The Dresden Files Series by Jim Butcher

4.14 · 1460 ratings
  • Restoration of Faith (The Dresden Files #0.1)
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    Restoration of Faith (The Dresden Files #0.1)

    Jim Butcher

    · 19 ratings · published 2004

    A short story of the Dresden Files which introduced Harry Dresden and his world for the very first time.(Also included in Side Jobs)

  • Storm Front (The Dresden Files #1)
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    Storm Front (The Dresden Files #1)

    Jim Butcher

    · 52 ratings · published 2000

    HARRY DRESDEN — WIZARDLost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment.Harry Dresden is the best at what he does. Well, technically, he's the only at what he does. So when the Chicago P.D. has a case that transcends mortal creativity or capability, they come to him for answers. For the "everyday" world is actually full of strange and magical things—and most don't play well with humans... more

  • Fool Moon (The Dresden Files #2)
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    Fool Moon (The Dresden Files #2)

    Jim Butcher

    · 47 ratings · published 2001

    Harry Dresden — WizardLost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment.Business has been slow. Okay, business has been dead. And not even of the undead variety. You would think Chicago would have a little more action for the only professional wizard in the phone book. But lately, Harry Dresden hasn't been able to dredge up any kind of work — magical or mundane... more

  • Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron (The Dresden Files #2.5 - B Is for Bigfoot)
    #2.5 - B Is for Bigfoot

    Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron (The Dresden Files #2.5 - B Is for Bigfoot)

    Jonathan Strahan, Diana Peterfreund, Frances Hardinge, Garth Nix, Holly Black, Charles de Lint, Tanith Lee, Neil Gaiman, Ellen Klages, Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman, Patricia A. McKillip, Tim Pratt, M. Rickert, Isobelle Carmody, Jane Yolen, Jim Butcher, Peter S. Beagle, Margo Lanagan

    · 16 ratings · published 2012

    Broomsticks.Black Cats.Pointy Hats.They can mean only one thing - somewhere nearby, there must be a witch. From fairy tales to fims to fiction, witches cast their spells and capture our imaginations.Now the biggest names in fantasy and young adult literature have come together to make a little magic of their own. Neil Gaiman, Holly Black, Diana Peterfreund, Margo Lanagan, Peter S... more

  • B is for Bigfoot (The Dresden Files #2.5)
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    B is for Bigfoot (The Dresden Files #2.5)

    Jim Butcher

    · 8 ratings · published 2011

    FREE: A SHORT STORY about the world of Harry Dresden's dark cases.My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden, and while I'm a true magician, there are far stranger people in Chicago than me. This time, a concerned father hired me to protect his son at school. The boy was apparently bullied badly. The job required me to be undercover as the school janitor. As a magician, why did I take the case at all? The father is a Bigfoot, his son is half human, and the culprits are...

  • Grave Peril (The Dresden Files #3)
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    Grave Peril (The Dresden Files #3)

    Jim Butcher

    · 46 ratings · published 2001

    An alternative cover edition with a different page count exists here.Harry Dresden - WizardLost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment.Harry Dresden has faced some pretty terrifying foes during his career. Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves. It comes with the territory when you're the only professional wizard in the Chicago-area phone book... more

  • Summer Knight (The Dresden Files #4)
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    Summer Knight (The Dresden Files #4)

    Jim Butcher

    · 48 ratings · published 2002

    For the 1st printing edition of this ISBN, see here.HARRY DRESDEN -- WIZARDLost items found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates.No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other EntertainmentEver since his girlfriend left town to deal with her newly acquired taste for blood, Harry Dresden has been down and out in Chicago. He can't pay his rent. He's alienating his friends. He can't even recall the last time he took a shower... more

  • Death Masks (The Dresden Files #5)
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    Death Masks (The Dresden Files #5)

    Jim Butcher

    · 47 ratings · published 2003

    Harry Dresden, Chicago's only practicing professional wizard, should be happy that business is pretty good for a change. But now he's getting more than he bargained for:A duel with the Red Court of Vampires' champion, who must kill Harry to end the war between vampires and wizards...Professional hit men using Harry for target practice...The missing Shroud of Turin...A handless and headless corpse the Chicago police need identified.. more

