That Ghoul Ava (T W Brown) Books in Order

T W Brown's That Ghoul Ava books take the monster side of horror and run it through a darkly comic filter. At the center is Ava Birch, a ghoul who would probably prefer a much simpler afterlife. Instead, she ends up tangled in a hidden supernatural scene where vampires, faeries, demons, and other unpleasant surprises keep turning ordinary plans into disasters.

Ava keeps the whole thing moving.

She is funny without being slick, and she reacts to the strange world around her like a person rather than a stock paranormal heroine. Brown gives her attitude, curiosity, and just enough exasperation to make the absurd parts land. The result is a series that can joke around, get gross, and still feel grounded because Ava never stops sounding like herself.

The opening book, That Ghoul Ava: Her First Adventures, lays out the basics. Ava learns what she is, starts to understand that the supernatural community has rules of its own, and forms an important connection with Lisa Jenkins, a human friend who helps anchor the series. Along the way, readers also meet bigger figures in that hidden world, including the psychic Morgan and the vampire queen Belinda, both of whom help show that monster society has its own tensions and hierarchies.

As the series goes on through That Ghoul Ava & The Queen of the Zombies, That Ghoul Ava Kicks Some Faerie A*,* Next on a Very Special That Ghoul Ava..., and beyond, the books keep broadening the trouble around her. One story might lean into zombie chaos, another into faerie problems, another into demon trouble or supernatural crime. Brown uses that flexibility well. The books share a world and a cast, but each one gets to bring in a new flavor of menace.

That variety is part of the charm.

Even with all the monster action, the real throughline is Ava trying to work out how to exist in this new version of her life. She is no longer fully part of the ordinary human world, but she never becomes cold or detached either. That gives the series more feeling than the jokes alone would suggest. Friendship matters. Loyalty matters. So does the very practical question of how to survive when everyone around you seems to have sharper teeth, deeper pockets, or older grudges.

The tone is best described as horror-comedy with urban fantasy bones. These books are quick, chatty, and happy to be messy. Brown does not shy away from gore, but he also does not forget to have fun with the setup. If you like monster fiction that knows it can be silly and dangerous at the same time, this is very much in that lane.

For readers coming from Brown's zombie work, That Ghoul Ava shows another side of what he does well. The pacing is still brisk, the characters still matter, and the danger is still real. It is just delivered with more snark, more supernatural variety, and one very unlucky ghoul at the center of it all.