Sam Kates Books in Order

Ten stories explore deadly obsession, haunted places, altered identities, and encounters with apparent impossibilities. Characters face apocalyptic claims, disturbing discoveries at Dunkirk, prison escapes, and other situations that turn ordinary assumptions about the world into uncertainty.

After the war, John Andrews leaves Newcastle for a secluded Cornish village and falls in love. Encounters with dead relatives and other unsettling inhabitants turn his fresh start into a struggle to protect his family and sanity.

Three stories follow people searching for loved ones they have lost. A schoolteacher seeks escape, a grieving husband takes a dangerous chance, and an unlikely pair crosses a violent post-apocalyptic landscape, confronting the uncertain possibilities of reunion.

Four Christmas stories bring supernatural encounters, apocalyptic dangers, and vampires into the festive season. A further tale returns to the Earth Haven universe, adding another dark turn to a collection concerned with unsettling alternatives to holiday cheer.

Matt boards an office elevator with three strangers, expecting another routine workday. When its doors open onto an unfamiliar landscape, the four passengers begin a journey through extraordinary places whose dangers threaten them all.

An elderly survivor has spent decades carrying guilt over the sacrifice that saved his life. A chance to meet his rescuer's daughter offers him the possibility of telling the truth and finding some release from the past.

Jack leaves his fellow elevator travelers behind to undertake a task set by the Lord of the Dance. Crossing into a land populated by people from different eras, he discovers that far more lives are at stake.

After losing his job, prison counselor Quirke follows a convict's vague directions to a hidden Welsh settlement. Its apparent freedom from modern pressures promises contentment, but life in this supposed paradise brings unexpected complications.

Following a devastating epidemic, Tom Evans and Ceri Lewis inhabit a world whose scattered survivors are held by an unseen controlling force. A new threat compels them to risk everything to stop humanity's final extermination.

A hidden enemy living among humanity unleashes a catastrophe designed to wipe out the population. Bewildered survivors must adapt to the ruined world, unaware that their survival has not ended the forces arrayed against them.

With humanity's future threatened, Jack returns to the near shore alongside old and new companions. To stop multiple futures unraveling, they must confront dangerous enemies and the power wielded by the Lord of the Dance.

Survivors from Europe and North America converge on Britain as humanity approaches a final confrontation with its destroyers. Too few remain to win alone, making the search for unlikely allies essential to avoiding extinction.

Three novellas explore unstable memory, madness, and the afterlife. A mystery exposes dangerous secrets, a blurred boundary between fantasy and reality threatens tragedy, and a returned soul becomes entangled in an ancient secret and an urgent struggle against evil.