Stephen R Donaldson Books in Order

Young novelist Thomas Covenant, newly diagnosed with leprosy and shunned by his community, is knocked unconscious and wakes in the Land, where disease no longer touches him. Called the Unbeliever, he is asked to oppose Lord Foul with the wild magic of his white‑gold ring, a role he refuses to accept.

Summoned back to the Land forty years after his first visit, Covenant finds Lord Foul raising a vast army led by corrupted Giants. While strategist Hile Troy leads the Lords into a desperate war, Covenant and High Lord Elena seek ancient power that may win victory or break the Law of Death itself.

Years later, Covenant returns to a Land locked in unending winter and besieged by Lord Foul’s forces. With Saltheart Foamfollower and a dwindling band of allies, he journeys toward Foul’s stronghold to decide at last whether he will wield the wild magic fully, whatever the cost.

In this dark fantasy novelette, village smith Mardik becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman dressed in white who lives alone in the woods. After she leaves his brother blind and bewitched, Mardik’s desire for vengeance twists into a dangerous longing that threatens to consume them both.

Once a capable private eye, Mick Brew Axbrewder drinks to forget the night he accidentally shot his own brother. When his thirteen‑year‑old niece disappears and the police dismiss her as a runaway, Brew and partner Ginny Fistoulari uncover a pattern of vanished girls and a predator who treats them as disposable.

Haunted by guilt and struggling to stay dry, Brew Axbrewder helps Ginny Fistoulari guard Reg Haskell, a charming bank executive who claims a crime boss wants him dead. As lies pile up and bodies fall, Brew realizes protecting their mendacious client may cost Ginny her life.

Summoned to the Land thousands of years after his earlier visits, Thomas Covenant finds it scarred by the Sunbane’s shifting plagues. With doctor Linden Avery at his side, he confronts the cruel rule of the Clave and begins a new quest to discover what has poisoned the world he once saved.

This extended tale follows Korik of the Bloodguard and his mission to seek aid from the Giants of Seareach during the events of The Illearth War. Marching through haunted forests and ancient dangers, the Bloodguard must confront both ur‑viles and their own unyielding Vow.

Aboard the Giantship Starfare’s Gem, Covenant, Linden and their companions sail strange seas in search of the One Tree, whose wood can form a new Staff of Law. Their journey through exotic lands and among the enigmatic Elohim tests loyalties and deepens the mystery of the Sunbane’s origin.

Returning from their sea voyage in search of the One Tree, Thomas Covenant and Linden Avery find the Land ravaged by the Sunbane and ruled by the blood‑hungry Clave. With a new Staff of Law and Covenant’s wild magic, they march toward Revelstone and Mount Thunder for a final confrontation with Lord Foul.

This collection gathers eight fantasy stories, from the novella Daughter of Regals, about a young queen who must awaken her inherited magic to hold three kingdoms together, to the Bloodguard episode Gilden‑Fire and other tales of angels, unicorns, tyrants and ordinary people caught up in the uncanny.

Terisa Morgan, numb and uncertain she even exists, lives alone in Manhattan surrounded by mirrors. When apprentice Imager Geraden crashes through one and begs her to save his besieged kingdom of Mordant, she finds herself in a castle of political traps where every mirror is a doorway and nothing is what it seems.

In the conclusion to Mordant’s Need, Terisa Morgan and Geraden are branded traitors and driven from the castle of Orison. As enemy armies close in and mirror‑magic spirals out of control, they must uncover the truth behind King Joyse’s seeming madness and claim their own power.

On a rough mining station, infamous pirate Angus Thermopyle walks into Mallory’s Bar with beautiful UMCP officer Morn Hyland on his arm, inviting challenge from rival captain Nick Succorso. Their clash reveals how stories of villain, victim and hero can all be lies.

Still weak from a recent shooting, Brew Axbrewder joins partner Ginny Fistoulari as security at a murder‑mystery camp in a snowbound lodge. When guests start dying for real, the pair must unmask a professional killer while trapped with a dozen nervous would‑be detectives.

