Scott Nicholson Books in Order

An early story collection that mixes the macabre with fantasy, science fiction, and off-kilter emotion. It shows Nicholson trying different dark modes before his later series took shape.

A boy and Sheriff Frank Littlefield must solve the mystery of a haunted Appalachian church when a preacher's terrible legacy returns. It is mountain folklore, religious dread, and small-town horror at full strength.

An alien entity crashes into the Southern Appalachian Mountains and starts infecting everything around it. A clairvoyant professor, a dirt farmer, and a disillusioned tycoon become the unlikely line between survival and spread.

Set against farm-country pressure and rural belief, this horror novel turns harvest time into a season of dread. Old sins and hard family ties make the land feel as dangerous as anything lurking on it.

Twelve-year-old Freeman Mills arrives at Wendover, a group home for troubled boys, expecting rules and routine. What he finds instead is a much older evil hiding behind the institution's walls.

A mother and her troubled teen daughter move to an Appalachian farm with a new husband and hopes for a reset. Instead they find preacher lore, restless spirits, and a place that feels wrong from the ground up.

A trip into the Appalachian wild becomes a fight for survival when something bloodthirsty enters the hunt. Nicholson blends wilderness suspense with horror that closes in from the dark.

A gathering of Nicholson's award-winning short fiction, full of horror, fantasy, odd creatures, and hard questions about faith, grief, and loss. It is a strong snapshot of his shorter dark work.

A collection of supernatural stories with ghosts, dark emotional turns, and uncanny consequences. These are compact tales, but they still carry Nicholson's feel for dread and damaged people.

With Halloween closing in, Crystal is drawn toward the dead, old magic, and dangerous family secrets. The result is a moody paranormal story built on romance, mystery, and the trouble that comes with inherited power.

Albert Shipway thinks he is headed into one more ordinary lunch break. Instead, a strange encounter leaves him tangled in a curse and a supernatural mess that upends his very average life.

A black-and-white comics collection adapted from Nicholson's short stories, built around supernatural suspense and dark imagery. The format shifts, but the eerie mood stays right where it should.

A fire shatters Jacob Wells's life and drags him back into the brutal history of his family. As his twin brother returns and old obsessions flare, a psychological war turns deadly.

When Vernon Ray Davis hears a snare drum coming from deep inside a mountain cave, an old evil starts moving again. Sheriff Frank Littlefield faces a Civil War-flavored supernatural threat that bullets will not solve.

A collection of horror and psychological stories about disturbed minds, strange perceptions, and the thin line between inner damage and outer terror. The focus is on what happens when the mind becomes the haunted place.

A father tells his daughter a bedtime story in which monsters are not terrifying predators but loyal protectors. It is a warm, playful picture book about turning fear into comfort.

Five days before Halloween, Crystal learns that one bad choice can wake up far more than teenage trouble. Magic, romance, and the dead are all waiting for her in this autumn-soaked YA fantasy.

Wayne "Digger" Wilson hosts a paranormal conference at the haunted White Horse Inn for reasons that run deeper than curiosity. Old promises and real ghosts make this one more than a gimmick weekend.

An experimental rafting trip, an FBI manhunt, and a brutal mountain storm collide in the wilderness. Then the hungry things hidden in the gorge come out.

The screenplay version of Nicholson's haunted Korban Manor story, with Anna Galloway and Mason Jackson facing obsession, visions, and a house full of secrets. It keeps the modern Gothic chill while shifting into cinematic form.

Katy Logan and her daughter Jett move to a farm in Solom and find more than a fresh start. Ghosts, family legend, and a murderous scarecrow turn the quiet Appalachian setting into a trap.

Julia Stone starts piecing together the night her father vanished after finding a strange silver ring marked "Judas Stone." A cult-like threat, unreliable memory, and creeping panic close in as she hunts the truth.

An advice collection for writers, edited by Nicholson and packed with practical guidance on craft, agents, promotion, publishing, and adapting to the digital age. It is meant for working writers, not dreamers only.

A quick, undead-heavy collection that serves up zombie fiction in short, sharp bursts. It is the bite-sized version of Nicholson's taste for apocalyptic rot and dark fun.

