William Meikle

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  • Bibliography:
    93 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2002
  • Latest Book:
    September 2023
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Full Series List in Order

The Midnight Eye Files

1 - The Amulet (Nov-2005)
2 - The Sirens (Apr-2007)
3 - The Skin Game (Mar-2011)
4 - Hellfire (May-2023)

S-Squad

1 - Infestation (Nov-2017)
2 - Operation: Antarctica (Jan-2018)
3 - Operation: Siberia (Jun-2018)

Watchers

1 - The Coming of the King (2004)
2 - The Battle for the Throne (Sep-2004)
3 - Culloden! (Jul-2017)

Book List in Order: 93 titles

  • Watchers of the Wall

  • The Coming of the King

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    Watchers - 1

    The Bloodking comes! The old wall is a border: England and Scotland, South and North, light and darkness. It is 1745, and the long-awaited night as come. The Bloodking calls his army to battle, and armed with the powers of the undead and the damned, ...

  • The Battle for the Throne

    Watchers - 2

    Book II: The Battle for the ThroneBattle is joined…It is 1745. The forces of the Boy-King have decimated Milecastle. The Thane is dead, another chosen, and Mary Campbell has been taken by the Boy-King as his unholy bride.The town is a scene of carn...

  • The Amulet

    The Midnight Eye Files - 1

    It was supposed to be an easy case. Fast money, and a way to kill some time-something Derek Adams, a down-on-his-luck Glasgow private investigator, has way too much of. Recover a stolen family heirloom, and try to keep the relationship with his very ...

  • The Sirens

    The Midnight Eye Files - 2

    Glasgow private investigator Derek Adams can't seem to get away from the otherworldly, especially not when it seems to be the only paying gig in town. So when an old widow offers him two grand to find her son-who isn't exactly missing...just not hims...

  • Eldren: The Book of the Dark

    Two boys in the West of Scotland awaken an ancient vampire. And the only way to stop it is in the power of a book--a bible detailing the dark religion of the Eldren. But time is running out, and the sun is getting low. Are you afraid of the dark? You...

  • Island Life

    Some legends are true... The old stories tell of an evil far beneath the earth. When an archaeological expedition ignores local wisdom and opens an old barrow on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides, they unleash a horror beyond their darkest nig...

  • Darkness Follows

    William Meikle is a twenty year overnight success following the release of his #1 Amazon listed ebook, the sci-fi bestseller, THE INVASION. With ten novels and over 300 professional short story sales to his name, Meikle is a genuine Master of Pulp.Da...

  • The Invasion

    It started during a winter storm on the North Eastern Seaboard which brought with it a strange green rain. Where it fell, everything withered, died, and was consumed. The residents of remote outposts in Maritime Canada escaped the worst of the early ...



  • Carnacki: Heaven & Hell

    Carnacki: Heaven and Hell by William Meikle is the fourth entry in our ongoing Ghost House imprint. It includes six interior illustrations from artist Wayne Miller.All new tales of William Hope Hodgson's Carnacki.Meet an Edwardian occult detective wh...

  • The Road Hole Bunker Mystery

    Murder and skullduggery on the oldest course in golf. St. Andrews might never be the same again. Private investigator John Royle takes on a routine missing person case in search of his client’s brother. When the body turns up in a bunker on the Old...

  • Abominable

    Nobody knows exactly what happened on the last ascent of Mallory and Irvine in 1924. No details have been passed down to us. The heights of the tallest mountain have kept their secret. -- Until now.A short story....

  • Berserker

    Sometimes the monsters are real…

    For Tor and Skald this is their first Viking raid, and their minds are filled with thoughts of honor and glory. What awaits them are beasts - huge, hairy and fanged, the Alma, who will not suffer intruders...

  • Cold As Death

  • The Brotherhood of the Thorns

    A powerful tale of historical horror from a new master of the pulp tale, and a must for or followers of work in the style of Robert E. Howard.It is the time of the Crusades. The quest is on for the holy relic that will unite Christendom in the war to...

  • The Copycat Murders

    The murders have the police baffled. The D.I. in charge has a suspect, but they have a cast iron alibi and couldn't be in two places at once.By the time they realize that the perp is using mirrors as gateways to his victims it's too late. The D.I is ...

  • The Haunting of Ester Cox

    An eChapbook: Between 1878 and 1879 the small town of Amherst in Nova Scotia sees of one of the strangest cases of poltergeist activity in history.A local girl, Esther Cox becomes the focus of night terrors, rappings, unexplained fires...

