T W Brown Books in Order
Explore all T W Brown books in order, from Dead and Zomblog to That Ghoul Ava, with quick summaries, series guides, and help on where to start.
Last updated: July 4, 2026
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Publication Order
37 books
The Ugly Beginning
by T W Brown
2010
The dead start walking, and the world comes apart in fast, ugly pieces. Brown opens his epic with multiple survivor viewpoints, showing how quickly panic, hope, and brutality can share the same day.
Zomblog
by T W Brown
2010
Brown's early zombie novel takes the form of a journal from inside the apocalypse. The close-up voice gives the collapse an immediate, personal feel as survival turns into a grim daily routine.
Zomblog II
by T W Brown
2010
The journal continues as the shock of the outbreak gives way to endurance, paranoia, and hard choices. Brown keeps the focus tight on what surviving does to a person's mind as much as their body.
Fortunes & Failures
by T W Brown
2011
Steve and the people around him discover that zombies are not the only killers left. While Kevin gets another shot at leading, fear, guilt, and violence begin rotting the survivor groups from within.
Revelations
by T W Brown
2011
The outbreak has settled into a savage new routine. Steve tries to lead and protect a young orphan, while a band of zombie geeks learns that surviving the end of the world looks nothing like the movies.
The Final Entry
by T W Brown
2011
The original Zomblog trilogy closes with one last run of survival, damage, and reckoning. By this point the world is gone, and the only question left is what kind of ending a survivor can still claim.
Siege & Survival
by T W Brown
2012
Any safe place can become a trap in a dead world. As pressure mounts on the survivors' defenses, Brown digs into the exhausting cost of holding a line when both zombies and human cruelty keep closing in.
Snoe
by T W Brown
2012
Brown returns to the Zomblog universe through a new branch of the story. The ruined world is familiar, but this book shifts the focus to a different survivor path inside the same relentless apocalypse.
That Ghoul Ava: Her First Adventures
by T W Brown
2012
Ava Birch learns that dying did not end her problems, it just made them weirder. These first adventures introduce her ghoul life, her friendship with Lisa Jenkins, and a supernatural world full of fresh trouble.
Winter
by T W Brown
2012
The apocalypse gets colder, meaner, and more complicated as winter closes in. Shelter, food, and trust all become harder to hold, even before the dead and the living start pressing in.
Confrontation
by T W Brown
2013
The pressure that has been building across the series finally breaks into open conflict. Survivor groups, old wounds, and hard choices collide in a book where the living may be the deadliest threat of all.
Reborn
by T W Brown
2013
Winter starts to loosen, but survival is still brutal. Grieving groups search for a place to call home, and the first children of this broken world offer a fragile kind of hope.
Snoe's Journey
by T W Brown
2013
Brown closes the Snoe arc with movement, danger, and the stubborn need to keep going. In a dead world, even a journey toward hope can leave a long trail of loss behind it.
Snoe's War
by T W Brown
2013
The fight grows larger and uglier in the second Snoe book. Survival is no longer only about hiding from the dead, it is also about enduring the living and the damage they bring with them.
That Ghoul Ava & The Queen of the Zombies
by T W Brown
2013
Ava is still getting used to life as a ghoul when a fresh wave of monster trouble lands in her lap. The series keeps its mix of horror, wisecracks, and supernatural politics very much alive.
That Ghoul Ava Kicks Some Faerie A**
by T W Brown
2013
Ava Birch is a ghoul, and now faeries are making her life worse. Brown leans into the series' funny, messy urban fantasy energy while throwing Ava into another very bad supernatural day.
Darkness Before Dawn
by T W Brown
2014
Hope is visible at last, but getting there may cost more than the survivors can afford. As pressure builds from every side, the gap between endurance and collapse grows dangerously thin.
Next on a Very Special That Ghoul Ava...
by T W Brown
2014
There comes a point when even a smart-mouthed ghoul has to grow up a little. Ava's world keeps getting stranger, and the emotional stakes start catching up with the jokes.
Reclamation
by T W Brown
2014
Years after the outbreak, survivors are no longer just trying to last another day. Some want to rebuild the old world, others want to replace it, and that clash makes humanity as dangerous as ever.
Spring
by T W Brown
2014
A new season brings movement, possibility, and fresh danger. The dead are still out there, but the bigger question is whether the living can build anything stable before fear tears it apart again.
Blood & Betrayal
by T W Brown
2015
Survivor communities are no longer just hiding, they are competing for power. As old loyalties crack and new factions rise, the fight for the future turns every fragile alliance into a risk.
End
by T W Brown
2015
The long nightmare reaches its final reckoning as survivors, enemies, and years of loss come crashing together. Brown closes the series with one last brutal test of what humanity can save, and what it has already lost.
Leeds, England
by T W Brown
2015
The Dead universe crosses the Atlantic for a brutal look at outbreak chaos in Leeds. As the city unravels, survivors have to make quick choices about trust, escape, and what they are willing to do to stay alive.
Portland, Oregon
by T W Brown
2015
A retired cop, a newly divorced woman, and a recently paroled man become an unlikely lifeline as Portland collapses. In this local Dead story, the city is falling fast, and the living are almost as dangerous as the undead.
That Ghoul Ava... On the Lam!
by T W Brown
2015
Children are being murdered, and Ava gets pulled into a case uglier than her usual supernatural messes. The humor is still there, but so is a sharper sense of danger.
Liberty, South Carolina
by T W Brown
2016
A small Southern town becomes its own pressure cooker once the dead arrive. Familiar faces, local loyalties, and old tensions turn survival into something far more personal than just outrunning zombies.
