The Dark Descent Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of The Dark Descent books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: January 2026
Publication Order
Invasion From Mars:Interplanetary Stories
Buy on Amazon1949
Star Science Fiction Stories 3
Buy on Amazon1955
The Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Improbable Stories
Buy on Amazon1956
Alfred Hitchcock Presents 13 More Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV
Buy on Amazon1957
Stories for the Dead of Night
Buy on Amazon1957
The Ghoul Keepers
Buy on Amazon1961
The Bedside Playboy
Buy on Amazon1963
The Seventh Galaxy Reader
Buy on Amazon1964
Alfred Hitchcock's Monster Museum: Twelve Shuddery Stories for Daring Young Readers
Buy on Amazon1965
The Microcosmic God
Buy on Amazon1965
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Scared Even Me
Buy on Amazon1967
Worlds to Come: New Science Fiction Adventures
Buy on Amazon1967
Time Untamed
Buy on Amazon1967
21 Great Stories
Buy on Amazon1969
Nova 1
Buy on Amazon1970
Young Demons
Buy on Amazon1972
Space Suits & Gumshoes
Buy on Amazon1972
The Devil's Generation
Buy on Amazon1973
Galaxy Science Fiction - October 1973
Buy on Amazon1973
Gooseflesh
Buy on Amazon1974
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow...
Buy on Amazon1974
Beyond Midnight
Buy on Amazon1976
Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Buy on Amazon1976
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 22nd Series
Buy on Amazon1976
The Late Great Future
Buy on Amazon1976
The 10th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories
Buy on Amazon1977
Weird Legacies
Buy on Amazon1977
Rod Serling's Other Worlds
Buy on Amazon1978
They Came from Outer Space: 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales That Became Major Motion Pictures
Buy on Amazon1979
The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction / Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century
Buy on Amazon1980
Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror
Buy on Amazon1980
Ghosts That Haunt You
Buy on Amazon1980
Weekend Book of Science Fiction
Buy on Amazon1981
Scaremongers
Buy on Amazon1981
Perspectives in Literature: A Book of Short Stories, Vol. 1
Buy on Amazon1983
13 Horrors of Halloween
Buy on Amazon1983
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories
Buy on Amazon1984
Fourth Planet from the Sun
Buy on Amazon1984
Crime SuspenStories
Buy on Amazon1986
Cutting Edge
Buy on Amazon1986
The Dark Descent
Buy on Amazon1987
Ready or Not: Here Come Fourteen Frightening Stories!
Buy on Amazon1987
Mysterious Sea Stories
Buy on Amazon1987
Volume I: The Color of Evil
Buy on Amazon1987
The Monster Book of Monsters
Buy on Amazon1988
Science Fiction Stories
Buy on Amazon1988
Weird Science
Buy on Amazon1989
Tales of the Occult
Buy on Amazon1989
Great Baseball Stories
Buy on Amazon1990
The Horror Hall of Fame
Buy on Amazon1991
Christmas Stars
Buy on Amazon1992
The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces
Buy on Amazon1992
Monsters in Our Midst
Buy on Amazon1993
The Ultimate Witch
Buy on Amazon1993
Sea-Cursed
Buy on Amazon1994
Space Movies
Buy on Amazon1995
Night Screams
Buy on Amazon1996
Dark Terrors 3
Buy on Amazon1997
Time Machines
Buy on Amazon1997
The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings
Buy on Amazon1998
A Magic-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic
Buy on Amazon1998
Eleventh Annual Collection
Buy on Amazon1998
The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology
Buy on Amazon1999
October Dreams
Buy on Amazon2000
The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature
Buy on Amazon2002
Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters
Buy on Amazon2002
Writing Los Angeles
Buy on Amazon2002
Murder On The Railways
Buy on Amazon2003
Dark Delicacies
Buy on Amazon2005
A Tangled Web
Buy on Amazon2005
Nightmares on Congress Street, Part V
Buy on Amazon2006
Masques V
Buy on Amazon2006
Selected Shorts
Buy on Amazon2008
The Best of Cemetery Dance II
Buy on Amazon2008
Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead
Buy on Amazon2009
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction
Buy on Amazon2010
Wally Wood’s EC Stories: Artist's Edition
Buy on Amazon2011
Like Water for Quarks
Buy on Amazon2011
Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury
Buy on Amazon2012
A Carnivàle of Horror
Buy on Amazon2012
Psychos
Buy on Amazon2012
Other Worlds
Buy on Amazon2013
The Time Traveler's Almanac
Buy on Amazon2013
Fantastic Stories Presents
Buy on Amazon2014
Parallàxis: A twist in the mind
Buy on Amazon2014
Field of Fantasies
Buy on Amazon2014
October Dreams II
Buy on Amazon2015
Science Fiction Gems, Volume Ten, Robert Sheckley and Others
Buy on Amazon2015
Darker Terrors 7
Buy on Amazon2016
The 12th Science Fiction MEGAPACK®
Buy on Amazon2016
Grave Predictions
Buy on Amazon2016
Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore
Buy on Amazon2017
Lost Mars
Buy on Amazon2018
The Science Fiction Collection #1
Buy on Amazon2018
Flight or Fright
Buy on Amazon2018
Science Fiction Gems, Volume 15, Milton Lessor and Others
Buy on Amazon2018
99 Classic Science-Fiction Short Stories
Buy on Amazon2019
The Science Fiction Collection
Buy on Amazon2019
One Hundred
Buy on Amazon2020
Planet Stories Super Pack #2
Buy on Amazon2020
Frequently Asked Questions
The recommended reading order for the The Dark Descent series is publication order: 1. Invasion From Mars:Interplanetary Stories (1949), 2. Star Science Fiction Stories 3 (1955), 3. The Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Improbable Stories (1956), 4. Alfred Hitchcock Presents 13 More Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV (1957), 5. Stories for the Dead of Night (1957), and 95 more. This is generally the best way to experience the story as the author intended.
The The Dark Descent series by Ray Bradbury contains 100 books. The series began in 1949 and continues to be a popular choice for readers.
The The Dark Descent series is written by Ray Bradbury. You can find more books and series by this author on our website.
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