Darcy Coates Books in Order
Browse Darcy Coates books in order with short summaries, series guides, and where to start, from haunted houses to survival horror and eerie thrillers.
Last updated: June 7, 2026
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Publication Order
33 books
Ghost Camera
by Darcy Coates
2014
Jenine finds an abandoned Polaroid camera in a lighthouse and soon learns it captures more than light. Each developed photo reveals a ghost edging closer. Breaking the curse means confronting the hungry spirits the camera was made to attract.
Crawlspace
by Darcy Coates
2015
Erica discovers a hidden door behind the wallpaper in her room, a narrow crawlspace that shouldn’t exist. Curiosity turns to dread when she hears movement in the dark and the doorway won’t stay shut. Whatever is inside is learning how to reach back.
Crypt
by Darcy Coates
2015
In 1965, two brothers explore a disused cemetery and one doesn’t come back. When the body is found, the survivor insists it wasn’t an accident, something lives in the cemetery’s crypt. Years later, the darkness is still waiting to kill again.
Dead Lake
by Darcy Coates
2015
Needing inspiration, artist Sam retreats to a remote cabin on Harob Lake to finish paintings that could save her career. The solitude doesn’t last. A mysterious man begins stalking her, and local disappearances make it clear she’s not the first target.
House of Shadows
by Darcy Coates
2015
After her family is ruined, Sophie accepts a marriage to wealthy Joseph Argenton and moves to Northwood, a remote mansion that seems unnaturally dark. Strange noises, chilling apparitions, and Elise’s frightening drawings hint at a haunting that wants Sophie gone.
The Haunting of Blackwood House
by Darcy Coates
2015
Mara wants a fresh start, but the bargain price of Blackwood House comes with a reason. As strange visions and unsettling noises build, Mara’s past with spiritualists collides with a very real haunting. The house has secrets it won’t let stay buried.
The Haunting of Gillespie House
by Darcy Coates
2015
Elle thinks she’s landed an easy month of house-sitting at the beautiful Gillespie property, until scratching sounds start in the walls. A hidden graveyard and a cult leader’s legacy pull her into the house’s violent history. Leaving may not be up to her.
House of Secrets
by Darcy Coates
2016
Sophie and Joseph escape Northwood, but the evil they fled clings to Elise. A plea for help draws them to Kensington, an abandoned mansion overlooking a dead town. To save the girl, they must hunt for answers in a house that wants them trapped.
Small Horrors
by Darcy Coates
2016
A bite-sized collection of horror shorts, each built around a simple fear that turns sharp fast. These stories range from eerie encounters to outright nightmares, perfect for quick scares in a single sitting. Not every ending lets you off easy.
Station 335
by Darcy Coates
2016
Weeks into an alien invasion, disgraced ex-military operative Mitzi is sent on a mission to slow the Cymics’ spread. The target is a fuel reservoir on a planet already overrun. If she fails, the last human outposts may lose their chance to coordinate.
The Haunting of Ashburn House
by Darcy Coates
2016
Broke and desperate, Adrienne inherits Ashburn House, a crumbling mansion she never knew existed. It feels like a lifeline until night falls and the whispers start. Hidden passages and an isolated property push her toward a history no one wanted uncovered.
Craven Manor
by Darcy Coates
2017
Down on his luck, Daniel accepts a mysterious offer to become groundskeeper of Craven Manor and moves into the cottage beside its crypt. The main house is abandoned, until a candle flickers in an upper window. Whatever lives there wants Daniel’s attention.
The Folcroft Ghosts
by Darcy Coates
2017
After their mother is hospitalized, siblings Tara and Kyle are sent to stay with their grandparents at Folcroft Manor. A storm cuts them off, the old house feels wrong, and the grandparents act increasingly strange. The ghosts in the halls seem to know why.
The Haunting of Rookward House
by Darcy Coates
2017
Guy discovers deeds to an abandoned mansion and plans to clean it up for quick money. Rookward has been empty for decades for a reason. A jealous, obsessive ghost clings to the building and has no intention of letting its new occupant leave.
