Simon Clark

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  • Bibliography:
    43 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 2000
  • Latest Book:
    December 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Alan Shobnall

1 - Gone for A Burton (Feb-2020)

Inspector Abberline

1 - Inspector Abberline and the Gods of Rome (Oct-2014)
2 - Inspector Abberline and the Just King (May-2016)

A Sherlock Holmes Enigma

1 - Case of the Bedevilled Poet (Jul-2017)

Book List in Order: 43 titles

  • Nailed by the Heart

    Chris and Ruth Stainforth are living their fantasy, turning the old Sea-fort at Manshead â€" purchased at a steal after the previous owners abandoned building work â€" into a hotel, and living on the coast with their son, David. But as work begins, a...

  • Blood Crazy

    It is a quiet, uneventful Saturday in Doncaster. Nick Aten, and his best friend Steve Price â€" troubled seventeen year olds â€" spend it as usual hanging around the sleepy town, eating fast food and planning their revenge on Tug Slatter, a local bul...

  • Darkness Demands

  • Darker

    THE UNSEEN EVIL Richard Young is looking forward to a quiet week with his wife and their little daughter. Firing up the barbecue should be the most stressful task he'll face. He has no idea of the hell that awaits him, the nightmare that will begi...

  • Demon Me

    in The Darker Side: Generations of Horror

    An all-new collection of twenty-seven original tales by some of the finest authors of contemporary horror includes chilling works by Poppy Z. Brite, Peter Crowther, Edo van Belkom, Richard Laymon, Lucy Taylor, David Niall Wilson, Caitlin R. Kiernan, ...

  • Vampyrrhic

    Beneath the surface of the peaceful town of Leppington lurks horrifying creatures, thirsting for blood, who live in the shadows and only reveal themselves to their unlucky victims, but their evil existence is about to be exposed. Original....

  • The Night of the Triffids

    A sequel to John Wyndham’s post-apocalyptic horror classic The Day of the Triffids: “An action-filled tale that captures the spirit of the original story” (Library Journal).  Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel   In The...

  • Stranger

    An ocean of humanity runs from a devastating force that no one can even see - they pour northwards over the Mexican border. A mighty nation falls...Sullivan town remains one of the last enclaves of civilisation. Greg Valdiva, a stranger to the commun...

  • In This Skin

    Two teenage runaways, Robyn and Noel, are desperate for a place of safety. Fate takes them to the Luxor which has been sealed from the outside world for decades. They discover that people are drawn here against their will and that certain individuals...



  • Fourbodings

  • The Tower

    The Tower stands in solitude. What began as a seventeenth-century manor house has grown over the centuries into something very different. Something evil. There are the stark walls, the shadow-filled rooms, the lonely corridors. But the Tower is haunt...

  • London Under Midnight

    The graffiti spread through London that summer like wildfire. Its population carried on with life as usual in one of the richest cities on the planet. But beneath the surface there is change. Men and women are going missing without trace. What has th...

  • Death's Dominion

    Modern scientists have proven Dr. Frankenstein right. They have discovered a way to raise the dead. Unlike Dr. Frankenstein's monster, these gentle creatures docilely serve their masters, but the living have begun to despise the dead among them. They...

  • Night Visions 12

    For nearly two decades, the Night Visions anthologies have provided a form for some of the finest dark fantasists of the modern era. Subterranean Press proudly continues the tradition with the twelfth installment of this landmark series.

    Simon Cl...

  • This Rage of Echoes

    You know the monster's face.... The future looked good for Mason until the night he was attacked...by someone who looked exactly like him. Soon he will understand that something monstrous is happening--something that transforms ordinary people in...

  • Lucifer's Ark

    Welcome to Lucifers Ark. This is the voyage to hell - The Volsparr routinely sails to a mining community in the Baltic. Unknown to the passengers aboard, the ship also carries a secret cargo: stateless criminals being transported to jails where no on...

  • Vampyrrhic Rites

    Vampyrrhic Rites is the long-awaited sequel to Vampyrrhic by Simon Clark this time, we've got more vampires, more blood, and more sheer terror!

    Lazarus Deep is a lake that sits like a blot of darkness in the valley.

    Eighteen-year-old Dy...

  • The Midnight Man

    Van Gogh paints works of transcendent genius, while in London a killer launches a reign of terror . . . - Nidabi is attacked by her master but is rescued just in time by Pastor Hux, a man who befriended Van Gogh many years ago. A decade later the men...

  • Vengeance Child

    Orphan Jay doesn't want to hurt anyone, and nurse Laura Parris is determined to protect him. When she meets Victor Brodman, a widower, she wonders if she can finally reveal Jay's disturbing past....



  • Ghost Monster

    When the portrait of Justice Murrain and his vicious gang of misfits is stolen from the mausoleum, the spirits of these evil criminals are set free and possess the townspeople, causing the streets to run red with blood. Original. 175,000 first printi...

  • King Blood

    Warm Rick Kennedy feels pretty good. Tonight there's going to be the party of the summer. The brother he hasn't seen for years has just flown in, and this is the night Rick plans to do something about Kate Robinson -- the beautiful girl he just can'...

  • Whitby Vampyrrhic

    In wartime Britain, vampires and an ancient curse rule the night... Winter, 1942. Beth, Sally and Alec are the only guests in an eerie seaport hotel in Whitby with a peculiar subterranean tunnel linking it to the ocean. It is a hotel haunted by q...

  • Humpty's Bones

    Telos Publishing is proud to announce the publication of a new horror novella by one of the supreme horror writers working in the UK today. Simon Clark's new chiller explores something nasty found in a village garden by an amateur archaeologist, s...