  • Variations on a Theme

    A collection of 15 stories from the Master of Pulp. William Meikle is an Amazon Best Selling author of the Invasion, The Valley and Berserker.Contents:

    1. VARIATIONS ON A THEME  - Wrongworld (US) Apr 2008
    2. THE INUIT BONE  -...

  • Whispers From The Darkside



  • The Invasion - The Valley

    Generation Next Publications is excited to announce the launch of our new print imprint, FLIPIT. FLIPIT books will each contain two novels printed in the Flip Book format made popular in the crime novels of yesteryear. Each book will be printed upsid...

  • The Skin Game

    The Midnight Eye Files - 3

    Things are finally looking up for Glasgow private investigator Derek Adams. The agency is flush with cash and finally getting some respect, and the nightmares? Well, there's booze for that. But the dark side isn't finished with Derek. What starts off...

  • The Concordances of the Red Serpent

    Patty Doyle holds the secret to eternal life, but it may only bring her an early death. Patty is working on a journal of a 14th Century alchemist. But after mentioning it in her blog she gets to the office to find everyone brutally murdered. Now she'...

  • Night of the Wendigo

    Four hundred years ago a Scottish cargo ship fell prey to a Wendigo at an early settlement on the Hudson River. Now a team of archaeologists have uncovered the boat, and let loose the evil. Soon Manhattan is hit by an ice storm like no other. Besides...

  • Sherlock Holmes: Revenant

    A strange sickness affecting the members of the House of Lords starts a new adventure for Holmes and Watson, one that will see them on the run, accused of murder and pursued by both the police and a deadly gang of assassins. The case takes them up a...

  • Clockwork Dolls

    Does all human passion, all memory, all imagination come merely from the chemistry in our brains, like the movements of a clock follow from the arrangement of its cogs and wheels?Are we just clockwork dolls?Or is there an organizin...

  • Crustaceans

    From Scottish writer William Meikle comes a novel that is a welcome return to those tomes of pure enjoyment that we read with guilt in our early teens, in the tradition of James Herbert’s THE RATS and Guy N. Smith’s NIGHT OF THE CRABS.

    I...

  • Dark Melodies

    Music can transport you. It can bring sunshine on a cloudy day and lift your heart in times of trouble. But there is another side, a darker side, to music. Allow yourself to be open to a different melody, and who knows where the dance will take you. ...

  • The Hole

    It starts with an odd hum that brings headaches and nosebleeds to the inhabitants of a remote, sleepy country town. Then a sinkhole begins to form...and out from that hole comes the townspeople's worst nightmares. Facing their fears and the growing m...

  • Professor Challenger: The Island of Terror

    Author William Meikle resurrects Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic character Professor Challenger in this fast-paced novella. The book is available in a leather-bound Deluxe Hardcover with slipcase edition which is stamped with a raptor on the front c...



  • A Very Scottish Murder

    Private investigator John Royle takes on a routine missing person case in search of his client’s brother. When the body surfaces in a bunker on the Old Course at St. Andrews, murder takes the town by storm. Soon bodies pile high as the trail leads ...

  • The Ravine

    Cavalry officer Stephens wants to keep his troopers safe, but when he is pulled into the oldest conflict of them all, he must choose - to serve, or to die. Saloon-hand Jacob wants to live a quiet life, play his fiddle, and sink a few beers. But some...

  • Samurai and Other Stories

    No one can handle Scottish folklore with elements of the darkest horror, science fiction and fantasy, suspense and adventure like William Meikle. In Samurai and Other Stories you'll find numerous ghosts, many Scotsmen, a big blob, some holy relics, s...

  • The Creeping Kelp

    Some seaweed, a jellyfish and some material brought back from the Peabodie expedition to Antarctica. An innocuous enough blend you might think. But when a storm in the North Atlantic frees a sample that has been dormant inside an old wreck, the new c...

  • The Exiled

    When several young girls are abducted from various locations in Edinburgh, Detective John Granger and his brother Alan, a reporter, investigate the cases from different directions. The abductor is cunning, always one step ahead, and the only clue he ...

  • Deal or No Deal?

    Only the scorned have enough fury to craft the perfect Hell.The dust has settled after the disastrous bank job, so it's time for the Everdirge reprobates to divide up the loot.There's just one snag: One of the bags appears to be missing.Accusations a...

  • The Plasm

    The Vordlak, once the pride of the space program, has been missing for decades, thought lost in the void. But when a salvage team come across it floating in the darkness, and the lost ship's unique drive kicks in, then the problems are only just begi...

