Christopher Golden Books in Order

Christopher Golden gathers nonfiction pieces in which horror writers discuss horror cinema. Essays and a conversation explore films, filmmakers and personal responses to screen terror, offering readers the perspectives of authors accustomed to creating fear in prose.

Terri rents a beach house with friends and invites her pen pal, Ben Marsh, for a weekend. Everyone finds him charming, but his behavior differs from his letters, leaving Terri worried about the stranger she has welcomed.

Lifeguard Casey Harrington expects another ordinary summer at Walker's Beach. A drowning that appears to be murder changes that expectation, drawing her into a mystery as more deaths threaten the safety of the seaside community.

This nonfiction book examines disappointing follow-ups to major successes in entertainment and publishing. Chapters on movie stars, directors, musicians, television performers and authors trace how second efforts fell short through commercial failure, bad decisions or unmet expectations.

An arsonist's attacks devastate Daredevil's New York neighborhood. Investigating the fires, Matt Murdock discovers a crime boss attempting to overthrow the Kingpin, forcing the hero into a struggle where civilians become casualties of an underworld power grab.

Magneto occupies Manhattan and declares it a mutant haven, enforcing his rule with reprogrammed Sentinels. With half their team stranded in space and other mutants joining him, the X-Men face an increasingly isolated battle against his expanding empire.

Magneto seizes a government installation containing mutant-hunting Sentinel robots. The X-Men fight to prevent him from controlling this technology while confronting his Acolytes and a government that blames them for the takeover they are trying to stop.

Sunnydale's Halloween legend claims that rain can bring a murderous scarecrow to life. Buffy, Willow and Xander face a holiday where a supposedly absurd local tale may conceal a supernatural threat that the Slayer cannot ignore.

With Manhattan under Magneto's control and many teammates captured, the remaining X-Men seek unlikely allies. They must work with a suspicious government and the Juggernaut to turn the Sentinels against the mutant empire threatening the city.

Detective Justin Case presents twenty-five short crime puzzles involving murder, theft and deception. Readers examine the accompanying crime-scene illustrations, weigh suspects and separate clues from distractions, taking an active role in solving each case from his files.

Hellboy investigates a British archaeological team missing near Egypt's Great Sand Sea. Their disappearance connects to a vanished Persian army, bringing the paranormal investigator into conflict with an ancient evil while an old relationship complicates the mission.

You join Luke Skywalker's search for a missing droid and enter the struggle against the Galactic Empire. This interactive adventure lets your decisions alter the familiar story, including whether to help the Rebels or betray them.

An antique sword arrives in Sunnydale carrying two ancient enemies imprisoned by a curse. When the vampire Chirayoju escapes and seeks a host, Buffy must pursue a threat that reaches into her friendships with Willow and Xander.

A Renaissance fair charms Buffy and her friends, especially its melancholy young jester, Roland. Meanwhile, flesh-eating dark faeries appear around Sunnydale, linking the boy to the Erl King and a hunt that threatens everyone nearby.

You help rescue Han Solo, then navigate dangers leading toward the Rebellion's confrontation with the Emperor. This interactive version of the Star Wars adventure places decisions in your hands, allowing different routes through the struggle against Imperial power.

You survive the dangers of Hoth before choosing how to continue alongside the Star Wars heroes. Following Luke toward Jedi training or joining Han and Leia, your decisions shape an interactive journey through the Empire's pursuit.

College freshman Jenna Blake takes a job assisting in an autopsy lab despite her discomfort around blood. When her professor dies, the work draws her into suspicious deaths and an investigation that challenges her plans for the future.

Buffy kills a vampire who appears willing to sacrifice itself for others, then encounters a new opponent who knows her tactics. An ancient vampire's unusual immortality threatens to make the Slayer's familiar methods dangerously ineffective.

The Gen13 teenagers escaped a covert organization that wanted to use their powers. Now they must stop its operatives from exploiting the Hellgate, confronting a demonic threat that could turn a government scheme into a disaster for humanity.

Buffy's former boyfriend Pike arrives in Sunnydale, offering a chance to revisit their shared past. A stone demon has followed him, however, bringing old secrets and a new danger that complicate their reunion and Buffy's present loyalties.

