Stephen Jones

Stephen Jones Stephen Jones is a published British author of fiction. He has won several literary awards for his work. He is an editor and an expert when it comes to dark fantasy and horror.

The best place to start is the Rudyard Kipling Short Story Collections series, the earliest of Stephen Jones's multi-book series: it opens with Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) and runs to 33 books across 1888–2018, ending with The Adventures of Mowgli: Stories from the Jungle Book (2018). Stephen Jones's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Stephen Jones has 198 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1888 and 2021. 68 of them belong to 10 named series — the largest being the Rudyard Kipling Short Story Collections series with 33 books — and 130 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Stephen Jones's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Rudyard Kipling Short Story Collections (1888–2018, 33 books), Fantasy Tales (1989–1991, 7 books) and The Diogenes Club (1994–2008, 6 books), plus 6 more.

This guide splits Stephen Jones's 198 books into 10 named series and 130 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Rudyard Kipling Short Story Collections (33 books, 1888–2018); Fantasy Tales (7 books, 1989–1991); The Diogenes Club (6 books, 1994–2008); Zombie Apocalypse! (5 books, 2012–2015); Horror at Halloween (5 books, 1999–2011), plus 5 further series.