BOOKS WRITTEN

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LOST SOULS, novel, Delacorte, hardcover, 1992.
LOST SOULS, Dell, paperback, 1993.
LOST SOULS, Penguin (UK), paperback, 1994.
LOST SOULS, tenth-anniversary edition, Gauntlet Press, hardcover, 2002.

DRAWING BLOOD, novel, James Cahill Publishing, signed/limited edition hardcover, 1993.
DRAWING BLOOD, Delacorte, hardcover, 1993.
DRAWING BLOOD, Dell, paperback, 1994.
DRAWING BLOOD, Penguin (UK), paperback, 1994.

SWAMP FOETUS, short story collection, Borderlands, hardcover, illustrated by Rodger Gerberding, foreword by Dan Simmons, 1993.
WORMWOOD (formerly published as SWAMP FOETUS), Dell, paperback,1994.
SWAMP FOETUS, Penguin (UK), paperback, 1995.
CONTENTS

  • Angels
  • A Georgia Story
  • His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood
  • Optional Music for Voice and Piano
  • Xenophobia
  • The Sixth Sentinel
  • Missing
  • Footprints in the Water
  • How To Get Ahead in New York
  • Calcutta, Lord of Nerves
  • The Elder
  • The Ash of Memory, the Dust of Desire

HIS MOUTH WILL TASTE OF WORMWOOD, Penguin (UK) mini-book in the "Penguin 60p" series, contains 4 stories, paperback, 1995.
CONTENTS

  • His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood
  • The Sixth Sentinel
  • Calcutta, Lord of Nerves
  • How To Get Ahead in New York

EXQUISITE CORPSE, novel, Orion (UK) hardcover, 1996.
EXQUISITE CORPSE, Simon & Schuster, hardcover, 1996.
EXQUISITE CORPSE, Scribner, trade paperback, 1996.

COURTNEY LOVE: THE REAL STORY, biography, Simon & Schuster, hardcover, 1997.
COURTNEY LOVE: THE REAL STORY, Orion (UK), hardcover, 1997.
COURTNEY LOVE: THE REAL STORY, Orion (UK), paperback, 1998.
COURTNEY LOVE: THE REAL STORY, Touchstone, trade paperback, 1999.

THE LAZARUS HEART, novel, Harper Prism, trade paperback, 1998.
THE LAZARUS HEART, Gauntlet Press, limited edition hardcover, illustrated by J.K. Potter, afterword by John Shirley, 1999.
THE LAZARUS HEART, Harper, paperback, 1999.

ARE YOU LOATHSOME TONIGHT?, short story collection, Gauntlet Press, limited edition hardcover, illustrated by J.K. Potter, foreword by Peter Straub, story notes by me, afterword by Caitlin R. Kiernan, 1998.
SELF-MADE MAN (formerly published as ARE YOU LOATHSOME TONIGHT?), Orion (UK), hardcover, 1998.
SELF-MADE MAN, Orion (UK), trade paperback, 1999.
CONTENTS

  • In Vermis Veritas
  • Arise
  • Saved (with Christa Faust)
  • King of the Cats (with David Ferguson)
  • Self-Made Man
  • Pin Money
  • America
  • Entertaining Mr. Orton
  • Monday's Special
  • Vine of the Soul
  • Mussolini and the Axeman's Jazz
  • Are You Loathsome Tonight?

R.I.P., essay, Gauntlet Press, paperback chapbook given away with ARE YOU LOATHSOME TONIGHT?, 1998.

THE SEED OF LOST SOULS, novella (written in 1987-88, my novel LOST SOULS grew out of this), Subterranean Press, hardcover chapbook, illustrated by Dame Darcy, 1999. Includes a foreword and an essay/book review about vampires, both by me, as well as an interview with me from around the time LOST SOULS was published.
THE SEED OF LOST SOULS*, Subterranean, paperback chapbook, 1999.

PLASTIC JESUS*, novella, Subterranean, hardcover chapbook, illustrated by me, 2000.

WOULD YOU?, essay, Subterranean Press, paperback chapbook given away with PLASTIC JESUS, 2000.

GUILTY BUT INSANE*, essay collection, Subterranean Press, hardcover, 2001.

CONTENTS

  • Sur la Decadence
  • Guilty But Insane #1
  • Art Can't Hurt You
  • Depraved in Dublin
  • GBI #2
  • Would You?
  • A Triad Dream
  • GBI #3
  • R.I.P.
  • Sinsemilla and Sensibility
  • GBI #4
  • Reviving Chelsea
  • Wildlife and Death in Manhattan
  • GBI #5
  • The Poetry of Violence
  • GBI #6
  • In Bed with Generation Y2K
  • GBI #7
  • Enough Rope
  • GBI #8
  • Nobody's Fault But Mine

STAY AWAKE, short story, Camelot Books, hardcover chapbook, 2000.
STAY AWAKE, Camelot, paperback chapbook, 2000.

PANSU, short story, Camelot Books, hardcover chapbook, 2001.
PANSU, Camelot, paperback chapbook, 2001.

WRONG THINGS (with Caitlin R. Kiernan), mini-collection, Subterranean Press, 2001.

THE VALUE OF X*, novel, Subterranean Press, hardcover, 2002. Alternate Purchase Link

CON PARTY AT HOTEL CALIFORNIA, two story fragments, Gauntlet Press, paperback chapbook given away with 10th-anniversary edition of LOST SOULS, 2002.

THE FEAST OF ST. ROSALIE*, single-story chapbook, hardcover/paperback, Subterranean Press, 2003.

THE DEVIL YOU KNOW*, short story collection, hardcover, Subterranean Press, 2003. Alternate Purchase Link.

CONTENTS

  • Dispatches from Tanganyika: A Foreword
  • The Devil You Know
  • O Death, Where Is Thy Spatula?
  • Lantern Marsh
  • Nothing Of Him That Doth Fade
  • The Ocean
  • Marisol
  • Poivre
  • Pansu
  • Burn, Baby, Burn
  • System Freeze
  • Bayou de la Mère
  • The Heart of New Orleans
  • A Season in Heck

LIQUOR, novel, trade paperback, Three Rivers Press (Crown), 2004 .

USED STORIES, 5-story chapbook of previously uncollected reprints, Subterranean Press, 2004

TRIADS (with Christa Faust), novel, Subterranean Press, 2004.

PRIME, novel, trade paperback, Three Rivers Press (Crown), 2005.

SOUL KITCHEN, novel, trade paperback, Three Rivers (Crown), 2006.

D*U*C*K, novella, hardcover, Subterranean Press, 2007.

ANTEDILUVIAN TALES, short story collection, hardcover, Subterranean Press, 2007.

SECOND LINE (omnibus edition of THE VALUE OF X and D*U*C*K), Small Beer Press, trade paperback, 2009.

 

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