Christopher Fowler Reading Order

72 books (1990–2025)

Start with Drabble II: Double Century, the first of 72 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Drabble II: Double Century 1990Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Mammoth Book of Vampires 1992Buy 🇺🇸
3	Best New Horror 4 1993Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Giant Book of Zombies 1993Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Mammoth Book of Zombies 1993Buy 🇺🇸
6	Best New Horror 5 1994Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Giant Book of Terror 1994Buy 🇺🇸
8	Dark Terrors 1995Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 7 1996Buy 🇺🇸
10	Dark Terrors 3 1997Buy 🇺🇸
11	Dark of the Night 1997Buy 🇺🇸
12	Destination Unknown 1997Buy 🇺🇸
13	Secret City 1997Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 8 1997Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Mammoth Book of Dracula 1997Buy 🇺🇸
16	Dark Terrors 4 1998Buy 🇺🇸
17	Eleventh Annual Collection 1998Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 9 1998Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10 1999Buy 🇺🇸
20	Dark Terrors 5 2000Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #12 2001Buy 🇺🇸
22	Urban Gothic: Lacuna and Other Trips 2001Buy 🇺🇸
23	Dark Terrors 6 2002Buy 🇺🇸
24	Fifteenth Annual Collection 2002Buy 🇺🇸
25	Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13 2002Buy 🇺🇸
26	Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters 2002Buy 🇺🇸
27	Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection 2003Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15 2004Buy 🇺🇸
29	The Mammoth Book of New Terror 2004Buy 🇺🇸
30	Shrouded by Darkness: Tales of Terror 2006Buy 🇺🇸
31	The British Fantasy Society: A Celebration 2006Buy 🇺🇸
32	Best New Horror 18 2007Buy 🇺🇸
33	Summer Chills 2007Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Mammoth Book of Monsters 2007Buy 🇺🇸
35	Best New Horror 19 2008Buy 🇺🇸
36	Mammoth Books Presents Demonic Dreams 2008Buy 🇺🇸
37	Best New Horror 20 2009Buy 🇺🇸
38	Back from the Dead: The Legacy of the Pan Book of Horror Stories 2010Buy 🇺🇸
39	Crimewave 11 2010Buy 🇺🇸
40	The End of the Line 2010Buy 🇺🇸
41	The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 7 2010Buy 🇺🇸
42	The Sounds Of Crime 2010Buy 🇺🇸
43	Visitants 2010Buy 🇺🇸
44	Zombie Apocalypse! 2010Buy 🇺🇸
45	Best New Horror 22 2011Buy 🇺🇸
46	Full Fathom Forty 2011Buy 🇺🇸
47	Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes 2011Buy 🇺🇸
48	Haunts: Reliquaries of the Dead 2011Buy 🇺🇸
49	House of Fear 2011Buy 🇺🇸
50	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three 2011Buy 🇺🇸
51	Best New Horror 23 2012Buy 🇺🇸
52	Four For Fear 2012Buy 🇺🇸
53	Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane 2012Buy 🇺🇸
54	Pandemonium: Stories of the Smoke 2012Buy 🇺🇸
55	The Mammoth Book of Body Horror 2012Buy 🇺🇸
56	Dark World: Ghost Stories 2013Buy 🇺🇸
57	Deadly Pleasures 2013Buy 🇺🇸
58	Fearie Tales 2013Buy 🇺🇸
59	Flotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013 2013Buy 🇺🇸
60	Psychomania: Killer Stories 2013Buy 🇺🇸
61	Kneeling in the Silver Light: Stories from the Great War 2014Buy 🇺🇸
62	Interzone 258, May-June 2015 2015Buy 🇺🇸
63	The Future of Horror 2015Buy 🇺🇸
64	The Monstrous 2015Buy 🇺🇸
65	Darker Terrors 7 2016Buy 🇺🇸
66	In the Footsteps of Dracula 2017Buy 🇺🇸
67	Invisible Blood 2019Buy 🇺🇸
68	Body Shocks 2021Buy 🇺🇸
69	The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror 2021Buy 🇺🇸
70	Ink and Daggers 2023Buy 🇺🇸
71	Reports from the Deep End 2023Buy 🇺🇸
72	Playing Dead: Short Stories by Members of the Detection Club 2025Buy 🇺🇸

18 books (2009–2025)

Start with The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One, the first of 18 books in the Best Horror of the Year series.

#	Title
1	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One 2009Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two 2010Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three 2011Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four 2012Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five 2013Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six 2014Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven 2015Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight 2016Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine 2017Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten 2018Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction 2018Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven 2019Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve 2020Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen 2021Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen 2022Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen 2024Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen 2024Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen 2025Buy 🇺🇸

40 books (2012–2022)

Start with An Acceptable Sacrifice(By: Jeffery Deaver), the first of 40 books in the Bibliomysteries series.