Mattie wants balloons for her birthday, but every balloon her dad brings home meets an unlucky end. He still has one special surprise left, and that is what saves the day.

One year after the Monkey House trials, the survivors are still being torn apart by the drugs used on them. Dr. Alexis Morgan follows the science toward a political conspiracy that could create many more victims.

Reporter John Moretz takes a job in the Appalachian town of Sycamore Shade just as a crime spree erupts. As the bodies pile up, he chases the story and discovers he may be part of it.

A short story collection built around dark turns, bad choices, and the way one step into danger leads to another. Nicholson moves through fantasy, suspense, and the uncanny with quick, nasty efficiency.

Paranormal investigators Ellen and Monty Drew are called to a Southern California Bible college where voices haunt the night. What starts as a sad ghost story turns into a showdown with a much older and darker force.

Roland Doyle wakes beside a dead woman with a bottle of pills labeled "Take one every 4 hrs or else." The clue pulls him back to a secret experiment, missing memories, and the nightmare called the Monkey House.

Thirteen dark tales where ordinary people run into extraordinary trouble, from religious menace to psychological dread. Nicholson uses the short form to hit fast and leave an aftertaste.

A group of misfits meeting in a university library basement think they may have found proof of a 150-year-old vampire killing. Chasing that mystery pulls them toward buried history and a danger that may still be awake.

A darker, more character-driven novel about messy relationships, self-destructive choices, and the damage people carry forward. Nicholson leans less on spectacle here and more on the hard fallout of what cannot be undone.

Moanica Moonsweep wants the perfect Halloween witch's brew, so she invites her friends to help. Too many opinions and too many ingredients turn the party into a magical mess.

Private investigator Richard Steele is forced to solve the hardest case of his career, his own murder. The investigation traps him between a living lover, a dead ex-wife, and unfinished business on both sides of the grave.

Sabrina Vickers is on a mission from God, the only problem is she does not fully know what the mission is. She does know her lover Luke is a soulless vampire, which keeps things lively.

A feisty rhyming picture book about a single dad trying to keep up with his imaginative daughter. A day with Ida Claire turns into one full, funny burst of motion and charm.

Parapsychologist Anna Galloway and struggling sculptor Mason Jackson arrive at Korban Manor and find a house thick with dreams, mirrors, and old obsession. The deeper they go, the harder it is to tell vision from possession.

A massive solar storm wipes out technology and kills billions in a flash. Rachel Wheeler finds herself alone in a dead city where mutated survivors, the Zapheads, now own the streets.

When Jacob Ridgehorn dies, Roby Snow has to help send his soul on, starting with a very unusual pie and a very uneasy family. This short supernatural tale mixes the eerie with the darkly odd.

Artists gather at remote Korban Manor for a retreat, unaware that the house feeds on their energy. Anna Galloway and Mason Jackson uncover the estate's secrets before inspiration turns into a trap.

This prequel novella catches the *After* story at the moment everything breaks. Rachel Wheeler is alone in the city as the blackout, the panic, and the first violent Zapheads begin to remake the world.

The evil tied to the red church is not finished with the living. This return to Sheriff Frank Littlefield's world digs back into mountain legend, damaged faith, and the long shadow of the McFall name.

A camp for troubled teens becomes a bloodbath when a strange infection spreads through the mess hall. Counselor Jenny Usher first tries to save the kids, then realizes she may have to survive the dead as well.

Spider follows Parker Cole onto a cruise after her latest ordeal, only to stumble into black magic, a stolen relic, and a witch doctor who can turn passengers into zombies. It is fast, pulpy vampire trouble with a sharp sense of fun.

The survivors of the solar-storm disaster are learning that some people did not come through unchanged. Rachel Wheeler keeps moving through the wreckage, trying to stay alive while the world grows stranger by the hour.

Mackie Dailey fights his way to a college campus after the solar storms, hoping to find the woman he once loved. Instead he finds that Allie is now one of the Zapheads, and the new world has no easy reunions.

A light Halloween picture book starring Duncan, a pumpkin hero with plenty of heart and a little seasonal mischief. It is built for young readers who like their spooky stories sweet.