  • Vignette (The Dresden Files #5.5)
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    Vignette (The Dresden Files #5.5)

    Jim Butcher

    · 18 ratings · published 2008

    A short story of the Dresden Files. Bob and Harry discuss the latter's Yellow Pages advert.(Also included in Side Jobs)

  • Blood Rites (The Dresden Files #6)
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    Blood Rites (The Dresden Files #6)

    Jim Butcher

    · 47 ratings · published 2004

    For Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, there have been worse assignments than going undercover on the set of an adult film. Dodging flaming monkey poo, for instance. Or going toe-to-leaf with a walking plant monster. Still, there is something more troubling than usual about his newest case. The film's producer believes he's the target of a sinister entropy curse, but it's the women around him who are dying, in increasingly spectacular ways... more

  • The Dresden Files Collection 1-6 (The Dresden Files #1-6)
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    The Dresden Files Collection 1-6 (The Dresden Files #1-6)

    Jim Butcher

    · 16 ratings · published 2006

    The Dresden Files Collection 1-6The first six novels featuring Harry Dresden—Chicago’s only professional wizard—are a perfect introduction to the # 1 New York Times bestselling series that Entertainment Weekly describes as “Buffy the Vampire Slayer starring Philip Marlowe.”Storm FrontFool MoonGrave PerilSummer KnightDeath MasksBlood Rites

  • Blood Lite III: Aftertaste (The Dresden Files #6.5 - I was a Teenage Bigfoot)
    #6.5 - I was a Teenage Bigfoot

    Blood Lite III: Aftertaste (The Dresden Files #6.5 - I was a Teenage Bigfoot)

    Kevin J. Anderson, Jim Butcher, J.G. Faherty, Stephen Dorato, Jeff Ryan, Mike Resnick, Lezli Robyn, Will Ludwigsen, Heather Graham, Daniel Pyle, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, L.A. Banks, John Alfred Taylor, David Sakmyster, Norman Prentiss, Don D'Ammassa, Adrian Ludens, Chris Abbey, D.L. Snell, Ken Lillie-Paetz, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Lisa Morton, Kelley Armstrong, Brad C. Hodson, Lucien Soulban, Christopher Golden, E.S. Magill, Eric James Stone, Jeff Strand, Mark Onspaugh, Joel A. Sutherland, Mike Baron

    · 14 ratings · published 2012

    The third book in the hilarious and horrifying national bestselling anthology series from the Horror Writers Association--a frightfest of sidesplitting stories from such "New York Times" bestselling authors as Jim Butcher, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Heather Graham, L.A. Banks, Kelley Armstrong, and many more! Horror fiction explores the dark side of human nature, often pushing the limits of violence, graphic gore, and extreme emotions... more

  • Dead Beat (The Dresden Files #7)
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    Dead Beat (The Dresden Files #7)

    Jim Butcher

    · 48 ratings · published 2005

    Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the 'everyday' world is full of strange and magical things - and most of them don't play well with humans. That's where Harry comes in.Luckily, however, he's not alone. Although most people don't believe in magic, the Chicago P.D. has a Special Investigations department, headed by his good friend Karrin Murphy. They deal with the . . . stranger cases... more

  • My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding (The Dresden Files #7.5 - Something Borrowed)
    #7.5 - Something Borrowed

    My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding (The Dresden Files #7.5 - Something Borrowed)

    P.N. Elrod, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Caitlin Kittredge, Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, L.A. Banks, Rachel Caine, Lori Handeland, Susan Krinard, Esther M. Friesner

    · 25 ratings · published 2006

    Werewolves, vampires, witches, voodoo, Elvis---and weddingsAn "ordinary" wedding can get crazy enough, so can you imagine what happens when otherworldly creatures are involved? Nine of the hottest authors of paranormal fiction answer that question in this delightful collection of supernatural wedding stories... more

  • Something Borrowed (The Dresden Files #7.5)
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    Something Borrowed (The Dresden Files #7.5)

    Jim Butcher

    · 6 ratings · published 2023

    It is Georgia and Billy Borden's wedding day, and Harry has to step in as Best Man.

