List of Buffyverse literature
Buffyverse novels include Buffy novels, Angel novels, Buffy/Angel novels and Tales of the Slayer.
Chronology
History
| Buffyverse stories | Location, time (if known) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tales of the Slayer | (Various) | ||||
| First collection Tales of Slayers that lived prior to Buffy. | |||||
| Tales of the Slayer | (Various) | ||||
| Second collection Tales of Slayers that lived prior to Buffy. | |||||
| Tales of the Slayer | (Various) | ||||
| Third collection Tales of Slayers that lived prior to Buffy. | |||||
| Tales of the Slayer | (Various) | ||||
| Fourth collection Tales of Slayers that lived prior to Buffy. | |||||
| Buffy book: Spike and Dru: Pretty Maids All in a Row | 1940s | ||||
| It's 1940 and for Drusilla's vampiric birthday, Spike decides he will acquire Freyja's Strand for her. | |||||
| Buffy book: Blackout | New York, 1977 | ||||
| Nikki Wood fights against the forces of darkness and also tries to protect her son. Spike arrives in the city. | |||||
Buffy Season 1
These Buffyverse tales take place around Buffy Season 1 (from spring 1996 up until spring 1997).
| Buffyverse stories | Location, time (if known) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buffy book: Halloween Rain | Sunnydale, Halloween 1996 | ||||
| On Halloween Xander & Willow warn Buffy if it's raining. | |||||
| Buffy book: Night of the Living Rerun | Sunnydale, 1996/7 | ||||
| The Master attempts to rise once more. | |||||
| Buffy book: Coyote Moon | Sunnydale, summer 1997 | ||||
| It's summer vacation in Sunnydale and the carnival has come to town. | |||||
| Buffy anthology book: How I Survived My Summer Vacation | Sunnydale, & L.A., summer 1997 | ||||
| Buffy visits her Dad in L.A. whilst the others continue the good fight. | |||||
Buffy Season 2
These tales take place during Buffy Season 2, (from autumn 1997 up until spring 1998).
| Buffyverse stories | Location, time (if known) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buffy book: Keep Me In Mind | Sunnydale, 1997 | ||||
| Ethan Rayne returns and releases an evil sorcerer from Middle Ages Bavaria. | |||||
| Buffy book: The Suicide King | Sunnydale, 1997 | ||||
| A number of strange student suicides have been taking place, and Buffy suspects something wrong. | |||||
| Buffy book: Colony | Sunnydale, 1997 | ||||
| Mayor Richard Wilkins III invited a woman named Belakane to speak at the local Sunnydale High School. She has a program, "Be the Ultimate You!". | |||||
| Buffy book: Night Terrors | Sunnydale, 1997 | ||||
| The Night Terror stalks its victims in their dreams. The demon replaces another's soul with its own, then wreaks chaos in the real world. | |||||
| Buffy book: Bad Bargain | Sunnydale, 1997 | ||||
| Items for the school rumage sale become infected with Hellmouth parasites after being stored in the school basement. | |||||
| Buffy book: After Image | Sunnydale, 1997 | ||||
| Sunnydale drive-in reopens. | |||||
| Buffy book: Carnival of Souls | Sunnydale, 1997 | ||||
| A Traveling Carnival arrives in Sunnydale. It seems the carnival might be another victim of Sunnydale's weirdness. | |||||
| Buffy book: Portal Through Time | Sunnydale, 1997 | ||||
| Some of the Master's devotees travel through time to attempt to disrupt the Slayer lineage, thus preventing Buffy from destroying the Master. | |||||
| Buffy book: Go Ask Malice: A Slayer's Diary | Boston, December 1997 - June 1998 | ||||
| Faith has a tough time growing up in South Boston, moving from relative to relative when Diana Dormer arrives and informs Faith that she is a potential slayer. | |||||
| Buffy book: Blooded | Sunnydale, 1997/8 | ||||
| The Scoobies become entangled in a long-running feud between Asian warriors. | |||||
Buffy Season 3
These tales take place during Buffy Season 3 (from autumn 1998 up until spring 1999).
