Charles de Lint Books in Order

Sara Kendell and Jamie Tamson discover a strange ring that connects their Ottawa lives to another world. Meanwhile, a wizard searches for his missing mentor, and a police project pursues powers it does not understand.

Troubled by nightmares, Minda Sealy meets an imprisoned lord who promises protection in return for her help. She leaves home to travel between worlds, free him from the Dream-master, and discover the meaning of her identity.

A series of gruesome murders draws police attention to Ottawa's Romani community. While investigators search for a human culprit, those being hunted recognize a supernatural darkness called Mulengro and must confront a threat outsiders cannot comprehend.

Seventeen-year-old orphan Cerin meets the Maid of the Grey Rose, survivor of a devastating war and promised bride of a feared destroyer. Their encounter draws the young musician toward dangers connected to her past and his future.

Writer Cat Midhir draws her novels from visits to an Otherworld in her dreams. When a mysterious thief steals those dreams, she loses access to her stories and must confront a danger threatening both worlds.

Biker Blue encounters a woman robbed of her shadow and memories by faeries. Seeking help from the guardian of Tamson House draws him into a struggle to recover her identity and understand the magic surrounding her.

After her boyfriend leaves, Jacky Rowan witnesses strange bikers attack a small man on an Ottawa street. His abandoned red cap reveals the hidden world of Faerie, where she is expected to challenge its dangerous enemies.

An ancient wood near the city shelters a mysterious horned figure summoned by music and midsummer ritual. His presence reaches into human dreams, drawing modern lives toward a hidden world shaped by old stories and powers.

Werewolf Kern flees rejection and persecution, pursued by a harper determined to kill him. Refuge at the Inn of the Yellow Tinker offers companionship and love, but his dangerous secret and relentless hunter threaten that sanctuary.

In a poisoned future beyond protected enclaves, an Indigenous aircraft falls and a chip containing vital secrets disappears. Gahzee must recover it, moving between the Dreamtime and ordinary reality while drawing on his people's ancient magic.

Trapped in a multilevel prison world, Clive Folliot and his companions face constant danger. Torn between finding his twin brother and helping the captives return home, he divides their forces in a risky search for escape.

Newford fiddler Geordie Riddell takes hesitant steps toward a relationship as rain brings a ghost into his life. Love, loss, and friendship become intertwined in a story where ordinary city streets open onto the supernatural.

Emma struggles with the dangerous burden of the Autumn Heart while her friend Esmeralda values her own magical gift. Another faery attack sends Esmeralda along forbidden spiritual paths to rescue Emma from the land of the dead.

Former policeman Jack Keller discovers a mutilated runaway girl's body after a strange house fire. His investigation reveals that a sadistic experiment has released an avenging supernatural force born from its victims' suffering and terror.

The power sustaining Faerie has been stolen, leaving its inhabitants and Jacky Rowan enslaved. Young fiddler Johnny Faw, unaware of his own magical abilities, becomes entangled in the struggle to uncover the threat and free them.

Lesli runs away after conflict and restrictions at home become unbearable, but life on Newford's streets proves more dangerous than she expected. Musicians Cerin and Meran Kelledy must use music and magic to find her.

Tamson House's caretaker Blue and his companions face new supernatural danger linked to the house's extraordinary power. The sinister neighbor Albert Watkins enters their lives, threatening the fragile meeting place between ordinary Ottawa and other worlds.

Angry and grieving, Ash is drawn into an Otherworld while her cousin Nina suffers terrifying transformations into animals. To protect Nina from a demon's plans, Ash must overcome resentment and learn how to use her magic.

Clive and Neville Folliot and their companions become scattered through a ruined city within the Dungeon. Beneath its decaying streets wait the Ren and the Chaffri, the mysterious masters whose power threatens their search for escape.

This collection gathers seven stories and eight poems, including early Newford fiction and tales of magic, music, and myth. Its varied pieces move from supernatural city encounters to enchanted landscapes and the imaginative lives of their inhabitants.

A mermaid is drawn from the lake by a young man's voice and music, then leaves her underwater home for the shore. Her longing for human love exposes her to the dangers of crossing between worlds.

