Novels[]
- 1981 – Act of Love
- 1983 – Dead in the West
- 1983 – The Nightrunners
- 1983 – Texas Night Riders
- 1986 – The Magic Wagon
- 1988 – The Drive-In
- 1989 – Cold in July
- 1989 – The Drive-In 2 : Not Just One of Them Sequels
- 1990 – Savage Season
- 1994 – Mucho Mojo
- 1995 – The Two-Bear Mambo
- 1997 – Bad Chili
- 1998 – Rumble Tumble
- 1998 – The Boar
- 1999 – Freezer Burn
- 1999 – Waltz of Shadows
- 2000 – Blood Dance
- 2000 – The Bottoms
- 2001 – Captains Outrageous
- 2001 – Zeppelins West
- 2002 – A Fine Dark Line
- 2004 – Sunset and Sawdust
- 2005 – Flaming London
- 2007 – Lost Echoes
- 2008 – Leather Maiden
- 2009 – Vanilla Ride
- 2011 – Devil Red
- 2011 – Deranged by Choice
- 2011 – All the Earth, Thrown to the Sky
- 2012 – Edge of the Water
- 2012 – In Waders from Mars with Karen Lansdale and Keith Lansdale
- 2012 – Trapped in the Saturday Matinee
- 2013 – The Drive-In: The Bus Tour
- 2013 – Deadman's Crossing
- 2013 – The Thicket
Novellas[]
- 1994 – Jonah Hex: Two Gun Mojo
- 1997 – The Big Blow
- 1999 – Mad Dog Summer
- 1999 – Something Lumber This Way Comes
- 2002 – The Long Fall
- 2004 – Way Down There
- 2006 – White Mule, Spotted Pig
- 2011 – Dread Island: A Classic Mutilated Tale
- 2011 – Hyenas
- 2011 – That Hellbound Train with Robert Bloch and John L. Lansdale
- 2012 – Steampunked
- 2012 – The Ape Man's Brother
- 2013 – Bullets and Fire
- 2013 – The Case of the Angry Traveler
- 2013 – Dead Aim
- 2013 – Hot in December
- 2014 – The Ape Man's Brother
Anthologies[]
- 1989 – Razored Saddles with Pat LoBrutto
- 1992 – Dark at Heart: All New Tales of Dark Suspense with Karen Lansdale
- 1995 – Weird Business with Richard Klaw
- 2004 – The Horror Hall of Fame: The Stoker Winners
- 2006 – Retro Pulp Tales
- 2006 – Lords of the Razor with William Schafer and Bill Sheehan
- 2009 – Son of Retro Pulp Tales with Keith Lansdale
- 2011 – Crucified Dreams
- 2011 – The Urban Fantasy Anthology with Peter S. Beagle
Collections[]
- 1989 – By Bizarre Hands
- 1991 – Stories By Mama Lansdale's Youngest Boy
- 1993 – Bestsellers Guaranteed
- 1994 – Writer of the Purple Rage
- 1994 – Electric Gumbo: A Lansdale Reader
- 1996 – A Fist Full of Stories (And Articles)
- 1996 – Atomic Chili
- 1997 – The Good, the Bad, and the Indifferent
- 1998 – Private Eye Action As You Like It with Lewis Shiner
- 1999 – Veil's Visit: A Taste of Hap and Leonard
- 2000 – The Long Ones
- 2000 – High Cotton: Selected Stories of Joe R. Lansdale
- 2002 – For a Few Stories More
- 2004 – Bumper Crop
- 2004 – Mad Dog Summer and Other Stories
- 2005 – The King and Other Stories
- 2007 – The Shadows, Kith and Kin
- 2007 – The God of the Razor
- 2009 – Sanctified and Chicken-Fried: The Portalbe Lansdale
- 2009 – Unchained and Unhinged
- 2010 – The Best of Joe R. Lansdale
- 2010 – Deadman's Road
- 2011 – The Cases of Dana Roberts
- 2012 – Shadows West with John L. Lansdale
- 2012 – Trapped in the Saturday Matinee
- 2013 – Bleeding Shadows
Novelettes[]
- 1978 – The Full Count
- 1978 – Long Gone, Forever
- 1979 – One Blonde, Well Done
