Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Creeper Man / And the Trees Crept In |
2016 |
Buy |
| The Madness |
2024 |
Buy |
| The Thorns |
2025 |
Buy |
| The Seventh Sister |
2026 |
Buy |
The Conjures Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Teeth in the Mist |
2019 |
Buy |
| Blood on the Wind |
2024 |
Buy |
The Dead House Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Dead House |
2015 |
Buy |
| The Naida Tapes |
2016 |
Buy |
Dawn Kurtagich is a British author who grew up across multiple continents, spending her formative years in South Africa before moving to the UK at twelve. She attended fifteen schools by eighteen. At twenty-five, she received a life-saving liver transplant after going into liver failure from an unknown cause. She began writing her first novel during recovery.
Her debut, The Dead House (2015), is a YA horror novel told through diary entries, interview transcripts, and police records, about a girl with two souls sharing one body. It was a YALSA Top 10 pick and has been optioned for television. And the Trees Crept In (2016) is a standalone about two sisters trapped in a country house surrounded by an encroaching forest. Her Conjures series, starting with Teeth in the Mist (2019), draws on the legend of Faust. In 2024 she published The Madness, a modern Dracula retelling and her first adult novel, which was pre-empted in a six-figure, two-book deal. The Thorns (2025) explores a controlling friendship at a South African boarding school, and The Seventh Sister (2026) is folk horror about seven sisters sent to a remote island after their parents’ death.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Dawn Kurtagich written?
Dawn Kurtagich has written 8 books across 3 series.
What was Dawn Kurtagich's first book?
Dawn Kurtagich’s first book is The Dead House, published in 2015.
What is The Madness about?
The Madness (2024) is Dawn Kurtagich’s adult debut novel, a retelling of Bram Stoker’s Dracula set in modern-day North Wales and London. Psychiatrist Mina Murray receives an email from her estranged friend Lucy and is pulled into a mystery involving missing girls and a nameless, powerful force. The book uses vampires as a way to explore sexual assault.