Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Those Across the River | 2011 | Christopher Buehlman | Buy |
| 2 | Between Two Fires | 2012 | Christopher Buehlman | Buy |
| 3 | The Necromancer’s House | 2013 | Christopher Buehlman | Buy |
| 4 | The Lesser Dead | 2014 | Christopher Buehlman | Buy |
| 5 | The Suicide Motor Club | 2016 | Christopher Buehlman | Buy |
Christopher Buehlman’s five standalone horror novels each take a different historical period and location and add something monstrous. Those Across the River (2011) is set in a small Georgia town during the Great Depression, where a writer and his girlfriend discover that the locals have a terrifying arrangement with something in the nearby woods. Between Two Fires (2012), set during the Black Plague in 14th-century France, follows a disgraced knight and a mysterious girl on a journey to Avignon while fallen angels hunt them.
The Necromancer’s House (2013) moves to modern-day upstate New York, where a recovering alcoholic who happens to be a powerful magician faces a threat from a Russian witch. The Lesser Dead (2014) tells the story of a vampire community living in the New York subway system in the 1970s, and The Suicide Motor Club (2016) follows a group of vampires who kill motorists on American highways and the nun who sets out to stop them. Each novel works as a complete story, and they can be read in any order.