Cassandra Khaw Books in Order

Rupert Wong cooks human delicacies for ghouls by day and works for the Ten Chinese Hells by night, which is already too much career path for one man. Then a dragon god forces him to investigate a murder that could start a war between pantheons.

Private investigator John Persons is hired by a ten-year-old boy to kill his abusive stepfather. The case would be ugly enough already, except both hunter and prey are far more monstrous than they first appear.

A grieving musician finds a terrible song rising inside him, and the thing listening on the other end is hungry. This novella mixes cosmic horror with blues, memory, and the ache of trying to stay human.

Zelda McCartney is a stylish werebear with a dream job, a vampire roommate, and a love life that gets messier by the page. A bodyguard assignment, an old crush, and a longtime crush collide in this queer paranormal rom-com.

This omnibus gathers Rupert Wong's first two gruesome adventures, from Kuala Lumpur's hungry gods to London's messier pantheons. Rupert is a cannibal chef, a clerk for the Ten Chinese Hells, and very much not prepared for any of it.

Exiled from Kuala Lumpur and dumped into London's divine underworld, Rupert Wong finds himself serving Greek gods and stumbling into a deadly conspiracy. The sequel widens the world while keeping Rupert's snark, panic, and talent for surviving trouble.

A king's second wife, the Witch Bride, lives under the sharp gaze of her young stepson in a court full of fear and resentment. The story turns fairy-tale tension into compact, unsettling horror.

Rupert Wong gets swept into an end-times road trip with assassins, prophets, and god killers as old powers vanish and worse ones rise. It is apocalyptic urban fantasy, full of gore, jokes, and bad odds.

A group of old friends rents an abandoned Heian-era mansion for a wedding celebration and walks straight into a haunting. Ghosts, buried grudges, and a lonely bride in the walls make the night spiral fast.

A crew of scarred, near-immortal ex-mercenaries reunites to uncover what really happened on their last disastrous mission. Ancient AI, biotech horror, and old betrayals make this a vicious, intimate space opera.

Three Vampire: The Masquerade novellas show different corners of the World of Darkness, from lonely recruits to bad immortality deals and the brutal economics of blood. It is a strong entry point for readers who want vampire politics, hunger, and modern horror.

This collection gathers Khaw's short fiction across horror, fantasy, and science fiction, with stories about grief, hunger, bodies, and strange kinds of love. It is the best place to sample the full range of their voice.

Julie Crews is a burned out freelance magician hustling ugly exorcism gigs in New York’s occult underbelly. A desperate move to protect her best friend unleashes an elder god and a vengeful archangel, leaving Julie scrambling to save her city and whatever shreds of reality she can.

After her daughters devour a kingdom, a mermaid flees with a plague doctor into a frozen landscape of blood and rot. Their path leads to a village of strange children and a fairy tale that only gets darker.

Kidnapped into an academy for world-ending monsters, Alessa Li is told Hellebore will make her safe and normal. Then graduation day turns into a feast, and the surviving students must fight their teachers to get out alive.

Antigone knows the women in her family meet death as a black dog, and when hers finally arrives she lets it in. What follows is a dark, intimate meditation on exhaustion, choice, and the price of a good death.