- 1979 – Black as the Night with Lewis Shiner
- 1980 – The Pit of Kundolkan
- 1985 – Boys Will Be Boys
- 1989 – On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks
- 1989 – Subway Jack
- 1989 – The Junkyard
- 1990 – Belly Laugh, or The Joker's Trick or Treat
- 1991 – Incident On and Off a Mountain Road
- 1992 – The Events Concerning a Nude Fold-Out Found in a Harlequin Romance
- 1993 – Mister Weed-Eater
- 1994 – Bubba Ho-Tep
- 1995 – Master of Misery
- 2000 – The Steam Man of the Prairie and the Dark Rider Get Down: A Dime Novel
- 2004 – Bill, the Little Steam Shovel
- 2006 – King of Shadows
- 2006 – Alone with Melissa Mia Hall
- 2007 – The Gentleman's Hotel
- 2007 – Deadman's Road
- 2009 – The Crawling Sky
- 2009 – Hide and Horns
- 2010 – Solderin'
- 2010 – The Stars Are Falling
- 2011 – What Happened to Me
- 2011 – The Bleeding Shadow
- 2012 – The Metal Men of Mars
- 2012 – A Bone Dead Sadness
- 2013 – The Gruesome Affair of the Electric Blue Lightning
- 2013 – Old Mars
- 2013 – King of the Cheap Romance
Short Stories[]
- 1980 – The Princess
- 1980 – Escape Artist
- 1981 – Waziah
- 1981 – A Right to Be Dead with Bill Crider
- 1981 – This Little Piggy with Dan Lowry
- 1981 – Mummy Buyer
- 1981 – The Dump
- 1981 – The Soul Ghoul
- 1981 – The White Rabbit
- 1981 – The Pasture
- 1982 – Fish Night
- 1982 – The Valley of the Swastika
- 1982 – Mayfly
- 1982 – Chompers
- 1982 – At the Mouth of Time
- 1983 – By the Hair of the Head
- 1983 – Man Drowning with Lewis Shiner
- 1983 – Personality Problem
- 1983 – I Tell You It's Love
- 1983 – Listen
- 1984 – On a Dark October
- 1984 – The Man Who Dreamed
- 1984 – All the Little Animals
- 1984 – In the Night
- 1984 – Old Charlie
- 1984 – Down by the Sea Near the Great Big Rock
- 1984 – A Change of Lifestyle
- 1984 – The Amusement Park
- 1985 – Full Report at Ten
- 1985 – Saved
- 1985 – Why Does It Cry?
- 1985 – Bestsellers Guaranteed
- 1985 – Castle of Shadows
- 1986 – Letter from the South, Two Moons West of Nacogdoches
- 1986 – The Windstorm Passes
- 1986 – The Shaggy House
- 1986 – An All American Hero
- 1986 – Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back
- 1986 – The Steel Valentine
- 1986 – Duck Hunt
- 1987 – My Dead Dog, Bobby
- 1987 – The Pit
- 1987 – Trains Not Taken
- 1987 – God of the Razor
- 1987 – The Fat Man
- 1987 – Dog, Cat, and Baby
- 1987 – Boo, Yourself
- 1988 – By Bizarre Hands
- 1988 – Not from Detroit
- 1988 – Night They Missed the Horror Show
- 1989 – Bob the Dinosaur Goes to Disneyland
- 1989 – The Fat Man and the Elephant
- 1989 – Pilots with Dan Lowry
- 1989 – Pentecostal Punk Rock
- 1989 – Bar Talk
- 1990 – The Phone Woman
- 1990 – The Diaper, or The Adventure of the Little Rounder
- 1990 – In the Cold, Dark Time
- 1991 – By Bizzare Hands: The Play
- 1991 – Steppin' Out, Summer, '68
- 1991 – Drive-In Date
- 1991 – The Panther Stalks
- 1991 – Love Doll: A Fable
- 1993 – Everybody Plays the Fool
- 1993 – Drive-By
- 1994 – Man With Two Lives
- 1994 – Godzilla's Twelve-Step Program
- 1995 – The Campanion with Keith Lansdale and Kasey Jo Lansdale