Onset
by T W Brown
2016
This New Dead opener drops straight into the first shock of collapse. What begins as confusion and denial turns into a fight to understand the rules before the world becomes too dangerous to learn from.
That Ghoul Ava On a Roll
by T W Brown
2016
Ava would love one stretch of ordinary undead life, but that is not how her world works. Another monster problem sends her back into the mix of sarcasm, gore, and chaotic supernatural trouble.
That Ghoul Ava Sacks the Quarterback
by T W Brown
2016
Ava's appetite, attitude, and awful luck are all still intact when a new supernatural crisis crashes into everyday life. Brown keeps the series fast, funny, and just grubby enough to stay true to its ghoul hero.
Tribute
by T W Brown
2016
This nonfiction book steps away from horror and into the Portland tribute band scene. Brown looks at the musicians, promoters, and fans who keep classic live music alive without arena-ticket prices.
Alone
by T W Brown
2017
Isolation becomes its own horror in this tight New Dead entry. With help scarce and danger everywhere, survival comes down to what one person can endure when the world stops offering second chances.
Las Vegas, Nevada
by T W Brown
2017
In a city built on spectacle and excess, the apocalypse strips everything down to fear and instinct. Las Vegas becomes a deadly maze where survival depends on reading people as carefully as the dead.
That Ghoul Ava Finds an Appetite for Deception
by T W Brown
2017
A night out for an 80s rock tribute show should be easy fun, but a succubus kidnaps the lead singer instead. Ava has until midnight to fix it, which is exactly the kind of date she never wanted.
Estacada, Oregon
by T W Brown
2018
Small-town life offers no easy shelter once the world ends. Brown uses Estacada to show how quickly community can become both a lifeline and a source of pressure when the dead are at the edge of town.
Suffer the Children
by T W Brown
2018
Brown turns the apocalypse toward families and the young in one of the grimmest New Dead titles. Protecting children sounds simple until fear, scarcity, and human weakness make every choice hurt.
Don Evans Must Die
by T W Brown
2019
With a title that blunt, you know somebody has become a serious problem. Brown uses dark humor and dead-world tension to ask what happens when one man becomes more dangerous than the monsters outside.
Grim Grimoire
by T W Brown
2020
Monsters are real, and learning that truth opens the door to darker things. Brown's Witchy Woman opener promises a short, sharp dose of supernatural trouble built around occult danger and bad choices.
Where should I start?
If you want the big zombie epic: The Ugly Beginning → Revelations → Fortunes & Failures → Winter
If you want a smaller local outbreak story: Portland, Oregon → Leeds, England → Liberty, South Carolina
If you want funny supernatural horror: That Ghoul Ava: Her First Adventures → That Ghoul Ava & The Queen of the Zombies → Next on a Very Special That Ghoul Ava...
If you prefer diary-style apocalypse: Zomblog → Zomblog II → The Final Entry
Author bio
T W Brown writes horror the way a lot of readers like to read it, fast, character-first, and with just enough humor to make the darker turns hit even harder. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife Denise, a Border Collie named Aoife, a growing collection of aquariums, and more guitars than most people probably need. He has also been open about a few of the things he loves outside books, including football season, the Oregon Ducks, the Seattle Seahawks, KISS, Dr. Who, and just about anything British.
He wanted to write long before zombies took over his shelf space. His first completed novel was Dakota, published under Todd Brown, a time-bending story about DEA agents thrown back to the years just before the American Civil War in Charleston, South Carolina. That early project shows something that still runs through his later work, he likes big what-if setups, but he wants them anchored by people who feel lived in.
Then a college creative writing class changed the direction of his career.
Brown has said the real turn toward horror came after he wrote a zombie piece for class and his teacher, Ms. Bose, told him he clearly loved the subject and had a real feel for the style. He took that seriously. Instead of forcing himself toward something more conventionally mainstream, he leaned into the stories he was most excited to tell.
The first result was Zomblog, written as a journal-style account of the apocalypse. It was meant more as a warm-up than a publishing plan. Then Denise gave him a printed copy as a Christmas present, and holding that book in his hands pushed the whole thing into real life. Readers found it, wanted more, and one book turned into Zomblog II, The Final Entry, and later the Snoe novels.
His biggest project, though, is the Dead series, which begins with The Ugly Beginning. Those books helped define Brown for a lot of horror readers. The setup is broad, but the hook is personal: one storyline follows Steve Hobart as he is pushed into leadership, another follows a group of zombie geeks who discover the end of the world is nothing like the movies, and a third opens out into short snapshots from around the globe. By the time Winter arrived, the series had found a much bigger audience.
He didn't stay in one box for long.
Brown also spun that ruined world outward with books like Portland, Oregon in the Dead: Snapshot line and Onset in the New Dead books, both of which keep the undead setting but shift the camera to different survivors. Then he took a sharp left turn into horror-comedy with That Ghoul Ava: Her First Adventures and its sequels, following a ghoul named Ava Birch through supernatural trouble that involves vampires, faeries, demons, and a lot of bad luck. Later, Grim Grimoire showed he was still happy to play in shorter supernatural fiction too.
What readers tend to like most in Brown's work is pretty simple. His worlds are ugly, but his characters rarely feel like props. People argue, panic, crack jokes, get brave, get selfish, and keep going because stopping is not really an option. Whether he is writing a sprawling zombie epic or a weirdly funny ghoul adventure, he keeps the focus on ordinary people under extraordinary pressure.
These days, that same mix seems to define his writing life. He is still closely tied to the Pacific Northwest, still writing across zombie horror and darker fantasy, and still sounding like someone who never lost the joy of telling a good story.
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