Michael Richan Books in Order

Mason Manor, an Oregon bed-and-breakfast, has turned deadly, leaving guests dead in their beds. Roy and Steven step in to investigate and find a haunted estate with a far more dangerous force moving through its halls.

A nighttime visitor threatens Steven's life, and the danger seems tied to unfinished business in his family's past. With Roy absent, Steven turns to Eliza and Daniel to face a threat reaching out from another time.

After a divorce, Steven expects a quiet stretch in a new home. Instead he finds violent apparitions, and his skeptical worldview collides with his father Roy's strange gift as they uncover something worse than a simple haunting.

Young Deem is grieving her father and struggling with her gift when a poisonous creature begins attacking her home at night. With Winn and other allies, she enters a version of the River twisted by fallout from nuclear testing.

When Steven's son Jason is taken to remote Nevada cave country, Steven and Roy race after him. Downwind radiation has warped the River there, turning the rescue into a battle against mutated ghosts and a drowned ghost town.

Steven, Roy, and Eliza join other gifted investigators at the haunted Unser Estate, where the mansion seems to be poisoning a nearby town. What starts as a cleanup job becomes a fight against a plan far darker than anyone expected.

Steven tries to close out a bad bargain with a demon and ends up inside a house in the dam town of Diablo. With Roy, Jason, and Eliza beside him, he faces a haunting built on violence, deception, and a demon that never told the truth.

As a boy, Winn follows a friend into the hills near Tucson and finds a cave full of mutated ghosts. What he discovers there starts a nightmare that will shadow the rest of his life.

A haunting in Seattle leads Steven and Roy toward a cursed patch of Washington woods where demons gather around despair. To protect a gifted boy and his grandmother, they must face one of the worst evils in the series.

Steven plans a peaceful holiday at Point No Point, but the lighthouse retreat comes with pounding noises, shipwreck secrets, and a spreading supernatural infection. Christmas turns into another grim case for Steven and Roy.

Something prowls the streets of Clearlake after dark and drags victims into the woods. When it targets Eliza's son, Eliza, Steven, and Roy must hunt a predator tied to mausoleums, groves, and a deeply disturbed human threat.

Blackham Mansion was built to speak with the dead, and it worked too well. Deem and her friends enter the long-abandoned house and find a downwind haunting full of warped entities, bad bargains, and costly answers.

In the real world Derick is an ex-cop, but in the Dark River he's a hunted man blamed for helping rebels and killing a notorious torturer. His next journey leads to a grisly graveyard and an uneasy alliance that may keep him alive.

As Steven and Roy spend more time caring for Eximere, the place begins to look less like paradise and more like a trap. A century-old creature threatens the balance there and exposes more of James Unser's terrible design.

Retired cop Derick Hall has learned to enter the Dark River and get paid to pull people back out. One risky contract sends him through firestorms, infection, and brutal creatures while he escorts a woman carrying dangerous secrets.

Deem and Winn try to help a young woman with a strange affliction, but the cure lies inside cliff dwellings on hostile private land. Their search takes them through mines, caves, and growing conflict with dangerous local powers.

Barbara's coastal home is terrorizing her daughters and defeating every priest who enters. Steven and Roy investigate, only to find the house tied to the deeper mystery of Eximere and a series of dangers already in motion.

Eliza's brother is struck by a madness medicine cannot touch, and the clues point toward the most feared house around. To save him, she must awaken her dormant gift and enter Pitmon House herself.

Rachel begs Eliza to return with her to the abandoned town of Waverly, where a friend's death still haunts her. The old town hall and the remaining houses hide a history too sick and stubborn to stay buried.

Winn starts seeing cryptic symbols before sleep and suspects someone impossible is trying to send a message. He, Carma, David, and Awan follow the trail toward a coming confrontation that could destroy Deem.

Bullied freshmen Aaron and Phillip are handed a way to punish the kids who torment them, and at first it feels like a dream come true. Then the revenge grows monstrous, and Aaron has to escape a cruel, cultlike trap.

A quiet weekend at a remote bed-and-breakfast turns into work when Eliza and Robert realize the place is waking its dead. The haunting is tangled up with a dangerous child spirit and darker forces they can barely see clearly.

After a power collapse in the Dark River, Derick is pushed toward a leadership role he does not want. While a cure for the worms is threatened, he uncovers signs that an old enemy may have cheated death in a truly grotesque way.

Andrew can travel between timelines, which is useful when a vanished town slips out of sync with the rest of reality. He arrives in Slaughter just as the residents brace for creatures that come every sixteen years to feed.

