Barbara Hambly

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  • Bibliography:
    103 Books (9 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1982
  • Latest Book:
    September 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Benjamin January Novel

1 - A Free Man of Color (Jun-1997)
2 - Fever Season (Jul-1998)
3 - Graveyard Dust (Jul-1999)
4 - Sold Down the River (Jul-2000)
5 - Die upon a Kiss (Jun-2001)
6 - Wet Grave (Jun-2002)
7 - Days of the Dead (Jul-2003)
8 - Dead Water (Aug-2004)
9 - Dead and Buried (May-2010)
10 - The Shirt On His Back (Oct-2011)
11 - Ran Away (Dec-2011)
12 - Good Man Friday (May-2013)
13 - Crimson Angel (Dec-2014)
14 - Drinking Gourd (Jul-2016)
15 - Murder in July (Dec-2017)
16 - Cold Bayou (Sep-2018)
17 - Lady of Perdition (Jan-2020)
18 - House of the Patriarch (Jan-2021)
19 - Death and Hard Cider (May-2022)
20 - The Nubian's Curse (Jan-2024)

The Darwath Trilogy

1 - The Time of the Dark (May-1982)
2 - The Walls of Air (Mar-1983)
3 - The Armies of Daylight (Jul-1983)
4 - Mother of Winter (Oct-1996)
5 - Icefalcon's Quest (Feb-1998)

A James Asher Vampire Novel

1 - Those Who Hunt the Night (Nov-1988)
2 - Traveling With the Dead (Sep-1995)
3 - Blood Maidens (Jan-2011)
4 - Magistrates of Hell (Jul-2012)
5 - Kindred of Darkness (Mar-2014)
6 - Darkness on His Bones (Oct-2015)
7 - Pale Guardian (Apr-2017)
8 - Prisoner of Midnight (Mar-2019)

A Silver Screen Mystery

1 - Scandal in Babylon (Sep-2021)
2 - One Extra Corpse (Mar-2023)
3 - Saving Susy Sweetchild (Sep-2024)

Sisters of the Raven

1 - Sisters of the Raven (Aug-2002)
2 - Circle of the Moon (Sep-2005)

Sun Wolf and Starhawk

1 - The Ladies of Mandrigyn (Mar-1984)
2 - Witches of Wenshar (Jul-1987)
3 - The Dark Hand of Magic (Mar-1990)

Sun-Cross

1 - Rainbow Abyss (Aug-1991)
2 - The Magicians of Night (Jan-1992)

The Windrose Chronicles

1 - The Silent Tower (Nov-1986)
2 - The Silicon Mage (Apr-1988)
3 - Dog Wizard (Dec-1992)
4 - Stranger at the Wedding (Apr-1994)
5 - Karate Masters vs the Invaders From Outer Space (Dec-2017)

Winterlands

1 - Dragonsbane (Jan-1986)
2 - Dragonshadow (Mar-1999)
3 - Knight of the Demon Queen (Feb-2000)
4 - Dragonstar (Jun-2002)
5 - Hag in the Water (Dec-2017)

Multi-Author Series List

Beauty and the Beast (1987 TV Show)

1 - Beauty and the Beast (Oct-1989)
3 - Song of Orpheus (Nov-1990)

Star Trek

Ishmael (May-1985)
Ghost-Walker (Feb-1991)
Crossroads (Sep-1994)
Children of the Jedi (May-1995)

Star Trek: The Original Series

23 - Ishmael (May-1985)
53 - Ghost-Walker (Feb-1991)
71 - Crossroads (Sep-1994)

Star Wars

Children of the Jedi (May-1995)
Planet of Twilight (May-1997)

Book List in Order: 103 titles

  • The Time of the Dark

    The Darwath Trilogy - 1

    Spawn Of Darkness Night after night, Gil found herself dreaming of an impossible city where alien horrors swarmed from underground lairs of darkness to destroy mankind and all the works of men. But when the wizard Ingold Inglorion crossed the Void...

