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Rachel Harrison Books in Order

Browse Rachel Harrison books in order, with quick summaries, starting points, and notes on both her horror novels and related Warhammer fiction.

Last updated: July 6, 2026

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Execution

by Rachel Harrison

2017

During the siege of Mone, Commissar Severina Raine executes a captain who refuses to advance, then takes command herself. It is a sharp introduction to a hard, disciplined leader forced to earn a regiment's trust in the middle of disaster.

A Company of Shadows

by Rachel Harrison

2018

Shot down behind enemy lines, Raine and the 11th Antari Rifles must escort a vital officer and stay alive in cult-held territory. The story leans into exhaustion, fear, and the brutal math of survival.

Dirty Dealings

by Rachel Harrison

2018

Kora Zekk expects betrayal when she delivers weapons to a House Orlock stronghold, and she is right. When the deal collapses and the Enforcers close in, survival depends on quick thinking and nerve.

Fire and Thunder

by Rachel Harrison

2018

Trapped in the shattered city of Balfar after their retreat collapses, Raine and her troopers fight through maze-like streets looking for a way to strike back. It is a claustrophobic battle story about endurance under impossible pressure.

Blood Rite

by Rachel Harrison

2019

Blood Angels Captain Donato leads his Terminators onto the shrine world of Luminata to reclaim the Chalice of Sanguinius from the Word Bearers. The real danger is not just the heretics, but the Black Rage building inside his warriors.

Honourbound

by Rachel Harrison

2019

Commissar Severina Raine and the 11th Antari Rifles battle the Chaos cult called the Sighted across the Bale Stars. As the campaign turns personal, Raine must face buried memories as well as the enemy in front of her.

The Darkling Hours

by Rachel Harrison

2019

Raine and the Antari Rifles are sent into the ruined city of Termina to hunt a powerful enemy psyker. Omens, fear, and urban ruin give this Severina Raine story a grim, haunted edge.

The Way Out

by Rachel Harrison

2019

This collected audio drama follows Captain Karina Arq and the crew of the Fortune's Favour to a remote watch station that may be far worse than open space. It is a tight, atmospheric piece of Warhammer Horror built on isolation and creeping dread.

The Way Out: Part 1

by Rachel Harrison

2019

When the Fortune's Favour is stranded after a sudden drop from the warp, Captain Karina Arq steers her crew toward a lonely watch station called Refuge. The setup is pure void horror, with help arriving just a little too conveniently.

The Way Out: Part 2

by Rachel Harrison

2019

Refuge looks like salvation, but the deeper Arq and her crew go, the more wrong the station feels. This middle chapter shifts from mystery to dread as escape starts to look less and less possible.

The Way Out: Part 3

by Rachel Harrison

2019

Something inside Refuge knows the crew's fears and begins turning them against one another. The final chapter goes full Warhammer Horror, forcing Arq and her people to face what followed them into the station.

Trials

by Rachel Harrison

2019

While sheltering underground during the war against the Sighted, Raine and Tempestus captain Andren Fel compare the brutal training that made them. The action pauses just long enough to dig into duty, trauma, and loyalty.

Nexus and Other Stories

by Rachel Harrison

2020

This anthology offers a broad tour of the Warhammer 40,000 universe through a novella and a wide mix of shorter fiction. Rachel Harrison appears here with The Darkling Hours, a grim Severina Raine tale set in the war against the Sighted.

The Return

by Rachel Harrison

2020

Two years after Julie vanished on a hike, she suddenly comes back with no memory of where she has been. When her friends reunite at a remote inn, one of them becomes sure that whatever returned is not really Julie.

Cackle

by Rachel Harrison

2021

After a painful breakup, Annie leaves Manhattan for a small upstate town and befriends the magnetic, uncanny Sophie. What starts as a fresh start becomes a witchy story about loneliness, friendship, and learning to want more.

The Veil

by Rachel Harrison

2021

Sally volunteers at a living history museum and slips into a ghostly realm tied to its Victorian past. Her growing connection to a dead man forces her to look hard at the flat, unhappy life waiting for her outside.

Bad Dolls

by Rachel Harrison

2022

This short collection brings together four unsettling stories about heartbreak, body image, friendship, and hauntings. Rachel Harrison moves from creepy dolls to cruel apps and disastrous weekends, keeping the focus on women making very bad choices under pressure.

