Christopher Fowler Reading Order

74 books (1990–2025)

Christopher Fowler has edited 72 anthology collections spanning mystery, thriller, horror, and non-fiction genres from 1990 to 2025, with the series still ongoing. These anthologies should be read in publication order, beginning with Drabble II: Double Century and continuing through titles like The Mammoth Book of Vampires, Best New Horror, Dark Terrors, and The Mammoth Book of Dracula. The series includes both themed horror anthologies and curated collections of the best contemporary short fiction across multiple genres.

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

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1	Drabble II: Double Century 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Mammoth Book of Vampires 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Best New Horror 4 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Giant Book of Zombies 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Mammoth Book of Zombies 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Best New Horror 5 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Giant Book of Terror 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Dark Terrors 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 7 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Dark Terrors 3 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Dark of the Night 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Destination Unknown 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Secret City 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 8 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	The Mammoth Book of Dracula 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Dark Terrors 4 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Eleventh Annual Collection 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 9 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Dark Terrors 5 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #12 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Urban Gothic: Lacuna and Other Trips 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Dark Terrors 6 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Fifteenth Annual Collection 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	The Mammoth Book of New Terror 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	Shrouded by Darkness: Tales of Terror 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	The British Fantasy Society: A Celebration 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Best New Horror 18 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	Summer Chills 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	The Mammoth Book of Monsters 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	Best New Horror 19 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	Mammoth Books Presents Demonic Dreams 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	Best New Horror 20 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	Back from the Dead: The Legacy of the Pan Book of Horror Stories 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	Crimewave 11 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	The End of the Line 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 7 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
43	The Sounds Of Crime 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
44	Visitants 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
45	Zombie Apocalypse! 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
46	Best New Horror 22 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
47	Full Fathom Forty 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
48	Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
49	Haunts: Reliquaries of the Dead 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
50	House of Fear 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
51	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
52	Best New Horror 23 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
53	Four For Fear 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
54	Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
55	Pandemonium: Stories of the Smoke 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
56	The Mammoth Book of Body Horror 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
57	Dark World: Ghost Stories 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
58	Deadly Pleasures 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
59	Fearie Tales 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
60	Flotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
61	Psychomania: Killer Stories 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
62	Guilty Parties 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
63	Kneeling in the Silver Light: Stories from the Great War 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
64	Interzone 258, May-June 2015 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
65	The Future of Horror 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
66	The Monstrous 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
67	Darker Terrors 7 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
68	In the Footsteps of Dracula 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
69	Invisible Blood 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
70	Body Shocks 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
71	The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
72	Ink and Daggers 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
73	Reports from the Deep End 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
74	Playing Dead: Short Stories by Members of the Detection Club 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

19 books (2009–2026)

Christopher Fowler's Best Horror of the Year series is an ongoing annual anthology collection that began in 2009 and currently includes 18 volumes through 2025. These books should be read in publication order, beginning with Volume One, as each installment represents the finest horror short fiction selected for that particular year. The series includes a retrospective volume celebrating ten years of essential selections alongside the standard annual collections.

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

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1	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Best Horror of the Year, Volume Eighteen 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

40 books (2012–2022)

Bibliomysteries is an anthology series of mystery and thriller stories, each centered on books, libraries, or literary themes. The collection spans 40 short stories published between 2012 and 2022, with contributions from acclaimed authors including Jeffery Deaver, Nelson DeMille, Laura Lippman, and many others. The series appears to be complete and should be read in publication order, beginning with An Acceptable Sacrifice by Jeffery Deaver. Each story stands alone while sharing the unifying theme of mysteries connected to the written word.

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

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

2 books (2015–2019)

Christopher Fowler's Bryant & May Collections consists of two completed mystery and thriller books published between 2015 and 2019. These companion works should be read in publication order, beginning with London's Glory followed by England's Finest. The series offers a collection-based approach to the author's signature detective fiction.

Start with London's Glory and read in order.

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1	London's Glory 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	England’s Finest 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2022–2022)

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1	Peculiar London 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2012–2012)

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1	The Casebook of Bryant & May: The Soho Devil 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

21 books (2003–2021)

This 21-book mystery series follows the Peculiar Crimes Unit across two decades of cases, beginning with Full Dark House in 2003 and concluding in 2021. Christopher Fowler's detective novels blend conventional mystery with horror and unconventional storytelling, tracking aging investigators through increasingly strange investigations. The series is best read in publication order, starting with the first book, as character development and unit history accumulate throughout the arc.

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

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

1 book (1997–1997)

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1	Menz Insana 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2010–2010)

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1	The Curse of Snakes 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

6 books (1985–2017)

Christopher Fowler's Non-Fiction series comprises six books published between 1985 and 2017, offering an eclectic mix of practical guides and essays spanning entertainment, memoir, and literary history. The complete series should be read in publication order, beginning with How to Impersonate Famous People and progressing through Ultimate Party Book, Paperboy, Invisible Ink, Film Freak, and concluding with The Book of Forgotten Authors. Each installment reflects Fowler's diverse interests across mystery, thriller, horror, and non-fiction genres, making this a varied collection for readers curious about the author's explorations beyond his fiction work.

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

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

9 books (1997–2019)

Christopher Fowler's Short Stories/Novellas series comprises nine collections and novellas published between 1997 and 2019, now complete. The series should be read in publication order, beginning with Wage Slaves and concluding with The Washing. These works span Fowler's signature genres of mystery, thriller, and horror, showcasing his versatility across short-form narratives and longer standalone pieces.

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

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

12 books (1984–2011)

Christopher Fowler's Short Story Collections series spans twelve volumes of interconnected tales, published between 1984 and 2011. Beginning with The Bureau of Lost Souls and concluding with Red Gloves Volume I & II, this complete series should be read in publication order to experience the author's evolving exploration of mystery, thriller, and horror themes. The collection showcases Fowler's distinctive blend of dark storytelling across nearly three decades, offering readers a comprehensive look at his short fiction work.

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

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

17 books (1988–2025)

Christopher Fowler's standalone novels comprise 16 mystery, thriller, and horror books published between 1988 and 2022, with the series appearing to be complete. These independent entries should be read in publication order, beginning with Roofworld and progressing through titles like Rune, Red Bride, Darkest Day, and continuing through to Little Boy Found and two additional works. Each novel stands alone as its own story, allowing readers to enter the series at any point, though following the publication sequence offers the most chronological perspective on Fowler's evolving style across the three-decade span.

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

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1	Roofworld 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Rune 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Red Bride 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Darkest Day 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Spanky 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Psychoville 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Disturbia 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Soho Black 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Calabash 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Plastic 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Breathe 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Hell Train 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Nyctophobia 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	The Sand Men 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Little Boy Found(As: L.K. Fox) 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Hot Water 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	The Foot on the Crown 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible