Mary Shelley Reading Order
6 series · 123 books · Born 30 August 1797
Mary Shelley was a pioneering British author celebrated for her contributions to Gothic literature and speculative fiction. Renowned for her iconic novel Frankenstein, she penned a total of 123 works across six series, including novels, short stories, and non-fiction, spanning a prolific career from 1667 to 2026. Her ability to blend philosophical themes with imaginative storytelling continues to influence writers and thrill readers around the world.
Anthologies Series
Complete17 books (1931–2019)
Start with Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, the first of 17 books in the Anthologies series.
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| 1 |  Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 1931Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 2 |  The Gentlewomen of Evil 1967Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 3 |  Witches' Brew 1984Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 4 | The Dreaming Sex 2010Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 5 | The Origins of Science Fiction 2010Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 6 | 50 Classic Novellas 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 7 |  The Mammoth Book of Body Horror 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 8 |  Middle Unearthed: The Best Fantasy Short Stories 1800-1849 2015Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 9 |  Classic Horror Anthology, Volume One 2016Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 10 | 50 Eternal Masterpieces of Horror Stories 2017Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 11 | 50 Halloween Stories You Have to Read Before You Die 2017Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 12 |  A Year Without a Winter 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 13 |  Beyond the Infinite: Tales from the Outer Reaches 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 14 |  Birthing Monsters 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 15 | Mary Shelley Horror Stories 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 16 | Writers: Their Lives and Works 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 17 | 30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die 2019Buy 🇺🇸 |
Gothic Fantasy Series
Ongoing91 books (1667–2026)
Start with Paradise Lost & Other Poems(By: John Milton), the first of 91 books in the Gothic Fantasy series.
| # | Title |
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| 1 |  Paradise Lost & Other Poems(By: John Milton) 1667Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 2 |  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: With Poems, Letters & Biography(By: Lewis Carroll) 1865Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 3 |  H.G. Wells Short Stories(By: H.G. Wells) 1990Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 4 |  Chilling Ghost Short Stories(By: Charles Dickens,Arthur Conan Doyle,Edgar Allan Poe,Robert Louis Stevenson,Wilkie Collins,Nikolai Gogol,J. Sheridan Le Fanu,E. Nesbit,Henry James,W.W. Jacobs,Oscar Wilde,Washington Irving,Edith Wharton,M.R. James,James Dorr,E.F. Benson,Mary E. Wilkins Freeman,Amanda C. Davis,Robert W. Chambers,Kurt Bachard,Raymond Little,Brian Rappatta,Tim Foley,Vonnie Winslow Crist,Michael Penkas,Jonathan Balog,Donna Cuttress,Luke Murphy,Annette Siketa,Philip Brian Hall,Rhiannon Rasmussen,Jeff Parsons,M.Regan,Zach Chapman,Lesa Pascavis Smith,Trevor Boelter,Laura Bulbeck,Dale Townshend,Cathy Smith) 2015Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 5 |  Chilling Horror Short Stories 2015Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 6 |  Science Fiction Short Stories(By: David Tallerman,Rachael K. Jones,Sarah Hans,Brian Trent,Adrian Ludens,Keyan Bowes,Beth Cato,Andy Sawyer,Zach Shephard,Alexis A. Hunter,M. Darusha Wehm,Edward Ahern,Patrick Tumblety,Donald Jacob Uitvlugt,Kate O'Connor,Conor Powers-Smith,Stewart C. Baker,MikeMorgan,Nemma Wollenfang,Jacob M. Lambert,Laura Bulbeck,Rob Hartzell) 