  • Butterfly

    Originally published in a long sold out special Limited Edition!"I dream I am flying over forests, then seas, then cities. Then I am swooping down firing my guns at people. They run through the streets like frightened sheep, but I roar at them, kill...

  • Gerassimos Flamotas: A Day in the Life

    A genuine Simon Clark rarity from 1993 that was instrumental in igniting his remarkable horror career, which includes the novels Blood Crazy, Vampyrrhic and King Blood.On the Greek island of Kefalonia, Gerassimos Flamotas faces the most extraordinary...

  • His Vampyrrhic Bride

    A girl . . . a boy . . . and a fearsome Viking curse that will tear them apart and unleash a terrifying creature on the world . . . What is this striking yet ghostly figure doing gliding across my lawn at midnight? Chasing the dangerously beautiful w...

  • Her Vampyrrhic Heart

    She will come back to me, Tom Westonby tells himself. We’ll be reunited. It has been five years since he’s seen his beloved wife, Nicola Bekk. Five years since their wedding day -- when he won her hand, but in doing so triggered the curse that ha...

  • The Fall

    Time and Tide wait for No Man ... Television Director Sam Baker, along with his assistant Zita, is visiting an ancient Roman amphitheatre in England as a prelude to the staging of a televised rock concert. Without warning, the site is hit by lightnin...

  • Inspector Abberline and the Gods of Rome

    Inspector Abberline - 1

    Inspector Abberline is on the trail of ancient treasure and a murderer who will bring death to his door

    408 AD: the Visigoths have torn Italy apart and now besiege Rome. The emperor knows that his once mighty city will be ransacked by...



  • The Ghosts of Pontefract Castle

    Mark called up to the boy who stood on top of a ruined fragment of castlewall. The boy was more than a dozen feet above the ground and swayed. TheOctober breeze made Mark even colder in his Halloween costume. Shivers ranup his back. The boyÂąs head s...

  • Salt Snake and Other Bloody Cuts

    Salt Snake and Other Bloody Cuts is a collection of short horror fiction from Simon Clark, an acclaimed author of blood curdling novels â€" Blood Crazy, Darker, and The Night of the Triffids. Originally published in 1998 as a limited print run of jus...

  • Secrets of the Dead

    Tombs are sealed shut for a reason. Opening them can have terrifying consequences... John Tolworth is delighted when he is hired to help investigate a collection of mummified bodies found in the notorious Gold Tomb in Egypt. Not only is he intrigu...

  • The Spirited Sea

    Byron is a wealthy and eccentric ghost-hunter. He puts together a team of misfits to hunt for the paranormal. But to Kit and Fletcher, it's just a job. And these are only ghost stories. Or are they? One night in the cemetery, things take a turn ...

  • Reality Bites

    REALITY BITES BLURB Knightwatch TV presents Reality Bites Reality TV as you've never seen it before! Join us for this new six-part series that reinvents reality TV and asks the question: just how real is it, and just how close are reality and fiction...

  • The Mammoth Book of Sherlock Holmes Abroad

    In this wonderful anthology of new stories, Sherlock Holmes travels to the far ends of the Earth in search of truth and justice. A host of singularly talented writers, while remaining respectful towards Conan Doyle's work, present a new and thrilling...

  • Inspector Abberline and the Just King

    Inspector Abberline - 2

    1890: A killer stalks the Isle of Faxfleet -- a tiny, independent Yorkshire kingdom inhabited by eccentrics and Victorian dropouts, and ruled by King Ludwig, a man obsessed with creating an academy of geniuses. When an academy member is killed by an ...

  • Case of the Bedevilled Poet

    A Sherlock Holmes Enigma - 1

    fter narrowly escaping a bomb blast during the blitz in WW-II London, poet Jack Crofton is threatened with death and worse by a mysterious soldier. Fleeing through the war-torn streets, he seeks sanctuary in a pub and falls into company with two e...

  • Gone for A Burton

    Alan Shobnall - 1

    Imagine. A January night in the Midlands. Burton-upon-Trent in 1959. Britain is stirring, ready to exchange post-war austerity for the Swinging Sixties. Burton, with its jumble of brew-houses, kilns, maltings, towers and chimneys, is still beer capit...

  • Sherlock Holmes's School for Detection



  • Lord of Damnation

    His target was Holmes, and only Holmes- The monster craved to snuff out my friend's life. Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson embark on a voyage to an African island, to the city of New London-a meticulous copy of the British London they know so well. ...

  • Blood Crazy Aten In Absentia

    THREE YEARS AGO, EVERYONE OVER THE AGE OF NINETEEN BECAME MURDEROUSLY INSANE. THEY BEGAN KILLING - ESPECIALLY THEIR OWN CHILDREN. AND NOW THE NIGHTMARE VISION OF A WORLD DESCENDING INTO BRUTAL VIOLENCE CONTINUES. Beleaguered settlements of young peop...

  • Callisto

    Dan Karlton's blood is his ticket to ride on an alien craft known as a Rib ...'the Rib had taken part in a ferocious battle millions of years ago. The underside had been clawed by something of immense destructive power. Blast craters had been ripped ...

  • The Ghost Town Preservation Society Julie

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    Does the past really matter? Fleeing a failed marriage and a failed profession, a woman decides a Montana ghost town holds the key to the mystery of her birth. AJ Armstrong is a college professor “on the dangerous side of forty.” She likes fronti...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Simon Clark has published 43 books.

Simon Clark does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Blood Crazy Aten In Absentia, was published in December 2023.

The first book by Simon Clark, Nailed by the Heart, was published in May 2000.

Yes. Simon Clark has 3 series.
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