Musician Geordie Riddell encounters a homeless man known as Paperjack in Newford, where the ordinary and supernatural overlap. Their story follows grief, love, and the difficulty of moving forward after loss, continuing threads from Timeskip.

Folk musician Janey Little discovers a mysterious manuscript in her grandfather's Cornish cottage. Its changing contents and hidden magic attract dangerous outsiders, drawing her toward a confrontation in which her music may be her strongest defense.

Ellen remembers seeing mysterious Balloon Men as a child but now doubts whether they were real. Reece sees things others cannot and is fleeing a nightmare, bringing their questions about hidden magic into urgent focus.

Two years after officer Thomas Morningstar kills a child murderer, similar killings resume in Newford. Photographer Jim McGann notices recurring graffiti and a mysterious woman, while Morningstar confronts the possibility that the killer's evil survived death.

Four linked stories return to Ottawa's Tamson House, a gateway between worlds. Its inhabitants confront an ancient enchantress and a modern magician seeking its power, while friendships and magical gifts entangle them in dangerous spiritual journeys.

Nineteen linked stories explore Newford, where musicians, artists, and outsiders share city streets with beings from folklore. Ghosts, mermaids, and other hidden presences intrude on ordinary lives, bringing questions of belief, compassion, and belonging into focus.

After plague destroys her traveling community, Angharad receives a magical harp that can awaken hidden gifts in others. She journeys through the Green Isles while searching for a puzzle box threatening everyone who carries the Summerblood.

Brenda Perry's grief for her father, poor body image, and low self-esteem fuel the return of an eating disorder. As her life unravels, encounters with ghosts and water spirits complicate her struggle to keep going.

Rachael Sorenson escapes her abusive former husband with help from a stranger who has watched her from afar. The photographer's devotion becomes another form of danger as he eliminates obstacles and demands possession of her life.

Artist Isabelle Copley abandoned painting after her power to bring imagined beings to life caused tragedy. Twenty years later, she must confront suppressed memories and her cruel former teacher to reckon with the magic she denied.

Fifteen Newford stories follow people confronting hardship, love, and unexpected magic in the city and beyond. Familiar artists and musicians share the collection with new characters whose dreams and encounters with spirits reshape their ordinary lives.

Artist Sophie Etoile enters a desert dreamscape where Coyote and other spirits wait for her. Music that usually connects worlds now traps her, forcing her to question whether dreams provide an escape or a new prison.

Instrument maker Max Trader wakes in the body of small-time conman Johnny Devlin, who has taken his place. Their exchange forces Max to navigate unfamiliar relationships and reconsider what makes a person who they are.

This Newford collection follows musicians, writers, and other city residents whose relationships become entangled with ghosts, guardian angels, and vampires. Familiar faces return amid new stories exploring love, loss, and the mysteries hidden in urban life.

Raven, Coyote, and irreverent crow girls walk the streets of Newford, bringing ancient animal-people mythology into modern lives. Ordinary residents become caught in their presence as trickster forces blur the boundaries between everyday experience and old magic.

A dying spirit living as a homeless man draws help from Meran and Cerin Kelledy and their friend Jilly Coppercorn. Their effort to save him pulls Jilly into danger and tests her determination to find hope.

Mexican-Indigenous healer Bettina San Miguel recognizes the homeless Irish spirits haunting wintry Newford as dangerous beings. When one approaches her, she becomes involved in their struggle for power in a land whose native spirits already hold sway.

These stories collect the Christmas chapbooks de Lint wrote for MaryAnn Harris and later shared with friends and family. Spanning more than two decades, the volume includes rare short fiction, poems, and illustrations by Harris.

After a hit-and-run leaves artist Jilly Coppercorn partly paralyzed, someone destroys her studio and paintings. Supported by her Newford friends, she confronts childhood trauma and the guilt surrounding the younger sister she left behind.

Ottawa private investigator Jake Swann searches for a teenage runaway who disappeared into the city’s punk scene. When his friend Sammy is brutally attacked and implicates a police officer, the cases begin to threaten his trusted relationships.

Teenage outsiders navigate magical encounters in Newford, Bordertown and other realms in this story collection. Runaways, aspiring artists and young people struggling to belong face difficult choices as folklore and everyday pressures intersect in their lives.

