Lee Mountford Books in Order
Explore Lee Mountford books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and easy starting points for his haunted, supernatural, and dark fantasy horror.
Last updated: July 3, 2026
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Publication Order
43 books
Horror in the Woods
by Lee Mountford
2017
Ashley and three friends head into the woods for a weekend escape, then stray into the hunting ground of the cannibalistic Webb family. Their trip becomes a brutal fight for survival, with a darker secret waiting deeper in the trees.
The Demonic
by Lee Mountford
2017
Danni Morgan returns to her childhood home after her abusive father's death, hoping to bury the past with him. Instead, she finds that the house is truly haunted, and the evil inside wants her whole family.
The Mark
by Lee Mountford
2018
After a vicious attack leaves an ancient symbol carved into her back, Kirsty Thompson begins seeing demonic visions. With her friend Amanda, she follows the trail to a satanic cult and a creature linked to the Devil's Bible.
Forest of the Damned
by Lee Mountford
2019
Four paranormal researchers travel into the Black Forest hoping to prove the supernatural is real. When one of them vanishes and the legend of Mother Sibbett comes alive around them, the trip becomes a nightmare.
The Netherwell Horror
by Lee Mountford
2019
After a desperate message from her estranged brother, Beth Davis travels to Netherwell Bay and finds ritual murders, a sinister cult, and a town full of bad secrets. Soon she is racing to stop a doorway to Hell from opening.
The Nightmare Collection
by Lee Mountford
2019
This short story collection moves from abandoned hospitals and haunted homes to sinister farms and dark forests. Each tale is quick, creepy, and built around the moment ordinary life tips into something much worse.
Tormented
by Lee Mountford
2019
At his lowest point, Adrian James accepts a stranger's offer of salvation and enters Arlington Asylum by choice. Inside, experimental medicine and monstrous forces turn the institution into a living nightmare he may never escape.
Devil's Door
by Lee Mountford
2020
On Halloween night in 1982, the future Blackwater Hotel is already rotting from the inside. As the Pearson family moves in to help with renovations, secrets, spirits, and Marcus Blackwater's hidden agenda drive the place toward massacre.
Perron Manor
by Lee Mountford
2020
Sarah and Chloe inherit a grand old house that feels too good to be true, and it is. Strange smells, cold spots, occult objects, and a growing sense of evil turn their windfall into a battle for their lives and souls.
Purgatory
by Lee Mountford
2020
After the events of *Perron Manor*, a paranormal team is brought in to prove the house is truly haunted so the Church will allow an exorcism. What they find is far worse than a ghost story, and far harder to survive.
Asylum
by Lee Mountford
2021
Sarah Pearson and Father Luca Janosch travel to the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum after the Church receives a letter about secrets buried beneath it. The souls inside are restless, and someone else is watching their every move.
Mother Death
by Lee Mountford
2021
A notorious old haunting seems to have returned at South Hill Estate, and David Ritter is sent to investigate. If the spirit of Mary Kane really is back, the innocent are in terrible danger again.
Possession
by Lee Mountford
2021
Sarah Pearson and her team are sent to a cathedral in Kutna Hora to investigate a respected priest who may be possessed. Bloody apparitions and an old supernatural plot quickly turn the case into a fight for survival.
Crimson Dawn
by Lee Mountford
2022
After a Deathborn chapter is wiped out, Jack Bennett travels to York to uncover what could destroy trained monster hunters so completely. The answer leads him to the Crimson Dawn, a cult with world-changing ambitions.
Deathborn
by Lee Mountford
2022
In 1880 Britain, Jack Bennett learns monsters are real only after his life is destroyed by them. He joins the Deathborn, a secret order fighting the darkness, and sets out on a mission that may cost him everything.
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.
Shadows of the Deep
by Lee Mountford
2022
Jack Bennett is sent to Whitby to help the Shadowhand investigate strange spawn creatures and a growing supernatural threat. Beneath the waves, something ancient is watching, and the truth may change Assandra's life forever.
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.
Catacombs
by Lee Mountford
2023
Sarah Pearson is lured into the Paris Catacombs by a ghostly message from an old friend. As David and Rachel chase after her, the maze below Paris threatens possession, death, and something even worse for the world above.
End of Days
by Lee Mountford
2023
Sarah Pearson returns to the place where her nightmare began, and the darkness finally gets what it wants. As the dead rise and chaos spreads, David Ritter and his allies race to stop Hell from swallowing everything.
Hotel
by Lee Mountford
2023
David Ritter and Reverend Rachel Quinn track Sarah Pearson to the long-abandoned Hillside Hotel before an apocalyptic prophecy can be fulfilled. Inside, lost souls and a demonic force turn the rescue into a race against the end of days.
