Christopher Golden

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  • Bibliography:
    140 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1994
  • Latest Book:
    August 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Choose Your Own Star Wars Adventures

A New Hope (Mar-1998)
Return of the Jedi (Aug-1998)
The Empire Strikes Back (Aug-1998)

The Fourth Labyrinth

Uncharted (Oct-2011)

The Hollow

1 - Horseman (May-2005)
2 - Drowned (Aug-2005)
3 - Mischief (Feb-2006)
4 - Enemies (Jun-2006)

Prowlers

1 - Prowlers (Apr-2001)
2 - Laws of Nature (Aug-2001)
3 - Predator and Prey (Dec-2001)
4 - Wild Things (Apr-2002)

The Shadow Saga

1 - Of Saints and Shadows (Jun-1994)
2 - Angel Souls and Devil Hearts (Jul-1995)
3 - Of Masques and Martyrs (Dec-1998)
4 - The Gathering Dark (Jul-2003)
5 - Waking Nightmares (Apr-2011)

The Veil

1 - The Myth Hunters (Jan-2006)
2 - The Borderkind (Apr-2007)
3 - The Lost Ones (Apr-2008)

X-Men Mutant Empire

1 - Siege (May-1996)
2 - Sanctuary (Nov-1996)
3 - Salvation (May-1997)

Multi-Author Series List

A Body of Evidence Thriller

1 - Body Bags (May-1999)
2 - Thief of Hearts (Aug-1999)
3 - Soul Survivor (Nov-1999)
4 - Meets the Eye (Feb-2000)
5 - Head Games (Jun-2000)
6 - Skin Deep (Oct-2000)
7 - Burning Bones (Feb-2001)
10 - Throat Culture (Apr-2005)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Sins of the Father (Nov-1999)
Pretty Maids All in a Row (Oct-2000)
Prophecies (Aug-2001)
Dark Times (Sep-2001)
King of the Dead (Oct-2001)
Original Sins (Nov-2001)
Oz: Into the Wild (May-2002)
The Wisdom of War (Jul-2002)
Dark Congress (Sep-2007)

Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty

When Rose Wakes (Oct-2010)

Hellboy

The Lost Army (Feb-2004)
The Bones of Giants (Mar-2004)
The Dragon Pool (Apr-2007)

Justice League of America

6 - Exterminators (Jul-2004)

Lost Slayer

1 - Prophecies (Aug-2001)
2 - Dark Times (Sep-2001)
3 - King of the Dead (Oct-2001)
4 - Original Sins (Nov-2001)

Marvel's Daredevil

Predator's Smile (Apr-1996)

Marvel's The Punisher

Wolverine - Punisher: Revelation (Feb-2000)
Marvel Knights Punisher by Golden, Sniegoski, & Wrightson: Purgatory (Feb-2019)

Marvel's X-Men

Siege (May-1996)
Sanctuary (Nov-1996)
Salvation (May-1997)
Codename Wolverine (Oct-1998)
Wolverine - Punisher: Revelation (Feb-2000)
Marvel Classic Novels - X-Men: The Mutant Empire Omnibus (Nov-2019)

Oz

Oz: Into the Wild (May-2002)

Sons of Anarchy

Bratva (Nov-2014)

Spike and Dru

Pretty Maids All in a Row (Oct-2000)

Star Wars

Shadows of the Empire: Junior Novelization (Sep-1996)
A New Hope (Mar-1998)
Return of the Jedi (Aug-1998)
The Empire Strikes Back (Aug-1998)

Book List in Order: 140 titles

  • Of Saints and Shadows

    The Shadow Saga - 1

    THE EPIC VAMPIRE NOVEL THAT REDEFINES TERROR SAINTS (n.) Highly virtuous people, dedicated to holy pursuits. Like Father Mulkerrin, a man devoted to the total elimination of a hidden race of beings... SHADOWS(n.) Creatures of the night, who def...

  • Bikini

  • Beach Blanket Psycho

  • Angel Souls and Devil Hearts

    The Shadow Saga - 2

    The Gospel of Shadows has been lost, and the existence of vampires has been revealed. Peter Octavian is trapped in Hell, but he has given his allies a mission to discover the secret origin of vampires. Once they were legend. But now the entire world...

  • Predator's Smile

    Marvel's Daredevil

    DAREDEVIL BATTLES BULLSEYE AS NEW YORK BURNS! An arsonist's twisted handiwork claims hundreds of lives in the roughest neighborhood in New York--Daredevil's turf. Daredevil digs up the root of the problem and comes up with a ruthless crime boss be...

  • Siege

    X-Men Mutant Empire - 1
    Marvel's X-Men

    They live as outcasts, hated and feared by the very humanity they protect. They are mutants, born with strange and wonderful powers that set them apart from the rest of the human race. Under the tutelage of Professor Charles Xavier, they are more tha...

