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James A Moore Books in Order

Browse James A Moore books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and where to start across his horror, dark fantasy, tie-ins, and thrillers.

Last updated: July 9, 2026

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Berlin by Night

by James A Moore

1993

A city sourcebook that turns Berlin into a pressure cooker of vampire politics, old wounds, and contested territory. The pleasure here is in the atmosphere, factions, and the sense that every block belongs to someone dangerous.

Necropolis: Atlanta

by James A Moore

1994

A World of Darkness setting book that maps Atlanta's supernatural dead, its hidden history, and the tensions between factions haunting the city. It is a city guide built for atmosphere, politics, and crossover play.

Concrete Jungle

by James A Moore

1995

A city-set horror tie-in where human violence and hidden supernatural danger feed each other. Moore keeps the pressure high and lets the urban setting feel predatory long before the worst things step fully into view.

Get of Fenris Tribebook

by James A Moore

1995

A focused guide to one of Werewolf's fiercest tribes, drawing on Norse-inflected culture, ideology, and conflict. It is a lore-heavy book meant to deepen character and setting rather than tell a single linear story.

House of Secrets

by James A Moore

1995

This World of Darkness novel leans into occult politics, hidden loyalties, and the cost of life inside a predatory supernatural order. It is gothic intrigue with sharp consequences for everyone keeping the wrong secret.

Hell Storm

by James A Moore

1996

A World of Darkness tie-in that throws supernatural conflict and violent loyalties together fast. Moore treats the setting as a place where savagery, secrecy, and spiritual damage are all part of the same fight.

Cities of Darkness Volume 2

by James A Moore

1997

A collected Vampire sourcebook that expands the setting through city politics, factions, and urban night-life conflict. It is designed less as a single story than as a toolbox for darker, more localized chronicles.

World of Darkness

by James A Moore

1999

A broad guide to the World of Darkness setting, laying out the hidden powers, supernatural factions, and modern gothic mood behind the larger shared universe. It is more about atmosphere and structure than a single plot.

Under the Overtree

by James A Moore

2000

A group of teens in a small town run into an older, darker evil that local life has been ignoring for too long. When Jonathan Crowley enters the picture, strange trouble turns openly deadly.

Fireworks

by James A Moore

2001

A UFO crashes into the middle of a Fourth of July celebration in Collier and leaves death, panic, and secrecy behind. The survivors soon realize the first disaster may only be the opening act.

Chaos Bleeds

by James A Moore

2003

Buffy and the Scoobies are pulled into a supernatural contest shaped by the First Evil, old enemies, and reality-warping danger. It reads like a brisk monster-fighting adventure with the show's usual mix of quips and peril.

Serenity Falls

by James A Moore

2003

The town of Serenity Falls looks like it is recovering, but graves are being disturbed, children are vanishing, and something bad is waking up. Jonathan Crowley arrives just in time to see how deep the rot really goes.

Newbies

by James A Moore

2004

A younger cast gets shoved into a strange, dangerous supernatural world and learns quickly that being the new arrival is not the same thing as being welcome. Moore keeps the setup brisk and lets the danger do the convincing.

Possessions

by James A Moore

2004

Chris Corin is already struggling to keep his life together when supernatural trouble starts pressing through the cracks around him. Family strain, grief, and a growing sense that something hostile is near give the book its bite.

Blood Red

by James A Moore

2005

Just before Halloween, vampire Jason Soulis arrives in Black Stone Bay and begins treating the town like an experiment. As people disappear and the undead multiply, survivors have to decide whether love, loyalty, or hunger will win.

Dark Carnival

by James A Moore

2005

A carnival rolls into town just as the long nightmare around Serenity Falls reaches its breaking point. Old secrets, accumulated deaths, and Jonathan Crowley's unfinished business all crash together in the finale.

Rabid Growth

by James A Moore

2005

Chris Corin is already overwhelmed by grief, guardianship, and family trouble when people around town begin changing into something no longer human. The horror grows out of ordinary life until there is nowhere normal left to stand.

The Pack

by James A Moore

2005

The curse on Serenity Falls only tightens as disappearances, violence, and something predatory in the dark keep driving the town toward collapse. Crowley keeps pulling at the truth, even when the answers make everything worse.

Writ in Blood

by James A Moore

2005

Serenity Falls has a long history of violence, and that history is finally pushing back into the present. Jonathan Crowley and others digging into the town's past discover that revenge has been waiting there a very long time.

Harvest Moon

by James A Moore

2006

Beldam Woods looks pleasant enough from the brochure, but local crimes, poisonous growth, and the legends of Witch's Hollow tell a different story. Moore builds a strong autumn atmosphere and then lets the rot spread through town.

Deeper

by James A Moore

2007

Captain Joe Bierden takes a well-paid job ferrying researchers to Devil's Reef near Golden Cove. Their search for hidden history turns into a battle with ghost ships, underwater horrors, and the feeling that some places should stay sealed.

The Haunted Forest Tour

by James A Moore

2007

A bizarre forest full of monsters becomes a tourist attraction, right up until two trains full of visitors get stranded inside it. From there the book turns into a loud, bloody survival sprint through creature-packed chaos.

Home for the Holidays

by James A Moore

2009

A seasonal homecoming goes bad as familiar spaces and family comfort start feeling wrong in all the worst ways. Moore uses the holiday frame to turn nostalgia into unease very quickly.

Slices

by James A Moore

2009

A horror collection that shows Moore moving through monsters, bad towns, ugly memories, and straight-up nastiness with ease. The stories are varied, but the pressure and the willingness to get dark are constant.

The Walker Place

by James A Moore

2009

A bad place with a worse history pulls the living toward it one step at a time. This short horror piece leans on atmosphere, haunted-space tension, and the sense that some doors should stay shut.

Cherry Hill

by James A Moore

2010

Another Jonathan Crowley tale, this one drops him into a knot of buried violence and supernatural trouble that refuses to stay quiet. The story is compact, mean, and powered by Crowley's talent for finding the worst thing in the room.

Blood Harvest

by James A Moore

2011

Five years after Black Stone Bay survived Jason Soulis's vampire experiments, the damage is still growing. A deadlier breed of monster is moving through town, and Maggie Preston may be the only thing mean enough to meet it head-on.

Smile No More

by James A Moore

2011

Jonathan Crowley walks into another case built from old hurt, hidden monsters, and the kind of evil that can pass for human until it is too late. It is lean horror with Crowley in no mood to play nice.

Subject Seven

by James A Moore

2011

A private corporation created sleeper assassins inside the bodies of children, and one of them has escaped. Subject Seven sets out to find the others and turn a hidden experiment into open war on its makers.

Blind Shadows

by James A Moore

2012

When an old friend is found murdered and mutilated, Wade Griffin returns to Wellman, Georgia, and teams with Sheriff Carl Price. Their investigation leads into Crawford's Hollow, where beauty, death, and something ancient are all tangled together.

Homestead

by James A Moore

2012

Kathy Erinson thinks she sees her long-missing childhood friend screaming from a school bus, and the sight cracks open memories the town never solved. What follows is a tight horror novella about missing children, bad memory, and old fear.

Run

by James A Moore

2012

The Failures are on the road looking for the scientist who might explain what they are. Behind them come the improved Successes, and every transformation pushes the human parts of the teens closer to breaking.

Congregations of the Dead

by James A Moore

2013

Sheriff Carl Price and private investigator Wade Griffin are juggling a missing teen, a child abduction, and criminal pressure when a new mountain church enters the picture. Its charismatic leader may be the most dangerous thing in Wellman.

Seven Forges

by James A Moore

2013

Captain Merros Dulver crosses the Blasted Lands and makes first contact with the half-forgotten people beyond the Seven Forges. What begins as exploration quickly becomes a tense collision between empires, cultures, and gods of war.

Sea of Sorrows

by James A Moore

2014

A deep-space recovery mission runs straight into old xenomorph terror and the usual human greed that always seems to follow it. Moore mixes haunted-cosmos dread with a salvage story that goes bad in the worst possible way.

The Blasted Lands

by James A Moore

2014

Merros Dulver's discovery beyond the mountains has consequences nobody can contain. As Fellein and the Sa'ba Taalor edge toward war, journeys into the scarred north reveal how dangerous the old cataclysm still is.

City of Wonders

by James A Moore

2015

Refugees pour into Old Canhoon as borders collapse and enemies close in. Inside the city, imperial politics, spies, zealots, and the growing threat from the Seven Forges turn survival into a daily negotiation.

What Gods Demand

by James A Moore

2015

Set in the Seven Forges world, this story follows Swech, one of the Sa'ba Taalor, as she hides among humans to carry out the will of her gods. It is a sharp look at espionage, faith, and a war already taking shape.

Bloodstained Oz

by James A Moore

2016

A tornado opens the way to a savage version of Oz where familiar wonders have turned predatory. Survivors have to cross a fairy-tale landscape of murderous dolls, flying monsters, and blood-soaked magic just to stay alive.

The Silent Army

by James A Moore

2016

War around the Seven Forges grows wider and stranger as armies, rulers, and gods all move at once. Old alliances crack, new powers rise, and survival starts to depend on choices nobody wanted to make.

This Is Halloween

by James A Moore

2016

A story collection built entirely around Halloween mood, from autumn dread to full supernatural trouble. If you want Moore in seasonal mode, this is the concentrated version.

Dinner for One

by James A Moore

2017

A personal nonfiction book about grief, love, and the long work of living after devastating loss. Moore writes plainly about memory, marriage, and healing without trying to make the pain sound prettier than it is.

One Bad Week

by James A Moore

2017

Jonathan Crowley deals with calls from beyond the grave, demons that refuse to stay dead, and the creature that destroyed his family. The result is a hard, ugly sequence of encounters built around revenge and unfinished business.

The Last Sacrifice

by James A Moore

2017

When the gods choose Brogan McTyre's family for sacrifice, he does the unthinkable and fights back. His rebellion saves no one cleanly, but it does set a whole world on the road to divine war.

A Hell Within

by James A Moore

2018

Wade Griffin and Sheriff Carl Price face another Wellman case where personal history and supernatural danger refuse to stay separate. The deeper they dig, the more the threat feels rooted in both the town and themselves.

Fallen Gods

by James A Moore

2018

Brogan McTyre is now a hunted man, and the gods want him alive for sacrifice. While storms and demonic attacks tear the world apart, he searches for a weapon powerful enough to wound the divine.

Gates of the Dead

by James A Moore

2018

The war against the gods reaches its final, ugliest stage. Brogan sails north for the only gateway where the gods can be killed, knowing the world may not survive even if he wins.

Hunters and Hunted Official Movie Prequel

by James A Moore

2018

This prequel sets the stage for a new Predator clash through covert agencies, Project Stargazer, and a military team badly outmatched by what they are chasing. It is a fast tie-in built on ambushes, secrets, and escalating body count.

Avengers: Infinity

by James A Moore

2019

With many of Earth's defenders off-planet, Thanos and the Black Order strike where the Avengers are weakest. What follows is a sprawling cosmic war that mixes battlefield spectacle with desperate last-stand energy.

Boomtown

by James A Moore

2019

Jonathan Crowley drifts into a doomed frontier town already ringed by bad men, restless dead, and worse things outside the lights. He wants revenge, not heroics, but Boomtown may not survive long enough to respect the difference.

Where The Sun Goes to Die

by James A Moore

2019

Crowley and Lucas Slate survive one nightmare only to ride deeper into a stranger America. Dark gods, ghosts, werewolves, and spectral trains turn the weird west into a place where every mile asks for blood.

Stalking Shadows

by James A Moore

2020

After a violent clean-up in Los Angeles uncovers alien weapons, U.S. Marine Scott Devlin is sent on what looks like a routine jungle mission. It turns into a hunt through secret programs, skinned corpses, and Predator territory.

The Godless

by James A Moore

2021

The long war around the Seven Forges leaves kingdoms shaken and old certainties broken. Survivors on every side have to navigate a harsher world where faith, loyalty, and power no longer point in the same direction.

Halloween Beyond

by James A Moore

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.

