Sarah Pinborough Books in Order

Rachel wakes in hospital with no memory of her old life and decides a fresh start might not be so bad. Then nightmares, mirrors, and a growing sense of dread suggest something terrible is still coming for her.

When strange violence erupts years after a ruined summer, four old friends are forced back toward the abandoned house that shaped them. Whatever waited at Syracousse never really left.

A bizarre plague turns women's bodies into breeding grounds for monstrous spiders, and society collapses fast. Pinborough treats the creature horror seriously, with plenty of gore and a bleak sense that nowhere is safe.

Melanie Parr is dead, but her return to her childhood village is only the start of the trouble. This is a revenge ghost story, but it hits because the anger underneath it feels painfully human.

A short horror piece built around perception, dread, and the moment everyday reality starts to slip. Pinborough keeps the setup tight and lets the unease grow until seeing the truth becomes the real threat.

A quiet New England town starts changing when a new priest arrives and faith turns frightening. As old beliefs twist into something harsher, the whole place begins sliding toward a very personal apocalypse.

This linked Torchwood novel follows the fallout from an earlier case as scattered encounters begin to connect in unsettling ways. Memory, hidden stories, and the cost of living near the Rift all start to close in on Cardiff.

The nightmare from Breeding Ground is far from over. More survivors face a world overrun by flesh-hungry arachnid horrors, and staying alive means enduring one more round of blood, panic, and impossible odds.

A mutilated corpse and a Welsh singing competition pull Torchwood into a nasty new case. While a fast-moving creature stalks Cardiff's shadows, Ianto goes undercover and Tom Cutler learns just how ugly the Rift can get.

Set in the Hellraiser universe, this grim historical story follows a confessor drawn into the orbit of a cruel ruler and desires that are anything but human. Faith offers little protection once pain becomes a form of worship.

A daughter sits by her father's bedside as her scattered siblings gather and old wounds reopen. Brief, raw, and unsparing, this novella is about family, resentment, love, and the long wait for death.

In a broken near-future London, DI Cass Jones is juggling a school shooting, a serial killer, and a marriage falling apart. Then his brother's murder-suicide drags him into a conspiracy far stranger than any police case.

On his sixteenth birthday, Finmere Tingewick Smith loses his guardian and gains a doorway into another London. To save both worlds, he must hunt down a kidnapped Storyholder and face the first signs of a coming darkness.

As Cardiff clears the wreckage of Torchwood, old secrets refuse to stay buried. Tom Cutler and Andy Davidson investigate grotesque new deaths while Suzie Costello's return turns the city into a bloodier, stranger battleground.

A terror attack, a string of eerie teen suicides, and a note from Cass Jones's dead brother all point to the same hidden enemy. As he hunts for his kidnapped nephew, London's cracks start showing something darker underneath.

Christmas at Orrery House brings no peace for Fin and his friends. With Joe trapped in the Nowhere, random attacks spreading, and the prophecy waking up, the fight against the Dark King starts turning friend against friend.

Cass Jones is framed for murder and hunted across a city reeling from a lethal outbreak. To save his nephew and stop the forces pulling strings behind London, he has to uncover truths bigger than any case.

The Dark King rules the Nowhere, and Fin's side is losing ground fast. A rebellion, a desperate quest, and one last stand around the stolen London Stone push the trilogy toward its final reckoning.

Sleeping Beauty becomes a tangled, adult fairy tale where curses, politics, and old bargains matter as much as true love. It also helps pull together the wider threads running through the Kingdoms books.

This Cinderella retelling keeps the ball and the fairy godmother, then twists everything around them. Secrets, power, and desire matter as much as romance, and the old story gets a much darker edge.

In Victorian London, police surgeon Dr. Thomas Bond investigates body parts turning up in the shadow of the Ripper murders. What begins as grim history slips toward something older, uglier, and far harder to explain.

Dr. Thomas Bond thought the worst was behind him, but a new wave of killings says otherwise. As the case turns personal, Pinborough pushes her Victorian nightmare into even darker territory.

Pinborough reworks Snow White into a darker, sharper fairy tale full of magic, desire, and hidden motives. Familiar pieces remain, but the queen, prince, and poisoned apple all lead somewhere much less innocent.

A personal record from the middle of a zombie outbreak, this short piece captures panic before panic has time to settle. The diary format makes each new detail feel immediate, intimate, and horribly plausible.

The second diary entry widens the sense of collapse without losing the close, personal voice. Survival, fear, and the grind of living through disaster land harder because everything is seen day by day.

A plague of deadly African flies is tearing civilization apart, and a strange immune sect welcomes the end. Investigative reporter Nigel crosses a collapsing England in search of a kidnapped boy and the truth behind the catastrophe.

After a blood test marks him as doomed, Toby is taken to a remote house where sick children wait to be called upstairs. Then Clara arrives, and life inside the system starts to matter again.

Natasha was dead for thirteen minutes before they pulled her from an icy river. She knows someone tried to kill her, and with her old friend Becca's help, she starts picking apart the vicious politics of her school.

Seventeen-year-old Anna moves to a dying town carrying a hole in her memory and a past nobody wants to discuss. When local girls start turning up dead, her buried night refuses to stay buried.

Louise kisses a stranger, then discovers he is her new boss and very much married. Her uneasy friendship with his wife, Adele, turns a messy love triangle into something far stranger and more dangerous.

Lisa has built her whole life around protecting her daughter, Ava, and keeping the past sealed off. When a new man enters the picture, old lies start loosening, and the women around her become harder to read.

Marcie's place in Savannah high society looks secure until her husband's boss returns with a much younger wife. Jealousy, attraction, and buried secrets turn a glossy social world into something far more dangerous.

Eleven days before her fortieth birthday, Emma Averell stops sleeping. As she starts losing time and doubting her own mind, she fears the same breakdown that destroyed her mother may be coming for her.

Pinborough takes Rumpelstiltskin and turns it into a harsher story of broken promises, curses, and old power. By this point the fairy-tale world is fully interconnected, and the stakes reach well beyond one bargain.

This Rapunzel retelling goes bigger than a tower and a rescue. Pinborough builds a full fantasy world around an imprisoned girl, dangerous magic, and the secrets that have shaped the kingdoms for years.

After a near-fatal accident, Emily moves with her husband to an old Dartmoor house that feels wrong from the start. As strange incidents mount, she cannot tell whether the danger is in the house, her marriage, or her own mind.