#	Title
1	An Acceptable Sacrifice(By: Jeffery Deaver) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	Death Leaves a Bookmark(By: William Link) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
3	Pronghorns of the Third Reich(By: C.J. Box) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Book Case(By: Nelson DeMille) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Book Thing(By: Laura Lippman) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Book of Virtue(By: Ken Bruen) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
7	Rides a Stranger(By: David Bell) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Book of Ghosts(By: Reed Farrel Coleman) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Final Testament(By: Peter Blauner) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Long Sonata of the Dead(By: Andrew Taylor) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
11	Book Club(By: Loren D. Estleman) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
12	It's in the Book(By: Max Allan Collins,Mickey Spillane) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
13	Remaindered(By: Peter Lovesey) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Compendium of Srem(By: F. Paul Wilson) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Gospel of Sheba(By: Lyndsay Faye) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Nature of My Inheritance(By: Bradford Morrow) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Scroll(By: Anne Perry) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Sequel(By: R.L. Stine) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
19	What's in a Name?(By: Thomas H. Cook) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
20	Condor in the Stacks(By: James Grady) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
21	Every Seven Years(By: Denise Mina) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
22	From the Queen(By: Carolyn Hart) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
23	Mystery, Inc.(By: Joyce Carol Oates) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Book of the Lion(By: Thomas Perry) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Little Men(By: Megan Abbott) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
26	Citadel(By: Stephen Hunter) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
27	Dead Dames Don't Sing(By: John Harvey) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
28	Reconciliation Day 2016Buy 🇺🇸
29	The Haze(By: James W. Hall) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Travelling Companion(By: Ian Rankin) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
31	Hoodoo Harry(By: Joe R. Lansdale) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
32	Seven Years(By: Peter Robinson) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
33	The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository(By: John Connolly) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Hemingway Valise(By: Robert Olen Butler) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
35	The Last Honest Horse Thief(By: Michael Koryta) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
36	The Pretty Little Box(By: Charles Todd) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
37	The Girl Who Did Say No(By: David Handler) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
38	The Dark Door(By: Lisa Unger) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
39	The Honeymoon Trap(By: Peter Swanson) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
40	The Traitor(By: Martin Edwards) 2022Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2015–2019)

Start with London's Glory and read in order.

#	Title
1	London's Glory 2015Buy 🇺🇸
2	England’s Finest 2019Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2022–2022)

#	Title
1	Peculiar London 2022Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2012–2012)

#	Title
1	The Casebook of Bryant & May: The Soho Devil 2012Buy 🇺🇸

21 books (2003–2021)

Start with Full Dark House, the first of 21 books in the Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit series.

#	Title
1	Full Dark House 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Water Room 2004Buy 🇺🇸
3	Seventy-Seven Clocks 2005Buy 🇺🇸
4	Ten Second Staircase 2006Buy 🇺🇸
5	White Corridor 2007Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Victoria Vanishes 2008Buy 🇺🇸
7	Bryant & May on the Loose 2009Buy 🇺🇸
8	Off the Rails 2010Buy 🇺🇸
9	Bryant & May's Mystery Tour 2011Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Memory of Blood / Bryant & May and the Memory of Blood 2011Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Invisible Code 2012Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Bleeding Heart 2014Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Burning Man 2015Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Secret Santa 2015Buy 🇺🇸
15	Strange Tide 2016Buy 🇺🇸
16	Wild Chamber 2017Buy 🇺🇸
17	Hall of Mirrors 2018Buy 🇺🇸
18	England’s Finest 2019Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Lonely Hour 2019Buy 🇺🇸
20	Oranges and Lemons 2020Buy 🇺🇸
21	London Bridge Is Falling Down 2021Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1997–1997)

#	Title
1	Menz Insana 1997Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2010–2010)

#	Title
1	The Curse of Snakes 2010Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1985–2017)

Start with How to Impersonate Famous People, the first of 6 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	How to Impersonate Famous People 1985Buy 🇺🇸
2	Ultimate Party Book 1985Buy 🇺🇸
3	Paperboy 2009Buy 🇺🇸
4	Invisible Ink 2012Buy 🇺🇸
5	Film Freak 2013Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Book of Forgotten Authors 2017Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (1997–2019)

Start with Wage Slaves, the first of 9 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Wage Slaves 1997Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Green Man 2002Buy 🇺🇸
3	American Waitress 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Spider Kiss 2007Buy 🇺🇸
5	Beautiful Men 2010Buy 🇺🇸
6	#ChooseThePlot(With: James Oswald,Jane Casey) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
7	Bryant & May and the Nameless Woman 2015Buy 🇺🇸
8	Reconciliation Day 2016Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Washing 2019Buy 🇺🇸

12 books (1984–2011)

Start with The Bureau of Lost Souls, the first of 12 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	The Bureau of Lost Souls 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	City Jitters 1986Buy 🇺🇸
3	More City Jitters 1988Buy 🇺🇸
4	Flesh Wounds 1989Buy 🇺🇸
5	Sharper Knives 1992Buy 🇺🇸
6	Personal Demons 1998Buy 🇺🇸
7	Uncut 1999Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Devil in Me 2001Buy 🇺🇸
9	Demonized 2004Buy 🇺🇸
10	Old Devil Moon 2007Buy 🇺🇸
11	Red Gloves 2011Buy 🇺🇸
12	Red Gloves Volume I & II 2011Buy 🇺🇸

16 books (1988–2022)

Start with Roofworld, the first of 16 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Roofworld 1988Buy 🇺🇸
2	Rune 1990Buy 🇺🇸
3	Red Bride 1992Buy 🇺🇸
4	Darkest Day 1993Buy 🇺🇸
5	Spanky 1994Buy 🇺🇸
6	Psychoville 1995Buy 🇺🇸
7	Disturbia 1997Buy 🇺🇸
8	Soho Black 1998Buy 🇺🇸
9	Calabash 2000Buy 🇺🇸
10	Plastic 2003Buy 🇺🇸
11	Breathe 2004Buy 🇺🇸
12	Hell Train 2011Buy 🇺🇸
13	Nyctophobia 2014Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Sand Men 2015Buy 🇺🇸
15	Little Boy Found(As: L.K. Fox) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
16	Hot Water 2022Buy 🇺🇸