Escaping Angus should free Morn Hyland, but life aboard Nick Succorso’s sleek pirate ship proves just as dangerous. Between the seductive captain, the secret of her brain implant and a bargain with the Amnion, she learns that knowledge can be as deadly as any weapon.

Rebuilt as a controlled cyborg, Angus Thermopyle is sent to the illegal station Billingate, where the Amnion trade in mutagens and Morn Hyland’s stolen child has been delivered. Power shifts with every betrayal as pirates, company agents and aliens converge there.

After the outlaw shipyard at Billingate explodes, the starship Trumpet flees with a volatile mix of pirates, cops, cyborgs and a force‑grown teenager aboard. While Morn Hyland struggles to protect her son, corporate wars and alien threats close in from every side.

As the crippled starship Trumpet drifts with an Amnion mutagen loose aboard, Morn Hyland, Angus Thermopyle and their uneasy allies gamble on hijacking a pursuing UMCP cruiser and taking the fight back to Earth, even if their rebellion destroys them.

Spanning fourteen years of work, this volume offers eight dark fables and novellas. The title story follows a mysterious wanderer who exposes a corrupt kingdom, while other pieces feature dueling magicians, cursed lovers, a weary vampire and characters pushed to moral extremes in strange, vividly realized worlds.

Recovering from a gunshot wound and barely staying sober, Mick Brew Axbrewder takes a security job at a sprawling martial‑arts tournament in a Sunbelt city. As rivalries among fighters and promoters turn lethal, Brew has to solve the case while fighting for his own self‑respect.

Ten years after Covenant’s death, Linden Avery runs a small clinic and raises her adopted son Jeremiah. When Roger Covenant kidnaps Jeremiah and Covenant’s tormented ex‑wife Joan, Linden is hurled back to a Land smothered by Kevin’s Dirt, where she must reclaim the Staff of Law and face Lord Foul anew.

Believing she has found Thomas Covenant and Jeremiah alive, Linden Avery is swept ten thousand years into the Land’s past. There she walks among mythic figures, learns unsettling truths about Earthblood and Law, and risks choices that may doom both present and future.

Resurrected from millennia as Timewarden, Thomas Covenant is once more a leper, and the wild magic has awakened the Worm that can unmake reality. Linden Avery must rescue her imprisoned son Jeremiah, confront Joan’s madness and somehow keep the Arch of Time from collapsing.

Selected from across his career, this collection brings together eleven of Stephen R. Donaldson’s strongest shorter works. Ranging from futuristic nightmares to high fantasy and psychological horror, the stories explore power, responsibility and the stubborn resilience of flawed people.

In the climax of the Thomas Covenant saga, the Worm of the World’s End is devouring creation while Lord Foul seeks final escape. Covenant, Linden Avery and Jeremiah struggle to wield wild magic, Staff of Law and hard‑won friendship to preserve the Land and the very fabric of time.

Two standalone novellas share this volume. In the title story The King’s Justice a stranger called Black follows the trail of a ritual murder into a village hiding an ancient evil, while The Augur’s Gambit has court seer Mayhew Gordian risking everything to save his island kingdom from doom he alone foresees.

For generations Belleger and Amika have waged sorcerous war with six lethal Decimates. When a mysterious seventh Decimate suddenly wipes out Belleger’s magic, Prince Bifalt must cross wastelands and hostile realms in search of a legendary library that may hold the spell to save his people.

Twenty years after discovering the Last Repository, King Bifalt of Belleger and Queen Estie of Amika rule in an uneasy peace. Raids, court intrigues and a rising one‑god faith threaten to shatter their alliance just as an ancient enemy discovers where the Repository lies.

Set in the world of The Great God’s War, this volume centers on the fabled Last Repository, a secret library whose hoarded lore can tip the balance between kingdoms. As enemies close in, its Magisters and uneasy allies must decide how much they will risk to defend knowledge itself.

Black ships and fanatical priests of the Great God finally descend on Belleger and Amika, testing every cannon on the Bay of Lights and marching toward the hidden Last Repository. Bifalt and Estie must hold a fragile alliance together or lose their world’s memory.