Series
James Asher Chronicles
Barbara Hambly · 8 novels · 1988–2019
The James Asher Chronicles opens with Those Who Hunt the Night, in which the vampire Don Simon Ysidro coerces a former British spy, Oxford professor James Asher, into finding out who is killing London's vampires in their sleep - forcing Asher and his physician wife Lydia into an uneasy alliance with the undead. Barbara Hambly's series follows the trio across eight books and three decades of settings as new supernatural and human threats draw Asher back into Ysidro's world.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
James Asher Chronicles at the centre, 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
- 1980s1
- 1990s1
- 2000s0
- 2010s6
Shape
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book8 of 8 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Darkness on His Bonesdarkest
- Blood Maidensbrightest · most intense
- The Kindred of Darknesscalmest