F. Paul Wilson Books In Order – Complete List

F. Paul Wilson is the author of the popular Repairman Jack thriller series, as well as the Adversary Cycle. He also wrote several other series including Sims, Nocturnia, Duad, ICE thriller series, and Hidden, not to mention the numerous standalone novels, short stories, collections and works in anthologies.

Reading the F. Paul Wilson books in order for his entire The Secret History of the World series involves picking up numerous books, some of which are part of one series but not another, while some are standalone works. The author also wrote several short stories and anthologies, including The Widow Lindley, which is part of the Wayward Pines Kindle Words fan series.

Here are the F. Paul Wilson books in order for his entire bibliography.

LaNague Federation Books in Publication Order

1. Healer, 1976
2. Wheels within Wheels, 1978
3. An Enemy of the State, 1980
4. The Tery, 1989
5. Dydeetown World, 1989

Adversary Cycle Books in Publication Order

1. The Keep, 1981
2. The Tomb, 1984
3. The Touch, 1986
4. Reborn, 1990
5. Reprisal, 1991
6. Nightworld, 1992
7. Signalz, 2020

Secret History of the World Books in Chronological Order

The list is given by the author himself on his website. Some of the novels come from the Repairman Jack series, some from the Adversary Cycle series, while some from various random other works

The Past
Demonsong (prehistory)
The Compendium of Srem (1498)
Wardenclyffe (1903-1906)
Aryans and Absinthe (1923-1924)
Black Wind (1926-1945)
The Keep (1941)
Reborn (February-March 1968)
Dat Tay Vao (March 1968)
Jack: Secret Histories (1983)
Jack: Secret Circles (1983)
Jack: Secret Vengeance (1983)
Faces (1988)
Cold City (1990)
Dark City (1991)
Fear City (1993)
Fix (2006) (with J.A. Konrath & Ann Voss Peterson)

Year Zero Minus Three
Sibs (February)
The Tomb (summer)
The Barrens (ends in September)
A Day in the Life (October)
The Long Way Home
Legacies (December)

Year Zero Minus Two
Interlude at Duane’s (April)
Conspiracies (April) (includes Home Repairs)
All the Rage (May) (includes The Last Rakosh)
Hosts (June)
The Haunted Air (August)
The Upwelling (August)
Scar-Lip Redux (August)
Lexie (August)
Gateways (September)
Crisscross (November)
Infernal (December)

Year Zero Minus One
Harbingers (January)
Infernal Night (with Heather Graham)
Bloodline (April)
The Fifth Harmonic (April)
Panacea (April)
By the Sword (May)
The God Gene (May)
Ground Zero (July)
The Touch (ends in August)
The Void Protocol (September)
The Peabody-Ozymandias Traveling Circus & Oddity Emporium (ends in September)
Tenants
The Last Christmas (December)

Year Zero
Pelts
Reprisal (ends in February)
Fatal Error (February) (includes The Wringer)
Double Threat (February-March)
Double Dose (March)
The Dark at the End (March)
Signalz (May)
Nightworld (May)

Repairman Jack Books in Publication Order

Also known as the Handyman Jack, it is a spin-off of the Adversary Cycle series

1. The Tomb, 1984
2. Nightworld, 1992
3. Legacies, 1998
4. Conspiracies, 1999
5. All The Rage, 2000
6. Hosts, 2001
7. The Haunted Air, 2002
8. Gateways, 2003
9. Crisscross, 2004
10. Infernal, 2005
11. Harbringers, 2006
12. The Last Rakosh, 2006
13. Bloodline, 2007
14. By The Sword, 2008
15. Ground Zero, 2009
16. Fatal Error, 2010
17. The Dark at the End, 2011
18. Quick Fixes – tales of Repairman Jack, 2011
19. The Last Christmas, 2019