- 1996 – Billie Sue
- 1997 – Walks
- 1997 – Last of the Hopeful
- 1997 – Cowboy
- 1997 – Quack
- 1997 – The Hungry Locust
- 1997 – Devil in the Hole
- 1997 – A Frog-Strangler
- 1997 – From Little Things
- 1997 – For Whom the Bell Tolls
- 1997 – Hang in There
- 1997 – Hickory, Dickory, Dock
- 1997 – A Debt to Pay
- 1997 – The Honeymoon
- 1997 – The Man Who Could Not Get Four in a Row
- 1997 – The Last of the Hopeful
- 1997 – The Yard Man
- 1997 – Futility
- 1997 – Night Drive
- 1997 – Huitzilopochtli
- 1997 – Knock Knock
- 1997 – Trapped in the Saturday Matinee
- 1997 – One Death, Two Episodes
- 1998 – Rainy Weather
- 1999 – Death by Chili
- 1999 – Veil's Visit
- 1999 – Screwup with Karen Lansdale
- 1999 – Red Range
- 1999 – For Just One Hour
- 1999 – The Original Lengueenies
- 1999 – Disaster Club
- 1999 – The Headstone with Bill Pronzini and Jeffrey M. Wallmann
- 2000 – O'Reta, Snapshot Memories
- 2000 – Booty and the Beast
- 2001 – The Mule Rustlers
- 2002 – My Kind of Luck
- 2002 – White Face with Ardath Mayhar
- 2002 – Partners with Scott Cupp
- 2002 – Metadorquesis
- 2002 – Depression
- 2002 – Jailbait with Bill Crider
- 2002 – Looters
- 2002 – Something Rides with the Western Star
- 2002 – The Living Room God: A Play
- 2002 – A Little Halloween Talk
- 2002 – Loving Care
- 2002 – Sweet Revenge
- 2002 – A Halloween Story
- 2003 – Fire Dog
- 2005 – The Shadows, Kith and Kin
- 2005 – Regular Sex and Admiration
- 2005 – An Arrow in the Air
- 2005 – Boots
- 2005 – Levitation
- 2005 – Beatcha
- 2005 – Haunted House
- 2005 – Ducks
- 2005 – Willard and the Painting
- 2005 – Coronation
- 2005 – The Closet
- 2005 – Private Eye
- 2005 – Snake
- 2005 – Terry and the Hat
- 2005 – Munchies
- 2005 – After the War
- 2005 – Little Blue Bottle
- 2005 – Goodies
- 2005 – The King
- 2007 – Surveillance
- 2007 – The Long Dead Day
- 2007 – Coat
- 2007 – Dog
- 2007 – Janet Finds the Razor
- 2008 – Big Man: A Fable
- 2008 – Dragon Chili: From the Grand Church Cookbook
- 2008 – It Washed Up
- 2008 – Jiving with Shadows and Dragons and Long, Black Trains
- 2008 – Mr. Bear
- 2009 – Quarry
- 2009 – Dirt Devils
- 2009 – Torn Away
- 2009 – Jack's Pecker
- 2009 – Hanging
- 2009 – The Boy Who Became Invisible
- 2009 – Little Kitty
- 2009 – Hole
- 2009 – December
- 2010 – Shooting Pool
- 2010 – The Folding Man
- 2010 – Under the Warrior Star
- 2010 – Christmas with the Dead
- 2010 – The Dark Down There
- 2011 – Dark
- 2011 – The Case of the Lighthouse Shambler
- 2011 – The Case of the Stalking Shadow
- 2011 – Dead Sister
- 2011 – The Bones that Walk
- 2012 – The Drunken Moon
- 2012 – In Waders from Mars with Karen Lansdale and Keith Lansdale
- 2012 – The Hunt: Before, and the Aftermath
- 2012 – The Tall Grass
- 2013 – Tarzan and the Land That Time Forgot
- 2013 – Wrestling Jesus
Poetry[]
- 1985 – Hell Through a Windshield
- 2010 – The Lady DeWitt
- 2010 – Observing Nature on Halloween Night
- 2010 – Got a Girl Named Billy Sue
- 2010 – Bat at the Glass
- 2010 – Red Jack
- 2011 – Christmas Monkeys