The Sons of Entropy attack the mansion that separates Earth from a realm of monsters. As the Gatekeeper's strength fails, Buffy must protect his young heir, whose survival becomes crucial to preventing the barrier's collapse.

Jenna Blake helps investigate murders marked by symbols from several different spiritual traditions. While personal grief and romantic distractions complicate her work, she must identify the connection linking crimes that appear both ritualistic and deliberately inconsistent.

Children's author Thomas Randall faces a crisis when his young son becomes catatonic. The boy has been taken into Strangewood, the imaginary world Thomas created, where a growing war makes rescuing him a confrontation with his own stories.

Presented as Buffy's senior-year school keepsake, this yearbook combines student life with supernatural memories. Personal notes from her friends, candid photographs and references to familiar events recreate Sunnydale High's graduation year through a fictional school publication.

College freshman Jenna Blake investigates a killer removing victims' hearts. Her pathology job brings the crimes close to campus, while a newly arrived half-brother offers unsettling theories and someone important to Jenna becomes a potential target.

Returning home for college break, Jenna learns that childhood acquaintances have committed murders they cannot remember. She suspects manipulation rather than ordinary violence, but with her usual allies unavailable, she must investigate the disturbing pattern largely alone.

Jenna Blake encounters a baffling Boston crime wave whose perpetrators have already been declared dead and buried. Working through the medical examiner's office, she searches for a rational explanation before the apparent return of the dead threatens her.

This prose anthology brings Hellboy into original supernatural investigations by several horror and mystery writers. Edited by Christopher Golden, the collection offers separate encounters with the strange, expanding the paranormal investigator's adventures beyond his comics.

Racially motivated attacks disturb Jenna Blake's college and strain her interracial relationship. As violence escalates, witnesses cannot agree on the attackers' appearances, leaving Jenna to investigate crimes whose confusing evidence deepens fear and division on campus.

Spike and Drusilla seek a magical necklace in Europe during the Second World War. An ice demon offers it in exchange for killing potential Slayers, turning their quest into a campaign against the Watchers' future defenders.

Golden, Wiater, and Wagner examine the connections among Stephen King’s fictional worlds, tracing recurring characters, places, and themes across his stories. The guide also considers his screen work, offering readers a map of the relationships within his sprawling universe.

Angel investigates missing newborn babies in Los Angeles with help from Doyle and Cordelia. The case exposes a connection to demonic realms, forcing the vampire detective to confront a creature whose desire for offspring endangers human families.

Jenna Blake and Yoshiko head to Florida for spring break, expecting a holiday. Suspicious deaths interrupt their plans when the victims reveal unusual mutations and past government employment, drawing the friends into another disturbing investigation.

This boxed set collects official companion guides to Buffy's first four television seasons. Episode summaries, dialogue, quotations and behind-the-scenes details help readers revisit the show's characters and storylines while exploring how its adventures were made.

Two people burn to death in public without an obvious cause, leaving witnesses and investigators baffled. Jenna Blake and Slick examine the evidence, questioning whether apparent spontaneous combustion hides murder as another fire brings danger closer.

Buffy awakens in a possible future where vampires rule Southern California and her friends have become hardened survivors. While she searches for a way home, someone else occupies her present-day body, creating danger in both timelines.

Trapped five years in the future, Buffy finds Southern California dominated by vampires and a familiar figure ruling them. Her struggle against this altered enemy runs alongside her friends' efforts to restore her spirit to the present.

Unexplained deaths lead Jack Dwyer into rural Vermont, where fugitive Prowlers threaten a long-established hidden community. In Buckton, he must distinguish humans from shapeshifters while creatures living peacefully among their neighbors confront a dangerous choice.

Buffy must confront a former teacher turned enemy to prevent a vampire-controlled future. With Willow and the Slayerettes helping, she struggles to return to her present-day body and undo the mistake that made this possible.

Jack Dwyer's ghostly allies face the Ravenous, an entity that destroys spirits rather than letting them move on. Helping them risks exposing him to this predator while a vengeful Prowler pack continues hunting Jack and his friends.

