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  • Bibliography:
    44 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2009
  • Latest Book:
    December 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Annals of the Nameless Dwarf

1 - Ravine of Blood and Shadow (Mar-2016)
2 - Mountain of Madness (Dec-2013)
3 - Curse of the Black Axe (Mar-2019)
4 - Land of Nightmare (Mar-2019)
5 - Skull of the Lich Lord (May-2019)
6 - Fate of the Dwarf Lords (Jun-2019)
7 - Last of the Exalted (May-2020)
8 - Dead Dwarves Don't Die (May-2021)

The Nameless Dwarf

1 - A Dwarf with No Name (Jul-2014)
2 - The Axe of the Dwarf Lords (Jul-2014)
3 - The Scout and the Serpent (Jul-2014)
4 - The Ebon Staff (Jul-2014)
5 - Bane of the Liche Lord (Jul-2014)

Book List in Order: 44 titles

  • The Resurrection of Deacon Shader

    "The Resurrection of Deacon Shader" was the original story from which developed Prior's acclaimed SHADER series. It has since been replaced by SHADER Book 1, "Cadman's Gambit". The publisher recommends you only buy "The Resurrection of Deacon Shader"...

  • Thanatos Rising

    Too dark for science and too evil for theology, but some secrets refuse to stay hidden. Postgraduate student Harry Chesterton uncovers a trail of dark science that leads to the old monastery above the Welsh town of Aberystwyth. With bodies beneath th...

  • The Ant-Man of Malfen

    Some names are best forgotten ... The Nameless Dwarf follows the trail of the last of his race to the mountains bordering Qlippoth, a wasteland born from the dreams of a craven god. But the survival of the dwarves depends on his willingness to confro...

  • Best Laid Plans

    The reavers are swarming, and this time their prey is the supreme ruler of the Templum, the Ipsissimus himself.With Shader dead and his piece of the Statue of Eingana in the hands of Shadrak the Unseen, the threat of the Unweaving of all Creation is ...

  • Cadman's Gambit

    Book 1 of the SHADER series. Dr Ernst Cadman has led a quiet life, but that’s how he’s wanted it all these hundreds of years. With a secret like his, anonymity and caution are the best friends a man can have. Nothing could tempt him from the safe...

  • The Nameless Dwarf

    The original omnibus of five novellas, now revised in a brand new edition called REVENGE OF THE LICH, book 3 of the epic series: LEGENDS OF THE NAMELESS DWARF: 1. CARNIFEX2. GEAS OF THE BLACK AXE

  • Sword of the Archon

    Plague strikes the city of Sarum, and the dead rise from their graves.The liche, Dr. Cadman, has discovered a long-hidden artifact and perverted its power for his own selfish ends.But an ancient evil from beyond the stars is drawn by its use and turn...

  • Mountain of Madness

    Annals of the Nameless Dwarf - 2

    Awakened from an induced year-long slumber, the Nameless Dwarf is tortured with memories of slaughter and must come to terms with who he has become: an outcast, a butcher, the most reviled of dwarven-kind.As forces of unimaginable destruction coalesc...

  • Against The Unweaving

    Plague strikes the city of Sarum, and the dead rise from their graves.The liche, Dr. Cadman, has discovered a long-hidden artifact and perverted its power for his own selfish ends.But an ancient evil from beyond the stars is drawn by its use and turn...



  • The Unweaving

    Shader has failed and Sektis Gandaw now holds all the pieces of the Statue of Eingana. Despair hangs like a pall over the battered armies of Sahul and Aeterna. It’s now just a matter of time … A sliver of hope comes in the form of Shadrak the Uns...

  • The Axe of the Dwarf Lords

    The Nameless Dwarf - 2

    Nils wishes he’d never taken the job to escort a dwarf with no name on a madcap quest for redemption. Ilesa reckons she should have asked for a bigger bounty, and Silas is beginning to think the grimoire he stole from the Academy has a sinister wil...

  • Bane of the Liche Lord

    The Nameless Dwarf - 5

    All hell has broken loose in the Forest of Tar. Thousands of demonic Feeders consume everything in their path, but top of the menu is dwarf flesh. Nils has been captured by the Liche Lord Otto Blightey but would sooner be dead, and Nameless is on the...

  • A Dwarf with No Name

    The Nameless Dwarf - 1

    Cursed by a demonic axe and fueled with an unquenchable bloodlust, the Nameless Dwarf slaughters his own people in their thousands. The survivors flee to the nightmare realms beyond the mountains, where no one has ever set foot and lived to tell the ...