  • The Quirinal Hill Affair

  • The Walls of Air

    The Darwath Trilogy - 2

    The City of Illusions Three thousand years before, the monstrous Dark had sprung from loathsome underground lairs to destroy most of humanity. Now they were again ravening and ruining in their blood-hunger. Only a few thousand people had managed t...

  • The Armies of Daylight

    The Darwath Trilogy - 3

    Outside the great stone Keep of Renweth, the night was the province of the Dark Ones--monstrous creatures that had swarmed out of their eldritch underground caverns to destroy humanity. Inside, where the pitiful remains of the oncegreat Realm of D...

  • The Ladies of Mandrigyn

    Sun Wolf and Starhawk - 1

    Swords Against TheWizard The City of Mandrigyn was conquered and its men enslaved in the foul mines of the evil Wizard King, Altiokis. Now the women of the city; led by Sheera Galernas, had come to hire the mercenary an ally of Captain Sun Wolf. B...

  • Ishmael

    Star Trek
    Star Trek: The Original Series - 23

    The Enterprise is on a peaceful mission at Starbase 12 when a bizarre cosmic phenomenon causes a Klingon ship to suddenly vanish--with Spock aboard for the ride. Spock's last message from the Klingon ship is cryptic and frightening. The Klingons are ...

  • Dragonsbane

    Winterlands - 1

    THE MAN WHO SLEW A DRAGON When the Black Dragon seized the Deep of Ylferdun, young Gareth braved the far Winterlands to find John Aversin, Dragonsbane--the only living man ever to slay a dragon. In return for the promise of the King to send help t...

  • The Silent Tower

    The Windrose Chronicles - 1

    In her latest novel, The Silent Tower, Barbara Hambly has written a complex tale of dark magic, mystery and deadly danger involving a woman computer programmer who struggles to help a condemned wizard save--or perhaps destroy?--two worlds......

  • Witches of Wenshar

    Sun Wolf and Starhawk - 2

    A Prevalence Of Demons Once, it was said, Wenshar had been a city of witches, summoning and controlling demons for their evil magic. Wenshar had been destroyed, and the witches were supposedly no more. But in nearby Tandieras, Kaletha claimed to h...



  • Search the Seven Hills

    In ancient Rome, a poor philosopher races to rescue his kidnapped lover before she is abused by the sinister Christian cultThe son of a wealthy Roman family, Marcus gave up the prestige and riches that were his birthright to devote himself to philoso...

  • The Silicon Mage

    The Windrose Chronicles - 2

    Ambition of the Dark Mage It was impossible, Joanna knew. When she betrayed her lover Antryg Windrose to the Council, he had been sentenced to death. Then she had believed his brain was possessed by the Dark Mage Suraklin, though now she knew tha...

  • Those Who Hunt the Night

    A James Asher Vampire Novel - 1

    STALKER BY DAYLIGHT Location: London Time: The period of Sherlock Holmes Subject: Vampires The vampires had been living in London since the time of Elizabeth I, but now they were being ruthlessly murdered by someone who ripped their coffins ope...

  • Beauty and the Beast

    Beauty and the Beast (1987 TV Show) - 1

    Kidnapped and injured, a young woman awakens in a hidden world. Catherine meets Vincent and her life is changed forever....

  • The Dark Hand of Magic

    Sun Wolf and Starhawk - 3

    THE MASTER WIZARD Ever since he first learned he had the power of magic, Sun Wolf and his beloved Starhawk had been searching for a master wizard to teach him the full skills needed for its use. But true wizards were rare since the time of the evi...

  • Song of Orpheus

    Beauty and the Beast (1987 TV Show) - 3

    A terrible plague of avarice, a life-threatening disaster, and the shocking secrets of Father's past cast dangerous shadows underground... and even Above--where the mysterious Vincent and the beautiful Catherine confront perils that will test the lim...

  • Ghost-Walker

    Star Trek
    Star Trek: The Original Series - 53

    Elcidar Beta Three--a tranquil, undisturbed planet strategically located between the Federation and the Kiingon Empire. Home to the Midgwins, a race of people who throughout all time have lived in peace with their planet, and themselves. But now, tim...

