Ronald Malfi Books in Order

Astrophysicist Vander Case is pulled onto a Navy mission to investigate a strange porthole off the African coast. The phenomenon seems tied to his dead lover, and what waits beyond it could tear open the boundary between life and death.

Kelly Rich returns to her family's forbidding home after her sister suffers a mysterious accident. To understand what is happening now, she has to face the dreamlike childhood past she spent years trying to bury.

Robert Crofton leaves Kentucky for Baltimore and drifts into the glamorous, ugly orbit of boxer Rory Van Holt and his circle. What follows is a dark study of obsession, class, and self-destruction.

Nick, an Iraq veteran and artist, arrives at a worn hotel with his new wife to paint a mural and start over. Instead he is pulled back toward buried trauma, moral confusion, and a place that feels quietly wrong.

A man wakes on a Baltimore city bus with no memory, freshly shaved hair, and an address written on his palm. His search for who he is leads through a bruised city and toward a past someone wanted erased.

Secret Service agent John Mavio goes undercover inside a violent Irish gang in Hell's Kitchen. The deeper he gets into their counterfeit ring and body count, the harder it becomes to protect his family or himself.

Horror novelist Travis Glasgow moves into a lakeside home hoping for a fresh start with his wife. Then the house begins making noise, the lake offers up a staircase, and an old drowning pulls Travis into obsession.

A brutal blizzard strands a group of travelers near a small Iowa town that should have been a refuge. Instead they find something moving in the whiteout, and the storm is only the beginning of their nightmare.

Six months after a caving accident nearly killed him, Tim Overleigh signs onto a dangerous climb in Nepal. The trek to the mysterious Canyon of Souls tests the men against cold, fear, and forces they can't explain.

On a crabbing voyage in the Bering Sea, a crew rescues a young woman running naked across an iceberg. Bringing her aboard feels merciful at first, until the terror she carries starts moving through the ship.

Alan and Heather Hammerstun move to the Smoky Mountains for a fresh start after loss and depression nearly break them. Then Alan finds a hidden lake that seems to promise healing, if he is willing to ignore its price.

Still grieving his wife and wrecked by a near-fatal accident, Tim Overleigh joins an expedition into the Himalayas. What begins as a brutal climb toward the Canyon of Souls becomes a fight against the mountain and his own ghosts.

An ordinary house on an ordinary lane becomes the center of a quiet, deeply unsettling haunting. Malfi turns a familiar neighborhood setting into a place where memory, fear, and the past will not stay put.

After a storm batters Stillwater, Maryland, the town is left flooded, shaken, and strangely changed. As visions spread and animals turn up mutilated, Sergeant Ben Journell realizes something old and hungry has surfaced with the water.

Carl Thompson lives two lives, one as a patient in a mental institution, the other as a lone figure patrolling a strange beach each night. The terror comes from not knowing which world is real.

In the fall of 1993, fifteen-year-old Angelo Mazzone and his friends become obsessed with the Piper, a child killer haunting their Maryland suburb. Their search through the woods around December Park pushes them toward truths they are not ready for.

Laurie returns to her childhood home after her father's death, hoping to settle the estate and leave. Instead, old fears wake up when her daughter's new friend looks exactly like the girl who died next door.

A deadly plague has shattered the world, and David Arlen is suddenly on the run with his young daughter, Ellie. As they cross a collapsing America, he must protect the child who may be humanity's last real hope.

When a murderer leads police to graves near the place his twin vanished, Paul Gallo heads to remote Dread's Hand, Alaska. The frozen town offers few answers, only crosses in the snow and whispers about what lives in the woods.

This collection gathers Malfi's shorter horror fiction, where quiet homes, broken people, and small wrong turns open into real dread. The stories vary in style, but they all show how quickly ordinary life can slip sideways.

The legend behind bestselling horror novelist Wilson Paventeau's success turns into a nested tale of ambition, authorship, and obsession. Malfi uses stories within stories to make the whole thing feel beautifully unsafe.

After his wife is killed in a mass shooting, Aaron Decker discovers she kept secrets from him. His search for the truth becomes a grief-soaked mystery involving hidden trips, old crimes, and something that may still be haunting him.

Jamie Warren returns to his hometown to bury his mother and care for his brother, only to find the nightmare that marked his childhood stirring again. To stop the Magician, he and his old friends must face the Black Mouth once more.

Four linked horror novellas revolve around books, manuscripts, and stories that refuse to stay harmless. Each tale stands alone, but together they build a clever, increasingly sinister shared world.

This collection of novellas and stories ranges from possession and parasites to monsters in the cold dark beyond the door. It is a strong showcase for Malfi at shorter length, mixing emotional stakes with plenty of unease.

Five childhood friends are drawn back together when the darkness they thought they escaped begins stirring again. Their hometown has never forgotten what happened years ago, and neither has the thing waiting there.

A brutal death in the desert drags several damaged lives into a grim Los Angeles murder puzzle. As the case echoes an earlier killing, the search for answers grows more personal, more uncanny, and harder to escape.

Something is changing the residents of Mariner's Cove, and the shift feels collective, intimate, and wrong. As obsession and paranoia spread through the suburb, everyday life curdles into a larger nightmare.