Laurell K. Hamilton

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Laurell K. Hamilton
  • Bibliography:
    65 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1992
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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About the Author

Laurell K. Hamilton is the author of paranormal thrillers. She knew she wanted to be a writer at the age of thirteen or fourteen after reading the dark heroic fantasy, Pigeons from Hell, a short story collection by Robert E. Howard. The first vampire story she ever wrote scared her creative writing teacher. She viewed that comment as high praise. She continued writing and began submitting stories at the age of seventeen. She studied creative writing in college but found herself at odds with the department head who wanted to “cure” her of writing horror. She finished her degree with literature, not writing, courses and went on to get a degree in biology. Laurell has had the last laugh because she has gone on to become a highly successful and much-loved author of the Anita Blake series as well as other works.

Full Series List in Order

Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter

1 - Guilty Pleasures (Oct-1993)
2 - The Laughing Corpse (Sep-1994)
3 - Circus of the Damned (May-1995)
4 - The Lunatic Cafe (Jan-1996)
5 - Bloody Bones (Oct-1996)
6 - The Killing Dance (Jun-1997)
7 - Burnt Offerings (May-1998)
8 - Blue Moon (Nov-1998)
8.5 - The Girl Who Was Infatuated with Death (Jan-2005)
9 - Obsidian Butterfly (Jan-2000)
10 - Narcissus in Chains (Oct-2001)
11 - Cerulean Sins (Apr-2003)
12 - Incubus Dreams (Oct-2004)
13 - Micah (Feb-2006)
14 - Danse Macabre (Jul-2006)
15 - The Harlequin (Jun-2007)
16 - Blood Noir (Jun-2008)
17 - Skin Trade (Jun-2009)
18 - Flirt (Feb-2010)
19 - Bullet (Jun-2010)
20 - Hit List (Jun-2011)
20.5 - Beauty (May-2012)
21 - Kiss the Dead (Jun-2012)
21.5 - Dancing (Sep-2013)
22 - Affliction (Jul-2013)
23 - Jason (Dec-2014)
24 - Dead Ice (Jun-2015)
25 - Crimson Death (Oct-2016)
25.5 - Wounded (Dec-2016)
26 - Serpentine (Aug-2018)
27 - Sucker Punch (Aug-2020)
28 - Rafael (Feb-2021)
29 - Smolder (Mar-2023)
30 - Slay (Nov-2023)

Anita Blake Graphic Novels

1 - The First Death (Feb-2009)
2 - Guilty Pleasures, vol 1 (GN) (Jul-2007)
2 - Guilty Pleasures, vol 1-2 (Complete GN) (Nov-2009)
3 - Guilty Pleasures, vol 2 (GN) (Dec-2008)
4 - Animator (The Laughing Corpse bk 1) (Nov-2009)
4 - The Laughing Corpse Deluxe (Feb-2012)
5 - Necromancer (The Laughing Corpse bk 2) (Jul-2010)
6 - Executioner (The Laughing Corpse bk 3) (Dec-2010)
7 - The Charmer (Circus of the Damned bk 1) (Jul-2011)
8 - The Ingenue (Circus of the Damned, bk 2) (Sep-2011)
9 - The Scoundrel (Circus of the Damned, bk 3) (Apr-2012)

Detective Zaniel Havelock

1 - A Terrible Fall of Angels (Aug-2021)

Meredith Gentry

1 - A Kiss of Shadows (Oct-2000)
2 - A Caress of Twilight (Mar-2002)
3 - Seduced by Moonlight (Feb-2004)
4 - A Stroke of Midnight (Jan-2005)
5 - Mistral's Kiss (Dec-2006)
6 - A Lick of Frost (Nov-2007)
7 - Swallowing Darkness (Nov-2008)
8 - Divine Misdemeanors (Dec-2009)
9 - A Shiver of Light (Jun-2014)

Multi-Author Series List

Ravenloft

11 - Death of a Darklord (Jun-1995)

Ravenloft Covenant

Death of a Darklord (Jun-1995)

Star Trek

Nightshade (Dec-1992)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

24 - Nightshade (Dec-1992)

Book List in Order: 65 titles

  • Nightseer

    SORCERER, HERB-WITCH, PROPHET, ENCHANTER...DEMON-TOUCHED Keleios the Half-Elf was but five years old when she saw her mother murdered by the evil witch Harque. For years she has asked the gods for the strength she'll need to avenge this foul death...

  • Nightshade

    Star Trek
    Star Trek: The Next Generation - 24

    After two hundred years of civil war the planet Oriana is dying. Most of the surface vegetation is gone, the air is nearly unbreathable, and the people themselves are dying. Now, the two warring factions have finally sat down to talk peace, and Capta...