Repairman Jack Books in Chronological Order

1. The Tomb, 1984
2. Legacies, 1998
3. Conspiracies, 1999
4. All The Rage, 2000
5. Hosts, 2001
6. The Haunted Air, 2002
7. Gateways, 2003
8. Crisscross, 2004
9. Infernal, 2005
10. Harbringers, 2006
11. Bloodline, 2007
12. By The Sword, 2008
13. Ground Zero, 2009
14. Fatal Error, 2010
15. The Dark at the End, 2011
16. Nightworld (#15.5), 1992
17. The Last Christmas, 2019
18. Scar-Lip Redux (#16.5), 2020
19. Quick Fixes – Tales of Repairman Jack, 2011
20. The Last Rakosh, 2006

Young Repairman Jack Trilogy

1. Secret Histories (YRJ #1), 2008
2. Secret Circles (YRJ #2), 2010
3. Secret Vengeance (YRJ #3), 2011

Repairman Jack: The Early Years Trilogy

1. Cold City (TEY #1), 2012
2. Dark City (TEY #2), 2013
3. Fear City (TEY #3), 2014

Repairman Jack Short Stories and Novellas

• Nightworld, 1992
• Quick Fixes – Tales of Repairman Jack, 2011
• Santa Jack, 2013
• Infernal Night, 2014 (with Heather Graham in the FaceOff anthology)
• Interlude at Duane’s, 2017
• Scar-Lip Redux, 2020

Other Repairman Jack Books

• Repairman Jack: Mysterious Profiles, 2023

Nocturnia Series in Publication Order

with Thomas F Monteleone

1. Definitely Not Kansas, 2015
2. Family Secrets, 2016
3. The Silent Ones, 2020

ICE Sequence Books in Publication Order

1. Panacea, 2016
2. The God Gene, 2018
3. The Void Protocol, 2019

Sims Books in Publication Order

1. La Causa, 2000
2. The Portero Method, 2001
3. Meerm, 2002
4. Zero, 2005
5. Thy Brother’s Keeper, 2008

Duad Books in Publication Order

1. Double Threat, 2021
2. Double Rose, 2023

Hidden Books in Publication Order

• The Upwelling, 2024
• Lexie, 2024

Short Stories in Publication Order

Short Story Collections in Publication Order

• Soft and Others, 1984
• Ad Statum Perspicuum, 1990
• Artifact, 2003, with others
• The Evil Entwines, Extended version, 2005, with John B Ford and Thomas Ligotti
• Scenes from the Secret History of the World, 2014
• Never Fear, 2015, with others
• Secret Stories, 2019
• Other Sandboxes, 2024

Anthologies in Publication Order

Standalone Novels in Publication Order

• Black Wind, 1990
• Midnight Mass, 1990
• Sibs, 1991
• The Barrens, 1992
• Mirage, 1996
• Nightkill, 1997 (with Steven Spruill)
• Masque, 1998 (with Matthew J. Costello) (aka DNA Wars)
• The Fifth Harmonic, 2003
• Midnight Mass, 2004
• Draculas, 2010 (with others)
• The Proteus Cure, 2013 (with with Tracy L Carbone)
• A Necessary End, 2014 (with Sarah Pinborough)

Written as Collin Andrews

• The Foundation, 1993 (aka The Select)
• Implant, 1995
• Deep as the Marrow, 1997

Written as Mary Elizabeth Murphy

• Virgin, 1996

Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

• Ephemerata, 2017
• Faster Than Light Volume 1, 2021 (with Matthew J Costello)
• Faster Than Light Volume 2, 2021 (with Matthew J Costello)

F. Paul Wilson Biography

F. Paul Wilson was born in 1946 in New Jersey where he spent most of his years, except during his years away in school. He attended the Xavier High School in NYC, after which he enrolled at the Georgetown University in DC, from where he graduated in 1968 from medical school.

He then went to the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine from where he graduated with a D.O. degree in 1973.

While initially determined to become a doctor, the path for him turned soon towards a new direction. As a medical student, he spent some time writing short stories which he sold quite fast. In fact, his first major sale was in 1970 while in medical school, for a story he sold to Analog.

