Following is a complete bibliography of English language fiction for Poppy Z. Brite through October, 2025. Not included are: foreign language translations or individual pieces of non-fiction.
Abbreviations Used:
(1) = indicates story’s first publication. Omitted if story first published in author collection.
(c) = indicates the collection containing this story. If the collection is listed first, the story’s first appearance was in this collection.
(r) = indicates this is a reprint appearance.
anth. = anthology
mag. = magazine
f.c. = fiction collection
ed. = edited
v. = magazine volume number
# = magazine issue number
SHORT FICTION
“America”
(1) Backstage Passes (anth., ed. Amelia G): Rhinoceros, 1996.
(c) Are You Loathsome Tonight? (AKA: Self-Made Man)(f.c.): Gauntlet Press, 1998.
“Angels” (AKA: “Goldengrove Unleaving”)
(1) The Horror Show (mag., vol. 5, #4): Phantasm Press, Fall 1987.
(c) Swamp Foetus (AKA: Wormwood: Dell)(f.c.): Borderlands Press, 1993.
“Are You Loathsome Tonight?”
Are You Loathsome Tonight? (AKA: Self-Made Man)(f.c.): Gauntlet Press, 1998.
“Arise”
(1) Imagination Fully Dilated (anth., ed. Alan M. Clark and Elizabeth Engstrom): Cemetery Dance Publications, 1998.
(r) Rock on: The Greatest Hits of Science Fiction & Fantasy (anth., ed. Paula Guran): Prime Books, 2012.
(c) Are You Loathsome Tonight? (AKA: Self-Made Man)(f.c.): Gauntlet Press, 1998.
“The Ash of Memory, the Dust of Desire”
(1) Dead End: City Limits: An Anthology of Urban Fear (anth., ed. Paul F. Olson and David B. Silva): St. Martin’s Press, 1991.
(r) The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifth Annual Collection (anth., ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling): St. Martin’s Press, 1992.
(r) Nightmare Magazine (online media): nightmare-mag.com, Nov. 2012.
(c) Swamp Foetus (AKA: Wormwood: Dell)(f.c.): Borderlands Press, 1993.
“Bayou de la Mère”
(1) Queer Fear II (anth., ed. Michael Rowe): Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002.
(r) Nightmare Magazine (online media): nightmare-mag.com, Oct. 2015.
(c) The Devil You Know (f.c.): Subterranean Press, 2003.
“Becoming the Monster”
(1) Weird Business (comics anth., ed. Joe R. Lansdale and Richard Klaw): Mojo Press, 1995 (*an illustrated script).
(r) Smoke and Mirrors (anth., ed. Richard Chizmar): Cemetery Dance Publications, 2014.
“Burn, Baby, Burn”(*Hellboy tie-in)
(1) Odd Jobs (anth., ed. Christopher Golden): Dark Horse Comics, 2000.
(c) The Devil You Know (f.c.): Subterranean Press, 2003.
“Calcutta, Lord of Nerves”
(1) Still Dead (Book of the Dead #2) (anth., ed. John Skipp and Craig Spector): Ziesing Books/Bantam, 1992.
(r) The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection (anth., ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling): St. Martin’s Press, 1993.
(r) The Living Dead (anth., ed. John Joseph Adams): Start Publishing/Night Shade Books, 2008.
(r) Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead (anth., ed. John Skipp): Publisher, 2009.
(r) Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror (anth., ed. Ellen Datlow): Tachyon Publications, 2010.
(r) The Century’s Best Horror Fiction 1951-2000 (anth., ed. John Pelan): Cemetery Dance Publications, 2012.
(r) The Beauty of Death (anth., ed. Alessandro Manzetti): Independent Legions Publishing, 2016.
(r) Om Mahakali: To The Goddess (anth., ed. Alex S. Johnson): Alex S. Johnson, 2025.
(c) Swamp Foetus (AKA: Wormwood: Dell)(f.c.): Borderlands Press, 1993.
(c) His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood and Other Stories (f.c.): Penguin Books, 1995.
(c) Poppy Z. Brite: Selected Stories (f.c.): Independent Legions Publishing, 2016.
“Crown of Thorns”
(1) (limited edition chapbook): Subterranean Press, 2005.
(r) Subterranean (mag., #3): Subterranean Press, 2006.