2015Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 7 |  Crime & Mystery Short Stories(By: Cameron Trost,Marcelle Dube,James Dorr,Jennifer Gifford,Dan Stout,Ruth Nestvold,Jennifer Dornan-Fish,H.L. Fullerton,Tara Campbell,Nathan Hystad) 2016Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 8 |  Dystopia Utopia Short Stories 2016Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 9 | Murder Mayhem Short Stories(By: James Dorr,Gerri Leen,Liam Hogan,Kate Heartfield,David M. Hoenig,Donald Jacob Uitvlugt) 2016Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 10 | Swords & Steam Short Stories(By: S.T. Joshi,Amanda C. Davis,Jennifer Dornan-Fish,Spencer Ellsworth,Liam Hogan) 2016Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 11 |  Agents & Spies Short Stories(By: Josh Pachter,Martin Edwards,Dan Stout,Tony Pi,Stephen Kotowych,David Downing,Sara Dobie Bauer,Shane Halbach,Colt Leasure,Lauren C. Teffeau,Joseph Cusumano,Jo Miles,Laura Bulbeck,Jonathan MacGregor,S.L.Scott) 2017Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 12 |  Edgar Allan Poe Collection(By: Edgar Allan Poe) 2017Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 13 |  Heroic Fantasy Short Stories(By: Various) 2017Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 14 | Lost Worlds Short Stories(By: Various) 2017Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 15 |  Lovecraft Short Stories(By: H.P. Lovecraft) 2017Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 16 |  Pirates & Ghosts Short Stories(By: Jeremy A. TeGrotenhuis) 2017Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 17 |  Sherlock Holmes Short Stories(By: ) 2017Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 18 |  Supernatural Horror Short Stories(By: Roger Luckhurst,Damien Angelica Walters) 2017Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 19 |  Tales of King Arthur and The Knights of the Round Table(By: Thomas Malory,Aubrey Beardsley) 2017Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 20 |  Time Travel Short Stories(By: Dominick Cancilla,Brian Trent,Kate Heartfield) 2017Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 21 |  Alien Invasion Short Stories(By: H.G. Wells,H.P. Lovecraft,Jonathan Swift,A. Merritt,Voltaire,Claude Lalumière,Rich Larson,Rachael K. Jones,George Allan England,Patrick Parrinder,Austin Hall,William R.D. Wood,John Walters,Bo Balder,Maria Haskins,Garrett P. Serviss,Sunil Patel,Jennifer Rachel Baumer,Laura Pearlman,Robert Potter,Tim Pieraccini,Angus McIntyre,Suo Hefu,George Chesney,Stephen G. Parks,Eric Reitan,S.A. Westerley) 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 22 |  Bram Stoker Horror Stories(By: Bram Stoker) 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 23 | Celtic Myths & Tales(By: Jake Jackson) 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 24 |  Chinese Myths & Tales(By: Davide Latini) 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 25 |  Endless Apocalypse Short Stories(By: Shannon Connor Winward,Michael Paul Gonzalez) 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 26 |  Greek Myths & Tales(By: Richard Buxton) 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 27 |  Irish Fairy Tales(By: Arthur Rackham,D.L. Ashliman) 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 28 |  Lost Souls(By: Roger Luckhurst,Damien Angelica Walters) 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 29 | Mary Shelley Horror Stories 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 30 |  Norse Myths & Tales(By: Brittany Schorn) 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 31 |  Robots & Artificial Intelligence Short Stories(By: George Cotronis,Rich Larson,Rachael K. Jones,Bruce Golden,Holly Lyn Walrath,Monte Lin,Eleanor R. Wood,David Sklar,Nemma Wollenfang,Deborah Davitt,Trixie Nisbet,Luke Dormehl,Roan Clay,Jeff Deck,Christopher Geeson,Rob Hartzell,Nathaniel Hosford,Chloie Piveral,Claire Sorrenson,Sara Uckelman) 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 32 |  American Gothic Short Stories(By: Ramsey Campbell,Lucy A. Snyder,Lina Rather,Sean Logan,Wendy Nikel,Christi Nogle,Lynette Mejía,Madison