Both publishers and critics alike have found difficulty in classifying Joyce as a writer. His novels have been categorized as fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mainstream literature...with some even overlapping genres. Joyce utilizes a wide variety of settings and character perspectives. Settings include Scotland, The English Midlands, Greece, the Middle East, and the jungles of Thailand. He has penned for both adult and juvenile protagonists, with an emphasis on strong female characters. The greater unity in Joyce's works, however, lies in their thematic and philosophical topics. Bill Sheehan, who wrote the introduction for Partial Eclipse, states:

The mystical or supernatural often play a pivotal role in Joyce's works. For this, he taps the mythical or folkloric associations of his settings. Joyce's treatment of these experiences is what distinguishes his novels from genre fiction. The supernatural is not seen as a conflict or an obstacle to be overcome, but rather an integral part of a natural order that a character must accept and integrate. Running parallel to these phenomena is the possibility of a rational or psychological explanation. This literary approach is influenced in part by Joyce's experiences with his own family:

This particular quality has prompted some critics to classify Joyce as a magic realist in the vein of such Latin writers as Gabriel García Márquez or Julio Cortázar. Joyce disagrees with this, feeling that his lineage is tied more closely to writers of the English “weird tale” such as Arthur Machen or Algernon Blackwood. He calls his style of writing “Old Peculiar.”

Currently, there are no films based on Joyce's novels or shorts. However, the film rights to Dreamside, The Tooth Fairy, and Dark Sister have all been optioned. As of March 2007, only Dreamside and The Tooth Fairy are in active talks.

On January 16, 2009 the site Computer and Video Games reported that Graham Joyce had been hired by ID Software to "help develop the storyline potential" of Doom 4.

According to his official site and the Internet Database of Speculative Fiction, Graham Joyce has published fourteen novels and twenty-six short stories to date.

Novels and short story collections

Short stories

• Monastic Lives (1992)
• The Careperson (1992)
• Last Rising Sun (1992)
• The Ventriloquial Art (1993)
• The Apprentice (1993)
• Under the Pylon (1993)
• Gap-Sickness (1993)
• Eat Reecebread (1994) with Peter F. Hamilton
• The Reckoning (1994)
• Black Ball Game (1995)
• A Tip from Bobby Moore (1996)
• The White Stuff (1997) with Peter F. Hamilton
• Pinkland (1997)
• The Mountain Eats People (1998)
• As Seen on Radio (1998)
• Leningrad Nights (1999)
• Candia (1999)
• Incident in Mombassa (1999)
• Horrograph (1999)
• Partial Eclipse (2000)
• Xenos Beach (2000)
• Coventry Boy (2001)
• Leningrad Nights (2002)
• The Coventry Boy (2002)
• First, Catch Your Demon (2002)
• Black Dust (2002)
• An Ordinary Soldier of the Queen (2009)

Articles

• Working Class Monster (June 2000)
• Greek Virtues
• The Great God Pan
• Two weeks, three couples and six kids equals hell

According to the Internet Speculative Fiction Database, Joyce has won the following awards: