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David W Wright Books in Order

Browse David W Wright books in order, with quick summaries, collaboration guides, series background, and simple advice on where to start reading.

Last updated: July 10, 2026

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Yesterday's Gone: Season One

by David W Wright

2011

On October 15, almost everyone vanishes. The first season follows a scattered group of survivors as they search for loved ones, learn new rules, and realize they are not alone.

Yesterday's Gone: Season Two

by David W Wright

2011

The survivors scatter into stranger territory, from a mysterious island to a compound ruled by The Prophet. Answers feel closer, but so do bigger dangers.

ForNevermore: Season One

by David W Wright

2012

Noella Snow has spent her life feeling broken by tragedy and strange dreams. When the monsters from those dreams start appearing while she is awake, normal life is no longer an option.

Yesterday's Gone: Season Three

by David W Wright

2012

Factions form, secrets surface, and the survivors start to grasp that the Darkness is more than a rumor. The third season keeps the mystery growing while the world keeps shrinking.

Z 2134

by David W Wright

2012

A century after zombie plagues shattered the world, Jonah Lovecraft is thrown into the Darwin Games to win back his freedom. Outside the walls, the dead are only part of the problem.

Dark Crossings: The Collection

by David W Wright

2013

This big collection gathers Wright and Platt's dark short fiction in one place. Expect horror, speculative twists, and ordinary people stepping into situations they do not understand until it is too late.

WhiteSpace: Season One

by David W Wright

2013

Hamilton Island looks peaceful until a school shooting tears the mask off a deeper conspiracy. What follows is paranoid sci-fi built around families, secrets, and the fear of being watched.

WhiteSpace: Season Two

by David W Wright

2013

After the shooting, the island's quiet surface cracks wider. Missing people, old experiments, and Blake Conway's shadowy reach pull the characters deeper into the truth.

Yesterday's Gone: Season Four

by David W Wright

2013

More than a year after the Event, the survivors try to build something like normal life again. The Darkness has other plans, and the fight is starting to widen.

Available Darkness: Book One

by David W Wright

2014

A cop hunting a supernatural serial killer and an amnesiac vampire are headed for the same nightmare. The opening book blends detective tension with a darker fantasy world waiting just offstage.

Available Darkness: Book Two

by David W Wright

2014

When a portal opens to Otherworld, John is forced to work with the very agency that has hunted him for years. To stop Jacob, he may have to betray his own kind and lose the people he loves.

Crash

by David W Wright

2014

A violent turning point throws several lives onto the same dangerous track. Wright keeps the pace high, but the real pull is how quickly one bad moment becomes impossible to contain.

Yesterday's Gone: Season Five

by David W Wright

2014

The survivors are running out of space to hide and out of easy answers about what happened on October 15. The fifth season pushes the larger war closer to the surface.

Z 2135

by David W Wright

2014

Jonah's fight for freedom has already torn holes in the system, and Ana is learning truths that make those holes bigger. The sequel expands the conspiracy without losing the zombie pressure outside the walls.

Z 2136

by David W Wright

2014

The trilogy closes with Jonah, Ana, and the City Watch headed for a final reckoning. The pressure comes from every side, the regime, the Barrens, and truths nobody can safely ignore.

12

by David W Wright

2015

A tightly wound thriller about revenge, hidden motives, and the kind of plan that gets more dangerous the longer it stays in motion. Wright and King keep the pressure steady from the first page.

Yesterday's Gone: Season Six

by David W Wright

2015

The final season brings the long-running mysteries and survivor arcs together for one last push against the Darkness. Big answers arrive, but the human cost stays high.

Available Darkness: Book Three

by David W Wright

2016

John, Jacob, and Caleb finally collide as the fight spills across worlds. The last book turns the vampire story into a full war over family, power, and survival.

Jumper

by David W Wright

2016

He wakes in a different body almost every day and remembers almost nothing about his own past. Surviving borrowed lives is hard enough before he starts noticing the patterns behind them.

Karma Police

by David W Wright

2016

Another Jumper knows who he is, and that changes everything. Stuck reliving the same street and a looming act of abuse, he has to decide whether preventing evil can make him evil too.

The Collectors

by David W Wright

2016

The mystery around the jumps opens wider as outside forces move in. What began as survival starts to look like a system, and somebody is clearly trying to control it.

Threshold

by David W Wright

2016

A lean speculative thriller about crossing a line that cannot be uncrossed. Wright builds the dread patiently, then lets the consequences do the hard work.

Deviant

by David W Wright

2017

The body-hopping mystery gets darker as the Jumper draws closer to the forces that understand what he is. Every borrowed life comes with new dangers and fewer clean choices.

Hide and Seek

by David W Wright

2017

A search for answers becomes a much more dangerous game than anyone expected. Wright and Platt keep the setup simple, then twist the pressure tighter chapter by chapter.

Homecoming

by David W Wright

2017

The final book brings the Jumper back to the questions that started everything, identity, memory, and the life he has been trying to recover. It is the series at its most personal.

Infinite Doors

by David W Wright

2017

One strange opening is enough to turn an ordinary life inside out. This dark speculative tale leans hard into mystery, dread, and the feeling that some doors should stay closed.

No Escape

by David W Wright

2017

A killer starts broadcasting murders to an online audience, leaving Mallory Black racing a case built on spectacle and anonymity. Jasper Parish has his own score to settle, and he will not back down.

No Hope

by David W Wright

2017

A murdered girl leads Mallory into a case full of private shame and public lies. Jasper wakes in a strange new life that looks almost like redemption, until violence finds him again.

No Justice

by David W Wright

2017

Mallory Black gets a terrible chance to revisit the case that destroyed her family. Jasper Parish, a vigilante guided by his daughter's visions, may be the only person ruthless enough to help.

The Box

by David W Wright

2017

A mysterious box and a job that should have been simple pull an ordinary woman into escalating danger. The story moves fast and keeps asking how much risk one secret is worth.

The Fall

by David W Wright

2017

By now the truth behind the jumps is starting to show its teeth. This installment pushes the series toward its bigger answers while keeping the human cost front and center.

Dark Crossings: Volume 2

by David W Wright

2018

More dark speculative stories, each built around one sharp premise and one very bad turn. It is a strong stop for readers who like horror and sci-fi in short, punchy doses.

ForNevermore: Season Two

by David W Wright

2018

Noella's strange dreams are no longer easy to dismiss as dreams. As the hidden world presses closer, she has to decide who to trust and what kind of life she is willing to fight for.

Monsters

by David W Wright

2018

This dark story plays with the line between literal monsters and human ones. Wright and Platt keep the tension tight and the mood grimy in the best way.

Monstrous

by David W Wright

2018

Henry Black dies broken and comes back changed, given demonic power and one burning purpose, vengeance. The price of that deal is steep, and it keeps getting steeper.

Monstrous Book Three

by David W Wright

2018

Henry's path finally runs through Heaven, Hell, and the last chance he has to reach his daughter. It is a dark finale about vengeance, sacrifice, and whether redemption is still possible.

Monstrous Book Two

by David W Wright

2018

Henry's revenge has opened the door to bigger forces than he understood at first. The second book widens the battle and digs further into guilt, damnation, and the people he still wants to save.

No Return

by David W Wright

2018

A girl is snatched in broad daylight, and Mallory Black is sidelined just when she is needed most. Jasper Parish steps back into the fire as the hunt exposes a larger and uglier operation.

WhiteSpace: Season Three

by David W Wright

2018

Hamilton Island erupts again when acts of violence reveal a plan that was never random. The finale brings its missing children, mind control, and buried secrets to a head.

Alienation

by David W Wright

2019

A speculative thriller with a human center, built around the fear of not belonging in your own world anymore. Wright likes that kind of unease, and he makes good use of it here.

Dark Crossings: Volume 3

by David W Wright

2019

Another batch of dark, sharp-turning stories from Wright's short fiction shelf. Horror, sci-fi, and bad choices collide, with endings that tend to linger.

Downfall

by David W Wright

2019

Everything built across the trilogy starts to collapse as rival survivors, alien forces, and desperate believers converge. The fate of Eamon's family becomes tangled with the fate of the whole ruined world.

