Mike Carey Books in Order

Lucifer has quit ruling Hell and is running a piano bar in Los Angeles when Heaven offers him a job. The result is one of Vertigo's smartest fantasy openings.

Lucifer's rebellion against every larger design deepens as monsters, children, and old debts crowd in. The mythology grows, but the knife edge of his character stays the point.

Lucifer gambles on a creation of his own and finds that independence comes with fresh enemies and impossible costs. Carey keeps turning theology into propulsive drama.

A dark Sandman-world tale where old griefs, supernatural debts, and forces of vengeance refuse to stay buried. Carey brings sharper momentum to mythic territory.

Representatives from across creation test the limits of Lucifer's new order. It is part war story, part political fantasy, and all bad-faith negotiation.

Infernal politics, family fractures, and long-laid plans all begin paying off. The series stays cerebral without ever slowing down.

The story widens into quieter, stranger territory as allies travel through damaged realms and old loyalties shift. Even the pauses in Lucifer carry danger.

Frankie discovers that having her own god is far less romantic than it sounds, especially when she wants an ordinary boyfriend. Teen comedy and dark fantasy make an odd, good match here.

A worldwide coma plague reaches someone John Constantine actually cares about, forcing him into a deeply ugly occult rescue mission. The scale is huge, but the wound is personal.

An early Carey graphic novel that leans hard into violence, betrayal, and damaged loyalties. The title alone tells you nobody is getting out clean.

This adaptation retells the 2005 film origin of Marvel's first family, from cosmic accident to Doctor Doom. It is a brisk superhero introduction built for movie fans.

Exiles, gods, and wanderers search for new ground while Lucifer's creation keeps changing around them. It is a restless volume about migration, power, and survival.

Fate, myth, and looming catastrophe close in as the saga enters its late stretch. Carey keeps the series darkly elegant and surprisingly human.

A professional debunker of the supernatural learns that some hauntings do not care whether you believe in them. Carey turns skepticism into a very bad survival strategy.

The balance of power shifts again as the series moves closer to its endgame. New figures rise, but every victory still carries a sting.

Morningstar's story heads toward its last reckoning with every old argument about freedom, love, and authority still unresolved. The stakes could hardly be bigger.

Red Sonja hacks her way through a harsh sword-and-sorcery world where every ally may be temporary. Carey helps ground the legend in grit, danger, and stubborn will.

Freelance exorcist Felix Castor takes what should be a routine ghost job and finds murder, possession, and much worse waiting behind it. Haunted London has rarely felt this alive.

John Constantine faces the monstrous children born from his own bloodline and the infernal plans built around them. It is nasty, intimate Hellblazer in a very Mike Carey mode.

The Ultimate versions of Marvel's mutant and science teams collide in a brisk crossover full of mistrust, big powers, and escalating chaos. It is short, sharp, and fun.

A friend's possession pulls Fix into a case involving gangsters, ghosts, and a demon with bigger plans. The banter is dry, but the stakes are already turning lethal.

A fantasy take on world war turns soldiers, magic, and aviation into one sweeping adventure. Even in a borrowed setting, the tension between wonder and cost comes through.

Tasha vents about school, family, and friendship on her blog, then has to live with the consequences when private feelings stop feeling private. A sharp YA drama with a modern setup.

Twins Toshi and Kai are born on opposite sides of midnight, and that tiny difference shapes both of their fates. Carey turns Nagasaki into the doorway to a haunting spirit world.

Fix investigates the death of a fellow exorcist and a murder blamed on a long-dead killer. It is a sharp, spooky case that turns London's underworld and afterlife equally nasty.

Carey's Marvel science fiction often thrives when godlike power collides with frightened human judgment. This collection pushes that clash into full superhero scale.

The final volume closes the door on Carey's great Vertigo epic with a set of endings that feel both intimate and cosmic. It is a strong, strange farewell.

Richard Mayhew falls out of ordinary London and into the dangerous underground realm of London Below. Carey's adaptation keeps the story's wonder, menace, and odd humor.

