Cherie Priest Books in Order

Eden Moore has seen ghosts since childhood, but a search into her own family history brings her closest to danger. In the South's old houses and graveyards, the dead have painful truths to share.

Eden Moore is drawn into another ghost-haunted Southern mystery, where grief and family history have left deep marks. Her gift for seeing the dead makes it impossible to ignore what others want forgotten.

Irish nun Sister Eileen Callaghan hunts a monstrous killer across the nineteenth-century American South and West. This linked weird-western horror tale follows her pursuit through riverboats, revival meetings, and bloodshed.

Eden Moore's ability to see ghosts leads her into another Southern mystery shaped by old injuries and dangerous lies. To help the dead, she must face the living people determined to keep their secrets.

The ancient water witch Arahab plans to wake the Leviathan and restore the old gods, no matter the cost to humanity. Elemental monsters, long-dead pirates, and unlikely allies stand in the way.

A dark standalone novella about loss, memory, and the unnerving sense that some places keep hold of the people who pass through them. Priest builds slow dread around a past that refuses to stay buried.

In an alternate Civil War-era Seattle, Briar Wilkes enters a walled city poisoned by Blight gas to find her missing son. Inside, zombies, air pirates, and old secrets make every step toward him dangerous.

Spy Belle Boyd and airship captain Croggon Hainey both have claims on the stolen airship Clementine. Their clash sends them through the war-torn Clockwork Century in a quick, sharp adventure of secrets and revenge.

Nurse Mercy Lynch boards an armored train for a brutal journey across a nation still at war. Sabotage, soldiers, and a deadly secret turn the trip into a fight to reach her family alive.

Vampire thief Raylene Pendle agrees to recover secret files linked to experiments that blinded Ian Stott. The job brings scientists, federal agents, and dangerous enemies after her, along with an inconvenient new crew.

Airship captain Andan Cly heads to New Orleans for a job that reunites him with Josephine Early. Beneath Lake Pontchartrain waits the Ganymede, a deadly experimental submarine that could change the war.

Raylene Pendle is asked to steal a bizarre set of artifacts, but a ruthless sorceress wants them too. When Ian becomes a target, Raylene must solve a murder and protect her increasingly complicated found family.

An orphan living beneath a sanitarium wants a friend, so he builds one from the materials around him. The resulting automaton has its own ideas, and companionship quickly becomes chaos.

Young thief Rector Sherman returns to Blight-ravaged Seattle looking for answers and a way out of trouble. Instead, he finds dangerous inventions, old grudges, and an underground city that needs help staying alive.

In an alternate America still divided by civil war, young inventor Gideon Bardsley's calculating machine predicts disaster. Its warning forces scattered allies to confront a threat that could spread Blight across the entire country.

In 1971 Chicago, mob hitman Raul notices something wrong with his latest assignments and the mushrooms growing from his skin. His search for answers becomes a grotesque Wild Cards nightmare.

As a hurricane nears Galveston, a Texas Ranger, a nun, and a priest gather at the Jacaranda Hotel. They must break the curse behind its mounting death toll before the storm traps them with it.

After her infamous trial, Lizzie Borden and her sister Emma flee to a seaside home, only to face the ocean-born evil that consumed their parents. Lizzie is ready to fight it, axe in hand.

Lizzie Borden follows a familiar evil to Birmingham, where a hatchet killer and a church devoted to dark gods threaten catastrophe. To stop them, she must face the horror she thought she left behind.

May believed her best friend Libby died years ago, until their childhood heroine, Princess X, begins appearing across Seattle and online. With comic clues and a hacker's help, May searches for the truth.

A salvage crew strips valuables from a condemned Tennessee mansion, hoping to rescue their struggling business. Instead, Dahlia and her relatives uncover graves, ghosts, and a family history determined to keep the house standing.

Haunted war veteran Tomás Cordero and clairvoyant Alice Dartle share dreams of fire in 1920s Florida. Their connection leads toward an old hatred, a dead woman's spirit, and an inferno that has waited centuries.

After moving back to New Orleans, Denise Farber finds her family's renovation project is hiding a violent presence. An unfinished comic book in the attic may explain the house's history, if she can survive its attention.

On their honeymoon drive to the Okefenokee, Titus and Melanie Bell cross a strange bridge. Titus wakes much later alone, with no bridge, no wife, and no proof that the road he remembers exists.

Leda Foley changes a detective's flight on a bad feeling, saving him when his original plane explodes. Soon the inconsistent psychic and Seattle detective Grady Merritt are chasing a murder case tied to Leda's own loss.

Psychic travel agent Leda Foley and Seattle detective Grady Merritt investigate a missing woman, a vintage orange car, and stolen cash. Leda's scattered visions may help, if she can work out what they mean in time.

This collection gathers Cherie Priest's horror and dark fantasy stories, from eldritch threats and zombies to dragons and haunted places. It includes Clockwork Century tales and the new novelette “Talking in Circles.”

Kate Thrush and her former professor travel to Cinderwich, Tennessee, seeking answers about a woman found in a blackgum tree decades earlier. The town resists their questions, and something hungry waits beneath its secrets.

This Wild Cards mosaic novel centers on Croyd Crenson, the Sleeper, after his latest transformation creates even more chaos than usual. The linked stories turn one unstable power into a sprawling caper.

A violent storm washes a mysterious house onto a Pacific Northwest beach, then a local boy disappears. Two estranged friends search their isolated island for answers before the returned house claims more lives.

Grieving Ronnie Mitchell buys a rundown West Seattle mansion to renovate, unaware of its bloody past. A vengeful silent-film star's ghost and a dangerous living rival turn the house into a deadly trap.

An elderly sushi chef notices something deeply wrong with his restaurant's new fish supply. As customers and coworkers begin changing, he follows the trail toward a wet, hungry horror beneath the business.

Survivors of exorcisms gather in a church basement to compare what happened to them. Their support group soon suggests that the past may not be finished, and that some possessions leave lasting marks.

In the aftermath of the Normandy invasion, an American soldier finds an injured young dragon hiding in a French church cellar. Their unexpected encounter turns a war story into something gentler and stranger.

Set at Weeki Wachee Springs in 1951, this eerie short story turns a Florida mermaid attraction into a place where performance, water, and old secrets begin to feel dangerously entangled.

A historical horror story that links religious expectation and an approaching eclipse to the arrival of something far older. As prophecy gathers force, ordinary faith becomes a doorway for cosmic dread.

A monstrous composite creature, formed from the bones of long-dead soldiers, stalks people near Andersonville's old prison grounds. The past has become physically hungry, and the locals are not ready for it.