Anthologies#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Grindhouse |
2012 |
Buy |
| The Black Room Manuscripts Volume Two |
2016 |
Buy |
Collections#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Under The Red Meadow |
2016 |
Buy |
Dark Minds Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Slaughter Beach |
2015 |
Buy |
| What They Find in the Woods |
2016 |
Buy |
| Kids |
2016 |
Buy |
| Ruin |
2016 |
Buy |
| Naming the Bones |
2017 |
Buy |
| Winter Holiday |
2018 |
Buy |
| A Love Like Blood |
2019 |
Buy |
Short Stories/Novellas#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Fallen Soldier |
2016 |
Buy |
| Fathoms |
2016 |
Buy |
| Scavengers |
2016 |
Buy |
| Deathcrawl |
2016 |
Buy |
| King Carrion |
2016 |
Buy |
| She Hunts in the Woods |
2017 |
Buy |
| Pale Ghost |
2017 |
Buy |
| Warm Shelter |
2017 |
Buy |
Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Black Star Black Sun |
2015 |
Buy |
| Black Flower Butterfly |
2018 |
Buy |
| Maniac Gods |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Cold |
2019 |
Buy |
The Last Plague Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Last Plague |
2014 |
Buy |
| The Last Soldier |
2016 |
Buy |
| The Last Outpost |
2020 |
Buy |
Year of the Zombie Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Killchain |
2015 |
Buy |
| The Plague Winter |
2016 |
Buy |
| The Yacht |
2016 |
Buy |
| Z-Hunt |
2016 |
Buy |
| Geraint Wyn: Zombie Killer |
2016 |
Buy |
| Little Monster |
2016 |
Buy |
| Ride the Serpentine |
2016 |
Buy |
| Scratch |
2016 |
Buy |
| 1975 |
2016 |
N/A |
| Nock |
2016 |
Buy |
| One of Them |
2016 |
Buy |
| Last Christmas |
2016 |
Buy |
| Year of the Zombie |
2018 |
Buy |
Rich Hawkins is based in Salisbury, in the south-west of England, and has been publishing horror since 2014 with a sustained output that makes him one of the more prolific authors in UK indie horror publishing. His debut, The Last Plague (2014), was nominated for the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel and announced a writer comfortable with the sustained grimness that creature and post-apocalyptic horror requires.
His work ranges from the epidemic horror of The Last Plague trilogy to the more explicitly Lovecraftian territory of Black Star, Black Sun and Maniac Gods, where ancient entities and cults bring a different kind of dread to his English settings. The Dark Minds novella series and his contributions to the Year of the Zombie anthology project represent the shorter-form work that has run parallel to his novels throughout his career.
Hawkins’s output was most concentrated between 2015 and 2019, a period in which he published across all his major series and standalone projects with remarkable consistency. His influence comes from British horror’s tradition of finding monsters in pastoral settings — the countryside and small towns of his books are not safe places — and from Stephen King’s interest in how ordinary people fall apart under pressure.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Rich Hawkins written?
Rich Hawkins has written 38 books across seven series.
What was Rich Hawkins's first book?
Rich Hawkins’s first book is Grindhouse, published in 2012.
What is Rich Hawkins's writing like?
Hawkins writes horror with a strong emphasis on atmosphere, body horror, and the collapse of ordinary life under extraordinary threat. The Last Plague series is post-apocalyptic creature horror in which infected humans hunt the survivors of an epidemic. His Dark Minds contributions are standalone horror novellas. His standalone novels like Black Star, Black Sun and Maniac Gods bring in Lovecraftian cosmic horror — ancient entities, obsession, the disintegration of sanity under impossible knowledge. He cites Stephen King, particularly The Stand, as a formative influence, and his work shares that novel’s interest in how communities and individuals respond when civilization fails.