  • Proven Guilty (The Dresden Files #8)
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    Proven Guilty (The Dresden Files #8)

    Jim Butcher

    · 46 ratings · published 2006

    There's no love lost between Harry Dresden, the only wizard in the Chicago phone book, and the White Council of Wizards, who find him brash and undisciplined. But war with the vampires has thinned their ranks, so the Council has drafted Harry as a Warden and assigned him to look into rumors of black magic in the Windy City.As Harry adjusts to his new role, another problem arrives in the form of the tattooed and pierced daughter of an old friend, all grown-up and already in trouble... more

  • White Night (The Dresden Files #9)
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    White Night (The Dresden Files #9)

    Jim Butcher

    · 47 ratings · published 2007

    Wizard Harry Dresden must investigate his own flesh and blood when a series of killings strike Chicago’s magic practitioners in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.Someone is targeting the members of the city’s supernatural underclass—those who don’t possess enough power to become full-fledged wizards. Some have vanished. Others appear to be victims of suicide. But now the culprit has left a calling card at one of the crime scenes—a message for Harry Dresden... more

  • Many Bloody Returns (The Dresden Files #9.2 - It's My Birthday, Too)
    #9.2 - It's My Birthday, Too

    Many Bloody Returns (The Dresden Files #9.2 - It's My Birthday, Too)

    Charlaine Harris, Christopher Golden, Bill Crider, Kelley Armstrong, Jim Butcher, P.N. Elrod, Rachel Caine, Jeanne C. Stein, Tanya Huff, Carolyn Haines, Tate Hallaway, Elaine Viets

    · 25 ratings · published 2007

    Never-before-published vampire stories by Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, and many others. Suspenseful, surprising, sometimes dark, sometimes humorous-these all-new stories will ensure that readers never think of vampires (or birthdays) in quite the same way again. In New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris's "Dracula Night," Sookie Stackhouse is the only human at the annual commemoration of Dracula's birth... more

  • Heorot (The Dresden Files #9.2)
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    Heorot (The Dresden Files #9.2)

    Jim Butcher

    · 6 ratings · published 2023

  • My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon (The Dresden Files #9.3 - Heorot)
    #9.3 - Heorot

    My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon (The Dresden Files #9.3 - Heorot)

    P.N. Elrod, Marjorie M. Liu, Katie MacAlister, Lilith Saintcrow, Ronda Thompson, Kelley Armstrong, Jim Butcher, Rachel Caine, Caitlin Kittredge

    · 18 ratings · published 2007

    Nine popular fantasy and paranormal romance authors celebrate marital bliss supernatural style in a collection of honeymoon tales populated by demons, vampires, shape-shifters, magic-users, and other unusual characters in an anthology featuring works by Kelley Armstrong, Jim Butcher, Rachel Caine, P.N. Elrod, Caitlin Kittredge, Marjorie M. Liu, Katie MacAlister, Lilith Saintcrow & Ronda Thompson... more

  • Mike (The Dresden Files #9.5)
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    Mike (The Dresden Files #9.5)

    Jim Butcher

    · 8 ratings · published 2020

    Storm Front was first published April 1st, 2000, which makes this year The Dresden Files’ 20th anniversary! To honor that milestone and to thank the phenomenal fans who got us there, we will be posting “Dresden Drops” on jim-butcher.com every Tuesday this year. Dresden Drops will feature never-before-seen artwork, microfiction, interviews, sample chapters for Peace Talks, contests, and other tasty tidbits throughout 2020... more

  • AAAA Wizardry (The Dresden Files #9.6)
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    AAAA Wizardry (The Dresden Files #9.6)

    Jim Butcher

    · 6 ratings · published 2023

    Harry Dresden teaches 'baby' Wardens.Falls between Proven Guilty and White Night.Included in Brief Cases

  • Small Favor (The Dresden Files #10)
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    Small Favor (The Dresden Files #10)

    Jim Butcher

    · 46 ratings · published 2008

    THE New York Times BestsellerHarry Dresden's life finally seems to be calming down -- until a shadow from the past returns. Mab, monarch of the Sidhe Winter Court, calls in an old favor from Harry -- one small favor that will trap him between a nightmarish foe and an equally deadly ally, and that will strain his skills -- and loyalties -- to their very limits.