Buffy's adjustment to college is interrupted by a dead Slayer's warning and unusually organized vampires. Tension with Willow hampers the response, and a mistaken decision threatens to propel Buffy into a future shaped by her failure.

When Jack Dwyer's murdered friend returns as a ghost, he warns Jack about predators hiding among humans. Seeking revenge against the united Prowler packs puts Jack's family and friends in danger as the hunters begin treating them as prey.

Kevin suspects something is wrong with the older boy his neighbor Nikki has fallen for. When Peter Starling takes her to a monstrous Neverland, Kevin persuades his brother and friends to help rescue her from its dangers.

This anthology follows vampire Slayers who lived before Buffy, placing their battles within different historical eras and traditions. Stories from ancient Greece and other settings explore the dangers faced by young women chosen to confront supernatural evil.

Hellboy investigates a giant skeleton discovered on Sweden's frozen coast, its hand gripping an iron hammer. Lifting the weapon binds it to him through a lightning strike, drawing him into disturbing visions and encounters rooted in Norse mythology.

Fearful that his werewolf nature could hurt people he loves, Oz leaves Sunnydale to seek greater control. His travels bring new teachings and unfamiliar dangers, making the search for inner peace a struggle to survive.

Janine and David attempt to rebuild their relationship after betrayal and a near-death experience. A force connected to that experience conjures figures from David's past, threatening the second chance they are trying to give each other.

This story collection follows Angel and his colleagues hour by hour through the winter solstice. As supernatural creatures exploit the longest night of the year, each member of Angel Investigations faces a separate struggle to protect the living.

A water creature threatens Sunnydale, but the Watchers' Council claims control and brings Faith out of prison to fight it. Suspicious of their motives, Buffy investigates what the Council knows and whether its proposed battle serves a darker purpose.

Jack and Molly investigate deaths along an upstate New York highway while Bill searches Manhattan for his missing niece. A growing Prowler pack and dangerous alliances threaten them, drawing Courtney into an effort to bring Bill home safely.

Four novellas follow historical Slayers confronting supernatural threats before Buffy's time. Settings range from thirteenth-century Anasazi villages to nineteenth-century Shanghai, wartime Hollywood, and modern Tokyo, exploring the battles and sacrifices of women chosen to defend others.

An alien contagion activates destructive powers in people around the world, forcing the Justice League to race against its spread. Tracing the outbreak to an earlier invasion reveals a disturbing connection to the heroes' own past actions.

Jenna Blake expects a quiet summer, but a killer begins drowning victims in public places around Boston. Her work at the medical examiner's office uncovers a clue, drawing her into an investigation that becomes increasingly violent and personal.

At his high school reunion, Will James discovers that a friend who recently emailed him has supposedly been dead for years. As relationships and memories keep changing, Will must uncover why he alone recalls another version of reality.

Timothy has grown up hidden away because he is the only person without magic in a world powered by it. Returning to his birthplace exposes him to assassins and officials who regard his apparent weakness as a dangerous threat.

A weakening magical barrier gives the Wurm a chance to invade Arcanum and take revenge on the mages. Timothy and Cassandra must find a way to end the ancient feud before the returning dragons destroy their world.

After their first supernatural ordeal, Aimee and Shane Lancaster hope for normal lives in Sleepy Hollow. Instead, people begin drowning on dry land, and the siblings must confront another vengeful force unleashed through the town's curse.

Timothy is asked to help confront the Wurm threat at the barrier between worlds, but his mentor Leander becomes increasingly unstable. With Cassandra taking leadership of their order, they must discover what is changing him before he endangers everyone.

Teenage siblings Aimee and Shane Lancaster move to Sleepy Hollow and unknowingly awaken a curse linked to its famous legend. Pursued by demons led by the Headless Horseman, they discover that the town's stories conceal a terrifying reality.

Unemployed actress Ann Darrow joins filmmaker Carl Denham and playwright Jack Driscoll on an expedition to Skull Island. Their search for extraordinary footage brings them into a dangerous world where the giant ape Kong becomes central to their fate.

Jenna Blake's father's wedding turns alarming when guests fall ill and the bride becomes paralyzed. As the illness spreads across Jenna's college campus, she and the medical examiner's team investigate signs that the outbreak was deliberately created.

