Kim Newman Reading Order

6 books (1992–2019)

Start with Anno Dracula, the first of 6 books in the Anno Dracula series.

#	Title
1	Anno Dracula 1992Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Bloody Red Baron 1995Buy 🇺🇸
3	Judgment of Tears / Dracula Cha Cha Cha 1998Buy 🇺🇸
4	Johnny Alucard 2013Buy 🇺🇸
5	Anno Dracula 1899 2017Buy 🇺🇸
6	Anno Dracula 1999 2019Buy 🇺🇸

81 books (1988–2025)

Start with Gaslight & Ghosts, the first of 81 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Gaslight & Ghosts 1988Buy 🇺🇸
2	Arrows Of Eros 1989Buy 🇺🇸
3	Best New Horror 1990Buy 🇺🇸
4	Best New Horror 2 1991Buy 🇺🇸
5	Now We Are Sick 1991Buy 🇺🇸
6	Best New Horror 3 1992Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Mammoth Book of Vampires 1992Buy 🇺🇸
8	Best New Horror 4 1993Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Giant Book of Best New Horror 1993Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Giant Book of Zombies 1993Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Mammoth Book of Zombies 1993Buy 🇺🇸
12	Best New Horror 5 1994Buy 🇺🇸
13	Dark Voices 6 1994Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Giant Book of Terror 1994Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Mammoth Book of Wolf Men / The Mammoth Book of Werewolves 1994Buy 🇺🇸
16	Best New Horror 6 1995Buy 🇺🇸
17	Cthulhu 2000 1995Buy 🇺🇸
18	Dark Terrors 1995Buy 🇺🇸
19	Dark Terrors 2 1996Buy 🇺🇸
20	Giant Book of Fantasy Tales 1996Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 7 1996Buy 🇺🇸
22	Dark of the Night 1997Buy 🇺🇸
23	Shakespearean Whodunnits 1997Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Mammoth Book of Dracula 1997Buy 🇺🇸
25	Binary 2 1998Buy 🇺🇸
26	Eleventh Annual Collection 1998Buy 🇺🇸
27	The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 9 1998Buy 🇺🇸
28	Dark Detectives 1999Buy 🇺🇸
29	The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10 1999Buy 🇺🇸
30	Dark Terrors 5 2000Buy 🇺🇸
31	Foursight 2000Buy 🇺🇸
32	October Dreams 2000Buy 🇺🇸
33	The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #11 2000Buy 🇺🇸
34	Infinity Plus One 2001Buy 🇺🇸
35	The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #12 2001Buy 🇺🇸
36	Dark Terrors 6 2002Buy 🇺🇸
37	Keep Out The Night 2002Buy 🇺🇸
38	The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14 2003Buy 🇺🇸
39	Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection 2003Buy 🇺🇸
40	The Mammoth Book of New Terror 2004Buy 🇺🇸
41	Best New Horror 16 2005Buy 🇺🇸
42	The Man from the Diogenes Club 2006Buy 🇺🇸
43	Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection 2006Buy 🇺🇸
44	Best New Horror 18 2007Buy 🇺🇸
45	Summer Chills 2007Buy 🇺🇸
46	The Little Black Book, Movies 2007Buy 🇺🇸
47	The Mammoth Book of Monsters 2007Buy 🇺🇸
48	A Book of Wizards 2008Buy 🇺🇸
49	Best New Horror 19 2008Buy 🇺🇸
50	Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes 2008Buy 🇺🇸
51	Poe: 19 New Tales of Suspense, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe 2008Buy 🇺🇸
52	The Dead That Walk 2009Buy 🇺🇸
53	Zombie Apocalypse! 2010Buy 🇺🇸
54	Full Fathom Forty 2011Buy 🇺🇸
55	Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes 2011Buy 🇺🇸
56	Haunts: Reliquaries of the Dead 2011Buy 🇺🇸
57	New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird 2011Buy 🇺🇸
58	The Recent Weird 2011Buy 🇺🇸
59	The Book of Cthulhu II 2012Buy 🇺🇸
60	Best New Horror 24 2013Buy 🇺🇸
61	Mister October, Volume II 2013Buy 🇺🇸
62	Super Stories of Heroes and Villains 2013Buy 🇺🇸
63	The Time Traveler's Almanac 2013Buy 🇺🇸
64	Thirteen 2013Buy 🇺🇸
65	Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth 2013Buy 🇺🇸
66	Best New Horror 25 2014Buy 🇺🇸
67	Lovecraft's Monsters 2014Buy 🇺🇸
68	Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder 2014Buy 🇺🇸
69	The Alchemy Press Book of Pulp Heroes 3 2014Buy 🇺🇸
70	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six 2014Buy 🇺🇸
71	Horrorology 2015Buy 🇺🇸
72	The Monstrous 2015Buy 🇺🇸
73	In the Shadow of Frankenstein 2016Buy 🇺🇸
74	In the Footsteps of Dracula 2017Buy 🇺🇸
75	Best New Horror 29 2019Buy 🇺🇸
76	Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #27 2019Buy 🇺🇸
77	Best New Horror #30 2020Buy 🇺🇸
78	Best New Horror #31 2021Buy 🇺🇸
79	The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror 2021Buy 🇺🇸
80	Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #31 2023Buy 🇺🇸
81	Birds, Strangers and Psychos 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 🇺🇸

8 books (1990–2006)

Start with Demon Download(As: Jack Yeovil), the first of 8 books in the Dark Future series.

