Gary A. Braunbeck Reading Order

61 books (1989–2022)

Start with Third Annual Collection, the first of 61 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Third Annual Collection 1989Buy 🇺🇸
2	Eleventh Annual Collection 1998Buy 🇺🇸
3	Once Upon a Crime 1998Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 1999Buy 🇺🇸
5	Civil War Fantastic 2000Buy 🇺🇸
6	October Dreams 2000Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Further Adventures of Xena: Warrior Princess 2001Buy 🇺🇸
8	Trick or Treat 2001Buy 🇺🇸
9	Lighthouse Hauntings 2002Buy 🇺🇸
10	Shivers II 2003Buy 🇺🇸
11	Vivisections 2003Buy 🇺🇸
12	Corpse Blossoms 2005Buy 🇺🇸
13	Shadow Regions 2006Buy 🇺🇸
14	Dark Delicacies II: Fear 2007Buy 🇺🇸
15	Five Strokes to Midnight 2008Buy 🇺🇸
16	Horror Library, Volume 3 2008Buy 🇺🇸
17	Legends of the Mountain State 2 2008Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Beast Within 2008Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Best of Cemetery Dance II 2008Buy 🇺🇸
20	Hellbound Hearts 2009Buy 🇺🇸
21	Mighty Unclean 2009Buy 🇺🇸
22	The World Is Dead 2009Buy 🇺🇸
23	Darkness on the Edge: Tales Inspired by the Songs of Bruce Springsteen 2010Buy 🇺🇸
24	Haunted Legends 2010Buy 🇺🇸
25	Hint Fiction 2010Buy 🇺🇸
26	Legends Of The Mountain State 4 2010Buy 🇺🇸
27	Return to Mariabronn 2010Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Living Dead 2 2010Buy 🇺🇸
29	The Shadow of the Unknown 2011Buy 🇺🇸
30	Appalachian Undead 2012Buy 🇺🇸
31	Chiral Mad 2012Buy 🇺🇸
32	Fear the Abyss 2012Buy 🇺🇸
33	Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury 2012Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Devil's Coattails 2012Buy 🇺🇸
35	Barbers & Beauties 2013Buy 🇺🇸
36	Chiral Mad 2 2013Buy 🇺🇸
37	Dueling Minds 2013Buy 🇺🇸
38	Enter at Your Own Risk: Dark Muses, Spoken Silences 2013Buy 🇺🇸
39	Eulogies II 2013Buy 🇺🇸
40	Fear the Reaper 2013Buy 🇺🇸
41	Jamais Vu 2013Buy 🇺🇸
42	Mister October, Volume I: An Anthology in Memory of Rick Hautala 2013Buy 🇺🇸
43	Tales of Jack the Ripper 2013Buy 🇺🇸
44	Vampires Don't Sparkle! 2013Buy 🇺🇸
45	Dark Discoveries - Issue #26 2014Buy 🇺🇸
46	Far Voyager: A Postcripts Anthology 32/33 2014Buy 🇺🇸
47	Limbus, Inc. - Book II 2014Buy 🇺🇸
48	Out of Tune 2014Buy 🇺🇸
49	Piercing the Darkness 2014Buy 🇺🇸
50	Qualia Nous 2014Buy 🇺🇸
51	Seize the Night 2015Buy 🇺🇸
52	Shadows Over Main Street 2015Buy 🇺🇸
53	The Library of the Dead 2015Buy 🇺🇸
54	Weirdbook 31 2015Buy 🇺🇸
55	Shadows Over Main Street Volume 2 2017Buy 🇺🇸
56	Twice Upon an Apocalypse: Lovecraftian Fairy Tales 2017Buy 🇺🇸
57	Carnival of Horror 2018Buy 🇺🇸
58	Chiral Mad 4 2018Buy 🇺🇸
59	You, Human 2018Buy 🇺🇸
60	Don’t Turn Out the Lights 2020Buy 🇺🇸
61	Chiral Mad 5 2022Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2004–2009)

Start with In Silent Graves, the first of 5 books in the Ceder Hill series.

#	Title
1	In Silent Graves 2004Buy 🇺🇸
2	Keepers 2005Buy 🇺🇸
3	Mr. Hands 2007Buy 🇺🇸
4	Coffin County 2008Buy 🇺🇸
5	Far Dark Fields 2009Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2000–2001)

Start with If Whispers Call(By: Don Bassingthwaite), the first of 4 books in the Dark Matter series.

