Publication Order of Matthew Corbett Books
| Speaks the Nightbird | 2002 |
| The Queen of Bedlam | 2007 |
| Mister Slaughter | 2010 |
| The Providence Rider | 2012 |
| The River of Souls | 2014 |
| Freedom of the Mask | 2016 |
| Cardinal Black | 2019 |
| The King of Shadows | 2022 |
| Seven Shades of Evil | 2023 |
| Leviathan | 2024 |
Publication Order of Michael Gallatin Books
| The Wolf’s Hour | 1989 |
| The Hunter from the Woods | 2011 |
Publication Order of I Travel by Night Books
| I Travel by Night | 2013 |
| Last Train from Perdition | 2016 |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Baal | 1978 |
| Bethany’s Sin | 1980 |
| The Night Boat | 1980 |
| They Thirst | 1981 |
| Mystery Walk | 1983 |
| Usher’s Passing | 1984 |
| Swan Song | 1987 |
| Stinger | 1988 |
| Mine | 1990 |
| Boy’s Life | 1991 |
| Gone South | 1992 |
| The Five | 2011 |
| The Border | 2015 |
| The Listener | 2018 |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Blue World | 1990 |
| A Little Amber Book of Wicked Shots | 2020 |
| McCammon’s Shoppe of Olde Curiosities | 2026 |
About Robert R. McCammon
Robert R. McCammon is an American novelist from Birmingham, Alabama, who made his name in the horror boom of the late 1970s and 1980s with books such as “Swan Song” and “Boy’s Life”. Since 2002 he has also written the Matthew Corbett historical mysteries, set in colonial America.
McCammon was born in Birmingham on 17 July 1952. After his parents’ marriage ended he was raised there by his grandparents. He took a BA in journalism at the University of Alabama in 1974 and then wrote advertising copy for Birmingham businesses and newspapers. His first novel, “Baal”, was published in 1978. “Bethany’s Sin” and “The Night Boat” both followed in 1980, and he became a full-time writer once the latter was accepted.
“Mystery Walk” (1983) was his first novel to appear in hardcover. “Swan Song” (1987), which follows a group of survivors after a nuclear war, was his first New York Times bestseller and won the Bram Stoker Award, and “Stinger” and “The Wolf’s Hour” also reached the list. He won further Stoker awards for “Mine” and “Boy’s Life”, and “Boy’s Life” took the World Fantasy Award for best novel in 1992. His short story “Nightcrawlers” was adapted for “The Twilight Zone” in 1985.
After “Gone South” (1992) McCammon left his publisher and then stopped publishing for a decade, a break put down to depression, exhaustion and disputes with publishers who wanted him to keep to genre horror. He came back in 2002 with “Speaks the Nightbird”, the first of ten books about Matthew Corbett, an eighteenth-century magistrate’s clerk. The series ended with “Leviathan” in December 2024.
Alongside the Corbett books he has written the rock band novel “The Five”, “The Border”, “The Listener” and two books about the vampire adventurer Trevor Lawson, beginning with the novella “I Travel by Night”. “The Hunter from the Woods” collects further stories about Michael Gallatin, the hero of “The Wolf’s Hour”. He was named a World Horror Convention Grand Master in 2008 and received the Bram Stoker Award for lifetime achievement in 2013. His latest book is the story collection “McCammon’s Shoppe of Olde Curiosities”, published by Open Road in July 2026.