Glen Cook

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  • Bibliography:
    60 Books (9 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 1979
  • Latest Book:
    November 2019
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Full Series List in Order

The Black Company

1 - The Black Company (May-1984)
2 - Shadows Linger (Oct-1984)
3 - White Rose (Apr-1985)
4 - Silver Spike (Sep-1989)
5 - Shadow Games (Jun-1989)
6 - Dreams of Steel (Apr-1990)
7 - Bleak Seasons (Apr-1996)
8 - She Is the Darkness (Aug-1997)
9 - Water Sleeps (Mar-1999)
10 - Soldiers Live (Jul-2000)

The Black Company Omnibus Books

1 - Chronicles of the Black Company (Nov-2007)
2 - The Books of the South (Jun-2008)
3 - The Return of the Black Company (Sep-2009)
4 - The Many Deaths of the Black Company (Jan-2010)

A Chronicle Of The Dread Empire

A Fortress In Shadow (Jun-2007)
An Empire Unacquainted with Defeat (Nov-2008)
A Path to Coldness of Heart (Jan-2012)
Wrath of Kings (Jul-2018)

A Garrett, P.I., Novel

1 - Sweet Silver Blues (Aug-1987)
2 - Bitter Gold Hearts (Jun-1988)
3 - Cold Copper Tears (Oct-1988)
4 - Old Tin Sorrows (Jun-1989)
5 - Dread Brass Shadows (May-1990)
6 - Red Iron Nights (Sep-1991)
7 - Deadly Quicksilver Lies (Mar-1994)
8 - Petty Pewter Gods (Nov-1995)
9 - Faded Steel Heat (Jun-1999)
10 - Angry Lead Skies (Mar-2002)
11 - Whispering Nickel Idols (May-2005)
12 - Cruel Zinc Melodies (May-2008)
13 - Gilded Latten Bones (Nov-2010)
14 - Shadow Thieves (Oct-2011)
15 - Wicked Bronze Ambition (Jul-2013)

The Haunting Dread Empire: A Cruel Wind

1 - A Shadow of All Night Falling (Dec-1979)
2 - October's Baby (Mar-1980)
3 - All Darkness Met (Jun-1980)

The Haunting Dread Empire: A Fortress in Shadow

1 - The Fire in His Hands (Jan-1984)
2 - With Mercy Toward None (Feb-1985)

The Haunting Dread Empire Sequels

1 - Reap the East Wind (Jun-1987)
2 - An Ill Fate Marshalling (Jan-1988)

The Instrumentalities of the Night

1 - The Tyranny of the Night (Jun-2005)
2 - Lord of the Silent Kingdom (Feb-2007)
3 - Surrender to the Will of the Night (Dec-2010)
4 - Working God's Mischief (Mar-2014)

The Starfishers Future

1 - Shadowline (Feb-1982)
2 - Starfishers (Jun-1982)
3 - Star's End (Jul-1982)
4 - Passage at Arms (Apr-1985)

Book List in Order: 60 titles

  • A Shadow of All Night Falling

    The Haunting Dread Empire: A Cruel Wind - 1

    THE WAR THAT WIZARDS DREAD Across the mountains called Dragon's Teeth, beyond the chill reach of the Werewind and the fires of the world's beginning above the walls of the castle Fangdred, stands Windtower. From this lonely keep the Star Rider cal...

  • October's Baby

    The Haunting Dread Empire: A Cruel Wind - 2

    Before there was Black Company, there was the Dread Empire, an omnibus collection the first three Dread Empire novels: A Shadow of All Night's Falling, October's Baby and All Darkness Met. For the first time in eBook format, the A Cruel Wind collecti...

  • All Darkness Met

    The Haunting Dread Empire: A Cruel Wind - 3

    AT EMPIRE'S END War is not all Hell. Mocker finds old friends in the halls of death, and Nepanthe new lovers in the fields of blood and bone. The war-child wields the sword of truth: the Star Rider's dread secret is at last revealed. And so it ends....

