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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Rich Hawkins books in publication order
18 books
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 Plague → The Last Outpost → The Last Soldier
If you want cosmic horror first: Black Star Black Sun → Maniac Gods
If you want a standalone survival nightmare: The Cold
If you want short, sharp shocks: Under The Red Meadow → King Carrion → She Hunts in the Woods
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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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