After nearly hitting a little girl on a dark road, Michael Dansky follows her to a strange empty house. Ominous figures begin stalking him, and his wife's personality changes, forcing him to return to the encounter that started everything.

Aimee and Shane face a threat that may require help from a former enemy they cannot safely trust. Personal betrayal further divides the group, but survival in Sleepy Hollow depends on working together despite the hurt between them.

Aimee, Shane, and their friends continue fighting creatures drawn to Sleepy Hollow by the curse. When tension erupts among them and a secret love is confessed, their ability to cooperate becomes as important as confronting the supernatural threats.

On the eve of his wedding, lawyer Oliver Bascombe encounters Jack Frost fleeing a murderous creature. Helping him draws Oliver beyond the veil into a world of endangered myths, where he must become an adventurer to survive.

After wounding a vampire on a First World War battlefield, Henry Baltimore becomes drawn into a supernatural catastrophe. His quest for vengeance unfolds through encounters with people who have witnessed the monsters spreading through a devastated Europe.

Supernatural races gather at a newly convened Dark Congress in hopes of settling ancient conflicts, while others want war. Chosen to arbitrate their disputes, Buffy must navigate a truce threatened by resentments and competing agendas.

Oliver Bascombe battles hunters threatening the creatures of myth while trying to rescue his captive sister and return to his fiancée. Traveling with magical companions, he discovers that the survival of legends has consequences for humanity too.

An archaeological discovery at the Dragon King Pool draws Hellboy to a Himalayan excavation led by his former lover. Sabotage, strange creatures, and a missing child force him to investigate an ancient power stirring beneath the site.

Five friends plan matching tattoos to affirm their bond, but Sammi backs out and is abruptly rejected by the others. Their increasingly violent behavior and spreading tattoo patterns make her suspect something sinister behind the artwork.

This guide explores Neil Gaiman's work across novels, comics, films, and other media, tracing its development and impact. Interviews with Gaiman and collaborators provide context for readers interested in the stories and creative relationships behind his career.

A televised séance intended to reconnect grieving people with the dead instead raises ravenous corpses around Manhattan. A small group of strangers fights toward the center of the outbreak, hoping to protect loved ones and stop its spread.

Oliver Bascombe and his allies become caught in a war between mythic kingdoms after an ancient truce collapses. Escaping captivity and gathering legendary fighters may not be enough, forcing Oliver toward a dangerous confrontation with the forces behind the conflict.

Sixteen-year-old Kara Foster tries to settle into a Japanese school and befriends Sakura, whose sister was murdered. Nightmares and new student deaths raise fears that someone, or something connected to the earlier killing, is seeking revenge.

Kara hopes school life in Japan can return to normal and joins her friends in staging a Noh play. When club members disappear, she fears their story of a snake demon has awakened a real supernatural threat.

Rose wakes from a coma with no memories and begins life in Boston with her two aunts. Nightmares resembling Sleeping Beauty and a mysterious woman following her make her question whether the fairy tale is connected to her forgotten past.

After an archaeologist is murdered, Nathan Drake joins Sully and the man's daughter to investigate ancient labyrinths. Assassins and dangerous excavations stand between them and a discovery that could reveal why the scholar was killed.

With Europe overrun by vampires after a plague ends the war, Henry Baltimore hunts the creature responsible for his suffering. His pursuit carries him through ruined battlefields and abandoned vessels, where further monsters threaten to derail his vengeance.

A priest caring for Sicilian war orphans uses an old puppet theatre to teach them Bible stories. After dark, the puppets come alive and take his lessons literally, turning a hopeful teaching aid into a threat to the children.

Henry Baltimore confronts a sinister ritual threatening a European town, where vampiric nuns and a deranged warlock stand in his way. His hunt for supernatural enemies brings him into a conflict shaped by a horrifying form of blessing.

This collection follows Baltimore's pursuit of the scarred vampire across a monster-ridden world. A surgeon's attempt to cure vampirism creates further horrors, while an inquisitor's hidden darkness adds another threat to the hunter's quest for vengeance.

