Glen Cook bibliography


List of works by American fantasy fiction author Glen Cook.

The Black Company

Books of the North

  1. The Black Company
  2. Shadows Linger
  3. ''The White Rose''

Related

The Silver Spike. Takes place concurrently with Shadow GamesPort of Shadows. An interquel set between The Black Company and Shadows Linger, intended to be read after ''Soldiers Live''

Books of the South

  1. Shadow Games
  2. ''Dreams of Steel''

Books of the Glittering Stone

  1. Bleak Seasons
  2. She Is the Darkness
  3. Water Sleeps
  4. ''Soldiers Live''

A Pitiless Rain

  1. Lies Weeping
  2. They Cry
  3. Summer Grass
  4. ''Darkness Knows''

Omnibuses

Science Fiction Book Club">Book of the Month Club">Science Fiction Book Club hardcover omnibus editions

  1. Annals of the Black Company
  2. The Black Company Goes South
  3. The Black Company: Glittering Stone I
  4. ''The Black Company: Glittering Stone II''

Tor softcover omnibus editions

  1. The Chronicles of The Black Company
  2. The Books of the South
  3. The Return of The Black Company
  4. ''The Many Deaths of the Black Company''

Short fiction

''On The Long Run'' story arc

  • "Shaggy Dog Bridge"—first appeared in Fearsome Journeys: The New Solaris Book of Fantasy edited by Jonathan Strahan, published by Solaris ; reprinted in The Best of Glen Cook
  • "Bone Eaters"—first appeared in Operation Arcana edited by John Joseph Adams, published by Baen ; reprinted in The Best of Glen Cook
  • "Chasing Midnight"—first appeared in The Best of Glen Cook: 18 Stories from the Author of The Black Company and The Dread Empire, published by Night Shade Books
  • "Cranky Bitch"—appeared in Songs of Valor edited by Chris Kennedy & Rob Howell, published by New Mythology Press
  • "Leta of the Thousand Sorrows"—appeared in Keen Edge of Valor, edited by Chris Kennedy & Rob Howell, published by New Mythology Press
  • "Wet Dream Fish Story"—appeared in Bonds of Valor edited by Rob Howell, published by New Mythology Press
  • "Those Who Went Before"—appeared in Paladins of Valor edited by Rob Howell, published by New Mythology Press

Excerpts from novels published separately

  • "Raker"—appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. A trimmed and edited version of this story would become chapter 3 of 1984's The Black Company.
  • "Tides Elba"—appeared in Swords & Dark Magic edited by Jonathan Strahan and Lou Anders, published by Eos. This became chapter 3 of 2018's Port of Shadows.
  • "Smelling Danger"—appeared in the Subterranean Press anthology, Tales of Dark Fantasy 2, edited by William Schafer. This became chapter 6 of Port of Shadows.
  • "Bone Candy"—appeared in Shattered Shields edited by Jennifer Brozek and Bryan Thomas Schmidt, published by Baen. This became chapter 9 of Port of Shadows.

Garrett P.I.

The fantasy and mystery series features Garrett, a freelance private investigator in a world where magic works all too well, and where humans co-exist uneasily with numerous other intelligent species and halfbreeds.
  1. Sweet Silver Blues
  2. Bitter Gold Hearts
  3. Cold Copper Tears
  4. Old Tin Sorrows
  5. Dread Brass Shadows
  6. Red Iron Nights
  7. Deadly Quicksilver Lies
  8. Petty Pewter Gods
  9. Faded Steel Heat
  10. Angry Lead Skies
  11. Whispering Nickel Idols
  12. Cruel Zinc Melodies
  13. Gilded Latten Bones
  14. Wicked Bronze Ambition
  1. The Garrett Files
  2. Garrett, P.I.
  3. Garrett Investigates
  4. Garrett on the Case
  • Roc Trade softcover omnibus editions:
  1. Introducing Garrett, P.I.
  2. Garrett Takes the Case
  3. Garrett for Hire
  • Short Story
  1. "Shadow Thieves"—appeared in ''Down These Strange Streets''

