Buffy novels
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- See also: Buffyverse novels and Angel novels
Buffy novels have been published since 1998 by Pocket Books. Authors who have written original novels include Mel Odom, Christopher Golden, and Nancy Holder.
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[edit] Canonical issues
Buffy novels are not considered an official part of Buffyverse canon. However, unlike fan fiction, overviews summarising the basic story of each novel (written early in the writing process) were approved by both Fox and Joss Whedon (or his office), thereby allowing the books to be published as "official Buffy/Angel merchandise."
[edit] Chronology
[edit] 1901-1996
[edit] History
| Image | Buffyverse stories | Buffyverse location, time (if known) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image:Tales of the Slayer- 1.jpg | Tales of the Slayer | (Various) | |||
| First collection Tales of Slayers that lived prior to Buffy. | |||||
| Image:Tales of the Slayer- 2.jpg | Tales of the Slayer | (Various) | |||
| Second collection Tales of Slayers that lived prior to Buffy. | |||||
| Image:Tales of the Slayer- 3.jpg | Tales of the Slayer | (Various) | |||
| Third collection Tales of Slayers that lived prior to Buffy. | |||||
| Image:Tales of the Slayer- 4.jpg | Tales of the Slayer | (Various) | |||
| Fourth collection Tales of Slayers that lived prior to Buffy. | |||||
| Image:Spike & Dru- Pretty Maids All in a Row.jpg | 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. | |||||
| Image:Blackout (Buffy Novel).jpg | 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. | |||||
[edit] BS1
These Buffyverse tales take place around Buffy Season 1 (from spring 1996 up until spring 1997).
| Image | Buffyverse stories | Location, time (if known) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image:Halloween Rain (Buffy Novel).jpg | Buffy book: Halloween Rain | Sunnydale, Halloween 1996 | |||
| On Halloween Xander & Willow warn Buffy if it's raining. | |||||
| Image:Night of the Living Rerun (Buffy Novel).jpg | Buffy book: Night of the Living Rerun | Sunnydale, 1996/7 | |||
| The Master attempts to rise once more. | |||||
| Image:Coyote Moon (Buffy Novel).jpg | Buffy book: Coyote Moon | Sunnydale, summer 1997 | |||
| It's summer vacation in Sunnydale and the carnival has come to town. | |||||
| Image:How I Survived My Summer Vacation (Buffy Novel).jpg | 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. | |||||
[edit] BS2
These tales take place during Buffy Season 2, (from autumn 1997 up until spring 1998).
| Image | Buffyverse stories | Location, time (if known) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image:Keep Me in Mind (Buffy Novel).jpg | Buffy book: Keep Me In Mind | Sunnydale, 1997 | |||
| Ethan Rayne returns and releases an evil sorcerer from Middle Ages Bavaria. | |||||
| Image:The Suicide King (Buffy Novel).jpg | Buffy book: The Suicide King | Sunnydale, 1997 | |||
| A number of strange student suicides have been taking place, and Buffy suspects something wrong. | |||||
| Image:Colony (Buffy Novel).jpg | 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!". | |||||
| Image:Night Terrors (Buffy Novel).jpg | 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. | |||||
| Image:After Image (Buffy Novel).jpg | Buffy book: After Image | Sunnydale, 1997 | |||
| Sunnydale drive-in reopens. | |||||
| Image:Carnival of Souls (Buffy Novel).jpg | 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. | |||||
| Image:Go Ask Malice- A Slayers Diary (Buffy Novel).jpg | 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. | |||||
| Image:Blooded (Buffy Novel).jpg | Buffy book: Blooded | Sunnydale, 1997/8 | |||
| The Scoobies become entangled in a long-running feud between Asian warriors. | |||||
[edit] BS3
These tales take place during Buffy Season 3 (from autumn 1997 up until spring 1998).
| Image | Buffyverse stories | Location, time (if known) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image:Sins of the Father (Buffy Novel).jpg | Buffy book: Sins of the Father | Sunnydale, 1998 | |||
| Pike visits Sunnydale. | |||||
| Image:Child of the Hunt (Buffy Novel).jpg | Buffy book: Child of the Hunt | Sunnydale, 1998 | |||
| The 'Wild Hunt' arrives in Sunnydale. | |||||
| Image:Ghoul Trouble (Buffy Novel).jpg | Buffy book: Ghoul Trouble | Sunnydale, 1998 | |||
| A new vampire arrives in town called Solitaire who is immune to the sun's rays. | |||||
| Image:Paleo (Buffy Novel).jpg | Buffy book: Paleo | Sunnydale, 1998 | |||
| People try to resurrect dinosaur eggs. | |||||
| Image:The Evil That Men Do (Buffy Novel).jpg | Buffy book: The Evil That Men Do | Sunnydale, 1998 | |||
| Helen, an ancient vampire attempts to raise a goddess of destruction. | |||||
| Image:The Deathless (Buffy novel).jpg | Buffy book: The Deathless | Sunnydale, 1999 | |||
| Ring Day is fast approaching at Sunnydale High. | |||||
| Image:Doomsday Deck (Buffy Novel).jpg | Buffy book: Doomsday Deck | Sunnydale, 1999 | |||
| Tarot card-reader, Justine arrives in Sunnydale. | |||||
| Image:Immortal (Buffy Novel).jpg | Buffy book: Immortal | Sunnydale, 1999 | |||
| Buffy faces Veronique, a vampire even more immortal than most. | |||||
| Image:Prime Evil (Buffy Novel).jpg | 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. | |||||
| Image:Revenant (Buffy Novel).jpg | Buffy book: Revenant | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | |||
| A Chinese gang arrives in Sunnydale. | |||||
| Image:Power of Persuasion (Buffy Novel).jpg | 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. | |||||