McSweeney,Russell James,M.Regan,Monika Elbert,Terri Bruce,Maxx Fidalgo,Joshua Hiles,Clayton Kroh,Joe Nazare,Rebecca Ring,Mike Robinson,Valerie B. Williams,Nemma Wollenfang) 2019Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 33 | Brothers Grimm Short Stories(By: Jacob Grimm) 2019Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 34 |  Cosy Crime Short Stories(By: Arthur Conan Doyle,E.E. King,G.K. Chesterton,R. Austin Freeman,Arnold Bennett,Edgar Wallace,Arthur Morrison,Martin Edwards,Ernest Bramah,Maurice Leblanc,Amanda C. Davis,Stephanie Bedwell-Grime,Emmuska Orczy,Israel Zangwill,Anna Katharine Green,Catherine Louisa Pirkis,Flame Tree Studio,Andrew Forrester,Nancy Sweetland,Jeffrey B. Burton,Louise Taylor,Annette Siketa,Philip Brian Hall,Tom Mead,C.B. Channell,Michael Martin Garrett,Trixie Nisbet,Joshua Boyce,Sarah Holly Bryant,Gregory Von Dare,B. David Spicer,Elise Warner,Anton Chekhov) 2019Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 35 |  Haunted House Short Stories(By: Edgar Allan Poe,O. Henry,Elizabeth Gaskell,J. Sheridan Le Fanu,Guy de Maupassant,E. Nesbit,Rudyard Kipling,Ramsey Campbell,Ambrose Bierce,W.W. Jacobs,H.P. Lovecraft,Mark Twain,Edith Wharton,Mary Elizabeth Braddon,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,M.R. James,Charlotte Eliza Riddell,E.F. Benson,William Hope Hodgson,Mary E. Wilkins Freeman,Edward Bulwer-Lytton,John Everson,Arthur Quiller-Couch,Rhoda Broughton,Bernard Capes,Gwendolyn Kiste,Hugh Walpole,Ralph Adams Cram,Mikal Trimm,Mrs. Oliphant,Zach Shephard,B.M. Croker,Shannon Fay,Morgan Sylvia,Kurt Newton,Tom English,Adele Gardner,Rebecca Buchanan,Rebecca Janicker,H.B. Diaz,Marina Favila,Bill Kte'pi,M.Regan) 2019Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 36 |  Japanese Myths & Tales(By: Jake Jackson) 2019Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 37 |  Short Stories from the Age of Queen Victoria(By: Various,Peter Garratt) 2019Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 38 |  Urban Crime Short Stories(By: Ramsey Campbell,Josh Pachter,Judi Calhoun,David Tallerman,Rich Larson,Meg Elison,Dan Micklethwaite,Thana Niveau,Michael Penncavage,T.J. Berg,Chris Wheatley,Alexandra Renwick,Leo X. Robertson,K.W. Roberts,Rachel Watts,Jennifer Quail,Trixie Nisbet,Christopher P. Semtner,C.L. McDaniel,Salinda Tyson) 2019Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 39 |  A Dying Planet Short Stories(By: Dave Golder) 2020Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 40 |  African Myths & Tales: Epic Tales(By: Marian Womack) 2020Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 41 |  Charles Dickens Supernatural Short Stories(By: Charles Dickens) 2020Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 42 |  Detective Thrillers Short Stories(By: Marie Vibbert) 2020Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 43 | Epic Fantasy Short Stories(By: Leah Cypess) 2020Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 44 |  Heroes & Heroines Short Stories(By: Maria Tatar) 2020Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 45 |  Lovecraft Mythos New & Classic Collection(By: Robert Bloch,Ramsey Campbell,Ambrose Bierce,H.P. Lovecraft,Fritz Leiber,Henry Kuttner,Hal Bodner,Clark Ashton Smith,William Browning Spencer,Mark Samuels,Robert E. Howard,Victor LaValle,Frank Long,Lord Dunsany,Arthur Machen,Caitlín R. Kiernan,Robert W. Chambers,Nancy Kilpatrick,JG Faherty,Rachael K. Jones,Cody Goodfellow,Evey Brett,John Llewellyn Probert,Zealia Bishop,Hazel Heald,Jonathan Thomas,Donald Tyson,Thana Niveau,Douglas Wynne,Helen E. Davis,N.R. Lambert,Scott R. Jones,Gillian Whitaker,Nick Wells,Taylor Bentley,Catherine Taylor,Caroline Watson,August E. Derleth,John Possidente,R.S. Stefoff) 2020Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 46 |  Native American MythsTales(By: Sam D. Gill) 2020Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 47 | Witches, Wizards, Seers & Healers Myths & Tales(By: Abbie Farwell Brown,Andrew Lang,Jacob Grimm,Wilhelm Grimm,Joseph Jacobs,Yei Theodora Ozaki,Douglas Hyde,Thomas Malory,Jeremiah Curtin,Henry Rowe