McCammon has published multiple award-winning books, including
Mine in 1990 and ''Boy's Life
in 1991. After the release of Gone South
, McCammon chose to leave his publisher. After clashing with an editor at a new publisher over the direction for his historical fiction novel Speaks the Nightbird'', he retired from writing. After a long hiatus which resulted from the reorganization of the publishing industry and McCammon's personal depression and soul searching, he returned to the publishing world with
Speaks the Nightbird, the first book in the Matthew Corbett series.
Publishers Weekly called it a "compulsively readable yarn," and said, "McCammon's loyal fans will find his resurfacing reason to rejoice." Since 2002, seventeen new books have been published, including the ten books in the Matthew Corbett series. In 1985, McCammon's story "Nightcrawlers" was adapted into
an episode of
The Twilight Zone. After years out-of-print,
Baal, ''Bethany's Sin
, The Night Boat
, and They Thirst'' were re-released by
Subterranean Press as
limited edition novels. In a 2013 interview, McCammon acknowledged that some readers would like to have a complete collection of his work, and said "reading back over those books I find they’re not as poorly written as I recall them to be." == Bibliography ==