  • Rainbow Abyss

    Sun-Cross - 1

    THE WELL BETWEEN THE WORLDS When Rhion the banker's son met the Master Wizard Jaldis, Jaldis said, "Come." Rhion came, leaving everything behind to answer the call in his blood. And through long years of drudgery and persecution, he had no regrets...

  • The Magicians of Night

    Sun-Cross - 2

    The two wizards, Jaldis and Rhion, had dared the dread Dark Well to answer the desperate call of a world without magic. Jaldis had not survived the dreadful Void. Now Rhion was alone in a world he could not imagine -- the world of Germany in 1940.

  • Dog Wizard

    The Windrose Chronicles - 3

    The Citadel of Wizards was under siege. Deep in the Vaults beneath the walled city, Gates into inhuman realities were opening and closing without warning. Monsters emerged from other dimensions; and ancient, malign magics came to life under the influ...



  • Stranger at the Wedding

    The Windrose Chronicles - 4

    SISTERSONG Kyra was a journeyman wizard, readying for her final testing before the Council. But it was no mere case of nerves that had started twisting her magic. Something sinister was weaving portents of doom into even the simplest of her spells...

  • Crossroads

    Star Trek
    Star Trek: The Original Series - 71

    The crew of the Nautilus, a battered Starship of mysterious origin, is beamed aboard the Starship Enterprise. The group claims they are freedom fighters from the future working to save the Federation from the Consilium--a group of corrupt power-seeke...

  • Bride of the Rat God

    HOLLYWOOD, 1923: Gin, gems, and life in the fast lane...Chrysanda Flamande was the sultriest vamp of the silver screen. She had everything--fawning friends, glittering parties, exotic diversions, and baubles to spare. Then an elderly Chinese g...

  • Children of the Jedi

    Star Trek
    Star Wars

    Princess Leia, Han Solo, and Chewbacca set out on a mission vital to the survival of the fragile New Republic. They are searching for the long-lost children of the Jedi on the frozen world of Belsavis, from whose dark crypts no one has returned alive...

  • Traveling With the Dead

    A James Asher Vampire Novel - 2

    Down through the deathless centuries, the vampires had drunk human blood for sustenance and for sport. They preyed where they willed, for no mortal humans could resist their unclean powers. But now came the ultimate perversion, the unthinkable: someo...

  • Mother of Winter

    The Darwath Trilogy - 4

    Five years after defeating the Dark Ones, the embattled inhabitants o f the once-great Keep of Dare faced a yet more deadly foe. An icy cold force was spreading across the northlands, spawning strange creatures that killed everything in their grisly ...

  • Planet of Twilight

    Star Wars

    New York Times bestselling author Barbara Hambly returns to the Star Wars universe to tell a breathtaking tale of a mysterious world where the battle between the New Republic and the Empire takes a shocking new twist.... Nam Chorios is a barren back...

  • A Free Man of Color

    A Benjamin January Novel - 1

    A lush and haunting novel of a city steeped in decadent pleasures ... and of a man, proud and defiant, caught in a web of murder and betrayal. It is 1833. In the midst of Mardi Gras, Benjamin January, a Creole physician and music teacher, is playi...

  • Icefalcon's Quest

    The Darwath Trilogy - 5

    Chaos reigned in the Eastern Lands: as the fearsome Alketch army mounted siege, the young Prince Tir was snatched from the heart of Dare's Keep. Behind the terror was the depraved, hook-handed General Vair na-Chandros. He had learned that the royal c...

  • A Night with the Girls

    in Did You Say Chicks?!

    Those Chicks in Chainmail are baaaack -- and They Are Not Amused! A Brief Word from the Characters: We seem to have a Failure to Communicate here. Hey, it's okay with us that Chicks in Chainmail was so popular, and reached #3 on the Locus bestsell...



  • Fever Season

    A Benjamin January Novel - 2

    The summer of 1833 has been one of brazen heat and brutal pestilence, as the city is stalked by Bronze John--the popular name for the deadly yellow fever epidemic that tests the healing skills of doctor and voodoo alike. Even as Benjamin January tend...

