NOVELS

• First Blood (1972)
• Testament (1975)
• Last Reveille (1977)
• The Totem (1979)
• Blood Oath (1982)
• The Brotherhood of the Rose (1984)
• The Fraternity of the Stone (1985)
• The League of Night and Fog (1987)
• The Fifth Profession (1990)
• The Covenant of the Flame (1991)
• Assumed Identity (1993)
• Desperate Measures (1994)
• The Totem (Complete and Unaltered) (1994)
• Extreme Denial (1996)
• Double Image (1998)
• Burnt Sienna (2000)
• Long Lost (2002)
• The Protector (2003)
• Creepers (2005)
• Scavenger (2007)
• The Spy Who Came for Christmas (2008)
• The Shimmer (2009)
• The Naked Edge (2010)
• Murder as a Fine Art (2013)
• Inspector of the Dead (2015)
• Ruler of the Night (2016)

NOVELIZATIONS

• Rambo (First Blood Part II) (1985)
• Rambo III (1988)

SHORT FICTION

• The Hundred-Year Christmas (1983)
• Black Evening (1999)
• Nightscape (2004)

NONFICTION

• John Barth: An Introduction (1976)
• Fireflies: A Father's Tale of Love and Loss (1988)
• American Fiction, American Myth: Essays by Philip Young, edited by David Morrell and Sandra Spanier (2000)
• Lessons From a Lifetime of Writing: A Novelist Looks at His Craft (2002)
• The Successful Novelist: Lessons From a Lifetime of Writing, Craft and Working with Publishers (2008)