F. Paul Wilson Reading Order

7 books (1981–2020)

Start with The Keep, the first of 7 books in the Adversary Cycle series.

#	Title
1	The Keep 1981Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Tomb 1984Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Touch 1986Buy 🇺🇸
4	Reborn 1990Buy 🇺🇸
5	Reprisal 1991Buy 🇺🇸
6	Nightworld 1992Buy 🇺🇸
7	Signalz 2020Buy 🇺🇸

56 books (1971–2019)

Start with Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1971, the first of 56 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1971 1971Buy 🇺🇸
2	Heroic Fantasy 1979Buy 🇺🇸
3	Isaac Asimov's Marvels of Science Fiction 1979Buy 🇺🇸
4	Perpetual Light 1982Buy 🇺🇸
5	Twilight Zone Magazine, December 1985 1985Buy 🇺🇸
6	Doom City 1987Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Bone Yard 1988Buy 🇺🇸
8	Hot Blood Tales of Erotic Horror 1989Buy 🇺🇸
9	Razored Saddles 1989Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection 1989Buy 🇺🇸
11	Drabble II: Double Century 1990Buy 🇺🇸
12	Best New Horror 2 1991Buy 🇺🇸
13	Dark at Heart 1992Buy 🇺🇸
14	Freak Show 1992Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Mammoth Book of Vampires 1992Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Giant Book of Best New Horror 1993Buy 🇺🇸
17	Cthulhu 2000 1995Buy 🇺🇸
18	Weird Business 1995Buy 🇺🇸
19	Diagnosis 1996Buy 🇺🇸
20	Millenium 1997Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Mammoth Book of Dracula 1997Buy 🇺🇸
22	October Dreams 2000Buy 🇺🇸
23	The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #11 2000Buy 🇺🇸
24	Artifact 2003Buy 🇺🇸
25	Shivers II 2003Buy 🇺🇸
26	Shivers III 2004Buy 🇺🇸
27	The Mammoth Book of New Terror 2004Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Many Faces of Van Helsing 2004Buy 🇺🇸
29	Dark Delicacies 2005Buy 🇺🇸
30	Retro Pulp Tales 2006Buy 🇺🇸
31	Dark Territories 2008Buy 🇺🇸
32	The Best of Cemetery Dance II 2008Buy 🇺🇸
33	Black Spiral Twisted Tales of TERROR 2010Buy 🇺🇸
34	Masters Of Horror: Damned If You Don't 2011Buy 🇺🇸
35	Rage Against the Night 2011Buy 🇺🇸
36	Horror for Good 2012Buy 🇺🇸
37	Rock On: The Greatest Hits of Science Fiction & Fantasy 2012Buy 🇺🇸
38	Uncommon Assassins 2012Buy 🇺🇸
39	Hauntings 2013Buy 🇺🇸
40	Mister October, Volume I: An Anthology in Memory of Rick Hautala 2013Buy 🇺🇸
41	The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs 2013Buy 🇺🇸
42	FaceOff 2014Buy 🇺🇸
43	In The Dark 2014Buy 🇺🇸
44	Piercing the Darkness 2014Buy 🇺🇸
45	The Starry Wisdom Library 2014Buy 🇺🇸
46	Crimespree Magazine #58 2015Buy 🇺🇸
47	Never Fear - Christmas Terrors 2015Buy 🇺🇸
48	Never Fear - Phobias: Everyone Fears Something... 2015Buy 🇺🇸
49	Uncharted Worlds 2016Buy 🇺🇸
50	In the Footsteps of Dracula 2017Buy 🇺🇸
51	Never Fear - The Apocalypse 2017Buy 🇺🇸
52	Chiral Mad 4 2018Buy 🇺🇸
53	It's Alive 2018Buy 🇺🇸
54	You, Human 2018Buy 🇺🇸
55	Dark Tides 2019Buy 🇺🇸
56	Tales of the Lost, Volume 1 2019Buy 🇺🇸

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 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(By: Christopher Fowler) 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 🇺🇸

1 book (2000–2000)

#	Title
1	The Christmas Thingy 2000Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (2011–2025)

Start with Flee(By: Ann Voss Peterson,J.A. Konrath), the first of 9 books in the Codename: Chandler series.

#	Title
1	Flee(By: Ann Voss Peterson,J.A. Konrath) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
2	Spree(By: Ann Voss Peterson,J.A. Konrath) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
3	Three(By: Ann Voss Peterson,J.A. Konrath) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
4	Exposed(By: Ann Voss Peterson,J.A. Konrath) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
5	Hit(By: Ann Voss Peterson,J.A. Konrath) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
6	Naughty(By: Ann Voss Peterson,J.A. Konrath) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
7	Fix 2015Buy 🇺🇸
8	Rescue(By: Ann Voss Peterson,J.A. Konrath) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
9	Free(By: Ann Voss Peterson,J.A. Konrath) 2025Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2020–2020)

2 books (2021–2023)

Start with Double Threat and read in order.

#	Title
1	Double Threat 2021Buy 🇺🇸
2	Double Dose 2023Buy 🇺🇸

33 books (2022–2025)

Start with Alex Delaware(By: Jonathan Kellerman), the first of 33 books in the Mysterious Profiles series.