  • The Ebon Staff

    The Nameless Dwarf - 4

    The dwarves have captured Nameless and left the Axe of the Dwarf Lords abandoned on the shore of the serpent’s lake. With Ilesa gone, it’s down to Nils and Silas to stage a rescue, but first they’ll have to stop squabbling and find something th...

  • The Scout and the Serpent

    The Nameless Dwarf - 3

    When the wolf-men attack and the companions are split up, Nameless and Ilesa find themselves marooned on an island at the center of a newly formed lake. With the dwarf unable to swim, and a monstrous serpent patrolling the water, it's down to Ilesa t...

  • Husk: A Maresman Tale

    They call them ‘husks’, the demons that cross the Farfall Mountains, leaving a trail of blood in their wake. No incursion goes unmet; otherwise the cancer would spread until the whole of Aethir was consumed by nightmares. That’s why the Maresme...

  • The Archon's Assassin

    One by one, the guilds of New Jerusalem fall to Shadrak the Unseen and his accomplice, the poisoner Albert. But as the battle for supremacy comes to a head, Shadrak is given a new order by the mysterious Archon: kill his closest living friend, the Na...

  • Husk: Hunt or Be Hunted

    Hunt the Husks - Or Be Hunted. That is Jebediah Skayne's fate.


    Husk is a Maresman Tale from D.P. Prior, the author of Deacon Shader and the Nameless Dwarf, and also set in the same world as those popular, fan-favorite series.


    ...

  • Ward of the Philosopher

    Deacon Shader is a child out of time, removed as a baby from his Ancient world parents and raised on the Isle of Maranore.On his seventh birthday, the philosopher Aristodeus arrives to commence the boy’s training with sword and mind. Nothing short ...



  • The Seventh Horse

    For centuries, no one had heard a peep out of Verusia, the dark stain at the heart of the Templum’s empire.But when a messenger arrives in the Holy City of Aeterna, bearing news that the fortresses along the border have mysteriously been abandoned,...

  • The Attic

    It was the place they stored the junk no one wanted anymore: discarded toys, baby clothes, and ancient secrets from forgotten generations.But when contagion turns Wesley Harding’s world insane, and horror enters his home, the attic is the last plac...

  • Carnifex: A Portent of Blood

    A name destined to be forgotten. A cursed axe. An atrocity too great to be forgiven."Gritty, tense, and brutally tragic. High quality storytelling with great characters and a relentless plot." -- Mitchell Hogan, author...

  • Geas of the Black Axe

    “A dwarf with no name is a dwarf most shamed.” As the lands above the ravine city of Arx Gravis face their gravest peril, the last desperate hope of Creation lies in a dwarf with a grisly past: The Nameless Dwarf"a pariah, untouchable, the most...

  • Return of the Dwarf Lords

    The Nameless Dwarf: the name that is not a name, but is far better than the one he left behind. Freed from the curse that turned him into the butcher of his own kind, he once crossed half a world to protect those who had survived. Having worked out h...

  • Revenge of the Lich

    The survivors of the slaughter at Arx Gravis flee their ravine city, leaving its walkways and canals awash with blood. Convinced there can be no atonement for what he has done, the Nameless Dwarf joins forces with a whiskerless thief, a guilt-driven ...

  • Ravine of Blood and Shadow

    Annals of the Nameless Dwarf - 1

    Fantasy Faction semifinalist for the SPFBO 2018A babe is born in the shadows of the ravine city, a child who will end the self-imposed exile of the dwarves and usher in a new age of glory.Years later, Ravine Guard Carnac Thayn discovers a break-in at...

  • Legends of the Nameless Dwarf

  • The Seventh Horse

    For centuries, no one had heard a peep out of Verusia, the dark stain at the heart of the Templum’s empire. But when a messenger arrives in the Holy City of Aeterna, bearing news that the fortresses along the border have mysteriously been abandoned...

  • Dead or Alive

    Shadrak the Unseen should have known better. Stealing from one wizard on behalf of another was the sort of job he’d sworn never to take. But times were tough and grief had left its mark.The thing that should have really warned him off, though, was ...



  • Assassins, Knights, and Dwarves

    An assassin known as "the Unseen";A man of prayer who is the deadliest warrior of his generation;A dwarf with a bloody past, destined to be king. From the imagination of D.P. Prior, "one of the most promising...

