Frank E Peretti (Ted Dekker) Books in Order

This strand highlights the places where Frank E. Peretti’s brand of spiritual‑warfare horror intersects directly with Ted Dekker’s expanding universe. The centerpiece is House, their co‑authored novel that functions both as a stand‑alone haunted‑house story and as a doorway into Dekker’s Books of History Chronicles.

In House, a fracturing married couple, Jack and Stephanie Singleton, end up stranded on a back road in rural Alabama and seek shelter in an old inn run by an unsettling family. Two other travelers arrive, tensions spike, and then a masked killer named White traps them all inside, delivering a note that demands one body by dawn or everyone dies. What could have been a simple slasher setup turns into a psychological and spiritual crucible, with the house itself mirroring each character’s buried shame.

Peretti’s fingerprints show in the way unseen evil presses on human frailty and in the use of grotesque imagery. Dekker’s mark appears in the hints that this house is one skirmish in a much wider war, brushing up against the Paradise novels and the Books of History. Readers don’t need to have read anything else for House to work, but if you know the larger Dekkerverse you’ll spot familiar patterns and names.

Beyond that flagship, this page points you toward the two authors’ other points of contact. Peretti’s early trailblazing in supernatural suspense paved the way for Dekker’s own work, and Dekker has often named him as an influence. For readers who love the dread‑soaked small towns of This Present Darkness and the high‑concept fantasy of the Circle books, House sits at the crossroads of both.

Here you’ll find House in order among the related Books of History titles, a concise summary of how it fits, and suggestions on whether to approach it as your first Dekker/Peretti experience or as a later crossover once you’ve tasted each author on their own.