Paul Kane

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  • Bibliography:
    53 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 2005
  • Latest Book:
    August 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Black Shuck Shadows

1 - The Spirits of Christmas (Nov-2016)

The Gemini Trilogy

1 - The Gemini Factor (May-2012)
2 - The Gemini Effect (Aug-2023)

Harvester

1 - The Controllers (Mar-2019)

Multi-Author Series List

The Afterblight Chronicles

5 - Arrowhead (Sep-2008)
8 - Broken Arrow (Feb-2010)
9 - Arrowland (Oct-2010)

Book List in Order: 53 titles

  • Funnybones

    Paul Kane - author of Alone (in the Dark) and Touching the Flame - has returned, not to terrify this time, but to tickle the funnybone. Inside this book you'll find a collection of his most outrageous humorous horror, with stories ranging from "Dracu...

  • Arrowhead

    The Afterblight Chronicles - 5

    As the world dies screaming a legend is reborn! In the years following The Cull England has reverted back to the Middle Ages, ripe for invasion by the Frenchman De Falaise and his group of mercenaries. They enter through the Channel Tunnel and work t...

  • Peripheral Visions

    This latest collection of horror from Britain's Paul Kane has been eagerly anticipated by his fans, and coincides with the release of his novel "The Afterblight Chronicles: Arrowhead" in Oct/Nov 2008. Mr Kane's work has been praised by everyone from ...

  • Broken Arrow

    The Afterblight Chronicles - 8

    A year has passed since the Hooded Man took back Nottingham Castle from the crazed Sheriff, De Falaise. The citizens of Nottingham have settled back into an uneasy peace, but a new threat is emerging. From Russia a covetous and psychotic general eyes...

  • Arrowland

    The Afterblight Chronicles - 9

    The third and final book in a post-apocalypse trilogy drawing on the legends of Robin Hood. In the years since the Hooded Man emerged from the forest to defeat the new Sheriff of Nottingham, his reputation has spread. Now a new threat has risen a...

  • The Adventures Of Dalton Quayle

    Re-join famous detectives, adventurers and general rum-goings-on putter-stopperers Dalton Quayle and his sidekick Dr. Humphrey Pemberton as they embark on some of their best, and most loved, investigations from the past decade. Thrill as they face gi...

  • Pain Cages

    PAIN CAGES

    ...the blindfold slips a fraction.
    I can see a little through my right eye; there isn't a lot of light, but I see metal bars in front of me, all around me. A glimpse of the cages on either side: a man, no more than forty, cowering...

  • The Gemini Factor

    The Gemini Trilogy - 1

    IT'S A MIRACLE, PURE AND SIMPLE. THE MIRACLE OF TWIN BIRTH.But in the city of Norchester, being a twin also marks you out as a victim. Because someone is killing them and stealing their body parts. It's up to Inspector Roy Mason and his Sergeant, Deb...

  • The Mammoth Book of Body Horror

    A collection of truly gripping stories, with contributions from leading horror writers dedicated to the popular contemporary sub-genre of "body horror," which revolves around disease and mutation, whether self-inflicted or otherwise....



  • Lunar

    It should have been the perfect evening. But for blue collar delivery man Nick Skinner, the romantic time he spent with the love of his life, Dawn, has just turned into his worst nightmare. Waking suddenly, he’s attacked by something feral in his r...

  • Hooded Man

    AFTER THE WORLD DIED, THE LEGEND WAS REBORN. When civilisation shuddered and died, Robert Stokes lost everything, including his wife and his son. The ex-cop retreated into the woods near Nottingham, to live off the land and wait to join his family. A...

  • The Spaces Between

    The Spaces Between gathers together all the longer stories and novelettes from award-winning and bestselling genre favourite Paul Kane (Lunar, The Butterfly Man and Other Stories, The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy), including one from his post-ap...

  • Beyond Rue Morgue Anthology

    An anthology of stories based around the very first mystery detective, Le Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin, created by Edgar Allan Poe. Dupin famously featured in 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' (1841), then went on to star in two more investigations, ...

  • Ghosts

    They are all around us all the time. But only a few make contact, and only certain people are destined to see the Ghosts. Here, you'll read a lonely shade's tale... a deceased old man's house being invaded... how one person discovers the true meaning...

  • The Rainbow Man

    "SOMETHING FIENDISH THIS WAY COMES...
    The Rainbow Man is a creeper that winds its black tendrils around you...and squeezes. Expect to be turning pages behind the couch...by flashlight. I couldn't put it down until the sun came up!"
    -- Nan...

