Locke and Key Books in Order

The Golden Age gathers the historical Locke & Key tales—from colonial-era adventures to World War I and the Sandman crossover—into one sequence. Together they sketch the long, bloody history of Keyhouse and the many Lockes who’ve paid for its magic.

The conclusion of the Hell & Gone crossover finds the Lockes pushing deeper into the underworld with their magic keys, bargaining with Lucifer and other powers. It ties the mythologies of Keyhouse and the Sandman together around one family’s desperate gamble.

When a young Locke seeks a way to rescue a loved one from Hell, she journeys through the Dreaming and into the wider Sandman universe. Crossing paths with its strange denizens, she discovers that every door has a price.

This prologue collects earlier Locke & Key stories that set the stage for the crossover with the Sandman Universe. It lays out the history of Keyhouse and the occult forces that will eventually lead a Locke into the realm of Dream.

The final chapter of …In Pale Battalions Go… closes the loop between the Locke family’s wartime tragedy and later events in The Golden Age. One young man’s attempt to change history instead helps set darker destinies in motion.

In part two, the use of the keys on the Western Front has terrible consequences for the soldiers around him and attracts the attention of inhuman forces. Back at Keyhouse, his family begins to sense the cost of his adventure.

Set in the run-up to World War I, this first issue follows a young Locke who steals enchanted keys from his family home to bring to the battlefield. The decision draws him into a conflict that magic can’t easily fix.

This one-shot revisits Keyhouse in two shorter tales, including a story where the family uses the Animal Key to give their dog a day as a human boy. It’s a lighter, bittersweet side trip in the larger Locke & Key saga.

In this standalone story, members of an earlier Locke generation inherit a detailed dollhouse version of Keyhouse that can affect the real mansion. When something nasty crawls into the miniature, the children must stop it before it grows large.

Heaven and Earth collects three Locke & Key stories, including the much-loved “Open the Moon,” in which a father uses the keys to give his dying son one last impossible adventure. It’s a more intimate, bittersweet companion to the main series.

Alpha & Omega brings the core Locke & Key saga to its climax, pitting the Lockes against the demon behind the Black Door once and for all. It’s a bloody, emotional finale about sacrifice, family, and what stays locked away.

Clockworks dives into Keyhouse’s past, revealing how an earlier generation of Lockes first opened a door into another realm and forged the keys. As Tyler and Kinsey explore time itself, they finally learn the truth about the demon stalking their family.

Set during the Depression, Locke & Key: Grindhouse follows a gang of Canadian bank robbers who choose Keyhouse as their hideout after a bloody job. They quickly discover that the mansion and its keys have far nastier surprises than any lawman.

Presented as an in-universe guidebook, this special issue catalogs the many keys of Keyhouse and their powers, with an added short story about a boy and his father using the Moon Key. It’s part handbook, part love letter to the series’ mythology.

Keys to the Kingdom mixes some of the series’ wildest visual experimentation with big plot turns, as new keys surface and alliances in Lovecraft shift. Tyler begins to understand who their enemy really is, even as the cost of confronting him rises.

Crown of Shadows sees the villain wielding the Shadow Key and an army of living darkness against Keyhouse. While the adults struggle with grief and addiction, the Locke children fight back with the very magic that has already cost them so much.

In the second Locke & Key arc, the Lockes discover the Head Key, which literally opens a person’s skull to reveal their memories and fears. Playing with what’s inside their heads is intoxicating—and exactly what the demon hiding among them wants.

After their father’s murder, the Locke children move with their mother to Keyhouse, a rambling New England mansion full of impossible doors. Youngest brother Bode begins finding keys that unlock powers—and a hungry presence in the well that wants them all.