Dixie is great at hapkido and much less confident about the rest of teenage life. Carey turns crushes, identity, and martial arts discipline into a warm, offbeat coming-of-age story.

Jackson Dane assembles a new Wetworks team to fight vampires, werewolves, and worse. Carey plays the monster-war premise as lean supernatural action.

The team reunites against a stronger, more unified vampire threat. The scale grows, but the book keeps its black-ops monster-hunting energy.

The twins push deeper into the hidden world around them, where folklore, knives, and old bargains rule. The fantasy gets richer, and the danger feels much more personal.

Past and destiny finally catch up with Toshi and Kai in the last volume. Carey's eerie blend of family drama and mythic horror comes to a strong close.

The title says it all: trust frays, the team splinters, and every choice gets harder. Carey makes fractured mutant politics feel sharp and personal.

A wild college party leaves one student erased from every official record, and that is only the start. This is a paranoid campus horror story about identity and reinvention.

A rebellious London teenager is pulled into the dangerous politics of Faerie. Carey and John Bolton turn a coming-of-age fantasy into something lush and unsettling.

A dying boy is caught in a voodoo spell during the Civil War, then resurfaces in post-Katrina New Orleans as something neither alive nor dead. The city around him is full of fresh horror.

Bean's version of Battle School is harsher, hungrier, and more strategic from the first page. Carey adapts the parallel Ender story with a strong focus on survival and intelligence.

Rogue, Gambit, and Professor X try to pick through the wreckage after disaster, only to find that old enemies are still waiting. Rebuilding is never simple in X-Men comics.

The Skrull invasion hits mutant ground, forcing the X-Men to defend San Francisco while paranoia spreads fast. Carey gives the event tie-in urgency and bite.

Old family damage comes due in the present, turning power and history into the same problem. Carey has always been good at that particular ache.

London edges toward apocalypse as the demonic plot running through the Felix Castor books finally comes to a head. Fix is battered, outnumbered, and running out of ways to bluff.

Fix Castor takes a case that drags him back toward old loyalties and family trouble. The ghosts are dangerous enough, but this time the haunting feels uncomfortably personal.

The X-Men settle into San Francisco after yet another upheaval, and the move changes more than their address. This volume captures a team trying to redefine itself in public.

A grotesque mutant predator pushes Carey's cast toward fear, loyalty, and hard tactical choices. The arc plays well because the threat feels deeply wrong from the start.

The mutant future may depend on Hope Summers, but getting her home will cost the X-Men dearly. This collection is all about siege pressure, sacrifice, and momentum.

Jim Hammond, the original Human Torch, returns from the dead and walks straight into mystery and conspiracy. Carey gives the hero a moody, noir-tinged comeback.

Tom Taylor grew up as the real-life model for a famous boy wizard, which is awkward enough before stories start becoming real. A brilliant opening to one of Carey's smartest comics.

Tom digs deeper into the forces using fiction as a weapon, and the cost of his unwanted fame keeps rising. The series gets darker without losing its sense of play.

A pulpy collection of Vampirella stories full of blood, monsters, and gothic science-fiction menace. The heroine's confidence keeps the horror lively rather than solemn.

Vampirella's battles with cults, killers, and supernatural threats continue in another brisk collection. It is old-school horror adventure with plenty of attitude.

Hope's return sparks one of the biggest mutant battles of the era. Carey helps make the crossover feel urgent, costly, and driven by more than just spectacle.

Mutants have been nearly wiped out, Fortress X is their last refuge, and reality itself cannot be trusted. Carey uses the alternate world to sharpen every character choice.

Competing plans and dangerous alliances finally slam together. Carey gives the conflict enough character weight that the impact lands beyond the fight scenes.

Samantha Rey wakes up marked by a power she does not understand and gets thrown into a much larger war. It is fast, weird science fantasy with a strong newcomer viewpoint.

Stories, deaths, and hidden histories keep folding into each other as Tom searches for the truth about his father and himself. The mystery widens in all the right ways.

The series leans harder into literary horror as the machinery behind narrative power becomes clearer. Tom is still trapped inside a story that wants to use him.

