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Dark Tide Horror Novellas Books in Order

Part ofTom Deady Books in Order

Browse Dark Tide Horror Novellas in order, with themed volume summaries, contributor guides, and easy starting points for this wide-ranging horror anthology series.

Last updated: July 14, 2026

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Dark Tide Horror Novellas books in publication order

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17 books

1

Halloween Beyond

by Tom Deady

2022

A mysterious Halloween pop-up store and the old roots of Samhain tie these three novellas together. The result is a seasonal anthology where the veil feels thin and ordinary people drift into magic, memory, and danger.

2

Monsters

by Tom Deady

2022

This Dark Tide anthology delivers three very different monster stories, from dangers in the water to horrors in the woods and a killer lurking behind a mask. Each novella asks what counts as a monster, and who gets to decide.

3

October's End

by Tom Deady

2022

Three Halloween novellas set around Clifton Heights bring together classic monsters, human cruelty, and revenge that turns monstrous. It is a seasonal anthology with small-town atmosphere, nasty turns, and a strong October mood.

4

West of Hell

by Tom Deady

2022

This Dark Tide volume turns the Old West strange and deadly with three weird western novellas. Restless dead, frontier legends, and brutal mysteries haunt gunslingers, drifters, and isolated towns where progress has not buried the old horrors.

5

Wounds to Wishes

by Tom Deady

2022

A Dark Tide anthology of three linked novellas built around grief, mystery, and melancholy. Loss, guilt, and strange revelations shape each story, giving the book a quieter mood than most horror collections, but not a safer one.

6

Against the Clock

by Tom Deady

2023

Three suspense novellas with a dark edge turn everyday problems into desperate races against time. A locked school bathroom, a mysterious debt coming due, and an old crime all become traps that close fast.

7

An Unholy Triquetra

by Tom Deady

2023

Celtic myth and folk horror drive this Dark Tide anthology of three novellas. Plane crash survivors, an ancient evil in a remote valley, and a restless old house all point toward powers that refuse to stay buried.

8

Little Mutilations

by Tom Deady

2023

This body horror anthology pushes flesh, identity, and fear into ugly new shapes. Missing mothers, disastrous medical trials, and a beauty queen's unraveling body make these three novellas queasy, intimate, and hard to shake.

9

Sherlock Holmes and The Arcana of Madness

by Tom Deady

2023

Three Holmesian horror novellas pull Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson into cases shaped by obsession, occult forces, and madness. It keeps the detective framework, but lets the shadows grow much stranger and more dangerous.

10

The Dead Shall Rise

by Tom Deady

2023

This zombie-themed Dark Tide collection offers three different takes on the undead, from a dusty post-collapse town to a family vacation gone wrong and a bloody night at a strip club. Fast, nasty survival horror is the point.

11

Vandal

by Tom Deady

2023

Three dark novellas explore obsession, damage, and the urge to destroy in order to remake. Haunted places, cursed objects, family history, and art all become channels for horror in this unsettling Dark Tide collection.

12

A Graveyard of Stars

by Tom Deady

2024

This space horror anthology sends crews into forbidden reaches of the cosmos where ancient secrets, drifting structures, and deadly systems wait in the dark. It mixes science fiction scale with the dread of being very far from rescue.

13

F.U.B.B.

by Tom Deady

2024

A hardcore horror anthology with three vicious novellas, this one goes for blood, cults, roadside sleaze, and ugly revenge. It is loud, nasty, and unapologetically built for readers who like their horror pushed well past comfortable.

14

Hunted Highways

by Tom Deady

2024

Road trips go violently wrong in this Dark Tide anthology of three travel horror novellas. From vengeful birds to roadside monsters and nightmarish rest stops, every mile feels like a step deeper into trouble.

15

The Devil's Backbone

by Tom Deady

2024

This Appalachian horror collection blends mountain folklore, witchcraft, lost children, and places that seem cursed by the land itself. Each novella digs into isolated communities where old beliefs still have sharp teeth.

16

24 Frames Per Second: Three Hollywood Horror Novellas

by Tom Deady

2025

Hollywood becomes the engine for three horror novellas where movies stop feeling fictional. Student filmmakers, buried family violence, and a burned theater full of ghosts turn the world of cinema into something far more dangerous than entertainment.

17

Urban Legends

by Tom Deady

2025

Three novellas bring urban legends to life in unnervingly modern ways, from a newborn that feels wrong to a cursed house and a podcast experiment gone bad. The book thrives on the fear that old stories might be true.

