Darcy Coates

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  • Bibliography:
    31 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2014
  • Latest Book:
    September 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Black Winter

1 - Voices in the Snow (Jan-2020)
2 - Secrets in the Dark (Apr-2020)
3 - Whispers in the Mist (Jul-2020)
4 - Silence in the Shadows (Oct-2020)

Ghosts and Shadows

1 - House of Shadows (May-2016)
2 - House of Secrets (May-2016)

Gravekeeper

1 - The Whispering Dead (May-2021)
2 - The Ravenous Dead (Mar-2022)
3 - The Twisted Dead (Feb-2023)
4 - The Hollow Dead (Feb-2024)
5 - The Vengeful Dead (Feb-2025)

Haunting

1 - The Haunting of Blackwood House (Dec-2015)
2 - The Haunting of Ashburn House (Jul-2016)
3 - The Haunting of Rookward House (Mar-2020)
4 - The Haunting of Gillespie House (Aug-2020)
5 - The Haunting of Leigh Harker (Sep-2021)

Book List in Order: 31 titles

  • Ghost Camera

    When Jenine finds an abandoned Polaroid camera in a lighthouse, she takes a photo for fun. But there's something very, very wrong with the picture: it contains ghosts.

    Jenine and her best friend, Bree, realise the camera is capable of capturin...

  • Dead Lake

    Keep the door locked...

    A week's visit to the remote Harob Lake cabin couldn't have come at a better time for Sam.

    She's battling artist's block ahead of a major gallery exhibition. Staying at Harob Lake is her final, desperate attempt ...

  • Quarter to Midnight

    Slip into the realm of dead-eyed monsters, restless spirits and creeping shadows with this collection of fifteen short horror stories. Included in this volume:
    Crypt: In 1965, a child went missing while he and his brother explored a disused cem...

  • The Haunting of Blackwood House

    Haunting - 1

    Could you survive a week in a haunted house?

    Mara is the daughter of spiritualists. Her childhood was filled with séances, scam mediums and talk of ghostly presences.

    When Mara finally left her family’s home, she vowed she would neve...

  • House of Secrets

    Ghosts and Shadows - 2

    Sophie and Joseph’s escape from Northwood is short-lived. The beast survived, and attached itself to Joseph’s young cousin, Elise.

    Garrett writes to beg for their help. Joseph and Sophie travel to meet him at Kensington, a long-abandoned...

  • House of Shadows

    Ghosts and Shadows - 1

    Sophie’s world is shattered when disaster bankrupts her family. She’s still reeling from the news when she’s offered an unexpected solution: Mr Argenton, a wealthy stranger, asks for her hand in marriage.

    Marrying Mr Argenton will restor...

  • The Haunting of Ashburn House

    Haunting - 2

    There's something wrong with Ashburn House...

    The ancient building has been the subject of rumours for close to a century. Its owner, Edith, refused to let guests inside and rarely visited the nearby town.

    Following Edith's death, her s...

  • Parasite

    They're closer than you think...

    A guard discovers an unusual lifeform on her remote moon outpost. She disregards protocol to investigate it, with catastrophic consequences.

    The parasitic alien wears its victims' skins and adopts th...

  • The Folcroft Ghosts

    Tara and her brother Kyle are sent to stay with their estranged grandparents when their mother is hospitalised. May and Peter Folcroft seem warm and charming at first, and the house, hidden in the base of the mountains, is idyllic. But strange things...



  • Small Horrors

    Something mimics human voices as it lures you into the woods.

    One of the morgue's corpses is missing.

    Your friend wants to meet late at night, but they're not acting like themselves.

    Immerse yourself in the macabre, the gothic, a...

  • Craven Manor

    Daniel is desperate for a job. When someone slides a note under his door offering him the groundskeeper’s position at an old estate, it seems too good to be true.

    Alarm bells start ringing when he arrives at Craven Manor. The mansion’s fro...

  • The House Next Door

    I live next to a haunted house.

    I began to suspect something was wrong with the gothic building when its family fled in the middle of the night, the children screaming, the mother crying. They never came back to pack up their furniture.

  • The Carrow Haunt

    "The dead are restless here..."

    Remy is a tour guide for Carrow House, a notoriously haunted building. When she's asked to host seven guests for a week-long stay to research Carrow's phenomena, she hopes to finally experience some of the sight...

  • Hunted

    She only went off the trail for a moment...

    22-year-old Eileen goes missing while hiking in the remote Ashlough Forest. Five days later, her camera is discovered washed downriver, containing bizarre photos taken after her disappearance.

  • Voices in the Snow

    Black Winter - 1

    No One Escapes the Stillness Clare remembers the cold. She remembers abandoned cars and children's toys littered across the road. She remembers dark shapes in the snow and a terror she can't explain. And then...nothing. When she wakes, ach...