A former club member returns seeking help for Kendra, whose life is threatened by dangerous enemies. Tig Trager and the Sons of Anarchy become her protection in this comic collection, bringing personal grief into a violent struggle over loyalty.

Twelve horror stories follow people whose everyday desires lead them toward dangerous encounters with the uncanny. A troubled clown, a protective ghost, a grieving widower, and an actress seeking revenge face unsettling consequences that turn familiar lives into nightmares.

Lord Baltimore battles vampires seeking to resurrect a demonic god and a witch allied with the undead. His pursuit of his mortal enemy leads toward London, where the monster hunter faces a confrontation shaped by vengeance and spreading supernatural evil.

On LV-426, colonists work to terraform a hostile world under the protection of Colonial Marines. Anne and Russell Jorden hope to build a better life, but discovering a derelict alien spacecraft exposes their settlement to a threat beyond their understanding.

Twelve years after a devastating blizzard, Coventry's survivors still mourn the people they lost. Another storm approaches, bringing unsettling signs that the dead may be returning and forcing townspeople to confront the terror that never truly left them.

When his half-sister Trinity disappears, Jax Teller travels to Nevada with Chibs and Opie to find her. Their search leads into a conflict between rival Russian mafia factions, threatening to pull the Sons of Anarchy into another dangerous war.

After waking up bruised and memoryless in a graveyard, a teenage girl takes the name Calexa Rose Dunhill, hides in a crypt, and discovers she can see the dead, a talent she must use when she witnesses a ritual in the cemetery turn to murder.

Tess encounters a man identical to her absent ex-husband, while Frank is attacked by someone who looks like him. As more doubles appear in Boston, familiar faces become threats and the search for answers leads toward a sinister supernatural mystery.

Still hiding in the cemetery she calls home, Calexa Rose Dunhill witnesses a brutal killing that pulls her into a new investigation, even as police attention and nosy neighbors threaten to expose the identity she is desperate to protect.

Lord Baltimore and his allies pursue the Red King, the power behind the vampire plague. Their hunt brings encounters with an undead husband, a witch's demonic offspring, and Judge Duvic, whose transformation into a werewolf makes him increasingly dangerous.

Jax Teller navigates the competing loyalties of his family, his motorcycle club, and Charming, California. Alliances and betrayals within SAMCRO threaten the community the Sons claim to protect, forcing him to confront the costs of the club's chosen way of life.

American soldiers operate robotic bodies to police distant conflicts, but a global electromagnetic pulse traps their minds inside those machines. Danny Kelso and his fellow Tin Men must navigate a shattered technological world while trying to save themselves and others.

Baltimore's surviving allies mourn their fallen friends and revisit the troubled histories that brought them together. As they pursue the Blood-Red Witch, uncovering her origins becomes crucial to preventing her from awakening the Red King and extending his evil.

Lord Baltimore's hunt for the Red King takes him across the Baltic Sea and into northern Russia. Witchcraft and new enemies await in St. Petersburg, while mounting dangers threaten the allies helping him resist the supernatural forces spreading through the world.

This illustrated anthology gathers fifteen original prose stories featuring Hellboy and other characters from Mike Mignola's fictional world. Edited by Christopher Golden, it brings different writers' approaches to supernatural horror and fantasy together, with artwork accompanying the tales.

An earthquake exposes an ancient ship inside Mount Ararat, drawing archaeologists, scholars, and filmmakers to a possible discovery of Noah's Ark. A disturbing coffin and a severe blizzard turn their expedition into a struggle against something concealed within the wreck.

This anniversary volume combines selected material from the three authorized Watcher's Guides with new cast and crew interviews. It offers background on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its production, bringing earlier reference content together for readers revisiting the television series.

Buffy, Angel, and Oz travel limbo's ghost roads to rescue the dying Gatekeeper's heir from vampires. While their friends face supernatural attacks in Sunnydale, the Sons of Entropy plot to destroy the barrier keeping the world's monsters contained.

Supernatural creatures overwhelm Sunnydale, sending Buffy and her friends to Boston to investigate an ailing Gatekeeper's mansion. Its many rooms connect to limbo's ghost roads, and a failing barrier threatens to release far more monsters than one Slayer can handle.