| Buffyverse stories | Location, time (if known) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buffy book: Sins of the Father | Sunnydale, 1998 | ||||
| Pike visits Sunnydale. | |||||
| Buffy book: Child of the Hunt | Sunnydale, 1998 | ||||
| The 'Wild Hunt' arrives in Sunnydale. | |||||
| Buffy book: Ghoul Trouble | Sunnydale, 1998 | ||||
| A new vampire arrives in town called Solitaire who is immune to the sun's rays. | |||||
| Buffy book: Paleo | Sunnydale, 1998 | ||||
| People try to resurrect dinosaur eggs. | |||||
| Buffy book: The Evil That Men Do | Sunnydale, 1998 | ||||
| Helen, an ancient vampire attempts to raise a goddess of destruction. | |||||
| Buffy book: The Deathless | Sunnydale, 1999 | ||||
| Ring Day is fast approaching at Sunnydale High. | |||||
| Buffy book: Doomsday Deck | Sunnydale, 1999 | ||||
| Tarot card-reader, Justine arrives in Sunnydale. | |||||
| Buffy book: Immortal | Sunnydale, 1999 | ||||
| Buffy faces Veronique, a vampire even more immortal than most. | |||||
| Buffy book: Prime Evil | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | ||||
| Crystal Gregory is a beautiful new teacher at Sunnydale High, who also happens to give Buffy panic fits. | |||||
| Buffy book: Revenant | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | ||||
| A Chinese gang arrives in Sunnydale. | |||||
| Buffy book: Power of Persuasion | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | ||||
| The Moon family try to create a "Womyn Power" group at school, meanwhile there is a string of unusual killings. | |||||
| Buffy book: Resurrecting Ravana | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | ||||
| The Rakshasa are in town to help with the resurrection on an ancient Hindu god called Ravana. | |||||
| Buffy books: The Gatekeeper [Trilogy] |
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | ||||
| 'The Gatekeeper' is frail and on the verge of death, yet must hold the walls of reality together in the face of increasing threat. | |||||
| Buffy book: Return to Chaos | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | ||||
| Four Druids arrive in town. They're in town to try a spell on a certain night to close the gateway in the Hellmouth so that demons would not be allowed to pass through. | |||||
| Buffy book: Visitors | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | ||||
| Buffy thinks she's being stalked by a demon with a high-pitched giggle. | |||||
| Buffy book: Unnatural Selection | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | ||||
| Willow battles against the 'faeries'. | |||||
| Buffy book: Obsidian Fate | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | ||||
| An old Spanish expedition is found on the outskirts of Sunnydale. | |||||
| Buffy book: Deep Water | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | ||||
| After an oil spill on a nearby Sunnydale beach, Willow discovers a 'selkie'; that is, a girl that can turn into a seal with her sealskin. | |||||
| Buffy book: Here Be Monsters | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | ||||
| After Buffy kills twin teenage vampires, their vampire mother summons a Goddess of balance who puts Buffy on a trial that could cost people's lives. | |||||
| Buffy book: The Book of Fours | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | ||||
| The power of four slayers is needed to conquer a new threat. | |||||
| Sunnydale High Yearbook | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | ||||
| Yearbook received by Scoobies when they graduated from High School. | |||||
Buffy Season 4/Angel Season 1
These Buffyverse tales take place during Buffy Season 4, and Angel Season 1 (from autumn 1999 up until spring 2000).
| Buffyverse stories | Location, time (if known) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angel book: Not Forgotten | L.A. 1999 | ||||
| Angel Investigations tries to help some struggling immigrants. | |||||
| Buffy books: Lost Slayer [series] |
Sunnydale, 1999 | ||||
| Buffy, new to UC Sunnydale faces a group of vampires with bats tattooed across their faces who will have huge and not-so-appealing consequences for the Scooby Gang's future. | |||||
| Buffy book: Oz: Into the Wild | Sunnydale, 1999 | ||||
| Oz is in search of himself having left his home. | |||||
| Angel book: Close to the Ground | L.A. 1999 | ||||
| A big Hollywood studio head recruits Angel. | |||||
| Angel book: Soul Trade | L.A. 1999 | ||||
| A girl's soul is mysteriously taken. Angel investigates. | |||||
| Angel book: Redemption | L.A. 1999 | ||||
| A wealthy actress requests help. | |||||
| Angel book: Shakedown | L.A. 1999 | ||||
| Doyle has a vision of a seismic shift. | |||||
| Angel book: Hollywood Noir | L.A. 1999 | ||||
| A decayed corpse at a Hollywood construction site is a sign. | |||||
| Angel book: Avatar | L.A. 1999 | ||||
| Cordelia suggests beginning a Web site for their detective agency. | |||||
| Angel book: Bruja | L.A. 1999 | ||||
| L.A. is shocked when a woman attacks a priest. | |||||
| Angel book: The Summoned | L.A. 1999 | ||||
| An anxious young woman, Terri Miller arrives in L.A. | |||||
| Buffy book: These Our Actors | Sunnydale, 2000 | ||||
| Willow takes up drama class, and Spike recalls Cecily. | |||||
| Buffy/Angel books: Unseen [Trilogy] |
Sunnydale, L.A., 2000 | ||||
| Buffy and Angel have to work together to solve disappearances of teenagers and calm down the gang warfare going on in LA. | |||||
Buffy Season 5/Angel Season 2
These Buffyverse tales take place during Buffy Season 5, and Angel Season 2 (from autumn 2000 up until spring 2001).
