Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Night Stalker | 1973 | Stuart M. Kaminsky | Buy |
| 2 | The Night Strangler | 1974 | Stuart M. Kaminsky | Buy |
| 3 | Fever Pitch | 2003 | Stuart M. Kaminsky | Buy |
| 4 | Lambs to the Slaughter | 2003 | Stuart M. Kaminsky | Buy |
| 5 | Devil in the Details | 2003 | Stuart M. Kaminsky | Buy |
| 6 | Get of Belial | 2003 | Stuart M. Kaminsky | Buy |
| 7 | Pain Without Tears | 2004 | Stuart M. Kaminsky | Buy |
| 8 | Kolchak the Night Stalker Volume 1 | 2004 | Stuart M. Kaminsky | Buy |
| 9 | Kolchak: The Night Stalker Chronicles | 2005 | Stuart M. Kaminsky | Buy |
| 10 | Terror Within | 2006 | Stuart M. Kaminsky | Buy |
| 11 | Bare Bones | 2006 | Stuart M. Kaminsky | Buy |
| 12 | A Black & Evil Truth | 2007 | Stuart M. Kaminsky | Buy |
| 13 | The Lovecraftian Horror | 2007 | Stuart M. Kaminsky | Buy |
| 14 | The Kolchak Papers | 2007 | Stuart M. Kaminsky | Buy |
| 15 | Sound of Fear | 2008 | Stuart M. Kaminsky | Buy |
| 16 | The Rise & Fall of Carl Kolchak | 2009 | Stuart M. Kaminsky | Buy |
| 17 | Cry Of Thunder | 2010 | Stuart M. Kaminsky | Buy |
| 18 | Compendium | 2011 | Stuart M. Kaminsky | Buy |
| 19 | The Lost World | 2012 | Stuart M. Kaminsky | Buy |
| 20 | Kolchak and the Lost World | 2012 | Stuart M. Kaminsky | Buy |
| 21 | Necronomicon | 2012 | Stuart M. Kaminsky | Buy |
| 22 | Passages of the Macabre | 2016 | Stuart M. Kaminsky | Buy |
The Kolchak: The Night Stalker books follow Carl Kolchak, a rumpled newspaper reporter who keeps stumbling onto supernatural cases that no one believes. The character originated in Jeff Rice’s unpublished novel The Kolchak Papers, which was adapted into the 1972 TV movie The Night Stalker starring Darren McGavin. Stuart M. Kaminsky wrote the novelization of the sequel TV movie, The Night Strangler, in 1974.
Starting in 2003, Moonstone Publishing revived the character with a series of original novels and graphic novels by various authors. These later entries range from prose mysteries to comic book formats, expanding Kolchak’s world well beyond the original TV movies and short-lived 1974 series. The full list here includes both the original novelizations and the Moonstone-era publications.