Richard Kadrey Books in Order

Back in New York after the Pale House job, Ford, Neuland, and Tilda are pressured by crime bosses into hunting a creature known as the Flesh King. Following a trail of grotesque murders and occult bargains, the trio must stop an apparently unstoppable monster before it owns the city.

Kadrey’s first short story collection gathers more than two decades of dark fantasy and horror. The stories range from decimated Los Angeles streets to haunted houses and infernal cities, circling themes of primal fear, fractured love, and the search for meaning in ruined worlds.

Paranormal gunmen Ford and Neuland one living, one undead agree to clear a curse from the Mansfield family’s abandoned estate. As they and their fixer Tilda explore the Pale House, they uncover buried crimes, vengeful spirits, and a truth that makes choosing a side far from simple.

Julie Crews is a burned out freelance magician hustling ugly exorcism gigs in New York’s occult underbelly. A desperate move to protect her best friend unleashes an elder god and a vengeful archangel, leaving Julie scrambling to save her city and whatever shreds of reality she can.

A deadly epidemic has Los Angeles masked and scared when a violent gang called the Shoggots and their mysterious leader, King Bullet, push the city toward collapse. Stark hunts the faceless king through riots and ruined streets, uncovering a plan that could change Heaven, Hell, and Earth forever.

A city crippled by an uncontrollable plague has been locked in permanent quarantine. A desperate thief hires a guide to lead him through monsters, checkpoints, and ruined neighborhoods to the one fixer who might forge the papers that could get him out alive.

Back in Los Angeles and haunted by his time in Hell, James Stark is hired to clear murderous ghosts from Little Cairo. As he uncovers a 1970s cold case and falls in with a dangerous thrill club, he stumbles on secrets that could shift the war in Heaven.

In the decadent city of Lower Proszawa, bike messenger Largo Moorden dreams of a better life with his actress girlfriend. A sudden promotion pulls him into political intrigues, plague whispers, and eerie technologies that reveal how fragile their future really is.

Collecting issues 13 to 18 of the Hellblazer series, this volume drops John Constantine into a nightmare where murders echo his drunken dreams. From London to foggy San Francisco, he hunts a magician turning his subconscious into a weapon while tempting him with reality bending power.

One year after dying, Stark is dragged back from the grave by the occult power brokers of Wormwood, who need him to stop a rogue faction. Only half alive and on a strict deadline, he has days to prevent a city destroying ritual and earn his second chance.

Professional thief Coop is still stuck working for the Department of Peculiar Science when a supposedly simple job goes wrong. An ancient Egyptian wizard’s corpse refuses to stay in its containment, turning a quiet campus heist into a chase through laboratories, museums, and resurrected nightmares.

Murdered and stranded in a blasted desert realm of Hell, Stark falls in with a convoy led by a charismatic, ruthless figure called the Magistrate. As they cross a wasteland of wrecks and ruins, he uncovers a plan to combine divine weapons and blow open the gates of Heaven.

Collecting the Blood in the Streets arc, this volume finds Lucifer Morningstar running his Los Angeles nightclub and confronting a new power sitting in Heaven’s empty throne. With angels, demons, and mortals at his side, he fights to protect free will and his own hard won independence.

Trying to live a quieter life on the Sub Rosa council, Stark is pulled back into trouble when a dying angel hands him a vial of mysterious black milk. After a friend is poisoned, he and Candy must return to Hell to find a cure and derail Wormwood’s newest plot.

Coop, a thief immune to magic, is hired to steal a small artifact known only as the Everything Box. The job drops him between angels, doomsday cults, and the Department of Peculiar Science when everyone realizes the box might actually be an ancient device meant to end the world.

In this surreal flash story, a man who cannot bring himself to say he is in love begins bleeding flowers from his eyes and hands. Collapsing on a bed of blossoms, he forces the woman he adores to finally see what he could never say aloud.

A razor edged micro story about grudges and consequences, this tale tracks how simmering resentment and violence spill over during one ugly encounter. Kadrey uses just a few pages to suggest how quickly bad blood can turn monstrous.

This ultra short horror piece shows how a single bad choice can twist an ordinary situation into something brutal. In a handful of pages, it turns a simple misstep into a sharp reminder that some lessons are only learned in blood.

