Robert R. McCammon

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  • Bibliography:
    51 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1979
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
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About the Author

Robert R. McCammon is the author of ten acclaimed horror novels including Baal, They Thirst and Stinger. He was joint winner of the first Bram Stoker Award of the Horror Writers of America in the novel category, sharing the honours with Stephen King. Many of his short stories have been adapted for television's Darkroom and Twilight Zone series. He lives in America's Deep South.

Full Series List in Order

Speaks the Nightbird

1 - Judgment of the Witch (Sep-2002)
2 - Evil Unveiled (Oct-2003)
3 - The Queen of Bedlam (Nov-2007)

Book List in Order: 51 titles

  • Baal

    FROM THE SEETHING CAULDRON OF THE MIDDLE EAST, HIS FOLLOWERS BURST FORTH IN UNHOLY FURY... He is the foul seed-of evil, the dark prophet who sees what is--and creates what will always be. Across the earth, he spreads his fiendish blasphemy, unleas...

  • They Thirst

    First published in 1981, They Thirst was Robert McCammon’s fourth novel, and it remains one of the major milestones of an ambitious, constantly evolving career. Like its predecessors -- Baal, Bethany’s Sin, and The Night Boat -- They Thirst made ...

  • Mystery Walk

    As Billy Creekmore and Wayne Falconer, two young men with remarkable psychic gifts, learn to use their powers, they and their world are threatened by the machinations of their elusive, nightmarish enemy, the Shape Changer. Reissue....

  • Bethany's Sin

    Bookseller: biblioboy US (US) Bookseller Inventory #: 90238 Title: Bethany's Sin Author: Robert R. McCammon Format/binding:Paperback Book condition: Used - Fine Quantity available: 1 Edition: 1st edition Binding: Paperback ISBN 10:0380477122 ISBN 13:...

  • The Night Boat

    The Night Boat, Robert McCammon's third published novel, first appeared as a paperback original in 1980. Following on the heels of Baal and Bethany's Sin, it offered further proof that a writer of great narrative power and limitless potential--a writ...

  • Swan Song

    AN EPIC JOURNEY OF TERROR ACROSS A LAND SEETHING WITH UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS. AMERICA!-HAUNTED BY AN EVIL WHOSE TIME HAS FINALLY COME. An ancient evil roams the blasted, nightmare country, an evil as old as time. He is the Man with the Scarlet Eye, t...

  • Night Calls the Green Falcon

    in Silver Scream

    Welcome to the midnight matinee, the great cinematic festival of horror. From the broken down picture palaces to glorious neon drive-ins, from the has-been stars of yesterday to the ambitious, rapacious would-be stars of tomorrow, from the tinsel ...

  • Stinger

    Robert R. McCammon, one of the supreme masters of horror, takes us into a mind-bending landscape bursting with the most savage terrors imaginable. STINGER...an enemy more fearsome, more hideous than the most heart-stopping nightmares. STINGER...who r...

  • The Wolf's Hour

    D-DAY IS THREATENED. BUT ONE MAN COULD RIP THE HEART OUT OF THE NAZIS -- WITH HIS BARE CLAWS… He is Michael Gallatin, a master spy, lover -- and werewolf. Able to change shape with lightning speed, to kill silently or with savage, snarling fury,...



  • Blue World

    NEVER TURN YOUR BACK ON EVIL.... In a church on the edge of San Francisco's red-light district, a beautiful porn star weeps for her murdered friend. That night, an innocent young priest rises from his bed, lured into a dizzying realm of lust and v...

  • Mine

    OBSESSION... Laura Clayborne is a successful journalist with a successful stockbroker husband. But her marriage is foundering and her biological clock is winding down. David, her newborn son, is the only light in her life. Mary Terrell, alias ...

  • The Miracle Mile

    in Under the Fang

    THEY'VE WON... They came in the night, to the towns and cities. Like a slow, insidious virus they spread from house to house, building to building, from graveyard to bedroom and cellar to boardroom. They are ancient and deathless, sun-shy and bloodt...

  • Boy's Life

    Zephyr, Alabama, has been an idyllic home for eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson...a place where monsters swim in the belly of the river, and friends are forever. Then, on a cold spring morning in 1964, as Cory accompanies his father on his milk route, t...

