Anthologies#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Darkness Rising, Volume 1: Night’s Soft Pains |
2001 |
Buy |
| Beneath The Ground |
2002 |
Buy |
| Shadow Writers: v. 2 |
2003 |
Buy |
| We Fade To Grey |
2008 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One |
2009 |
Buy |
| Never Again |
2010 |
Buy |
| The End of the Line |
2010 |
Buy |
| Estronomicon Halloween Special 2011 |
2011 |
N/A |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four |
2012 |
Buy |
| Tales of the Nun and Dragon |
2012 |
Buy |
| The Best British Fantasy 2013 |
2013 |
Buy |
| Twisted Histories |
2013 |
Buy |
| X7: A Seven Deadly Sins Anthology |
2013 |
Buy |
| Horror Uncut |
2014 |
Buy |
| Game Over |
2015 |
Buy |
| 2nd Spectral Book of Horror Stories |
2015 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve |
2020 |
Buy |
| Body Shocks |
2021 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen |
2022 |
Buy |
| Fears: Tales of Psychological Horror |
2024 |
Buy |
| Creepshow: 13 Tales of Terror |
2026 |
Buy |
Best Horror of the Year Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One |
2009 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two |
2010 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine |
2017 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four |
2012 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five |
2013 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six |
2014 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven |
2015 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve |
2020 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight |
2016 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three |
2011 |
Buy |
| The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen |
2021 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven |
2019 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen |
2022 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen |
2024 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen |
2024 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen |
2025 |
Buy |
Black Road Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Hell’s Ditch |
2015 |
Buy |
| Devil’s Highway |
2016 |
Buy |
| Wolf’s Hill |
2018 |
Buy |
Black Shuck Shadows Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Tales of New Mexico |
2017 |
Buy |
| Unquiet Waters |
2017 |
Buy |
| The Life Cycle |
2017 |
Buy |
| The Death of Boys |
2018 |
Buy |
| Broken on the Inside |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Martledge Variations |
2018 |
Buy |
| Singing Back the Dark |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Spirits of Christmas |
2019 |
Buy |
| Winter Freits |
2019 |
Buy |
| The Dead |
2019 |
Buy |
| The Forest of Dead Children |
2019 |
Buy |
| At Home in the Shadows |
2019 |
Buy |
| Suffer Little Children |
2019 |
Buy |
| Shadowcats |
2019 |
Buy |
| Flowers of War |
2019 |
Buy |
| Green Fingers |
2020 |
Buy |
| Uneasy Beginnings |
2020 |
Buy |
| Three Mothers, One Father |
2020 |
Buy |
| The Adventures of Mr Polkington |
2020 |
Buy |
| Voices |
2020 |
Buy |
| The Watcher in the Woods |
2020 |
Buy |
| Nine Ghosts |
2021 |
Buy |
| Waterlore |
2023 |
Buy |
Chapter#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Angels of the Silences |
2011 |
Buy |
Collections#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| A Hazy Shade Of Winter |
2004 |
Buy |
| Pictures of the Dark |
2009 |
Buy |
| Let’s Drink To The Dead |
2012 |
Buy |
| The Condemned |
2013 |
Buy |
| Judgement Call / Along the Long Road |
2018 |
Buy |
| And Cannot Come Again |
2019 |
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 |
| The Narrows |
2008 |
Buy |
| Dermot |
2011 |
Buy |
| Breakwater |
2018 |
Buy |
| Roth-Steyr |
2020 |
Buy |
| Jaeger |
2024 |
Buy |
Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Faceless |
2012 |
Buy |
| The Feast of All Souls |
2016 |
Buy |
| A Different Kind of Light |
2021 |
Buy |
| Devils Of London |
2021 |
Buy |
| Black Mountain |
2021 |
Buy |
The Black Books of Horror Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Black Book of Horror |
2007 |
Buy |
| The Spectral Book of Horror Stories |
2014 |
N/A |
| The Third Black Book of Horror |
2008 |
Buy |
| 2nd Spectral Book of Horror Stories |
2015 |
N/A |
| The Fifth Black Book of Horror |
2009 |
Buy |
| The Eighth Black Book of Horror |
2011 |
Buy |
| The Ninth Black Book of Horror |
2012 |
Buy |
| The Tenth Black Book of Horror |
2013 |
Buy |
Tomes of the Dead Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Death Hulk |
2006 |
Buy |
| The Words of Their Roaring |
2007 |
Buy |
| The Devil’s Plague |
2007 |
Buy |
| Anno Mortis |
2008 |
Buy |
| I, Zombie |
2008 |
Buy |
| Way of the Barefoot Zombie |
2009 |
Buy |
| Tide of Souls |
2009 |
Buy |
| Tide of Souls: Tombs of the Dead |
2009 |
N/A |
| Hungry Hearts |
2009 |
Buy |
| Tomes of the Dead: Hungry Hearts |
2009 |
N/A |
| Stronghold |
2010 |
Buy |
| Empire of Salt |
2010 |
Buy |
| Viking Dead |
2011 |
Buy |
| Double Dead |
2011 |
N/A |
| Brain-Eating Britain |
2013 |
Buy |
| Bad Blood |
2012 |
N/A |
| The Secret Zombie History of the World |
2013 |
Buy |
| Dead Stop |
2014 |
Buy |
| The Lazarus Conundrum |
2015 |
Buy |
| The Sea Hates a Coward |
2015 |
N/A |
| Grand Amazon |
2016 |
N/A |
| The Death and Life of Schneider Wrack |
2017 |
Buy |
Simon Bestwick has been a fixture in British horror fiction since 2001, when his first anthology contribution appeared in Darkness Rising. His output is prolific, covering novels, novellas, short story collections, and contributions to well over twenty anthologies. He writes horror that ranges from post-apocalyptic survival to quiet, unsettling ghost stories.
His Black Road trilogy (Hell’s Ditch, Devil’s Highway, Wolf’s Hill) is his most substantial series, set in a devastated Britain where survivors face both human and supernatural threats. Outside of that, his short fiction has been recognized with appearances in Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year anthologies. Collections like A Hazy Shade of Winter, Pictures of the Dark, and And Cannot Come Again gather his best shorter work across different periods of his career.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Simon Bestwick written?
Simon Bestwick has written 119 books across eleven series.
What was Simon Bestwick's first book?
Simon Bestwick’s first book is Darkness Rising, Volume 1: Night’s Soft Pains, published in 2001.
What is Simon Bestwick best known for?
Bestwick is best known for his Black Road trilogy of post-apocalyptic horror novels and his extensive short fiction, which has appeared in the Best Horror of the Year anthology series and dozens of other collections. He has won the British Fantasy Award for his work.