(c) Antediluvian Tales (f.c.): Subterranean Press, 2007.
(c) Doctor Brite: Coroner in New Orleans (f.c.): Independent Legions Publishing, 2016.
“The Crystal Empire”
Wrong Things (f.c.): Subterranean Press, 2001.
(r) The Crystal Empire: Novella (standalone e-novella): Independent Legions Publishing, 2016.
“The Curious Case of Miss Violet Stone” (with David Ferguson)
(1) Shadows Over Baker Street (anth., ed. John Pelan and Michael Reaves): Del Rey/Ballantine, 2003.
“De-Flower of the Orient” (written as Lucas Ransom)
(1) Cherry Boys (mag): Cherry Boys, 1994.
“The Devil of Delery Street”
(1) McSweeney’s Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories (anth., ed. Michael Chabon): Vintage Books, 2004.
(r) The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 16 (anth., ed. Stephen Jones): Robinson, 2005.
(c) Antediluvian Tales (f.c.): Subterranean Press, 2007.
“The Devil You Know”
(1) Imagination Fully Dilated 2: The Literated Works of Alan M. Clark (anth., ed. Elizabeth Engstrom): IFD Press, 2000.
(r) A Collective Paw: An Animal Rights Anthology Volume 1 (anth., ed. Alex S. Johnson): Alex S. Johnson, 2025.
(c) The Devil You Know (f.c.): Subterranean Press, 2003.
(c) A Little Purple Book of New Orleans Stories (f.c.): Borderlands Press, 2015.
“The Elder”
(1) The Horror Show (mag., vol. 5, #1): Phantasm Press, Jan. 1987.
(r) The Definitive Best of the Horror Show (anth., ed. David B. Silva): Cemetery Dance Publications, 1992.
(c) Swamp Foetus (AKA: Wormwood: Dell)(f.c.): Borderlands Press, 1993.
“Enough Rope”
(1) Crossing the Border: Tales of Erotic Ambiguity (anth., ed. Lisa Tuttle): Gollancz, 1998.
“Entertaining Mr. Orton”
(1) Grave Passions: Tales of the Gay Supernatural (anth., ed. William J. Mann): Masquerade Books/ Badboy, 1997.
(r) Dark Terrors 4: The Gollancz Book of Horror (anth., ed. Stephen Jones and David Sutton): Gollancz, 1998.
(r) The Mammoth Book of New Erotica (anth., ed. Maxim Jakubowski): Carroll & Graf, 1998.
(c) Are You Loathsome Tonight? (AKA: Self-Made Man)(f.c.): Gauntlet Press, 1998.
“Essence of Rose”
(1) Nerve (online media): www.nerve.com, Oct. 1998.
(r) Erotic New Orleans (anth., ed. Debra Gray DeNoux): Pontalba Press, 1999.
(r) The Mammoth Book of New Erotica 2 (anth., ed. Maxim Jakubowski): Carroll & Graf, 2002.
(c) Used Stories (f.c.): Subterranean Press, 2004.
“Exquisite Creep”
(1) South from Midnight (anth., ed. Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg, and Thomas R. Hanlon): Southern Fried Press, 1994.
“The Feast of St. Rosalie”
(1) (limited edition chapbook): Subterranean Press, 2003.
(c) Antediluvian Tales (f.c.): Subterranean Press, 2007.
“Footprints in the Water”
(1) Women of Darkness II (anth., ed. Kathryn Ptacek): Tor Books, 1990.
(r) 100 Tiny Tales of Terror (anth., ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg, and Robert Weinberg): Barnes & Noble Books, 1996.
(c) Swamp Foetus (AKA: Wormwood: Dell)(f.c.): Borderlands Press, 1993.
“Found You”
(1) +Horror Library+ Volume 9 (anth., ed. Eric J. Guignard): Dark Moon Books, 2026.
“Four Flies and a Swatter”
Antediluvian Tales (f.c.): Subterranean Press, 2007.
(c) A Little Purple Book of New Orleans Stories (f.c.): Borderlands Press, 2015.
(c) Exploring Dark Short Fiction #8: A Primer to Poppy Z. Brite (f.c.): Dark Moon Books, 2026.
“The Freaks”
(1) The Spook (mag., #12): FILMCITY Productions, Sept. 2002.
“Fuck It, We’re Going To Jamaica!”
(1) Necromantic (or: Necromance) (online webzine.
