Peter Clines Books in Order
Browse Peter Clines books in order, from Threshold and Ex-Heroes to his standalones, with quick summaries, series guides, and tips on where to start.
Last updated: July 8, 2026
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Publication Order
16 books
Ex-Heroes
by Peter Clines
2010
Los Angeles has fallen to a zombie plague, and a handful of superheroes are all that stand between the living and total collapse. St. George and his allies can punch hard, but keeping a frightened survivor colony alive is tougher.
The Eerie Adventures of the Lycanthrope Robinson Crusoe
by Peter Clines
2010
This mash-up recasts Robinson Crusoe as a cursed werewolf marooned on an island full of darker secrets than Defoe ever admitted. Cannibals, old gods, and isolation turn the classic survival tale into pulpy gothic horror.
Ex-Patriots
by Peter Clines
2011
Life at the Mount is getting steadier, but St. George and the other heroes are still surrounded by the dead and hunted by enemies with powers of their own. Survival now means defending hope, not just walls.
The Junkie Quatrain
by Peter Clines
2011
Four linked stories trace survivors in a city wrecked by the Baugh Contagion, where the infected have become ravenous Junkies. Each thread shows a different face of the apocalypse, from fear and loss to chance and stubborn hope.
14
by Peter Clines
2012
Nate takes a cheap apartment in Los Angeles and starts noticing too many locked doors, strange lights, and impossible details. As he and his neighbors compare clues, the whole building begins to look like a trap with world-ending consequences.
Ex-Communication
by Peter Clines
2013
The Mount is finally becoming a real town, until one hero starts slipping and Legion finds new ways to weaponize the undead. The threat is bigger now, and Los Angeles has not run out of monsters yet.
Ex-Purgatory
by Peter Clines
2013
George Bailey is a tired Los Angeles handyman by day, but in his dreams he flies with heroes through a zombie-ruined world. When both lives start bleeding together, he has to decide which reality is real, and which one needs saving.
The Fold
by Peter Clines
2015
Mike Erikson is content with a quiet life until an old friend asks him to inspect a teleportation device called the Albuquerque Door. The deeper he digs, the more this clever science breakthrough starts to feel like a door that should stay shut.
Trust No One
by Tim Lebbon
2015
This X-Files anthology sends Mulder and Scully into a fresh stack of creepy investigations, from monsters to conspiracies. Gini Koch's story, "Sewers," follows a string of teen disappearances into very dangerous underground territory.
Ex-Isle
by Peter Clines
2016
With the Mount's food supply in danger, St. George and the other heroes gamble on contact with a man-made island of survivors in the Pacific. What looks like hope quickly turns into a test of how far their community can trust outsiders.
Dead Men Can't Complain and Other Stories
by Peter Clines
2017
This short-story collection moves from zombies and superheroes to quieter strains of weird horror. Clines keeps the pieces lean and twisty, with the same dry humor, sharp setups, and sudden turns that drive his novels.
Paradox Bound
by Peter Clines
2017
Eli Teague chases the mysterious traveler he met as a boy and gets swept into a hidden war across American history. It is a fast, strange road trip through time, myth, and the stories a country tells about itself.
Dead Moon
by Peter Clines
2019
Cali Washington thought caretaking the Moon's vast graveyards would be a good place to hide from her past. Then a meteor hits a cemetery and the dead rise, trapping her in a brutal, low-gravity fight for survival.
Terminus
by Peter Clines
2020
Murdoch, Chase, and Anne are pulled toward a remote island where old loyalties, cultish plans, and thin spots in reality collide. This Threshold novel mixes cosmic horror with survival thriller energy as several story lines crash together.
The Broken Room
by Peter Clines
2022
Burned-out former operative Hector teams up with Natalie, a girl carrying the ghost of a dead agent in her head. As killers close in, their escape turns into a brutal chase with supernatural stakes.
God’s Junk Drawer
by Peter Clines
2025
A professor leads his astronomy students on what should be a simple outing, then strands them in a hidden valley full of dinosaurs, aliens, and old mysteries. To get home alive, they have to solve the place before it solves them.
Where should I start?
If you want the big cosmic mystery: 14 → The Fold
If you want the wider Threshold universe: 14 → The Fold → Dead Moon → Terminus
If you want superheroes after the end of the world: Ex-Heroes → Ex-Patriots → Ex-Communication → Ex-Purgatory
If you want a stand-alone thriller: Paradox Bound → The Broken Room
Author bio
Peter Clines was born in Cape Neddick, Maine, on May 31, 1969, and grew up in the part of New England he jokes was the Stephen King fallout zone. He was the kind of kid who absorbed comic books, Star Wars, Saturday morning cartoons, and just about any story that promised monsters, spaceships, or secret worlds hiding behind normal life.
He started early.
In grade school he was already making up his own heroes and stories. At eleven, he sent comic-book scripts to Marvel and got a rejection letter from editor-in-chief Jim Shooter, which could have ended the dream for a lot of kids. Instead, it seems to have done the opposite. By seventeen, he had made his first sale to a local newspaper.
Clines studied English literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and graduated in 1991. Before novels took over, he spent about fifteen years working in the film industry as a props master. He also wrote scripts, plus a long run of interviews, reviews, and articles about movies and television. That background helps explain why his books often feel visual, tightly built, and ready to move.
Then came the real career turn.
After a film project ended in 2006, he left that world and focused on writing full time. A couple of years later he sold the novel that became Ex-Heroes, his first published book. It arrived in 2010 with a premise that told readers exactly what kind of imagination they were dealing with, superheroes trying to protect Los Angeles after a zombie apocalypse. Big idea, sharp pacing, real affection for the genre, and just enough humor to keep it from turning grim for grim's sake.
A lot of readers know him best for the Threshold books, especially 14 and The Fold. Those novels begin with regular people asking what looks like one small question, a cheap apartment with too many locked doors, a teleportation project that seems too clean and too perfect, and then widen into something much stranger. Terminus and Dead Moon expand that same shared universe from new angles, while Paradox Bound takes his love of puzzle-box plotting in a different direction, turning American history, folklore, and time travel into a chase story.
What connects these books is not just horror or science fiction. It is the way Clines likes to put practical, slightly worn-down people in front of impossible systems and let them think their way through. He comes back again and again to found families, buried histories, secret machinery behind everyday life, and the moment when curiosity tips over into danger. Even when the setup sounds wild, he grounds it in banter, detail, and characters who react like actual human beings.
That mix carries into later work like The Broken Room, which blends spy-thriller motion with the supernatural, and God’s Junk Drawer, a lost-world adventure full of old pulp energy. He has also published short fiction and collections like The Junkie Quatrain and Dead Men Can't Complain and Other Stories, which show the same fondness for strange hooks and hard turns.
He now lives and writes in southern California. By his own telling, he is happy to keep the exact spot a little vague.
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