Dread Empire

  • Main Sequence
  • #A Shadow of All Night Falling
  • #October's Baby
  • #All Darkness Met
  • Prequels
  • #The Fire in His Hands
  • #With Mercy Toward None
  • Sequels
  • #Reap the East Wind
  • #An Ill Fate Marshalling
  • #A Path to Coldness of Heart
  • Omnibus volumes :
  • *A Cruel Wind: A Chronicle of the Dread Empire, an omnibus of the three main sequence novels
  • *A Fortress in Shadow: A Chronicle of the Dread Empire, an omnibus of the two prequels
  • *An Empire Unacquainted with Defeat: A Chronicle of the Dread Empire, a collection of short fiction set in the Dread Empire
  • *Wrath of Kings: A Chronicle of the Dread Empire, an omnibus of the three sequel novels
  • Short Stories
  • * "The Nights of Dreadful Silence"—appeared in Fantastic
  • * "Ghost Stalk"—appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
  • * "Castle of Tears"—appeared in Whispers
  • * "Call for the Dead"—appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
  • * "Soldier of an Empire Unacquainted with Defeat"—appeared in The Berkley Showcase, Vol. 2
  • * "Filed Teeth"—appeared in Dragons of Darkness
  • * "Severed Heads"—appeared in Sword and Sorceress 1
  • *"Finding Svale’s Daughter"—previously unpublished, appeared in An Empire Unacquainted with Defeat: A Chronicle of the Dread Empire
  • *"Silverheels"—originally a standalone story which was later retrofitted into the Dread Empire series. Altered version appeared in An Empire Unacquainted with Defeat: A Chronicle of the Dread Empire
  • *"Hell’s Forge"—previously unpublished, appeared in ''An Empire Unacquainted with Defeat: A Chronicle of the Dread Empire''

Instrumentalities of the Night

Epic fantasy in a reinterpreted version of 13th century Europe and Western Asia.
  1. The Tyranny of the Night
  2. Lord of the Silent Kingdom
  3. Surrender to the Will of the Night
  4. ''Working God's Mischief''

Starfishers

Starfishers is a science fiction series drawing on elements of Norse mythology, and in the case of Passage at Arms, World War II submarine warfare.
  1. Shadowline
  2. Starfishers
  3. Star's End
  • Related
  • * Passage at Arms
  • Short stories
  1. "And Dragons in the Sky"—appeared in Clarion II. Later expanded and rewritten as the novel Starfishers.
  2. "Sunrise"—appeared in Eternity SF
  3. "In the Wind"—appeared in Tomorrow Today and Space Dogfights
  4. "The Recruiter"—appeared in Amazing Stories
  5. "Quiet Sea"—appeared in ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction''

Darkwar

Marika, a meth pup growing up in a matriarchal tribal society, loses her mother and nearly all of her pack in an attack by nomads, driven southwards by a severe winter and led by a rogue male. She is taken in by the silth, meth females who rule the world with their mental powers, because they have detected in her the talent to become a powerful silth herself. As she grows and develops, she proceeds to shake meth society to its very roots.
  1. Doomstalker
  2. Warlock
  3. Ceremony
  • Short story
  1. "Darkwar"—appeared in ''Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine''

Standalone novels

Standalone short stories

  • "Silverheels"—originally appeared in Witchcraft and Sorcery #6 ; a slightly altered version appeared in An Empire Unacquainted with Defeat: A Chronicle of the Dread Empire
  • "Song from a Forgotten Hill"—appeared in Clarion
  • "Appointment in Samarkand"—appeared in Witchcraft and Sorcery #7
  • "The Devil's Tooth"—appeared in Literary Magazine of Fantasy and Terror, Volume 1, #5
  • "The Seventh Fool"—appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
  • "Ponce"—appeared in Amazing Science Fiction
  • "Enemy Territory"—appeared in Night Voyages #9
  • "Winter's Dream"—appeared in The BSFAN—Balticon 31 Program Book
  • "The Good Magician"—appeared in Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance edited by George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, Tor Books

Short story collections

  • Winter’s Dreams
  • ''The Best of Glen Cook: 18 Stories from the Author of The Black Company and The Dread Empire''