Another creator-focused reprint volume built around Vampirella's blend of seduction, violence, and supernatural chaos. The tone stays playful even when the body count rises.

Horror, pulp, and dark fantasy keep colliding as Vampirella moves from one impossible threat to the next. These collections are made for readers who like their comics theatrical.

This volume keeps the mix of gothic danger and pulp momentum going as Vampirella faces fresh horrors. Fans of classic horror comics will feel at home fast.

In a world where mutants have been hunted almost to extinction, the last survivors make their stand inside Fortress X. It is an alternate-reality event with real emotional bite.

Lucifer Morningstar has left Hell for Los Angeles, but a mission from the Creator drags him back into cosmic politics. This is the sly, ambitious beginning of Carey's landmark Vertigo run.

The dead return to the mutant line in one of its bleakest crossover setups. Carey helps sell both the horror and the grief behind the spectacle.

When a palace city falls, its women and servants flee into the desert and try to build something new. It is a lush fantasy of survival, politics, and reinvention.

Carey pushes the book toward origins, creation myths, and the frightening reach of stories that shape reality. Big ideas, still anchored in character.

Tommy Taylor's fictional world and Tom Taylor's real crisis collide more directly than ever. The line between narrative and life keeps getting harder to see.

The reprint line continues with more supernatural intrigue and stylish carnage. Vampirella remains the coolest person in every room, even the haunted ones.

Once the fireworks are over, Carey is good at showing what the damage actually looks like. This collection lives in that uneasy space after the big blow.

The struggle over Lucifer's own creation grows fiercer, drawing in allies, children, and powers with their own agendas. It is a cosmic fantasy that still knows where the emotional pressure points are.

Lucifer pushes further toward absolute independence, even as angels, demons, and old enemies move against him. The scale widens, but the story stays driven by will and consequence.

Beat cop Leo Winters survives a super-powered massacre and goes looking for a way to fight back. The answer may cost him everything, including his sense of what a hero is.

Old wounds open wider as Tom and his allies feel the personal cost of the war over stories. The emotional stakes hit as hard as the conceptual ones.

A later Masters volume that keeps the horror heroine's long-running mythology accessible and fast-moving. Expect monsters, cult plots, and a lot of crimson mood.

The last volume brings Lucifer's long war of freedom to its reckoning. It is a fittingly grand ending, full of bargains paid for at last.

Creation, exile, and family conflict all tighten as the saga heads into its final movement. Carey keeps the ideas huge and the character stakes brutally clear.

Leo tests the limits of his new power while the true scope of the Nightmare Crew's plans comes into focus. Every attempt to stop disaster only risks making it worse.

Requiem wakes furious and confused, trapped in a life that is not his own and willing to hurt anyone for answers. Leo's family is suddenly at the center of the storm.

After massacre and collapse, a vast band of women escape into the desert and make a city of their own. The book blends epic fantasy scale with very human practical stakes.

Melanie is brilliant, curious, and loved by her teacher, but she lives at the center of a shattered world. What begins as survival horror becomes a fierce question about what humanity means now.

The women who built a new city now face outside threats and the cost of what they have created. It is a sequel about power, memory, and survival under pressure.

The series descends into stranger, more mythic territory without losing its core mystery. Tom keeps moving through stories that want to own him.

A clever crossover pushes Tom into another famous fictional landscape while still serving the larger plot. It is playful, unnerving, and very on-brand for this series.

Apocalypse arrives in both the narrative and personal sense as long-building threads start snapping into place. The endgame is finally visible.

Old secrets and stranger threats press in as science fiction tips toward horror. Carey is especially good when curiosity opens exactly the wrong door.

Carey's science-fiction comics excel at making space feel strange rather than empty. This collection leans into that sensibility with a title that already promises trouble.

A haunting from the past turns scientific adventure into something much more intimate and unsettling. Carey never wastes the chance to make the impossible feel personal.

Legacy, memory, and dangerous old power drive this mutant story forward. Carey keeps the emotional stakes close even when the lore gets large.