  • The Dunfield Terror

    It starts with a strange glowing fog that arrives at the height of a snowstorm.

    A terror from the past has returned, bringing with it death and destruction that threatens to overrun the town. The old stories tell of a post-war experiment gone...

  • Bunny Sneaks

  • The Persistence Of Memory

    The piano has seen better days. But the wood remembers the old tunes, remembers love and affection. Can Betty find her way back to happy times? Does the music still have its charms? Or are some things better off left quiet?...



  • Green Grow The Rashes And Other Stories

    If you're looking for a taster of my work, this is who I am. These seven short stories, all previously published in magazines or anthologies, contain magic, monsters, ghosts, history, beer, Scotland, scifi, fantasy, horror, singing, more beer and fun...

  • When The Stars Are Right

    A new form of propulsion has the military excited. But why do they need an expert in ritual magic on board their new flagship spacecraft? And why do they need an exorcist? It is soon apparent they are meddling with forces they don't understand. But c...

  • Augustus Seton Collected Chronicles

    High magic, swordfighting and a taste of what Scotland was like before perfect teeth, nice hair and clean kilts became the order of the day in OUTLANDER. Scottish sorcerer and swordsman, AUGUSTUS SETON lives in Stirling in the late 16th C and is, usu...

  • Flower of Scotland

    Short short stories by William Meikle. Perfect for that quick read.These forty stories have all previously appeared in magazines, zines, newspapers or anthologies and cover a wide span of time, from very early in the '90s when I was just starting out...

  • B.E.M.

    THEY CAME FROM...THE SEA - a huge crab and a giant scorpion, ancient foes intent on battle, and woe betide anything or anyone who gets in their way.THE SANDS - deadly beetles, each bigger than a man, swarming and frenzied in defense of an ancient tem...

  • Sherlock Holmes- The Dreaming Man

    A dreaming man, lost in a fugue, leads them down dark passages, through the streets of London - and underneath them.

    An old friend is lost and found again, an old enemy resurfaces and Holmes must walk perilous paths for a second time.
    <...

  • Culloden!

    Watchers - 3

    Book III: Culloden!The conclusion of the critically-acclaimed Watchers series!A great victory has been won, but the war is far from over. The Boy-King now needs his bride…and his heir.Only the young officers of the Watch can stop him. But they have...

  • The Sleeping God

    Glaisc is a Northern city, damp and cold with a Maritime climate, once the hub of a vast empire, now going slowly to seed. It subsists on trade to a sprawling docklands area where anything can be bought or sold if the price is right.Gwynne Ericsdocht...

  • Songs of Dreaming Gods

    The Dreaming God is singing where he lies. A mysterious house sits on a corner block on a hill in St. John's, Newfoundland, in one of the oldest cities in North America, a non-descript, three-story wooden cube, going slowly to seed.Whe...

  • The Job

    Dave Wilson is down on his luck, with gambling debts coming due. He takes on a risky burglary at a Scottish country house, but the job goes badly wrong, and all too soon Dave is embroiled in a fight he wants no part of -- an ages-old battle for owner...



  • Unnerving Magazine

    Issue #4 of Unnerving Magazine is the biggest yet, loaded with monsters, devils, ghosts, the undead, rotten sons 'o... and so much more. Gwendolyn Kiste offers up literary Halloween costume ideas while Stephen Graham Jones and Mark Allan Gunnells cha...

  • Broken Sigil

    There are houses like this all over the world. Most people only know of them from whispered stories over campfires; tall tales told to scare the unwary. But some, those who suffer…some know better. They are drawn to the places where what ails them ...

  • Pentacle

    There are houses like this all over the world. Most people only know of them from whispered stories over campfires; tall tales told to scare the unwary. But some -- those who suffer -- know better. They are drawn to these places to ease their pain. I...

  • Sigils and Totems

    If you have the will, the fortitude, you can peer into another life, where the dead are not gone, where you can see that they thrive and go on, in the dreams that stuff is made of. Available for the first time in a collection, three o...

  • Infestation

    S-Squad - 1

    It was supposed to be a simple mission. A suspected Russian spy boat is in trouble in Canadian waters. Investigate and report are the orders. But when Captain John Banks and his squad arrive, it is to find an empty vessel, and a scene of bloody mayhe...

  • The Ghost Club

    Writers never really die; their stories live on, to be found again, to be told again, to scare again. In Victorian London, a select group of writers, led by Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker and Henry James held an informal dining club, the price o...