  • Sleeper(s)

    An entire city falls asleep…

    …and when Doctor Andrew Strauss and the army move in to investigate, the sleepers stand up to defend a single woman as a cohesive group, and mind. As Strauss’ covert past and foretold future clash, the twi...

  • The Curse of the Wolf

    Trace the history of ‘The Curse of the Wolf’, back through the ages, from modern times to the dawn of the original werewolf. A hair-raising tale in more ways than one! The second in a series of six novelettes reviving the golden age of the monste...

  • Flaming Arrow

    More than a decade after claiming Nottingham Castle and founding his Rangers, Rob Stokes " the Hooded Man " has seen off Britain’s would-be conquerors, thrown his support behind the newly-restored Crown, and extended his peacekeeping force onto...

  • Monsters

    Here are the monstrously inhuman and those all too human, traditional monsters, zombies and demons. There is no need to travel to the end of the world, enter the forest or look under your bed for the monsters. Instead, read these stories....



  • Blood Red

    RED

    Evil takes on many forms. This is something Rachael Daniels, a lowly care worker, is about to find out . . . personally. Because something is roaming the streets of the city where she lives, something with a taste for human blood: swee...

  • Snow

    In the frozen wilderness, Angela is running: away from the man who’s trying to kill her; away from a lonely upbringing; and away from terrible family secrets… When she discovers something else hidden from prying eyes " horrors unthinkable, inco...

  • The PI's Tale

    A Private Investigator, a beautiful 'dame' and a missing boy. But Mickey's having trouble figuring out what's real and what's not as he tries to get to grips with the people and places of Refuge. A noir tale from the Refuge Collection written by Paul...

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell

    Sherlock Holmes faces his greatest challenge yet when he meets the Cenobites, the infamous servants of hell. Late 1895, and Sherlock Holmes and his faithful companion Dr John Watson are called upon to investigate a missing persons case. On the fac...

  • The End of the End

    When the world ended, we tried to rebuild. For years after the Cull, we strove -- we fought the slavers and exploiters, we stamped out the crazies, we broke the soil again and farmed like our ancestors. Could it ever be enough? History has broken,...

  • The Rot

    Something has happened to the world. People are going mad, the very foundations of society are crumbling... Only Adam Keller, testing a prototype environment suit, apparently remains safe " but for how long? Can anything be done, can any of it b...

  • The Spirits of Christmas

    Black Shuck Shadows - 1

    Black Shuck Shadows presents a collectable series of micro-collections, intended as a sampler to introduce readers to the best in classic and modern horror. In The Spirits of Christmas, Kane presents three stories of Christmas ghosts....

  • Shadow Casting

    One man’s dangerous addiction leads to a glimpse of another world, while another seeks total mastery over his own bodily functions. As two immortal godlike creatures in charge of balancing all of existence come to a crossroads with their relatio...

  • Nailbiters

    A man seeks revenge for his dead wife’s murder, while another finds himself being tortured for information he doesn’t have. One woman’s job at a check-out is starting to take its toll, while another imagines all kinds of horrors during a blacko...

  • Disexistence

    memory of how he got there, while another man’s terror of the written word has serious ramifications . . . A very special multi-coloured coat has the power to beguile young children, but a secret box that seems to contain the answer to every questi...



  • Death

    One man seeks desperately to understand what lies beyond, by searching for a particular face " while another returns to fight crime in his old city. Someone at the end of their tether contemplates the many ways in which to end it all, even as so...

  • Before

    In 1970s Germany, a mental patient at the end of his life suddenly speaks for the first time in years. Shortly afterward in Vietnam, a mission to rescue a group of American POWs results in a military disaster.In present day England, college professor...

  • The Life Cycle

    Black Shuck Shadows presents a collectable series of micro-collections, intended as a sampler to introduce readers to the best in classic and modern horror.In The Life Cycle, Kane offers four connected stories of werewolves....

  • Kane's Scary Tales Vol. 1

    Once upon a time... A young woman runs through a snowy wasteland, fearing for her life, only to find help from an unexpected source... A whole town falls asleep, resulting in a joint US/UK military and scientific expedition to find out what happened....

  • Deep RED

    In a nightmare future, where the wolves have taken over, a lone messenger negotiates the dangerous landscape of this new world. The human beings that are left have been driven underground, deep under the earth where they survive in small groups fi...

  • Arcana

    "Arcana is a hugely entertaining read, a real rollercoaster ride of ups and downs that keep the pages turning until the very end, and another work of high quality from this prolific author.” -- Starburst MagazineIn an alternate world where real mag...