#	Title
1	Demon Download(As: Jack Yeovil) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
2	Krokodil Tears(As: Jack Yeovil) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
3	Route 666(As: Jack Yeovil) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
4	Comeback Tour(As: Jack Yeovil) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
5	American Meat(By: Stuart Moore) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
6	Golgotha Run(By: Dave Stone) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
7	Dark Future(By: James Swallow) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
8	Reality Bites(By: Stuart Moore) 2006Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2015–2015)

Start with Fengriffen & Other Gothic Tales(With: Stephen Jones,David Case) and read in order.

18 books (2001–2017)

Start with Time and Relative, the first of 18 books in the Doctor Who Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Time and Relative 2001Buy 🇺🇸
2	Citadel of Dreams(By: Dave Stone) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
3	Companion Piece(By: Mike Tucker,Robert Perry) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	Eye of the Tyger(By: Paul J. McAuley) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
5	Fallen Gods(By: Kate Orman,Jonathan Blum) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
6	Foreign Devils(By: Andrew Cartmel) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
7	Frayed(By: Tara Samms) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
8	Ghost Ship(By: Keith Topping) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
9	Nightdreamers(By: Tom Arden) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
10	Rip Tide(By: Louise Cooper) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
11	Shell Shock(By: Simon A. Forward) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Cabinet of Light(By: Daniel O'Mahony) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
13	Wonderland(By: Mark Chadbourn) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
14	Blood and Hope(By: Iain McLaughlin) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Dalek Factor(By: Charlie Higson,Simon Clark) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
16	Summer Falls(By: James Goss) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Beast of Babylon(By: Charlie Higson) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
18	Myths and Legends(By: Richard Dinnick) 2017Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2015–2018)

Start with The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School 2015Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Haunting of Drearcliff Grange School 2018Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (1989–1991)

Start with Fantasy Tales 1(By: Stephen Jones,David A. Sutton), the first of 7 books in the Fantasy Tales series.

12 books (1983–2016)

Start with Seminal Movies, the first of 12 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	Seminal Movies 1983Buy 🇺🇸
2	Nightmare Movies 1984Buy 🇺🇸
3	Apocalypse Movies 1986Buy 🇺🇸
4	Horror: 100 Best Books(With: Stephen Jones) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
5	Wild West Movies 1990Buy 🇺🇸
6	Millennium Movies 1999Buy 🇺🇸
7	SF - UK(With: Daniel O'Brien) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
8	Horror: Another 100 Best Books(With: Ramsey Campbell,Stephen Jones) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
9	Horror!: 301 Films to See Before a Zombie Sucks Out Your Eyeballs(With: James Marriott) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
10	Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s 2011Buy 🇺🇸
11	Horror!: The Definitive Companion to the Most Terrifying Movies Ever Made 2013Buy 🇺🇸
12	Video Dungeon 2016Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1994–2013)

Start with Shadows Over Innsmouth(By: Stephen Jones) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Shadows Over Innsmouth(By: Stephen Jones) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
2	Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth(By: Hugh B. Cave,Stephen Jones) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
3	Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth 2013Buy 🇺🇸

12 books (1990–2017)

Start with The Original Dr. Shade, the first of 12 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	The Original Dr. Shade 1990Buy 🇺🇸
2	Out of the Night, When the Full Moon Is Bright... 1994Buy 🇺🇸
3	Citizen Ed(With: Eugene Byrne) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
4	Coppola\'s Dracula 1997Buy 🇺🇸
5	Amerikanski Dead at the Moscow Morgue 1999Buy 🇺🇸
6	Is There Anybody There? 2000Buy 🇺🇸
7	Soho Golem 2004Buy 🇺🇸
8	Clubland Heroes 2006Buy 🇺🇸
9	Cold Snap 2007Buy 🇺🇸
10	Prisoners of the Action(With: Paul J. McAuley) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
11	Guignol 2015Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Man Who Got Off the Ghost Train 2017Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (1994–2010)