  • Shadowline

    The Starfishers Future - 1

    THE VENDETTA IN SPACE... had started centuries before "Mouse" Storm was born...with his grandfather's raid on the planet Prefactlas, the blood bath that freed the human slaves from their Sangaree masters. But one Sangaree survived--the young Norbon ...

  • The Swordbearer

    HIS WAS A POWER TOO DANGEROUS TO KEEP! On the day his town was laid to waste, Gathrid, a newly made orphan, escaped into a cave, and there was wedded to a woman, a legend, and a sword. Forged on the anvil of death, imbued with the souls of his ...

  • Starfishers

    The Starfishers Future - 2

    They are the dragons of the cosmos: Starfish; creatures of pure fusion energy, wise and ancient giants drifting in herds along the edge of the galaxy. Producing the precious ambergris that allows mankind and Sangaree alike to travel between the stars...

  • Star's End

    The Starfishers Future - 3

    The Fortress on the edge of the galaxy was called Stars' End, a planet build for death, but by whom? It lay on the outermost arm of the Milky Way, silent, cloaked in mystery, self-contained and controlled, tantalizingly close to the harvesting Starfi...

  • The Fire in His Hands

    The Haunting Dread Empire: A Fortress in Shadow - 1

    Once a mighty kingdom reigned, but now all is chaos. In the vast reaches of the desert, a young heretic escapes certain death and embarks on a mission of madness and glory. He is El Murid - the Disciple - who vows to bring order, prosperity, and righ...

  • The Black Company

    The Black Company - 1

    Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel she is evil itself. The hardbitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead. Until t...



  • Shadows Linger

    The Black Company - 2

    Mercenary soldiers in the service of the Lady, the Black Company stands against the Rebels of the White Rose. They are tough men, proud of honoring their contracts. The Lady is evil, but so, too, are those who falsely profess to follow the White Rose...

  • With Mercy Toward None

    The Haunting Dread Empire: A Fortress in Shadow - 2

    The holy wars had begun. His family was slaughtered by bandits. He was abandoned to die in the desert...but he survived, with the help of his God, and became El Murid, the Disciple. Against him rides Haroun ben Yousif, High Prince of sorcery. Their w...

  • A Matter of Time

    May 1975. St. Louis. In a snow-swept street, a cop finds the body of a man who died fifty years ago. It's still warm.July 1866, Lidice, Bohemia: A teenage girl calmly watches her parents die as another being takes control of her body.August 2058, Pra...

  • Passage at Arms

    The Starfishers Future - 4

    The ongoing war between Humanity and the Ulat is a battle of attrition that humanity is unfortunately losing. However, humans have the advantage of trans-hyperdrive technology, which allows their climber fleet, under very narrow and strenuous conditi...

  • White Rose

    The Black Company - 3

    She is the last hope of good in the war against the evil sorceress known as the Lady. From a secret base on the Plains of Fear, where even the Lady hesitates to go, the Black Company, once in service to the Lady, now fights to bring victory to the Wh...

  • Warlock

    The world grows colder with each passing year, the longer winters and ever-deepening snows awaking ancient fears within the Dengan Packstead, fears of invasion by armed and desperate nomads, attack by the witchlike and mysterious Silth, able to kill ...

  • Ceremony

    The world grows colder with each passing year, the longer winters and ever-deepening snows awaking ancient fears within the Dengan Packstead, fears of invasion by armed and desperate nomads, attack by the witchlike and mysterious Silth, able to kill ...

  • Doomstalker

    The world grows colder with each passing year, the longer winters and ever-deepening snows awaking ancient fears within the Dengan Packstead, fears of invasion by armed and desperate nomads, attack by the witchlike and mysterious Silth, able to kill ...

  • Reap the East Wind

    The Haunting Dread Empire Sequels - 1

    It has ended. It begins again. In Kavelin, Lady Nepanthe's new life with the wizard Varthlokkur is disturbed by visions of her lost son, while King Bragi Ragnarson and Michael Trebilcock scheme to help the exiled Princess Mist re-usurp her throne --...

  • Sweet Silver Blues

    A Garrett, P.I., Novel - 1

    SILVER MAGIC It should have been a simple job. But for Garrett, a human detective in a world of gnomes, tracking down the woman to whom his dead pal Denny left a fortune in silver was no slight task. Denny's family wanted to hang onto the treasure...