  • Dragonshadow

    Winterlands - 2

    Lord John Aversin--with the help of his mageborn wife, Jenny Waynest--has fought and defeated two dragons, earning the title of Dragonsbane. But there are creatures more terrifying than dragons. Demonspawn from a dark dimension have learned to drink ...

  • Graveyard Dust

    A Benjamin January Novel - 3

    It is St. John's Eve in the summer of 1834 when Benjamin January--Creole physician and music teacher--is shattered by the news that his sister has been arrested for murder. The Guards have only a shadow of a case against her. But Olympe--mystical and...

  • Knight of the Demon Queen

    Winterlands - 3

    Once the most powerful mage in the land, Jenny Waynest is now a broken woman. After being possessed and corrupted by the demon Amayon, she lost everything she holds dear--even the trust of her husband. Yet Lord John Aversin has torments of his own: m...

  • Sold Down the River

    A Benjamin January Novel - 4

    Penetrating the murkiest corners of glittering New Orleans society, Benjamin January brought murderers to justice in A Free Man of Color, Fever Season, and Graveyard Dust. Now, in Barbara Hambly's haunting new novel, he risks his life in a violent pl...

  • Die upon a Kiss

    A Benjamin January Novel - 5

    In February 1835, the cold New Orleans streets are alight with masked Mardi Gras revelers as the American Theater's impresario, Lorenzo Belaggio, brings a magnificent yet controversial operatic version of Othello to town. But it's pitch-black in the ...

  • Dragonstar

    Winterlands - 4

    The novels of New York Times bestselling author Barbara Hambly have broken new ground in the realm of fantasy. With a sweeping cast of characters whose powers are both awesome and heartachingly limited, the Dragon series is built around the touching ...

  • Wet Grave

    A Benjamin January Novel - 6

    It's July 1835 and the relentless heat has slowed New Orleans to a standstill. When a once beautiful society mistress is found slashed to death in the city's most lawless quarter, there are few to care. But one is Benjamin January, who still recalls ...

  • Sisters of the Raven

    Sisters of the Raven - 1

    The Yellow City is in crisis. Men have always possessed the magic that sustains civilization, from healing the sick to calling the rains to keeping the mice from the granaries. Now the rains are weeks late, the wells are drying up, and the Sun Mages ...

  • Days of the Dead

    A Benjamin January Novel - 7

    Mexico City in 1835 is a lawless place, teeming with bandits and beggars. Here Benjamin January and his new bride Rose Vitrac pray they'll find Hannibal Sefton alive--and not already at the end of a hangman's rope. Sefton stands accused of poisoning ...



  • Dead Water

    A Benjamin January Novel - 8

    Nineteenth-century New Orleans is a blazing hotbed of scorching politics and personal vendettas. And it's into this fire that Benjamin January falls when he is hired to follow Oliver Weems, a bank official who has absconded with $100,000 in gold and ...

  • Someone Else's Shadow

    in Night's Edge

    Maddie Laveau worries about her young roommate,Tessa, when she stays late to practice ballet in the old Glendower Building...and when Tessa goes missing, Maddie enlists mysterious tenant Phil Anderson to help. But is Phil the white knight she needs, ...

  • The Emancipator's Wife

    As a girl growing up in Kentucky, she lived a sheltered, privileged life filled with picnics and plantation balls. Vivacious, impulsive, and intoxicated by politics, she is a Todd of Lexington, an aristocratic family whose ancestors defeated the Bri...

  • Circle of the Moon

    Sisters of the Raven - 2

    Returning to the wondrous world of Sisters of the Raven, Barbara Hambly presents a suspenseful and adventurous new novel. Now the survival of the Yellow City depends on a fledgling group of women who must develop their own magic abilities-before the ...

  • Renfield

    An imaginative novel that puts a fresh and frightening new spin on Bram Stoker's Dracula. The servant Renfield was the most enigmatic character to stalk in the shadows of Dracula. Now he takes center stage in an ingenious re-imagining of Bram Sto...

  • Patriot Hearts

    MARTHA WASHINGTON, ABIGAIL ADAMS, DOLLEY MADISON, AND SALLY HEMINGS: four exceptional women who prevailed over the dangers and hardships of a time like no other, as the men they loved fought for a young country's freedom. In this brilliantly imagined...