  • Guilty Pleasures

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 1

    "I DON'T DATE VAMPIRES. I KILL THEM." My name is Anita Blake. Vampires call me The Executioner. What I call them isn't repeatable. Ever since the Supreme Court granted the undead equal rights, most people think vampires are just ordinary folks ...

  • The Laughing Corpse

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 2

    "THE OLDER THE ZOMBIE, THE BIGGER THE DEATH NEEDED TO RAISE IT." After a few centuries, the only death "big enough" is a human sacrifice. I know, because I'm an animator. My name is Anita Blake. Working for Animators, Inc., is just a job--like ...

  • Circus of the Damned

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 3

    "MOST WOMEN COMPLAIN THAT THERE ARE NO SINGLE, STRAIGHT MEN LEFT. I'D JUST LIKE TO MEET ONE THAT'S HUMAN" I'm Anita Blake, expert on creatures of the night. I've dined with shapeshifters, danced with werewolves, and been wooed--but not won--by Jea...

  • Death of a Darklord

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy
    Ravenloft - 11
    Ravenloft Covenant

    There is a plague fn the village of Cortton, a plague of the dead. Corpses walk the streets in search of the living. The villagers send for the mage-finder Jonathan Ambrose, for they believe evil magic is at work. They are right. Jonathan soon discov...

  • The Lunatic Cafe

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 4

    "YOU DON'T VOLUNTEER FOR SLUGFESTS WITH VAMPIRES. IT SHORTENS YOUR LIFE EXPECTANCY" And you don't fall in love with a werewolf. It interferes with your work. Especially when you're a preternatural expert, like me. My business brings me up close an...

  • Bloody Bones

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 5

    "WHEN THE MONSTERS ARE INVOLVED, IT'S NEVER JUST ONE DEAD BODY. ONE WAY OR ANOTHER THE DEAD MULTIPLY." First, there were the dead in the graveyard, two-hundred years dead. I'd been hired to raise them to settle a dispute over who owned the land th...

  • The Killing Dance

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 6

    "THESE DAYS MY LIFE IS A CROSS BETWEEN PRETERNATURAL SOAP OPERA AND AN ACTION-ADVENTURE MOVIE. SORT OF AS THE CASKET TURNS MEETS RAMBO ." The first hit man came after me at home, which should be against the rules. Then there was a second, and a th...



  • Burnt Offerings

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 7

    "YOU CAN'T TRUST ANYONE WHO SLEEPS WITH THE MONSTERS." That's what I've always said. That's what I've always believed. But now I'm the one sharing a bed with the Master Vampire of the City. Me, Anita Blake. The woman the vampires call the Executio...

  • Blue Moon

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 8

    "RICHARD WAS AN ALPHA WEREWOLF. IT WAS HIS ONLY SERIOUS FLAW. WE'D BROKEN UP AFTER I'D SEEN HIM EAT SOMEBODY." Still, you never forget your ex-fiance. And when the call came at three in the morning, I thought for a moment it was him. It wasn't. It...

  • Obsidian Butterfly

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 9

    "MY NAME IS ANITA BLAKE. I'D LIKE YOU TO MEET EDWARD... 'Edward was a hit man. He specialized in monsters. Vampires, shape-shifters, anything and everything. There were people like me who did it legal, but Edward didn't sweat the legalities or, he...

  • A Kiss of Shadows

    Meredith Gentry - 1

    Enter a thrilling, sensual world as threatening as it is beautiful, replete with the consuming passions of immortal beings once worshiped as gods or demons. Full of earthly pleasures and dazzling magic, A Kiss of Shadows will hold you under its hypno...

  • Magic Like Heat Across My Skin

    in Out of This World

    Love, Supernatural Style Love is the universal language. And nowhere is this more apparent than in these extraordinary stories from four of today's hottest authors. From a futuristic cop caught in a crisis of the heart to a smoldering vision of a...

  • Narcissus in Chains

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 10

    Men are men. Jean-Claude and Richard are each something else entirely. Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, torn between them, has been avoiding both vampire and werewolf for months. But when a kidnapper targets innocents she has sworn to protect, Anita turn...

  • A Caress of Twilight

    Meredith Gentry - 2

    "I am Princess Meredith, heir to a throne--if I can stay alive long enough to claim it." After eluding relentless assassination attempts by Prince Cel, her cousin and rival for the Faerie crown, Meredith Gentry, Los Angeles private eye, has a who...

