William Meikle Books in Order

A Scottish horror collection that includes the Derek Adams origin tale and more local nightmares besides. Good if you want Meikle's early weird voice.

An omnibus entry into Meikle's vampire-Jacobite saga, gathering the Watchers' war against Bonnie Prince Charlie's undead invasion.

The war widens after the wall begins to fail, and the Watchers are forced into a harsher, bloodier struggle for the country and their souls.

In 1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie leads a vampire army south toward the British throne. Only the young guards on Hadrian's Wall stand in the way.

The Watchers trilogy reaches its end as the Boy-King pushes for final victory and the dead keep rising. This is the payoff book, all war, sacrifice, and last stands.

A man who lost his family to vampires becomes a frightening hunter in a hard West of Scotland setting. Revenge drives him, but so does the risk of becoming as bad as what he hunts.

Glasgow private investigator Derek Adams takes a case that should be simple and finds himself neck-deep in occult trouble. It is noir, rain, bars, and something old and hungry underneath the city.

An old-fashioned creature feature that turns ordinary life into a siege. Giant ants and fast-rising panic do most of the talking.

Derek Adams returns for another case that leads from hardboiled legwork into predatory supernatural danger. Glasgow's older, darker corners suit this one very well.

A light, puzzle-driven mystery tied to golf, Scottish setting, and an awkwardly placed death. The famous Road Hole bunker gives the case its hook.

Cold-weather horror with soldiers, isolation, and a relentless yeti-like menace in the snow. Brutal conditions make the creature even harder to survive.

A Carnacki collection that sends the ghost finder into haunted places, cursed histories, and occult dangers where method and nerve are rarely enough.

A crone-like hag is killing the men behind a new abattoir in a remote deer-farming community. Dave Duncan may be next, if family history does not get him first.

A killer who repeats old crimes turns a murder investigation into a race against pattern and memory. The hook is familiar, but Meikle gives it bite.

A sudden threat turns a bad situation into a full survival fight. Meikle keeps the pace high and the pressure constant as ordinary defenses fail.

Respect is finally coming Derek Adams's way when a new job leaves him framed for murder and tangled up with a living skin belt. Fast, grimy, and laced with werewolf horror.

Ancient power wakes where it should have stayed buried. This is cosmic horror with a pulpy kick and a steadily worsening sense of doom.

A short speculative collection that takes one idea and worries at it from several different angles, some darker than others.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson face a case that points toward the dead returning and a mystery that refuses to stay buried. It is a compact, eerie Holmes adventure.

A coastal creature feature built around carnivorous seaweed and the bad luck of crossing its path. Sea lore and monster mayhem make a lively mix.

In 1863, mercenaries reach a ruined Montana mining town and discover a hidden valley where extinct creatures still thrive. Unfortunately, something even worse is loose there too.

A dark fiction collection full of eerie moods, sharp turns, and Meikle's usual mix of ghosts, monsters, and bad luck.

The first volume in a Scottish-themed story run, mixing local color, dark turns, and Meikle's affection for the strange.

A hungry presence stalks the cold in this lean supernatural thriller. The further the characters push into the wilderness, the less human the danger feels.

An uncanny little horror built around dolls, control, and the unease of things made to imitate life too closely.

Life on an island community turns stranger and more dangerous than it first appears. Place, weather, and buried tensions do a lot of the work here.

Malone goes looking for Professor Challenger and finds a secret military station, missing cattle, and something that should never have been contained. It is a pulpy, fast-moving Challenger romp.

A broad story collection that moves through horror, fantasy, and adventure while keeping Meikle's brisk, pulpy storytelling style.

A strange hum and a sudden sinkhole turn a quiet town into a disaster zone. The holes start opening everywhere, and what climbs out seems tailored to each victim's worst fear.

A natural landmark becomes the center of a tense survival horror story. Once the truth in the ravine starts to show itself, getting out is the only plan left.

A vampire-centered volume that leans into one of Meikle's favorite monsters, with blood, lore, and dark appetite close at hand.

A slim volume of weird tales with a cosmic tilt, where bad timing and forbidden knowledge are very much the point.

One of the key starting points for the Sigils and Totems mythos. Grief, forbidden access, and a house that should not exist drive the supernatural mystery.

As the title promises, this collection leans into folklore, creatures, and the darker side of old stories.

When young girls vanish around Edinburgh, a detective and his reporter brother follow the trail toward black swans, old myth, and a place of legend that may be horribly real.

An afterlife tale with a hard road under it, where death is not the end of trouble but the start of a different sort.

A story collection with a strong Scottish flavor, full of strange turns, dark wit, and the sense that folklore never really went away.

