Publication order
The five volumes
Five printed books. You can open any of them first. The usual order is Vampires, Werewolves, Hunters, Joint Threat Assessment, Dwarfs. Reading them in sequence makes the argument clearer. This page is the shelf, not the novels.
Canonical sequence. Independent volumes. Cumulative argument.
BOOK 1
HHDRV
Vampires in Theory
A Complete Theoretical Biology of Homo sapiens haemophagus
BOOK 2
LCAN
Werewolves in Theory
A Complete Theoretical Biology of Homo sapiens lycanus
BOOK 3
CUSTOS
Hunters in Theory
A Complete Operational History of Homo sapiens vigilans
BOOK 4
OVERLORD
Joint Threat Assessment
Vampire-Werewolf Contact, the 1947–Present Shadow War, and Human Oversight Strategy
BOOK 5
AETERNA
Dwarfs in Theory
A Forensic Assessment of Homo faber subterraneus
- BOOK 1THEORETICAL
Vampires in Theory
A Complete Theoretical Biology of Homo sapiens haemophagus
This is Book 1 of the Theory Series. It is not a novel and not a folklore survey. It is a theoretical-biology reconstruction of the organism the stories called vampire — treated as a living system whose symptoms were written down badly, for a very long time.
82,900 words · 45 chapters · Appendices A–G · Compiler A
about 5.5 hours
- BOOK 2THEORETICAL
Werewolves in Theory
A Complete Theoretical Biology of Homo sapiens lycanus
This is Book 2. Same method as Book 1, different organism. It reconstructs the werewolf as a biological phenotype — not a curse, and not a man who becomes a wolf.
82,000 words · 35 + 13A chapters · Appendices A–H · Compiler A
about 5.5 hours
- BOOK 3THEORETICAL
Hunters in Theory
A Complete Operational History of Homo sapiens vigilans
This is Book 3. It is not another monster. It is the operational history of the people who learned to tell the first two apart, and to keep them from the rest of us.
126,800 words · 43 chapters · Appendices A–H · The Compiler
about 8 hours
- BOOK 4ACTIVE CONTAINMENT
Joint Threat Assessment
Vampire-Werewolf Contact, the 1947–Present Shadow War, and Human Oversight Strategy
This is Book 4. It is written as a joint threat assessment, not as a biology. The date on the first dual-signature body is 1947. Everything after that, in this document, is treated as a management problem.
104,000 words · 34 chapters · Appendices A–F · Compiler B
about 7 hours
- BOOK 5THEORETICAL
Dwarfs in Theory
A Forensic Assessment of Homo faber subterraneus
This is Book 5, and the last. The previous four volumes described a three-body problem on the surface of the Earth. They were incomplete.
76,300 words · 42 chapters · Appendices A–E · Compiler C
about 5 hours