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Explore Simon R Green books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and easy starting points across his fantasy, urban fantasy, and space opera worlds.

Last updated: July 1, 2026

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Blue Moon Rising

by Simon R Green

1989

Prince Rupert is sent to kill a dragon on what should be a fatal quest. Instead he finds Princess Julia, a dangerous Darkwood, and a much larger fight for the future of the Forest Kingdom.

Hawk & Fisher / No Haven for the Guilty

by Simon R Green

1990

Hawk and Fisher are sent to protect a reform-minded councilman at a grand house party in Haven. When magic seals the doors and murder strikes, they are trapped inside a lethal whodunit.

Guard Against Dishonor

by Simon R Green

1991

Corruption is eating Haven alive, and even the Guard is not untouched. Hawk and Fisher take a stand against power, treachery, and the kind of enemies who think honor is just another weakness.

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

by Simon R Green

1991

Green's novelization follows Robin's return to England, his war with the Sheriff of Nottingham, and his growing bond with Maid Marian. It keeps the familiar adventure moving at a brisk clip.

The God Killer

by Simon R Green

1991

Something is murdering gods in and around Haven, and the fallout could tear the city apart. Hawk and Fisher chase the killer through faith, fear, and politics, knowing every answer may make things worse.

Winner Takes All / Devil Take the Hindmost

by Simon R Green

1991

A new case drags Hawk and Fisher into deadly games of greed, deception, and sorcery. In Haven, everybody wants something, and the price of winning may be higher than either guard captain expected.

Wolf in the Fold / Vengeance for a Lonely Man

by Simon R Green

1991

Forced undercover among Haven's aristocratic Quality, Hawk and Fisher must find a fugitive spy without blowing their cover. Then a body turns up, and something inhuman starts killing inside the tower.

Blood and Honor

by Simon R Green

1992

Seven years after the Demon War, an actor named Jordan is magically altered to impersonate a prince in a vicious succession struggle. Castle Midnight becomes the stage for murder, politics, and a new war between the Real and the Unreal.

Mistworld

by Simon R Green

1992

Mistworld is an outlaw planet shielded from the Empire but cut off from its comforts and technology. Investigator Topaz and Sergeant Michael Gunn are among the few honest people left when invasion threatens.

The Bones of Haven / Two Kings in Haven

by Simon R Green

1992

Fresh killings and old grudges drag Hawk and Fisher into another brutal Haven investigation. In a city built on corruption, even the dead can become part of a larger power struggle.

Down Among the Dead Men

by Simon R Green

1993

A silent border fort deep in the Darkwood draws a band of Rangers into a grim investigation. What they find is a massacre, an ancient evil, and a place where the past is very much not dead.

Ghostworld

by Simon R Green

1993

Captain John Silence is sent to the dead world of Unseeli when a vital imperial base goes silent. Behind each locked door waits another mystery, and another reminder of how badly the Empire failed this place.

Hellworld

by Simon R Green

1993

The Hell Squads are the expendable scouts sent to test deadly new worlds for the Empire. On Wolf IV, Captain Scott Hunter and his team discover something far worse than a bad assignment.

Deathstalker

by Simon R Green

1994

Historian and minor aristocrat Owen Deathstalker is declared an outlaw after his father is murdered. Forced out of safety and into open conflict, he becomes an unlikely figurehead for rebellion against a rotten empire.

Shadows Fall

by Simon R Green

1994

Shadows Fall is the city where forgotten legends, abandoned dreams, and old myths go when the world no longer believes in them. When a man named James Hart returns, prophecy says the whole place may die.

Deathstalker Rebellion

by Simon R Green

1996

Owen's flight from the Empire grows into a true uprising. Rebels, outcasts, and old enemies must find a way to stand together before the Empire crushes them one faction at a time.

Deathstalker War

by Simon R Green

1997

The rebellion can no longer hide. As open war engulfs planets and fleets, Owen and his scattered allies fight to survive long enough to prove the Empire can still be hurt.

Deathstalker Honor

by Simon R Green

1998

Owen Deathstalker has survived war, but victory only exposes new betrayals. As the rebellion fractures and the Empire strikes back, he has to hold his allies together long enough to keep hope alive.