The House Next Door
by Darcy Coates
2017
Josephine lives beside Marwick House, a gothic wreck whose family fled in the middle of the night. Curious turns into concerned when she sees signs someone, or something, is still inside. Investigating the house draws her into its deadly past.
Hunted
by Darcy Coates
2018
When 22-year-old Eileen vanishes in Ashlough Forest, her brother Chris and his friends launch their own search. Eileen’s recovered camera holds impossible photos taken after she disappeared. Deep in the trees, they realize something has been hunting her, and now it wants them.
The Carrow Haunt
by Darcy Coates
2018
Remy guides tours through Carrow House, a famous haunted attraction, but she’s never seen proof it’s real. When she’s asked to host seven guests for a week-long investigation, the activity finally starts. Then a storm hits, and nobody can leave.
Secrets in the Dark
by Darcy Coates
2020
Winterbourne Hall isn’t safe, and Clare and Dorran can feel the walls closing in. A radio message brings worse news, Clare’s sister Beth is alive but trapped, her oxygen running out. Reaching her means crossing monster-infested roads with no clear way back.
Silence in the Shadows
by Darcy Coates
2020
Hope is finally on the horizon, but it comes with a long, dangerous return journey. Clare and Dorran head back to Winterbourne Hall, hoping to turn it into a lasting refuge. When they arrive, the old mansion is no longer the sanctuary they remember.
Voices in the Snow
by Darcy Coates
2020
Clare wakes injured in a stranger’s gothic home with only fragments of memory and a blizzard outside. Dorran says he saved her, but the world beyond the door crawls with hollow ones. Trapped together, they have to survive and uncover the truth.
Whispers in the Mist
by Darcy Coates
2020
Clare and Dorran have survived the snow, but the mist is full of dark, hungry things. Dorran is getting sicker, and the only hope may be Evandale Research Station, days away. The journey tests their group from the outside and within.
The Haunting of Leigh Harker
by Darcy Coates
2021
Leigh Harker moves into a quiet suburban home, determined to start over. Then the house begins to push back, with chilling sounds, shifting shadows, and a presence that knows her name. The longer she stays, the more it feels like a trap.
The Whispering Dead
by Darcy Coates
2021
Keira wakes in a forest with no memory except one frightening fact: she can see ghosts, and masked men are hunting her. She hides in a graveyard cottage, but the dead whisper for help. Solving one haunting could expose the town’s darkest secret.
From Below
by Darcy Coates
2022
A documentary dive team explores the wreck of the SS Arcadia, hoping for a clean story and a paycheck. Inside the flooded corridors, the darkness feels alive. With oxygen dwindling and exits hard to find, the crew must escape fast.
Gallows Hill
by Darcy Coates
2022
After her parents die, Margot returns home to take over the family winery, built on land with a grim reputation. The business is struggling and the past is louder than she remembers. When visions begin, Margot realizes the legacy runs deep.
The Ravenous Dead
by Darcy Coates
2022
Keira is settling into life at Blighty Graveyard when new ghosts begin whispering urgent warnings. The trail points toward Artec and the people interested in capturing spirits. To protect her friends, Keira has to dig up truths the living want buried.
Bellamy
by Darcy Coates
2023
Leanne returns to Bellamy House, a long-abandoned children’s asylum that shaped her childhood and ruined her family. She wants answers about what happened there, and about the brother she couldn’t save. The building is empty, until it proves it remembers her.
Dead of Winter
by Darcy Coates
2023
Christa joins a remote mountain tour hoping for a fresh start, but the group is stranded in a snowbound cabin. Someone begins picking them off, and any of the strangers could be the killer. In the whiteout, rescue isn’t coming.
The Twisted Dead
by Darcy Coates
2023
Keira’s gift for seeing ghosts keeps pulling her into cases no one else can solve. When a new haunting threatens Blighty, she’s forced to confront both the restless dead and the people hunting her. Each answer she finds makes the larger conspiracy feel closer.
Where He Can't Find You
by Darcy Coates
2023
In the small town of Doubtful, people go missing and everyone follows strict rules to stay safe. Abby Ward knows the warnings about the Stitcher, but when her sister is taken, she breaks them anyway. Searching for the truth means risking the same fate.