  • Gone South

    It was hell''s season, and the air smelled of burning children.... With “one of the most arresting first sentences in contemporary writing” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), Robert McCammon unfurls his visionary masterpiece of survival,...

  • Usher's Passing

    The dying Walen Usher must leave the family fortune to one of his three children--drug addict Kattrina, Boone, a drinker and a gambler, and black sheep Rix, who wants no part of it--as well as the haunted family estate and the Usher family's horrifyi...

  • Judgment of the Witch

    Speaks the Nightbird - 1

    In the Carolinas of 1699, a traveling magistrate and his clerk, Matthew, arrive in Fount Royal to hold a trial for an accused witch, a beautiful young woman named Rachel Howarth, a trial that reveals that Fount Royal has become a battleground between...

  • Speaks the Nightbird

    In the Carolinas of 1699, a traveling magistrate and his clerk, Matthew, arrive in Fount Royal to hold a trial for an accused witch, a beautiful young woman named Rachel Howarth, a trial that reveals that Fount Royal has become a battleground between...

  • Evil Unveiled

    Speaks the Nightbird - 2

    In the Carolinas of 1699, after sentencing Rachel Howarth to death by burning, Matthew, the young clerk of magistrate Isaac Woodward, embarks on his own investigation into Rachel's claims and discovers that he must conquer a powerful and evil force t...

  • The Queen of Bedlam

    Speaks the Nightbird - 3

    Now, Robert McCammon brings the hero of that spellbinding novel, Matthew Corbett, to eighteenth-century New York, where a killer wields a bloody and terrifying power over a bustling city carving out its identity -- and over Matthew's own uncertain de...



  • Mister Slaughter

    The world of Colonial America comes vibrantly to life in this masterful new historical thriller by Robert McCammon. The latest entry in the popular Matthew Corbett series, which began with Speaks the Nightbird and continued in The Queen of Bedlam, Mi...

  • The Five

    Subterranean Press is proud to present Robert McCammon's first contemporary novel in nearly two decades, a tale of the hunt and unlikely survival, of the life and soul, set against a supernatural backbeat. Robert McCammon, author of the popular Matth...

  • The Hunter from the Woods

    The Hunter from the Woods marks the much-anticipated return of Michael Gallatin, the lycanthropic hero of Robert McCammon's 1989 classic, The Wolf's Hour. These all-new, interlinked stories offer a full measure of McCammon's trademark narrative excit...

  • The Providence Rider

    The Providence Rider is the fourth installment in the extraordinary series of historical thrillers featuring Matthew Corbett, professional problem solver. The narrative begins in the winter of 1703, with Matthew still haunted by his lethal encounter ...

  • I Travel by Night

    I Travel by Night marks Robert McCammon's triumphant return to the sort of flamboyant, go-for-broke horror fiction that has earned him an international reputation and a legion of devoted fans. The terrors of the Dark Society, the gothic sensibilities...

  • The River of Souls

    The year is 1703. The place: the Carolina settlement of Charles Town. Matthew Corbett, professional 'problem solver,' has accepted a lucrative, if unusual, commission: escorting a beautiful woman to a fancy dress ball. What should be a pleasant a...

  • Horror Classics

    BaalBaal was Robert McCammon's first novel, a debut that would lead to some of the finest popular fiction of our time. Written at the age of 25 and published as a paperback original in 1978, it has been out of print for ye...

  • Matthew Corbett Adventures #1

    Mister SlaughterThe world of Colonial America comes vibrantly to life in this masterful new historical thriller by Robert McCammon. The latest entry in the popular Matthew Corbett series, which began with Speaks the Nightb...

  • Vampire Tales

    They ThirstFirst published in 1981, They Thirst was Robert McCammon's fourth novel, and it remains one of the major milestones of an ambitious, constantly evolving career. Like its predecessors-Baal, Bethany's Sin, and The...

  • The Border

    World Fantasy award-winning, bestselling author Robert McCammon makes a triumphant return to the epic horror and apocalyptic tone reminiscent of his books ''Swan Song'' and ''Stinger'' in this gripping new novel, ''The Border'', a saga of an Earth de...



  • Freedom of the Mask

    The year is 1703, and Matthew Corbett, professional “problem solver,” is missing. Last seen by his friends in New York before he departed on a lucrative, seemingly straightforward mission for the Herrald Agency in Charles Town, he's been too long...