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.
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.
Orchard of Flesh
by Lee Mountford
2024
Jack Bennett follows his mentor to London to be tested as a Shadowhand, but something monstrous is already waiting there. Beneath the city, a gruesome garden of human flesh points to a power even worse than the Ancient Ones.
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.
Wanna Be Scared?
by Lee Mountford
2024
Four compact horror stories, from an abandoned estate and lighthouse to a stranger creeping closer every night. It is a punchy little collection built around familiar fears that turn sharply and nastily wrong.
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.
House of Thorns
by Lee Mountford
2025
Emily arrives at Erimus House as a child hoping for a fresh start, only to find a home full of shadows and secrets. Years later, she and her old friends return as adults and discover the house has been waiting for them.
The Crone
by Lee Mountford
2025
Jodie Callaghan is pulled into the hunt for an ancient entity called the Crone after a secretive group claims to know the truth. Rituals, relics, and hidden enemies close in fast as the threat spreads beyond any one haunted place.
The Demented
by Lee Mountford
2025
Jodie Callaghan must prove herself alone at Cainwood House, a deserted asylum with a filthy past. Inside waits Edgar Sorrell, a dead inmate whose lingering presence can break minds before it takes lives.
The Watcher
by Lee Mountford
2025
Paranormal investigator Jodie Callaghan returns to Parson Hall for one last case before it is sold. A stranger's ritual awakens the vengeful spirit known as the Watcher, and suddenly leaving alive is no longer guaranteed.
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.
Hexeater
by Lee Mountford
2026
Assandra Freyer finally finds the chance at a coven and a family in London, only to learn something is hunting wytches there. At the same time, Jack Bennett returns to Durham to face rising dead and a dangerous new enemy.
Where should I start?
If you want a haunted-house saga: Perron Manor → Devil's Door → Purgatory → Possession
If you want a fast standalone hit: Horror in the Woods → The Demonic → The Netherwell Horror
If you want dark fantasy horror: Deathborn → Shadows of the Deep → Crimson Dawn → Orchard of Flesh
If you want paranormal investigators: The Watcher → The Crone → The Demented
Author bio
Lee Mountford is a horror writer from the North East of England, and that sense of place runs through a lot of what he does. He grew up in Ferryhill, later lived in Billingham, and has said that dark stories were part of his imagination early on.
That started young.
He has talked about getting the writing bug at school, where English class was the place he most enjoyed making things up. Even then he leaned toward horror, and once tried writing a quick sequel to Dracula in an exam. That tells you quite a lot about the lane he was always going to end up in.
For years, writing sat alongside a day job in architecture. He has said he always had unfinished manuscripts lying around, but the real turning point came in 2016 when he went back to an abandoned idea about four friends lost in the woods. This time he outlined it properly, stuck with it, and turned it into Horror in the Woods, his first published novel in May 2017.
Things moved fast after that. Later in 2017 he released The Demonic, a haunted house novel that became a best seller in Amazon's Occult Horror and British Horror categories. From there he kept building, moving from standalones into bigger linked worlds and longer series.
A lot of Mountford's appeal comes from how quickly he gets a story moving. He has said he prefers to keep things succinct and snappy, and that shows on the page. Books like Horror in the Woods, The Netherwell Horror, and Perron Manor drop ordinary people into very bad situations and keep tightening the pressure, whether that means cannibals in the forest, cult activity in a strange coastal town, or a house that seems wrong from the moment someone steps inside.
He also likes to stretch beyond one flavor of horror. The Demonic and The Mark lean hard into the occult. The Haunted books widen into a larger paranormal saga built around Sarah Pearson, David Ritter, and a growing sense that the world is not nearly as safe as it looks. Then Deathborn opens the door to Darkfall, a series that mixes monster hunting, secret orders, and dark fantasy without losing the horror edge.
Place matters in his work.
Even when the stories go supernatural, they usually begin with something grounded: a family home, an abandoned asylum, a hotel renovation, a fishing town, an old manor, a patch of woodland. Mountford has also spoken about using local legend as fuel. The Demonic, for example, grew out of a story from Ferryhill about a farmhand, murdered children, and claims that the devil made him do it.
Publicly, he has shared a little about life away from the books too. He has described himself as a lifelong horror fan, despite the mixed feelings of his wife Michelle, and has said that he and Michelle are parents to two daughters, Ella and Sophie. The joke, at least from his side, is that he hopes the girls do inherit his love of horror.
That mix of everyday life and very dark imagination feels like a good way to sum him up. He writes fast, nasty, atmospheric horror, but the people at the center usually feel recognizably human. That is a big part of why readers tend to keep going once they start.
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