  • Shadows of the Empire: Junior Novelization

    Star Wars

    A disturbance in the Force . . . His name is Xizor. He's the evil underlord of a criminal organization called Black Sun, and he's out to destroy Darth Vader. The target of the two battling supervillains is Luke Skywalker. Vader wants Luke captured...

  • Sanctuary

    X-Men Mutant Empire - 2
    Marvel's X-Men

    They live as outcasts, hated and feared by the very humanity they protect. They are mutants, born with strange and wonderful powers that set them apart from the rest of the human race. Under the tutelage of Professor Charles Xavier, they are more tha...

  • What's Michael? Volume 4: Michael's Mambo



  • Salvation

    X-Men Mutant Empire - 3
    Marvel's X-Men

    They live as outcasts, hated and feared by the very humanity they protect. They are mutants, born with strange and wonderful powers that set them apart from the rest of the human race. Under the tutelage of Professor Charles Xavier, they are more tha...

  • Hellboy

    In 525 B.C., the Persian king Cambyses sent fifty thousand soldiers across the conquered Egyptian desert to take an oasis city not far from where the Libyan border stands today. According to Greek history, a hurricane-force sandstorm struck near the ...

  • A New Hope

    Choose Your Own Star Wars Adventures
    Star Wars

    Find out if the force is with you in the first of three new interactive Star Wars® books!  Join Luke, Princess Leia, and Han as they battle the evil Galactic Empire--and you control the twists and turns of the most exciting odyssey in the galaxy....

  • The Empire Strikes Back

    Choose Your Own Star Wars Adventures
    Star Wars

    The fight against evil rages on, and you are faced with terrifying decisions that will change your future--and the fate of the galaxy. You could go to Dagobah and learn the ways of the Force from Yoda, but Darth Vader tempts you with the power of the...

  • Return of the Jedi

    Choose Your Own Star Wars Adventures
    Star Wars

    From the bowels of Jabba the Hutt's palace where Han Solo lies frozen in carbonite, to the interior of a new Death Star where Darth Vader and the Emperor plot incredible evil, to the ancient forest of Endor where Ewoks play, you will enter a galaxy f...

  • Codename Wolverine

    Marvel's X-Men

    THE DEADLIEST MISSION. THE DEADLIEST WOMEN. Wolverine. Sabretooth. Silver Fox. Wraith. Maverick. Together, they were Team X, the best covert-ops team NATO had to offer. But a mission to retrieve a disk from a pair of Soviet agents proved to be m...

  • The Watchers Guide Buffy The Vampire Slayer

    An official, all-encompassing companion book to the popular hit television series includes exclusive cast and production interviews, never-before-seen photographs, a day-on-the-set journal, and much more. Original. TV tie-in....

  • Of Masques and Martyrs

    The Shadow Saga - 3

    THEY ARE CALLED SHADOWS... Led by Peter Octavian, they must drink blood. Yet they do not steal life. New Shadows are created only by individual choice. They even count humans among their ranks. Peace is their only hunger. The minions of Hanniba...

  • Body Bags

    A Body of Evidence Thriller - 1

    When one of her professors ends up dead, college freshman Jenna Blake starts making discoveries even the police have not seen, discoveries that link the late teacher to a dead congressional aide and a terrifying disease. Original....

  • Thief of Hearts

    A Body of Evidence Thriller - 2

    "Why would anyone want to tear out someone's heart?" That's the very real question facing college freshman Jenna Blake, and it has nothing to do with romance and heartbreak. A second grisly murder mystery is unfolding at Somerset University, and her ...



  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Origin

    The first chapter of Buffy's rise to slayer stardom reveals a somewhat reluctant teenager gradually accepting her role as L.A.'s protector and principle stake-master in the face of an undead invasion. Original....

  • Sunnydale High Yearbook

    It's senior year for Buffy Summers and her friends. And that means homecoming, senior prom, finals, graduation -- all the usual evil doings guaranteed to make the Chosen One long for recess. Slayer duties caused Buffy to miss picking up her Yearbook,...

  • Strangewood

    Children's writer T. J. Randall's dark imagination is legendary, but when it swallows his own son's soul, leaving the child catatonic, he is forced to confront his psyche's most hideous creation. Original. BAKER & TAYLOR Bks...

  • Sins of the Father

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer

    Stone-Cold Killer One night while on patrol, the Slayer and her friends are outnumbered and receive aid from a totally unexpected source: Buffy's old flame, Pike. He and Buffy had a complex relationship back in Los Angeles, when the Chosen One ...

  • Soul Survivor

    A Body of Evidence Thriller - 3

    "There's nothing magical about murder...." Santeria markings. Hindu magick. Druidic runes. Japanese mysticism. The latest series of murders in Somerset has everyone confused, including the local police and the Medical Examiner's office. They seem ...

