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ⓘ About Jeremy Bates
About Jeremy Bates Jeremy Bates is a celebrated Canadian horror author who has earned critical acclaim worldwide. His stories have been compared to those of Stephen King and Joe Lansdale, and have won him several prestigious awards, such as the Australian Shadows Award and the Canadian Arthur Ellis Award, as well as being a finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards. His work is popular due to his masterful ability to craft gripping suspense alongside engaging characters and protagonists. His “World’s Scariest Places” and “World’s Scariest Legends” series bring to life some of the most spine-tingling tales from the most frightening places on Earth.
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Latest in the series · book 17 of 17 · published 2025
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Who is Jeremy Bates?
About Jeremy Bates Jeremy Bates is a celebrated Canadian horror author who has earned critical acclaim worldwide. His stories have been compared to those of Stephen King and Joe Lansdale, and have won him several prestigious awards, such as the Australian Shadows Award and the Canadian Arthur Ellis Award, as well as being a finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards. His work is popular due to his masterful ability to craft gripping suspense alongside engaging characters and protagonists.
Which Jeremy Bates series should I start with?
The best place to start is the World's Scariest Places series, the earliest of Jeremy Bates's multi-book series: it opens with The Taste of Fear (2012) and runs to 8 books across 2012–2022, ending with Congo (2022). Jeremy Bates's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.
How many books has Jeremy Bates written?
Jeremy Bates has 48 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2012 and 2025. 40 of them belong to 4 named series — the largest being The Midnight Book Club series with 8 books — and 8 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Jeremy Bates's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Jeremy Bates's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are World's Scariest Places (2012–2022, 8 books), The Midnight Book Club (2015–2018, 8 books) and World's Scariest Legends (2019–2025, 7 books).
How are Jeremy Bates's books organised into series?
This guide splits Jeremy Bates's 48 books into 4 named series and 8 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: The Midnight Book Club (8 books, 2015–2018); World's Scariest Places (8 books, 2012–2022); World's Scariest Legends (7 books, 2019–2025); Dark Tide Horror Novellas (17 books, 2022–2025).