  • Ramskull

    A Scottish tale of terror. When Sergeant Dave Wilkes and his constable, John Campbell, are called out to a remote island, it is to investigate a simple case of sheep worrying, what they think is a routine job. But upon arrival at Lei...

  • Operation: Antarctica

    S-Squad - 2

    When Captain John Banks and his squad are sent to investigate a derelict Nazi base in Antarctica, he expects to find only ice and dead men. But there is something in the domed hangar bay that has been waiting for decades for release. A weapon was pri...

  • Fungoid

    When the end came, it wasn’t zombies, asteroids, global warming or nuclear winter. It was something that escaped from a lab. Something small, and very hungry.It starts with deadly rain that delivers death where it falls, but soon the whole planet i...

  • In the House of the Dead

    In Victorian London, a select group of writers, led by Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker and Henry James held an informal Ghost Club, the price of entry to which was the telling of a story by each invited guest.This is one of the tales.Lost people a...

  • Tormentor

    This story isn't really about me. On the Isle of Skye, near the community of Dunvegan, sits a rustic old one-bedroom home, waiting for a new tenant. It seems like the perfect opportunity for Jim Greenwood to escape the hectic London city life-a place...

  • The Boathouse

  • Operation: Siberia

    S-Squad - 3

    When Captain John Banks and his squad are sent to investigate a zoo in Siberia, he expects to find tigers, bears, maybe elk But there is something there that is new, yet very, very old. Beasts that haven't walked the Earth since the last Ice Age have...

  • The Green and the Black

    A small group of industrial archaeologists head into the center of Newfoundland, investigating a rumor of a lost prospecting team of Irish miners in the late Nineteenth century. They find the remains of a mining operation, and a journal and papers de...

  • Operation: Amazon

    The members of S-Squad are looking for a break from their run of cold climate travails. So when a seemingly simple mission in Amazonia comes their way, they are looking forward to some welcome warmth. What they get is oppresive heat, biting insects, ...

  • The Auld Mither

    The Auld Mither, a crone-like hag with razor sharp bones for fingers, is killing off the proponents of a new abattoir in a deer farming community. And Dave Duncan seems to be next on the list. Can he figure out how to stop her? Or will he have to pay...

  • Home From The Sea

    In these pages you'll find some glowing fog, some mad scientists, some tentacled things, booze, dreaming gods, cigarettes, some boats of various sizes, a bar or two, some stiff upper lips, a ghosthunter, a great detective and a multitude of universes...

  • Into The Black

    In this collection you'll find some Mi-Go, Yog-Sototh, Shoggoths, King Arthur, British soldiers, some Deep Ones, scientists of various competencies, Roman centurions, the Antoinine Wall, a fair bit of singing and some green blobby stuff.12 Lovecrafti...

  • Operation: Mongolia

  • Bug Eyed Monsters

    THEY CAME FROM...THE SEA - a huge crab and a giant scorpion, ancient foes intent on battle, and woe betide anything or anyone who gets in their way.THE SANDS - deadly beetles, each bigger than a man, swarming and frenzied in defense of an ancient tem...

  • The Burdens

    A tale of an Afterlife. There are towers in the dark under yellow moons where your burdens are waiting for you to face them. You have a sword and your memory. Whether that is enough is up to you....

  • Generations

  • The Hackney Horror

    The best brains in the country are being hijacked from London - only the brains, the brutalized bodies being discarded after surgery.The chase to find the perpetrators takes Holmes and Watson to Scotland, and a factory where they discover invaders th...

  • The Long Sleep

    Three businessmen have discovered a unique avenue to fame and fortune, but when an unseen force begins to kill them off, Holmes and Watson must uncover the secret of the sarcophagus they have brought out of Persia. And time is of the essence, for som...

  • The Lost Husband

    The case of a lost husband leads Holmes and Watson into the bowels of the new Underground system, where they uncover a fiendish scheme - the recently deceased are being forced to work as unpaid labor in the tunnels. And soon the walking dead come up ...

  • Sherlock Holmes

    The case of a lost husband leads Holmes and Watson into the bowels of the new Underground system, where they uncover a fiendish scheme – the recently deceased are being forced to work as unpaid labor in the tunnels. And soon the walking dead co...

  • The Last Templar

    The Brotherhood is endangered, the Templars betrayed. Their only hope lies with two twins, separated at birth and raised worlds apart, each with an unbreakable will to discover the secrets that have been kept from them. One is destined to wield the d...