  • Meets the Eye

    A Body of Evidence Thriller - 4

    "There's no such thing as zombies. Of course I know that. But I also know what I saw with my own eyes, and until I find the truth of it, that's going to haunt me." Freshman year is supposed to be filled with new experiences, but Jenna Blake's not ...

  • Wolverine - Punisher: Revelation

    Marvel's The Punisher
    Marvel's X-Men

  • Head Games

    A Body of Evidence Thriller - 5

    "They were my friends. I've known them almost my entire life. Maybe they both just lost it. But I think something's going on here, and I have to take a closer look." Home from college on break, Jenna Blake is horrified to discover that a childhood...

  • The Monster Book

  • Pretty Maids All in a Row

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer
    Spike and Dru

    "You got Slayer problems? You know what I find works real good with Slayers? Killing them." -- Spike It's 1940, and Europe is ravaged by World War II -- an ideal environment for demon paramours Spike and Drusilla. The anniversary of Dru's resurrec...



  • Skin Deep

    A Body of Evidence Thriller - 6

    "A girl is dead, and one of your best friends got his head cracked with a shovel, because some white guy didn't want to see them kiss." When Jenna and Damon first began dating, neither worried too much about the other's skin color. After all, Some...

  • Angel: Surrogates

    Angel, a reformed vampire and private detective, becomes embroiled in an investigation into a demonic fertility clinic as he, Cordelia, and the demonic Doyle try to discover why mothers are being murdered and fathers are being transformed into zombie...

  • Burning Bones

    A Body of Evidence Thriller - 7

    "It's quite a mystery, isn't it? I mean, how do you burn someone to death in public, and not have anyone notice?" Two people burst into flame, burned alive in front of plenty of eyewitnesses with no obvious cause. Spontaneous human combustion is ...

  • Straight on 'Til Morning

    To rescue Nicole French, the young lady on whom he has a crush, from the enigmatic new boy in town, Pete Starling, Kevin Murphy and his friends must venture into a perilous, nightmarish world from which they may never escape. Original....

  • Prowlers

    Prowlers - 1

    LONG HAVE THE PACKS LACKED A GREAT LEADER. SCATTERED FAR AND WIDE, THEY HAVE HUNTED AS BEST THEY COULD IN THE HARD LANDS, IN PLACES WHERE THEIR PREDATIONS COULD BE PASSED OFF AS THE WORK OF TRUE WOLVES. INSTEAD OF PROWLERS When nineteen-year-old Jack...

  • Laws of Nature

    Prowlers - 2

    They're real, and they're here.... Prowlers Jack Dwyer defeated the pack of Prowlers who had preyed upon the city of Boston with their leader, Owen Tanzer. Tanzer may be gone, but now that Jack is aware of their existence, he is on a constant lookout...

  • Prophecies

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer
    Lost Slayer - 1

    Buffy Summers' adjustment to life at U.S. Sunnydale has not gone smoothly. She feels awkward, insecure, and a bit jealous that Willow's all over the college life. So when the spirit of deceased Slayer Lucy Hanover appears to Buffy in a dream with new...

  • Dark Times

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer
    Lost Slayer - 2

    Consequences Sunnydale has always been a haven for creatures of the underworld. But when Buffy Summers awakes in a possible future, she is stunned to discover that Southern California has fallen under vampire rule. Buffy learns that her Slayerette...

  • King of the Dead

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer
    Lost Slayer - 3

    DOPPELGNGLAND Sunnydale. Five years into the future. A bleak, post- apocalyptic future for which the Slayer herself is responsible. Her mother has been killed. Angel is missing and presumed dead. Her friends are different, harder. But that's n...

  • Original Sins

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer
    Lost Slayer - 4

    HOMECOMING Joyce Summers is dead. Spike has been slain and Faith, rogue Slayer, is gone as well. Southern California has fallen under vampire rule. And Rupert Giles is Vampire King. Buffy can hold no one but herself responsible for this grim...



  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Past Lives

    A huntress is stalking demons in L.A. Normally this would be a good thing, except she's leaving survivors and telling them Angel sent her. Now Angel has an army of demons on his tail, hell-bent on revenge. What's a vampire to do? And how long can his...

  • Predator and Prey

    Prowlers - 3

    After his best friend is murdered, nineteen-year-old Jack Dwyer has a ghostly encounter with him where he is given a warning about the Prowlers, a band of vicious beasts that disguise themselves as humans in order to secretly perform their evil deeds...

  • Angel: Strange Bedfellows and Other Stories

    The largest book of Angel stories yet, this volume completes the collection of Angel Volume 1, featuring stories set in the first season of the hit television series. It sees the evolution of the team of vampire hunters from the very beginning, throu...

