• 2007 Bram Stoker Award nomination "Superior Achievement in a First Novel" - The Memory Tree
• 1st Annual Black Quill Award nomination "Best Small Press Chill" - Placeholders
• 2nd Annual Black Quill Award winner "Best Small Press Chill" - Miranda
• 2008 Bram Stoker Award winner "Superior Achievement in Long Fiction" - Miranda
• 2009 President’s Richard Laymon Award for volunteer work on behalf of the Horror Writers Association

• The Memory Tree (Nocturne Press, 2007)
• Placeholders (Necessary Evil Press, 2007)
• Climbing Mount Turnpike (Nocturne Press, 2007)
• Miranda (AKA adnariM) (Bad Moon Books, 2008) - Lettered versions included the short story "Hunting for Miranda"
• Dreams in Black and White (Bloodletting Press, 2009)
• The Gray Zone (Bad Moon Books 2009)
• Little Things A collection of short stories. (Bad Moon Books,in 2010)

Short stories

• "Volunteers Needed" - Cavalier magazine (February, 1982)
• "Tommy's Christmas" - Twilight Zone magazine (February, 1983) - Reprinted in Italian as "Il Natale di Tommy" in the 1988 Un Fantastico Natale anthology, reprinted in German as "Tommy's Weihnacten" in the 1988 anthology Das Große Weihnachts-Buch der Phantasie
• "Growing Up" - Weird Tales magazine (Summer, 1991)
• "Daddy" - Tales From the Gorezone anthology edited by Kealan Patrick Burke (Apt 42 Publications, 2004).
• "Those Little Cameras!" - Dark Discoveries magazine #4 (April, 2005)
• "Ever After" - Shivers IV anthology edited by Richard Chizmar (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2006).
• "Accordion Season" - Doorways magazine (July, 2008)
• "Following Marla," a short story published in "Horror World", February, 2009
• “George’s Head,” a short story in Legends of the Mountain State #3, edited by Michael Knost
• “Hunting for Miranda,” a short story published in the lettered edition of "Miranda", June, 2009
• "A Slow Haunting," a short story Dark Delicacies III, 2009

• John R. Little's official site
• Bibliography of John R. Little on his official site