After a snake bites Lillian in the forest, magical cats save her by transforming her into a kitten. Unable to return home as herself, she seeks a way to regain her human form among the woodland creatures.

This collection gathers early heroic fantasies featuring sword-wielding Aynber, Colum Mac Donal and adventures in Liavek. Quests, unreliable wizards and dangerous magic shape stories from the period before de Lint turned primarily to contemporary fantasy.

A mysterious crash at Newford’s Wordwood website causes people to vanish into a digital spirit world. Writer Christy Riddell and his companions seek the missing while confronting the strange origins of Saskia Madding and Christiana Tree.

Newford newcomer Imogene hopes to abandon her troubled reputation and befriends cautious classmate Maxine. But a school ghost and disturbing dreams draw the girls into supernatural dangers that make their problems with fellow students seem smaller.

Early contemporary fantasy, dark fantasy and science fiction stories form this collection, which also gathers de Lint’s Bordertown tales. Its characters encounter haunted cities, threatening supernatural forces and unfamiliar futures where magic and identity complicate ordinary survival.

Three Newford stories explore a private investigator visited by ghosts, a musician offered a second chance and a guitarist cursed by a spirit. Each confronts unfinished business or choices that ordinary reality cannot readily resolve.

A young man can see Newford’s hidden magical creatures, yet his photographs never capture them. When a coffee shop customer notices his unusual attention, he considers sharing the secret and finding a purpose for his ability.

Seven stories originally written as Christmas chapbooks bring readers into Newford’s magical neighborhoods. Humans and supernatural beings seek companionship, exchange help and face questions about freedom and the responsibilities attached to unexpected encounters with fairy magic.

Jilly Coppercorn and Geordie Riddell are drawn into conflict between North America’s animal people and newly arrived fairies. When Jilly becomes trapped in a world shaped by her worst memories, Geordie’s efforts to help expose him to danger.

Forced to leave her farm for the suburbs, T.J. befriends Elizabeth, a rebellious six-inch-tall girl living inside her house. Separated during an outing, the girls face independent dangers and must decide whom they can trust.

Joey Creel mentors young musician Ruby McCaulay while wrestling with whether he is a man dreaming of being a crow or the reverse. Ruby believes she understands him, but Newford’s magic makes his identity uncertain.

Young art student Jilly Coppercorn receives a visit from Donna, a friend from her runaway years. Their reunion draws Jilly toward the world of the dead and difficult promises while testing the new life she has built.

High school senior Miguel falls for Lainey, a newcomer from Australia whose unusual dog hints at a hidden identity. Learning that an ancestral bargain threatens her, he tries to help without knowing what rescue might cost.

Children, animals and small magical beings share adventures in this illustrated collection of stories originally written for youngsters close to the author. A mouse’s discovery of a stuffed rabbit opens tales involving friendship and woodland encounters.

This third collection of early stories gathers high fantasy, Angharad tales and adventures featuring Dennet and Willie. Retellings involving Thomas the Rhymer join stories of enchanted woods, music and encounters beyond the familiar human world.

Scrap yard worker Ernie Grant and his friend Salvador secretly supply food, water and blankets to migrants crossing the desert. When a silent stranger arrives at work, his unexpected assistance challenges the atmosphere created by Ernie’s racist boss.

The Green Isles face invading ships and permanent winter as the Icelord’s power grows. An inexperienced shapeshifting mage and a small group of allies race to awaken the Summerlord while hostile forces pursue them north.

Jilly, Sophie and the Crow Girls return in this collection set in the magical city of Newford. Stories explore encounters with death, time and hidden enchantment as people from different walks of life seek meaningful change.

Hot rod mechanic Grace meets John Burns at a music hall, and the two fall in love. Unfinished business complicates their relationship, requiring them to confront mysteries connecting the world of the living with what lies beyond.

James Li leaves Chicago on an uncertain quest connected to his Yellow Dragon Clan heritage. In an Arizona town troubled by gangs and other animal clans, he faces human and supernatural challenges that test his place in the clan.