  • The Dead

    A series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction.From Black Shuck Books and Paul Kane comes The Dead, the tenth in the Black Shuck SHADOWS series....

  • The Controllers

    Harvester - 1

    One man’s ability to travel in the astral realm leads to a terrifying discovery: powerful beings who manipulate lives and events for their own mysterious ends. It’s his, and our, first encounter with The Controllers, but far from the last. Aft...

  • Exit Wounds

    A brand-new anthology of crime stories written by masters of the genre, including Jeffrey Deaver, Elly Griffiths and Joe R. Landsdale.Featuring both original in-universe stories and rarely-seen reprints, this collection of nineteen masterful short st...

  • Blood Red Sky

    The world has changed. Ever since the night that sky, the blood red sky, appeared, and the adults were wiped out by what some of those who remain call the Trolls. Huge, hulking beasts that hunt the young survivors. One such group have tried to make a...



  • The Colour of Madness

    Paul Kane's The Colour of Madness is a collection and movie tie- in from one of the masters of modern horror, featuring a host of extras: script extracts, behind the scenes pictures, plus "Men of the Cloth", the original novelette which inspired t...

  • Signs Of Life

    How much do the stars tell you about who you are, and about your future?For a group of strangers, the stars will warn them about what this day has in store. The day when their world will turn upside down. No matter who they are - a serial killer, or ...

  • The Lazarus Condition

    Matthew Daley is an enigma. He's appeared after seven years – eager to pick up the threads of his life, and make contact once more with his loved ones, which is something that's not so easy to do when everyone knows that's he's dead....

  • Traumas

    A man suffering from extreme grief finds that pieces of himself are going missing, while another attempts to cheat death in a very unusual and dangerous way...One woman gets more than she bargained for during her pregnancy, while another is the targe...

  • The Red Lord

    A new threat arrives on these shores at the Sheriff of Nottingham's behest, in an effort to rid him of his greatest enemy once and for all - a mercenary from the east with strange powers, building an army who will give their lives unquestionably for ...

  • Darkness and Shadows

    Are you afraid of the dark? Lee Masterton certainly is. A young man on an ordinary housing estate, who reluctantly takes a job as a nightwatchman only to find himself in the middle of a supernatural struggle...While at the same time reporter Stephen ...

  • The Naked Eye

    A winter's day, and something terrifyingly dangerous is waiting out there in the snow, while at the same time an even more dangerous curse is spoken... In a possible future a monster uprising is in full flow, but a couple have their own problems to d...

  • The Storm

    It started off like any other day, but for the tourists, staff and workmen at Willerton Castle it will end in terror. Because a storm is coming, a storm like nothing anyone has ever seen. A storm that will herald an attack by creatures this world has...

  • Tempting Fate

    Who is following people on Halloween night, and what lies within a mysterious box full of secrets?What's coming through during a dangerous séance, why is it a bad idea to attend a certain school reunion and who is the world's greatest assassin...

  • Zombies!

    A group of teenage friends think it's a good idea to hang around in a graveyard, while a young thief gets more than he bargained for when he breaks into a local property. We're given a first-hand account of struggles in the aftermath of a post-apocal...



  • The Gemini Effect

    The Gemini Trilogy - 2

    Years ago, a killer called The Gemini stalked the streets of Norchester, hunting twins. Deborah Harrison thought the nightmare was over, that they'd stopped him, but it appears the nightmare was only just beginning. Because somehow The Gemini is back...

  • Even More Monsters

    Paul shares Clive's understanding of the plight of the 'hidden monsters' that resided in Midian but moves them into the World Above.-Anne Bobby from her introductionWe witness the beginnings of a parasitic alien invasion, whilst at the same time a pr...

  • In These Hallowed Halls

    ENROLLMENT BEGINS NOWA beguiling, sinister collection of 12 dark academia short stories from masters of the genre, including Olivie Blake, M.L. Rio, Susie Yang and more!In these stories, dear student, retribution visits a lothario lecturer; the sinis...

  • Folk Horror Short Stories

    From the award-winning anthologists, a beautiful new book of short stories, designed as a perfect gift for readers of the supernatural, and a lifetime of reading pleasure.A new anthology of Folk Horror stories, covering a wide range of mythologies an...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Paul Kane has published 53 books.

The next book by Paul Kane, Folk Horror Short Stories, will be published in August 2024.

The first book by Paul Kane, Funnybones, was published in February 2005.

Yes. Paul Kane has 3 series.
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