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Jed Horn Books in Order

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Find the Jed Horn books by Peter Nealen in order, with short summaries, supernatural series background, and a clear place to start.

Last updated: June 10, 2026

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5 books

1

A Silver Cross and a Winchester

by Peter Nealen

2013

Jed Horn, former Marine and full-time hunter of monsters, rides into Silverton to stop a Shadowman before more people disappear. The town is rotten with sorcery, old evil, and secrets.

2

Nightmares

by Peter Nealen

2015

Before he became a witch hunter, Jed Horn was a former Marine haunted by what he saw in Iraq. His search for answers draws the attention of dark powers, and then the Order of the Silver Cross finds him.

3

The Walker on the Hills

by Peter Nealen

2015

Jed and Eryn Horn answer a cryptic call for help from an old platoon sergeant in the lonely town of Coldwell. What looks like one job becomes a hunt for something much older and stranger.

4

The Canyon of the Lost

by Peter Nealen

2016

Jed Horn and Dan Weatherby join the search for a missing child in the mountains of Washington State. The trail leads into a canyon where the Otherworld presses dangerously close.

5

Older and Fouler Things

by Peter Nealen

2017

A demon follows Jed and his companions home to Ray's uncanny refuge in the Northwest hills. Soon they are trapped between things inside the house and worse things gathering outside.

Series background & context

The Jed Horn books take a former Marine and drop him into a very different kind of war. Jed is a drifter, a hunter, and a man who has already seen enough darkness to believe that the monsters in old stories might be real. By the time A Silver Cross and a Winchester gets moving, he is not just surviving the supernatural. He is hunting it.

That is the core of the series. Jed moves through small towns, lonely stretches of road, mountain country, and half-forgotten places in the American West and Northwest, looking for the kind of trouble most people explain away because they do not want it to be true. Sorcerers, demons, strange old things from the Otherworld, and the Abyss all have a place here.

The books mix horror and action very openly.

Jed is not doing this alone, though. The Order of the Silver Cross gives the series some of its structure, and along the way he picks up priests, witch hunters, and other allies who know the fight is real. Nightmares digs into how he got pulled onto that road in the first place, while The Walker on the Hills shows what happens when the work gets bigger and more personal.

One of the nicest things about the series is how grounded it stays even when the monsters get weird. Jed still thinks like a veteran. He plans, improvises, watches for angles, and tries to protect the people around him. That practical streak keeps the books from floating off into vague supernatural fog.

Faith matters here, too.

Not in a preachy way, but in a way that shapes the fight. The series treats evil as something more than a jump scare, and it takes seriously the idea that courage, belief, and stubborn moral choices matter when the darkness is real. That gives the books a different flavor from a lot of urban fantasy or monster-hunter fiction.

So if you want supernatural thrillers with rifles, road miles, haunted places, and a lead who feels more like a working hunter than a chosen one, Jed Horn is the right stop. These stories are spooky, action-heavy, and at their best when they make the American landscape feel just a little less safe than it looked yesterday.

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Richard Reis

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Anurag Ramdasan

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