The Sigils and Totems idea grows darker here, with ritual knowledge and personal loss opening doors that are better left closed. Short, eerie, and emotionally sharp.

A glowing fog arrives during a snowstorm and brings an old experiment's nightmare back with it. A few workmen may be the town's last chance to live through the night.

A lonely house, moorland atmosphere, and mysteries that refuse to stay buried make this a compact and effective supernatural chiller.

More Carnacki cases, told with Edwardian mood and a widening sense of the strange. Old houses, old secrets, and real supernatural peril drive the collection.

A haunted-house style Sigils and Totems novella where old pain and stranger forces settle into one place and refuse to move on.

This one leans into bug-eyed monster fun, with science fiction pulp energy and the sense that the strange is arriving fast.

Spore-filled rain over Newfoundland marks the start of a collapse nobody can contain. The infection is fast, hungry, and learning as a small band of survivors tries to resist it.

Ancient texts, dangerous belief, and hidden knowledge draw the characters into an expanding occult nightmare. The deeper they read, the worse things get.

A story collection with sea-haunted unease, Scottish settings, and a few period pastiches folded in for good measure.

A British special forces team investigates a drifting Russian vessel in Arctic waters and finds bloody mayhem instead. Something hungry is breeding in the ice, and it is growing fast.

Being trapped by winter is only the start here. Isolation, weather, and an unwelcome presence make the cold feel personal.

Part of the Sigils and Totems mythos, this novel starts with a ritual murder and an empty house in St. John's. From there it opens into grief, mystery, and wider cosmic strangeness.

A fuller Sherlock Holmes adventure built on dreamlike menace, murder, and an uncanny threat moving through Victorian London. Watson's steady voice keeps the weirdness grounded.

This Carnacki collection ranges from cursed treasure and uncanny photographs to an unsettling Edinburgh house. The stories keep the fireside frame, but broaden the world around the ghost finder.

A clever Victorian exercise in imitation and storytelling, built around imagined ghostly tales by well-known writers gathered for dinner in London.

A compact Sigils and Totems tale where practical needs collide with otherworldly rules. The price of crossing over is never as simple as it first looks.

A science fiction anthology with William Meikle among the contributors, built around classic genre wonder with a modern twist. Big ideas and pulpy fun are the draw.

Giant crabs turn coast and community into a feeding ground. It is exactly the sort of brisk, pulpy creature horror Meikle does very well.

S-Squad heads south to inspect a derelict Nazi base and wakes an old weapon under the ice. The dead are moving again, and they need new servants.

S-Squad expects warmth and an easy assignment in Amazonia. Instead they find oppressive jungle heat, river dredging, occult history, and a very large snake problem.

Home in Scotland should mean rest for S-Squad, but animal mutilations lead them straight to Loch Ness. Something in the dark water is feeding again.

A strange zoo in the Russian tundra hides revived Ice Age beasts that are loose, hungry, and very hard to stop. S-Squad gets there just in time to regret it.

Police sent to a remote Scottish island find the community gone and the survivors raving about blood sacrifice and an ancient ram's skull. The thing wearing the island is very hard to stop.

Dave Wiggins returns home as his mother is dying and finds his past waiting in a ruined boathouse offshore. A hurricane, a strange chess set, and old mistakes trap him in a supernatural game.

Set around a derelict Victorian mining colony in Newfoundland, this novel mixes harsh landscape, old industry, and something waiting in the ruins.

A classic blob-style creature feature with a modern pulse. Once the thing starts moving, space, time, and common sense run short.

Three ghost stories, quick to read and happy to leave a chill behind.

A yeti-driven survival horror novella, cold, fast, and happy to make the mountains feel very unfriendly indeed.

A compact collection with movement, life, and the idea of things waking up when they should stay still.

As promised, three more ghost stories, each quick, atmospheric, and built to leave the room feeling a little less empty.

A collection devoted to aliens, pulp science fiction menace, and the kind of monster fun the title happily promises.

A dark-themed collection about what people carry, whether guilt, grief, memory, or something far less human.

An Augustus Seton tale with wintry menace, old evil, and the hard edge of classic occult-adventure storytelling.

Historical fantasy set in the last days of the Templars, with twins raised apart, an assassin order, and a dangerous inheritance no one can outrun.

A Lovecraftian horror tale of sea-worn dread, forbidden knowledge, and something ancient stirring just offshore. Curiosity is easy. Getting back out is harder.

A brief collection of dark pieces and shorter experiments, built around sharp ideas rather than long setup.

A science fiction collection that looks ahead with curiosity, unease, and Meikle's usual preference for strong momentum.