“A Georgia Story” (AKA: “Love (Ash 1)”)
(1) The Horror Show (mag., vol. 5, #4): Phantasm Press, Fall 1987.
(r) Sex Macabre (anth., ed. Amarantha Knight): Masquerade Books/Rhinoceros Publications, 1996.
(c) Swamp Foetus (AKA: Wormwood: Dell)(f.c.): Borderlands Press, 1993.
(c) Exploring Dark Short Fiction #8: A Primer to Poppy Z. Brite (f.c.): Dark Moon Books, 2026.
“Goldengrove Unleaving” (AKA: “Angels”)
(1) The Horror Show (mag., vol. 5, #4): Phantasm Press, Fall 1987.
(c) Swamp Foetus (AKA: Wormwood: Dell)(f.c.): Borderlands Press, 1993.
“The Goose Girl”
(1) J. K. Potter’s Embrace the Mutation (anth., ed. William Schafer and Bill Sheehan): Subterranean Press, 2002.
(r) Horror for RAICES (anth., ed. Jennifer Wilson and Robert S. Wilson): Nightscape Press, 2019.
(c) Used Stories (f.c.): Subterranean Press, 2004.
“The Gulf”
(1) Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy (anth., ed. William Schafer): Subterranean Press, 2008.
(c) A Little Purple Book of New Orleans Stories (f.c.): Borderlands Press, 2015.
“The Heart of New Orleans”
(1) City Slab (mag., #1): City Slab Publications, Oct. 2002.
(r) Shrouded by Darkness: Tales of Terror (anth., ed. Alison L. R. Davies): Telos Publishing, 2006.
(c) The Devil You Know (f.c.): Subterranean Press, 2003.
(c) A Little Purple Book of New Orleans Stories (f.c.): Borderlands Press, 2015.
(c) Doctor Brite: Coroner in New Orleans (f.c.): Independent Legions Publishing, 2016.
(c) Poppy Z. Brite: Selected Stories (f.c.): Independent Legions Publishing, 2016.
(c) Exploring Dark Short Fiction #8: A Primer to Poppy Z. Brite (f.c.): Dark Moon Books, 2026.
“Henry Goes Shopping”
Antediluvian Tales (f.c.): Subterranean Press, 2007.
“His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood”
(1) Borderlands (anth., ed. Thomas F. Monteleone): Maclay & Associates, 1990.
(r) Best New Horror 2 (anth., ed. Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell): Robinson, 1991.
(r) The Giant Book of Best New Horror (anth., ed. Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell): The Book Company/Magpie, 1993.
(r) The Urbanite (mag., #6): Urban Legend Press, 1995.
(r) Cthulhu 2000: A Lovecraftian Anthology (anth., ed. Jim Turner): Arkham House, 1995.
(r) Sons of Darkness: Tales of Men, Blood and Immortality (anth., ed. Michael Rowe and Thomas S. Roche): Cleis Press, 1996.
(r) Louisiana Vampires (anth., ed. Lawrence Schimel and Martin H. Greenberg): Fall River Press, 2010.
(r) The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (anth., ed. Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer): Corvus/Tor, 2011.
(r) The Five Senses of Horror (anth., ed. Eric J. Guignard): Dark Moon Books, 2018.
(c) Swamp Foetus (AKA: Wormwood: Dell)(f.c.): Borderlands Press, 1993.
(c) His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood and Other Stories (f.c.): Penguin Books, 1995.
(c) Poppy Z. Brite: Selected Stories (f.c.): Independent Legions Publishing, 2016.
“Hitchhiker”
(1) Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World (2021 edition) (anth., ed. Eric J. Guignard): Dark Moon Books, 2021.
“Homewrecker”
(1) Embraces: Dark Erotica (anth., ed. Paula Guran): Venus or Vixen Press, 2000.
(r) The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women (anth., ed. Stephen Jones): Robinson/Carroll & Graf, 2001.
(c) Used Stories (f.c.): Subterranean Press, 2004.
“How to Get Ahead in New York”
(1) Gauntlet (mag., #4): Gauntlet Press, 1992.
(r) Best New Horror 4 (anth., ed. Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell): Carroll & Graf, 1993.
(r) The Giant Book of Terror (anth., ed. Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell): Magpie Books/ Parragon, 1994. (*Mostly a repackaging of above-listed Best New Horror 4)
(c) Swamp Foetus (AKA: Wormwood: Dell)(f.c.): Borderlands Press, 1993.
