Rin Chupeco Books in Order (Updated March 7, 2026)

Rin Chupeco’s bibliography is not one long chain. It is a set of separate fantasy and horror shelves, and most reading-order confusion disappears once those shelves are separated properly.

The practical split looks like this: Japanese-inspired ghost horror, ornate YA fantasy trilogies and duologies, one adult gothic vampire sequence, and a few standalones. Only the books inside each individual series need to be read in order.

First, pick your shelf

1. If you want horror first, start with The Girl from the Well.
2. If you want the best-known fantasy sequence, start with The Bone Witch.
3. If you want adult fantasy instead of YA, start with Silver Under Nightfall.
4. If you want a one-book sample, start with The Sacrifice or We’re Not Safe Here.

The shelves that belong together

The Girl from the Well duology

1. The Girl from the Well (2014): Okiku, a vengeful spirit who hunts child-killers, finds herself pulled toward a boy marked by darker supernatural forces than her own.
2. The Suffering (2015): The story continues in a more direct confrontation with curse, possession, and old violence, so it works best immediately after book one.

This is a true duology. Read it straight through.

The Bone Witch trilogy

1. The Bone Witch (2017): Tea accidentally raises her brother from the dead and discovers she is an asha with necromantic power, beginning Chupeco’s most recognizable fantasy series.
2. The Heart Forger (2018): Tea’s training, loyalties, and growing power move into much riskier territory, deepening both the court politics and the cost of her magic.
3. The Shadowglass (2019): The trilogy closes the frame-story and the war around Tea’s choices, making it the proper final stop for the series.

Optional extra:
4. The 5 Stages of Grief: A bonus story from Kalen’s point of view that the official site labels as spoiler-heavy, so it belongs only after the trilogy.

For a first read, do the three novels first and leave the bonus story until the end.

The Never Tilting World duology

1. The Never Tilting World (2019): Twin heirs raised on opposite sides of a broken world are forced toward the center of a prophecy-shaped disaster.
2. The Ever Cruel Kingdom (2020): The duology resolves the split-world conflict and the sisters’ intertwined fate, so it should always follow directly after book one.

This is one continuous fantasy story, not a companion pair.

A Hundred Names for Magic

1. Wicked As You Wish (2020): Tala lives in a modern world layered with fairy-tale history, and the arrival of a runaway prince turns her life into a collision of folklore, politics, and magic.
2. An Unreliable Magic (2022): The series expands from setup into pursuit, portals, and larger magical consequences, making this a direct second book rather than a fresh entry point.

Read these in order. The setting is part of the appeal, and book two assumes you already know it.

Silver Under Nightfall

1. Silver Under Nightfall (2022): Remy Pendergast, a vampire hunter and noble outcast, is drawn into an alliance with a powerful vampire pair as a new supernatural threat upends everything he was taught to fear.
2. Court of Wanderers (2024): Remy, Xiaodan, and Zidan move deeper into court politics, murder, and power struggles, so this should be read second without interruption.

This is currently the clean adult-fantasy lane in Chupeco’s catalogue.

Standalones and separate projects

Standalone horror and fantasy

• The Sacrifice (2022): A contemporary horror novel rooted in Filipino folklore, set on an island where a documentary trip turns into a deadly encounter with an old curse.
• We’re Not Safe Here (2025): A YA supernatural horror novel about a town, a vanished brother, and the unnerving feeling that the place itself is built to keep secrets.

These do not connect to the earlier series.

Franchise tie-in

Are You Afraid of the Dark?: The Tale of the Gravemother (2023): A middle grade horror novel tied to the Are You Afraid of the Dark? brand, separate from Chupeco’s own fantasy continuities.

Anthologies and shorter fiction for completists

His Hideous Heart (2019): Includes Chupeco’s Poe-inspired contribution “The Murders in the Rue Apartelle, Boracay,” but it is not part of any required series order.

• Hungry Hearts (2019): Includes “Sugar and Spite,” a standalone anthology story rather than a series installment.
• Black Cranes (2020): Includes “Kapre: A Love Story,” again separate from the main novel continuities.

These are optional extras, not part of the core reading path.

The cleanest reading order by publication year

If you want the whole shelf in broad release order, this is the practical sequence:

1. The Girl from the Well (2014): A Japanese-inspired ghost story that launched Chupeco’s published career.
2. The Suffering (2015): The continuation and conclusion of that duology.
3. The Bone Witch (2017): The start of the necromantic fantasy trilogy.
4. The Heart Forger (2018): The middle volume of the Bone Witch arc.
5. The Shadowglass (2019): The trilogy finale.
6. The Never Tilting World (2019): The start of a separate fantasy duology.
7. Wicked As You Wish (2020): A new fairy-tale-inflected alternate-history fantasy.
8. The Ever Cruel Kingdom (2020): The second Never Tilting World novel.
9. An Unreliable Magic (2022): The second A Hundred Names for Magic book.
10. The Sacrifice (2022): A standalone Filipino-folklore horror novel.
11. Silver Under Nightfall (2022): The start of Chupeco’s adult gothic fantasy line.
12. Are You Afraid of the Dark?: The Tale of the Gravemother (2023): A separate franchise horror project.
13. Court of Wanderers (2024): The second Silver Under Nightfall novel.
14. We’re Not Safe Here (2025): A later standalone supernatural horror novel.

That list is useful for completionists, but new readers are usually better off staying inside one shelf at a time.

Best reading orders for different readers

If you want the strongest fantasy path

1. The Bone Witch
2. The Heart Forger
3. The Shadowglass
4. The 5 Stages of Grief (optional)

This is still the clearest place to see Chupeco’s layered worldbuilding and long-form fantasy structure.

If you want horror first

1. The Girl from the Well
2. The Suffering
3. The Sacrifice
4. We’re Not Safe Here

That route shows the horror side first, moving from ghost folklore into broader supernatural suspense.

If you want adult fantasy first

1. Silver Under Nightfall
2. Court of Wanderers

This is the shortest commitment and the easiest lane for readers who want romance, court intrigue, and vampires rather than YA fantasy training arcs.

What matters most about order

The short answer is simple: publication order is the right order inside every Chupeco series.

There is no major case here where internal chronology improves a first read. In fact, the opposite is usually true. The reveals in The Bone Witch, the twin-world structure in The Never Tilting World, and the political shifts in Silver Under Nightfall all land better when read as published.

Latest release status

As of March 7, 2026, the most recent Rin Chupeco novel I could verify is We’re Not Safe Here from November 2025. The newest entry in the adult vampire sequence remains Court of Wanderers from April 2024. I did not find a newer solo novel on the official books page beyond those currently listed shelves.

Final recommendation

If you want one decisive place to begin, pick The Bone Witch for fantasy, The Girl from the Well for horror, or Silver Under Nightfall for adult fantasy. After that, stay inside that shelf until you finish it. That is the simplest way to read Rin Chupeco without losing context or stepping on later reveals.