- Abstracts of Folklore Studies
- African-American Folksongs
- Al Jolson - A Discography by W.K. McNeil and Lewis Hatchett (2000)
- American Children’s Folklore
- American Folklore: An Encyclopedia (Contributor)
- American Folklore series (Editor of the August House collection)
- American Folklore Society’s “One Hundred Years of American Folklore Studies”
- American Proverb Literature
- Appalachian Journal (Contributor)
- Appalachian Images in Folk and Popular Culture
- Arkansas Country Dancer (Columnist/Contributor)
- An Arkansas Folklore Sourcebook
- The Charm is Broken: Readings in Arkansas and Missouri Folklore (Selected as preferred textbook for folklore studies in colleges and universities nationwide)
- Clearfield Company’s Classic books in Folklore Studies series (Editor)
- Chronicles of Oklahoma(Contributor)
- Dick Powell - A Bio-Discography by W.K. McNeil and Lewis Hatchett (2000)
- Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music – the first comprehensive reference to cover American gospel music (Editor)
- Encyclopedia of Appalachia (Contributor)
- Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (Contributor)
- Fireside Stories of Early Days of the Ozarks (Contributor)
- Folklore (Contributor)
- Folklore Forum (Contributor)
- Folklore on Two Continents (Contributor)
- Folklore Historian (Advisory Editor)
- Fred Astaire -A Discography by W.K. McNeil and Lewis Hatchett (1999)
- Ghost Stories from the American South
- Ghost Stories from the Pacific Northwest
- Heritage of Stone (Contributor)
- History of Arkansas Country Music (Documentation)
- History of Lawrence, Jackson, Independence, and Stone Counties, Arkansas (Introduction)
- Indiana Folklore (Contributor)
- Italian-American Folklore
- Jewish-American Folklore
- Jimmy Rogers Memorial Newsletter (Editor)
- John Edwards Memorial Foundation Quarterly (Contributor)
- Journal of American Folklore (Contributor/Editor)
- Journal of Country Music (Contributor)
- Journal of Ohio Folklore Society (Contributor)
- Journal of Popular Culture (Contributor)
- Keystone Folklore Society Quarterly (Contributor)
The books included are collected/edited/written by McNeil or else he contributed introductions/editing/commentary/chapters in books written by others. McNeil wrote thousands of articles in his thirty-eight year career as a folklorist and historian, making him the most prolific writer to have come from Bethel.
Dr. William Kinneth McNeil-Publications