Richard Coldiron already has too many voices in his head, and then a malevolent soul-hopping spirit moves in. As bodies turn up and reality slips, he has to decide which voice, if any, is telling him the truth.

Rachel Wheeler heads through the Appalachian wilderness toward her grandfather's survival compound after civilization collapses. Separation, hunger, and the mutating Zapheads turn the journey into a brutal test of endurance.

After her husband's violent death, Katy Logan inherits the Solom farm and tries to build a life for herself and Jett. But the dark force that drove him mad is still there, and the Horseback Preacher has returned.

Winter closes in as Rachel and her companions take shelter in an Appalachian compound built by her notorious grandfather. A rogue military force wants the place for itself, and the cold is only one of their problems.

Five years after the solar storms destroyed civilization, Rachel Wheeler and her makeshift family can no longer hide from the mutant world outside. Leaving safety behind means facing a future that may belong to the Zapheads.

To save Rachel, a desperate group of survivors must track down a missing Zaphead baby with extraordinary powers. It is a last, dangerous push through a world where the line between human and mutant is almost gone.

Bighearted Willie "Possum" Purdue gets pulled into a messy crime spree because he cannot stay away from Gertie Shaw. What follows is a mountain chase full of bad choices, crooked men, and trouble that keeps getting worse.

Rachel's strange mutation leaves her humanity hanging by a thread. At the same time, the Zapheads are forming a new social order, forcing the remaining humans to ask whether they are fighting monsters or the next world.

The survivors at the college campus are still standing, but the Zapheads are changing again. As the pressure mounts, the second book widens the danger and asks what a future looks like when humanity is no longer in charge.

Katy Logan is trying to protect the Solom farm she has inherited, but the dead Horseback Preacher has one last mission to finish. His eye falls on Katy's daughter Jett, and that makes the old legend brutally immediate.

Mackie Dailey and other survivors try to settle on a remote campus after the solar-storm apocalypse. Their fragile peace is threatened by personal conflict, hard winter, and the mutant Zapheads still evolving beyond human control.

Held captive in a strange city ruled by mutant Zaps, Rachel refuses to accept life as a prisoner. Escape means rebellion, and rebellion may burn down the only order left in a broken world.

Rachel Wheeler and a highly unusual mutant baby find shelter in a silver city where neither of them belongs. Around them, the shrinking human race is still fighting a war it may already be losing.

Human survivors prepare to strike back at mutants who have taken over abandoned cities. Rachel Wheeler and her small group are caught between the coming war and the growing sense that the world now belongs to something new.

The mutants are no longer just savage, they are developing technology that could finish what the apocalypse started. Rachel and her allies are forced into enemy territory to stop a threat that may change the balance for good.

After a brutal clash with advanced mutants, Rachel Wheeler is left in a contaminated world that has taken almost everything from her. The finale turns survival into a last test of what kind of future is still worth fighting for.

A long-dormant virus released in northern Alaska sparks a worldwide zombie outbreak. Dr. Meg Perriman and a handful of survivors make for refuge, only to find that fear and faith may be just as dangerous as the infected.

As the zombie plague worsens, Meg Perriman and her allies head for the BioGenix lab in hopes of finding a cure. Their road is blocked not just by the infected, but by a rising leader who treats apocalypse like destiny.

In a corporate-run future, agent Max Carmichael hunts a mysterious woman tied to a brain-to-AI experiment. The mission pushes him toward a hard question, whether the peaceful new world he protects is saving humanity or rewriting it.

With zombies still ravaging the world, Rev. Cameron Ingram rises as a global leader and demands loyalty from the desperate. Meg Perriman and a band of survivors decide bringing him down may be as important as outrunning the infected.

William Landrum stays behind to oversee the Wayward Pines project after David Pilcher and the others go into suspended animation. When outsiders threaten the plan, his fight becomes painfully personal, because his daughter is among the sleepers.

Spider has spent years trying to balance bloodlust, redemption, and his love for Parker Cole. The third book brings old trouble back around and forces the vampire antihero into a more personal reckoning.