Family trouble takes a dark magical turn in this collision of superhero science and occult threat. The result is brisk, dangerous, and satisfyingly weird.

The arrival of the Silver Surfer shifts the story into cosmic territory fast. Big ideas, beautiful menace, and looming catastrophe do the heavy lifting here.

Requiem takes full control, and Leo's family has to survive a godlike enemy wearing his body. Carey pushes the series deeper into tragedy and moral fallout.

The Men of Gold arrive to enforce justice from another Earth, even if this world breaks in the process. The superhero deconstruction keeps getting bigger and darker.

The final volume resolves Tom Taylor's impossible life in a way that feels appropriately strange and earned. Few meta-fantasy comics finish this strongly.

Jess Moulson lands in a maximum-security prison after a devastating fire, then starts hearing the voice of a dead child. It is a prison thriller, ghost story, and redemption tale at once.

Gambit's past as thief, survivor, and sometime hero gets a focused spotlight here. Carey has a good ear for the character's charm and the guilt underneath it.

The last arc brings Leo and his allies to the final confrontation around the F.A.U.L.T. Line. It is a grim, inventive finish to one of Carey's sharpest superhero books.

In a world where humans uneasily coexist with demons, Detective Daniel Aston gets a demon lodged inside his soul. To save his daughter, he may have to become the very nightmare he fears.

Mutant lives never really get a quiet season, and Carey uses that instability well. This collection mixes character strain with the sense that trouble is already overdue.

An armored scientific mission rolls through the ruins of Britain, chasing a cure for the fungal plague. At the center is Stephen Greaves, a boy who may understand more than the adults around him.

Carey's X-Men material keeps the team off balance with shifting loyalties, dangerous powers, and no easy wins. Even a short arc feels full of personality and pressure.

Barbarella blasts back into comics in a bright, pulpy space adventure full of pursuit, conspiracy, and trouble on a galactic scale. Carey keeps it fast, playful, and dangerous.

John Constantine learns that the demon Rosacarnis has birthed three children using his seed. To stop their destiny, he has to outplay hell on painfully personal terms.

Sinister's Marauders come crashing back into the X-Men's world, forcing Rogue and the team into a brutal fight. It is one of the sharper action arcs from Carey's mutant years.

After a violent attack, a single mother begins hearing another woman inside her head. The voice may protect her, or pull her toward something much darker.

Moth is sold into slavery and taken to the vast palace called the Highest House. There, a voice in his head and secrets in the stone hint at a much older struggle.

Barbarella heads toward the run's endgame with enemies closing in and cosmic stakes rising. It is still sleek, witty adventure, just with a sharper edge.

The chase widens as Barbarella crosses stranger worlds and gets pulled deeper into a web of plots she cannot simply charm away. Space opera, flirtation, and danger all stay in the mix.

Carey's mutant stories are at their best when power systems start cracking and the characters have to improvise. This collection leans into that tension and the fallout it causes.

A wide-ranging collection that shows Carey moving between horror, fantasy, science fiction, and dark little thought experiments. It is a good sampler of the themes he returns to.

Koli's life in Mythen Rood is small and tightly controlled until forbidden old tech changes everything. Exiled into a deadly green world, he learns how big the ruins of England really are.

Alice finds refuge in a mysterious dollhouse, but the tiny family inside it is not harmless. Carey and Peter Gross make childhood escape feel quietly terrifying.

Koli keeps moving through a broken Britain with Ursala, Cup, and the AI Monono. The road grows stranger, the enemies sharper, and the old world keeps leaking into the present.

Koli's long journey reaches its final reckoning as buried history, old technology, and human ambition collide. It is an emotional ending with plenty of action and hard choices.

Humanity has spread across a million worlds, but a new machine threat could end that whole civilisation. Big multiverse ideas meet a very human cast of scientists, soldiers, and survivors.

Fix Castor returns in a shorter, later case that circles back toward the deeper mystery behind the dead walking at all. It is a welcome revisit to haunted London.

The Pandominion duology reaches its climax as human and machine powers race toward mutual destruction. Carey keeps the scope vast without losing the people inside it.