11 books (1984–2006)

Start with Night Visions: In the Blood, the first of 11 books in the Night Visions series.

#	Title
1	Night Visions: In the Blood 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	Night Visions 1985Buy 🇺🇸
3	Night Visions 2 1985Buy 🇺🇸
4	Night Visions 3 1986Buy 🇺🇸
5	Night Visions: The Hellbound Heart 1986Buy 🇺🇸
6	Night Visions 6 1988Buy 🇺🇸
7	Night Visions 8 1990Buy 🇺🇸
8	Night Visions 9 1991Buy 🇺🇸
9	Night Visions 10 2001Buy 🇺🇸
10	Night Visions 11 2004Buy 🇺🇸
11	Night Visions 12 2006Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2013–2013)

#	Title
1	Definitely Not Kansas 2013Buy 🇺🇸

18 books (1984–2019)

Start with The Tomb, the first of 18 books in the Repairman Jack series.

#	Title
1	The Tomb 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	Nightworld 1992Buy 🇺🇸
3	Conspiracies 1998Buy 🇺🇸
4	Legacies 1998Buy 🇺🇸
5	All the Rage 2000Buy 🇺🇸
6	Hosts 2001Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Haunted Air 2002Buy 🇺🇸
8	Gateways 2003Buy 🇺🇸
9	Crisscross 2004Buy 🇺🇸
10	Infernal 2005Buy 🇺🇸
11	Harbingers 2006Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Last Rakosh 2006Buy 🇺🇸
13	Bloodline 2007Buy 🇺🇸
14	By the Sword 2008Buy 🇺🇸
15	Ground Zero 2009Buy 🇺🇸
16	Fatal Error 2010Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Dark at the End 2011Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Last Christmas 2019Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2017–2017)

1 book (2011–2011)

#	Title
1	Quick Fixes 2011Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2020–2020)

#	Title
1	F. Paul Wilson's Repairman Jack: Scar-Lip Redux 2020Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2012–2014)

Start with Cold City and read in order.

#	Title
1	Cold City 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	Dark City 2013Buy 🇺🇸
3	Fear City 2014Buy 🇺🇸

10 books (1987–2018)

Start with Dat-Tay-Vao, the first of 10 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Dat-Tay-Vao 1987Buy 🇺🇸
2	Traps 1987Buy 🇺🇸
3	Buckets 1989Buy 🇺🇸
4	Pelts 1990Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Barrens 1990Buy 🇺🇸
6	Sex Slaves of the Dragon Tong 2007Buy 🇺🇸
7	Reunion 2009Buy 🇺🇸
8	Santa Jack 2013Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Widow Lindley 2013Buy 🇺🇸
10	Wardenclyffe 2018Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1989–2024)

Start with Soft and Others, the first of 6 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Soft and Others 1989Buy 🇺🇸
2	Aftershock 1999Buy 🇺🇸
3	Artifact 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Evil Entwines, Extended Version 2005Buy 🇺🇸
5	Aftershock & Others 2009Buy 🇺🇸
6	Other Sandboxes 2024Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2000–2010)

Start with La Causa, the first of 6 books in the Sims series.

#	Title
1	La Causa 2000Buy 🇺🇸
2	Sims 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Portero Method 2001Buy 🇺🇸
4	Meerm 2002Buy 🇺🇸
5	Zero 2005Buy 🇺🇸
6	Thy Brother's Keeper 2010Buy 🇺🇸

13 books (1990–2014)

Start with Midnight Mass, the first of 13 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Midnight Mass 1990Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Select 1993Buy 🇺🇸
3	Implant 1995Buy 🇺🇸
4	Mirage 1996Buy 🇺🇸
5	Virgin 1996Buy 🇺🇸
6	Deep as the Marrow 1997Buy 🇺🇸
7	Nightkill 1997Buy 🇺🇸
8	Masque 1998Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Fifth Harmonic 2003Buy 🇺🇸
10	Draculas(With: Blake Crouch,Jeff Strand,J.A. Konrath) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Proteus Cure 2013Buy 🇺🇸
12	A Necessary End(With: Sarah Pinborough) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
13	Demonsong 2014Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2017–2018)

Start with Where Nightmares Come From and read in order.

2 books (2024–2024)

Start with Lexie and read in order.

3 books (2016–2019)

Start with Panacea and read in order.

#	Title
1	Panacea 2016Buy 🇺🇸
2	The God Gene 2018Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Void Protocol 2019Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1976–1989)

Start with Healer, the first of 5 books in the The LaNague Federation series.

#	Title
1	Healer 1976Buy 🇺🇸
2	Wheels Within Wheels 1978Buy 🇺🇸
3	An Enemy of the State 1980Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Tery 1982Buy 🇺🇸
5	Dydeetown World 1989Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1988–2019)

Start with Black Wind, the first of 5 books in the The Secret History of the World series.

#	Title
1	Black Wind 1988Buy 🇺🇸
2	Sibs / Sister Night 1991Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Barrens and Others 1991Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Peabody- Ozymandias Traveling Circus & Oddity Emporium 2007Buy 🇺🇸
5	Secret Stories 2019Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2008–2010)

Start with Secret Histories and read in order.

#	Title
1	Secret Histories 2008Buy 🇺🇸
2	Secret Circles 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	Secret Vengeance 2010Buy 🇺🇸