  • Homeland

    Those who loved Cold Mountain or Geraldine Brooks's March will embrace and long remember this spellbinding novel of two remarkable women torn apart by conflict, sustained by literature and art, united by friendship and hope. As brother turns again...

  • Lester Higata's 20th Century

    “Lester Higata knew his life was about to end when he walked out on the lanai behind his house in Makiki and saw his long-dead father sitting in a lawn chair near the little greenhouse where Lester kept his orchids.” Thus begins Barbara...

  • Dead and Buried

    A Benjamin January Novel - 9

    New Orleans, 1836. When free black musician and surgeon Benjamin January attends the funeral of a friend, an accident tips the dead man out of his coffin " only to reveal an unexpected inhabitant. Just one person recognises the corpse of the white ...

  • Blood Maidens

    A James Asher Vampire Novel - 3

    It's 1911. War is coming, and according to one of the vampires of St. Petersburg, the Kaiser is trying to recruit vampires. James Asher, Oxford don and formerly on His Majesty's Secret Service, is forced to team up again with his vampire partner Don ...



  • The Shirt On His Back

    A Benjamin January Novel - 10

    Abishag Shaw is seeking vengeance for his brother's murder -- and Benjamin January is seeking money after his bank crashes. Far beyond the frontier, in the depths of the Rocky Mountains, both are to be found at the great Rendezvous of the Mountain ...

  • Ran Away

    A Benjamin January Novel - 11

    RAN AWAY. So began a score of advertisements every week in the New Orleans newspapers, advertising for slaves who'd fled their masters. But the Turk, Hseyin Pasha, posted no such advertisement when his two lovely concubines disappeared. And when a w...

  • Anne Steelyard

    In the third and final installment of the Anne Steelyard series, A Thousand Waters, we find Anne still traveling across the desert with the help of Lady Hester s caravan and her friends. As Anne continues her search for the elusive City of Miyah, she...

  • Magistrates of Hell

    A James Asher Vampire Novel - 4

    James Asher finds himself once more in alliance with vampire Don Simon Ysidro, as their investigations takes them to far-off Peking . . . October, 1912. James Asher, his wife Lydia, and the old occultist and vampire-hunter Dr Solomon Karlebach ha...

  • Good Man Friday

    A Benjamin January Novel - 12

    Benjamin January’s search for a missing man takes him into a dark world filled with grave robbers and slave stealers. New Orleans, 1838. When Benjamin January suddenly finds that his services playing piano at extravagant balls held by the city’s...

  • Kindred of Darkness

    A James Asher Vampire Novel - 5

    When James Asher and his wife Lydia's baby daughter Miranda is kidnapped by the Master Vampire of London, the stakes are high: blindly follow the Master Vampire's instructions, keep out of the way of the human networks that serves the vampires, destr...

  • Crimson Angel

    A Benjamin January Novel - 13

    Benjamin January is forced to travel to Haiti to seek his family’s lost treasure, in order to save everything he holds dear When Jefferson Vitrack -- the white half-brother of Benjamin January’s wife -- turns up on January’s doorstep in the ...

  • The Adventure of the Antiquarian's Niece

    A Sherlock Holmes novelette of 10,000 words, set in the universe of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos, narrated by Dr. Watson. Holmes and Watson start out investigating the mysterious behavior of the inhabitants of the sinister Depewatch Priory...

  • The Adventure of the Lost Boy

    A Sherlock Holmes fantasy novelette of 9,000 words - narrated by Mrs. Watson - As a child, Mary Watson had an imaginary friend: Peter Pan. When Peter is blamed for the disappearance of a nobleman’s young heir, Mrs. Watson, now all grown up, discove...

  • The Adventure of the Sinister Chinaman

    short story, 7,300 wordsA Sherlock Holmes short story of 7,300 words, narrated by Dr. Watson. Holmes and Watson are in San Francisco, and find themselves defending a Chinese magician accused of kidnapping a little girl. Someone obviously intends for ...

