Michael McBride Books in Order

A catastrophic event leaves a small group of survivors in a devastated world. Alien organisms reanimate the dead and reshape them into predators, forcing the living to run, investigate, and fight for a place in a world no longer ruled by humans.

An early Michael McBride horror novel that brings together mystery, danger, and the unsettling consequences of the past. It is a standalone tale for readers looking for his earlier work outside the larger series.

This expanded Species story follows survivors as they search for a way to destroy alien organisms that reanimate the dead. Their plan requires a return to Denver, now overrun by creatures that are becoming more dangerous.

Civilization is in ruins, and the last survivors prepare to defend their refuge near the Great Salt Lake. As Death's forces close in, fear and division inside the camp may prove just as destructive as the coming attack.

As prophecy becomes real and the Four Horsemen sweep across the world, a handful of survivors must find one another. Their hope rests with a precognitive teen, an Army medic, a marine biologist, and a child believed to be the Second Coming.

A compact early horror story from Michael McBride, built around pursuit, violence, and a mounting sense that the hunter may not be the one in control. It delivers a dark premise in novella form.

A horror story set against the start of a terrifying outbreak, where survival depends on understanding what is happening before time runs out. McBride mixes a confined setting, mounting panic, and a threat that keeps changing the rules.

After defeating War's army at a terrible cost, only twelve humans remain for the final journey. Phoenix and his companions must cross a scorched world and face Death, Famine, Pestilence, and Leviathan before humanity's last chance disappears.

FBI Special Agent Paxton Carver hunts a vicious killer who stays ahead of every lead and leaves disturbing clues behind. The case draws on ancient history and cutting-edge biology, turning a manhunt into a far darker investigation.

Years after seven religious-studies students vanish in the Colorado mountains, a human bone is found in a mountain lion's den. Their families return to the same cabins to recreate the disappearance, only to uncover an unbearable truth.

Steve's brother vanished in a marsh sixteen years ago, but Steve never believed the official explanation. When human bones turn up during a housing development, he returns to the place where he saw something tied to flesh, blood, and death.

A pair of novella-length tales that lean into the twisted and bizarre side of Michael McBride's horror. These shorter works offer concentrated suspense, strange threats, and the brisk escalation found throughout his fiction.

An FBI agent searches for his daughter after she vanishes on her tenth birthday and finds a pattern of abductions. A professor and a Wyoming sheriff are drawn into the same mystery, leading toward a deadly wilderness killing ground.

A short horror work from Michael McBride that centers on what people fail to see until it is too late. The story favors a tight setup, rising unease, and a threat lurking just outside ordinary awareness.

After his son's body is found in Peru, a grieving father leads an expedition into the jungle to learn what happened. The team finds a tribe believed extinct and something worse, a secret that no visitor has survived to reveal.

This short-fiction pairing presents two dark tales by Michael McBride. Both pieces offer concise setups, sharp turns, and the author's interest in ordinary situations that become dangerous in unexpected ways.

Two short Michael McBride stories collected in one volume. The pairing delivers fast, unsettling horror built around human conflict, bad luck, and situations that become far more dangerous than they first appear.

A brief Michael McBride horror story that brings a seemingly natural order into sinister focus. Its compact format lets the danger arrive quickly, leaving little room for its characters to explain or escape what they encounter.

A dark supernatural horror story in which forbidden magic and the dead become part of a dangerous struggle for power. The people involved soon learn that raising what is buried can unleash consequences no one can control.

Scientists uncover remains of an unknown human ancestor in Siberia, then something very much alive reaches Seattle. FBI agent Grey Porter and Detective Elena Sturm investigate a trail of drained bodies before the predator claims more victims.

A science-driven horror thriller about a biological threat whose spread brings investigators into a race against time. McBride pairs medical detail with escalating danger as the people involved discover that containment may already be impossible.

Four old friends on an elk-hunting trip are trapped in a Colorado blizzard. They soon realize something else is moving through the mountains, a predator that has hunted there for years and leaves no witnesses behind.

FBI Special Agent Lukas Walker investigates murders along the unfortified Arizona border with Mexico. The victims vanish in the Sonoran Desert, and a bloody symbol points toward a killer who knows the land and its people.

A man unleashes a lethal gas attack outside the New York Stock Exchange, setting off panic and mass death. FBI agent Renee Lawton follows the evidence into a conspiracy driven by greed and people willing to kill for profit.

