Series
Heroes in Hell
Janet Morris, Chris Morris, C. J. Cherryh, Nancy Asire, Andrew P. Weston, Michael H. Hanson, David Drake, Joe Bonadonna, Michael Armstrong, Richard Groller, Bill Kerby, Deborah Koren, Jack William Finley, Larry Atchley, Jr., Bill Snider, Bruce Durham, David L. Burkhead, Edward McKeown, John Manning, Sarah Hulcy, S. E. Lindberg, Thomas Barczak, A. L. Butcher, Bradley H. Sinor, Brad Miner, Gregory Benford, Jason Cordova, Matthew Kirshenblatt, Michael Z. Williamson, Shebat Legion, Yelle Hughes, Alexandra Sokolov, Alex Butcher, Allan Gilbreath, Beth W. Patterson, Bettina S. Meister, Bill Barnhill, Diana L. Paxson, George Alec Effinger, George Foy, Gustavo Bondoni, H. David Blalock, Julie Cochrane, Kimberly Richardson, Leo Champion, Lou Antonelli, Lynn Abbey, Martin Caidin, Michael A. Ventrella, Michael E. Dellert, Paul Freeman, pdmac, R. E. Hinkle, Robert Asprin, Robert Sheckley, Sara M. Harvey, Scott Oden & Shirley Meier · 9 novels · 10 novellas · 78 novelettes · 96 short stories · 17 anthologies · 1985–2024
Heroes in Hell is a series of shared world fantasy books, within the genre Bangsian fantasy, created and edited by Janet Morris and written by her, Chris Morris, C. J. Cherryh and others. The first 12 books in the series were published by Baen Books between 1986 and 1989, and stories from the series include one Hugo Award winner and Nebula nominee, as well as one other Nebula Award nominee. The series was resurrected in 2011 by Janet Morris with the thirteenth book and eighth anthology in the series, Lawyers in Hell, followed by eight more anthologies and four novels between 2012 and 2022.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
- Goat-Beard the Pirate(3 works)
Map
Heroes in Hell at the centre, 1 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1980s69
- 1990s0
- 2000s0
- 2010s120
- 2020s21
Shape
9 novels · 10 novellas · 78 novelettes · 96 short stories · 17 anthologies
58 authors
reads like:fantasygodsafterlife & underworldtimeless or unspecifieddarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 99% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · brighter = more books86 of 210 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Legions of Helldarkest
- The Liar, the Witch and the Ward Robesbrightest
- Prophets in Hellcalmest
- War in Hellmost intense