  • Corridor

    A novelette of 14,000 words - Sequel to Hambly's Windrose novels. An inter-dimensional transport corporation has run a trans-dimensional corridor through Los Angeles, and is powering it by draining the psychic energy of the population in its path, dr...

  • The Dollmaker of Marigold Walk

    A Sherlock Holmes novelette of 9,000 words (originally written for a Holmes anthology) - narrated by Mrs. Watson. While Holmes deals with what seems to be a straightforward missing-wife case, Watson's wife Mary puzzles over strange non-crimes in the ...

  • Fairest in the Land

    A novelette of 11,500 words. As Princess Tinomiel's wedding to a charming prince approaches, she falls prey to what her parents are pretty sure is a curse: she falls asleep constantly, and sleeps for longer and longer. They hire former mercenary capt...

  • Hagar

    A novelette of 13,000 words in the Benjamin January Free Man of Color historical mystery series. Benjamin is out of town again, and his wife Rose attends a party with her obnoxious mother-in-law, at a plantation owned by a free colored relative. When...

  • Libre

    A short story about free man of color Benjamin January (of the Free Man of Color historical mystery series). In pre-Civil-War New Orleans, musician Benjamin January is tasked by his obnoxious mother to find the missing daughter of one of the city's f...

  • Nanya of the Butterflies

    A novelette of 14,000 words. In his quest for a wizard to teach him to use his powers, former mercenary captain Sun Wolf thinks he may have finally found one. Unfortunately, it looks like that one has summoned a dragon to destroy an innocent town - a...

  • Personal Paradise

    A novelette of 15,000 words. The Personal Paradise Secure Community Corporation specializes in producing tiny enclave universes as vacation homes for the rich and famous. Unfortunately, something goes wrong with their Void technology and all these en...

  • Plus-One

    A novelette of 14,000 words - A Las Vegas hotel is haunted by a trans-dimensional being which has started killing the hotel's guests. Exiled wizard Antryg Windrose and his partner, computer programmer Joanna Sheraton, are hired to investigate, and di...

  • Pretty Polly

    A novelette of 10,000 words - The Keep of Dare is an enclosed fortress: no one knows all its secrets and corners. When people start disappearing, the Archmage Ingold Inglorion and his two Californian companions - warrior Gil Patterson and novice wiza...

  • Princess

    A novelette of 12,000 words, in the universe of Hambly's Dragonsbane (Winterlands) series. John Aversin, Dragonsbane and Thane of the Winterlands, and his partner the witch Jenny Waynest, are hired by a dragon to rescue a princess... who had original...

  • Shadowbaby

    A novelette of 15,000 words; a sequel to Hambly's Dragonsbane (Winterlands) series. Everyone knows that when the faerie-folk of the marshes kidnap a human child, they replace it with a changeling, a shadow-baby. When John Aversin, Dragonsbane and Tha...

  • Sunrise on Running Water

    A vampire novelette of 9,000 words. The evil vampire Lord Napier Sandridge seeks to flee the vengeful sister of his most recent victim. He chooses to travel to America aboard the safest and most luxurious vessel he can find: the RMS Titanic. Since va...

  • There Shall Your Heart Be Also

    Short story of 5,000 words, sequel to Hambly's Benjamin January New Orleans murder mystery series. It's astonishing enough to everyone who knows New Orleans saloon-keeper Kentucky Williams that she owns a Bible... but someone is willing to do murder ...

  • A Time For Every Purpose Under Heaven

    A short story of 8,699 words, in the Benjamin January Free Man of Color series. Rose Janvier, Benjamin's wife, is left at home in pre-Civil-War New Orleans when Benjamin goes off to solve a crime in another city. When the high-living brother of one o...

  • Whisper

    A novelette of 14,000 words, sequel to Hambly's Darwath series. The teleporter is due to open between the Keep of Dare and an unknown Keep, lost for three thousand years - and Archmage Ingold Inglorion is snowed in fifty miles away and unable to be t...

  • Zenobie

    A novelette of 16,000 words. Computer programmer Joanna Sheraton's hippie mother asks the help of her daughter's partner - exiled wizard Antryg Windrose - in getting rid of a spectre which seems to be haunting the New Age Consciousness-Raising Center...

