

  • Tracks

  • Walking Wounded

    This story excerpt from the novel Michael In Hell is a character study of Michael Tucker, a Marine Vietnam veteran serial killer operating out of Cincinnati and southwest Indiana in the year 2005. Michael goes to the VA Hospital to see the head psych...

  • How Not To Buy A Rubber In 1982

    From Book 1: How to Draw Cool Stuff shows simple step-by-step illustrations that make it easy for anyone to draw cool stuff with precision and confidence. These pages will guide you through the basic principles of illustration by concentrating on eas...



  • Jumpers

  • Psychosis

    Jerry and Paula have a problem. Jerry sits around naked with his socks on and won't go to work. A visit to the doctor is in order. Is Jerry physically sick or is his condition something far worse? This concise tale, what seems to be the author's biza...

  • Show And Tell

    When Tom Wilson found his older brother that night, Billy was drunk crazy again like he had been most of the time in those many years after the Vietnam War; sitting at a table in the Highpoint Tavern, talking to himself while life went on around him....

  • The Sign

    Some would call this story blasphemy or anti-religion. Others may call it satire. God is upset because only a few people on earth really believe he exists. He asks Michael the Archangel and Moses for advice. They tell him he needs to give the people ...

  • Crossings

    In April 2019, Jacob and Rebecca Stiles are stranded on the freeway when a bright flash far to the north stops everything electric. The magnetic pulse changes the world, but it also alters living creatures. Jacob and Rebecca start to get younger and ...

  • Waiting For An Open Bed

    Sunnyvale Mental Rehab in Fermonga, Ohio decided to fund a written collage of in-patient work. Dennis Latham, a former Sunnyvale resident, completed a dangerous mental quest to bring this strange and psychotic funny volume to print. Mr. Latham, Bill ...

  • This Crazy Life

    Where else can you learn about a screaming face, the first real zombie, the Deficit, blue toilet bowl water, a top secret mouse, the Hadron Collider, shingles, and Martin and Lewis? Dennis Latham's 9th book is an often hilarious romp on the bizarre s...

  • In Briscoe County

    Jill stared with those half-closed, almost alien yellow-brown eyes, and her hair was a dyed brown tangle, wild with snags and curls like some modern Medusa. It sent a chill up his spine. I want to go home, Jill said. The cancer was killing her, so Sa...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Dennis Latham has published 27 books.

Dennis Latham does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, In Briscoe County, was published in December 2017.

The first book by Dennis Latham, The Bad Season, was published in May 1999.

No. Dennis Latham does not write books in series.
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