A nonfiction work from Michael McBride that turns toward the natural world and wilderness. It offers a change of pace from his horror novels while retaining his interest in remote places and the forces that shape them.

An elderly survivor of a Nazi expedition shares an impossible secret with evolutionary anthropologist Jordan Brooks. Brooks leads a team into the Himalayas, where they retrace the journey and enter the hunting grounds of an isolated, deadly species.

A short collaboration with William Rasmussen that takes a high-concept turn into unsettling territory. It is a compact piece of dark speculative fiction, built to move quickly from an intriguing idea to disturbing consequences.

Stella Wright and her coven resurrect a powerful hybrid being to use against their enemy, Jim Butler. Their plan backfires when the returned creature becomes a threat that could destroy far more than the people who summoned it.

Border Patrol agent Christian Rivera finds a dead migrant in the Sonoran Desert with a cryptic message carved into her skin. Searching for the rest of her missing group, he faces brutal heat and an enemy more dangerous than the desert.

A short horror collaboration with Norman Prentiss that plays with storytelling and perspective. As the premise unfolds, the act of telling a story becomes part of the tension, blurring the line between observer and participant.

A dark thriller about people trapped in a violent city shaped by corruption, exploitation, and fear. As danger closes in, the story asks what remains of justice when the systems meant to protect people have already failed them.

A short, dark story from Michael McBride that uses fire and destructive impulse as the center of its menace. It keeps the focus close and tense as a dangerous fascination moves toward consequences.

A tunnel project beneath the Bering Strait reveals caverns suggesting a primitive human species survived underground. A global team enters before the caves flood, only to discover a predator adapted to darkness and determined not to reach the surface.

John Avery has spent seven years searching for his missing girlfriend, who vanished on a ski trip. A recovered video camera sends a search party into remote Rockies country, where a blizzard delivers them into an unseen predator's territory.

A Michael McBride volume in the Cemetery Dance Select line, bringing together his dark fiction for readers who want a focused sampling of his horror work. Expect unsettling ideas, brisk tension, and dangerous discoveries.

A compact horror story about language, creation, and the danger of words taking on a life beyond their maker's control. McBride uses a simple premise to build an uneasy, increasingly personal threat.

Five scientists at an Antarctic station awaken ancient organisms beneath the ice. When the life forms begin using human hosts and creating savage hybrids, the researchers must escape the nightmare they helped release.

Six months after Antarctica, Unit 51 learns the creature they thought was dead has evolved. A discovery in a Mexican temple points to a growing threat that needs new hosts, and the human race may be next.

A dark speculative horror story built around an unexplained presence and the fear of not knowing what has been found. The mystery deepens as the characters face evidence that refuses to fit a familiar explanation.

Unit 51 investigates a dormant virus capable of transforming human physiology while a new life form evolves in the Amazon. From Virginia to Mexico and Turkey, the team races to stop an ancient threat from spreading worldwide.

A short Michael McBride tale that strips its premise down to an ominous unknown. It delivers a quick descent into suspense, where the smallest clue can point toward a much larger and more dangerous reality.

A science-horror thriller in which a dangerous discovery brings the past into violent contact with the present. McBride builds the suspense around investigators confronting a threat that should have remained hidden.

Dan Cameron leads an Air National Guard rescue mission to a damaged research station in Greenland. The scientists' climate project has awakened an organism beneath the ocean floor, and something inhuman is hunting survivors across the glacier.

Scientists excavating a lost Persian army's trail in Egypt uncover a temple buried beneath the dunes. Inside, something adapted to complete darkness hunts them, determined to ensure no one learns it has survived.

An archaeological team in northern Alaska releases a virus from an ancient tomb, turning people into violent monsters. As infection spreads across America, scattered strangers and a Hopi elder prepare for a battle over humanity's future.

With the country overrun by infected monsters, immune survivors race toward humanity's last stand. An FBI agent, a prescient girl, scientists, and others must cross a fallen America before an ancient evil finds them first.

The infected are fading, but the real threat is only beginning. Survivors gather in Arizona and beneath the Blue Ridge Mountains, then eight strangers mount a final assault against forces determined to erase humanity.

An unexplained Denver earthquake leads Dr. Dayna Raines into caverns beneath a former Army chemical-weapons disposal well. The team must prevent another disaster while confronting a lethal organism that was buried where no one could find it.

Doctors in Sierra Leone find dead baboons and fear a catastrophic new virus. Dr. Dayna Raines sends a team into the monsoon-soaked jungle, where missing bodies and deadly predators suggest the outbreak is something far worse.