Emily's List

by David W Wright

2019

A tight standalone suspense story about secrets, grief, and the dangerous pull of unfinished business. Wright keeps the stakes personal, which makes each new revelation hit harder.

ForNevermore: Season Three

by David W Wright

2019

The final season drives Noella deeper into the war between worlds that has been haunting her dreams and waking life. Old losses, dangerous loyalties, and buried truths all come due.

Hit and Run

by David W Wright

2019

Two years after fleeing a crash that killed a little girl, Jack finds himself drawn to the victim's mother. Their connection feels tender and real, which makes the secret between them even more ruinous.

Humane Disposal

by David W Wright

2019

This near-future thriller follows ordinary people caught in a system built to solve human problems cleanly and efficiently. The closer they get to its logic, the harder it is to ignore what that efficiency really costs.

Into The Darkness: Hook Your Readers

by David W Wright

2019

A practical craft book about writing dark material without losing your story in the gloom. Wright focuses on tension, emotion, and how to keep readers turning pages.

Snowfall

by David W Wright

2019

The fallout from Stonefall keeps spreading as survivors fight over safety, belief, and the future of Eamon's son. The world is colder now, and mercy is getting harder to find.

Stonefall

by David W Wright

2019

After aliens destroy Stonefall, Eamon Quinn will do anything to protect his strange, gifted son. In the ruins, faith, fear, and survival turn every ally into a possible threat.

Hidden Justice

by David W Wright

2020

Retired detective Frank Grimm breaks into neighbors' homes looking for clues to his daughter's murder. A desperate girl's plea for help pulls him back into violence, while detective Mallory Black closes in.

No Fear

by David W Wright

2020

A child abductor who thinks he sees demons pushes Mallory Black into one of her darkest cases yet. Jasper Parish is in prison, but a dangerous offer could pull him back into the fight.

No Stopping

by David W Wright

2020

Mallory Black starts crossing lines she once swore to defend when an abused mother and child need help. At the same time, Jasper Parish chases a predator network that reaches higher than he expected.

October's Gone

by David W Wright

2020

Elizabeth Coombs wakes to a world that feels subtly wrong, even before her husband disappears and her son comes home alone. The story turns domestic terror into a larger post-apocalyptic mystery.

Hidden Honor

by David W Wright

2021

Still haunted by his daughter's murder, Frank Grimm jumps on a similar case that may finally expose the killer. What he finds instead is corruption inside the police force and a conspiracy that reaches close to home.

Hidden Shame

by David W Wright

2021

Hiding out after heavy losses, Frank Grimm and his cousin Stan keep hunting the man who killed Frank's daughter. A local conflict and Frank's attraction to Carmen Doria drag them into fresh danger.

Hidden Virtue

by David W Wright

2021

Recovering in Wildwood, Frank Grimm is still eating himself alive with revenge. To save another girl, he has to stop sabotaging his own life long enough to do some actual good.

Soulless

by David W Wright

2021

Haunted by her twin sister's death, Mickayla Waters is recruited by a fallen angel to carry a sacred relic into the heart of a cult. Saving millions may cost her own soul.

Tomorrow's Gone: Season 3

by David W Wright

2021

The serialized post-apocalyptic story keeps tightening the screws as old mysteries deepen and survival gets more complicated. By season three, every answer seems to open into a new threat.

Uncontrollable

by David W Wright

2021

In a future split between emotion-regulated Elites and struggling Organics, Julianna wants a chip that will make her normal. Falling for Claudio, a boy who is tired of feeling nothing, puts both of them in danger.

Analog Heart

by David W Wright

2022

Bronson Dodge once hunted killer robots for Cascade Labs. When an engineer asks him to protect a synthetic woman who should not exist, his last job becomes a fight over what still counts as human.

Cold Vengeance

by David W Wright

2022

Stan Manning sets out to ruin the corrupt men who destroyed his cousin Frank's life. Building a case is hard enough, but once bodies start dropping, revenge becomes a moving target.