| Image:Resurrecting Ravana (Buffy Novel).jpg | Buffy book: Resurrecting Ravana | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | |||
| The Rakshasa are in town to help with the resurrection on an ancient Hindu god called Ravana. | |||||
| Image:Gatekeep I- Out of Madness (Buffy Novel).jpg | 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. | |||||
| Image:Return to Chaos (Buffy Novel).jpg | 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. | |||||
| Image:Visitors (Buffy Novel).jpg | Buffy book: Visitors | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | |||
| Buffy thinks she's being stalked by a demon with a high-pitched giggle. | |||||
| Image:Unnatural Selection (Buffy Novel).jpg | Buffy book: Unnatural Selection | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | |||
| Willow battles against the 'faeries'. | |||||
| Image:Obsidian Fate (Buffy Novel).jpg | Buffy book: Obsidian Fate | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | |||
| An old Spanish expedition is found on the outskirts of Sunnydale. | |||||
| Image:Deep Water (Buffy Novel).jpg | 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. | |||||
| Image:Here Be Monsters (Buffy Novel).jpg | 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. | |||||
| Image:The Book of Fours (Buffy Novel).jpg | Buffy book: The Book of Fours | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | |||
| The power of four slayers is needed to conquer a new threat. | |||||
| Image:Sunnydale High Yearbook (Graduation Day II).jpg | Sunnydale High Yearbook | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | |||
| Yearbook received by Scoobies when they graduated from High School. | |||||
[edit] BS4/AS1
These Buffyverse tales take place during Buffy Season 4, and Angel Season 1 (from autumn 1999 up until spring 2000).
| Image | Buffyverse stories | Location, time (if known) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image:Lost Slayer Omnibus (Buffy Novel).jpg | 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. | |||||
| Image:Oz-Into the Wild (Buffy Novel).jpg | Buffy book: Oz: Into the Wild | Sunnydale, 1999 | |||
| Oz is in search of himself having left his home. | |||||
| Image:These Our Actors (Buffy Novel).jpg | Buffy book: These Our Actors | Sunnydale, 2000 | |||
| Willow takes up drama class, and Spike recalls Cecily. | |||||
| Image:Unseen I- The Burning.jpg | 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. | |||||
[edit] BS5/AS2
These Buffyverse tales take place during Buffy Season 5, and Angel Season 2 (from autumn 2000 up until spring 2001).
| Image | Buffyverse stories | Location, time (if known) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image:Wisdom of War (Buffy Novel).jpg | Buffy book: Wisdom of War | Sunnydale, 2001 | |||
| Two strange breeds of sea creatures are beginning to appear in Sunnydale. | |||||
| Image:Tempted Champions (Buffy Novel).jpg | Buffy book: Tempted Champions | Sunnydale, 2001 | |||
| A deadly fighter arrives, willing to kill both humans and vampires. | |||||
| Image:Little Things (Buffy Novel).jpg | Buffy book: Little Things | Sunnydale, 2001 | |||
| The town is terrorised by something mysterious and tiny. | |||||
| Image:Crossings (Buffy Novel).jpg | Buffy book: Crossings | Sunnydale, 2001 | |||
| Xander learns of a terrifying total immersion video game beta testing. | |||||
| Image:Sweet Sixteen (Buffy Novel).jpg | Buffy book: Sweet Sixteen | Sunnydale, 2001 | |||
| Dawn befriends a girl named Arianna. | |||||
[edit] BS6/AS3
These Buffyverse tales take place around Buffy Season 6, and Angel Season 3 (from autumn 2001 up until spring 2002).
| Image | Buffyverse stories | Location, time (if known) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image:Cursed (Buffy-Angel Novel).jpg | 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. | |||||
| Image:Monster Island (Buffy-Angel Novel).jpg | 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. | |||||
| Image:Wicked Willow Omnibus (Buffy Novel).jpg | Buffy books: Wicked Willow | Sunnydale, 2002 | |||
| Supposing that Dark Willow did not return to the good so quickly. | |||||
[edit] BS7/AS4
These Buffyverse tales take place around Buffy Season 7, and Angel Season 4 (from autumn 2002 up until spring 2003).
| Image | Buffyverse stories | Location, time (if known) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image:Seven Crows (Buffy-Angel Novel).jpg | Buffy/Angel book: Seven Crows | Mexico, 2002 | |||
| Between Mexico and Arizona Riley Sam Finn call in Buffy and Angel to investigate mysterious supernature. | |||||
| Image:Apocalypse Memories (Buffy Novel).jpg | 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. | |||||
| Image:Mortal Fear (Buffy Novel).jpg | 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. | |||||
| Image:Spark and Burn (Buffy Novel).jpg | Buffy book: Spark and Burn | Sunnydale, 2002 | |||
| Spike remembers his past as he suffers insanity in a school basement. | |||||
| Image:Heat (Buffy-Angel Novel).jpg | Buffy/Angel book: Heat | Sunnydale, L.A., 2002 | |||
| Buffy and Angel both battle the same ancient evil, a Possessor who was once "Qin". | |||||
| Image:Queen of the Slayers (Buffy Novel).jpg | 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. | |||||
[edit] New/Upcoming novels
These novels are new or upcoming:
- Go Ask Malice: A Slayer's Diary - July 2006
- Blackout (Nikki Wood story) - August 2006
- Portal Through Time - October 2006
- Bad Bargain - December 2006
- The Deathless - Spring 2007
[edit] Novels by writer
For a list associating Buffyverse authors with their Buffyverse novels see here. List of authors who have written Buffy novels:
