Robert R McCammon (Robert McCammon) Books in Order
Part ofRobert McCammon Books in OrderBrowse the standalone novels and collections by Robert McCammon in order, with summaries, series notes, and guidance on how to explore his horror and suspense work.
Last updated: January 12, 2026
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Publication Order
30 books
Leviathan
by Robert R McCammon
2024
In the final Matthew Corbett novel, Matthew, Hudson Greathouse, Professor Fell, and Cardinal Black resume their hunt for a legendary demon-summoning mirror across Sardinia and Venice, pursued by crime families and witch-hunters as Matthew tries to secure a future beyond Fell’s world.
Seven Shades of Evil
by Robert R McCammon
2023
This collection set in Matthew Corbett’s world gathers eight novellas and stories that follow Matthew and his friends through side cases involving haunted houses, deadly voyages, sinister forests, and moral choices that echo across the main series.
The King of Shadows
by Robert R McCammon
2022
En route to Italy in search of a sorcerer’s mirror, Matthew Corbett and his companions are shipwrecked on a secluded island whose hospitable residents hide disturbing secrets, as the place slowly erodes their memories and sense of self.
Cardinal Black
by Robert R McCammon
2019
Berry Grigsby’s mind is disintegrating under a poison devised by Professor Fell, and the only hope is a stolen book of potions, so Matthew Corbett partners with a charming killer to infiltrate London’s underworld and outbid a madman called Cardinal Black.
The Listener
by Robert R McCammon
2018
In 1934, New Orleans redcap Curtis Mayhew has a quiet gift for hearing unspoken thoughts, and when he catches the terrified mental cry of a kidnapped girl, he risks everything to challenge two ruthless con artists and save her.
Last Train from Perdition
by Robert R McCammon
2016
Trevor Lawson and sharpshooter Ann Kingsley head to Montana to retrieve a young man from an outlaw gang, only to find themselves besieged by vampires on a snowbound train, where every car may hold another hungry enemy.
Freedom of the Mask
by Robert R McCammon
2016
After a mission goes wrong, Matthew Corbett vanishes from New York and resurfaces in grim London, where he must survive Newgate Prison, a sadistic gaoler, and a masked conspirator whose plans reach from filthy alleys to the halls of power.
The Border
by Robert R McCammon
2015
On an Earth ravaged by the war between two alien races, a teenage boy named Ethan awakens with no memory and strange abilities, and his struggle to protect a fragile human enclave may decide whether humanity survives at all.
The Wolf and the Eagle
by Robert R McCammon
2014
In the North African desert, werewolf Michael Gallatin and a German fighter pilot are forced into an uneasy partnership to survive a deadly march, testing whether shared hardship can bridge the gulf between enemies bred to kill each other.
The Room at the Bottom of the Stairs
by Robert R McCammon
2014
In war-torn Berlin, Michael Gallatin falls into a dangerous, intimate entanglement that leads to a hidden chamber and a terrible secret, forcing him to weigh personal feeling against the brutal demands of his clandestine war.
The River of Souls
by Robert R McCammon
2014
In 1703 Carolina, a murdered girl, three escaped slaves, and a haunted plantation send Matthew Corbett upriver into treacherous swamp country, where human hunters, exiled warriors, and something strange born of the marsh all converge along the Solstice River.
The Man from London
by Robert R McCammon
2014
A brief adventure from Michael Gallatin’s later life, this story pairs him with an unexpected ally from London as old debts and wartime ghosts surface, reminding both men that the past’s unfinished business can still bite hard.
The Great White Way
by Robert R McCammon
2014
In this Michael Gallatin story, the werewolf spy navigates urban shadows and theatrical glamour, where a mission tied to the stage pulls him into deadly games behind the bright lights of a city that never suspects what stalks its alleys.