  • Wild Things

    Prowlers - 4

    Long have the packs lacked a great leader. Scattered far and wide, they have hunted as best they could in the hard lands, in places where their predations could be passed off as the work of true wolves. instead of Prowlers A series of mysterious deat...

  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Oz

    Seeking the wisdom of a Tibetan monk, Oz manages to find the monk with the help of a demon girl and her family, but he also manages to find big trouble, as he must face off against hellhounds, hobgoblins, trolls, and other horrible demons. A Graphic ...

  • The Ferryman

    ?A powerful and haunting tale? (Clive Barker) from the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Strangewood.

    Janine Hartschorn left David Bairstow for a man who abandoned her once he discovered she was pregnant with his child. A miscarriage almost ...

  • Oz: Into the Wild

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer
    Oz

    CYCLE OF THE WEREWOLF Bitten by his werewolf cousin Jordy, Oz has struggled with the forces of evil that transform him to a beast three nights of each month. Those who care about him have learned to deal with his alter ego and accept him for who h...

  • The Wisdom of War

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer

    DARKNESS AND LIGHT The Creature from the Black Lagoon's less attractive cousin has hit the Sunnydale scene, and Buffy and Co. are all over the new threat. So the Scoobs are stunned, naturally, when members of the Watcher's Council arrive, explaini...

  • The Gathering Dark

    The Shadow Saga - 4

    The Gospel of Shadows enabled the Catholic Church to control all manner of supernatural beings for centuries. When the book was destroyed — and the ruling body of the Church with it — it enabled the Shadows, the vampires of legend, to ...

  • Venus and Mars

    in The Many Faces of Van Helsing

    An all-original anthology of short stories captures the diverse faces and feats of Van Helsing, the famed vampire hunter from Bram Stoker's Dracula, in works by such authors as Katherine Dunn, Elizabeth Hand, Kathe Koja, Tanith Lee, Kristine ...



  • The Boys Are Back in Town

    From a master of horror, dark fantasy, and suspense comes a compelling and uniquely original work of paranormal suspense in which one man finds himself trapped in a web of ever-shifting reality which threatens to remake the whole of the world -- unle...

  • The Lost Army

    Hellboy

    The hero: Forty years after being rescued from Axis powers at the end of World War II, he's a top field agent for the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Development. He questions the unknown, then beats it into submission. And he's a blood-red, cloven...

  • The Bones of Giants

    Hellboy

    "So, at some point, the age of gods came to an end." Or so it was believed for eons...until Thrym the Hollow, Jotunheim's deposed King of the Frost Giants, rose from death. This time, he would not rest until his foes were eviscerated, and his...

  • Exterminators

    Justice League of America - 6

    Superman. Batman. Wonder Woman. The Flash. Green Lantern. They are the world's greatest super heroes, ?ghting endlessly against corruption and injustice. Each of them is a formidable opponent of evil, but banded together their powers are unmatched...

  • The Shell Collector

  • Throat Culture

    A Body of Evidence Thriller - 10

    When her father's wedding reception unexpectedly turns into a hotbed of illness and paralysis, Jenna discovers that her college campus has also been infected, forcing her and her forensic team to race against time to identify the virus and find a cur...

  • Wildwood Road

    Michael and Jillian Dansky seemed to have it all -- a happy marriage, two successful careers, a bright future. But late one October evening, all that changed. Driving home from a Halloween masquerade, Michael momentarily nods off behind the wheel -- ...

  • Horseman

    The Hollow - 1

    New to Sleepy Hollow, teens Aimee and Shane Lancaster find that upon theirarrival an ancient curse has been unleashed upon the town, tracing back to the town's famous legend, which just might be more truth than myth. Now an array of evil demons is...

  • Drowned

    The Hollow - 2

  • King Kong

    The novelization of the blockbuster new film follows the discovery on a remote island of the giant ape, the beast's ill-fated affection for a young woman, and his capture and exploitation by greedy would-be entrepreneur Carl Denham. Original. (A Univ...

  • The Myth Hunters

    The Veil - 1

    In this enthralling new tale from bestselling author Christopher Golden, one man is drawn into a realm just across the veil from our own, where every captivating myth and fairy tale is true, the vanished exist -- and every fear is founded.... Yiel...

  • Mischief

    The Hollow - 3

    Aimee and Shane Lancaster are still confronting the fallout of the curse they triggered by moving to town but their lives become more challenging when tensions erupt in their group of friends and a secret love is confessed. Original....

  • Enemies

    The Hollow - 4

  • Kolchak

    • After the Stoker Award nominated success of the Kolchak Chronicles (and its various printings), we have a brand new collection of original creepy-thriller Kolchak prose short stories! Again, we have culled the best and the brightest among ho...

  • Monster War

    • The first appearance of the Dynamite Monsters is now available in one trade paperback collection! Debuting in a special crossover with the Top Cow Universe, the Dynamite Monsters have their sights set on Ash in the current AOD storyline, but...