  • Quest For Glory

  • Firemaggot

    Novelette of 15,000 words - Sequel to Hambly's Windrose novels. Exiled wizard Antryg Windrose and his partner, computer programmer Joanna Sheraton, discover that a trans-dimensional monster is hiding in the now-deserted luxury "rance" of a deceased r...

  • And Pretty Maids All In A Row

    A novelette of 15,000 words, sequel to the Windrose Chronicles by Barbara Hambly. When the head of a Los Angeles criminal gang seeks out exiled wizard Antryg Windrose for some wizardly advice about his love-life, Antryg suspects trouble. He's right: ...

  • Damselblossom

    A novelette of 12,000 words, sequel to Hambly's Winterlands (Dragonsbane) series. When a visiting wizard calls at Alyn Hold with the news that the region is about to be attacked by a horrible monster, John Aversin, Dragonsbane and Thane of the Winter...

  • Darkness on His Bones

    A James Asher Vampire Novel - 6

    "Simon. Something frightful has happened to Jamie. Please come..." When James Asher is found unconscious in the cemetery of the Church of St. Clare Pieds-Nus with multiple puncture-wounds in his throat and arms, his wife, Lydia, knows of only one...

  • Castle of Horror

    A novelette of 15,000 words. It is April of 1924. Colossus Films (of the novel Bride of the Rat-God) is shooting in Reno, because their male star, Tor Westlake, is getting his fifth divorce in order to marry Chrysanda (Christine) Flamande, the studio...

  • Death on the Moon

    A novelette of 12,000 words in the Benjamin January Free Man of Color historical mystery series. All of New Orleans is agog over Professor Tixall’s telescope, which can reportedly see life on the Moon. Rose Janvier is convinced that it’s a hoax, ...

  • Drinking Gourd

    A Benjamin January Novel - 14

    Benjamin January investigates the murder of a ‘conductor’ of the Underground Railway, helping slaves to freedom. Benjamin January is called up to Vicksburg, deep in cotton-plantation country, to help a wounded “conductor” of the Undergroun...

  • Elsewhere

    A novelette of 15,000 words, sequel to Hambly’s Darwath series. The builders of the ancient Keep of Dare communicated with other Keeps via a transporter " whose instruction manual unfortunately did not survive the centuries. Thus, Archmage Ingold...

  • Hazard

    A novelette of 10,000 words. When the lovely Mira visits the hermitage of the local wizard, the former barbarian mercenary Sun Wolf, to beg his help in rescuing her sweetheart from a traveling mage, Sun Wolf suspects that this is a trap set for him. ...

  • Pale Guardian

    A James Asher Vampire Novel - 7

    During the carnage of World War One, James Asher joins forces with the vampires of Europe to counter an even deadlier threat. The vampires call them The Others. Neither living nor dead, the revenants are mindless and unstoppable and in the carnage...

  • Hag in the Water

    Winterlands - 5

    A novelette of 15,000 words, sequel to Hambly's Dragonsbane (Winterlands) series. When a gnome wizard is murdered, the other gnome mages, fearing the killer was a demon, send for human witch Jenny Waynest. Unfortunately, Jenny is away. Her non-wizard...

  • Karate Masters vs the Invaders From Outer Space

    The Windrose Chronicles - 5

    A novelette of 13,000 words in the Antryg Windrose series. Exiled wizard Antryg Windrose and his computer tech partner Joanna Sheraton lend a hand in making a low-budget martial-arts movie. But while filming in the Mojave Desert, it becomes obvious t...

  • Murder in July

    A Benjamin January Novel - 15

    Benjamin January investigates the murder of a mysterious Englishman in this absorbing New Orleans-set mystery. When British spymaster Sir John Oldmixton offers Benjamin January a hundred dollars to find the murderer of an Englishman whose body has...

  • Cold Bayou

    A Benjamin January Novel - 16

    Everyone at the family wedding was hoping someone would murder the bride … The intriguing new Benjamin January mystery. “Don’t go to Cold Bayou, brother … Nuthin’ good waiting for you there.” New Orleans, 1839. Despite his misgivi...