Cold Reckoning

by David W Wright

2023

After their first big chance burns up, Stan and Mo head for Texas to recover the evidence they need. Dirty cops, betrayal, and a fixer with his own price keep the road anything but clean.

Cold Retribution

by David W Wright

2023

Pinned down and nearly out of options, Stan and Mo make their last push to expose the corruption chasing them. It is a lean, fast finale built on bad odds and stubborn revenge.

The Secret Within

by David W Wright

2023

Psychic detective Delaney West is drawn into an urban fantasy mystery where intuition is both weapon and liability. The case works because the personal stakes are as sharp as the supernatural ones.

Sunset Blood

by David W Wright

2025

A dark standalone that mixes violence, secrets, and a creeping sense that something old and ugly is still hungry. Wright writes this kind of pressure well.

Where should I start?

If you want his biggest post-apocalyptic series: Yesterday's Gone: Season OneYesterday's Gone: Season TwoYesterday's Gone: Season Three
If you like paranoid science fiction: WhiteSpace: Season OneWhiteSpace: Season TwoWhiteSpace: Season Three
If you want dark vigilante thrillers: No JusticeNo EscapeNo Hope
If you prefer dystopian action: Z 2134Z 2135Z 2136
If you want a shorter high-concept thriller: JumperKarma PoliceThe Collectors

Author bio

David W Wright writes the kind of stories that like to get under your skin. Horror, science fiction, thrillers, post-apocalyptic survival, vigilante crime, he moves easily across all of them, but the through line is usually the same. He is drawn to people under pressure, to fear that feels personal, and to the messy choices people make when the world stops playing fair.

He has said that drawing and writing were an escape for him as a kid, especially during a childhood marked by bullying and loneliness.

That early mix of imagination and unease still feels central to his work.

Wright grew up on horror, sci-fi, comic strips, movies, music, and video games, and he has spoken openly about daydreaming through class while imagining comics and stories of his own. For years he kept that creative life going alongside ordinary jobs in clerical and retail work. He also spent close to a decade making the online comic strip Todd and Penguin, which gave him practice with character, timing, and the kind of scene-building that would later show up in his fiction.

A turning point came in 2005, when he landed work as an editorial cartoonist and reporter at a small newspaper. It was the first time writing and drawing stopped being just a private ambition and became his actual job. When the paper shut down, that path seemed to disappear just as quickly. Not long after, he connected with writer Sean Platt, and the two started building stories together, first online and then in the fast-moving world of digital self-publishing.

That shift mattered.

With Platt, Wright helped turn serialized fiction into the center of a long creative run. Their breakout collaboration, Yesterday's Gone, used seasons and episodes like a television show, mixing cliffhangers, ensemble storytelling, and a big rolling mystery about a nearly empty world. From there came books and series such as WhiteSpace, with its island conspiracies and paranoid sci-fi mood, and Z 2134, a dystopian zombie trilogy built around a brutal survival contest and a tightly controlled future America.

He has also written sharply different kinds of books with other collaborators. With Nolon King, he moved into darker crime fiction with No Justice and the later Hidden Justice books, stories about grief, revenge, corrupt systems, and people trying to force justice into places where the law has failed. Other projects, including Karma Police, Available Darkness, Monstrous, Crash, and 12, show how comfortable he is mixing thriller pacing with supernatural or speculative ideas.

Readers who click with Wright's work usually do so because the stories move fast but do not forget the people inside them. His heroes are often bruised, guilty, stubborn, or halfway broken already. His villains are sometimes monsters, sometimes institutions, and sometimes just other wounded people making everything worse. Even when the setup is high concept, body-hopping, conspiracies, vanished populations, vampire kingdoms, the emotional engine tends to stay close and human.

He has also written nonfiction. Into The Darkness: Hook Your Readers pulls some of that thinking into craft, especially his interest in how writers can use fear, tension, and darker material without losing the heart of a story.

These days Wright is still writing, still podcasting, and still talking about the things that shaped him. He has been part of The Story Studio Podcast with Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant, and he has written candidly about anxiety, OCD, pop culture, and the creative life. He lives on the East Coast with his wife and son, and he still draws when the mood hits. That feels right. For him, words and pictures were never really separate in the first place.

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