Ameri-scares Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Ameri-scares New York |
2013 |
Buy |
| Ameri-scares Virginia |
2013 |
Buy |
| Ameri-scares California |
2013 |
Buy |
| Ameri-scares Maryland |
2013 |
Buy |
| Ameri-Scares Illinois |
2014 |
Buy |
| Ameri-Scares North Carolina |
2018 |
Buy |
| Ameri-Scares: North Carolina: Mountain of Mysteries |
2018 |
N/A |
| Ameri-Scares West Virginia |
2019 |
Buy |
| Ameri-scares Tennessee |
2019 |
Buy |
| Ameri-Scares Michigan |
2019 |
Buy |
| Ameri-Scares Montana |
2020 |
Buy |
| Ameri-scares Ohio |
2020 |
Buy |
| Ameri-Scares Washington |
2021 |
Buy |
| Ameri-Scares New Hampshire |
2021 |
Buy |
| Ameri-Scares Georgia |
2022 |
Buy |
| Ameri-Scares Hawai’i |
2023 |
Buy |
| Ameri-Scares New Jersey |
2023 |
Buy |
| Ameri-Scares Pennsylvania |
2024 |
Buy |
American Chills Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Maryland: Ghost Harbor |
1995 |
Buy |
| Virginia: Valley of Vampires |
1995 |
Buy |
Anthologies#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Borderlands 1 |
1990 |
Buy |
| Best New Horror 2 |
1991 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection |
1991 |
Buy |
| Fourth Annual Collection |
1991 |
Buy |
| Borderlands 3 |
1991 |
Buy |
| Still Dead |
1992 |
Buy |
| Splatterpunks II |
1993 |
Buy |
| Hottest Blood |
1993 |
Buy |
| Millenium |
1997 |
Buy |
| The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women |
2001 |
Buy |
| Deadly Housewives |
2006 |
Buy |
| Twisted Cat Tales |
2006 |
Buy |
| Travel Guide to the Haunted Mid-Atlantic Region |
2006 |
Buy |
| Best New Horror 17 |
2006 |
Buy |
| Kolchak: The Night Stalker Casebook |
2006 |
Buy |
| Summer Chills |
2007 |
Buy |
| The Big Book of NECON |
2009 |
Buy |
| Legends of the Mountain State 3 |
2009 |
Buy |
| Appalachian Winter Hauntings |
2009 |
Buy |
| Legends Of The Mountain State 4 |
2010 |
Buy |
| Darkness on the Edge: Tales Inspired by the Songs of Bruce Springsteen |
2010 |
Buy |
| Chicks in Capes |
2010 |
Buy |
| What Fears Become |
2011 |
Buy |
| Lore: A Quaint and Curious Volume of Selected Stories |
2011 |
Buy |
| Extreme Zombies |
2012 |
Buy |
| Psychos |
2012 |
Buy |
| Appalachian Undead |
2012 |
Buy |
| The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women |
2012 |
Buy |
| Beyond Rue Morgue Anthology: Further Tales of Edgar Allan Poe’s 1st Detective |
2013 |
Buy |
| Vampires Don’t Sparkle! |
2013 |
Buy |
| Shadow Masters |
2013 |
Buy |
| Mister October, Volume I: An Anthology in Memory of Rick Hautala |
2013 |
Buy |
| Piercing the Darkness |
2014 |
Buy |
| Qualia Nous |
2014 |
Buy |
| Eulogies III |
2015 |
Buy |
| Chiral Mad 3 |
2016 |
Buy |
| Chiral Mad 4 |
2018 |
Buy |
| Fantastic Tales of Terror |
2018 |
Buy |
| Dark Tides |
2019 |
Buy |
| Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the MostHaunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World |
2021 |
Buy |
| Dark Murmurs: A Compendium of Curiosities |
2022 |
Buy |
| Deathrealm Spirits |
2023 |
Buy |
| The Drive-In: Multiplex |
2024 |
Buy |
| The Horror Collection Onyx Edition |
2026 |
Buy |
Collections#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Stephen |
1990 |
N/A |
