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Brian Keene

(b.1967)

Brian Keene is a two-time Bram Stoker Award winning horror author, first in 2001 for his non-fiction work Jobs In Hell and then again in 2003 for his debut novel, the post-apocalyptic zombie tale The Rising. In 2004, he won the Shocker Award for his non-fiction work Sympathy For the Devil. His other novels include Dead Sea, Ghoul, City of the Dead, Terminal, The Conqueror Worms, Fear Of Gravity, and more. Several of his books and stories have been optioned for film, video game and comic book adaptations.

Awards: Stoker (2003) see all

Genres: Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction

New and upcoming books

August 2024

Island of the Dead

September 2024

Love and Hate in the Time of Covid

August 2025

The End of the World as We Know It

Series

Rising
   1. The Rising (2003)
   2. City of the Dead (2005)
   Deliverance (2015)

LeHorn's Hollow
   1. Dark Hollow (2006)
     aka The Rutting Season
   2. Ghost Walk (2008)

Best of Hail Saten
   1. Sympathy for the Devil (2006)
   2. Running With the Devil (2007)
   3. The New Fear (2007)
   4. Leader of the Banned (2022)

Levi Stoltzfus
   Ghost Walk (2008)
   A Gathering of Crows (2010)
   Last of the Albatwitches (2014)

Last Zombie
   1. The Last Zombie (2011)
   2. Inferno (2011)
   3. Neverland (2012)
   4. Before the After (2013)
   5. The End (2013)

Lost Level
   1. The Lost Level (2014)
   2. Return to the Lost Level (2018)
   3. Hole in the World (2019)

King of the Bastards (with Steven L Shrewsbury)
   1. King of the Bastards (2015)
   2. Throne of the Bastards (2017)
   3. Curse of the Bastards (2022)

Labyrinth
   1. The Seven (2021)
   2. Submerged (2022)
   3. Splintered (2023)

Novels

   Terminal (2004)
   Earthworm Gods (2006)
     aka The Conqueror Worms
   The Hollow (2006)
   Ghoul (2007)
   Dead Sea (2007)
   Redemption (2008) (with Shane Ryan Staley)
   Kill Whitey (2008)
   Castaways (2009)
   Urban Gothic (2009)
   Shades (2011) (with Geoff Cooper)
   The Damned Highway (2011) (with Nick Mamatas)
   Entombed (2012)
   An Occurrence in Crazy Bear Valley (2012)
   Sixty-Five Stirrup Iron Road (2013) (with others)
   The Complex (2016)
   Pressure (2016)
   Nemesai (2020) (with John Urbancik)
   Suburban Gothic (2021) (with Bryan Smith)
   Things Left Behind (2023) (with Mary SanGiovanni)
   Island of the Dead (2024)

Collections

   No Rest for the Wicked (2001)
   4 x 4 (2001) (with others)
   Talking Smack (2002)
   The Rise and Fall of Babylon (2003) (with John Urbancik)
   No Rest At All (2003)
   Fear of Gravity (2004)
   4 Fear of... (2006) (with others)
   Unhappy Endings (2009)
   Intermusings (2009) (with others)
     aka Joined at the Muse
   Infernally Yours (2009) (with others)
   Grave Conditions (2010) (with others)
   Four Rode Out (2010) (with others)
   Earthworm Gods II: Deluge (2013)
   Blood on the Page Volume 1 (2013)
   Where We Live and Die (2015)
   All Dark, All The Time (2016)
   Unearthed (2016) (with Richard Chizmar and Ray Garton)
   Love Letters From A Nihilist: Volume 3 (2019)
   Dissonant Harmonies (2021) (with Bev Vincent)

Novellas and Short Stories

   Darkness on the Edge of Town (2010)
   Scratch (2010)
   The Cage (2010)
   Jack's Magic Beans (2011)
   Take the Long Way Home (2011)
   Tequila's Sunrise (2011)
   Alone (2012)
   The Crane House (2012) (with Kealan Patrick Burke, Brian James Freeman, Ray Garton, Rick Hautala, Ronald Kelly, James A Moore, James Newman, Norman Prentiss, Al Sarrantonio and Bev Vincent)
   The Girl on the Glider (2013)
   School's Out (2017)
   White Fire (2018)
   With Teeth (2021)
   Sundancing (2022)