Schoolcraft,Lewis Spence,Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford,James Mooney,Charles Godfrey Leland,Florence Holbrook,E.A. Wallis Budge,Richard Wilhelm,F. Hadland Davis,Norman Hinsdale Pitman,Yi Ryuk,Charles Montgomery Skinner,Edmund Leamy,Sophia Morrison,William Elliot Griffis,James Scarth Gale,Elphinstone Dayrell,Alice Werner,M.I. Ogumefu,William Butler Yeats,Diane Purkiss,George W. Bateman,Elsie Finnimore Buckley,Margaret Compton,Jonathan Ceredig Davies,George Douglas,Alice Elizabeth Dracott,George Grey,Francis Hindes Groome,H.A. Guerber,Eleanor Hull,W.F. Kirby,Ignác Kúnos,Minnie Martin,Frederick H. Martens,W.R.S. Ralston,A.G. Seklemian,Chauncy Hugh Stigand,J.R. Walker,E.T.C. Werner,William Drake Westervelt,Lady Wilde,Albert Henry Wratislaw) 2020Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 48 | Black Sci-Fi Short Stories(By: K. Tempest Bradford,Russell Nichols,Wole Talabi,W.E.B. Du Bois,Tara Campbell,Walidah Imarisha,James Beamon,Martin R. Delany,Sandra M. Grayson,Patty Nicole Johnson,Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins,Temi Oh,Michelle F. Goddard,Tia Ross,Harambee K. Grey-Sun,Sutton E. Griggs,Emmalia Harrington,Edward Johnson,Megan Pindling,Sylvie Soul,Lyle Stiles) 2021Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 49 | Chilling Crime Short Stories(By: Dan Stout,Margaret Murphy,Marshall J. Moore) 2021Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 50 |  George Orwell Visions of Dystopia(By: George Orwell) 2021Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 51 |  Gods & Monsters Myths & Tales(By: Liz Gloyn) 2021Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 52 | M.R. James Ghost Stories(By: M.R. James) 2021Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 53 |  Terrifying Ghosts Short Stories(By: Charles Dickens,Bram Stoker,J. Sheridan Le Fanu,Henry James,Ambrose Bierce,Algernon Blackwood,Edith Wharton,M.R. James,E.F. Benson,William Hope Hodgson,A.C. Benson,Marjorie Bowen,Francis Marion Crawford,Marshall J. Moore) 2021Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 54 |  Asian Ghost Short Stories(By: Lee Murray,K.P. Kulski) 2022Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 55 | BeastsCreatures MythsTales: Epic Tales(By: Tok Thompson) 2022Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 56 |  Christmas Gothic Short Stories(By: Marshall J. Moore,Jerrold E. Hogle) 2022Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 57 |  First Peoples Shared Stories: Gothic Fantasy(By: Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Science)) 2022Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 58 |  Persian Myths & Tales: Epic Tales(By: Christine Ruymbeke) 2022Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 59 |  Weird Horror Short Stories(By: M.R. James) 2022Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 60 |  Algernon Blackwood Horror Stories(By: Algernon Blackwood) 2023Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 61 |  Alternate History Short Stories(By: Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Science)) 2023Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 62 |  Aztec Myths & Tales(By: Jake Jackson) 2023Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 63 |  Egyptian Myths & Tales: Epic Tales(By: Jake Jackson) 2023Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 64 |  Hidden Realms Short Stories(By: Anna Taborska,Briana Una McGuckin) 2023Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 65 |  Immigrant Sci-Fi Short Stories(By: Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Science)) 2023Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 66 |  Lost Atlantis Short Stories(By: Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Science)) 2023Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 67 |  Scottish Folk & Fairy Tales(By: Allison Galbraith) 2023Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 68 |  Spirits & Ghouls Short Stories(By: Rayne Hall,BretNelson,Wen Wen Yang,Ahmed al-Rawi) 2023Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 69 |  Viking Folk & Fairy