  • The Lost Valley

    A remote high valley in the Canadian Rockies hides an ecosystem that has been lost in time. A small team of prospectors and their local guides are looking for gold. What they find is blood and terror and death.The valley's monstrous inhabitants are n...

  • Gatekeeper

    A Lovecraftian Weird Science Novella When science goes wrong, it really goes wrong. An experiment off the Newfoundland coast during the Cold War leads to tragedy, one that the scientists involved feel compelled to rectify. What they discover is worse...

  • Hellfire

    A Midnight Eye FileA lost girl, a distraught grannieand a favor for a friend lead Derek to a vile cult in the heart of GlasgowAn antique mirror is hte key to the case, but can Derek unknot its secrets in time?Or will the succumnb to the Hellfire?...

  • Operation: North Sea

    The chill grey waters of the North Sea off the Scottish coast are treacherous at the best of times and become even more so when something attacks an offshore oil rig.An old friend calls for S-Squad's expertise but what they find is a bigger enemy by ...

  • The Sea Below

    The adventurers from THE LAND BELOW return to the cavern under the Austrian Alps.At first it is a rescue mission, but soon Danny, Stefan, Ed and Elsa find themselves in a fight for survival.A perilous journey across an underground sea brings them to ...

  • Faster Than the Hound

    John Seton is a grifter, an ex-pat Scots kid working penny-ante magic tricks on the streets of L.A.  But John has a secret. In his family, sometimes, the magic is real. And sometimes, it gets him noticed.An opportunity to make a quick buck sets ...

  • Operation London

    When a Minister opens his big mouth after too many beers in Parliament, the squad find themselves assigned to what seems a routine missing persons case in London. They soon discover that the job is their kind of thing after all. There's something gro...

  • Sea Hunters

    John Seton, a grizzled British sailor, is a sea monster hunter. When he takes on a job for an exclusive yacht club in South East Asia he expects it to be a simple one. It's only one beastie after all. But all too soon John and his crew discover that ...

  • Shallow Waters

    Dive into the spine-chilling realms of Shallow Waters: Haunting Halloween Edition, where shadows linger, and nothing stays buried. This anthology emerges from Crystal Lake's renowned flash fiction contest to provide lovers of horror with 18 eerie tal...

  • The Black Temple and Other Stories

    Lestrade of the Yard lives in the shadows of Holmes and Watson in the Conan Doyle canon. In this set of new supernatural cases the dogged Inspector comes into his own as he is taken to the dark corners of the old city that even Holmes does not see.Wa...

  • After Death

    A collection of tales of what comes after death. In here you'll find ghosts and zombies, heaven and hell, monsters both human and supernatural, a Great Detective, a couple of fiddles, the Great Beyond, the other Great Beyond, a retold fairy tale, and...

  • Operation North Pole

    It's cold, it's dark and Wiggo is worried about the future of the squad. When they arrive at a Research Station at the North Pole his worries are proved to be justified. But the squad's problem's only get worse as they uncover the scale of an unfoldi...

  • Sigils

    It is a simple enough concept. There are houses like this all over the world. Most people only know of them from whispered stories over campfires; tall tales told to scare the unwary. But some, those who suffer, some know better. They are drawn to th...

  • Totems

    It is a simple enough concept. There are houses like this all over the world. Most people only know of them from whispered stories over campfires; tall tales told to scare the unwary. But some, those who suffer, some know better. They are drawn to th...

  • Hellfire

    The Midnight Eye Files - 4

    A Midnight Eye FileA lost girl, a distraught grannie and a favor for a friend lead Derek to a vile cult in the heart of Glasgow. Old Glasgow still lies, slumbering, a dreaming god waiting for the stars to be right again. It can be found in the p...

  • An Unholy Triquetra

    Three unique voices in today's horror bring you new takes on an old power that threatens to reshape our world. Celtic legends are reborn within these pages, with fresh stories guaranteed to spark nightmares in the vein of Grimm's pre-Disneyfied fairy...

  • The Midnight Exhibit Vol. 3

    Kidnapping is simple, if you know what you're doing, even simpler if you do away with anyone who knew you were involved. Riding high with a backpack full of cash, Johnny makes his getaway, first by car (where he catches the final episode of a radio d...

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William Meikle has published 93 books.

William Meikle does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Midnight Exhibit Vol. 3, was published in September 2023.

The first book by William Meikle, Watchers of the Wall, was published in April 2002.

Yes. William Meikle has 3 series.
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