Charlie Huston Books in Order
This page lists Charlie Huston books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and where to start across his crime, horror, fantasy, and comics work.
Last updated: July 11, 2026
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Charlie Huston books in publication order
20 books
Caught Stealing
by Charlie Huston
2004
Hank Thompson is a washed-up ballplayer tending bar on the Lower East Side when he agrees to watch a neighbor's cat. Within hours he is being hunted by thugs and cops who think he has something worth killing for.
Already Dead
by Charlie Huston
2005
Joe Pitt is a hard-case detective with the Vyrus in his blood and too many enemies in Manhattan after dark. A simple job for a clan boss pulls him into missing kids, vampire politics, and a night that keeps getting worse.
Six Bad Things
by Charlie Huston
2005
Hiding in Mexico with stolen cash and too many secrets, Hank Thompson learns the Russians have not forgotten him. To protect his family, he has to run north through border chaos, criminals, and his own terrible luck.
A Dangerous Man
by Charlie Huston
2006
Hank Thompson is deep in debt to the Russian mob when a job brings him back to New York, the city where everything went wrong. Old wounds, baseball dreams, and one possible way forward collide fast.
No Dominion
by Charlie Huston
2006
Broke, thirsty, and out of options, Joe Pitt signs on with a local vampire clan to investigate a dangerous new drug. The job pulls him through New York's underworld and toward whoever thinks they can use him.
Half the Blood of Brooklyn
by Charlie Huston
2007
Joe Pitt is sent into Brooklyn to learn why infected outsiders are pushing toward Manhattan. The case drops him into clan warfare, family grudges, and a fight to keep both his girl and the city from coming apart.
Midnight Sun
by Charlie Huston
2007
Back in the game, Moon Knight finds that heroes distrust him almost as much as villains do. The pressure only gets worse as bodies pile up and Marc Spector is forced to ask what his comeback is really costing him.
The Bottom
by Charlie Huston
2007
Marc Spector is broken, angry, and far from the hero he used to be when Moon Knight gets pulled back into action. This opening arc rebuilds him through pain, Khonshu, and a brutal return to the street.
The Shotgun Rule
by Charlie Huston
2007
Four teenage friends looking for excitement break into an empty house and steal more trouble than they can handle. What follows is a hard, funny, ugly chain reaction about boys playing at violence until the real thing arrives.
Every Last Drop
by Charlie Huston
2008
Joe Pitt gets one chance to win back ground in Manhattan, if he can infiltrate a faction chasing a cure for the Vyrus. Old enemies, old loyalties, and clan politics make the job bloodier than ever.
The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death
by Charlie Huston
2008
Web Goodhue takes a job cleaning crime scenes in Los Angeles and hopes for steady work, not meaning. Then a favor for a dead man's daughter drags him into murder, turf wars, and the wreckage of his own family life.
My Dead Body
by Charlie Huston
2009
Joe Pitt is hiding in tunnels while vampire factions hunt him, until a missing girl pulls him back into the open. What starts as one more job turns into a final reckoning with the violence and secrets of his world.
Deathlok
by Charlie Huston
2010
In a near-future war treated like entertainment, Lieutenant Mike Travers dies on camera and comes back as the weapon called Deathlok. The series mixes military spectacle with questions about control, identity, and what is left of the man inside the machine.
Sleepless
by Charlie Huston
2010
As a plague of insomnia tears Los Angeles apart, undercover cop Parker Hass hunts the drug that still lets people sleep. The deeper he digs into the conspiracy behind it, the more his wife and daughter become part of the stakes.
Contagion
by Charlie Huston
2011
Wolverine meets an enemy who becomes even more dangerous if he is killed. The result is a savage first arc built around body horror, impossible opponents, and Logan's healing factor turned against him.
Broken Quarantine
by Charlie Huston
2012
A virologist infects Wolverine with a contagion that starts rewriting his body from the inside. To get revenge and survive, Logan has to push through monsters, strange allies, and a truly ugly kind of war.
Skinner
by Charlie Huston
2013
Former CIA enforcer Skinner is pulled back into play when a sweeping cyberattack and a gifted roboticist named Jae point to a larger plot. It becomes a global chase through espionage, systems thinking, and a very human kind of fear.