  • The Borderkind

    The Veil - 2

    For centuries they lived amongst us. The frightful and wondrous, the angelic and bloodthirsty. Living in a reality just beyond the Veil, humanity's myths and legends are caught in a struggle for their very survival--against hunters far more powerful ...

  • The Dragon Pool

    Hellboy

    Hellboy, a bloodred, cloven-hoofed demon raised by the United States government, is a top field agent for the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. He questions the unknown -- then beats it into submission. In the upper reaches of the Himala...

  • Dark Congress

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer

    Since the beginning of time, the demonic races have gathered every century to resolve conflicts among them and to determine the course of their future. This centennial event was called the Dark Congress. In the second century b.c., however, the ...

  • British Invasion

    British Invasion edited by Christopher Golden, Tim Lebbon, and James A. Moore

    Featuring an Introduction by Stephen Volk and an Afterword by Kim Newman.

    They've invaded before, sending their best and brightest to transform popular music for al...

  • The Lost Ones

    The Veil - 3

    Bestselling author Christopher Golden brings his epic, innovative trilogy, the Veil, to an astonishing conclusion as the mythic realm of heroes and monsters becomes the site of humanity's last--and greatest--showdown. In the world of the legendary...

  • Poison Ink

    SAMMI, TQ, CARYN, Letty, and Katsuko are floaters. None of them fits in with any particular group at Covington High School--except each other. One night, to cement their bond, the girls decide to get matching, unique tattoos. But when Sammi backs out...

  • The Foundation

    History shows that in the 1500s, Nostradamus' three volumes of prophecies were best-sellers, making him a rich man. But what the world doesn't know is that he used his vast treasure-trove of riches to create a foundation to prevent his most catastrop...

  • Soulless

    Times Square, New York City: The first ever mass seance is broadcasting live on the Sunrise morning show. If it works, the spirits of the departed on the other side will have a brief window -- just a few minutes -- to send a final message to their gr...

  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus, Volume 6

    The Buffy Omnibus series continues with Volume Six, delving further into Season Four of the acclaimed television series, and launching readers into the heart of Season Five. Buffy and Angel, who's now a resident of Los Angeles, must reunite to fight ...

  • The Mournful Cry of Owls

    Includes an original Sookie Stackhouse story "Clever...entertaining... excellent"("Library Journal") original vampire stories by Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, and more. From cakes to stakes, a celebration of everyone's favorite blo...

  • Zombie

  • The New Dead

    RESURRECTION The hungry dead have risen. They shamble down the street. They hide in back yards, car lots, shopping malls. They devour neighbors, dogs and police officers. And they are here to stay. The real question is, what are you going to do ab...

  • Baltimore

    After unwittingly awakening the wrath of a vampire on the World War I battlefields, Lord Henry Baltimore vows to vanquish the evil that he has unleashed on the world, in an illustrated tale of the paranormal that serves as an allegory for the nature ...

  • The Ocean Dark

    In the uncharted waters of the Caribbean, far from the usual shipping lanes, lies a mysterious island surrounded by a graveyard of sunken ships -- an island so remote that it's the perfect rendezvous point for a handful of Central American arms deale...

  • Death's Excellent Vacation

    in Death's Excellent Vacation

    The editors of Wolfsbane and Mistletoe and Many Bloody Returns deliver a new collection-including a never-before-published Sookie Stackhouse story. New York Times bestselling authors Charlaine Harris, Katie MacAlister, Jeaniene Frost-plus Lilith S...

  • When Rose Wakes

    Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty

    Her terrifying dreams are nothing compared to the all-too-real nightmare that awaits. . . .Ever since sixteen-year-old Rose DuBois woke up from months in a coma with absolutely no memories, shes had to start from scratch. She knows she loves her two ...

  • The Secret Backs of Things

    From the author of Wildwood Road, and The Ferryman, comes Christopher Golden's first-ever collection of short stories. The Secret Backs of Things takes the readers into a realm rich with legends, folklore and myths, while still finding a place for so...

  • Waking Nightmares

    The Shadow Saga - 5

    Peter Octavian, once a vampire, now a powerful mage, has been living a quiet life in San Francisco. But when the barrier that used to prevent demons and monsters from entering the world have fallen, Octavian is compelled to do what he can to hold bac...

  • Uncharted

    The Fourth Labyrinth

    The official novel of Naughty Dog's award-winning videogame franchise! In the ancient world there was a myth about a king, a treasure, and a hellish labyrinth. Now the doors to that hell are open once again. Nathan Drake, treasure hunter and r...

  • The Monster's Corner

    In most stories we get the perspective of the hero, the ordinary, the everyman, but we are all the hero of our own tale, and so it must be true for legions of monsters, from Lucifer to Mordred, from child-thieving fairies to Frankenstein's monster an...

