Stephen Knight

Stephen Knight is a horror fiction author best known for the “Gathering Dead” series of novels. The author was born in South Texas but spent much of his childhood in many cities across the U.S. The author was born to a former local television pricer and famous radio personality.

The best place to start is the Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature series, the earliest of Stephen Knight's multi-book series: it opens with Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion (2005) and runs to 66 books across 2005–2022, ending with Wilkie Collins (2022). Stephen Knight's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Stephen Knight has 87 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2005 and 2022. 85 of them belong to 6 named series — the largest being the Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature series with 66 books — and 2 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 Knight's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature (2005–2022, 66 books), The Gathering Dead (2011–2017, 6 books) and The Retreat (2013–2022, 6 books), plus 3 more.

This guide splits Stephen Knight's 87 books into 6 named series and 2 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature (66 books, 2005–2022); The Gathering Dead (6 books, 2011–2017); The Retreat (6 books, 2013–2022); Earthfall (4 books, 2013–2019); These Dead Lands (2 books, 2015–2019), plus 1 further series.