Someone has trapped Death in a human body and cut out his heart, and suddenly no one on Earth can die. Working as a private investigator in Los Angeles, Stark is hired to solve the murder of Death himself before the broken rules of life unravel everything.

Los Angeles is drowning under relentless rain while cultists build shrines from butchered body parts in honor of an ancient Angra god. Stark, juggling a fragile relationship and a dubious alliance with the Golden Vigil, has to stop the entity from entering our universe and wiping it clean.

A young man obsessed with serial killers hits the road searching for the legendary murderer known as Suspect Zero. The mentor he finds on a lonely stretch of highway is far stranger and more terrifying than the violent fantasy he thought he wanted.

Stark needs to recover the Qomrama, a god killing weapon he once lost, before it falls into the wrong hands. His search leads to Kill City, an abandoned mega mall turned vertical slum where exiled Sub Rosa families, cults, and worse things haunt the darkened escalators.

After her father’s death, teenager Zoe drifts through a new life in San Francisco until she discovers a strange record store. In a hidden back room, records hold the lives of the dead, and a bargain to see her father again draws her into a dangerous city of restless souls.

Stuck wearing Lucifer’s crown, Stark juggles assassination attempts, rebellious demons, and infernal bureaucracy while searching for a way back to Los Angeles. When he returns, a killer ghost and reality twisting angelic schemes force him to save the world one more time.

Newly crowned as Lucifer, Stark is still learning how to rule Hell when reports arrive of massacres at a remote fortress on the frontier. Determined to prove no one can challenge him, he rides out to confront a horror so bad that even demons tried to lock it away.

When an old enemy threatens both his lost lover and the balance between Heaven and Hell, Stark heads back to the underworld he barely escaped. To end the feud and stop a cosmic war from spilling onto Earth, he must face the worst parts of Hell and himself.

Now scraping by as a freelance monster hunter, Stark is drafted as Lucifer’s bodyguard while the Devil visits Los Angeles to oversee a biopic. When a zombie outbreak and occult murders hit the city, Stark has to keep his impossible client alive and stop an undead catastrophe.

After eleven brutal years fighting demons in Hell’s arenas, magician James "Sandman Slim" Stark claws his way back to Los Angeles. Armed with stolen infernal tools, he hunts the sorcerers who betrayed him and finds himself in the middle of a war between Heaven and Hell.

In a near future Los Angeles carved up by urban tribes, courier Marne learns that a secret police network is hunting down her people. A dangerous drug called Accelerate opens a hidden dimension, and she must use it to strike back before the crackdown wipes her tribe out.

San Francisco tattoo artist Spyder Lee thinks his biggest problems are customers and late nights until a demon tries to take his head off. Cursed to see the hidden Dominions full of angels and monsters, he teams up with a blind swordswoman on a journey that leads straight into Hell.

This brief horror story folds love, grief, and obsession into something quietly uncanny. In only a few pages, Kadrey blurs the line between devotion and self destruction as one last connection refuses to stay buried.

This heavily illustrated companion volume explores how the creators of the games Myst and Riven built their worlds. Concept art, design notes, and in world lore sit side by side, offering a behind the scenes look at the puzzles, landscapes, and stories that captivated millions of players.

In a near future where much of Southern California has turned into rainforest, retired rock star Ryder sees music as colors and shapes. Drawn back toward performing by a gifted young woman and a shady promoter, he follows her into the overgrown ruins of Los Angeles in search of a new sound.

A follow up to the original guide, this volume updates Kadrey’s tour of fringe media with new zines, bands, and experimental projects. It tracks how quickly once obscure ideas move toward the mainstream and how hard it is to stay on the cultural edge.

This guide to underground culture catalogs zines, music, books, videos, and odd technologies from the fringes of early 1990s art and media. Written before the web took over, it serves as a snapshot of the scenes and ideas that fed into cyberpunk and alternative culture.

In a rotting future Los Angeles where the wealthy hide behind fortified walls, street hustler Jonny deals in black market drugs that heal as much as they numb. When a mysterious plague tears through the city, he must hunt for a cure through riots, gangs, and corrupt officials.