Darcy Coates Books in Order
Darcy Coates has written 36 books, published between 2013 and 2025. The first book is Once Returned (2013) and the newest is How Bad Things Can Get (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 36
- Published
- 2013–2025
- Confirmed
- 34 of 36 titles
- Pages on record
- 7,012 in 22 of 36 books
- Reading time
- 117–175 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 7,012 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 22 of 36 titles with a page count on record.
Darcy Coates is an Australian novelist of horror, gothic horror, thriller and suspense. The catalogue lists 36 Coates books, from Once Returned (2013) to How Bad Things Can Get (2025). The Haunting of Blackwood House, Dead Lake and Quarter to Midnight all date from 2015. Series include Gravekeeper, Black Winter, Ghosts and Shadows and Cymic Parasite Breach, next to standalone novels and short fiction.
How many Darcy Coates books are there?
Darcy Coates has 36 books, released between 2013 and 2025. They include 4 series and 1 title listed outside any series.
Darcy Coates Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 36 Darcy Coates books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 12013–3/4
- 220141284/4
- 320152924/4
- 42015–3/4
- 520151984/4
- 620151564/4
- 720153564/4
- 82015–4/4
- 920164083/4
- 1020162444/4
- 1120163644/4
- 1220163424/4
- 13Parasite2016 · 432 pages · confirmed 1/420164321/4
- 1420172484/4
- 1520172804/4
- 1620172964/4
- 1720172984/4
- 1820183704/4
- 1920184084/4
- 202020–4/4
- 212020–4/4
- 2220204804/4
- 2320204004/4
- 2420212724/4
- 2520212724/4
- 262022–4/4
- 272022–4/4
- 282022–4/4
- 292023–4/4
- 302023–3/4
- 3120233524/4
- 322023–4/4
- 332024–4/4
- 342024–1/4
- 352025–4/4
- 3620254163/4
Darcy Coates books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Darcy Coates Standalone Novels
17 books17 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Darcy Coates Short Stories/Novellas
5 books5 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Gravekeeper in order
5 booksBlack Winter in order
4 booksGhosts and Shadows in order
2 booksCymic Parasite Breach in order
1 book- 1. Station 331
Darcy Coates Short Story
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Standalone books
1 book1 Darcy Coates title here is not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Darcy Coates books in order?
You only need to read Darcy Coates books in order within each series: the books listed here span 4 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Darcy Coates
Start with Once Returned (2013), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Darcy Coates book?
How Bad Things Can Get (2025) is the newest Darcy Coates book released so far.
Is there a new Darcy Coates book coming?
No next Darcy Coates book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Darcy Coates at a glance
- Still publishing
- Darcy Coates published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Darcy Coates books have appeared more than one a year on average.
- Length
- 7,012 pages across the 22 of 36 books with a recorded length, a median of 320 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Darcy Coates books, 19 of 36, were published in the 2010s.
- Corroboration
- 29 of the 36 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and 34 in at least three.
What the Darcy Coates books are about
16 of the 36 Darcy Coates books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: english literature is tagged on 14 of 16. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- English literature 14 of 16 books
- Adult 2 of 16 books
- Crime 2 of 16 books
- Horror 2 of 16 books
- Mystery & detective 2 of 16 books
- Mystery Thriller 2 of 16 books
- Suspense 2 of 16 books
- Thrillers 2 of 16 books