Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Slaughter Beach | 2015 | Rich Hawkins | Buy |
| 2 | What They Find in the Woods | 2016 | Rich Hawkins | Buy |
| 3 | Kids | 2016 | Rich Hawkins | Buy |
| 4 | Ruin | 2016 | Rich Hawkins | Buy |
| 5 | Naming the Bones | 2017 | Rich Hawkins | Buy |
| 6 | Winter Holiday | 2018 | Rich Hawkins | Buy |
| 7 | A Love Like Blood | 2019 | Rich Hawkins | Buy |
Dark Minds is a British horror novella series, with each entry publishing a standalone piece of dark fiction from different authors in the series’ network. Rich Hawkins contributed Ruin (2016), a novella about an alien object landing in England and spreading a blight that forces a father to try to reach his son in quarantine — a story that shares the collapse-of-normal-life concern of his Last Plague series but on a smaller, more personal scale.
The other entries in this section of the catalog — including Slaughter Beach (2015), What They Find in the Woods (2016), Kids (2016), Naming the Bones (2017), Winter Holiday (2018), and A Love Like Blood (2019) — represent the broader Dark Minds novella series and its contributors across five years of publication, collecting dark fiction of varying types under the Dark Minds Press imprint.