  • Dreamers of Black Rock

    A novelette of 16,000 words, sequel to Hambly’s Darwath series. The wizards at the distant Keep of Black Rock have disappeared. Warrior woman Gil Patterson, the wizard Ingold Inglorion, and Ingold’s pupil Rudy Solis set out to learn what happened...

  • Gwenael

    A novelette of 15,000 words, sequel to Hambly’s Sun Wolf and Starhawk novels. Former barbarian mercenary Sun Wolf re-visits the ruined fortress of the Wizard-King, hoping to find the books of magic that the dead sorcerer hoarded. He finds, instead,...

  • Prisoner of Midnight

    A James Asher Vampire Novel - 8

    Vampire Don Simon Ysido has been captured and held aboard a ship heading to the US to act as a slave, and Dr Lydia Asher must stop it . . . at any cost. March, 1917. The goal of every government involved in the Great War has been achieved: industria...

  • Gravemould and Ectoplasm

    A novelette of 16,000 words, the follow-on to the Asher and Ysidro vampire series. Recently arrived in New York in the closing years of World War One, Lydia Asher and her friend, the "recovering" vampire Don Simon Ysidro, attempt to solve a puzzle th...

  • Just Like Real People

    A novelette of 14,000 words, in the Antryg Windrose series. The exiled wizard Antryg Windrose and his computer programmer companion Joanna are called to find people who are being kidnapped from entities beyond the Void - and to learn the secret of wh...

  • Lady of Perdition

    A Benjamin January Novel - 17

    Benjamin January heads to the "Slaveholders' Republic" of Texas to locate a kidnapped girl and help a woman who saved him from the noose. April, 1840. Benjamin January knows no black person in their right mind would willingly go to the...

  • House of the Patriarch

    A Benjamin January Novel - 18

    No one can talk to the dead . . . can they? Free man of color Benjamin January gets caught up in a strange, spiritual world that might lead to his own demise, as he hunts for a missing teenager in this gripping, atmospheric historical mystery. New...

  • Scandal in Babylon

    A Silver Screen Mystery - 1

    “You shall never have a penny of my money. Leave me alone or I will shoot you dead!” 1924. After six months in Hollywood, young British widow Emma Blackstone has come to love her new employer, glamourous movie-star Kitty Flint " even if her...

  • Death and Hard Cider

    A Benjamin January Novel - 19

    Musician, sleuth and free man of color Benjamin January gets mixed in politics, with murderous results."The historical backdrop is vivid, and the writing is exquisite. One of the best in a not-to-be-missed series" - Booklist Starred ReviewS...

  • The Iron Princess

    A young woman rises from the streets to battle a sinister evil in this magical fantasy adventure by the bestselling author of the Darwath series. Something is amiss with the world’s magic. Spells don’t work the way they used to -- when they work ...

  • One Extra Corpse

    A Silver Screen Mystery - 2

    Hollywood intrigue, glamor . . . and murder: Enter the roaring twenties in this thrilling Silver Screen historical mystery, starring two very different female sleuths."Everything feels just right: the characters are abundantly human, the mystery is b...

  • The Nubian's Curse

    A Benjamin January Novel - 20

    A cursed statue . . . A haunted house . . . A seemingly supernatural death . . . The unexpected arrival of a friend from his past plunges musician, sleuth and free man of color Benjamin January into an old, unsolved case in this historical mystery se...

  • Saving Susy Sweetchild

    A Silver Screen Mystery - 3

    Welcome to Hollywood of the 1920s: a world filled with glamour, fake names . . . and the occasional felony!July, 1924. After nine months of living in Hollywood and working as a companion to her beautiful silent-movie star sister-in-law, young Bri...

Award-Winning Books by Barbara Hambly

Those Who Hunt the Night
1989 Locus Award -- Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel


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Barbara Hambly has published 103 books.

Barbara Hambly does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Saving Susy Sweetchild, was published in September 2024.

The first book by Barbara Hambly, The Time of the Dark, was published in May 1982.

Yes. Barbara Hambly has 9 series.
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