  • Nightmares' Man

    From international bestselling author of fantasy D.P. Prior: Nightmares' Man: Hunter of DemonsWhen swords and sorcery are not enough. Jebediah Skayne has it all, a horse, a gun, and a way with the ladies. But since his recruitment into the Order of N...

  • Sorcerers' Isle

    SUFFERING IS THE DOOR THROUGH WHICH DEMONS ENTERCenturies ago, the Isle of Branikdür was mysteriously abandoned by the ruling Hélum Empire. Ever since, rival clans have battled for supremacy at the bidding of their sacred sorcerers.During the once-...

  • Birth of the Nameless Dwarf

    Birth of the Nameless Dwarf is a short story taster from Annals of the Nameless Dwarf Book 1: Ravine of Blood and Shadow by Derek Prior.As a storm rages above the ravine city of Arx Gravis, a woman goes into labor. But this is no ordinary woman. She ...

  • Curse of the Black Axe

    Annals of the Nameless Dwarf - 3

    The only thing keeping the Nameless Dwarf from once more becoming the Ravine Butcher is a helm made from the sorcerous ore, ocras, which he can never remove. Without the helm, he would succumb to the power of the black axe that caused the slaughter a...

  • Land of Nightmare

    Annals of the Nameless Dwarf - 4

    Alone, bereft, and unable to forgive himself for the slaughter at the ravine, the Nameless Dwarf swears to do one last thing, even if it kills him:With Nils Fargin, the son of a Jeridium guild lord as his guide, Nameless pursues the survivors among t...

  • Skull of the Lich Lord

    Annals of the Nameless Dwarf - 5

    Captured by the survivors of his massacre at Arx Gravis, the Nameless Dwarf is sentenced to die. The assassin Ilesa has abandoned him, and so it falls to the ex-rogue Nils and Silas the sorcerer to stage a rescue.But with the Lich Lord’s grimoire o...

  • Fate of the Dwarf Lords

    Annals of the Nameless Dwarf - 6

    Having worked out his penance and resettled his people in the citadel of Arnoch, the Nameless Dwarf decides to start a new life in the up-and-coming town of Brink. Seven years later, he has everything a dwarf could possibly wish for -- a gym, a beer ...

  • The Codex of Her Scars

    EVEN THE BROKEN WILL FIGHT! Centuries ago, the Isle of Branikdür was mysteriously abandoned by the ruling Hèlum Empire. Ever since, rival clans have battled for supremacy at the bidding of their sacred sorcerers. During the once-a-year armi...

  • Last of the Exalted

    Annals of the Nameless Dwarf - 7

    One of the best fantasy novels I have read so far this year. Rebecca Ross, Reedsy DiscoveryWhen a bloodthirsty horde storms out of the north, refugees flee for their lives, among them the skald Nyra Sahtis and Sister Caelin, a priestess who was once ...



  • Dead Dwarves Don't Die

    Annals of the Nameless Dwarf - 8

    When the dwarven civil war ended, the Nameless Dwarf lay cold upon the battlefield, his broken axe beside him.But death is not the end in a cosmos ruled by the Supernals, beings of pure sorcery with the power to create worlds.Nameless finds himself a...

  • Tomb of the Witch Queen

    The dwarven civil war might have ended, but the powers behind it still fester....Snuv Scavage is about as lowborn as a dwarf can get. With no parents and no home, she tends Arnoch’s battle-goats and sleeps in their pen. But there is something s...

  • Lurker's Gate

    When a dwarf girl sleepwalks from her home in Arnoch and wanders barefoot into the Farfall Mountains, foul play is suspected. Reports come in of similar abductions all over Medryn-Tha, and the culprit is believed to be a bane of the Abyss, a monster ...

  • The Witch Ring

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    When Shadrak the Unseen steals a magical ring from one wizard on behalf of another, his life quickly goes from bad to worse.Before he can deliver the ring, an invisible thief snatches it from him, and flees to the city of Jeridium.Soon, everyone and ...

  • The Hunter

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    TAKES A DEMON TO CATCH A DEMONWhen a shapeshifting demon crosses the Farfall Mountains and the bodies start piling up, the Senate of Jeridium send their best hunter to track and kill it: the half-demon Jebediah Skayne.The trail leads Jeb to Portis, a...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

D.P. Prior / Derek Prior has published 44 books.

D.P. Prior / Derek Prior does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Lurker's Gate, was published in December 2023.

The first book by D.P. Prior / Derek Prior, The Resurrection of Deacon Shader, was published in October 2009.

Yes. D.P. Prior / Derek Prior has 2 series.
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