A great deal of F. Paul Wilson’s writings chronicle the “Secret History Of The World“. Both the Adversary Cycle and the Repairman Jack series occur within this Secret History, as do many of the short fiction pieces he has written.
Below is the official chronology of the Secret History works in the order of the events covered. This is not the order in which the works were published, but is the preferred reading order. The last three novels in the Adversary Cycle will be re-released in the near future with minor changes to more perfectly align them with the other the other “previous” works.
(NB: “Year Zero” is the end of civilization as we know it; “Year Zero Minus One” is the year preceding it, etc.)
The Past:
- “Demonsong” (prehistory)
- “Aryans and Absinthe” (1923-1924)
- Black Wind (1926-1945)
- The Keep (1941)
- Reborn (Feb-Mar 1968)
- “Dat Tay Vao” (Mar 1968)
- Jack: Secret Histories (1983)
Year Zero Minus Three:
- Sibs (February)
- “Faces” (early summer)
- The Tomb (summer)
- “The Barrens” (ends in September)
- “A Day in the Life” (October)
- “The Long Way Home“
- Legacies (December)
Year Zero Minus Two:
- Conspiracies (April) (includes “Home Repairs“)
- “Interlude at Duane’s” (April)
- All The Rage (May) (includes “The Last Rakosh“)
- Hosts (June)
- The Haunted Air (August)
- Gateways (September)
- Crisscross (November)
- Infernal (December)
Year Zero Minus One:
- Harbingers (January)
- Bloodline (April)
- By The Sword (May)
- Ground Zero (July)
- The Touch (ends in August)
- The Peabody-Ozymandias Traveling Circus & Oddity Emporium (ends in September)
- “Tenants“
Year Zero:
- [Repairman Jack Book 14] (January)
- “Pelts“
- Reprisal (ends in February)
- [Repairman Jack Book 15] (ends in April)
- Nightworld (starts in May)
