Moving In Books in Order
Part ofRon Ripley Books in OrderThis page lists the Moving In books by Ron Ripley in order, with short summaries, series background, and a quick guide to where to start.
Last updated: June 30, 2026
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Moving In books in publication order
6 books
Middlebury Sanitarium
by Ron Ripley
2016
Trying to turn hard experience into useful skill, Brian takes on a terrifying case at Middlebury Sanitarium. The abandoned institution is full of memories that do not want to stay buried.
Moving In
by Ron Ripley
2016
Brian and Jenny Roy leave the city for a quiet country home, only to find it crowded with the dead. An old warning about iron and salt is the first hint that this haunting is serious.
The Academy
by Ron Ripley
2016
Brian faces one more major haunting in a place shaped by discipline, fear, and buried cruelty. By now he knows the dead well enough to fear what this school has been keeping.
The Dunewalkers
by Ron Ripley
2016
Brian's first real steps into ghost hunting pull him far beyond his own haunted home. Strange spirits and a new investigation show him that some places play by different rules.
The First Church
by Ron Ripley
2016
Brian Roy's latest case leads him into a New Hampshire church haunted by headless Japanese soldiers. The bodies keep piling up, and vengeance is still marching down the aisle.
The Paupers' Crypt
by Ron Ripley
2016
Brian is pulled into another violent haunting, this time centered on an old crypt and the dead who cling to it. The case pushes his nerve, his family, and his growing reputation to the limit.
Moving In books in chronological order
Series background & context
The Moving In series starts with one of horror's simplest promises: a family finds a new home, and the new home is a very bad idea. Brian and Jenny Roy move out of the city hoping for peace, space, and a fresh start. Instead, their house comes with ghosts, warnings, and the kind of danger that does not stay politely upstairs.
That is only the beginning.
What makes this series interesting is how it grows. Brian does not stay just a frightened homeowner. He learns, adapts, and slowly becomes the kind of man other people call when something dead starts acting up. By the later books, he is investigating churches, sanitariums, crypts, and schools, not just trying to survive his own property.
So the series becomes both a family haunting and an origin story for a ghost hunter. Brian is a little more ordinary than Shane Ryan, and that helps. He feels like a man pulled into the supernatural before he was ready, then forced to become useful fast.
There is still a domestic core underneath the scares. Jenny matters. The strain on home life matters. Even when Brian starts handling bigger cases, the series never fully loses the sense that this all started because he wanted something simple and safe for the people he loved.
If you want Ripley with a little more family pressure and a steady build from private nightmare to public ghost hunting, Moving In is a good place to settle in. Just do not expect the house to make you feel welcome.
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