  • The Haunting of Rookward House

    Haunting - 3

    She's always watching...

    When Guy finds the deeds to a house in his mother's attic, it seems like an incredible stroke of luck. Sure, the building hasn't been inhabited in forty years and vines strangle the age-stained walls, but Guy is conv...

  • Secrets in the Dark

    Black Winter - 2

    The ravenous hollow ones are at the gates... No One Escapes the Stillness Winterbourne Hall is not safe. Clare and Dorran scramble to secure the ancient building in an effort to protect themselves from the ravenous hollow ones, but that isn'...

  • Whispers in the Mist

    Black Winter - 3

    No One Escapes the Stillness

    There are eyes in the dark. There are whispers in the mist. There is danger lurking in the snow, and one false step could end it all. Something is waiting for Clare on the edges of the snowy woods...something mon...

  • The Haunting of Gillespie House

    Haunting - 4

    Some spirits linger... Elle is thrilled to spend a month minding the beautiful Gillespie property. Over an hour's drive from the nearest town, the aging mansion is ideal for someone seeking solitude. But as she explores her new home, Elle make...



  • Silence in the Shadows

    Black Winter - 4

    No One Escapes the Stillness

    There are eyes in the dark. There are whispers in the mist. There is danger lurking in the snow, and one false step could end it all. Something is waiting for Clare on the edges of the snowy woods...something mon...

  • The Whispering Dead

    Gravekeeper - 1

    USA Today bestseller and rising queen of atmospheric horror Darcy Coates returns with a ghost story that will haunt you long after the final page. She hears them whispering...Homeless, hunted, and desperate to escape a bitter storm, Keira takes refug...

  • The Haunting of Leigh Harker

    Haunting - 5

    From bestselling gothic horror author Darcy Coates comes a chilling story of a quiet house on a forgotten suburban lane that hides a deadly secret...Leigh Harker's quiet suburban home was her sanctuary for more than a decade, until things abruptly ch...

  • The Ravenous Dead

    Gravekeeper - 2

    Lovers of ghosts and ghouls will shiver with delight.—Kirkus ReviewsKeira, hired as Blighty Graveyard's new groundskeeper, lives surrounded by the dead. They watch her through the fog. They wordlessly cry out. They've been desperately waiting f...

  • From Below

    Creepy, claustrophobic, and thoroughly frightening. —BooklistDarcy Coates, author of The Haunting of Ashburn House, pulls us under for mesmerizing ghost story about a documentary dive team that discovers a terrifying secret.Hundreds of fee...

  • Gallows Hill

    The Hull family has owned the Gallows Hill Winery for generations. The sprawling old house has long been perched on top of a hill overlooking the nearby town, jealously guarding the estate's secrets. Their wine wins awards. Their business prosper...

  • The Twisted Dead

    Gravekeeper - 3

    In the third installment of her Gravekeeper series, [Darcy] Coates raises the stakes…worried that someone may be using an army of the undead to take over the world? Coates has your number.—Kirkus ReviewsKeira must decide if she should use...

  • Dead of Winter

    USA TODAY BESTSELLER * JULY 2023 LIBRARYREADS SELECTION Eight strangers. One killer. Nowhere left to run.When Christa joins a tour group heading deep into the snowy expanse of the Rocky Mountains, she's hopeful this will be her chance to put the ghos...

  • Where He Can't Find You

    From USA Today bestselling horror/thriller author Darcy Coates comes the chilling legend of a monster no one can escape.DON'T WALK ALONE, OR THE STITCHER WILL FIND YOU.Abby Ward lives in a town haunted by disappearances. People vanish, and when they'...

  • The Hollow Dead

    Gravekeeper - 4

    Fans of eerie ghost stories will be hooked.— Publishers Weekly for The Whispering DeadWhen Keira first woke alone in a strange forest, she remembered only two things: that she could speak with the dead, helping them move on from the mortal ...



  • The Vengeful Dead

    Gravekeeper - 5

    Lovers of ghosts and ghouls will shiver with delight.—Kirkus Reviews for The Ravenous DeadHow far will she go to save the damned?Keira is caught in a deadly battle. Her ability to help ghosts move on from the mortal world has made her a threat ...

  • Uninhabited

    The Blair Witch Project meets Fyre Fest in this bloody new thriller from the queen of scares, Darcy Coates!Prosperity Island. Its history is filled with shipwrecks, cannibalism, and a string of unexplained deaths. And now... it hosts the party o...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Darcy Coates has published 31 books.

The next book by Darcy Coates, Uninhabited, will be published in September 2025.

The first book by Darcy Coates, Ghost Camera, was published in October 2014.

Yes. Darcy Coates has 4 series.
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