| The Selected Works of Elizabeth Massie |
1993 |
Buy |
| Southern Discomfort |
1993 |
Buy |
| Shadow Dreams |
1996 |
Buy |
| Sundown |
2011 |
Buy |
| Afraid |
2011 |
Buy |
| Naked, on the Edge |
2012 |
Buy |
| Night Benedictions |
2015 |
Buy |
| It, Watching |
2017 |
Buy |
| Madame Cruller’s Couch and Other Dark and Bizarre Tales |
2021 |
Buy |
| The Wages of Belief and Other Stories from the Dark Side |
2025 |
Buy |
Crossroad Press Ladies of Horror Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| In Silence Sealed |
1988 |
Buy |
| Take My Breath Away |
1997 |
Buy |
| Suffer the Flesh |
2002 |
Buy |
| The Wind Caller |
2004 |
Buy |
| 13½ |
2009 |
Buy |
| Esperanza |
2010 |
Buy |
| For Emmy |
2011 |
Buy |
| How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend |
2011 |
Buy |
| The Devil Inside Her |
2012 |
Buy |
| Collective Suicide |
2012 |
Buy |
| Absalom’s Wake |
2012 |
Buy |
| Zombie - A Love Story |
2013 |
Buy |
| Messages From The Dead |
2013 |
Buy |
| Ashes |
2013 |
Buy |
| Hell Gate |
2013 |
Buy |
| Dawn’s Bright Talons |
2014 |
Buy |
| The Color of Bone of Horror Fiction |
2014 |
Buy |
| Let It Bleed |
2014 |
Buy |
| The Mighty Quinn |
2014 |
Buy |
| Scarabus: The Tale of the Mummy |
2016 |
Buy |
| House of Pain |
2016 |
Buy |
| Orphans |
2016 |
Buy |
| Blue Honey and The Valley of Shadow |
2017 |
Buy |
| The Genesis Code |
2017 |
Buy |
| Trust the Night |
2018 |
Buy |
| Singularity and Other Stories |
2018 |
Buy |
| Sacrificial Lambs and Others |
2018 |
Buy |
| Sacrifice Island |
2018 |
Buy |
| Cravings |
2018 |
Buy |
| Beautiful, Broken Things |
2018 |
Buy |
| Madame Vampire |
2018 |
Buy |
| EuroMedika |
2018 |
Buy |
| Dark Music |
2019 |
Buy |
| Seeds of Evil |
2019 |
Buy |
| Fractured Souls: More Hauntings at the Peoria State Hospital |
2019 |
Buy |
| Cold Comforts |
2019 |
Buy |
| A Fresh Start |
2019 |
Buy |
| Strange Tales |
2019 |
Buy |
| The Bloodmane Chronicles |
2020 |
Buy |
| Skull Feeder |
2020 |
Buy |
| Spires |
2021 |
Buy |
| Voices in the Darkness |
2021 |
Buy |
| Isolation |
2022 |
Buy |
Daughters of Liberty Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Patsy’s Discovery |
1997 |
Buy |
| Patsy and the Declaration |
1997 |
Buy |
| Barbara’s Escape |
1997 |
Buy |
Historical Disasters Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 |
1997 |
Buy |
| The Great Chicago Fire, 1871 |
1999 |
Buy |
| Hindenburg, 1937 |
1999 |
Buy |
| Louisiana Hurricane, 1860 |
2000 |
Buy |
| Washington Avalanche, 1910 |
2000 |
Buy |
| Pearl Harbor, 1941 |
2001 |
Buy |
Macabre Ink Resurrected Horrors Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Cats |
1977 |
Buy |
| Legion of the Dead |
1979 |
Buy |
| Night Songs |
1984 |
Buy |
| Cat Magic |
1986 |
Buy |
| Shadow Child |
1987 |
Buy |
| The Kill Riff |
1988 |
Buy |
| Crucifax |
1988 |
Buy |
| Dreamthorp |
1989 |
Buy |
| Rest in Peace |
1990 |
Buy |
| Where the Chill Waits |
1991 |
Buy |
| Sineater |
1992 |
Buy |
| Nightscape |
1992 |
Buy |
| Dark Silence |
1992 |
Buy |
| Animals |
1993 |
Buy |
| I Am Dracula |
1993 |
Buy |
| Undertaker’s Moon |
2011 |
Buy |
| Wild Card |
2016 |
Buy |
| Night Visions |
2020 |
Buy |