Deathstalker Destiny

by Simon R Green

1999

The long war against the Empire races toward a brutal climax. Owen and his allies must face old enemies, impossible choices, and the price of everything their rebellion has won.

Haven of Lost Souls

by Simon R Green

1999

This collection returns to Haven for more sword-and-sorcery trouble, with Hawk and Fisher and their allies facing the city's usual mix of murder, monsters, and bad politics. Haven never stays quiet for long.

Beyond the Blue Moon

by Simon R Green

2000

Living as Hawk and Fisher in Haven, Rupert and Julia are summoned back to the Forest Kingdom when a king is murdered and old evils stir. Homecoming turns into one more fight for the fate of the realm.

Drinking Midnight Wine

by Simon R Green

2001

Bookshop clerk Toby Dexter follows a woman he barely knows through a doorway and into Mysterie, the magical world hidden beside his own Bradford-on-Avon. To get home, he may have to help save both worlds.

Deathstalker Legacy

by Simon R Green

2002

Two centuries after Owen, Lewis Deathstalker inherits a name heavy with legend and trouble. A new threat is rising, and the secrets of the old rebellion may be the galaxy's last hope.

Agents of Light and Darkness

by Simon R Green

2003

John Taylor is hunting the Unholy Grail, an object of terrible power that angels, devils, and every other hungry player in the Nightside also want. Finding it may be the easy part.

Something from the Nightside

by Simon R Green

2003

John Taylor, a finder of lost things, is paid to track down a runaway girl. The trail leads back to the Nightside, the hidden part of London he swore he would never enter again.

Deathstalker Return

by Simon R Green

2004

Lewis Deathstalker digs deeper into the past as ancient powers and buried truths return to shake the Empire. To survive, he may need help from a legend history was never supposed to see again.

Nightingale's Lament

by Simon R Green

2004

A famous singer in the Nightside has a voice people would die for, literally. John Taylor is hired to find out what is happening before beauty, obsession, and magic kill again.

Deathstalker Coda

by Simon R Green

2005

The final Deathstalker novel brings Lewis, Jesamine, and the last echoes of Owen's age into one last showdown. Old legends return as the fate of empire and rebellion is settled at last.

Hex and the City

by Simon R Green

2005

Lady Luck hires John Taylor to uncover the origins of the Nightside. The deeper he digs, the more the case turns into a search for the truth about his vanished, dangerous mother.

Paths Not Taken

by Simon R Green

2005

To stop his mother before she can destroy the Nightside, John Taylor has to travel backward through time itself. The past holds answers, but it may be even more dangerous than the present.

Hell to Pay

by Simon R Green

2006

After war nearly wrecks the Nightside, the Griffin's granddaughter is kidnapped and John Taylor is called in. This time his gift is being blocked, so every step toward the truth comes the hard way.

Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth

by Simon R Green

2006

John Taylor learns that his long-vanished mother plans to destroy the Nightside she created. To save the place he hates and loves, he has to face the most personal enemy of all.

The Man With the Golden Torc

by Simon R Green

2007

Eddie Drood is a secret agent for the family that protects humanity from the dark. When his own people brand him rogue, he and Molly Metcalf have to uncover who set him up and why.

The Unnatural Inquirer

by Simon R Green

2007

A case tied to the Nightside's own scandal-hungry press pulls John Taylor into another maze of secrets. In a city where information is power, the truth can be deadlier than any weapon.

Daemons Are Forever

by Simon R Green

2008

Eddie Drood takes on the Loathly Ones, soul-stealing parasites that threaten the hidden world. He has power, allies, and family authority, but none of that makes the job simple.

Just Another Judgement Day

by Simon R Green

2008

The Walking Man, heaven's unstoppable engine of judgement, comes to the Nightside. John Taylor is hired to stop him before holy justice wipes out everyone, guilty and otherwise.

The Spy Who Haunted Me

by Simon R Green

2009

Eddie Drood and Molly Metcalf take on a mission wrapped in spies, ghosts, and old grudges. Every answer points toward a deeper conspiracy inside the secret war that governs the world.

From Hell with Love

by Simon R Green

2010

A new supernatural crisis throws Eddie back into the field and deeper into the Droods' dangerous hidden world. Family politics, dark powers, and Molly's magic make the mission painfully personal.

Ghost of a Chance

by Simon R Green

2010

The Carnacki Institute sends JC Chance, Melody Chambers, and Happy Jack Palmer to a famously haunted house. What starts as ghostbusting becomes a deadly mystery with something far worse than restless spirits.

The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny

by Simon R Green

2010

Walker, the unsettling power behind the Nightside's authorities, is dying and has one final job for John Taylor. In a place built on terrible choices, taking that job may change everything.

A Hard Day's Knight

by Simon R Green

2011

John Taylor discovers he has become the keeper of Excalibur. To learn why, he has to find King Arthur and survive a dangerous trip through London Proper and the remains of Camelot's old legends.

For Heaven's Eyes Only

by Simon R Green

2011

Eddie and Molly race to stop the latest threat to humanity, and not all the enemies closing in are strangers. Saving the world may require breaking the old rules that hold the Drood family together.

Ghost of a Smile

by Simon R Green

2011

Another routine-looking haunting turns into a trap for JC Chance and his team. The dead are restless, the living are lying, and the smile at the center of it all is anything but friendly.

Ghost of a Dream

by Simon R Green

2012

The Carnacki team walks into a case where dreams, memories, and the dead bleed together. To make it out alive, they must face a haunting that knows exactly how to get inside their heads.

Live and Let Drood

by Simon R Green

2012

On the run and badly outnumbered, Eddie has to survive enemies outside and inside the Drood family. Old secrets and older powers push the series into even darker territory.

The Bride Wore Black Leather

by Simon R Green

2012

John Taylor is about to marry Shotgun Suzie, but first he takes one last case. It leaves him framed, hunted by friends and enemies alike, with the Nightside itself facing a final threat.

The Pit of Despair

by Simon R Green

2012

A dark fantasy tale about a place built to crush hope and the people stubborn enough to resist it. Green keeps the focus on survival, defiance, and the cost of escape.

Casino Infernale

by Simon R Green

2013

Eddie enters the legendary casino where gods, monsters, and worse all come to gamble. With souls and whole worlds on the table, he and Molly have to beat the house without becoming part of it.

Dorothy Dreams

by Simon R Green

2013

A dreamlike fantasy in which a familiar name leads into stranger territory. Green plays with wonder, danger, and the pull of another world just beyond waking life.

Spirits from Beyond

by Simon R Green

2013

A new investigation shows the Ghost Finders that not every threat comes from ordinary ghosts. Their latest case opens onto something bigger, stranger, and far more dangerous than a simple haunting.

Once in a Blue Moon

by Simon R Green

2014

Years after saving the Forest Kingdom, Rupert and Julia are living as legends when their grown children are abducted. One last quest pulls them back toward the Blue Moon and an old enemy they thought was gone.

Property of a Lady Faire

by Simon R Green

2014

A supernatural burglary turns into a deadly encounter with the dangerous world of faerie. Eddie and Molly must navigate glamours, bargains, and family trouble while keeping the human world intact.

Tales of the Hidden World

by Simon R Green

2014

A short-story collection that wanders through Green's wider hidden world of magic, monsters, and dark humor. Readers get a mix of eerie ideas, sharp turns, and glimpses of familiar territory.

Voices from Beyond

by Simon R Green

2014

Strange messages from the dead pull the Carnacki team into another impossible case. The deeper they dig, the clearer it becomes that someone, or something, is trying to open the wrong door.

From a Drood to a Kill

by Simon R Green

2015

A deal with the devil sends Eddie into a contest where the prize is far more than money. To win, he must outplay enemies who know exactly how a Drood can be broken.

Tales from the Nightside

by Simon R Green

2015

This collection opens more doors into the Nightside through stories about John Taylor and other dangerous regulars. It is a good way to see just how many horrors the hidden city can still hide.

The Dark Side of the Road

by Simon R Green

2015

Invited to an isolated manor for Christmas, Ishmael Jones arrives to find his employer missing. Snow closes in, secrets pile up, and he must unmask a killer before the house claims another victim.