Sea Chase
by Robert R McCammon
2014
Assigned to spirit a defecting German scientist to safety across hostile waters, Michael Gallatin must keep his human cargo alive aboard a vulnerable ship, fending off threats from U-boats, traitors, and the beast inside him that hungers for release.
Death of a Hunter
by Robert R McCammon
2014
Set in Michael Gallatin’s world, this shorter tale finds an older, weary hunter reflecting on past missions and choices, as one last confrontation forces him to decide how much of his life he is willing to spend in service to the hunt.
I Travel by Night
by Robert R McCammon
2013
Gunslinger Trevor Lawson, turned into a vampire on a Civil War battlefield, works as a nocturnal troubleshooter while hunting the queen who made him, and a ransom job to rescue a kidnapped woman draws him into a deadly trap laid by other undead.
The Providence Rider
by Robert R McCammon
2012
Summoned to the remote stronghold of criminal mastermind Professor Fell, Matthew Corbett is ordered to uncover a traitor within Fell’s inner circle, forcing him to navigate a web of assassins, pirates, and plots where every ally may be bought.
The Hunter from the Woods
by Robert R McCammon
2011
This collection of linked novellas follows werewolf agent Michael Gallatin through key missions before, during, and after *The Wolf’s Hour*, from tense sea voyages and desert marches to a doomed love affair in Berlin and a bittersweet twilight glimpse of an aging predator.
The Five
by Robert R McCammon
2011
Indie rock band The Five slog through a last-chance tour in the American Southwest, only to be targeted by a damaged war veteran and drawn into a strange, possibly supernatural struggle that turns their music into both weapon and lifeline.
Mister Slaughter
by Robert R McCammon
2010
Tasked with escorting notorious killer Tyranthus Slaughter from an asylum to a waiting ship, Matthew Corbett and Hudson Greathouse make one terrible choice that lets their prisoner loose, sending Matthew on a brutal chase through the winter wilderness.
The Queen of Bedlam
by Robert R McCammon
2007
Now a clerk in 1703 New York, Matthew Corbett is drawn into the hunt for a masked serial killer and into the orbit of the mysterious Herrald Agency, as clues point toward a nameless woman in an asylum who may hold the key to the murders.
Speaks the Nightbird
by Robert R McCammon
2002
Magistrate Isaac Woodward and his young clerk Matthew Corbett arrive in the Carolina settlement of Fount Royal to judge an accused witch, but Matthew’s doubts about the case lead him into a dangerous investigation that exposes greed, zealotry, and murder.
Gone South
by Robert R McCammon
1992
Dying from a cancer he blames on Vietnam, down-on-his-luck carpenter Dan Lambert panics during a bank meeting, kills a man, and flees into the Louisiana bayou, pursued by bizarre bounty hunters and traveling with a scarred woman searching for a miracle healer.
Boy's Life
by Robert R McCammon
1991
Twelve-year-old Cory Mackenson grows up in Zephyr, Alabama, after he and his father witness a murdered man sink into a deep lake, and a year of wonders, horrors, and small-town secrets slowly teaches him what courage and loss really mean.
Mine
by Robert R McCammon
1990
Radical fugitive Mary Terror kidnaps a newborn from an Atlanta hospital, believing the child will reunite her with her old revolutionary lover, but the baby’s mother, Laura Clayborne, launches her own relentless cross-country pursuit that forces her into terrifying moral territory.
The Wolf's Hour
by Robert McCammon
1989
In 1943, British spy Michael Gallatin is sent behind Nazi lines to sabotage a secret weapon that could cripple the Allied invasion, drawing on a hidden advantage his handlers barely understand, the ability to become a powerful, deadly wolf.
Swan Song
by Robert R McCammon
1987
After nuclear war shatters the world, a handful of survivors, including a girl with a gift for healing growing things, a haunted wrestler, and a former bag lady with a strange glass ring, must confront a demonic wanderer who thrives on ruin.
Stinger
by Robert R McCammon
1987
In a dying Texas border town already torn by poverty and gang tension, two alien rivals crash to Earth, one a desperate fugitive and the other a ruthless hunter named Stinger, trapping the inhabitants under a deadly dome for one catastrophic night.
Usher's Passing
by Robert R McCammon
1984
Rix Usher returns to his family’s North Carolina estate to watch his dying father choose an heir to a vast weapons empire, only to uncover generations of madness, murder, and a secret beneath Usherland that echoes Edgar Allan Poe’s most infamous house.
Bethany's Sin
by Robert R McCammon
1980
Evan and Kay Reid think they’ve found a bargain in the quiet village of Bethany’s Sin, but the town’s eerie silence, mutilated men, and midnight riders reveal a violent secret that soon threatens their marriage, their daughter, and their lives.
Series background & context
This grouping gathers Robert McCammon's standalone novels and collections, the books that are not part of his ongoing Matthew Corbett, Michael Gallatin, or Trevor Lawson story cycles. Taken together, they trace his journey from paperback original horror writer to cross-genre storyteller.
The earliest titles here are lean, relentless horror novels. Baal imagines the birth of a child who might be a demonic power made flesh, moving from American cities to the Middle East and the Arctic in a battle between limited good and seemingly limitless evil.�cite�� Bethany's Sin turns a quiet rural town into a place of ritual violence, while The Night Boat sends a rusting German U-boat full of undead sailors surging up from a Caribbean lagoon.�cite��� They Thirst widens the lens even further, following a vampire prince who sets out to transform modern Los Angeles into a necropolis and springboard for conquering the world.�cite���
Through the middle of the 1980s, McCammon kept raising his own stakes. Mystery Walk follows a young man in small-town Alabama who can lay restless spirits to rest, set against an evangelical healer whose gift hides something darker.�cite�� Usher's Passing revisits the doomed family from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" and asks what their legacy would look like as a modern arms dynasty in the North Carolina mountains.�cite�� Swan Song and Stinger both push into apocalyptic territory: the former after nuclear war, the latter during a single terrible day when an alien hunter traps a failing Texas town under a force field.�cite���
Other books here show how quickly McCammon began to color outside the lines. Blue World collects his short fiction, from Vietnam-haunted diners to Halloween suburbs, prison yards and urban churches, and it contains some of his most memorable characters and images.�cite��� Mine is a brutal contemporary thriller about a kidnapped baby and a mother who discovers how far she will go to get her child back.�cite���
By the time you reach Boy's Life and Gone South, the tone has broadened. Boy's Life is a rich coming-of-age novel set in a fictional Alabama town in the 1960s, a place full of ghosts both literal and figurative, where a boy learns how stories and secrets shape a community.�cite��� Gone South takes a Vietnam veteran with nothing left to lose and sends him into the Louisiana bayous, pursued by a bounty hunter and an Elvis impersonator, in a strange, darkly comic road novel about guilt and grace.�cite��
More recent standalones stretch even further. The Five follows an indie rock band on what might be their last tour, only to find themselves stalked by a damaged sniper and something stranger that seems to ride along with their music. The Border is a science fiction horror epic about an Earth caught in the crossfire of two alien species, told through the eyes of a teenage boy whose mysterious abilities may be humanity's last chance.�cite��� The Listener steps back to 1934, when a railroad porter with an unusual psychic gift hears a kidnapped child's plea for help and is drawn into a kidnapping-for-ransom scheme in Depression-era New Orleans.�cite��
What links all of these books is not a shared character but a shared sensibility. McCammon tends to start with ordinary people in trouble a carpenter in debt, a tired journalist, a boy on a bike, a musician in a van and see what happens when impossible things begin to press in. The horrors can be grand or small, supernatural or painfully human, but there is nearly always some ember of decency and stubborn hope at the core. Reading across this group lets you watch his interests evolve, from pure monster stories into intricate explorations of family, faith, memory, and the ways people choose to stand up when the world gets strange.
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