| Dangerous games: What the moral panic over role-playing games says about play, religion, and imagined worlds JP Laycock University of California Press, 2015 | 155 | 2015 |
| Vampires today: The truth about modern vampirism JP Laycock Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2009 | 49 | 2009 |
| “We Are Spirits of Another Sort” Ontological Rebellion and Religious Dimensions of the Otherkin Community JP Laycock Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 15 (3), 65-90, 2012 | 45 | 2012 |
| Tracking the Tulpa Exploring the “Tibetan” Origins of a Contemporary Paranormal Idea NL Mikles, JP Laycock Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 19 (1), 87-97, 2015 | 39 | 2015 |
| Speak of the devil: How the Satanic Temple is changing the way we talk about religion JP Laycock Oxford University Press, 2020 | 35 | 2020 |
| Real Vampires as an Identity Group: Analyzing Causes and Effects of an Introspective Survey by the Vampire. Community J Laycock Handbook of Hyper-real Religions, 141-163, 2012 | 35 | 2012 |
| Where do they get these ideas? Changing ideas of cults in the mirror of popular culture J Laycock Journal of the American Academy of Religion 81 (1), 80-106, 2013 | 34 | 2013 |
| Spirit possession around the world JP Laycock Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015 | 28 | 2015 |
| The seer of Bayside: Veronica Lueken and the struggle to define Catholicism JP Laycock Oxford University Press, 2014 | 22 | 2014 |
| Laughing matters:" Parody Religions" and the command to compare JP Laycock Bulletin for the Study of Religion 42 (3), 19-26, 2013 | 21 | 2013 |
| Yoga for the new woman and the new man: The role of Pierre Bernard and Blanche DeVries in the creation of modern postural yoga J Laycock Religion and American Culture 23 (1), 101-136, 2013 | 20 | 2013 |
| Carnal knowledge: The epistemology of sexual trauma in witches' sabbaths, satanic ritual abuse, and alien abduction narratives J Laycock Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural 1 (1 …, 2012 | 16 | 2012 |
| Approaching the paranormal JP Laycock Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 18 (1), 5-15, 2014 | 14 | 2014 |
| Levitating the Pentagon: Exorcism as Politics, Politics as Exorcism. JP Laycock Implicit religion 14 (3), 2011 | 8 | 2011 |
| The Folk Piety of William Peter Blatty:" The Exorcist" in the Context of Secularization J Laycock Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion 5, 2009 | 8 | 2009 |
| Paranormal Belief: A New Frontier? J Laycock Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 15 (1), 92-97, 2011 | 6 | 2011 |
| “‘Time Is a Flat Circle’: True Detective and the Specter of Moral Panic in American Pop Culture.” JP Laycock Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 27 (3), 220-235, 0 | 6* | |
| Marian Apparitions as New Religious Movements JM Krebs, J Laycock Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 21 (2), 5-12, 2017 | 5 | 2017 |
| Myth Sells: Mattel’s Commission of The Masters of the Universe Bible J Laycock The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 22 (2), 4-4, 2010 | 5 | 2010 |
| Mothman: Monster, Disaster, and Community JP Laycock Fieldwork in religion 3 (1), 70-86, 2008 | 5 | 2008 |