  • Blood Lite (The Dresden Files #10.1 - Harry's Day Off)
    #10.1 - Harry's Day Off

    Blood Lite (The Dresden Files #10.1 - Harry's Day Off)

    Kevin J. Anderson, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Nancy Kilpatrick, Jeff Strand, Don D'Ammassa, Charlaine Harris, Sharyn McCrumb, Steven Savile, Jim Butcher, J.A. Konrath, F. Paul Wilson, Will Ludwigsen, Janet Berliner, Kelley Armstrong, Mike Resnick, Joe R. Lansdale, Lucien Soulban, D.L. Snell, Christopher Welch, Nancy Holder, Eric James Stone, Matt Venne, Mark Onspaugh

    · 20 ratings · published 2008

    The Horror Writers Association Presents Blood Lite...a collection of entertaining tales that puts the fun back into dark fiction, with ironic twists and tongue-in-cheek wit to temper the jagged edge.Charlaine Harris reveals the dark side of going green, when a quartet of die-hard environmentalists hosts a fundraiser with a gory twist in An Evening with Al Gore.. more

  • Mean Streets (The Dresden Files #10.3 - The Warrior)
    #10.3 - The Warrior

    Mean Streets (The Dresden Files #10.3 - The Warrior)

    Jim Butcher, Simon R. Green, Kat Richardson, Thomas E. Sniegoski

    · 26 ratings · published 2009

    Jim Butcher delivers a hard-boiled tale in which Harry Dresden’s latest case may be his last.Nightside dweller John Taylor is hired by a woman to find something she lost—her memory—in a noir tale from Simon R. Green.Kat Richardson’s Greywalker finds herself in too deep when a “simple job” goes bad and Harper Blaine is enmeshed in a tangle of dark secrets and revenge from beyond the grave.For centuries, the being that we know as Noah lived among us... more

  • The Warrior (The Dresden Files #10.3)
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    The Warrior (The Dresden Files #10.3)

    Jim Butcher

    · 6 ratings · published 2009

    Harry Dresden and Michael Carpenter are sitting on the diamond's bleachers, where Carpenter is coaching his daughter's softball team, discussing a number of pictures that Dresden received, depicting Carpenter in his day-to-day activity. Dresden feels his friend is in danger, Carpenter minimizes it all, stating he's not going to live in fear, and that Amoracchius has passed out of his hands. However, Dresden decides to keep watch, since he's convinced the pictures indicate danger for his friend.

  • Backup (The Dresden Files #10.4)
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    Backup (The Dresden Files #10.4)

    Jim Butcher

    · 20 ratings · published 2008

    Let's get something clear right up front. I'm not Harry Dresden. Harry's a wizard. A genuine, honest-to-goodness wizard. He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket. He'll spit in the eye of gods and demons alike if he thinks it needs to be done, and to hell with the consequences--and yet somehow my little brother manages to remain a decent human being. I'll be damned if I know how. But then, I'll be damned regardless... more

  • Curses (The Dresden Files #10.4)
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    Curses (The Dresden Files #10.4)

    Jim Butcher

    · 6 ratings · published 2004

    A man in an expensive suit walks into Harry Dresden's office to hire him to remove the Billy Goat curse from Wrigley Field, and Dresden accepts.

  • Last Call (The Dresden Files #10.5)
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    Last Call (The Dresden Files #10.5)

    Jim Butcher

    · 6 ratings · published 2007

    Included in Side Jobs

  • Strange Brew (The Dresden Files #10.6 - Last Call)
    #10.6 - Last Call

    Strange Brew (The Dresden Files #10.6 - Last Call)

    P.N. Elrod, Patricia Briggs, Jim Butcher, Rachel Caine, Karen Chance, Charlaine Harris, Faith Hunter, Caitlin Kittredge, Jenna Maclaine

    · 25 ratings · published 2009

    Today's hottest urban fantasy authors come together in this delicious brew that crackles and boils over with tales of powerful witches and dark magic!In Charlaine Harris' "Bacon," a beautiful vampire joins forces with a witch from an ancient line to find out who killed her beloved husband. In "Seeing Eye" by Patricia Briggs, a blind witch helps sexy werewolf Tom Franklin find his missing brother—and helps him in more ways than either of them ever suspected... more

