Stephen Laws Books in Order
Stephen Laws has written 14 books, published between 1985 and 2012. The first book is Ghost Train (1985) and the newest is Somewhere South Of Midnight (2012). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 14
- Published
- 1985–2012
- Pages on record
- 3,686 in 10 of 14 books
- Reading time
- 61–92 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,686 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 10 of 14 titles with a page count on record.
Stephen Laws, born July 13, 1952, is an English writer of horror and dark fantasy novels and short stories. Laws lives in Newcastle upon Tyne, the city of birth, and often uses local settings. The short story The Song My Sister Sang won the British Fantasy Award for short fiction in 1999, and Laws judged the World Fantasy Awards in 2013. The catalogue lists 14 books from Ghost Train (1985) to Somewhere South Of Midnight (2012), including The Wyrm (1987) and Darkfall (1992).
How many Stephen Laws books are there?
Stephen Laws has 14 books, released between 1985 and 2012.
Stephen Laws Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 14 Stephen Laws 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.
- 1Ghost Train1985 · 306 pages · confirmed 1/419853061/4
- 2Spectre1987 · confirmed 1/41987–1/4
- 3The Wyrm1987 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/419873041/4
- 4The Frighteners1990 · confirmed 1/41990–1/4
- 5Darkfall1992 · confirmed 1/41992–1/4
- 6Gideon1993 · 437 pages · confirmed 1/419934371/4
- 7Annabelle Says1995 · confirmed 1/41995–1/4
- 8Daemonic1995 · 448 pages · confirmed 1/419954481/4
- 9Macabre1995 · 439 pages · confirmed 1/419954391/4
- 10The Song My Sister Sang1998 · 180 pages · confirmed 1/419981801/4
- 11Chasm1998 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/419983041/4
- 12Fear Me2005 · 435 pages · confirmed 1/420054351/4
- 13Ferocity2007 · 337 pages · confirmed 1/420073371/4
- 14Somewhere South Of Midnight2012 · 496 pages · confirmed 1/420124961/4
Stephen Laws 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.
Standalone books
14 books14 Stephen Laws titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Stephen Laws books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 14 Stephen Laws books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Stephen Laws
Start with Ghost Train (1985), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Stephen Laws book?
Somewhere South Of Midnight (2012) is the newest Stephen Laws book released so far.
Is there a new Stephen Laws book coming?
No next Stephen Laws book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Stephen Laws at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest Stephen Laws title on record dates from 2012, 14 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- Stephen Laws books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 3,686 pages across the 10 of 14 books with a recorded length, a median of 386 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Stephen Laws books, 8 of 14, were published in the 1990s.
What the Stephen Laws books are about
8 of the 14 Stephen Laws books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: horror is tagged on 3 of 8. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Horror 3 of 8 books