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Rich Hawkins Books in Order

Browse Rich Hawkins books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and clear advice on where to start with his bleak horror novels and novellas.

Last updated: July 12, 2026

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The Last Plague

by Rich Hawkins

2014

After a savage epidemic tears through Britain, four friends stranded in the countryside fight their way home through collapsing towns, infected monsters, and spreading panic. What begins as a stag weekend turns into a brutal run for survival.

Black Star Black Sun

by Rich Hawkins

2015

Grieving widower Ben Ottway returns to his old home hoping for something solid to hold on to. Instead he finds nightmares, strange visions, and a reality that seems to be tearing open around him.

Deathcrawl

by Rich Hawkins

2016

Violence erupts in Beacon Fell, turning neighbors into crazed killers and leaving widower Jed Kittridge among the few untouched. To stay alive, he has to cross a village that now feels like a slaughterhouse.

Fallen Soldier

by Rich Hawkins

2016

Sergeant Joseph Hobbs comes home from the Great War expecting peace and finds fresh horror waiting for him. His family home is broken, his mother is no longer herself, and the war he escaped has followed him home.

Fathoms

by Rich Hawkins

2016

The sea starts giving back its dead, and what washes ashore is hungry. In just a few pages, Hawkins turns a simple nightmare idea into a grim little burst of revenant horror.

King Carrion

by Rich Hawkins

2016

People are disappearing in a town in southern England, and something ancient is waking underneath it all. Hawkins puts a rotten, feral spin on vampire lore, with old worship, missing bodies, and plenty of blood.

Ruin

by Rich Hawkins

2016

Black rocks fall from the sky and bring a blight that warps people, animals, and the land itself. With southern England sealed behind a wall, Gus Abernathy must cross the quarantine zone to find his missing son.

Scavengers

by Rich Hawkins

2016

A quiet trip into the Devon countryside goes savagely wrong when two couples cross paths with feral children tied to a religious cult. The chase through fields and woods is fast, bloody, and claustrophobic.

The Last Soldier

by Rich Hawkins

2016

Two years after the plague ruins Britain, ex-soldier Morse crosses the wasteland with a young girl in his care. As the infected grow stranger and deadlier, the pair are pulled toward a mainland mission neither can escape.

The Plague Winter

by Rich Hawkins

2016

In a bleak winter after the dead begin to rise, a grandfather tries to keep his grandson alive as food runs low and danger closes in. It is a small, intimate survival story with a hard emotional edge.

Under The Red Meadow

by Rich Hawkins

2016

This collection brings together four hard-edged horror stories, from war-haunted homes and hungry coastlines to cult-ridden woods and a village gone mad. It is a strong snapshot of Hawkins at his bleakest and most visceral.

Pale Ghost

by Rich Hawkins

2017

This short supernatural tale leans on atmosphere, memory, and the sense that the dead do not always stay quiet. Hawkins keeps the setup lean and lets the haunting gather force a little at a time.

She Hunts in the Woods

by Rich Hawkins

2017

Two small-time criminals drive into the countryside to dump a body and end up in the path of something far older and worse. The story is short, sharp, and built around mounting dread in the dark woods.

Warm Shelter

by Rich Hawkins

2017

Running late, Alex takes a shortcut and stumbles into a freezing, foul corner of the city where reality begins to slip. The result is a grim ghost story that turns everyday panic into something much worse.

Black Flower Butterfly

by Rich Hawkins

2018

This short standalone moves like a dark fairy tale, blending beauty, change, and creeping menace. Hawkins keeps the details spare and the mood uneasy, building toward horror that feels both intimate and uncanny.

Maniac Gods

by Rich Hawkins

2018

Five years after his daughter vanished with an entire village, Albie Samways is still wrecked by grief and nightmares. When she suddenly returns changed, he is forced into a desperate flight from cultists, monsters, and older things.

The Cold

by Rich Hawkins

2019

Snow begins falling in the middle of an English summer, and within hours the country is buried. Seth survives the first chaos, only to discover that something monstrous is moving through the whiteout and hunting the living.

The Last Outpost

by Rich Hawkins

2020

Great Britain has fallen, and Royce wanders the wreckage alone, hiding from the infected and living off scraps. A faint radio message offers hope, but reaching the coast means surviving both monsters and desperate survivors.