  • Cerulean Sins

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 11

    How the mighty have fallen! Once a sworn enemy of all monsters, Anita is now the human consort of both Jean-Claude, the Master Vampire, and Micah, the leopard shape-shifter. Not quite as human as she once was, she is consumed by both their hungers--d...

  • Seduced by Moonlight

    Meredith Gentry - 3

    "I am Meredith Gentry, P.I., and Princess Merry, heir to the throne of Fairie. Now there are those among my guards who whisper I am more." Meredith's aunt, the Queen of Air and Darkness, is no longer distracted by her usual sadistic hobbies. Her o...

  • Blood upon My Lips

    in Cravings

    LONGINGS IN THE NIGHT.. . In the heat of the night, anything goes. Boundaries are crossed and secret yearnings take shape. Creatures stalk the shadows, surrendering to their wildest needs--and satisfying hungers that take their victims beyond fear...



  • Incubus Dreams

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 12

    As consultant to the Regional Preturnatural Crime Investigation Unit, Anita's called in on what appears to be a case involving a vampire serial killer who may be preying on strippers. But her professional judgment may be clouded by a conflict of inte...

  • A Stroke of Midnight

    Meredith Gentry - 4

    How much of my human side will I have to give up, and how much of the sinister side of faerie will I have to embrace? To sit on a throne that has ruled through bloodshed for centuries, I might have to become that which I dread the most. In Los Ang...

  • The Girl Who Was Infatuated with Death

    in Bite
    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 8.5

    FEEL THE TOUCH OF DARKNESS... Follow a vampire hunter who can be as deadly as her prey. Meet a down-home southern girl who's found out, much to her chagrin, that vampires are her type. Feel the euphoria of fear in the shadow of a reluctant Queen o...

  • Micah

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 13

    "RAISING THE DEAD WAS EASY; LOVE WAS HARD..." There are lots of reasons to raise dead--some private, some public. In t case, the Feds have a witness who died before he could speak on the record. They want him raised so his testimony can be taken. ...

  • Danse Macabre

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 14

    Anita Blake needs to be concentrating on a dangerous situation: the ardeur--the sexual power that flows between Anita and Jean-Claude, Master Vampire of the City; and Richard, the volatile werewolf who loves her passionately-- is reaching new levels....

  • Strange Candy

    From a woman who marries into a family of volatile wizards to a couple fleeing a gang of love-hungry cupids, from a girl who seeks sanctuary in the form of a graceful goose to the disgruntled superhero Captain Housework, you'll revel in the many twis...

  • Mistral's Kiss

    Meredith Gentry - 5

    I am Princess Meredith, trapped in the kingdom of faerie, compelled to conceive a child, an heir to the throne, by engaging some of the realm's most beautiful men. Now Mistral, Queen Andais's new captain of the guard, has risked the Queen's jealous w...

  • The Harlequin

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 15

    The Harlequin's warning to Anita Blake is presented in a gift EL left where she'd be sure to find it. Inside, carefully wrapped n folds of pristine tissue paper, is a white mask, utterly plain. The fact that it's white, Jean-Claude tells her, is the ...

  • Guilty Pleasures, vol 1 (GN)

    Anita Blake Graphic Novels - 2

    New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton brings Anita Blake to the world of graphic novels. Anita Blake lives in a world where vampires, zombies and werewolves have been declared legal citizens of the United States. Anita Blake is an "an...

  • A Lick of Frost

    Meredith Gentry - 6

    I am Meredith Gentry, princess and heir apparent to the throne of faerie. To be crowned queen, I must become pregnant and continue the royal bloodline. If I fail, my aunt, Queen Andais, will be free to do what she most desires: install her twisted so...



  • Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: The First Death

    Vampire slayer Anita Blake helps the police find a vampire serial killer responsible for a series of child murders, but quickly realizes she needs the help of her mentor Manny and supernatural hitman Edward to solve the case....

  • Blood Noir

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 16

    Werewolf Jason Schuyler needs Anita Blake -- not as a vampire hunter, federal marshal, or necromancer, but as a friend. He wants to pretend, just for a few days, that he's an everyday guy in an everyday relationship with a pretty woman who loves him,...

  • Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures, Volume 1

    New York Times Best-Selling author Laurell K. Hamilton offers readers a brand new experience in the world of Anita Blake! Fusing mythology, werewolves and vampires with a story loaded with mystery, action and romance, the Anita Blake novels take plac...

  • Swallowing Darkness

    Meredith Gentry - 7

    Iam Meredith, princess of faerie, and at long last, I am with child-Twins, fathered by my royal guard. Now I must stay alive to see my children born, as conspirators from every court plot against me and mine. They seek to strip my guards, my lovers, ...