Monsters

by James A Moore

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.

October's End

by James A Moore

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.

West of Hell

by James A Moore

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.

Wounds to Wishes

by James A Moore

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.

Against the Clock

by James A Moore

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.

An Unholy Triquetra

by James A Moore

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.

Little Mutilations

by James A Moore

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.

Sherlock Holmes and The Arcana of Madness

by James A Moore

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.

The Dead Shall Rise

by James A Moore

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.

The War Born

by James A Moore

2023

The war around the Seven Forges has changed everybody left standing. Old loyalties, old enemies, and the cost of survival all come back into play as the series pushes deeper into the damage war leaves behind.

Vandal

by James A Moore

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.

A Graveyard of Stars

by James A Moore

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.

F.U.B.B.

by James A Moore

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.

Hunted Highways

by James A Moore

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.

The Devil's Backbone

by James A Moore

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.

24 Frames Per Second: Three Hollywood Horror Novellas

by James A Moore

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.

Urban Legends

by James A Moore

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.

Where should I start?

If you want grimdark epic fantasy: Seven ForgesThe Blasted LandsCity of Wonders
If you want small-town supernatural horror: Serenity FallsWrit in BloodThe PackDark Carnival
If you want fast, monster-heavy horror: The Haunted Forest TourBlood Red
If you want gods, war, and revenge: The Last SacrificeFallen GodsGates of the Dead
If you want YA science fiction horror: Subject SevenRun

Author bio

James A. Moore wrote horror, dark fantasy, thrillers, comics, and game books for more than three decades. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 3, 1965, he built the kind of career that genre readers tend to discover one shelf at a time, then realize they have been reading him for years.

He did not stay in one lane.

Before many readers found him through novels, Moore was already working in shared worlds. He wrote comics for Marvel, contributed heavily to White Wolf's World of Darkness line, and learned how to handle monsters, lore, and action in spaces where the rules had to feel solid fast. That background shows up all through his fiction. Even when his stories get strange, they usually feel like they know exactly how their worlds work.

His early novels made it clear what he liked. Books like Under the Overtree, Serenity Falls, Fireworks, and Blood Red lean into small towns, bad histories, old secrets, and supernatural threats that are ugly in a very physical way. He liked communities under pressure. He liked people trying to keep hold of ordinary life while something inhuman pushed through the walls.

Then he went bigger.

With Seven Forges and its sequels, Moore moved into epic dark fantasy without losing the directness that made his horror work. The series begins with Merros Dulver crossing the Blasted Lands and making first contact with the warlike Sa'ba Taalor, and from there it opens into a long story about empire, faith, war, and culture clash. He took a similar approach in The Last Sacrifice and the Tides of War books, where Brogan McTyre's fight against gods turns into a brutal world-scale disaster.

He also kept finding new ways to play with familiar genres. Subject Seven and Run take a secret-lab premise and turn it into violent young adult science fiction horror. Boomtown and Where The Sun Goes to Die push his recurring hunter Jonathan Crowley into weird western territory. The Haunted Forest Tour, written with Jeff Strand, is exactly what its title promises, a monster-heavy nightmare built for readers who want the carnage to start early and stay loud.

Moore was also a reliable tie-in writer. He wrote Alien: Sea of Sorrows, Predator novels, a Buffy novelization, and Avengers: Infinity, and he did it without sounding bored by the assignment. That mattered. Readers came to him because he could work inside an established world and still make it feel tense, mean, and alive.

The awards side of the story is simple. He received multiple Bram Stoker Award nominations over the years, and he co-edited The Twisted Book of Shadows, which won the Shirley Jackson Award. Those are good markers of the respect he earned, but the bigger fact is probably the body of work itself, more than fifty books spread across horror, fantasy, and shared-universe fiction.

He wrote a lot, and he gave readers plenty of entry points.

Moore died on March 27, 2024, at fifty-eight. He was married to Tessa Moore, and by the end of his career he had become one of those writers other writers and long-time horror readers talked about with real affection. If you like fiction that moves, hits hard, and has no problem getting blood on the floor, he left behind a lot to explore.

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