The Secret History of the World

The preponderance of my work deals with a history of the world that remains undiscovered, unexplored, and unknown to most of humanity. Some of this secret history has been revealed in the Adversary Cycle, some in the Repairman Jack novels, and bits and pieces in other, seemingly unconnected works. Taken together, even these millions of words barely scratch the surface of what has been going on behind the scenes, hidden from the workaday world. I’ve listed them below in chronological order. (NB: “Year Zero” is the end of civilization as we know it; “Year Zero Minus One” is the year preceding it, etc.)

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The Past
“Demonsong” (prehistory)*
“The Compendium of Srem” (1498)
“Wardenclyffe” (1903-1906)
“Aryans and Absinthe” (1923-1924)*
Black Wind (1926-1945)
The Keep (1941)
Reborn (February-March 1968)
“Dat Tay Vao” (March 1968)*
Jack: Secret Histories (1983)
Jack: Secret Circles (1983)
Jack: Secret Vengeance (1983)
“Faces” (1988)*
Cold City (1990)
Dark City (1991)
Fear City (1993)
“Fix” (2006) (with J.A. Konrath & Ann Voss Peterson)

Year Zero Minus Three
Sibs (February)
The Tomb (summer)
“The Barrens” (ends in September)*
“A Day in the Life” (October)+
“The Long Way Home”+
Legacies (December)

Year Zero Minus Two
“Interlude at Duane’s” (April) +
Conspiracies (April) (includes “Home Repairs”+)
All the Rage (May) (includes “The Last Rakosh”+)
Hosts (June)
The Haunted Air (August)
The Upwelling (August)
Scar-Lip Redux (August)
Lexie (August)
Gateways (September)
Crisscross (November)
Infernal (December)

Year Zero Minus One
Harbingers (January)
“Infernal Night” (with Heather Graham)
Bloodline (April)
The Fifth Harmonic (April)
Panacea (April)
By the Sword (May)
The God Gene (May)
Ground Zero (July)
The Touch (ends in August)
The Void Protocol (September)
The Peabody-Ozymandias Traveling Circus & Oddity Emporium (ends in September)
“Tenants”*
The Last Christmas (December)

Year Zero
“Pelts”*
Reprisal (ends in February)
Fatal Error (February) (includes “The Wringer”+)
Double Threat (February-March)
Double Dose (March)
The Dark at the End (March)
Signalz (May)
Nightworld (May)

* available in Secret Stories
+ available in Quick Fixes – Tales of Repairman Jack