  • Blue World: The Complete Collection

    A novella and 12 stories from a master of supernatural horror. Father John has lived his whole life without knowing a woman's touch. Hard at first, his self-denial grew easier over time, as he learned to master his urges with a regimen of prayer,...

  • Chico

    "Chico," a story by Robert McCammon, was first published in his short fiction collection Blue World. ...

  • Children of the Bedtime Machine

    “Children of the Bedtime Machine,” a story by Robert McCammon, was originally published in the 2012 anthology Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury. ...

  • Doom City

    “Doom City,” a story by Robert McCammon, was originally published in 1987 in Greystone Bay II. ...

  • He'll Come Knocking at Your Door

    "He'll Come Knocking at Your Door," a story by Robert McCammon, was originally published in 1985 in the anthology Halloween Horrors. ...

  • I Scream Man

    “I Scream Man,” a story by Robert McCammon, was originally published in the Winter 1984 edition of The Horror Show....

  • Pin

    "Pin," a story by Robert McCammon, was first published in his short fiction collection Blue World and was selected for inclusion in Best New Horror. ...

  • The Red House

    “The Red House,” a story by Robert McCammon, was originally published in the 1985 anthology Greystone Bay and was selected for inclusion in The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 1985. ...

  • Something Passed by

    "Something Passed By," a story by Robert McCammon, was originally published in his short fiction collection Blue World and was selected for inclusion in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection. ...



  • Strange Candy

  • White

  • Yellachile's Cage

    "Yellachile's Cage," a story by Robert McCammon, was first published in his short fiction collection BLUE WORLD. ...

  • Yellowjacket Summer

    “Yellowjacket Summer,” a story by Robert McCammon, was originally published in The Twilight Zone magazine, October 1986. ...

  • Last Train from Perdition

    In I TRAVEL BY NIGHT, master of horror Robert McCammon introduced the tortured and instantly unforgettable vampire adventurer Trevor Lawson -- All Matters Handled -- as he searched for his maker, LaRouge, in hope of becoming human once more. It wove ...

  • Tales from Greystone Bay

    There are so many things Bob Deaken remembers about Greystone Bay. He could tell you about what he and a friend found in the wreck of an old Chevy down where the blind man lives amid the junked cars. He could tell you about the time the snakes starte...

  • The Listener

    The New York Times"bestselling author “masterfully combines historical thriller and supernatural horror . . . [for] fans of occult thrillers like those by Dean Koontz” (Booklist, starred review). Economic collapse. Crus...

  • The King of Shadows

    A search for a sorcerer’s mirror may shatter a man’s mind in this colonial-era thriller by the New York Times-bestselling author of Cardinal Black.   In the year 1704, Matthew Corbett is about to go up against an antagonist complet...

  • Three Novels of Creeping Terror

    Three novels of creeping horror from the New York Times"bestselling author who “delivers terror with skillful ferocity” (Publishers Weekly). This collection from the Bram Stoker and World Fantasy Award"winning author of the Matthew Corbett no...

  • Seven Shades of Evil

    The New York Times"bestselling author continues his colonial-era thriller series with eight tales of mystery, adventure, and supernatural suspense. From his first appearance in Speaks the Nightbird to his latest adventure in The King of Shadows, Ma...



  • Cardinal Black

    • / Horror
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    “Relentlessly paced . . . As usual, McCammon dazzles the reader with gritty historical detail, vivid local color, and a cast of memorable grotesques.” -- Publishers Weekly   The year is 1703. The woman Matthew Corbett loves i...

  • Nightcrawlers

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Award-Winning Books by Robert R. McCammon

Boy's Life
1991 Bram Stoker Award -- Novel
1992 World Fantasy Award -- Novel
Mine
1991 Bram Stoker Award -- Novel
Speaks the Nightbird
2003 Independent Publisher Book Award -- Hist/Military Fiction
Swan Song
1988 Bram Stoker Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Robert R. McCammon has published 51 books.

Robert R. McCammon does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Seven Shades of Evil, was published in October 2023.

The first book by Robert R. McCammon, Baal, was published in January 1979.

Yes. Robert R. McCammon has 1 series.
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