Start with The Original Dr. Shade and Other Stories, the first of 8 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	The Original Dr. Shade and Other Stories 1994Buy 🇺🇸
2	Famous Monsters 1995Buy 🇺🇸
3	Binary 2 1998Buy 🇺🇸
4	Unforgivable Stories 2000Buy 🇺🇸
5	Where The Bodies Are Buried 2000Buy 🇺🇸
6	Dead Travel Fast 2005Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club 2007Buy 🇺🇸
8	Mysteries of the Diogenes Club 2010Buy 🇺🇸

16 books (1989–2026)

Start with The Night Mayor, the first of 16 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Night Mayor 1989Buy 🇺🇸
2	Bad Dreams 1991Buy 🇺🇸
3	Jago 1991Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Quorum 1994Buy 🇺🇸
5	Back in the USSA 1997Buy 🇺🇸
6	Andy Warhol's Dracula 1999Buy 🇺🇸
7	Life's Lottery 1999Buy 🇺🇸
8	Seven Stars 2000Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Hound of the D'Urbervilles 2011Buy 🇺🇸
10	Cat People 2013Buy 🇺🇸
11	An English Ghost Story 2014Buy 🇺🇸
12	Quatermass and the Pit 2014Buy 🇺🇸
13	Angels of Music 2016Buy 🇺🇸
14	Something More Than Night 2021Buy 🇺🇸
15	A Christmas Ghost Story 2024Buy 🇺🇸
16	Model Actress Whatever 2026Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1994–2008)

Start with Shadows Over Innsmouth(By: Stephen Jones), the first of 6 books in the The Diogenes Club series.

#	Title
1	Shadows Over Innsmouth(By: Stephen Jones) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
2	White of the Moon(By: Stephen Jones) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
3	Adventure(By: Chris Roberson) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Man from the Diogenes Club 2006Buy 🇺🇸
5	Infinity Plus(By: Keith Brooke) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Fair Folk(By: Marvin Kaye) 2008Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2017–2020)

Start with All Hallows Horror(By: Stephen Jones,John Llewellyn Probert), the first of 4 books in the The Lovecraft Squad series.

#	Title
1	All Hallows Horror(By: Stephen Jones,John Llewellyn Probert) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
2	Waiting 2017Buy 🇺🇸
3	Dreaming 2018Buy 🇺🇸
4	Rising(By: Stephen Jones) 2020Buy 🇺🇸

38 books (2005–2024)

Start with The Vampire Genevieve, the first of 38 books in the Warhammer Horror series.

#	Title
1	The Vampire Genevieve 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	Blood Sacrifice(By: Peter McLean) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
3	Dark Harvest(By: Joshua Reynolds) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
4	Invocations(By: David Annandale) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
5	Skull Throne(By: Jake Ozga) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
6	Stitches(By: Nick Kyme) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Child Foretold(By: Nicholas Kaufmann) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
8	The House of Night and Chain(By: David Annandale) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Hunt(By: David Annandale) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Oubliette(By: J.C. Stearns) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Way Out(By: Rachel Harrison) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Wicked and the Damned(By: David Annandale,Joshua Reynolds,Phil Kelly) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
13	A Moment of Cruelty(By: Phil Kelly) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
14	Darkly Dreaming(By: Joshua Reynolds) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
15	Five Candles(By: Lora Gray) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
16	Nightbleed(By: Peter Fehervari) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
17	Pentimento(By: Nick Kyme) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
18	Sepulturum(By: Nick Kyme) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Cache(By: James Brogden) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Reverie(By: Peter Fehervari) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
21	Aberration(By: Jake Ozga) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
22	Bird of Change(By: Richard Strachan) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
23	Blood Drinker(By: James Brogden) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
24	Deacon of Wounds(By: David Annandale) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Accursed(By: David Annandale,Ray Cluley,Nicholas Kaufmann,Darius Hinks,James Brogden,Peter Fehervari,Justin D. Hill,Steven Sheil,Richard Strachan,Jake Ozga,Phil Kelly,Jude Reid) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
26	The Harrowed Paths(By: Graham McNeill) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
27	The Isenbrach Horror(By: Darius Hinks) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Vintage(By: David Annandale) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
29	Gothghul Hollow(By: Anna Stephens) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
30	King of Pigs(By: J.H. Archer) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
31	Pain Engine(By: Chris Thursten) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
32	The Bookkeeper's Skull(By: Justin D. Hill) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
33	The Gnarled Bough(By: Jamie Mistry-Evans) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Somewhere Sister(By: Jeremy Lambert) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
35	The Stacks(By: Chris Winterton) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
36	Black-Eyed Saint(By: Dale Lucas) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
37	The Resting Places(By: David Annandale,James Brogden,Richard Strachan,Jake Ozga,Jeremy Lambert,Chris Thursten,J.H. Archer,Jamie Mistry-Evans,R S Wilt,Chris Winterton) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
38	Vampire Genevieve Audiobook Collection 2024Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1989–2002)

Start with Drachenfels, the first of 4 books in the Warhammer: Vampire Genevieve series.