  • Naked City (The Dresden Files #10.7 - Curses)
    #10.7 - Curses

    Naked City (The Dresden Files #10.7 - Curses)

    Ellen Datlow, Jim Butcher, Patricia Briggs, Nathan Ballingrud, Peter S. Beagle, Elizabeth Bear, Richard Bowes, Pat Cadigan, John Crowley, Jeffrey Ford, Christopher Fowler, Melissa Marr, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Matthew Kressel, Ellen Kushner, Naomi Novik, Kit Reed, Lucius Shepard, Delia Sherman, Lavie Tidhar, Holly Black

    · 18 ratings · published 2011

    In this thrilling collection of original stories, some of today’s hottest paranormal authors delight, thrill, and captivate readers with otherworldly tales of magic and mischief. In Jim Butcher’s ”Curses”, Harry Dresden investigates how to lift a curse laid by the Fair Folk on the Chicago Cubs. In Patricia Briggs’ “Fairy Gifts,”, a vampire is called home by magic to save the Fae who freed him from a dark curse... more

  • Magic City: Recent Spells (The Dresden Files #10.7 - Curses)
    #10.7 - Curses

    Magic City: Recent Spells (The Dresden Files #10.7 - Curses)

    Paula Guran, Christopher Barzak, Elizabeth Bear, Holly Black, Patricia Briggs, Emma Bull, Jim Butcher, Charles de Lint, Amanda Downum, Simon R. Green, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Nancy Kress, Marc Laidlaw, Scott Lynch, Jonathan Maberry, Nnedi Okorafor, Diana Peterfreund, Mary Rosenblum, Nisi Shawl, Delia Sherman, John Shirley, Angela Slatter, Lucy Sussex, Catherynne M. Valente, Carrie Vaughn, A.C. Wise

    · 8 ratings · published 2014

    Bright lights, big city... magic spells, witchcraft, wizardry, fairies, devilry, and more. Urban living, at least in fantasy fiction, is full of both magical wonder and dark enchantment. Street kids may have supernatural beings to protect them or have such powers themselves. Brujeria may be part of your way of life. Crimes can be caused (and solved) with occult arts and even a losing sports team's "curse" can be lifted with wizardry... more

  • Our World (The Dresden Files #10.9)
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    Our World (The Dresden Files #10.9)

    Leonard Balsera, Jim Butcher, Genevieve Cogman, Rob Donoghue, Fred Hicks, Kenneth Hite, Ryan Macklin, Chad Underkoffler, Clark Valentine

    · 12 ratings · published 2010

    Step Into Our World We are wizards, cops, mechanics, werewolves, doctors, fairies, mobsters, reporters, holy warriors, and vampires. We call upon the dark powers of the Never never-or the darkness in human nature. We are the monsters living next door or lurking behind a friendly face. This is the Dresdenverse. This is Our World. This volume of The Dresden Files RPG gives you extensive detail on the factions, creatures, foes, and allies of the Dresdenverse... more

  • Turn Coat (The Dresden Files #11)
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    Turn Coat (The Dresden Files #11)

    Jim Butcher

    · 46 ratings · published 2009

    Accused of treason against the Wizards of the White Council, Warden Morgan goes in search of Harry Dresden in a desperate attempt to clear his name and stop the deadly punishment from taking place in this latest thrilling addition to the Dresden Files series.

  • Even Hand (The Dresden Files #11.1)
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    Even Hand (The Dresden Files #11.1)

    Jim Butcher

    · 3 ratings · published 2010

    Gentleman Johnnie Marcone clashes with a rival supernatural power. Told from Marcone’s point of view. Takes place between Turn Coat and Changes. It can be found in the book Dark and Stormy Knights and has been included in the anthology Brief Cases.

  • Bigfoot on Campus (The Dresden Files #11.2)
    #11.2

    Bigfoot on Campus (The Dresden Files #11.2)

    Jim Butcher

    · 6 ratings · published 2008

    Included in Brief CasesThe short story takes place between Turn Coat and Changes.

  • Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love (The Dresden Files #11.5 - Love Hurts)
    #11.5 - Love Hurts

    Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love (The Dresden Files #11.5 - Love Hurts)

    George R.R. Martin, Daniel Abraham, Jacqueline Carey, Lisa Tuttle, Linnea Sinclair, Mary Jo Putney, Tanith Lee, Peter S. Beagle, Yasmine Galenorn, Diana Gabaldon, Jo Beverley, Carrie Vaughn, M.L.N. Hanover, Cecelia Holland, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Robin Hobb, Neil Gaiman, Marjorie M. Liu, Jim Butcher

    · 18 ratings · published 2010

    Songs of Love and Death: All Original Tales of Star Crossed Love“Love Hurts” copyright © 2010 by Jim Butcher“The Marrying Maid” copyright © 2010 by Jo Beverley“Rooftops” copyright © 2010 by Carrie Vaughn LLC“Hurt Me” copyright © 2010 by M. L. N... more

  • Love Hurts (The Dresden Files #11.5)
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    Love Hurts (The Dresden Files #11.5)

    Jim Butcher

    · 14 ratings · published 2011

    An e-book short story by New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher, originally published in the anthology SONGS OF LOVE AND DEATH, edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois. Also available in Side Jobs.

  • Dark and Stormy Knights (The Dresden Files #11.6 - Even Hand)
    #11.6 - Even Hand

    Dark and Stormy Knights (The Dresden Files #11.6 - Even Hand)

    P.N. Elrod, Ilona Andrews, Jim Butcher, Shannon K. Butcher, Rachel Caine, Deidre Knight, Vicki Pettersson, Lilith Saintcrow, Carrie Vaughn

    · 18 ratings · published 2010

    9 stories from the hottest writers in paranormal fantasy. 1. A Questionable Client (Kate Daniels, #0.5) by Ilona Andrews: Kate Daniels guards shifter Saiman, less trustworthy than the enemy.2. Even Hand (Dresden Files, #11.6) by Jim Butcher: "Gentleman" John Marcone, Chicago's most dangerous crime lord, fights water demon with defenses against White Council wizard Harry Dresden. 3. The Beacon by Shannon K... more

  • Urban Enemies (The Dresden Files #11.6 - Even Hand)
    #11.6 - Even Hand

    Urban Enemies (The Dresden Files #11.6 - Even Hand)

    Joseph Nassise, Jim Butcher, Kevin Hearne, Seanan McGuire, Kelley Armstrong, Jonathan Maberry, Jeff Somers, Steven Savile, Caitlin Kittredge, Sam Witt, Craig Schaefer, Jon F. Merz, Faith Hunter, Diana Pharaoh Francis, Lilith Saintcrow, Carrie Vaughn, Domino Finn

    · 15 ratings · published 2017

    Villains have all the fun—everyone knows that—and this anthology takes you on a wild ride through the dark side! The top villains from sixteen urban fantasy series get their own stories—including the baddies of New York Times bestselling authors Jim Butcher, Kevin Hearne, Kelley Armstrong, Seanan McGuire, and Jonathan Maberry.For every hero trying to save the world, there’s a villain trying to tear it all down... more

  • Beyond the Pale (The Dresden Files #11.6 - Even Hand)
    #11.6 - Even Hand

    Beyond the Pale (The Dresden Files #11.6 - Even Hand)

    Henry L. Herz, Saladin Ahmed, Peter S. Beagle, Z Brewer, Heather Brewer, Jim Butcher, Rachel Caine, Kami Garcia, Nancy Holder, Gillian Philip, Jane Yolen, Abigail Larson

    · 6 ratings · published 2014

    Beyond the Pale is an anthology of fantasy, urban fantasy and paranormal stories that skirt the border between our world and others. Was that my imagination, or did I hear something under my bed? What was that blurred movement in my darkened closet? There is but a thin Veil separating the real and the fantastic, and therein dwell the inhabitants of these stories... more

  • Hex Appeal (The Dresden Files #11.8 - Bigfoot on Campus)
    #11.8 - Bigfoot on Campus