(c) His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood and Other Stories (f.c.): Penguin Books, 1995.
“In Vermis Veritas”
(1) Registry of Death (fictional introduction to graphic novel by Matthew Coyle and Peter Lamb): Kitchen Sink Press, 1996.
(c) Are You Loathsome Tonight? (AKA: Self-Made Man)(f.c.): Gauntlet Press, 1998.
“King of the Cats” (with David Ferguson) (AKA: “The Poor Miller’s Apprentice and the Cat”)
(1) Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Gay Men (anth., ed. Michael Ford): Richard Kasak Books, 1996.
(c) Are You Loathsome Tonight? (AKA: Self-Made Man)(f.c.): Gauntlet Press, 1998.
“The Laffin’ Man”
(1) The Rack II: More Stories Inspired by Vintage Horror Paperbacks (anth., ed. Tom Deady): Greymore Publishing, 2025.
“Lantern Marsh”
(1) October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween (anth., ed. Richard Chizmar, Robert Morrish): Cemetery Dance Publications, 2000.
(c) The Devil You Know (f.c.): Subterranean Press, 2003.
(c) Poppy Z. Brite: Selected Stories (f.c.): Independent Legions Publishing, 2016.
“Last Wish”
Self-published digital story, 2016.
“Love (Ash 1)” (AKA: “A Georgia Story”)
(1) The Horror Show (mag., vol. 5, #4): Phantasm Press, Fall 1987.
(r) Sex Macabre (anth., ed. Amarantha Knight): Masquerade Books/Rhinoceros Publications, 1996.
(c) Swamp Foetus (AKA: Wormwood: Dell)(f.c.): Borderlands Press, 1993.
(c) Exploring Dark Short Fiction #8: A Primer to Poppy Z. Brite (f.c.): Dark Moon Books, 2026.
“Marisol”
(1) Gothic.net (online media): gothic.net, Jan. 2002.
(c) The Devil You Know (f.c.): Subterranean Press, 2003.
(c) Doctor Brite: Coroner in New Orleans (f.c.): Independent Legions Publishing, 2016.
“Missing”
(1) The Horror Show (mag., vol. 4, #4): Phantasm Press, Fall, 1986.
(r) 100 Fiendish Little Frightmares (anth., ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg, and Martin H. Greenberg): Barnes & Noble Books, 1997.
(r) Revisiting the Undead (anth., ed. staff of Lycan Valley Editorial): Lycan Valley Press, 2019.
(c) Swamp Foetus (AKA: Wormwood: Dell)(f.c.): Borderlands Press, 1993.
(c) A Little Purple Book of New Orleans Stories (f.c.): Borderlands Press, 2015.
“Monday’s Special”
(1) Louisiana Literature (mag., vol. 15, #1): Louisiana Literature, Spring 1998.
(c) Are You Loathsome Tonight? (AKA: Self-Made Man)(f.c.): Gauntlet Press, 1998.
(c) Doctor Brite: Coroner in New Orleans (f.c.): Independent Legions Publishing, 2016.
“Mussolini and the Axeman’s Jazz”
(1) Dark Destiny: Proprietors of Fate (anth., ed. Edward E. Kramer): White Wolf Publishing, 1995.
(r) The Best New Horror: Volume Eight (anth., ed. Stephen Jones): Carroll & Graf/Robinson, 1997.
(r) French Quarter Fiction (anth., ed. Joshua Clark): Light of New Orleans Publishing, 2003.
(r) New Orleans Noir: The Classics (anth., ed. Julie Smith): Akashic Books, 2016.
(c) Are You Loathsome Tonight? (AKA: Self-Made Man)(f.c.): Gauntlet Press, 1998.
(c) A Little Purple Book of New Orleans Stories (f.c.): Borderlands Press, 2015.
(c) Poppy Z. Brite: Selected Stories (f.c.): Independent Legions Publishing, 2016.
(c) Exploring Dark Short Fiction #8: A Primer to Poppy Z. Brite (f.c.): Dark Moon Books, 2026.
“Nailed”
(1) Taps and Sighs: Stories of Hauntings (anth., ed. Peter Crowther): Subterranean Press, 2000.
(c) Used Stories (f.c.): Subterranean Press, 2004.