Dead Man Walking

by Simon R Green

2016

A rogue agent wants to trade secrets, and Ishmael is sent to decide whether he is real, useful, or dangerous. Then a murder turns the whole country-house mission into another deadly puzzle.

Dr. DOA

by Simon R Green

2016

A fresh enemy armed with impossible science and occult menace puts Eddie on another collision course with chaos. Saving the world gets harder when his own side is nearly as dangerous as the opposition.

Forces from Beyond

by Simon R Green

2016

The Ghost Finders face powers that reach far beyond ordinary hauntings. As the hidden war escalates, JC, Melody, and Happy Jack need every trick they have just to stay standing.

Death Shall Come

by Simon R Green

2017

An Egyptian mummy vanishes from its coffin, leaving a bloodstained body behind. Ishmael Jones ignores the curse talk and starts digging for the very human killer in the house.

Moonbreaker

by Simon R Green

2017

Eddie and Molly chase a threat big enough to crack open the hidden world once and for all. Cosmic stakes, family scars, and relentless action keep the pressure on from the first page.

Very Important Corpses

by Simon R Green

2017

Ishmael and Penny head to the Scottish Highlands to infiltrate a secretive power group and investigate a gruesome murder. Rumors of a Loch Ness monster are the least of their problems.

Into the Thinnest of Air

by Simon R Green

2018

A remote mountain setting, old disappearances, and fresh fear put Ishmael Jones on another locked-circle case. The higher he climbs into the mystery, the less certain reality seems to become.

Murder in the Dark

by Simon R Green

2018

A mysterious black hole appears on a Somerset hillside, and then a scientist dies. Ishmael Jones has to work out whether he is dealing with alien danger, murder, or both.

Night Fall

by Simon R Green

2018

The final Secret Histories novel throws Eddie Drood into a showdown that reaches into the Nightside itself. Old allies, old enemies, and the whole shared universe come due at once.

Till Sudden Death Do Us Part

by Simon R Green

2019

A wedding celebration turns lethal when murder crashes through the plans. Ishmael and Penny must untangle love, lies, and family secrets before the killer strikes again.

Night Train to Murder

by Simon R Green

2020

A corpse in a locked toilet on a late-night train gives Ishmael Jones one of his neatest impossible cases. With suspects trapped on board, the killer cannot stay hidden for long.

The House on Widows Hill

by Simon R Green

2020

Ishmael and Penny spend a night in a supposedly haunted house to test the rumors. When one of the investigators dies without obvious cause, the ghost hunt becomes a murder case.

Buried Memories

by Simon R Green

2021

Ishmael Jones returns to the small town where he crash-landed in 1963, hoping for answers about his past. Instead he finds a brutal murder and becomes the prime suspect.

Jekyll & Hyde Inc.

by Simon R Green

2021

Ex-cop Daniel Carter is offered revenge and a second life when he joins the superhuman Hydes. Together they wage war on the monster clans that secretly run the dark criminal trades of London.

The Best Thing You Can Steal

by Simon R Green

2021

Master thief Gideon Sable assembles a crew of magical specialists for an impossible heist. The target belongs to the worst man in the world, which is exactly why Gideon wants it.

A Matter of Death and Life

by Simon R Green

2022

Gideon Sable and his crew head for a nightmare casino in Las Vegas, where the odds are fixed and the stakes are more than money. To beat the house, they will need the perfect supernatural con.

Haunted by the Past

by Simon R Green

2022

A new case forces Ishmael Jones back toward unfinished business from his own hidden history. As old memories and older dangers resurface, the past proves just as lethal as any fresh corpse.

What Song the Sirens Sang

by Simon R Green

2022

A priceless stone said to hold the last song of the sirens is stolen right under Gideon Sable's nose. To get it back, he must reunite his crew and move fast before an ally is lost.

For Love of Magic

by Simon R Green

2023

Jack and his guide Amanda travel through Britain's myth-soaked past to protect the magical truths hidden under history. Legends like Arthur, Beowulf, and Robin Hood become part of a larger fight over what the world remembers.

