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Cassandra Khaw Books in Order

Explore Cassandra Khaw books in order, with quick summaries, related series, collaborations, and tips on where to start with their horror and fantasy.

Last updated: July 10, 2026

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Rupert Wong, Cannibal Chef

by Cassandra Khaw

2015

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.

Hammers on Bone

by Cassandra Khaw

2016

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 Song for Quiet

by Cassandra Khaw

2017

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.

Bearly a Lady

by Cassandra Khaw

2017

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.

Food of the Gods

by Cassandra Khaw

2017

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.

Rupert Wong and the Ends of the Earth

by Cassandra Khaw

2017

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.

These Deathless Bones

by Cassandra Khaw

2017

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.

The Last Supper Before Ragnarok

by Cassandra Khaw

2019

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.

The World of Critical Role

by Mike Chen

2020

This illustrated guide traces how a home game between friends grew into Critical Role, with lore, artwork, photos, and behind-the-scenes stories. It is part history, part world guide, and part love letter to Exandria.

Kith & Kin

by Mike Chen

2021

Before Vox Machina, twins Vex and Vax were just trying to stay fed, stay free, and stay together. A deal with the Clasp in Westruun sends them and Trinket into danger, sharpening the bond that defines them.

Nothing But Blackened Teeth

by Cassandra Khaw

2021

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.

The All-Consuming World

by Cassandra Khaw

2021

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.

Walk Among Us

by Cassandra Khaw

2021

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.

Breakable Things

by Cassandra Khaw

2022

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.

The Mighty Nein—The Nine Eyes of Lucien

by Mike Chen

2022

Lucien claws his way up from the streets of Shadycreek Run to the dangerous crew called the Tombtakers, always betting on his own charm and nerve. A ruined city, a whispering journal, and nine red eyes turn his ambition into tragedy.

Exquisite Exandria

by Mike Chen

2023

This official cookbook turns Exandria into sixty recipes, from pastries and street food to cocktails and hearty traveler meals. Along the way, it adds bits of setting lore and nods to Vox Machina, the Mighty Nein, and Bells Hells.

The Dead Take the A Train

by Cassandra Khaw

2023

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.

The Salt Grows Heavy

by Cassandra Khaw

2023

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.

Bells Hells - What Doesn't Break

by Mike Chen

2024

Before Bells Hells found her, Laudna wandered Exandria with one dangerous voice always in her ear. This prequel follows her lost years from Whitestone to Jrusar, where wanting more might cost her everything.

The Library at Hellebore

by Cassandra Khaw

2025

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.

Tusk Love

by Mike Chen

2025

When bandits wreck her future, merchant's daughter Guinevere has little choice but to travel the Amber Road with Oskar, the guarded half-orc who saved her. Adventure, danger, and slow-burning attraction do the rest.

Vox Machina--Stories Untold

by Mike Chen

2025

Ten stories revisit Vox Machina through the eyes of allies, enemies, and bystanders whose lives they changed. It is an anthology built on side angles, old grudges, and the long wake heroes leave behind.

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Find Me Where It Ends

by Cassandra Khaw

2026

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.

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The Mighty Nein--Stories Untold

by Mike Chen

2026

Nine stories look at the Mighty Nein from the perspectives of friends, foes, and everyone caught in their orbit. It is an anthology of aftermath, unfinished business, and lives altered by one messy heroic party.

Where should I start?

If you want cosmic detective horror: Hammers on BoneA Song for Quiet
If you want myth-soaked urban fantasy: Rupert Wong, Cannibal ChefRupert Wong and the Ends of the EarthThe Last Supper Before Ragnarok
If you want standalone gothic horror: Nothing But Blackened TeethThe Salt Grows HeavyThe Library at Hellebore
If you want science fiction with teeth: The All-Consuming World

Author bio

Cassandra Khaw was born in Kuala Lumpur and grew up in Malaysia, in a world of fairy tales, science books, superstition, and horror movies. That mix still powers the work: myth beside body horror, black humor beside grief, beauty beside teeth.

They came to horror honestly.

Khaw wrote early, read constantly, and for a while imagined a future in forensic science. Adult life took a less direct route. They spent years in games and tech journalism, then moved into narrative and game writing, work that sharpened their feel for systems, pacing, and the ways people break under pressure.

The fiction breakthrough was Hammers on Bone, a hard-boiled novella that pits a private investigator against abuse, monsters, and something older than either. Its companion, A Song for Quiet, keeps the cosmic dread but shifts toward music, grief, and the sound of something terrible trying to get in.

Then came Rupert Wong. In Rupert Wong, Cannibal Chef, Rupert Wong and the Ends of the Earth, and The Last Supper Before Ragnarok, Khaw built a loud, strange urban fantasy around a former triad soldier who cooks for ghouls, works for the Ten Chinese Hells, and keeps getting dragged into fights between gods. Set first in Kuala Lumpur and then much farther afield, those books pull together Southeast Asian mythology, deadpan humor, bureaucracy, and gore. Rupert is funny, frightened, and usually in over his head, which makes him a very Cassandra Khaw kind of hero.

Monsters are only half the story.

Khaw can jump scale without losing intensity. The All-Consuming World takes that energy into science fiction, following scarred near-immortal mercenaries, biotech horrors, and old betrayals in deep space. It is bigger in scope than the early novellas, but it still has the same pressure points: damaged people, systems built to grind them down, and language sharp enough to draw blood.

The recent horror books make that range especially clear. Nothing But Blackened Teeth turns a wedding trip to a haunted Heian-era mansion into a story about resentment and old wounds. The Salt Grows Heavy strips a fairy tale to the bone, then sends a murderous mermaid and a plague doctor through a landscape of rot and hunger. The Library at Hellebore goes full dark academia, trapping monstrous students in a school that wants to eat them. Their first collection, Breakable Things, gathers that wider short fiction and won a Bram Stoker Award.

Khaw also writes in shared worlds without losing their fingerprints. Their work includes Walk Among Us in Vampire: The Masquerade, The Dead Take the A Train with Richard Kadrey, and fiction tied to Critical Role. Even in tie-in work, the themes stay familiar: appetite, grief, power, shame, and the question of what a person becomes when survival keeps asking for one more compromise.

These days, Khaw keeps moving between horror, fantasy, science fiction, and games. The shape changes from book to book, but the pull is consistent. If you like your stories weird, emotionally raw, and just a little dangerous, their shelf is a very good place to start.

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