“Night Story 1973” (with Caitlín R. Kiernan)
(1) From Weird and Distant Shores (collection by Caitlín R. Kiernan): Subterranean Press, 2002.
(r) The Last Pentacle of the Sun: Writings in Support of the West Memphis Three (anth., ed. M.W. Anderson and Brett A. Savory): Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004.
(r) Two Worlds and In Between: The Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan (collection by Caitlín R. Kiernan): Subterranean Press, 2011.
“Nothing of Him That Doth Fade”
(1) Aqua Erotica: 18 Stories for a Steamy Bath (anth., ed. Mary Anne Mohanraj): Crown Books, 2000.
(r) Keep Out the Night (anth., ed. Stephen Jones): PS Publishing, 2002.
(r) The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories (anth., ed. Stephen Jones): Skyhorse Publishing, 2019.
(c) The Devil You Know (f.c.): Subterranean Press, 2003.
“O’ Death, Where Is Thy Spatula?”
(1) The Spook (mag., #1): FILMCITY Productions, July 2001.
(r) The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13 (anth., ed. Stephen Jones): Robinson, 2002.
(r) Fear of the Unknown (The Harrow Anthology) (anth., ed. Kfir Luzzatto and Monica O’Rourke): Echelon Press, 2005.
(c) The Devil You Know (f.c.): Subterranean Press, 2003.
(c) Doctor Brite: Coroner in New Orleans (f.c.): Independent Legions Publishing, 2016.
“The Ocean”
(1) The Darker Side: Generations of Horror (anth., ed. John Pelan): Roc/New American Library, 2002.
(c) The Devil You Know (f.c.): Subterranean Press, 2003.
“Optional Music for Voice and Piano”
(1) The Horror Show (mag., vol. 4, #1): Phantasm Press, Winter, 1986.
(r) Best of the Horror Show, An Adventure in Terror (anth., ed. David B. Silva): 2 AM Publications, 1987.
(r) The Definitive Best of the Horror Show (anth., ed. David B. Silva): Cemetery Dance Publications, 1992.
(r) Horrible Beginnings (anth., ed. Steven H. Silver and Martin H. Greenberg): DAW Books, 2003.
(c) Swamp Foetus (AKA: Wormwood: Dell)(f.c.): Borderlands Press, 1993.
“The Peeler”
(1) Elemental Forces: Horror Short Stories (anth., ed. Mark Morris): Flame Tree Press, 2024.
“Pin Money”
(1) Rage (mag., vol. 2, #2): Rage Magazine, Sept., 1997.
(c) Are You Loathsome Tonight? (AKA: Self-Made Man)(f.c.): Gauntlet Press, 1998.
“Pansu”
(1) (limited edition chapbook): Camelot Books and Gifts, 2001.
(c) The Devil You Know (f.c.): Subterranean Press, 2003.
“Poivre”
(1) The Spook (mag.): FILMCITY Productions, 2002. (credited as “extracted from a “longer piece”)
(c) The Devil You Know (f.c.): Subterranean Press, 2003.
“The Poor Miller’s Apprentice and the Cat” (with David Ferguson) (AKA: “King of the Cats”)
(1) Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Gay Men (anth., ed. Michael Ford): Richard Kasak Books, 1996.
(c) Are You Loathsome Tonight? (AKA: Self-Made Man)(f.c.): Gauntlet Press, 1998.
“The Rest of the Wrong Thing” (with Caitlín R. Kiernan)
Wrong Things (f.c.): Subterranean Press, 2001.
“Saved” (with Christa Faust)
(1) Young Blood (anth., ed. Mike Baker): Zebra Books/Kensington Publishing Corp., 1994.
(r) Noirotica: An Anthology of Erotic Crime Stories (anth., ed. Thomas S. Roche): Rhinoceros, 1996.
(r) Typical Girls (anth., ed. Susan Corrigan): Hodder & Stoughton, 1997.
(c) Are You Loathsome Tonight? (AKA: Self-Made Man)(f.c.): Gauntlet Press, 1998.
“A Season in Heck”
The Devil You Know(f.c.): Subterranean Press, 2003.
“Self-Made Man”
(1) Dark Terrors 3: The Gollancz Book of Horror (anth., ed. Stephen Jones and David Sutton): Gollancz, 1997.