Where to start with Rich Hawkins

If you want the full apocalypse story: The Last PlagueThe Last OutpostThe Last Soldier
If you want cosmic horror first: Black Star Black SunManiac Gods
If you want a standalone survival nightmare: The Cold
If you want short, sharp shocks: Under The Red MeadowKing CarrionShe Hunts in the Woods

Dark Minds books in order

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    Ruin

    by Rich Hawkins

    2016Dark Minds, Book 1

Dark Minds books in chronological order

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    Ruin

    by Rich Hawkins

    2016Dark Minds, Book 1

The Last Plague books in order

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  1. Book cover for "The Last Plague"

    The Last Plague

    by Rich Hawkins

    2014The Last Plague, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "The Last Soldier"

    The Last Soldier

    by Rich Hawkins

    2016The Last Plague, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "The Last Outpost"

    The Last Outpost

    by Rich Hawkins

    2020The Last Plague, Book 3

The Last Plague books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "The Last Plague"

    The Last Plague

    by Rich Hawkins

    2014The Last Plague, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "The Last Soldier"

    The Last Soldier

    by Rich Hawkins

    2016The Last Plague, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "The Last Outpost"

    The Last Outpost

    by Rich Hawkins

    2020The Last Plague, Book 3

Year of the Zombie (Rich Hawkins) books in order

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  1. Book cover for "The Plague Winter"

    The Plague Winter

    by Rich Hawkins

    2016Year of the Zombie, Book 1

Year of the Zombie (Rich Hawkins) books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "The Plague Winter"

    The Plague Winter

    by Rich Hawkins

    2016Year of the Zombie, Book 1

Rich Hawkins collections, short stories, and related book types

Short Stories/Novellas

  1. Book cover for "Fallen Soldier"

    Fallen Soldier

    by Rich Hawkins

    2016
  2. Book cover for "Fathoms"

    Fathoms

    by Rich Hawkins

    2016
  3. Book cover for "Scavengers"

    Scavengers

    by Rich Hawkins

    2016
  4. Book cover for "Deathcrawl"

    Deathcrawl

    by Rich Hawkins

    2016
  5. Book cover for "King Carrion"

    King Carrion

    by Rich Hawkins

    2016
  6. Book cover for "She Hunts in the Woods"

    She Hunts in the Woods

    by Rich Hawkins

    2017
  7. Book cover for "Pale Ghost"

    Pale Ghost

    by Rich Hawkins

    2017
  8. Book cover for "Warm Shelter"

    Warm Shelter

    by Rich Hawkins

    2017

Collections

  1. Book cover for "Under The Red Meadow"

    Under The Red Meadow

    by Rich Hawkins

    2016

Standalone Rich Hawkins books

  1. Book cover for "Black Star Black Sun"

    Black Star Black Sun

    by Rich Hawkins

    2015
  2. Book cover for "Black Flower Butterfly"

    Black Flower Butterfly

    by Rich Hawkins

    2018
  3. Book cover for "Maniac Gods"

    Maniac Gods

    by Rich Hawkins

    2018
  4. Book cover for "The Cold"

    The Cold

    by Rich Hawkins

    2019

Author bio

Rich Hawkins grew up in the West Country of England, in Somerset, and a lot of his fiction still feels rooted in that landscape. The fields, villages, coastlines, and shabby edges of southern England show up again and again in his books, not as postcard scenery, but as places where ordinary people get cornered by things they do not understand.

He was into monsters early. As a kid he loved horror and science fiction, and he has said that seeing John Carpenter's The Thing left a big mark on him. He was also a reader from a young age, with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe among his early favourites. That mix of bleak atmosphere, strange creatures, and everyday people in trouble still sits at the heart of what he writes.

Writing came first as something he did for himself. He wrote stories at school, then kept at it into adulthood, and in his twenties he started taking the work more seriously. His early progress came through small press anthologies, where he began placing short fiction before moving on to longer work.

His first novel, The Last Plague, arrived in 2014 and quickly became the book many readers still start with. It throws a group of friends into a collapsing Britain overrun by infection, mutation, and panic, then follows that nightmare into The Last Outpost and The Last Soldier. The trilogy helped define Hawkins's reputation for hard-going survival horror, fast violence, and a very British sense of place. The Last Plague was nominated for the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel in 2015.

Bleak is part of the point.

Even when the scale changes, the interests stay much the same. Black Star Black Sun leans into cosmic horror and the dread of going home again. King Carrion gives vampire lore a nasty, half-rotten edge. Maniac Gods mixes cult horror with a desperate father-daughter story. Then The Cold drops readers into a summer snowfall that turns Britain into a frozen hunting ground. Across the books, Hawkins tends to focus on regular people rather than experts or chosen ones. They are soldiers, parents, drifters, friends, and survivors who are usually in over their heads from page one.

He likes horror that feels close to the bone.

That shows up not just in the monsters, but in the mood. His stories often carry grief, exhaustion, guilt, and the awful feeling that the world has shifted one step too far to ever come back. At the same time, he is not interested only in spectacle. There is usually something human holding the story together, a friendship, a family bond, or just one person's stubborn refusal to stop moving.

Hawkins has continued to work across novels, novellas, and short fiction, which suits his style well. Some ideas sprawl into ruined landscapes and long survival journeys. Others hit hard and fast. He lives in Salisbury with his wife, their daughter, and the family dog, and from there he keeps writing the sort of horror he clearly loves most, strange, physical, and often set uncomfortably close to home.

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