Necon Modern Horror Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Fear Report |
2004 |
Buy |
| The Wind Caller |
2004 |
Buy |
| Sympathy for the Dead |
2010 |
Buy |
| The Secret Backs of Things |
2010 |
Buy |
| How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend |
2011 |
Buy |
| Death’s Companion |
2012 |
Buy |
| Dark Duet |
2012 |
Buy |
| The Whispers of Crows |
2012 |
Buy |
| Snowbird Gothic |
2013 |
Buy |
| The School That Screamed |
2013 |
Buy |
| The Only Red is Blood |
2018 |
Buy |
Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Sineater |
1992 |
Buy |
| Welcome Back to the Night |
1999 |
Buy |
| Dreams of the Dark |
1999 |
Buy |
| Wire Mesh Mothers |
2001 |
Buy |
| Homegrown |
2010 |
Buy |
| Desper Hollow |
2013 |
Buy |
| Hell Gate |
2013 |
Buy |
| D.D. Murphry, Secret Policeman |
2014 |
Buy |
| Versailles |
2015 |
Buy |
| The Great Chicago Fire |
2022 |
Buy |
The Tudors Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The King, the Queen, and the Mistress |
2007 |
Buy |
| King Takes Queen |
2008 |
Buy |
| Thy Will Be Done |
2008 |
Buy |
Wonder Tales Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Silver Slut: And So It Begins |
2016 |
Buy |
| Silver Slut: You Gotta Be Kiddin’ Me! |
2016 |
Buy |
| Silver Slut: Bam Bam Shabam! |
2017 |
Buy |
| Silver Slut: Yip Snort Me-OW! |
2017 |
Buy |
Young Founders Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| 1870: Not With Our Blood of the Irish in America |
1997 |
Buy |
| 1609: Winter of the Dead of the Founding of Jamestown |
2000 |
Buy |
| 1776: Son of Liberty of the American Revolution |
2000 |
Buy |
| 1863: A House Divided of the Civil War |
2000 |
Buy |
Elizabeth Massie is a prolific horror and fiction writer based in Virginia. She won the Bram Stoker Award early in her career and has been a steady presence in the horror genre since the early 1990s. Her work ranges from adult horror novels to children’s scary stories, historical fiction for young readers, and dozens of short story contributions to anthologies.
Her adult horror includes the Necon Modern Horror series and her own standalone novels like Sineater and Wire Mesh Mothers. On the younger reader side, the Ameri-scares series puts horror in an American state-by-state format, while American Chills and the Daughters of Liberty series target middle-grade audiences with different genres. She has also written historical fiction through her Young Founders books and the Historical Disasters series.
Massie’s anthology contributions are extensive, appearing in collections alongside other major names in horror fiction over a career spanning more than three decades. Her short story collections, from Southern Discomfort to The Wages of Belief, show the range of her shorter work.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Elizabeth Massie written?
Elizabeth Massie has written 177 books across thirteen series.
What was Elizabeth Massie's first book?
Elizabeth Massie’s first book is The Cats, published in 1977.
What awards has Elizabeth Massie won?
Elizabeth Massie has won the Bram Stoker Award for her horror fiction. Her debut novel Sineater received significant recognition in the horror community when it was published in 1992.