  • An Ill Fate Marshalling

    The Haunting Dread Empire Sequels - 2

    King Bragi Ragnorson decides to join Chatelain Mist’s coup against the Dread Empire. Varhlokkur -- the King’s wizard -- tries to dissuade Ragnorson from this chosen path, but only the drum-beat of war is heard. The King’s Spymaster Michael ...

  • Bitter Gold Hearts

    A Garrett, P.I., Novel - 2

    While the storm warden's away... her children will pay -- especially when someone's kidnapped that magical and merciless personage's son and heir, and when kidnapping's the game, Garrett's the name of the hardboiled human detective who's made nabb...

  • Cold Copper Tears

    A Garrett, P.I., Novel - 3

    Slaying Beauty She was tall, blonde, and offering Garrett a fee that was irresistible to take a case that seemed open and shut. But in a town of elves and humans, thugs and swindlers -- a place where magic and religion could prove an all-too-potent ...

  • Old Tin Sorrows

    A Garrett, P.I., Novel - 4

    A CORPS OF CORPSES was what it seemed Garrett had committed himself to find when Blake Peters turned up to reclaim some overdue favors. Someone was trying to kill Peters' boss, wealthy, retired General Stantnor, in a most lingering, painful, and may...

  • Shadow Games

    The Black Company - 5

    After the devastating battle at the Tower of Charm, Croaker leads the greatly diminished Black Company south, in search of the Lost Annals. The Annals will be returned to Khatovar, eight thousand miles away, a city that may exist only in legend ... t...

  • Tower of Fear

    The Witch entered the temple as the men met. She gasped, unable to believe even now that she saw it. How had the man gotten through the citadel's defenses? What man could have earned such great power? Clouds of light and shadow contended. Larger t...

  • Silver Spike

    The Black Company - 4

    THE SILVER SPIKE ...embedded in the trunk of the scion of the godtree, it contains the essence of the maddest of the Ten Who Were Taken...the Dominator. Defeated by the Lady and cast from this world, all that was left of him was a foul trace of ling...

  • The Dragon Never Sleeps

    THE VOICE OF THE DRAGON ECHOED ACROSS CANON SPACE... "Surrender or die!" For four thousand years the Guardships had issued that dictat. Built and armed by great mercantile houses, their computer cores alive with the engrams of great past leaders, ...

  • Dreams of Steel

    The Black Company - 6

    Croaker has fallen and, following the Company's disastrous defeat at Dejagore, Lady is one of the few survivors--determined to avenge the Company and herself against the Shadowmasters, no matter, what the cost. But in assembling a new fighting for...

  • Dread Brass Shadows

    A Garrett, P.I., Novel - 5

    SOMEBODY HAD LOST A LOT OF BRASS and everyone wanted to find it. And now the stakes were betting so rich it made even a hard-boiled detective like Garrett nervous. Then the casualties began piling up, starting with Garrett's own beautiful red-hair...



  • Red Iron Nights

    A Garrett, P.I., Novel - 6

    BLOOD-SOAKED BLADES had been taking their toll among the luscious lovelies in Garrett's home city of TunFaire. And though Garrett could be as civic-minded as the next guy--unless the next guy was Captain Block of the Watch--the private eye wasn't su...

  • Deadly Quicksilver Lies

    A Garrett, P.I., Novel - 7

    WHEN "ROYALTY" PAID THE TAB price wasn't the issue, survival was. And Garrett wasn't sure it was worth his life to take Maggie Jenn on as his client. Not in a kingdom where the biggest con artists weren't human, magic could beat any weapon, and th...

  • Petty Pewter Gods

    A Garrett, P.I., Novel - 8

    THE NEW GODS IN TOWN were making thins tough for everyone. And temple real estate on the Street of Dreams was at a premium. With too many pantheons and not enough prayer palaces to go around in TunFaire, the big gods on the block dame up with the so...

  • Bleak Seasons

    The Black Company - 7

    THE BLACK COMPANY IS BACK! "Let me tell you who I am, on the chance that these scribblings do survive.... "I am Murgen, Standardbearer of the Black Company, though I bear the shame of having lost that standard in battle. I am keeping these Anna...