  • 21st Century Dead

    The Stoker-award winning editor of the acclaimed, eclectic anthology The New Dead returns with 21st Century Dead, and an all-new lineup of authors from all corners of the fiction world, shining a dark light on our fascination with tales of death and ...

  • The Graves of Saints

    For centuries, Vatican sorcerers kept demons and monsters out of our world with the magic found in a grimoire called The Gospel of Shadows. Years ago, to save his people from madmen, Peter Octavian defeated those sorcerers and the Gospel of Shadow...

  • The Crow Midnight Legends, Vol. 4: Waking Nightmares

    Can a crow pursue only vengeance, or can he act to save the living? NYC Cop Mark Leung contemplates this question from the other side after he and his wife are murdered by the Triad, who then take their twin daughters captive....

  • The Crow Midnight Legends, Volume 4: Waking Nightmares

    • Can a crow pursue only vengeance, or can they act to save the living? NYC Cop Mark Leung contemplates this question from the other side after he and his wife are murdered by the Triad, who then take their twin daughters captive.
    ...

  • Tell My Sorrows To The Stones

    A circus clown willing to give anything to be funny. A spectral gunslinger who must teach a young boy to defend the ones he loves. A lonely widower making a farewell tour of the places that meant the world to his late wife. A faded Hollywood actre...

  • Pipers

    in Four Summoner's Tales

    What if the dead could be summoned from their graves -- for a price? What if a quartet of distinctive storytellers took a stab at this deceptively simple idea -- on a dare? The answers lie here, It’s all in the execution. . . Twenty-three people...

  • Dark Duets

    Dark Duets is a feast of eerie and mesmerizing horror, thriller, and dark fantasy tales -- an ambitious and unique anthology featuring biting and atmospheric original stories from seventeen pairs of acclaimed writers, all collaborating together for t...

  • Snowblind

    In Christopher Golden’s first horror novel in more than a decade---a work reminiscent of early Stephen King---Snowblind updates the ghost story for the modern age. The small New England town of Coventry had weathered a thousand blizzards . . . b...

  • All Aboard

    A grieving mother waits by the railroad tracks for a ghostly train that always has room for one more. From award-winning, bestselling writer and editor Christopher Golden's Tell My Sorrows to the Stones, this short story is one of a set of twelve ...

  • The Art of the Deal

    A man who will do anything to save his business encounters a beautiful, tattooed woman willing to make him prove it. From award-winning, bestselling writer and editor Christopher Golden's Tell My Sorrows to the Stones, this short story is one of a...

  • Breathe My Name

    A young West Virginia miner's only hope of survival is a bedtime story. From award-winning, bestselling writer and editor Christopher Golden's Tell My Sorrows to the Stones, this short story is one of a set of twelve haunting tales of human longin...

  • The Hiss of Escaping Air

    A faded Hollywood actress sets out to deprive her ex-husband of his prize possession. From award-winning, bestselling writer and editor Christopher Golden's Tell My Sorrows to the Stones, this short story is one of a set of twelve haunting tales o...

  • Mechanisms

    A young man returns home from university to unravel the mystery of his father's disappearance and discovers a descent into madness and mechanisms. From award-winning, bestselling writer and editor Christopher Golden's Tell My Sorrows to the Stones...

  • Nesting

    A young couple prepare their new home for the arrival of their first child, and learn the dark secret of the property's earliest resident. From award-winning, bestselling writer and editor Christopher Golden's Tell My Sorrows to the Stones, this s...

  • Put On a Happy Face

    A circus clown willing to give anything to be funny gets exactly what he wants. From award-winning, bestselling writer and editor Christopher Golden's Tell My Sorrows to the Stones, this short story is one of a set of twelve haunting tales of huma...

  • Quiet Bullets

    A spectral gunslinger must teach a young boy to defend the ones he loves. From award-winning, bestselling writer and editor Christopher Golden's Tell My Sorrows to the Stones, this short story is one of a set of twelve haunting tales of human long...

  • Thin Walls

    A lonely widower makes a farewell tour of the places that meant the world to his late wife, looking for the one thing he can't have. From award-winning, bestselling writer and editor Christopher Golden's Tell My Sorrows to the Stones, this short s...

  • Under Cover of Night

    A National Guard unit trying to stop illegal immigration on the Mexican border gets terrifying help from an unexpected source. From award-winning, bestselling writer and editor Christopher Golden's Tell My Sorrows to the Stones, this short story i...

  • Talent Deluxe Edition

    He knows everything, except why they want to kill him.When a plane mysteriously crashes, sole survivor Nicholas Dane discovers he can channel his fellow dead passengers’ talents. Chased by the killers who destroyed the plane, Dane fights to stay a ...