Dark Tide Horror Novellas books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "Wounds to Wishes"

    Wounds to Wishes

    by Tom Deady

    2022Dark Tide Horror Novellas, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "West of Hell"

    West of Hell

    by Tom Deady

    2022Dark Tide Horror Novellas, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "October's End"

    October's End

    by Tom Deady

    2022Dark Tide Horror Novellas, Book 3
  4. Book cover for "Halloween Beyond"

    Halloween Beyond

    by Tom Deady

    2022Dark Tide Horror Novellas, Book 4
  5. Book cover for "Monsters"

    Monsters

    by Tom Deady

    2022Dark Tide Horror Novellas, Book 5
  6. Book cover for "Vandal"

    Vandal

    by Tom Deady

    2023Dark Tide Horror Novellas, Book 6
  7. Book cover for "Little Mutilations"

    Little Mutilations

    by Tom Deady

    2023Dark Tide Horror Novellas, Book 7
  8. Book cover for "Against the Clock"

    Against the Clock

    by Tom Deady

    2023Dark Tide Horror Novellas, Book 8
  9. Book cover for "An Unholy Triquetra"

    An Unholy Triquetra

    by Tom Deady

    2023Dark Tide Horror Novellas, Book 9
  10. Book cover for "The Dead Shall Rise"

    The Dead Shall Rise

    by Tom Deady

    2023Dark Tide Horror Novellas, Book 10
  11. Book cover for "Sherlock Holmes and The Arcana of Madness"

    Sherlock Holmes and The Arcana of Madness

    by Tom Deady

    2023Dark Tide Horror Novellas, Book 11
  12. Book cover for "Hunted Highways"

    Hunted Highways

    by Tom Deady

    2024Dark Tide Horror Novellas, Book 12
  13. Book cover for "The Devil's Backbone"

    The Devil's Backbone

    by Tom Deady

    2024Dark Tide Horror Novellas, Book 13
  14. Book cover for "F.U.B.B."

    F.U.B.B.

    by Tom Deady

    2024Dark Tide Horror Novellas, Book 14
  15. Book cover for "A Graveyard of Stars"

    A Graveyard of Stars

    by Tom Deady

    2024Dark Tide Horror Novellas, Book 15
  16. Book cover for "Urban Legends"

    Urban Legends

    by Tom Deady

    2025Dark Tide Horror Novellas, Book 16
  17. Book cover for "24 Frames Per Second: Three Hollywood Horror Novellas"

    24 Frames Per Second: Three Hollywood Horror Novellas

    by Tom Deady

    2025Dark Tide Horror Novellas, Book 17

Series background & context

The Dark Tide Horror Novellas series is built around a simple idea that gives each book a clear identity: three authors, three novellas, and one shared theme. The stories are separate rather than chapters of one continuing plot, but each volume asks its writers to approach the same kind of fear from different angles. That makes the series easy to sample while still rewarding readers who want to work through it in order.

The first volume, Wounds to Wishes, sets the format with tales linked by mystery and melancholy. From there, the themes travel widely. One book heads into weird western territory, while others focus on Halloween, monsters, vandalism, body horror, time pressure, Celtic folklore, zombies, Sherlock Holmes, road horror, Appalachian legends, extreme horror, space, urban legends, and Hollywood nightmares.

There is no single recurring hero to follow.

Instead, the thread is the format. Every volume gives three writers room to tell a longer story than a standard short story, without asking readers to commit to a full novel. That means the tone can shift sharply inside one book. One novella may be a quiet ghost story, the next a hard-charging survival tale, and the third something stranger or more brutal. The shared theme keeps the collection from feeling random.

Tom Deady appears in the series alongside a rotating group of horror writers. His volumes reflect the larger approach well: they use familiar horror frames such as Halloween, monsters, undead outbreaks, old folklore, or roadside danger, then let each contributor take the premise in a different direction. The result is a shelf where some titles work as seasonal reading and others fit a very specific mood.

Reading in publication order is an easy way to watch the range of themes expand, beginning with Wounds to Wishes. But it is not required. Readers who want autumn atmosphere can start with October's End or Halloween Beyond. Those after physical, unpleasant horror might choose Little Mutilations, while A Graveyard of Stars is the natural pick for science fiction dread. Sherlock Holmes and The Arcana of Madness is a good choice for mystery readers who do not mind a supernatural turn.

Think of Dark Tide as a themed tasting menu for horror.

The books are connected by concept rather than continuity, so there is little risk in choosing the title that grabs you first. Start with the theme you already like, then use the reading order to branch out. A love of one writer's novella can lead naturally to another author's longer work, which is part of what makes the series a useful discovery shelf.

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