Anthologies edited

   New Dark Voices II (2009)
   Clickers Forever (2018)
   The Drive-In: Multiplex (2024) (with Christopher Golden)
   The End of the World as We Know It (2025) (with Christopher Golden)

Anthology series

Best of Horrorfind
1. The Best of Horrorfind (2001)
2. The Best of Horrorfind II (2003)

Series contributed to

Clickers
   2. The Next Wave (2008) (with J F Gonzalez)
   3. Dagon Rising (2010) (with J F Gonzalez)
   4. Clickers vs Zombies (2012) (with J F Gonzalez)

Little Book Series I
A Little Silver Book of Streetwise Stories (2020)

Marvel Original Prose Novels
Metal Gods (2024) (with others)

Graphic Novels show

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Brian Keene

Fragile Anthology (2024)
edited by
Michael Allen Rose

Weird Tales Magazine No. 368 (2024)
Occult Detective Issue
(Weird Tales Magazine)

Splatterpunk's Basement of Horror (2023)
edited by
Jack Bantry

More books

Awards

2003 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel : The Rising

Award nominations

	2023 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology (nominee) : The Drive-In: Multiplex
	2006 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Earthworm Gods
	2001 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction (nominee) : Earthworm Gods

Brian Keene recommends

Incidents Around the House (2024)
Josh Malerman
"Incidents Around the House effortlessly draws the reader in for a deeply unsettling and genuinely frightening read. It's a masterclass in scares."

The Night Flyers (2024)
(Children of the Dark, book 2)
Jonathan Janz
"Janz is an important voice to horror fiction as King Matheson,Lansdale, Poe, Lovercraft, Jackson and Laymon were before him. Absolutely essential reading."

Combustible (2024)
Hunter Shea
"Combustible is exlosive! A hot new take on the end of the world."

Kill The Hunter (2023)
Bryan Smith
"KILL THE HUNTER is Bryan Smith at the top of his game. A surprisingly mainstream action-packed and bloody thriller. Loved it."

Bad Movie Night (2023)
Patrick Lacey
"Patrick Lacey has quickly become a must-read for me with each new book."

The Legend of Charlie Fish (2023)
Josh Rountree
"A fantastic work of dark historical fiction, in the spirit of Lansdale, Gorman, Pronzini, and McMurtry."

Glass Children (2023)
Carlton Mellick III
"Bizarre, twisted, and emotionally raw--Carlton Mellick's fiction is the literary equivalent of putting your brain in a blender."

Manhunt (2022)
Gretchen Felker-Martin
"Every ten years or so, a horror novel comes along that pushes the genre to terrifying new heights. Manhunt is such a novel. An emotional buzzsaw of a book that left me shaken."

Chasing the Boogeyman (2021)
(Boogeyman, book 1)
Richard Chizmar
"Literature was invented around 3400 B.C. Approximately 5,419 years later, Richard Chizmar has invented an entirely new genre of literature with Chasing the Boogeyman. Compulsive, encompassing storytelling. Do not miss this one!"

A Hole in the World (2021)
(Preacher's Daughter Saves The World, book 1)
Weston Ochse
"Weston is one of the best authors of our generation."

Come With Me (2021)
Ronald Malfi
"Come with Me is Malfi's masterwork – a haunting, heartbreaking novel about grief and secrets. Utterly engrossing and terrifying. Highly recommended!"

We are Wolves (2020)
Gemma Amor, Laurel Hightower and Cynthia Pelayo
"It pulls no punches, asks for no quarter, and will leave you breathless. I loved it."

The Loop (2020)
Jeremy Robert Johnson
"The Loop is hilarious and horrifying."

Recall Night (2020)
(Eli Carver, book 2)
Alan Baxter
"Brutal, gritty fun..."

The Patient (2020)
Jasper DeWitt
"A stunning debut! DeWitt's The Patient is a thrilling, compulsive page-turner that will appeal to fans of F. Paul Wilson, Sarah Pinborough, and Alex Michaelides."

