Books

• Endless Laundry (unpublished)
• Maybe I'll Call Anna (1990, novel)
• The Return of Count Electric (1993, short story collection)
• Resume With Monsters (1995, novel)
• Zod Wallop (1995, novel)
• Irrational Fears (1998, novel)
• The Ocean and All Its Devices (2006, short story collection)

Short stories

• "Best Man" (1993)
• "A Child's Christmas in Florida" (1993)
• "Daughter Doom" (1993)
• "The Entomologists at Obala" (1993)
• "Graven Images" (1993)
• "Haunted by the Horror King" (1993)
• "Irrational Fears" (1993)
• "Looking Out for Eleanor" (1993)
• "Pep Talk" (1993)
• "The Return of Count Electric" (1993)
• "Snow" (1993)
• "The Wedding Photographer in Crisis" (1993)
• "The Ocean and All Its Devices" (1994)
• "The Death of the Novel" (1995), Bram Stoker Best Short Story Award 1996
• "Downloading Midnight" (1995)
• "The Oddskeeper's Daughter" (1995)
• "The Halfway House At the Heart of Darkness" (1998)
• "Stone and the Librarian" (2007)
• "The Tenth Muse" (2007)
• "Penguins of the Apocalypse" (2008)

Anthologies containing stories by William Browning Spencer

• Ghosttide (1993)
• Borderlands 4 (1994)
• Christmas Magic (1994)
• The Year's Best Science Fiction Eleventh Annual Collection (1994)
• Wheel of Fortune (1995)
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eighth Annual Collection (1995)
• 100 Tiny Tales of Terror (1996)
• Year's Best SF (1996)
• Eternal Lovecraft: The Persistence of H P Lovecraft in Popular Culture (1998)
• Lord of the Fantastic: Stories in Honor of Roger Zelazny (1998)
• The Year's Best Science Fiction Sixteenth Annual Collection (1999)
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twenty-First Annual Collection (2008)