Not of This World

by Simon R Green

2023

Gideon Sable is hired to break into the Preserve, a secret dumping ground for supernatural and extraterrestrial horrors near Bath. The prize is impossible enough, he has to steal a ghost.

Hyde & Seek

by Simon R Green

2024

With the monster clans broken, Daniel and Tina Hyde discover that something worse has been waiting in the shadows. Aliens move in to fill the gap, and Hyde, Inc. has to hit back hard.

The Holy Terrors

by Simon R Green

2024

A ghost-hunting reality stunt locks six minor celebrities inside England's most haunted hall. When the night turns deadly, Bishop Alistair Kincaid and actress Diana Hunt have to solve the murder.

Where is Anybody?

by Simon R Green

2024

Gideon returns from a job to find that someone has stolen Annie Anybody. To get her back, he must reassemble the crew and pull off one more dangerous bargain and one more impossible theft.

Stone Certainty

by Simon R Green

2025

Standing stones, old local fears, and a documentary crew set the stage for another eerie case for Alistair and Diana. When murder arrives, folklore and human greed begin to look equally dangerous.

Which Witch?

by Simon R Green

2025

A production of *Macbeth* seems genuinely cursed as one creepy incident follows another. Alistair and Diana step in to find out whether they are dealing with sabotage, dark magic, or both.

New

For Better or Murder

by Simon R Green

2026

A remote Cornish hotel should be the setting for Alistair and Diana's wedding, but legends, a seance, and a sudden death get in the way. Their big day turns into another ghost-tinged mystery.

Where should I start?

For dark urban fantasy: Something from the NightsideAgents of Light and DarknessNightingale's Lament
For occult spy adventure: The Man With the Golden TorcDaemons Are ForeverThe Spy Who Haunted Me
For huge space opera: DeathstalkerDeathstalker RebellionDeathstalker War
For comic epic fantasy: Blue Moon RisingBlood and HonorDown Among the Dead Men
For paranormal mysteries: The Dark Side of the RoadDead Man WalkingVery Important Corpses

Author bio

Simon R Green was born in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, on August 25, 1955. He studied humanities at Thames Polytechnic and later earned an M.A. in modern English and American literature from the University of Leicester.

He started writing while still a student in 1973. His first sale was the story Manslayer in 1976, and his first full-length work, Awake, Awake, Ye Northern Winds, followed in 1979.

Then the long apprenticeship ended.

After a stretch of odd jobs, including work as a shop assistant, actor, and freelance writer, Green hit a remarkable run in the late 1980s. He sold a cluster of novels in quick succession, and in 1989 he was commissioned to write the novelization of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, a book that reached a very wide audience and helped put his name in front of many new readers.

What kept readers coming back was range. He could write huge, blood-splashed space opera in Deathstalker, turn around and deliver fairy-tale fantasy in Blue Moon Rising, then head straight into dark London for Something from the Nightside.

He likes mixing things that are not supposed to go together.

In the Nightside and Secret Histories books, readers get private eyes, occult spies, monsters, bad jokes, family feuds, and end-of-the-world stakes, often all in the same story. Later series like the Ishmael Jones mysteries, beginning with The Dark Side of the Road, show another side of his work, classic British murder puzzles with a strange and uneasy edge. Even when Green changes genre, he tends to keep the same energy, fast dialogue, sharp turns, and characters who sound tired of the world but keep fighting anyway.

That shared-world instinct became one of his signatures. Different series brush up against one another, names recur, old legends echo forward, and longtime readers get the pleasure of seeing separate corners of his fiction connect without any one series losing its own identity.

His books also return again and again to a few things he clearly enjoys, hidden Londons, dangerous families, bad institutions, and heroes who would honestly prefer a quiet life but never get one. There is usually a lot going on, but underneath the monsters and mayhem, Green is often writing about loyalty, betrayal, duty, and the price of carrying on when things have already gone badly wrong.

Green still lives in Bradford-on-Avon, the town where he was born. After decades of writing science fiction, fantasy, horror, and mystery, he has built the kind of bibliography where a reader can enter almost anywhere and quickly see the appeal, big ideas, fast pace, a very British sense of humor, and a willingness to throw one more impossible problem at the hero just when things were already bad enough.

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