Wolverine
by Charlie Huston
2013
Logan's healing factor makes him almost impossible to kill, and that makes him the perfect target for men who want to test its limits. This volume throws him through disease, torture, monsters, and a long road to payback.
Suicide Kings
by Charlie Huston
2015
Deadpool lands a rich hit and winds up framed for murders he did not commit. With the Punisher after him and Spider-Man and Daredevil in the mix, clearing his name becomes a loud, bloody sprint.
Catchpenny
by Charlie Huston
2024
Sid Catchpenny can slip through mirrors and steal objects loaded with strange power, but his life is a mess. When a missing teen and a doomsday plot collide, he has to decide whether he can still be the guy who shows up.
Where to start with Charlie Huston
If you want a fast crime trilogy: Caught Stealing → Six Bad Things → A Dangerous Man
If you want vampire noir: Already Dead → No Dominion → Half the Blood of Brooklyn → Every Last Drop
If you want a strong standalone: The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death
If you want near-future suspense: Sleepless → Skinner
If you want fantasy with his noir edge: Catchpenny
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Already Dead
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2005Joe Pitt Casebooks, Book 1
No Dominion
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Half the Blood of Brooklyn
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2007Joe Pitt Casebooks, Book 3
Every Last Drop
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My Dead Body
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Already Dead
by Charlie Huston
2005Joe Pitt Casebooks, Book 1
No Dominion
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2006Joe Pitt Casebooks, Book 2
Half the Blood of Brooklyn
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2007Joe Pitt Casebooks, Book 3
Every Last Drop
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2008Joe Pitt Casebooks, Book 4
My Dead Body
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2009Joe Pitt Casebooks, Book 5
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Author bio
Charlie Huston was born in Oakland and raised in Livermore, California. Long before publication, they were already writing stories, and that early habit never really went away.
Writing came first. Publishing did not.
As a young adult, Huston studied theater and later moved to New York in the mid-1990s to try acting. To pay the bills, they worked behind bars and in restaurants, the kind of jobs that put you close to people when they are tired, broke, funny, drunk, scared, or lying. That ear for talk, and for the way pressure changes a room, runs through almost everything they write.
Their first published novel, Caught Stealing, turned that lived-in New York energy into a breakneck crime story. Hank Thompson, a former ballplayer turned bartender, agrees to do one small favor and gets dropped into a mess involving Russians, missing money, and a whole lot of panic. Readers still come to Huston for what that book delivered so well, clipped dialogue, dark humor, and characters who keep making it through one more terrible night.
Then came Already Dead, which kicked off the Joe Pitt Casebooks. Those novels take vampire fiction out of castles and put it in back alleys, subway tunnels, and neighborhood turf wars. Joe Pitt is a private eye, an enforcer, a hungry man, and a bad fit for almost every power structure around him. The series shows one of Huston's favorite moves as a writer, taking a familiar genre and roughing it up until it feels strange again.
Their books move fast, but they are not just about motion.
In standalones like The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death and The Shotgun Rule, Huston keeps circling the same hard questions. What happens when ordinary people get shoved past the line they thought they would never cross? What do grief, shame, loyalty, and fear make people do? Even when the stories are violent, there is usually a bruised, funny human center underneath all the damage.
Huston also moved comfortably into comics, writing runs on Moon Knight and Wolverine: The Best There Is for Marvel. The medium changed, but the interests did not. Their heroes and antiheroes are still isolated, still stubborn, still trying to function while carrying more pain than is probably good for them. Later novels like Sleepless, a near-future conspiracy story built around a plague of insomnia, and Catchpenny, a fantasy-noir about a thief who can move through mirrors, show how easily Huston slips between crime, horror, science fiction, and whatever sits in the cracks between them.
Cities matter in these books.
New York and Los Angeles are more than scenery in Huston's work. They feel like engines that shape the people trapped inside them. Across the catalog you meet bartenders, hustlers, vampires, mercenaries, crime scene cleaners, washed-up athletes, and men who are trying, not always successfully, to be a little better than their worst impulses.
These days Huston lives with their family in Los Angeles. They also write for film and television, and in recent years they adapted Caught Stealing for the screen. Whatever the format, the draw is much the same, blunt, funny, bruising stories about people in way too deep, still trying to claw their way toward something decent.
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