Christina Henry Books in Order
Browse Christina Henry books in order, from Black Wings and Alice to her horror standalones, with quick summaries, series guides, and where to start.
Last updated: June 8, 2026
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Publication Order
20 books
Black Wings
by Christina Henry
2010
Madeline Black escorts the dead to the afterlife, pays bills, and hides a set of black wings in her Chicago apartment building. When Gabriel moves in and demons start showing up, Maddy is forced to face a dangerous family legacy.
Black Night
by Christina Henry
2011
Agent of Death Maddy Black is already juggling restless souls, enemies, and complicated family ties. When deaths start happening out of order and Gabriel and Beezle vanish, she is pushed into a perilous trip across supernatural realms.
Black Howl
by Christina Henry
2012
Chicago's dead are going wrong, and ghosts are walking the streets. Maddy's boss wants answers, but her personal life is just as chaotic, and the case drags her toward darker truths than she expected.
Black Lament
by Christina Henry
2012
Grieving and newly pregnant, Maddy wants time to heal. Instead, Lucifer sets his sights on her unborn child, the Agency turns hostile, and even routine soul collections start to feel like part of a larger threat.
Black City
by Christina Henry
2013
Maddy may have lost her wings, but Chicago still needs her. When sunproof vampires turn the city into a slaughterhouse, she has to choose how far she'll go, and what help she'll accept, to stop them.
Black Heart
by Christina Henry
2013
Hunted by deadly enemies and carrying Gabriel's child, Maddy is forced to flee into a strange and dangerous realm. What should be an escape becomes another battlefield, with fae politics, old foes, and dark family schemes closing in.
Black Spring
by Christina Henry
2014
Maddy wants to protect her unborn child, not become the center of another supernatural war. But as Chicago turns on its nonhuman residents and old powers start moving again, she has to fight for her family and her city one last time.
Alice
by Christina Henry
2015
In the Old City, a woman named Alice is locked in a hospital and haunted by scraps of memory, blood, long ears, a terrible tea party. Escaping with Hatcher sends her into a brutal world where every answer comes with a price.
Red Queen
by Christina Henry
2016
Alice and Hatcher leave the Old City hoping for peace, but the world beyond is ash, danger, and shifting alliances. Their search for Hatcher's daughter becomes a deadly game involving the White Queen, the Black King, and the mysterious Red Queen.
Lost Boy
by Christina Henry
2017
Jamie remembers when Peter Pan was his closest friend and Neverland felt like freedom. This dark retelling follows the first lost boy as he learns that Peter's games are cruel, and that becoming Captain Hook may be the only way to survive.
The Mermaid
by Christina Henry
2018
Amelia leaves the sea to see the human world and ends up in the orbit of P. T. Barnum. What begins as wonder turns into captivity as she discovers how easily fascination can become possession.
The Girl in Red
by Christina Henry
2019
After the Crisis shatters the world, a woman in a red jacket heads through the woods toward what she hopes is safety. Predators, quarantine camps, and old fairy-tale echoes turn her journey into a brutal fight to stay alive.
Looking Glass
by Christina Henry
2020
This return to Henry's Alice world gathers four linked novellas full of magic, secrets, and blood. Alice, Hatcher, and other familiar figures move through new corners of the nightmare, where nothing stays buried for long.
The Ghost Tree
by Christina Henry
2020
When girls start turning up dead in Smiths Hollow, teenager Lauren knows the town's secrets are not staying buried. Her father's unsolved death, strange visions, and the old ghost tree all point toward something hungry in the dark.
Horseman
by Christina Henry
2021
In Sleepy Hollow, Ben Van Brunt has grown up hearing stories about the Horseman without quite believing them. A headless body in the woods changes that fast, pulling Ben into a grim new chapter of an old legend.
Near the Bone
by Christina Henry
2021
Mattie lives on a remote mountain with a man she fears and a past she can barely remember. When a creature begins stalking the woods and strangers arrive, survival means facing the monster outside and the one at home.