A crossover that lets Derek Adams brush against the Sigils and Totems mythos. That is good news for readers and bad news for Derek.

A strange, darkly funny little horror built around vanity, body unease, and a premise that gets creepier the longer it sits.

A Lovecraftian story collection full of cosmic dread, old knowledge, and people who really should have left things alone.

A lighter fantasy-leaning set of tales that still keeps one foot in the strange and the dangerous.

Walking archaeologists out of the Gobi should be routine, until long-awaited rain brings the desert to life. Deathworms rise from the sand and turn the mission into a scramble for survival.

A cleanup mission at an abandoned scientific base in a Norwegian fjord wakes something legendary in the rock. The squad soon finds itself running through snow toward civilization with death behind it.

A desert mission drags S-Squad into ancient ruins, old secrets, and predators that should have stayed buried. Heat, isolation, and too many legs do the rest.

A short collection centered on mortality, endings, and the ugly little surprises that may wait beyond them.

A short, strange tale built around one central mystery and the slow realization that things are worse than they look.

A gothic-flavored horror piece with a strong title and the sort of bloody promise Meikle usually keeps.

A family or place in collapse sits at the heart of this dark tale, with old rot finally coming to the surface.

Holmes and Watson are drawn into another strange London case, where ordinary clues lead toward a much darker explanation. Short, brisk, and built on creeping unease.

A dark threshold tale about guarding what should never be opened and paying dearly when that duty fails.

Carnacki investigates an old barrow and the buried forces tied to it. Digging into the past turns dangerous very quickly in this brisk occult adventure.

The Templars are betrayed, and two twins raised worlds apart become central to their last hope. One is tied to the dagger of the martyrs, the other to the last Templar.

A Holmes novella that turns on long-buried danger and the possibility that some cases never really end. The detective work stays sharp even as the shadows deepen.

A missing man case pushes Holmes and Watson toward domestic secrets and stranger possibilities. It begins quietly, then grows steadily more unsettling.

A modern lost-world adventure with hidden country, dangerous wildlife, and the usual problem of getting back out alive.

A compact supernatural piece about the dead refusing to stay truly absent. Quiet titles can still bite.

A compact run of weird western tales where frontier adventure meets monsters, curses, and old darkness under open skies.

Madness, confinement, and a rising sense of disorder drive this compact dark tale.

A Sigils and Totems-linked piece that looks past ordinary grief and into the unnerving possibilities on the other side of the door.

A dark story set around making, shaping, or constructing something that ought to have been left unfinished.

A Carnacki volume built on the pleasure of crossing the ghost finder into connected strands of Meikle's wider weird world.

Another Carnacki outing, this time with the ghost finder pushing back against darkness that has lasted too long.

A short subterranean horror volume that leans into darkness, confinement, and the fear of what lives below.

A short science fiction or horror piece about contact that should probably have remained theoretical.

Exactly what the title promises, a brisk hit of monster fun from a writer who plainly loves the form.

A seemingly practical job turns into one more supernatural mess for Derek Adams. Debt, desperation, and hidden danger give this Midnight Eye novella a nasty edge.

More Scottish-set dark fiction, mixing mood, folklore, and sharp little shocks.

The fourth volume continues the run of stories rooted in Scottish places, voices, and uneasy old histories.

The second Scottish-themed volume keeps the local settings, eerie turns, and compact storytelling moving nicely.

A folk-horror flavored collection where old customs and older stories still have sharp edges.

A compact supernatural thriller about guarding a threshold that should never have been opened in the first place.

Another Derek Adams case drops Glasgow's occult PI into trouble that burns hotter and spreads wider than expected. Short, sharp, and full of bad choices.

A Carnacki case in which fog, uncertainty, and the shape of something hidden do most of the frightening.

Laboratory horror in compact form, where experiment and consequence are separated by only a very thin wall.

A short set of dark tales built around disguises, mistaken assumptions, and the moment reality slips.

Domestic spaces turn sinister here, with family unease and a threat that gets closer than anyone wants.

Buried history refuses to stay buried in this compact dark tale. Old bones rarely mean old peace.

S-Squad heads into the Congo and finds the jungle full of toothy problems from a much older world. Fast action, bad terrain, and raptor trouble carry the book.

An offshore assignment in the North Sea turns into another monster emergency for S-Squad. Cold water, cramped spaces, and something predatory below make a bad mix.

A short volume concerned with the returning dead and the trouble they bring with them.

Another Sigils and Totems novella, this one pushing deeper into the hidden rules behind the houses and the costs of using them.

A Holmes-focused volume gathering Meikle's affection for Doyle, period atmosphere, and cases that grow unexpectedly weird.

