Halloween Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Halloween books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: January 2026
Publication Order
Halloween (By: Curtis Richards)
Buy on Amazon1979
Halloween II (By: Jack Martin)
Buy on Amazon1981
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (By: Jack Martin)
Buy on Amazon1982
Halloween IV (By: Nicholas Grabowsky)
Buy on Amazon1988
Halloween: The Official Movie Novelization (By: John Passarella)
Buy on Amazon2018
Halloween Kills
Buy on Amazon2021
Halloween IV: The Ultimate Authorized (By: Nicholas Grabowsky)
Buy on Amazon2022
Halloween Ends (By: Paul Brad Logan)
Buy on Amazon2022
100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories
Buy on Amazon1995
100 Wicked Little Witch Stories
Buy on Amazon1995
Blood Muse
Buy on Amazon1995
Horrors!: 365 Scary Stories
Buy on Amazon1998
Between the Darkness and the Fire
Buy on Amazon1998
Prom Night
Buy on Amazon1999
Civil War Fantastic
Buy on Amazon2000
Vivisections
Buy on Amazon2003
The Transformers Legends
Buy on Amazon2004
Cemetery Dance: Issue 52
Buy on Amazon2005
Brimstone Turnpike
Buy on Amazon2008
Bits of the Dead
Buy on Amazon2008
The Best of Cemetery Dance II
Buy on Amazon2008
Best New Zombie Tales Vol. 2
Buy on Amazon2010
Love and Rockets
Buy on Amazon2010
Best New Vampire Tales, Vol. 1
Buy on Amazon2011
Extreme Zombies
Buy on Amazon2012
Appalachian Undead
Buy on Amazon2012
Fear the Abyss
Buy on Amazon2012
Vampires Don't Sparkle!
Buy on Amazon2013
Bleed
Buy on Amazon2013
Piercing the Darkness
Buy on Amazon2014
Horror 101: The Way Forward
Buy on Amazon2014
Equilibrium Overturned: A Volume of Apocalyptic Horrors
Buy on Amazon2014
Dark Discoveries - Issue #28
Buy on Amazon2014
Dead Harvest
Buy on Amazon2014
Not Our Kind: Tales ofBelonging
Buy on Amazon2015
Aghast Vol. 1: A Journal of the Darkly Fantastic
Buy on Amazon2015
Flesh Like Smoke
Buy on Amazon2015
The Beauty of Death
Buy on Amazon2016
Scary Out There
Buy on Amazon2016
Never Fear - The Tarot
Buy on Amazon2016
Never Fear - The Apocalypse
Buy on Amazon2017
Occult Detective Quarterly #2
Buy on Amazon2017
Year's Best Hardcore Horror, Volume 2
Buy on Amazon2017
LampLight Volume 4
Buy on Amazon2017
Red Room Issue 1
Buy on Amazon2017
C.H.U.D. Lives!
Buy on Amazon2018
Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volume 3
Buy on Amazon2018
Fantastic Tales of Terror
Buy on Amazon2018
Ashes and Entropy
Buy on Amazon2018
Tales From the Old Black Ambulance
Buy on Amazon2019
Shallow Waters Vol.1: A Flash Fiction Anthology
Buy on Amazon2019
PREHISTORIC
Buy on Amazon2019
The Pulp Horror Book of Phobias
Buy on Amazon2019
Tales of the Lost, Volume 1
Buy on Amazon2019
The Horror Writer: A Study of Craft and Identity in the Horror Genre
Buy on Amazon2020
Anathemas
Buy on Amazon2020
Year's Best Hardcore Horror, Volume 5
Buy on Amazon2020
Campfire Macabre
Buy on Amazon2020
Turning the Tied
Buy on Amazon2021
Under Twin Suns
Buy on Amazon2021
99 Tiny Terrors
Buy on Amazon2021
Voices in the Dark
Buy on Amazon2022
Writing Poetry in the Dark
Buy on Amazon2022
Kolchak: The Night Stalker 50th Anniversary
Buy on Amazon2022
Unioverse: Stories of the Reconvergence
Buy on Amazon2023
The Horror Zine's Book of Monster Stories
Buy on Amazon2024
CHM #45 March 2024
Buy on Amazon2024
Playlist of the Damned
Buy on Amazon2024
Heartwood
Buy on Amazon2024
You're Not Alone in the Dark
Buy on Amazon2024
All Roads Lead to Hell
Buy on Amazon2025
Chthonic Matter Quarterly: Summer 2025
Buy on Amazon2025
Frequently Asked Questions
The recommended reading order for the Halloween series is publication order: 1. Halloween (By: Curtis Richards) (1979), 2. Halloween II (By: Jack Martin) (1981), 3. Halloween III: Season of the Witch (By: Jack Martin) (1982), 4. Halloween IV (By: Nicholas Grabowsky) (1988), 5. Halloween: The Official Movie Novelization (By: John Passarella) (2018), and 67 more. This is generally the best way to experience the story as the author intended.
The Halloween series by Tim Waggoner contains 72 books. The series began in 1979 and continues to be a popular choice for readers.
The Halloween series is written by Tim Waggoner. You can find more books and series by this author on our website.
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