Into the Forest
by Christina Henry
2022
This anthology gathers dark, Baba Yaga inspired stories from a range of horror writers, with a foreword by Christina Henry. It is a folkloric collection full of witches, wild forests, and the sharp edge of old stories.
Good Girls Don’t Die
by Christina Henry
2023
Three women wake up inside lives and storylines that feel wrong from the start. As their realities twist into something stranger and more dangerous, they have to figure out who is controlling the narrative, and how to break out.
The House That Horror Built
by Christina Henry
2024
Harry Adams takes a cleaning job in the Chicago mansion of a vanished horror director and tries not to ask questions. Then she hears a voice behind a locked door, and the house's movie-magic atmosphere turns genuinely terrifying.
The Place Where They Buried Your Heart
by Christina Henry
2025
Jessie Campanelli never escaped the house on her Chicago block that took her little brother. Years later, with darkness still spreading from that address, she has to face the childhood dare that broke her family.
Where should I start?
If you want urban fantasy first: Black Wings → Black Night → Black Howl
If you want her darkest Wonderland books: Alice → Red Queen → Looking Glass
If you want twisted standalones: Lost Boy → The Mermaid → The Girl in Red
If you want straight horror: The Ghost Tree → Near the Bone → Good Girls Don’t Die → The House That Horror Built
Author bio
Christina Henry was born in New York City and has said she grew up in the Hudson Valley. Those two places, city grit on one hand and older, quieter landscapes on the other, feel like a useful way into her fiction. Her books move easily between streets, woods, old houses, and dreamlike places where something hungry is waiting just out of sight.
She knew early what she wanted to do.
Henry has said that reading The Lord of the Rings at twelve made her want to become a professional writer. She wrote poetry, short stories, and pieces of novels for years, but did not try to sell anything at first. That long apprenticeship shows up in the way even her wildest books feel purposeful. The worlds are strange, but the storytelling is direct.
The turning point came when she was 34. She decided she wanted to write and sell a book before she turned 35, wrote Black Wings in about six weeks, and did much of it while her son was napping. After months of looking for an agent, she submitted directly to Ace/Roc, one of the publishers behind many of her favorite fantasy novels, and quickly landed a three-book contract.
That first series put her on the map.
The seven-book Black Wings series follows Madeline Black, an Agent of Death in Chicago with a sarcastic streak, a terrible family tree, and a popcorn-loving gargoyle named Beezle. Readers who love urban fantasy tend to click with the mix of supernatural politics, fast action, and lived-in city detail. Henry lets the magic get big, but she keeps the emotional center close to home.
A lot of readers first meet her through the dark retellings. Alice, Red Queen, and Looking Glass remake Lewis Carroll into something harsher, bloodier, and much more grown-up. Lost Boy turns the Peter Pan story inside out by asking what Neverland would look like to the boy who becomes Captain Hook. The Girl in Red takes the bones of Little Red Riding Hood and drops them into a wrecked near-future. Henry seems especially interested in familiar stories once the comfort has been stripped away.
She also shifts easily into stand-alone horror. The Ghost Tree uses a small town, old grief, and teenage friendship to build dread. Near the Bone traps a woman on a mountain with more than one monster. Good Girls Don’t Die plays with story structure and identity, while The House That Horror Built leans into movie-house creepiness and locked-door suspense. Even when the setup changes, her books keep returning to pressure, survival, and the damage people do when they want control.
What makes her work stick is the balance. There are monsters, yes, but there are also people trying to pay rent, protect a child, escape a bad past, or make one decent choice in a terrible place. Her heroines are often tough because they have to be, not because the book is trying to prove a point about toughness. That gives even the strangest premises a solid human base.
She doesn't stay in one lane for long.
Henry lives in Chicago with her husband and son. Away from the page, she has said she likes running long distances, reading just about anything, and watching movies with samurai, zombies, or subtitles. That mix feels right for her books too, energetic, curious, a little mischievous, and always ready to take a well-known story somewhere darker.
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