  • She Is the Darkness

    The Black Company - 8

    The wind whines and howls with bitter breath. Lightning snarls and barks. Rage is an animate force upon the plain of glittering stone. Even shadows are afraid. At the heart of the plain stands a vast grey stronghold, unknown, older than any writte...

  • Water Sleeps

    The Black Company - 9

    Water sleeps ...but your enemies don't Regrouping in Taglios, the surviving members of the Black Company are determined to free their fellow warriors held in stasis beneath the glittering plain, journeying there under terrible conditions, they arr...

  • Faded Steel Heat

    A Garrett, P.I., Novel - 9

    OH, THE HUMANITY... Since the end of the war, there had always been bigotry against non-humans in TunFaire. Even though many species had sacrificed in battle, some groups of humans thought the "Golden Rule" translated to "Humans rule. Now give us ...

  • Soldiers Live

    The Black Company - 10

    No Black Company member has died in battle for four years. Croaker figures it can't last. He's right. For, of course, many of the Company's old adversaries are still around. Narayan Singh and his adopted daughter--actually the offspring of Croaker...

  • Angry Lead Skies

    A Garrett, P.I., Novel - 10

    Anyone else would have learned by now: When trouble comes knocking, don't open the door. There's a reason why Garrett's still in the P.I. business after all these years--he's not one to learn his lessons. Maybe that's why he lets himself get roped...

  • Whispering Nickel Idols

    A Garrett, P.I., Novel - 11

    Garrett's having a pretty good morning until he finds a strange child named Penny Dreadful poking around his house. Before he can figure out what the mysterious urchin wants, he's hired to investigate how an old underworld boss ended up in a coma--le...



  • The Tyranny of the Night

    The Instrumentalities of the Night - 1

    Welcome to the world of the Instrumentalities of the Night, where imps, demons, and dark gods rule in the spaces surrounding upstart humanity. On a mission in the Holy Land, the young Praman warrior Else is attacked by a creature of the Dark--in effe...

  • Sung in Blood

    Protector Jerhke has kept Shasessrre peaceful for hundreds of years. After his brutal murder, his son Rider tries to discover his father's murderer. Rider is helped in his search by his companions, as they battle against the agents of the mysterious ...

  • Lord of the Silent Kingdom

    The Instrumentalities of the Night - 2

    It's cold. The wells of power are weakening and the forces of Night grow strong. The gods are real and still have power, mostly to do harm. The Instrumentalities of the Night are the worst of these. Piper Hecht survived a battle with the gods. No...

  • A Fortress In Shadow

    A Chronicle Of The Dread Empire

    Once a mighty kingdom reigned, but now all is chaos. In the vast reaches of the desert, a young heretic escapes certain death and embarks on a mission of madness and glory. He is El Murid -- the Disciple -- who vows to bring order, prosperity and rig...

  • Chronicles of the Black Company

    The Black Company Omnibus Books - 1

    Darkness wars with darkness as the hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must. They bury their doubts with their dead.Then comes the prophecy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more…This o...

  • Cruel Zinc Melodies

    A Garrett, P.I., Novel - 12

    Glen Cook's popular P.I., Garrett, uncovers the dark side of the fantasy city of TunFaire, where no one is to be trusted -- especially not beautiful women. Garrett's P.I. instincts warn him that the knock on his door one winter morning means trouble...

  • The Books of the South

    The Black Company Omnibus Books - 2

    Marching south after the ghastly battle at the Tower of Charm, the Black Company is hounded by shadowy figures every inch of the way.The game is on: the Company versus the Shadowmasters, deadly creatures that deal in darkness and sorrow.When hope die...

  • An Empire Unacquainted with Defeat

    A Chronicle Of The Dread Empire

    The Dread Empire, a gritty world of larger-than-life plots, nation-shattering conflict, maddening magic, strange creatures, and raw, flawed heroes, all shown through the filter of Cook's inimitable war-correspondent prose. The Dread Empire, spanning ...