A fungal horror piece that likely wastes very little time getting from contamination to panic.

A fantasy collection with blades, quests, and the rough-edged adventure energy the subgenre promises.

A treasure hunt in the deepest cave system in Europe becomes a fight for survival. The deeper the explorers go, the less the underground world feels meant for human beings.

Another lost-place adventure where getting in is easier than getting out, and the local life is not pleased to see visitors.

A fast Scottish novella that runs on legend, pursuit, and the ugly realization that some things cannot be outrun.

S-Squad gets dragged into the London underground, where the city tunnels hide a spreading menace. Tight spaces and urban panic make this one especially claustrophobic.

The Sahara gives S-Squad heat, distance, and another beast problem that wants human flesh. In the open desert, nowhere feels safe for long.

A distress call leads S-Squad into the Yukon, a winter storm, and a town already under siege. The research station in the hills holds the real reason the forest is howling.

A later Carnacki collection with a stronger cosmic edge. Ancient lore, hidden entities, and cases that reach beyond ordinary hauntings give it a darker scale.

The caverns under the Austrian Alps finally open into a great underground city, but escape is still the real goal. Natural disaster and hostile company make the endgame brutal.

The survivors return below on a rescue mission and find themselves crossing an underground sea toward fresh danger. Every attempt to reach the surface only makes things worse.

A Sigils and Totems-linked dark piece that turns creation and emergence into something unsettling and costly.

Transformation, loss, and the unease of becoming something else shape this short dark volume.

A compact speculative tale built around breaks in time, logic, or reality, and the damage those breaks leave behind.

A Midnight Eye and Sigils and Totems flavored piece that pushes Derek Adams farther from safe ground than usual.

A mysterious Halloween pop-up store and the old roots of Samhain tie these three novellas together. The result is a seasonal anthology where the veil feels thin and ordinary people drift into magic, memory, and danger.

This Dark Tide anthology delivers three very different monster stories, from dangers in the water to horrors in the woods and a killer lurking behind a mask. Each novella asks what counts as a monster, and who gets to decide.

Three Halloween novellas set around Clifton Heights bring together classic monsters, human cruelty, and revenge that turns monstrous. It is a seasonal anthology with small-town atmosphere, nasty turns, and a strong October mood.

Orkney's old stories stop feeling like stories when S-Squad arrives. Sea folklore, island weather, and something not entirely human make the assignment go bad fast.

A remote mission in Patagonia gives S-Squad bad weather, isolation, and another oversized problem with teeth. The landscape is as dangerous as the creature.

A Derek Adams novella with all the right ingredients, alcohol, bad decisions, and a case that refuses to stay ordinary.

This Dark Tide volume turns the Old West strange and deadly with three weird western novellas. Restless dead, frontier legends, and brutal mysteries haunt gunslingers, drifters, and isolated towns where progress has not buried the old horrors.

A Dark Tide anthology of three linked novellas built around grief, mystery, and melancholy. Loss, guilt, and strange revelations shape each story, giving the book a quieter mood than most horror collections, but not a safer one.

A dark novella of ominous birds, bad signs, and mounting dread. The title image tells you plenty about the mood.

Three suspense novellas with a dark edge turn everyday problems into desperate races against time. A locked school bathroom, a mysterious debt coming due, and an old crime all become traps that close fast.

Celtic myth and folk horror drive this Dark Tide anthology of three novellas. Plane crash survivors, an ancient evil in a remote valley, and a restless old house all point toward powers that refuse to stay buried.

Carnacki heads into maritime unease in a case tied to the Lusitania. Sea history and haunting make an easy fit.

A personal-sounding Carnacki case in which the threat feels less random and more determined to settle an old score.

A Carnacki case built around photographs that capture more than they should and questions better left undeveloped.

Carnacki meets uncanny dolls and the sort of case that sounds absurd until it starts moving on its own.

A compact dark-fiction collection that does not pretend the title is metaphorical for very long.

This body horror anthology pushes flesh, identity, and fear into ugly new shapes. Missing mothers, disastrous medical trials, and a beauty queen's unraveling body make these three novellas queasy, intimate, and hard to shake.

Folk menace, ritual, and a title with more bite than charm drive this strange little horror piece.

More frontier horror, strange gunslinging, and supernatural dust from Meikle's weird western corner.

At a research station on the North Pole, S-Squad finds white bears, Arctic dark, and a threat bigger than one routine rescue should ever become.

Three Holmesian horror novellas pull Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson into cases shaped by obsession, occult forces, and madness. It keeps the detective framework, but lets the shadows grow much stranger and more dangerous.

A Sigils and Totems side tale where music, obsession, and otherworldly pull all work together badly.