  • Sons of Anarchy Vol. 1

    The first collection of the hit Sons of Anarchy comics based on the FX televisions series.Gun-smuggling outlaw bikers with complex pasts and gripping personalities. If you love “guys with guns” like we do, this is that genre at its most elevated....

  • Alien - River of Pain

    When Ellen Ripley finally returns to Earth, she learns that the planet LV-426 -- now called Acheron -- has been colonized. But LV-426 is where Ripley and the crew of the Nostromo found the original Xenomorph -- the killing machine known as ...

  • Bratva

    Sons of Anarchy

    Set between the third and fourth episodes of season four of the groundbreaking television drama Sons of Anarchy, from the mind of Executive Producer Kurt Sutter… With half of the club recently released from Stockton State Penitentiary, and the G...

  • Tyger, Tyger

    in Dead But Not Forgotten: Stories from the World of Sookie Stackhouse

    There’s more to Sookie Stackhouse than you ever knew…

    The #1 New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris spawned a hit TV show and captivated fans around the world -- including other authors. Now this group of w...

  • River of Pain

    When Ellen Ripley finally returns to Earth, she learns that the planet LV-426 -- now called Acheron -- has been colonized. But LV-426 is where Ripley and the crew of the Nostromo found the original Xenomorph -- the killing machine known as the Alien....

  • Tin Men

    Economies are collapsing, environmental disasters are widespread and war the backdrop to life. And so the military has developed a force of elite soldiers to keep the peace. A force like nothing seen before ...codenamed Tin Man, soldiers are virtuall...

  • Dead Ringers

    When Tess Devlin runs into her ex-husband Nick on a Boston sidewalk, she's furious at him for pretending he doesn't know her. She calls his cell to have it out with him, only to discover that he's in New Hampshire with his current girlfriend. But if ...

  • Ararat

    The thrilling tale of an adventure that goes awry When a newly engaged couple climbs Mount Ararat in Turkey, an avalanche forces them to seek shelter inside a massive cave uncovered by the snow fall. The cave is actually an ancient, buried ship t...

  • Dark Cities

    In shadowy back alleys, crumbling brownstones, and gleaming skyscrapers, cities harbor unique forms of terror. Here lie malicious ghosts, cursed buildings, malignant deities, and personal demons of every kind.
     
    Twenty of today’s most talent...

  • Shark Island

    A shark attack survivor believes she has already lived through her worst nightmare. She's dead wrong... Naomi Cardiff is not one to give up without a fight―and now, after learning about a series of shark attacks in Cape Cod, she’s joined a tea...

  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer 20 Years of Slaying

    A special hardcover collector’s edition of the authorized Buffy the Vampire Slayer Watcher’s Guides, now with updated content from the cast and crew!As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. One girl in all the world to find...

  • Runaways

    "The Pride, back in L.A.? Their parents, alive? Karolina had never realized hope and fear could feel so much alike." Written by New York Times best-selling author Christopher Golden, Runaways: An Original Novel is a fresh take on the Marvel fan favor...

  • Blood of the Four

    The acclaimed authors of The Map of Moments and The Secret Journeys of Jack London join creative forces once more in this epic, standalone novel -- an exciting dark fantasy of gods and mortals, fools and heroes, saviors and destroyers with a brillian...

  • The Predator

    The official novelization of the summer blockbuster The Predator, Shane Black's new movie with a screenplay by Shane Black and Fred Dekker.

    For centuries Earth has been visited by warlike creatures that stalk mankind's finest warriors. Their g...

  • The Predator: The Official Movie Novelization

    The official novelization of the summer blockbuster The Predator, Shane Black's new movie with a screenplay by Shane Black and Fred Dekker.For centuries Earth has been visited by warlike creatures that stalk mankind's finest warriors. Their goals unk...

  • Fantastic Tales of Terror

    Discover the lost supernatural stories behind some of the most famous people and events in history.

    These Fantastic Tales explore the secret history that has been hidden in the shadows of the world, and even alternative histories from other...

  • Hark! The Herald Angels Scream

    Eighteen stories of Christmas horror from bestselling, acclaimed authors including Scott Smith, Seanan McGuire, Josh Malerman, Michael Koryta, Sarah Pinborough, and many more. That there is darkness at the heart of the Yuletide season should not s...

  • The Pandora Room

    When what appears to be the original Pandora's Box is discovered in an ancient city, neighboring countries fight for ownership and unleash a terrible plague. THE PANDORA ROOM is New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden’s chilling ex...

  • Marvel Knights Punisher by Golden, Sniegoski, & Wrightson: Purgatory

    Marvel's The Punisher

    Collecting Punisher (1998) #1-4 And Wolverine/Punisher: Revelation #1-4. It_ a Punisher era like no other! Frank Castle died _but that wasn_ the end of his story. Heaven had other plans for the Punisher, and now he_ back from the grave as an angel of...