His first novels were all science-fiction stories, with his debut novel called Healer, published in 1976. At the beginning of the 1980s, he switched to writing in the horror genre, with a first novel called The Keep, which also became the first in The Adversary Cycle horror series. The book was also adapted to the big screen in 1983 by Paramount, starring Gabriel Byrne, Scott Glenn, and Ian McKellen.

In 1990 he switched yet genres again, this time writing medical standalone thrillers and interactive scripts for multimedia companies such as Disney Interactive.

In 1996 he also co-authored a book, titled Virgin, with his wife, who was also his high-school sweetheart.

His Repairman Jack series is the author’s most popular creation, with the books having sold several million copies over the years. The series is also in discussions for being turned into a franchise movie series, with the rights bought by Beacon Films, along with Disney and Buena Vista as distributors.

His books have appeared numerous times on the New York Times bestseller list and the author received several awards over the years, including the Grand Master award by the World Horror Convention, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers of America, the Stoker Award, Prometheus and Prometheus Hall of Fame Awards, the Porgie Award, the Pioneer Award from the RT Booklovers Convention, and the Inkpot Award from San Diego ComiCon.

F.Paul Wilson is currently living in New Jersey with his wife, his two daughters and three cats, and is actively working on his next book, while he is also apart-time practicing family physician.

He also wrote numerous other sci-fi, horror, mystery and thriller series and standalone novels, almost all sharing a common trait: they all somehow feature supernatural elements in the stories.

His latest novel is called Lexie, the second book in the Duad series which started with The Upwelling, also published in 2024

F. Paul Wilson Books Adaptations

The author has several book adaptations to films and as TV series.

• The Keep was adapted into a film directed by Michael Mann. It was released in 1983, featuring Scott Glenn, Ian McKellen, and Gabriel Byrne. The soundtrack was by Tangerine Dream.
• It was also adapted into a board game by Mayfair Games in 1983, which was at the same time with the movie release
• Traps was adapted into one episode of the Monsters TV series started in 1989
• Pelts was adapted into an episode of Masters of Horror in 2006
• Lipidleggin was adapted into two short films, in 2006 and 2013
• The Keep was also adapted into a five-issue comic book series by artist Matthew Dow Smith. F. Paul Wilson liked this adaptation more than the earlier movie

F Paul Wilson Awards and Nominations

• Wheels Within Wheels received the Prometheus Award in the Best Novel category in 1979
• The Keep was nominated for the Locus Award in the Best Fantasy Novel category in 1982
• An Enemy of the State was nominated for the Prometheus Award in the Best Novel category in 1982
• The Tomb was nominated for the Prometheus Award in the Best Novel category in 1985
• Dydeetown Girl was nominated for the Nebula Award in the Best Novella category in 1986
• Day-Tay-Vao was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award in the Superior Achievement in Short Fiction category in 1987
• Traps was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award in the Superior Achievement in Short Fiction category in 1987
• Dydeetown Girl was nominated for the Locus Award in the Best Novella category in 1987
• Black Wind was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award in the Superior Achievement in a Novel category in 1988
• Soft and Others was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award in the Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection category in 1989
• Wires was nominated for the Locus Award in the Best Novella category in 1989
• Pelts was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award in the Superior Achievement in Long Fiction category in 1990
• Pelts was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award in the Best Novelette category in 1991
• The Barrens was nominated for the World Fantasy Award in the Best Novella category in 1991
• The Tery was nominated for the Prometheus Award in the Best Novel category in 1992
• DNA Wars was nominated for the Prometheus Award in the Best Novel category in 1999
• Aftershock received the Bram Stoker Award in the Superior Achievement in Short Fiction category in 1999
• The Haunted Air was nominated for the Prometheus Award in the Best Novel category in 2003
• Sims received the Prometheus Award in the Best Novel category in 2004
• Harbingers was nominated for the Prometheus Award in the Best Novel category in 2007
• The author received the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2009
• A Necessary End was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award in the Superior Achievement in a Novel category in 2013
• Double Dose was nominated for the Dragon Award in the Best Horror Novel category in 2024