A key Carnacki novella in which the ghost finder begins to realize the strange world is much bigger than he had thought.

This zombie-themed Dark Tide collection offers three different takes on the undead, from a dusty post-collapse town to a family vacation gone wrong and a bloody night at a strip club. Fast, nasty survival horror is the point.

A short dark-fiction volume that trades in quick shocks, odd encounters, and late-night exhibit style unease.

A Scottish mystery built around golf, local knowledge, and a death that should not be as puzzling as it is. The setting gives it extra charm.

Something rises from below and brings trouble with it. Short, direct, and likely very damp.

Three dark novellas explore obsession, damage, and the urge to destroy in order to remake. Haunted places, cursed objects, family history, and art all become channels for horror in this unsettling Dark Tide collection.

A gaze-driven occult menace powers this compact horror tale. Looking too closely is part of the problem.

This space horror anthology sends crews into forbidden reaches of the cosmos where ancient secrets, drifting structures, and deadly systems wait in the dark. It mixes science fiction scale with the dread of being very far from rescue.

A Sigils and Totems-linked tale where memory, music, and another life just out of reach start to overlap.

A monster-focused volume that keeps the concept broad and the appetite sharp.

A hardcore horror anthology with three vicious novellas, this one goes for blood, cults, roadside sleaze, and ugly revenge. It is loud, nasty, and unapologetically built for readers who like their horror pushed well past comfortable.

A Scottish supernatural collection that gathers ghosts, folklore, old places, and the uneasy pull of local legend.

Another Sigils and Totems branch piece, tuned to emotional swings, loss, and the danger of reaching too far.

Road trips go violently wrong in this Dark Tide anthology of three travel horror novellas. From vengeful birds to roadside monsters and nightmarish rest stops, every mile feels like a step deeper into trouble.

A ritual, a summons, and a bad idea sit behind this Carnacki-style title. That is usually enough to guarantee trouble.

A pack-based predator story with the title already warning you that numbers will matter.

A Yucatan mission turns into another cryptid firefight for S-Squad, with old ruins, bad terrain, and the usual problem of being badly outnumbered.

A short run of pirate-flavored adventure and darkness, with the sea doing what the sea usually does in Meikle's fiction.

A Professor Challenger collection full of strange growths, bold speculation, and scientific adventures that tip toward danger with satisfying speed.

A short dark piece concerned with what remains after damage, and what happens when the pieces do not stay still.

The theater setting gives this horror piece masks, nerves, and plenty of room for something dreadful backstage.

This Appalachian horror collection blends mountain folklore, witchcraft, lost children, and places that seem cursed by the land itself. Each novella digs into isolated communities where old beliefs still have sharp teeth.

A Sherlock Holmes collection that blends classic detection with occult and uncanny cases. It is a strong sampler of Meikle's weirder take on Holmes and Watson.

Whitby is the right place for Gothic and supernatural trouble, and this novella makes good use of that history.

Five unproduced screenplays that show Meikle's taste for horror, pulp momentum, and strong hooks in script form.

Hollywood becomes the engine for three horror novellas where movies stop feeling fictional. Student filmmakers, buried family violence, and a burned theater full of ghosts turn the world of cinema into something far more dangerous than entertainment.

A paranormal title built around objects arriving where they should not, and the invisible company that may be sending them.

A Midnight Eye novella that drops Derek Adams into one more ugly mix of loyalty, hidden agendas, and occult danger.

A compact collection of cult horror, where belonging always has a worse side than the sales pitch suggested.

Illness, heat, and the distortions that come with both shape this compact dark tale, where the body may not be the only thing under attack.

A dog- or hound-centered horror volume with a strong whiff of pursuit and old fear.

Wiggins gets what should be an easy consultancy job on the Austria-Germany border, then ends up leading the squad underground. Something red in tooth and claw is waiting below.

The Fens give S-Squad marsh, isolation, and a run-in with one of Britain's darker legends. Thin ground and old fear do plenty of the work.

A ghost-centered volume with apparitions, unsettled places, and the sense that the dead still have business left.

A seasonal terror piece that leans into Halloween's thin-veil energy and the trouble that comes with it.

A Sigils and Totems novel that looks deeper into where the houses may come from. The mythology gets bigger, stranger, and harder to leave behind.

A manor house, old inheritance, and the suspicion that the building has kept score for a long time drive this one.

Three novellas bring urban legends to life in unnervingly modern ways, from a newborn that feels wrong to a cursed house and a podcast experiment gone bad. The book thrives on the fear that old stories might be true.

A dark tale of growth, corruption, and something older pushing up through ordinary life. The title is not being subtle.