    Hex Appeal (The Dresden Files #11.8 - Bigfoot on Campus)

    P.N. Elrod, Jim Butcher, Carrie Vaughn, Ilona Andrews, Erica Hayes, Rachel Caine, Carole Nelson Douglas, Simon R. Green, Lori Handeland

    · 18 ratings · published 2012

    Fall under the intoxicating spell of their hex appeal…In the magical world that lies hidden beneath our own, witches and conjurers play deadly games. They know just the right spell to kill a man with one kiss—or raise him back again. And they’re not afraid to exact sweet revenge on those who dare to cross them... more

  • Working for Bigfoot (The Dresden Files #11.8)
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    Working for Bigfoot (The Dresden Files #11.8)

    Jim Butcher

    · 20 ratings · published 2014

    "B is for Bigfoot" takes place between Fool Moon and Grave Peril. "I Was a Teenage Bigfoot" takes place circa Deadbeat. "Bigfoot on Campus" takes place between Turn Coat and Changes.Chicago wizard-for-hire Harry Dresden is used to mysterious clients with long hair and legs up to here. But when it turns out the long hair covers every square inch of his latest client’s body, and the legs contribute to a nine-foot height, even the redoubtable detective realizes he’s treading new ground... more

  • Changes (The Dresden Files #12)
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    Changes (The Dresden Files #12)

    Jim Butcher

    · 46 ratings · published 2010

    Long ago, Susan Rodriguez was Harry Dresden's lover-until she was attacked by his enemies, leaving her torn between her own humanity and the bloodlust of the vampiric Red Court. Susan then disappeared to South America, where she could fight both her savage gift and those who cursed her with it. Now Arianna Ortega, Duchess of the Red Court, has discovered a secret Susan has long kept, and she plans to use it-against Harry... more

  • The Dresden Files Collection 7-12 (The Dresden Files #7-12)
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    The Dresden Files Collection 7-12 (The Dresden Files #7-12)

    Jim Butcher

    · 14 ratings · published 2010

    Novels 7 through 12 of the Dresden Files series in a single omnibus ebook collection.* Dead Beat* Proven Guilty* White Night* Small Favor* Turn Coat* Changes

  • Aftermath (The Dresden Files #12.1)
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    Aftermath (The Dresden Files #12.1)

    Jim Butcher

    · 6 ratings · published 2023

    Included on Side JobsTakes place immediately after "Changes"Spoilers galore!

  • Journal (The Dresden Files #12.2)
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    Journal (The Dresden Files #12.2)

    Jim Butcher

    · 7 ratings · published 2020

    A little insight into what was going on in Morgan’s head during the events of Turn Coat. WARNING: Contains MAJOR SPOILERS for Turn Coat, Changes, and Cold Days!

  • Side Jobs (The Dresden Files #12.5)
    #12.5

    Side Jobs (The Dresden Files #12.5)

    Jim Butcher

    · 36 ratings · published 2010

    Here, together for the first time, are the shorter tales from Jim Butcher's DRESDEN FILES series — a compendium of cases that Harry and his cadre of allies managed to close in record time. The tales range from the deadly serious to the absurdly hilarious. Also included is a new, never-before-published novella that takes place after the cliff-hanger ending of the new April 2010 hardcover, Changes... more

  • Ghost Story (The Dresden Files #13)
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    Ghost Story (The Dresden Files #13)

    Jim Butcher

    · 43 ratings · published 2011

    When we last left the mighty wizard detective Harry Dresden, he wasn't doing well. In fact, he had been murdered by an unknown assassin.But being dead doesn't stop him when his friends are in danger. Except now he has no body, and no magic to help him. And there are also several dark spirits roaming the Chicago shadows who owe Harry some payback of their own.To save his friends—and his own soul—Harry will have to pull off the ultimate trick without any magic...

