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.