#	Title
1	If Whispers Call(By: Don Bassingthwaite) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
2	In Hollow Houses 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	By Dust Consumed(By: Don Bassingthwaite) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
4	Of Aged Angels(By: Monte Cook) 2001Buy 🇺🇸

17 books (2022–2025)

Start with Halloween Beyond, the first of 17 books in the Dark Tide Horror Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Halloween Beyond 2022Buy 🇺🇸
2	Monsters 2022Buy 🇺🇸
3	October's End 2022Buy 🇺🇸
4	West of Hell 2022Buy 🇺🇸
5	Wounds to Wishes 2022Buy 🇺🇸
6	Against the Clock 2023Buy 🇺🇸
7	An Unholy Triquetra 2023Buy 🇺🇸
8	Little Mutilations 2023Buy 🇺🇸
9	Sherlock Holmes and The Arcana of Madness 2023Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Dead Shall Rise 2023Buy 🇺🇸
11	Vandal 2023Buy 🇺🇸
12	A Graveyard of Stars 2024Buy 🇺🇸
13	F.U.B.B. 2024Buy 🇺🇸
14	Hunted Highways 2024Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Devil's Backbone 2024Buy 🇺🇸
16	24 Frames Per Second: Three Hollywood Horror Novellas 2025Buy 🇺🇸
17	Urban Legends 2025Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2004–2010)

Start with Fear in a Handful of Dust and read in order.

#	Title
1	Fear in a Handful of Dust 2004Buy 🇺🇸
2	To Each Their Darkness 2010Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2003–2015)

Start with Duty, the first of 6 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Duty 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	Just out of Reach 2004Buy 🇺🇸
3	We Now Pause for Station Identification 2005Buy 🇺🇸
4	Afterward, There Will Be a Hallway 2007Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Great Pity 2013Buy 🇺🇸
6	Paper Cuts 2015Buy 🇺🇸

10 books (1997–2015)

Start with Things Left Behind, the first of 10 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Things Left Behind 1997Buy 🇺🇸
2	Escaping Purgatory 2001Buy 🇺🇸
3	From Beneath These Fields of Blood 2002Buy 🇺🇸
4	Graveyard People 2003Buy 🇺🇸
5	X3 2003Buy 🇺🇸
6	Home Before Dark 2005Buy 🇺🇸
7	Destinations Unknown 2006Buy 🇺🇸
8	Cages and Those Who Hold the Keys 2011Buy 🇺🇸
9	Rose of Sharon and Other Stories 2013Buy 🇺🇸
10	Halfway Down The Stairs 2015Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1998–2006)

Start with Time Was(With: Steve Perry), the first of 5 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Time Was(With: Steve Perry) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Indifference of Heaven 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Flesh Unknown 2001Buy 🇺🇸
4	In the Midnight Museum 2005Buy 🇺🇸
5	Prodigal Blues 2006Buy 🇺🇸

23 books (1990–2026)

Start with Valdemar Companion(By: Mercedes Lackey), the first of 23 books in the Valdemar Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Valdemar Companion(By: Mercedes Lackey) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
2	Sword of Ice and Other Tales of Valdemar(With: Mercedes Lackey,John Helfers,Larry Dixon,Richard Lee Byers,Mickey Zucker Reichert,Tanya Huff,Elisabeth Waters,Janni Lee Simner,Lawrence Schimel,Kristin Schwengel,Stephanie D. Shaver,Ben Ohlander,Michelle Sagara,Mel White,John Yezeguielian,Philip M. Austin) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
3	Sun in Glory and Other Tales of Valdemar(By: Josepha Sherman) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	Crossroads and Other Tales of Valdemar(By: Mercedes Lackey) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
5	Moving Targets and Other Tales of Valdemar(By: Mercedes Lackey) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
6	Changing the World(By: Elisabeth Waters) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
7	Finding the Way and Other Tales of Valdemar(By: Mercedes Lackey) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
8	Under the Vale and Other Tales of Valdemar(By: Elisabeth Waters) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
9	No True Way(By: Mercedes Lackey,Dayle A. Dermatis,Ron Collins,Jennifer Brozek,Elisabeth Waters) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
10	The One Left Behind(By: Mercedes Lackey) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
11	Crucible(By: Mercedes Lackey,Anthea Sharp) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
12	Tempest(By: Anthea Sharp) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
13	Pathways(By: Mercedes Lackey) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
14	Choices(By: Anthea Sharp) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Demon's Den and Other Tales of Valdemar(By: Tanya Huff) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
16	Seasons(By: Anthea Sharp) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
17	Passages(By: Mercedes Lackey) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
18	Boundaries(By: Mercedes Lackey) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
19	Shenanigans(By: Mercedes Lackey) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
20	Anything With Nothing(By: Mercedes Lackey) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
21	Feuds(By: Mercedes Lackey) 2024Buy 🇺🇸
22	Smoke and Mirrors(By: Mercedes Lackey) 2025Buy 🇺🇸
23	A Many-Splintered Thing(By: Mercedes Lackey) 2026Buy 🇺🇸