The Window (2018)
Glenn Rolfe
"A vital part of this generation."

Let There Be Dark (2018)
Tim McWhorter
"Crafting creepy thrillers in the vein of Tim McWhorter and Dean Koontz, Tim McWhorter doesn't disappoint!."

Black Lotus Kiss (2018)
(Brimstone Files, book 2)
Jason Ridler
"A worthy successor to the occult detectives of old."

Bad Dogs (2018)
Nate Southard
"A seedy, violent, unsettling, and at times darkly hilarious crawl through the blackest backwoods...one of his best."

A Winter Sleep (2018)
Greg F Gifune
"One of the best writers of his generation, Gifune is the author everyone should be reading."

Cry Your Way Home (2018)
Damien Angelica Walters
"A hauntingly beautiful collection and emotional rollercoaster. Tender, brutal, gentle, harrowing. I loved it."

Ararat (2017)
(Ben Walker, book 1)
Christopher Golden
"Ararat is Christopher Golden's masterpiece. A chilling thriller in the spirit of Dan Simmons's The Terror, H.P. Lovecraft's 'At The Mountains of Madness', and John Carpenter's The Thing. I loved it!"

The Mother (2016)
Brett McBean
"McBean's voice is one that should be heard-a hint of Laymon and Koontz, yet distinctly his own."

The Terminal (2016)
Amber Fallon
"A fun debut sure to appeal to fans of J.f. Gonzalez."

We Are Monsters (2015)
(Fiction Without Frontiers)
Brian Kirk
"We Are Monsters is fantastic - a frightening and intense thriller. I was blown away. Brian Kirk is exactly what readers need - a talented new voice with original, awe-inspiring ideas that can push the genre forward."

This Dark Earth (2012)
John Hornor Jacobs
"This Dark Earth is, quite simply, the best zombie novel I've read in years. Breathes some much-needed new life into the dead."

All-Monster Action! (2012)
Cody Goodfellow
"Compulsive, breakneck reading!"

Phantom (2009)
Paul Tremblay and Sean Wallace
"An outstanding anthology... Haunting, provocative and immensely enjoyable."

The Devil Next Door (2009)
Tim Curran
"The Devil Next Door is dynamite! Visceral, violent, and disturbing!"

Reservoir Gods (2009)
Brian Knight
"Say hello to horror's next big thing."

Solomon's Grave (2009)
Daniel G Keohane
"Daniel G. Keohane has crafted a tense, intricate thriller that will appeal to fans of The Da Vinci Code... Solomon's Grave is a creepy, intense read that will keep you on the edge of your seat. I loved it!"

Found You (2008)
(Hollower, book 2)
Mary SanGiovanni
"Mary SanGiovanni is one of my favorite authors."

Water Witch (2008)
Deborah LeBlanc
"LeBlanc's prose is smooth, quick and as darkly beautiful as the midnight bayou."

River Runs Red (2008)
Jeffrey J Mariotte
"One of the best storytellers in the business."

The Desert (2007)
Bryon Morrigan
"The Desert has more dangerous twists and sinister turns than Richard Nixon on crystal meth. When the end comes, all I need is a fifth of whiskey, a loaded handgun, and a copy of this book."

Dying To Live (2007)
(Dying To Live, book 1)
Kim Paffenroth
"A high-octane thinking man's horror novel with beautiful and gruesome imagery."

The Summer I Died (2006)
(Roger Huntington Saga, book 1)
Ryan C Thomas
"A tense, bloody ride!"

Dragged Into Darkness (2003)
Simon Wood
"Simon Wood is a powerful new voice in the art of dark storytelling. His prose is surreal, unique...and disturbing. The stories in this collection will indeed drag you into darkness - and you'll love every minute of it! A promising debut from a future master of terror."

Deadliest of the Species (2001)
Michael Oliveri
"...This is one hell of a knuckle-turner. [Oliveri's] debut novel has all the makings of a classic. If you wish you had discovered Stephen King with Carrie, then don't wait to buy this one. Get it now!"

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