Steven impulsively buys a Victorian mansion packed with dangerous spirits and ugly history. As he and Roy dig into Lukas Johansen's past, the case becomes personal and the truth proves far worse than expected.

At the Quiet Grove estate, something buried too deeply for the gift to reach is turning nightmares real. Deem, Winn, David, and Erin must uncover a secret in the fallout zone before it consumes them.

Bloated drowning victims begin wandering Eximere after new visitors disturb the mansion above. To solve the crisis, Steven and Roy must confront secret rooms, the Dark River, and answers Roy has long kept off limits.

A trip to explore a soon-to-be-sealed mine leads Winn, Deem, and David to Canyon Diablo and its infamous Hell Street. Old violence rises again there, and clearing it away comes at a heartbreaking price.

Eliza agrees to help a friend and instead steps into a nightmare that has been building for twenty years. With Steven, Roy, and Terrell, she must survive a labyrinth where something monstrous is waiting to be born.

A case involving antique dolls pulls Steven and Roy to a house near Deadwood, where they discover a room full of corpses fitted with metal tubes. The deeper they dig, the more the mystery turns into a conspiracy about death itself.

Ron buys an isolated mountain house and begins fixing it up before his family arrives. Then the nights fill with footsteps, scratching, and attacks, and the skeptical new owner must face a violent history that still grips the land.

Deem discovers a mortuary secretly removing bodies at night and decides to find out why. With only a few allies at her side, she stumbles into a conspiracy stretching across the Southwest and pays dearly for getting close to the truth.

Hoping for a quiet Christmas, Deem, Winn, and David stay in an empty family house and decorate it with old attic treasures. The house has its own ghosts, and the holiday quickly becomes a haunting tied to buried family secrets.

Lexon Mausoleum holds a secret worth killing for, and Nate's team has been hired to protect it. As spirits stir and one of their own is murdered, the defenders realize the danger is already inside the walls.

With a new leader in charge, Nate and Annya help investigate an abandoned mansion inside the zone around the mausoleum. Hidden traps, regrouping enemies, and deeper history threaten to undo their defenses.

At a child's funeral, Awan receives a note suggesting the death was no accident. His search leads into a town where children turn violent, authorities look complicit, and an army of the dead waits beyond an abandoned graveyard.

Professional medium Jon Olson agrees to lead a dangerous seance for a wealthy woman desperate to reach her daughter. The ritual goes badly wrong and pulls him into the long, devastating mystery of the Marstead estate.

A serial killer is using a device that murders through sight alone, and Derick is sent to stop him. The case turns uglier the more he learns, blurring the line between justice, manipulation, and horror.

Ruby is sent to live in a strange mansion after her parents go missing, and a ghost girl in the hall orders her to leave. With young Arthur as her only real ally, she starts uncovering the house's locked secrets and her own powers.

A rejected deal brings fresh horror down on Nate, Annya, and their teammates. As a ghostly disease spreads and new questions open beneath the mausoleum, they race to uncover the truth before the team is wiped out.

A fishing trip at Spirit Lake becomes an investigation into disappearances that may date back to the era before Mount St. Helens erupted. Steven and Roy uncover a hidden monster and need help from the dead to stop it in time.

Troy barely knew his eccentric aunt, so inheriting her Victorian mansion feels like a strange stroke of luck. The house soon reveals too many secrets to sell easily, and curiosity pulls him into its frightening past.

Winn and Awan agree to help an FBI agent with bizarre arsons in southeastern Utah and find far more than a fire case. A student film, strange mounds in the rubble, and an ancient force turn the investigation into supernatural disaster.

Ruby and Arthur begin opening the forbidden parts of Floyd's mansion, hoping the sealed rooms will explain everything. Instead they unleash worse apparitions and a crisis tied to Floyd's unfinished work inside the house.

Derick has tried to leave the Dark River behind, but a deadly failure in the new worm treatments drags him back. As people vanish and new threats rise in the wastelands, he faces a crisis larger than anything the Dark River has seen.

Working as a summer guide at Briarwood Manor, Eliza is drawn into the building's forbidden third floor after a friend disappears. Ghostly hospital scenes and an old family secret turn the rescue into a race against the house.

Ten-year-old Charlie knows the neighbor creeping through the wall at night is attacking his mother and sister, even if nobody believes him. Help comes from the ghost of a murdered boy, and Charlie is pushed into a fight against an ancient vampire.