  • The Return of the Black Company

    The Black Company Omnibus Books - 3

    "Let me tell you who I am, on the chance that these scribblings do survive. . . "I am Murgen, Standardbearer of the Black Company, though I bear the shame of having lost that standard in battle. I am keeping these Annals because Croaker is dead, One-...

  • The Many Deaths of the Black Company

    The Black Company Omnibus Books - 4

    "Let me tell you who I am, on the chance that these scribblings do survive. . . "I am Murgen, Standardbearer of the Black Company, though I bear the shame of having lost that standard in battle. I am keeping these Annals because Croaker is dead, One-...



  • Gilded Latten Bones

    A Garrett, P.I., Novel - 13

    IN THE SERIES GLEN COOK'S POPULAR PI., GARRETT, DISCOVERS THAT IN THE FANTASY CITY OF TUNFAIRE, LOYALTY AND LOVE COME A CLOSE SECOND TO SURVIVAL.... Garrett's taking a stab at domestic bliss with the fiery Tinnie Tate, who tells him just how high to...

  • Surrender to the Will of the Night

    The Instrumentalities of the Night - 3

    Piper Hechts first and greatest secret is that he knows how to kill gods. Whats not a secret is that he knows how to win wars Piper Hechts secrets make him dangerous, but his skill and his reputation put him in danger -- from his enemies, who fea...

  • Shadow Thieves

    in Down These Strange Streets
    A Garrett, P.I., Novel - 14

    All new strange cases of death and magic in the city by some of the biggest names in urban fantasy.

    In this all-new collection of urban fantasy stories, editors George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois explore the places where mystery waits at the en...

  • A Path to Coldness of Heart

    A Chronicle Of The Dread Empire

    At long last, the conclusion to Glen Cook's Dread Empire saga has arrived! King Bragi Ragnarson is a prisoner, shamed, nameless, and held captive by Lord Shih-kaa and the Empress Mist at the heart of the Dread Empire. Far away in Kavelin, Bragia's qu...

  • Winter's Dreams

    Glen Cook is, of course, best known for his enormously popular series fiction, which includes the Garrett P.I. and Dread Empire sequences, as well as the internationally acclaimed Chronicles of the Black Company. Readers familiar only with this aspec...

  • Wicked Bronze Ambition

    A Garrett, P.I., Novel - 15

    Garrett is a human detective in the fantastical city of TunFaire. And now he’s getting tangled up in the worst sort of laws... In-laws. Garrett is set to stow his wandering heart with his fiancée, Strafa Algarda. But for Garrett, even tr...

  • Working God's Mischief

    The Instrumentalities of the Night - 4

    Arnhand, Castauriga, and Navaya lost their kings. The Grail Empire lost its empress. The Church lost its Patriarch, though he lives on as a fugitive. The Night lost Kharoulke the Windwalker, an emperor amongst the most primal and terrible gods. The N...

  • Wrath of Kings

    A Chronicle Of The Dread Empire

    An omnibus edition of the final three Dread Empire novels (Reap the East Wind, An Ill Fate Marshalling, and A Path to Coldness of Heart) from a pioneer of gritty and realistic epic fantasy, Glen Cook.The Dread Empire spans a continent: from the highe...

  • Port of Shadows

    Glen Cook, the father of Grimdark, returns to the Chronicles of the Black Company with a military fantasy adventure in Port of Shadows. The soldiers of the Black Company don’t ask questions, they get paid. But being “The Lady’s favored” is...

  • The Heirs of Babylon

    The dystopian politics of 1984 meet the naval warship backdrop of The Last Ship in fantasy master Glen Cook’s reissued first novel, available for the first time in decades. It is 2193, and still the war continues. Two hundred years after nu...

  • The Best of Glen Cook

    The best short fiction of legendary author Glen Cook (The Black Company, the Dread Empire) is collected into a new hardcover volume. For over forty years, Glen Cook has been among the most well-known, influential, and widely respected authors...

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Glen Cook has published 60 books.

Glen Cook does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Best of Glen Cook, was published in November 2019.

The first book by Glen Cook, A Shadow of All Night Falling, was published in December 1979.

Yes. Glen Cook has 9 series.
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