| Buffyverse stories | Location, time (if known) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angel book: Image | L.A., 1950S/2000 | ||||
| An old evil is trying to use a painting. | |||||
| Angel book: Stranger to the Sun | L.A., 2000 | ||||
| Wesley opens a strange package. | |||||
| Buffy book: Wisdom of War | Sunnydale, 2001 | ||||
| Two strange breeds of sea creatures are beginning to appear in Sunnydale. | |||||
| Angel book: Vengeance | L.A., 2001 | ||||
| Lily Pierce's motivational speaking spreads across the city. | |||||
| Angel book: Haunted | L.A., 2001 | ||||
| Cordelia enters a haunted house for reality TV. | |||||
| Buffy book: Tempted Champions | Sunnydale, 2001 | ||||
| A deadly fighter arrives, willing to kill both humans and vampires. | |||||
| Buffy book: Little Things | Sunnydale, 2001 | ||||
| The town is terrorised by something mysterious and tiny. | |||||
| Buffy book: Crossings | Sunnydale, 2001 | ||||
| Xander learns of a terrifying total immersion video game beta testing. | |||||
| Buffy book: Sweet Sixteen | Sunnydale, 2001 | ||||
| Dawn befriends a girl named Arianna. | |||||
Buffy Season 6/Angel Season 3
These Buffyverse tales take place around Buffy Season 6, and Angel Season 3 (from autumn 2001 up until spring 2002).
| Buffyverse stories | Location, time (if known) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buffy/Angel novel: Cursed | L.A., 2001 | ||||
| An organised, united effort is being made to put Spike out of the picture. Angel and Spike reluctantly work together and deal with their shared evil pasts. | |||||
| Angel book: Sanctuary | L.A., 2001 | ||||
| A loud explosion occurs at Caritas. | |||||
| Angel anthology book:The Longest Night | L.A., 2001 | ||||
| It's December 21, and hour by hour Angel and his crew must survive the longest night of the year. | |||||
| Buffy/Angel novel: Monster Island | Sunnydale, L.A., Monster Island, 2001 | ||||
| The Fang Gang and the Scooby Gang must unite to protect a safe-haven of half-blood demons. | |||||
| Angel book: Endangered Species | L.A., 2001 | ||||
| Angel considers the ethics of wiping out all vampires. | |||||
| Angel book: Impressions | L.A., 2001 | ||||
| A desperate man arrives at the Hotel with a demon chasing him. | |||||
| Buffy books: Wicked Willow | Sunnydale, 2002 | ||||
| Supposing that Dark Willow did not return to the good so quickly. | |||||
Buffy Season 7–8/Angel Season 4–5
These Buffyverse tales take place around Buffy Season 7, and Angel Season 4 (from autumn 2002 up until spring 2003).
| Buffyverse stories | Location, time (if known) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buffy/Angel book: Seven Crows | Mexico, 2002 | ||||
| Between Mexico and Arizona Riley Sam Finn call in Buffy and Angel to investigate mysterious supernature. | |||||
| Buffy book: Apocalypse Memories | Sunnydale, 2002 | ||||
| Willow is terrified that using her magic powers might result in dark magic consuming her whilst the Angel Michael brings signs of apocalypse to Sunnydale. | |||||
| Angel book: Dark Mirror | L.A., 2002 | ||||
| The gang must face dark versions of themselves. | |||||
| Buffy book: Mortal Fear | Sunnydale, 2002 | ||||
| Buffy is being sent on random missions by a man that goes by the name of Simon. He wants her to retrieve parts of a mystical sword and put them together, but he refuses to say why or who he even is. | |||||
| Buffy book: Spark and Burn | Sunnydale, 2002 | ||||
| Spike remembers his past as he suffers insanity in a school basement. | |||||
| Buffy/Angel book: Heat | Sunnydale, L.A., 2002 | ||||
| Buffy and Angel both battle the same ancient evil, a Possessor who was once "Qin". | |||||
| Angel book: Solitary Man | L.A., 2002 | ||||
| Team Angel copes with a detective-wannabe-old women. | |||||
| Angel book: Love and Death | L.A., 2002 | ||||
| Demon-killers are provoked by an outspoken radio host | |||||