Selected by the author with suggestions from readers, these stories visit Newford, Ottawa and other magical settings. Crow Girls, artists and tricksters confront dangers and everyday struggles in tales that combine familiar streets with myth and folklore.

Record shop owner Mary suspects her musician partner Edric is unfaithful because his out-of-town performances coincide with every full moon. She secretly follows him to a concert, seeking answers that may challenge her understanding of their relationship.

In 1967, Annie is drawn to a longhaired stranger who arrives outside Tartown’s poolroom. The local boys want to attack him, but his proposed contest reveals that the handsome newcomer may possess abilities they cannot anticipate.

During Newford’s Summer of Love, Beirut-born teenager Dharma leaves home to become a hippie poet and musician. Meeting Button at a street music session leads to romance, but their festival encounter raises doubts about its seeming perfection.

New student Brandon plans to avoid the conflict between street gangs and reservation kids at Rose Creek High. Defending a bullied girl draws him into that dangerous struggle and toward the protection of her community’s Warrior Society.

House cleaner Maria recognizes old friend Luz among robbers targeting wealthy homes and reconnects with her. Luz’s claims of magic and Maria’s attraction to leader Jack Green draw her into a dangerous campaign of taking from the rich.

Guitarist Sarah Blue meets a mysterious trumpeter in a bar and receives an opportunity to revisit a decisive moment in her past. Hoping to correct a deep regret, she confronts the choices that shaped her life.

Celtic guitarist Conn O’Neill offends a vengeful spirit and receives a seven-year curse ending with the loss of his soul. As the deadline approaches, musical partner Miki Greer tries to help him evade the promised fate.

Josh Saunders discovers he can transform into a mountain lion as similar changes spread among Santa Feliz teenagers. Keeping his secret becomes difficult when another Wildling draws official attention and a betrayal forces his friends to intervene.

Josh Saunders hopes for a respite from his shapeshifting troubles, but FBI scrutiny and bullying continue. While some Wildling elders see him as a possible bridge to humans, another plots against him through one of his friends.

Teenage orphan Jodi Shepherd hears that Widow Pender is hiding a tiny person in her house. Breaking in to investigate draws Jodi into a dangerous world of witches, living Smalls and dead people who can speak.

Josh enters the Otherworld seeking Elzie, confronting hostile animal clans and elders as he discovers more about his powers. Back in Santa Feliz, his friends face an anti-Wildling rally threatening young shapeshifters with segregation and imprisonment.

Five previously published stories center on Newford’s mischievous Crow Girls and their encounters with the city’s human and magical residents. Their playful, unconventional approach to life unsettles familiar expectations while bringing unexpected help to those around them.

Returning to his estranged father’s farm after the man’s death, Marshall Coe discovers his old car. Starting it carries him back before his brother’s fatal accident, offering a chance to reconsider the event that fractured their family.

Seventeen-year-old Lillian discovers a lost paint box in the forest, drawing her toward an enchanting world beyond her own. Her love of art and a first kiss complicate the difficult choice that this magical discovery presents.

A boy who sees the Otherworld, a former rock star, a discarded teenager and a grieving blogger converge in the Hierro Maderas Mountains. Their intertwined struggles force them to face troubled pasts while seeking a viable future.

Ruby and Vida play at being magical creatures in a dry riverbed near their trailer park. An encounter with a real witch turns their imaginary adventures deadly, leaving the girls needing actual magic to survive.

Yirah Green secretly restores her late uncle's dirt bike in a hidden arroyo, encouraged by a silent visiting ghost. Her friend Santana fears the spirit's presence and wonders what danger might follow if Yirah succeeds in bringing the machine back to life.

Former television detective Juniper Wiles returns to Newford seeking a quieter life among artist friends. When elements of her fictional show intrude into reality and a young man is inexplicably murdered, the role she abandoned becomes disturbingly relevant again.

Juniper Wiles investigates a mysterious box filled with poltergeists and makes a promise to seven teenage ghosts. Keeping it brings her into conflict with a blood witch, testing what she learned during her earlier encounters with the otherworld.

Juniper has left Hollywood for a quiet life in Newford, but a faerie seer warns her to attend the city’s ComicFest. Going promises trouble, while staying away could cause catastrophe, leaving her and her friends little room to escape.