Novels

• The Cellar (1980) (First book in the Beast House Chronicles series)
• Your Secret Admirer (1980) (writing as Carl Laymon)
• The Woods Are Dark (1981)
• Nightmare Lake (1983) (writing as Carl Laymon)
• Night Show (1984)
• All Hallow's Eve (1985)
• Beware (1985)
• The Beast House (1986) (Second book in the Beast House Chronicles series)
• Tread Softly (1987) - aka Dark Mountain (writing as Richard Kelly)
• Flesh (1987)
• Midnight's Lair (1988) (writing as Richard Kelly)
• Resurrection Dreams (1988)
• Funland (1989)
• The Stake (1990)
• One Rainy Night (1991)
• Island (1991)
• Darkness, Tell Us (1991)
• Blood Games (1992)
• Alarums (1992)
• Dark Mountain (1992)
• Endless Night (1993)
• Savage: From Whitechapel to the Wild West on the Track of Jack the Ripper (1993)
• In the Dark (1994)
• Quake (1995)
• Bite (1996)
• Body Rides (1996)
• After Midnight (1997)
• The Wilds (1998)
• The Midnight Tour (1998) (Third book in the Beast House Chronicles series)
• Cuts (1999)
• Among the Missing (1999)
• Come Out Tonight (1999)
• Once Upon A Halloween (2000)
• The Traveling Vampire Show (2000)
• Friday Night in the Beast House (2001) (Fourth book in the Beast House Chronicles series)
• Night in the Lonesome October (2001)
• The Halloween Mouse (with Alan M. Clark) (2001) - children's book
• No Sanctuary (2001)
• Amara (2002) aka To Wake the Dead
• The Lake (2004)
• The Glory Bus (2005) aka Into the Fire
• The Woods are Dark Restored and Uncut (2008)

Fastbacks

• The Intruder (1984)
• Shootout At Joe's (1984)
• Dawson's City (1984)
• Caller (1985)
• Guts (1985) aka The Hearse
• Cardiac Arrest (1985)
• The Cobra (1985)
• Last Hand (1985)
• Live Bait (1985)
• Lonely One (1985)
• The Trap (1985)
• Marathon (1985)
• Night Games (1985)
• Night Ride (1985)
• Beginner's Luck (1986)
• Halloween Hunt (1986)
• The Night Creature (1986)
• The Beast (1986)
• Return (1987)
• Thin Air (1987)

Collections

• Out Are the Lights: And Other Tales (1982)
• A Good, Secret Place (1992)
• Ten Tales (1994) (with Neal Barrett Jr, Wendy Hornsby)
• Fiends (1997)
• Dreadful Tales (2000)
• Madman Stan and Other Stories (2004)

Short Stories

• "A Cigar is a Smoke"
• "A Good, Secret Place"
• "Bad News"
• "Barney's Bigfoot Museum"
• "Blarney"
• "Boo" (first printed in October Dreams)
• "Cabin in the Woods"
• "Choppie"
• "Cut"
• "Desert Pickup"
• "Dinker's Pond"
• "Double Date"
• "Dracusson's Driver"
• "Eats"
• "Finders Keepers"
• "First Date"
• "First Love"
• "Good Vibrations"
• "Hammerhead"
• "Herman"
• "I'm Not A Criminal"
• "Invitation to Murder"
• "Joyce"
• "Kitty Litter"
• "Madman Stan"
• "Mess Hall"
• "Mop Up"
• "Oscar's Audition"
• "Out of the Woods"
• "Phil the Vampire"
• "Pickup on Highway One"
• "Roadside Pickup"
• "Saving Grace"
• "Slit"
• "Special"
• "Spooked"
• "Stickman"
• "Stiff Intruders"
• "The Boy Who Loved the Twilight Zone"
• "The Champion"
• "The Direct Approach"
• "The Diving Girl"
• "The Fur Coat"
• "The Good Deed"
• "The Grab"
• "The Hangman"
• "The Hunt"
• "The Job"
• "The Maiden"
• "The Mask"
• "The Tub"
• "Wishbone"