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House of Furies Books in Order

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Explore the House of Furies series by Madeleine Roux in order, with short summaries, gothic series background, and clear advice on where to begin.

Last updated: July 12, 2026

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House of Furies books in publication order

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House of Furies

by Madeleine Roux

2017

Fleeing a brutal school, Louisa Ditton takes a maid's job at Coldthistle House and thinks she has found shelter. Instead she discovers a place of judgment, where Mr. Morningside and his staff decide who deserves to die.

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Court of Shadows

by Madeleine Roux

2018

Louisa's life after Coldthistle House only grows stranger as old powers, dangerous loyalties, and buried truths close in. The fight circling back to the house may cost her far more than safety, including her soul.

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Tomb of Ancients

by Madeleine Roux

2019

Louisa has escaped Coldthistle House, but London offers no peace. With dark forces closing in and her father's influence growing stronger, she returns to Mr. Morningside and heads toward a legendary gateway between worlds.

House of Furies books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "House of Furies"

    House of Furies

    by Madeleine Roux

    2017House of Furies, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "Court of Shadows"

    Court of Shadows

    by Madeleine Roux

    2018House of Furies, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "Tomb of Ancients"

    Tomb of Ancients

    by Madeleine Roux

    2019House of Furies, Book 3

Series background & context

The House of Furies books begin with a simple gothic promise: a frightened girl takes a job in a strange house, and the house turns out to be much worse than it first seemed. Louisa Ditton is fleeing a brutal school when she lands at Coldthistle House, a remote inn in England that looks like refuge for about five minutes. Very quickly she learns that the guests are not there by chance, the staff are not normal servants, and the master of the house, Mr. Morningside, deals in a kind of judgment that is far more frightening than ordinary cruelty.

The house is never just a house.

That is the core of the series. Coldthistle House is part inn, part trap, part supernatural court, and part moral machine that chews people up under the cover of elegance. Louisa has to learn its rules while deciding whether she can trust anyone inside it, especially when she becomes determined to save Lee, one of the few guests who seems worth protecting. The first book has that tight, deliciously trapped feeling common to good gothic stories. The walls are beautiful. The danger is close. Every hallway seems to be listening.

From there, the series grows outward. Court of Shadows and Tomb of Ancients open the world beyond Coldthistle and reveal that Louisa has stumbled into something much older than one eerie house. There are old gods, devils, buried family history, and a widening conflict that pulls Louisa from simple survival into choices that affect the shape of the whole supernatural order around her. What starts as a haunted-service-job story becomes a larger fantasy about power, bargains, and the cost of staying alive long enough to choose your own side.

That expansion works because Roux keeps Louisa grounded. She is not a destined chosen one who glides through revelation. She is scared, angry, observant, stubborn, and often outmatched. The books stay readable because the emotional frame remains personal even when the mythology gets bigger. Louisa wants freedom. She wants answers. She wants to stop being used. Every monster and miracle in the series hits harder because it keeps crashing into those needs.

The tone sits somewhere between gothic horror and dark fantasy. There are grotesque creatures, moral rot, strange households, and the sense that beauty is often hiding something hungry. The illustrations and photographs that accompany the books only deepen that uneasy, curated atmosphere.

So if you are browsing the House of Furies page, expect a trilogy that begins in a locked-room shiver and ends in a much larger supernatural war. Expect creepy hospitality, dangerous bargains, and a heroine learning that escape is only the start of the problem. And expect Coldthistle House to linger in your head long after you leave it.

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