Such Sharp Teeth

by Rachel Harrison

2022

Back in her hometown to help her pregnant twin sister, Rory is attacked after hitting something with her car. What follows is a werewolf story that turns rage, trauma, and messy family history into something raw and darkly funny.

Black Sheep

by Rachel Harrison

2023

Vesper returns to the isolated religious community she fled years ago for her cousin's wedding. The homecoming forces her to confront family secrets, old wounds, and a crisis of faith that turns increasingly sinister.

So Thirsty

by Rachel Harrison

2024

Sloane expects a quiet birthday getaway with her best friend Naomi, not a night that changes both of their lives forever. Harrison turns that setup into a bloody vampire novel about friendship, appetite, and finally wanting more from life.

Play Nice

by Rachel Harrison

2025

Influencer Clio Barnes inherits the house her mother swore was possessed and sees a chance to turn it into content. As old memories surface and the renovation worsens, she has to decide whether the family story she dismissed was true all along.

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Kiss Slay Replay

by Rachel Harrison

2026

Willa is already dreading a wedding weekend with her ex in attendance when a masked killer crashes the reception. Then she wakes up and has to live the nightmare again, trapped in a loop of carnage and bad timing.

Where should I start?

If you want her best-known contemporary horror: The ReturnCackleSuch Sharp Teeth
If you want darker family horror: Black SheepSo ThirstyPlay Nice
If you want Warhammer 40,000 military fiction: ExecutionA Company of ShadowsFire and ThunderHonourbound
If you want a shorter Warhammer Horror entry point: The Way Out: Part 1The Way Out: Part 2The Way Out: Part 3The Way Out

Author bio

Rachel Harrison is the name on two very different sets of books, and this page happens to bring both together. One Rachel Harrison writes contemporary horror novels such as The Return, Cackle, Such Sharp Teeth, Black Sheep, So Thirsty, and Play Nice. Another Rachel Harrison writes Warhammer 40,000 fiction for Black Library, including Honourbound and Mark of Faith, and has also published as Ray Harrison. If the jump from witches and haunted houses to commissars and battlefields feels abrupt, that is why.

The horror novelist Rachel Harrison came to fiction through screenwriting. She studied writing for film and television at Emerson College, wrote horror scripts, then spent time working in publishing and later at a bank. Writing had been there long before the day job, though. She has said she was dictating stories to her mother before she could write them down herself.

That early pull toward story shows in the way her novels move. The Return, her 2020 debut, starts with a missing friend who comes back changed and turns a reunion trip into something ugly and supernatural. The book introduced a lot of readers to her work and was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award.

She likes to start with a life that already feels a little shaky, then let the supernatural expose the cracks.

That approach carries through Cackle, which takes a breakup, a small-town move, and a suspiciously perfect new friend, then bends them into a witch story about loneliness and self-worth. Such Sharp Teeth does something similar with a werewolf setup, using it to talk about rage, family strain, vulnerability, and a body that refuses to behave.

Later books widened the frame without losing that everyday edge. Black Sheep turns a return to a rigid religious community into family horror. So Thirsty goes full vampire, with middle age, infidelity, and female friendship all tangled together. Play Nice circles back to the haunted house novel through an influencer who inherits the home her mother swore was possessed. Her shorter fiction has appeared in anthologies and audio, and Bad Dolls gathers several of those dark, sharp stories in one place. More recently, her publisher bio places her in New Jersey with her husband and their cat.

The Black Library Rachel Harrison works in a different register. Her books live inside Warhammer 40,000, where faith, duty, terror, and exhaustion are turned all the way up. In Honourbound and the Severina Raine stories, she follows a hard-edged commissar and the 11th Antari Rifles through a brutal campaign against Chaos. In Mark of Faith, she shifts to the Sisters of Battle and a dangerous pilgrimage through a broken Imperium. Older credits may appear under Ray Harrison, which helps explain why this side of the bibliography can look a little inconsistent.

The overlap is the name, not a shared fictional universe.

Put together, the books on this page do not trace one neat career path. They trace a shared byline that belongs to two writers with very different interests. One writes smart, contemporary horror about women under pressure. The other writes grim military and gothic science fiction inside Warhammer. Knowing that makes the list much easier to navigate, and it also makes the range of the page more interesting.

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