Tales(By: Dagrún Ósk Jónsdóttir) 2023Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 70 |  African Ghost Short Stories(By: Chinelo Onwualu,Nuzo Onoh,Divine Che Neba) 2024Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 71 |  Arthur Machen Horror Stories(By: Arthur Machen) 2024Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 72 |  Babylon & Sumer Myths & Tales(By: Fiona Collins) 2024Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 73 |  Learning to Be Human Short Stories(By: P.A. Cornell) 2024Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 74 |  Moon Falling Short Stories(By: Various,Ben Moore) 2024Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 75 |  Quests & Journeys(By: Matt Cardin) 2024Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 76 |  Shadows on the Water Short Stories(By: Rachael K. Jones) 2024Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 77 | Sun Rising Short Stories(By: Faye Snowden,Ravit Helled) 2024Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 78 |  Titans & Giants Myths & Tales: Epic Tales(By: ) 2024Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 79 |  William Hope Hodgson Horror Stories(By: William Hope Hodgson,Jonathan Newell) 2024Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 80 | Afrofuturism Short Stories(By: Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Science),Dr. Sandra M. Grayson) 2025Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 81 |  Prophecies & Oracles Myths & Tales(By: Richard Stoneman) 2025Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 82 |  Robots Past & Future Short Stories(By: Chris Beckett) 2025Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 83 |  Sheridan Le Fanu Horror Stories(By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu) 2025Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 84 |  Were Wolf Short Stories(By: Dr. Karen E. Macfarlane) 2025Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 85 |  Africanfuturism Short Stories(By: Chinelo Onwualu,Yvette Lisa Ndlovu) 2026Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 86 |  Christmas Horror Short Stories(By: Flame Tree Studio) 2026Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 87 |  Faeries & Nymphs Myths & Tales: Epic Tales(By: Dr Jennifer Larson) 2026Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 88 |  Folklore Horror Short Stories(By: Flame Tree Studio) 2026Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 89 | Kalevala & Finnish Myths & Tales(By: Various) 2026Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 90 |  Slavic Myths & Tales: Epic Tales(By: Kristijan Petrovic,Ema Lakinska) 2026Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 91 |  Wars in the Stars Short Stories(By: Flame Tree Studio) 2026Buy 🇺🇸 |
Non-Fiction Series
Complete1 book (1987–1987)
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 |  The Journals of Mary Shelley 1987Buy 🇺🇸 |
Short Stories/Novellas Series
Complete5 books (1831–1959)
Start with The Invisible Girl, and The Dream, the first of 5 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.
Short Story Collections Series
Complete2 books (1831–1993)
Start with The Mortal Immortal and read in order.
Standalone Novels Series
Complete7 books (1818–1998)
Start with Frankenstein, the first of 7 books in the Standalone Novels series.
Frequently Asked Questions
- How many books has Mary Shelley written?
- Mary Shelley has written 123 books across 6 series. Their published works span from 1667 to 2026.
- What is the first book in each Mary Shelley series?
- Here are the first books in Mary Shelley's series: Anthologies: Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror; Gothic Fantasy: Paradise Lost & Other Poems(By: John Milton); Short Stories/Novellas: The Invisible Girl, and The Dream; Short Story Collections: The Mortal Immortal.
- What order should I read Mary Shelley's books?
- We recommend reading Mary Shelley's series in publication order. Each series can be read independently.
- Is Mary Shelley still writing new books?
- Yes, Mary Shelley has 1 ongoing series: Gothic Fantasy.