(r) Scaremongers (anth., ed. Andrew Haigh): Tanjen, 1997.
(r) Darker Terrors (anth., ed. Stephen Jones and David Sutton): Spectral Press, 2015.
(c) Are You Loathsome Tonight? (AKA: Self-Made Man)(f.c.): Gauntlet Press, 1998.
(c) Poppy Z. Brite: Selected Stories (f.c.): Independent Legions Publishing, 2016.
“The Sixth Sentinel”
(1) Borderlands 3 (anth., ed. Thomas F. Monteleone): Borderlands Press, 1993.
(r) Heliophobe (mag., #1): Forrest Jackson, Winter 1994/95.
(r) The Best New Horror: Volume Five (anth., ed. Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell): Robinson, 1994.
(r) Desire Burn: Women’s Stories from the Dark Side of Passion (anth., ed. Janet Berliner, Martin H. Greenberg, and Uwe Luserke): Carroll & Graf, 1995.
(r) Love Is Strange (anth., ed. Richard Glyn Jones): Indigo, 1998.
(c) Swamp Foetus (AKA: Wormwood: Dell)(f.c.): Borderlands Press, 1993.
(c) His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood and Other Stories (f.c.): Penguin Books, 1995.
(c) Poppy Z. Brite: Selected Stories (f.c.): Independent Legions Publishing, 2016.
(c) Exploring Dark Short Fiction #8: A Primer to Poppy Z. Brite (f.c.): Dark Moon Books, 2026.
“System Freeze” (*The Matrix tie-in)
(1) The Matrix Comics Series 1 (online media/ webcomic): www.whatisthematrix.com, Warner Bros., 1999 (*with illustrations by Michael Kaluta).
(r) The Matrix Comics Volume 2 (anth. of comics, ed. Spencer Lamm with Sharon Bray): Burlyman Entertainment/Titan Books, 2004 (*with illustrations by Dave Dorman).
(r) The Matrix Comics: 20th Anniversary Edition (anth./omnibus of comics series): Burlyman Entertainment/Titan Books, 2019.
(c) The Devil You Know (f.c.): Subterranean Press, 2003.
“A Taste of Blood and Altars” (*Stand-alone story, revised and added as prologue to novel Lost Souls)
(1) The Horror Show (mag., vol. 6, #2): Phantasm Press, Summer, 1988.
(r) Cemetery Dance (mag., vol. 4, #3): Cemetery Dance, Summer, 1992.
(r) New Orleans Stories (mag., vol. 1, #2): New Orleans Stories, Inc., 1994.
(r) The Best of Cemetery Dance (anth., ed. Richard Chizmar): Cemetery Dance Publications, 1998.
(r) The Best of Cemetery Dance, Volume Two (anth., ed. Richard Chizmar): Roc/New American Library, 2001.
“Till Human Voices Wake Us, and We Drown”
(1) The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand (anth., ed. Christopher Golden and Brian Keene): Gallery Books, 2025.
“Toxic Wastrels”
(1) The Earth Strikes Back: New Tales of Ecological Horror (anth., ed. Richard T. Chizmar): Ziesing Books, 1994.
(c) Used Stories (f.c.): Subterranean Press, 2004.
“Triads” (with Christa Faust) (*original novella that later evolved into the same-named novel)
(1) Revelations (anth., ed. Douglas E. Winter): Cemetery Dance Publications/HarperPrism, 1997. (*alt UK title: Millennium, ed. Douglas E. Winter: Voyager/HarperCollins, 1997)
“Vine of the Soul”
(1) Disco 2000 (anth., ed. Sarah Champion): Sceptre, 1998.
(r) Cemetery Dance (mag., vol. 9, #1): Cemetery Dance, Dec. 1998.
(c) Are You Loathsome Tonight? (AKA: Self-Made Man)(f.c.): Gauntlet Press, 1998.
“Wandering the Borderlands”
(1) Masques V (anth., ed. J. N. Williamson and Gary Braunbeck): Gauntlet Press, 2006.
(r) Subterranean (online magazine): www.subterraneanpress.com, Winter, 2007.
“The Working Slob’s Prayer (Being a Night in the History of the Peychaud Grill)”
(1) Outsiders: 22 All New Stories from the Edge (anth., ed. Nancy Holder and Nancy Kilpatrick): Roc/New American Library, 2005.