  • King of Hell

    Peter Octavian’s powerful sorcery guards his world against evil. Now he must go on a perilous journey to save those condemned to a fate worse than death itself…When Octavian called upon Gaea to rid the Earth of demons, her magic banished not only...

  • Joe Golem: Occult Detective--The Conjurors #3

    Long before Simon Church hunted witches, that mission belonged to the golem. And the deeper the golem ventures into the tunnels beneath the Drowning City, the deeper he delves into his past. But once Dr. Cocteau reveals the true intent behind his sea...

  • Angel Legacy Edition Book One

    Officially picking up where the beloved Angel television series left off, this volume  is the first of a collection of every printed Angel comic book, including hard to find and out of print stories.From Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Sla...

  • The Twisted Book of Shadows

    Presenting an all-new horror anthology that shatters the mold…

    Mainstream publishers want all-star lineups. Small press publishers often can’t afford to pay pro rates…and even when they can, the names in the table of contents can be li...

  • The Waking Trilogy

    Akane Murakami died for a boy she did not love.

    So begins Christopher Golden’s terrifying horror trilogy, THE WAKING. Published under the pseudonym Thomas Randall, the first book in the series drew raves and chills from readers and review...

  • Marvel Classic Novels - X-Men: The Mutant Empire Omnibus

    Marvel's X-Men

    Bringing the classic X-Men: Mutant Empire trilogy back into print in a brand-new omnibus.MAGNETO'S EMPIRE WILL RISE...They live as outcasts, hated and feared by the very humanity they protect. They are mutants, born with strange and wonderful powers ...

  • Hex Life

    Brand-new stories of witches and witchcraft written by popular female fantasy authors, including Kelley Armstrong, Rachel Caine and Sherrilyn Kenyon writing in their own bestselling universes!

    These are tales of witches, wickedness, evil and c...

  • Red Hands

    In bestselling author Christopher Golden's supernatural thriller Red Hands, sometimes a story is a warning. Sometimes the warning comes too late When a mysterious and devastating bioweapon causes its victims to develop Red Hands, the touch of death, ...

  • The Ghosts of Who You Were

    In this chilling new collection from Bram Stoker Award-winner Christopher Golden, the author takes you on a tour of his darkest nightmares. From a little door inside an elevator to a hellish prison for stolen children, from a terrifying future where ...

  • Road of Bones

    An American documentarian travels a haunted highway across the frozen tundra of Siberia in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden’s Road of Bones, a supernatural thriller. Surrounded by barren trees in a snow-covered wilderness wit...

  • Festival

    New York Times bestselling horror writers Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon create a music festival to die for in this illustrated novel with artwork by Peter Bergting!The Valhalla music festival commemorates a long-ago Viking slaughter, but when str...

  • All Hallows

    New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning author Christopher Golden is best known for his supernatural thrillers set in deadly, distant locales...but in this suburban Halloween drama, Golden brings the horror home.It’s Halloween night, ...

  • The House of Last Resort

    The next high concept horror novel from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden.Across Italy there are many half-empty towns, nearly abandoned by those who migrate to the coast or to cities. The beautiful, crumbling hilltop town of Becch...

  • Mortal Terror Volume 1

    A vampire-flipped Dracula graphic novel in which mortality means life…and life means death.Vampires Jonathan Harker, Lucy Westenra, and Mina Murray live in underground London, trying to keep the undead city safe from the rumored mortals above who s...

  • The Night Birds

    The next gripping, atmospheric horror novel from NYT bestselling author Christopher Golden, set in a deteriorated, half-sunken freighter ship off the coast of Galveston, TX.Charlie Book and Ruby Cahill have history. After their love ended in heartbre...

  • The End of the World As We Know It

    An original short story anthology based on master storyteller Stephen King’s #1 New York Times bestselling classic The Stand!Since its initial publication in 1978, The Stand has been considered Stephen King’s seminal masterpiece of apocalyptic fi...

  • Prince of Stories

    • / Fantasy
    • Buy Buy

    Over the past twenty years, Neil Gaiman has developed into the premier fantasist of his generation, achieving that rarest of combinations―unrivaled critical respect and extraordinary commercial success. From the landmark comic book series The Sa...

  • The 10-Minute Detective: 25 Scene-Of-The-Crime Mystery Puzzles You Can Solve Yourself

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy

    They call me Case. Justin Case, detective for the Metro P.D. You see a lot of nutty things in this crazy business. I mean, who would guess that a fortune in Chinese artifacts would just disappear from the Metro Museum? Or that someone would lace a su...

Award-Winning Books by Christopher Golden

Ararat
2017 Bram Stoker Award -- Novel


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Christopher Golden has published 140 books.

The next book by Christopher Golden, The End of the World As We Know It, will be published in August 2025.

The first book by Christopher Golden, Of Saints and Shadows, was published in June 1994.

Yes. Christopher Golden has 7 series.
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