| Angel book: Monolith | L.A., 2002 | ||||
| A huge monolith suddenly appears at Hollywood Boulevard. | |||||
| Angel book: Nemesis | L.A., 2003 | ||||
| One of Fred's old friends from graduate school contacts her for help at a big scientific facility. | |||||
| Angel book: Book of the Dead | L.A., 2003 | ||||
| Wesley's former-Watcher colleague, arrives at LA for a rare book auction. | |||||
| Buffy book: Queen of the Slayers | Sunnydale, Cleveland, Italy, Summer 2003-2004 | ||||
| Hundreds of potential slayers have been awakened. A number of leading dark figures unite in an attempt to retaliate against the new status quo. | |||||
| Buffy book: Dark Congress | 2003–2004 | ||||
| Until 500 years ago all of the demonic and monstrous races met at a Dark Congress. They prepare to meet again. | |||||
- One Thing Or Your Mother (by Kirsten Beyer) - August 2007
Authors
- (w/) = Collaboration with another Buffyverse author
- (s) = Short story
List of authors (alphabetically by surname) who have written novels set in the fictional Buffyverse:
- Pierce Askegren – After Image
- Laura J. Burns – Colony (w/), Apocalypse Memories (w/)
- Denise Ciencin – Nemesis (w/), Mortal Fear (w/)
- Scott Ciencin – Sweet Sixteen, Vengeance (w/), Nemesis (w/), Mortal Fear (w/)
- Arthur Byron Cover – Night of the Living Rerun
- Don DeBrandt – Shakedown
- Keith R.A. DeCandido – Blackout
- Cameron Dokey – Here Be Monsters, The Summoned, How I Survived My Summer Vacation (s)
- Doranna Durgin – Impressions, Fearless, The Longest Night (s)
- Diana G. Gallagher – Obsidian Fate, Prime Evil, Doomsday Deck, Spark and Burn, Bad Bargain
- Craig Shaw Gardner – Return to Chaos, Dark Mirror
- Ray Garton – Resurrecting Ravana
- Laura Anne Gilman – Visitors (w/), Deep Water (w/)
- Christopher Golden – Halloween Rain (w/), Blooded (w/), Child of the Hunt (w/), The Gatekeeper trilogy (w/), Immortal (w/), Sins of the Father, Pretty Maids All in a Row, The Lost Slayer series, Oz: Into the Wild, Wisdom of War, Monster Island (w/)
- Christie Golden – Tales of the Slayer (s), The Longest Night (s)
- Alice Henderson – Night Terrors, Portal Through Time
- Nancy Holder – Halloween Rain (w/), Blooded (w/), Child of the Hunt (w/), The Gatekeeper trilogy (w/), Immortal (w/), The Evil That Men Do, The Book of Fours, Blood and Fog, Keep Me In Mind, Queen of the Slayers, Carnival of Souls, Not Forgotten, Endangered Species, The Longest Night (s)
- Dan Jolley – Vengeance (w/)
- Dori Koogler – These Our Actors (w/)
- Robert Joseph Levy – The Suicide King, Go Ask Malice, ToS: Back to the Garden (s)
- Ashley McConnell – These Our Actors (w/), Book of the Dead
- Jeff Mariotte – Unseen Trilogy (w/), Hollywood Noir, Haunted, Stranger to the Sun, Endangered Species, Sanctuary, Solitary Man, Love and Death, Close to the Ground
- Elizabeth Massie – Power of Persuasion
- Melinda Metz – Colony (w/), Apocalypse Memories (w/)
- Rebecca Moesta – Little Things
- Yvonne Navarro – Wicked Willow trilogy, Paleo, Tempted Champions, Tales of the Slayer (s), How I Survived My Summer Vacation (s), The Longest Night (s)
- Mel Odom – Unnatural Selection, Revenant, Crossings, Cursed, Redemption, Bruja, Image, ToS: Ch'ing Shih (s), ToS: Silent Screams (s)
- John Passarella – Ghoul Trouble, Avatar, Monolith
- Paul Ruditis – ToS: The Show Must Go On (s)
- Josepha Sherman – Visitors (w/), Deep Water (w/)
- Thomas E. Sniegoski – Soul Trade (w/), Monster Island (w/)
- John Vornholt – Coyote Moon, Seven Crows
Canonical issues
The books featured in this list are not part of Buffyverse canon. They are not considered as official Buffyverse reality, but are novels from the authors' imaginations. However unlike fanfic, 'overviews' summarising their story, written early in the writing process, were 'approved' by both Fox and Whedon (or his office), and were therefore later published as officially Buffy or Angel merchandise (see main article for details).