(c) Antediluvian Tales (f.c.): Subterranean Press, 2007.
“Wound Man and Horned Melon Go to Hell”
(1) Damned Nation (anth., ed. Robert N. Lee and David T. Wilbanks): HellBound Books Publishing, 2006.
(c) Antediluvian Tales (f.c.): Subterranean Press, 2007.
(c) A Little Purple Book of New Orleans Stories (f.c.): Borderlands Press, 2015.
(c) Doctor Brite: Coroner in New Orleans (f.c.): Independent Legions Publishing, 2016.
“Xenophobia”
(1) The Horror Show (mag., vol. 8, #1): Phantasm Press, Spring, 1990.
(r) Splatterpunks II: Over the Edge (anth., ed. Paul M. Sammon): Tor Books, 1995.
(r) The Dystopian States of America (anth., ed. Matt Bechtel): Haverhill House, 2020.
(c) Swamp Foetus (AKA: Wormwood: Dell)(f.c.): Borderlands Press, 1993.
NOVELS, CHAPBOOKS, and OTHER STAND-ALONE WORKS
Crown of Thorns (chapbook): Subterranean Press, 2005.
D*U*C*K (novella): Subterranean Press, 2007.
Drawing Blood (novel): Abyss/Delacorte Press, 1993.
Exquisite Corpse (novel): Simon & Schuster, 1996.
The Feast of St. Rosalie(chapbook): Subterranean Press, 2003.
The Lazarus Heart (*The Crow tie-in) (novel): HarperPrism, 1998.
(r) (var: A Murder of Crows) (omnibus of three The Crow novels): Science Fiction Book Club, 1998.
Liquor (novel): Three Rivers Press/Random House (Crown), 2004.
Liquor for Christmas (chapbook): Subterranean Press, 2006.
Lost Souls (novel): Delacorte, 1992.
Pansu (chapbook): Camelot Books and Gifts, 2001.
Plastic Jesus (chapbook): Subterranean Press, 2000.
Prime (novel): Three Rivers Press/Random House (Crown), 2005.
Second Line: Two Short Novels of Love and Cooking in New Orleans (omnibus edition of The Value of X and D*U*C*K): Small Beer Press, 2009.
The Seed of Lost Souls (chapbook of the original unpublished novella that later became the novel Lost Souls): Subterranean Press, 1999.
Soul Kitchen (novel): Three Rivers Press/Random House (Crown), 2006.
Stay Awake (chapbook): Camelot Books and Gifts, 2000.
Triads (with Christa Faust) (novel; an expansion of the same-named novella): Subterranean Press, 2004.
The Value of X (novel): Subterranean Press, 2002.
COLLECTIONS
Antediluvian Tales (fiction collection): Subterranean Press, 2007.
Are You Loathsome Tonight? (fiction collection): Gauntlet Press, 1998.
(r) (var: Self-Made Man) (fiction collection): Orion, 1999.
The Devil You Know (fiction collection): Subterranean Press, 2003.
Doctor Brite: Coroner in New Orleans (fiction collection): Independent Legions Publishing, 2016.
Exploring Dark Short Fiction #8: A Primer to Poppy Z. Brite (fiction collection, ed. Eric J. Guignard): Dark Moon Books, 2026.
His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood and Other Stories (fiction collection <*four stories selected from Swamp Foetus>): Penguin Books, 1995.
A Little Purple Book of New Orleans Stories (fiction collection): Borderlands Press, 2015.
Poppy Z. Brite: Selected Stories (fiction collection): Independent Legions Publishing, 2016.
Swamp Foetus (fiction collection): Borderlands Press, 1993.
(r) (var: Wormwood: A Collection of Short Stories) (fiction collection): Dell, 1994.
Used Stories (fiction collection): Subterranean Press, 2004.
Wrong Things (with Caitlín R. Kiernan) (fiction collection): Subterranean Press, 2001.
ANTHOLOGIES AS EDITOR
Love In Vein: Harper Prism, 1994.
Twice Bitten: Love In Vein II: Harper Prism, 1997.
NON-FICTION BOOKS
Courtney Love: The Real Story (biography): Simon & Schuster, 1997.
Guilty but Insane (essay collection): Subterranean Press, 2001.
Water If God Wills It: Religion and Spirituality in the Work of Stephen King: Cemetery Dance, 2026. (*forthcoming)