  • Guilty Pleasures, vol 2 (GN)

    Anita Blake Graphic Novels - 3

    Anita Blake raises the dead for a living in a world where vampires and werewolves are legal citizens of the United States, and moonlights as a vampire hunter, but when a serial killer begins to target vampires, she is the one the undead turn to for h...

  • The First Death

    Anita Blake Graphic Novels - 1

    Vampire slayer Anita Blake helps the police find a vampire serial killer responsible for a series of child murders, but quickly realizes she needs the help of her mentor Manny and supernatural hitman Edward to solve the case....

  • Skin Trade

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 17

    When a vampire serial killer sends Anita Blake a grisly souvenir from Las Vegas, she has to warn Sin City's local authorities what they're dealing with. Only it's worse than she thought. Police officers and one executioner have been slain -- paranorm...

  • Animator (The Laughing Corpse bk 1)

    Anita Blake Graphic Novels - 4

    Anita Blake is back in the second volume of Marvel's comic adaptation of Laurell K. Hamilton's bestselling series of novels! What would you do for a million dollars? Would you resurrect a two-and-one-half-century old corpse? Harold Gaynor poses just ...

  • Guilty Pleasures, vol 1-2 (Complete GN)

    Anita Blake Graphic Novels - 2

    Fusing mythology, werewolves, and vampires with a story loaded with mystery, action, and romance, the Anita Blake novels take place in a world where vampires, werewolves, and other creatures of nightmare have been declared legal citizens of the Unite...

  • Can He Bake a Cherry Pie?

    in Never After

    THE BONDS OF LOVE...THE BONDS OF MATRIMONY... THE BONDS BETWEEN HUSBAND AND WIFE... SOME BONDS ARE MADE TO BE BROKEN. HERE, FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, ARE FOUR STORIES BASED ON THE CLASSIC IDEA OF THE "FAERIE TALE WEDDING" -- EXCEPT THIS TIME, THE DA...



  • Divine Misdemeanors

    Meredith Gentry - 8

    You may know me best as Meredith Nic Essus, princess of faerie. Or perhaps as Merry Gentry, Los Angeles private eye. In the fey and mortal realms alike, my life is the stuff of royal intrigue and celebrity drama. Among my own, I have confronted horre...

  • Flirt

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 18

    When Anita Blake meets with prospective client Tony Bennington, who is desperate to have her reanimate his recently deceased wife, she is full of sympathy for his loss. Anita knows something about love, and she knows everything there is to know about...

  • Bullet

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 19

    The triumvirate created by master vampire Jean-Claude, necromancer Anita Blake, and werewolf Richard Zeeman has made Jean-Claude one of the most powerful vampires in the U.S. He's consolidating power in himself and those loyal to him, doing in Americ...

  • Necromancer (The Laughing Corpse bk 2)

    Anita Blake Graphic Novels - 5

    The second chapter of best-selling author Laurell K. Hamilton's triller is finally here! Vampire hunter Anita Blake has crossed the paths of the worst St. Louis has to offer - and now they want her out of the picture for good. But Anita isn't the typ...

  • Executioner (The Laughing Corpse bk 3)

    Anita Blake Graphic Novels - 6

    Current queen of the book charts and soon to bethe star of her own television fi lm, best-selling author Laurell K. Hamilton's vampire hunter continues to take comics by storm! As THE LAUGHING CORPSE enters its haunting fi nal act, Anita Blake thinks...

  • Hit List

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 20

    A serial killer is hunting the Pacific Northwest, murdering victims in a gruesome and spectacular way. The local police suspect "monsters" are involved, and have called in Anita Blake and Edward, U.S. Marshals who really know their monsters, to catch...

  • The Charmer (Circus of the Damned bk 1)

    Anita Blake Graphic Novels - 7

    BEST-SELLING AUTHOR LAURELL K. HAMILTON'S FAN-FAVORITE VAMPIRE HUNTER RETURNS! Anita Blake walked away from her last case with more than a few bruises - but those wounds are nothing compared to the scrapes that lie ahead in this blood-soaked adaptati...

  • The Ingenue (Circus of the Damned, bk 2)

    Anita Blake Graphic Novels - 8

    BEST-SELLING AUTHOR LAURELL K. HAMILTON'S HEROINE IS BACK! Morgues, by a rule, are pretty quiet places. But in a world of vamps and the rising dead, they can be positively hopping. Join animator Anita Blake as her search for a serial killer takes her...

  • The Laughing Corpse Deluxe

    Anita Blake Graphic Novels - 4

    Adapting the second novel in Laurell K. Hamilton's bestselling Anita Blake series! St. Louis is a city of the damned. The supernatural is commonplace, and the undead enjoy free rein. But whether warm- or cold-blooded, the laws of man still apply--and...

  • The Scoundrel (Circus of the Damned, bk 3)

    Anita Blake Graphic Novels - 9

    Sometimes, a reanimator just can't catch a break. As things come to a head at the Circus of the Damned, Anita learns some unfortunate news from Jeane-Claude about the new, ultra-powerful vamp in town, Alejandro. But these days, there are so many ball...



  • Beauty

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 20.5

    The steamy outtake that takes readers even further into Laurell K. Hamilton’s bestselling novel, Kiss the Dead. "You’d think I’d get used to seeing such a beautiful man and knowing he was mine, but it never grew old, as if his beauty and the...

  • Kiss the Dead

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 21

    When a fifteen-year-old girl is abducted by vampires, it’s up to U.S. Marshal Anita Blake to find her. And when she does, she’s faced with something she’s never seen before: a terrifyingly ordinary group of people -- kids, grandparents, soccer ...

  • Affliction

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 22

    Some zombies are raised. Others must be put down. Just ask Anita Blake. Before now, she would have considered them merely off-putting, never dangerous. Before now, she had never heard of any of them causing human beings to perish in agony. But t...

  • Dancing

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 21.5

    Vampire hunter Anita Blake leaps into uncharted territory in the all-new novella from #1 New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton. For most people, summer barbecues are nothing to be afraid of. But Anita isn’t exactly plain vanilla ...

  • A Shiver of Light

    Meredith Gentry - 9

    I am Princess Meredith NicEssus. Legal name Meredith Gentry, because "Princess” looks so pretentious on a driver’s license. I was the first faerie princess born on American soil, but I wouldn’t be the only one for much longer... Merry Gentry...

  • Jason

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 23

    "Enjoying pain with your pleasure is something you either get, or you don't. If you get it, then you don't really need it explained, because you know how good it feels, and if you don't get it then no amount of talking is going to convince you it mak...

  • Dead Ice

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 24

    Anita Blake has the highest kill count of any vampire executioner in the country. She’s a U.S. Marshal who can raise zombies with the best of them. But ever since she and master vampire Jean-Claude went public with their engagement, all she is to a...

  • Crimson Death

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 25

    In her twenty-fifth adventure, vampire hunter and necromancer Anita Blake learns that evil is in the eye of the beholder... Anita has never seen Damian, her vampire servant, in such a state. The rising sun doesn’t usher in the peaceful death th...

  • Wounded

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 25.5

    Be proud of Life’s battle scars, it means you were stronger than whatever hurt you, and you didn't die -- and Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter and U.S. Marshal will be the first to show you hers in this sweet and sexy story of celebration and connection...

  • Serpentine

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 26

    Vampire hunter Anita Blake has managed to overcome everything she faces. But this time there's a monster that even she doesn't know how to fight... A remote Florida island is the perfect wedding destination for the upcoming nuptials of Anita's fel...

  • Fantastic Hope

    A collection of sixteen sci-fi and fantasy stories edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton and author William McCaskey. A child’s wish for her father comes true. The end of the world has never been so much fun. Conquer...

  • Sucker Punch

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 27

    A brutal murder, a suspect in jail, and an execution planned -- but what if the wrong person is about to be killed? When a fellow U.S. Marshal asks Anita Blake to fly to a tiny community in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula on an emergency consult, sh...

  • Rafael

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 28

    Rafael, king of the wererats, must fight to the death to defend his crown. He wants Anita Blake, one of his closest allies, with him as he faces an opponent unlike any he’s faced before. He will ask Anita to risk everything to be at his side.… ...

  • A Terrible Fall of Angels

    Detective Zaniel Havelock - 1

    Angels walk among us, but so do other unearthly beings in this brand new series by #1 New York Times Bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton. Meet Detective Zaniel Havelock, a man with the special ability to communicate directly with angels. A form...

  • Smolder

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 29

    Vampire hunter Anita Blake is no stranger to killing monsters. It’s part of her job as a Preternatural U.S. Marshal, after all. But even her experience isn’t enough to stop something that is bent on destroying everything -- and everyone -- she lo...

  • Slay

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 30

    Laurell K. Hamilton has captivated readers with her gritty, seductive tales of vampire hunter Anita Blake for thirty bloody fantastic years. Now, in the thirtieth novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, wedding bells are ringing. But befor...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Laurell K. Hamilton has published 65 books.

Laurell K. Hamilton does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Slay, was published in November 2023.

The first book by Laurell K. Hamilton, Nightseer, was published in March 1992.

Yes. Laurell K. Hamilton has 4 series.
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