The Hollow Dead
by Darcy Coates
2024
Blighty’s secrets deepen as Keira investigates a fresh wave of supernatural disturbances. The dead aren’t just whispering anymore, they’re warning her. With Artec’s interest growing and her past still fragmented, Keira has to risk everything to keep her found family safe.
How Bad Things Can Get
by Darcy Coates
2025
Ruth survived an infamous cult and has spent years keeping her past quiet. Then a mega-influencer brings hundreds of fans to a private festival on Prosperity Island, a place tied to Ruth’s history. When the games turn dangerous, she has to run.
The Vengeful Dead
by Darcy Coates
2025
Keira has survived monsters, mysteries, and the people determined to control her abilities, but the threat around Blighty keeps evolving. When a new case turns personal, she’s forced to face the consequences of everything she’s uncovered. Some ghosts want revenge.
Where should I start?
If you want classic haunted houses: The Haunting of Ashburn House → Craven Manor → The Carrow Haunt
If you like post-apocalyptic survival: Voices in the Snow → Secrets in the Dark → Whispers in the Mist → Silence in the Shadows
If you want an ongoing paranormal mystery series: The Whispering Dead → The Ravenous Dead → The Twisted Dead → The Hollow Dead → The Vengeful Dead
If you prefer one-and-done chills: Ghost Camera → The Haunting of Gillespie House → From Below
Author bio
Darcy Coates is an Australian author of horror, gothic horror, thrillers, and suspense. She was born and raised in Australia, and she now lives on Australia’s Central Coast, surrounded by bushland and the kind of weather that makes storm scenes feel a little too easy to imagine.
She has a soft spot for haunted houses and old graveyards.
Coates began self-publishing in 2013, starting with the novella Once Returned, and kept releasing stories on her own for years. In 2015, The Haunting of Gillespie House became a breakout for her, and her readership kept growing from there. Around 2019, her work began getting rereleased in new editions through a traditional publishing deal, which helped bring a big backlist of spooky standalones to more shelves.
A lot of readers come to her for the comfort of a clear setup and a fast slide into trouble. In books like Ghost Camera and The Haunting of Ashburn House, the hook is simple, almost tempting: a strange object, an inherited house, a too-good-to-refuse offer. Then the small details start going wrong, and the characters have to decide whether to run, stay, or dig into the history that’s waking up around them.
She also likes to change the shape of the fear. Hunted leans into wilderness survival, with a search party pushing deeper into a forest that feels actively hostile. From Below takes that trapped feeling underwater, where darkness and distance do half the work before anything supernatural even shows up. And Gallows Hill turns family inheritance into something pricklier, with a return to a childhood home and a legacy that refuses to stay buried.
There’s a steady thread across the range: isolation, tight casts, and settings that trap people in place long enough for the truth to catch up with them.
When Coates talks about her process, she’s refreshingly straightforward. She’s said she starts each story by asking herself what would scare her most, and you can see the answer in the patterns that repeat across her books: old houses, old trees, lost graveyards, whispers in the dark, and the uneasy feeling that something familiar has turned its face away.
Her series work shows the same instincts in a longer form. The Black Winter novels follow Clare and Dorran through an unnatural, monster-haunted winter, mixing survival choices with a slow-building bond between two people who can’t afford to trust easily. The Gravekeeper books, beginning with The Whispering Dead, put an amnesiac outsider in a small town cemetery where the dead have opinions, and where helping one ghost often means uncovering another secret.
Away from the desk, she’s mentioned spending time on bushwalks, disappearing into libraries, and falling down research rabbit holes about local urban legends. At home, she’s also described a life that includes animals and a garden full of vegetables and herbs.
If you’re new to her work, it’s worth knowing what you’re signing up for: clean, readable prose, plenty of creeping atmosphere, and scares that build from place, mood, and the awful thought that you might be stuck. Coates keeps writing the kinds of stories she wants to read, and she’s built a career on making that feeling easy to share.
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