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Margaret Killjoy Books in Order

Margaret Killjoy's books in order, including the Danielle Cain novellas, A Country of Ghosts, and nonfiction, with publication dates and series reading guides.

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This illustrated survival manual explores practical responses to disaster using accessible tools and mechanical technology. Its guidance covers water, food, shelter, health, security, and communication, asking how communities might function when modern infrastructure fails.

Mythmakers and Lawbreakers

by Margaret Killjoy

2009

Margaret Killjoy interviews anarchist fiction writers about the relationship between storytelling and political belief. Contributors including Ursula K. Le Guin and Michael Moorcock discuss craft, imagined societies, and fiction's possibilities for challenging established power.

What Lies Beneath the Clock Tower

by Margaret Killjoy

2011

In this interactive adventure, readers guide events beneath a city where colonizing gnomes and indigenous goblins struggle over power. Branching choices lead through subterranean dangers, political resistance, romance, and the possibilities of collective liberation.

White Is the Color of Death

by Margaret Killjoy

2011

Three stories unfold in a frozen, postapocalyptic version of Victorian England, where winter and twilight never end. Communities struggle to survive the bitter conditions while the mysterious Afflicted threaten those trying to endure them.

A Country of Ghosts

by Margaret Killjoy

2014

Journalist Dimos Horacki joins an imperial army expecting to report on its campaign. Encountering the anarchist communities of Hron instead exposes the realities of conquest and challenges his assumptions about patriotism, government, and resistance.

Everything That Isn't Winter

by Margaret Killjoy

2016

In a world rebuilding after catastrophe, a fighter defends a tea-growing commune in the Pacific Northwest. The task raises a difficult question: where do people trained for destruction belong when others are creating a peaceful future?

The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

by Margaret Killjoy

2017

Investigating her best friend's suicide, Danielle Cain reaches an anarchist settlement in Iowa. A blood-red deer summoned to protect the community has begun attacking its own people, forcing Danielle and new allies to confront it.

The Barrow Will Send What it May

by Margaret Killjoy

2018

On the run, Danielle Cain and her novice demon-hunting friends reach a town with an anarchist occult library. Claims of residents returning from death draw them into a necromancer's schemes and the threat of apocalypse.

We Won't Be Here Tomorrow

by Margaret Killjoy

2022

Speculative stories follow people living at society’s margins through encounters with demons, mermaids, spaceships, and apocalypse. Hackers challenge corporate power, lovers navigate death cults, and displaced communities seek new ways to survive a changing and often hostile world.

Escape from Incel Island

by Margaret Killjoy

2023

A government scheme traps misogynistic men on a remote island under the promise of receiving women. Years later, mercenary Mankiller Jones and Dr. Morrison arrive on a military mission and must escape hostile factions within the isolated prison.

The Sapling Cage

by Margaret Killjoy

2024

Lorel joins a coven in her best friend’s place, hoping to become a witch despite having been raised as a boy. A spreading magical blight and a duchess’s ambitions threaten the kingdom while Lorel fears discovery by her new companions.

Hiding from magical authorities in the Idaho wilderness, Danielle Cain and her friends wait through Samhain around a campfire. Their shared stories explore magic through troll cults, murderous faeries, and riot police as the boundary between life and death thins.

Standalone Margaret Killjoy books

  1. Book cover for "A Steampunk's Guide to the Apocalypse"
  2. Book cover for "Mythmakers and Lawbreakers"

    Mythmakers and Lawbreakers

    by Margaret Killjoy

    2009
  3. Book cover for "What Lies Beneath the Clock Tower"

    What Lies Beneath the Clock Tower

    by Margaret Killjoy

    2011
  4. Book cover for "White Is the Color of Death"

    White Is the Color of Death

    by Margaret Killjoy

    2011
  5. Book cover for "A Country of Ghosts"

    A Country of Ghosts

    by Margaret Killjoy

    2014
  6. Book cover for "Everything That Isn't Winter"

    Everything That Isn't Winter

    by Margaret Killjoy

    2016
  7. Book cover for "The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion"

    The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

    by Margaret Killjoy

    2017Danielle Cain, Book 1
  8. Book cover for "The Barrow Will Send What it May"

    The Barrow Will Send What it May

    by Margaret Killjoy

    2018Danielle Cain, Book 2
  9. Book cover for "We Won't Be Here Tomorrow"

    We Won't Be Here Tomorrow

    by Margaret Killjoy

    2022And Other Stories
  10. Book cover for "Escape from Incel Island"

    Escape from Incel Island

    by Margaret Killjoy

    2023
  11. Book cover for "The Sapling Cage"

    The Sapling Cage

    by Margaret Killjoy

    2024
  12. Book cover for "The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice"

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