  • Dangerous Women (The Dresden Files #13.1)
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    Dangerous Women (The Dresden Files #13.1)

    George R.R. Martin, Carrie Vaughn, Lev Gossman, Joe R. Lansdale, Megan Lindholm, Lawrence Block, Brandon Sanderson, Sharon Kay Penman, Lev Grossman, Nancy Kress, Diana Rowland, Diana Gabaldon, S.M. Stirling, Sam Sykes, Pat Cadigan, Caroline Spector, Joe Abercrombie, Megan Abbott, Cecelia Holland, Jim Butcher, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Melinda M. Snodgrass

    · 24 ratings · published 2013

    The Dangerous Women anthology contains following stories: - Introduction by Gardner Dozois - “Some Desperado” by Joe Abercrombie - A Red Country story - “My Heart is Either Broken” by Megan Abbott - “Nora’s Song” by Cecelia Holland - “The Hands That Are Not There” by Melinda Snodgrass - “Bombshells” by Jim Butcher - A Harry Dresden story - “Raisa Stepanova” by Carrie Vaughn - “Wrestling Jesus” by Joe R... more

  • Bombshells (The Dresden Files #13.1)
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    Bombshells (The Dresden Files #13.1)

    Jim Butcher

    · 6 ratings · published 2023

    Short story included in Brief Cases

  • Goodbye (The Dresden Files #13.2)
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    Goodbye (The Dresden Files #13.2)

    Jim Butcher

    · 9 ratings · published 2020

    Microfiction #3Concurrent with the end of Changes and contains RADIOACTIVE-LEVEL SPOILERS for Changes and Ghost Story.

  • Cold Days (The Dresden Files #14)
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    Cold Days (The Dresden Files #14)

    Jim Butcher

    · 46 ratings · published 2012

    You can't keep a good wizard down - even when he wants to stay that way.For years, Harry Dresden has been Chicago's only professional wizard, but a bargain made in desperation with the Queen of Air and Darkness has forced him into a new job: professional killer.Mab, the mother of wicked faeries, has restored the mostly-dead wizard to health, and dispatches him upon his first mission - to bring death to an immortal... more

  • Shadowed Souls (The Dresden Files #14.5 - Cold Case)
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    Shadowed Souls (The Dresden Files #14.5 - Cold Case)

    Jim Butcher, Kerrie L. Hughes, Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, Rob Thurman, Tanya Huff, Kat Richardson, Jim C. Hines, Anton Strout, Lucy A. Snyder, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Erik Scott de Bie

    · 17 ratings · published 2016

    In this dark and gritty collection—featuring short stories from Jim Butcher, Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, and Rob Thurman—nothing is as simple as black and white, light and dark, good and evil..Unfortunately, that’s exactly what makes it so easy to cross the line... more

  • Cold Case (The Dresden Files #14.5)
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    Cold Case (The Dresden Files #14.5)

    Jim Butcher

    · 6 ratings · published 2021

    Short Story included in Brief Cases

  • Skin Game (The Dresden Files #15)
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    Skin Game (The Dresden Files #15)

    Jim Butcher

    · 41 ratings · published 2014

    Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, is about to have a very bad day…Because as Winter Knight to the Queen of Air and Darkness, Harry never knows what the scheming Mab might want him to do. Usually, it’s something awful.He doesn’t know the half of it…Mab has just traded Harry’s skills to pay off one of her debts... more

  • Brief Cases (The Dresden Files #15.1)
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    Brief Cases (The Dresden Files #15.1)

    Jim Butcher

    · 26 ratings · published 2010

    Brief Cases is the sequel anthology of Side Jobs, and will be released before Peace TalksSet to include the following stories:An exclusive novellette from the perspective of Maggie and Mouse.“Curses” — from The Naked City, edited by Ellen DatlowTakes place between Small Favor and Turn Coat.“AAAA Wizardry” — from the Dresden Files RPG, published by Evil HatHarry teaches a group of young Wardens his procedure for dealing with supernatural nasties... more

  • Day One (The Dresden Files #15.2)
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    Day One (The Dresden Files #15.2)

    Jim Butcher

    · 4 ratings · published 2013

    Day One is a Dresden Files short story included in Brief Cases

  • Zoo Day (The Dresden Files #15.3)
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    Zoo Day (The Dresden Files #15.3)

    Jim Butcher

    · 6 ratings · published 2018

    Short Story included in Brief Cases

  • Unbound (The Dresden Files #15.6 - Jury Duty)
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    Unbound (The Dresden Files #15.6 - Jury Duty)

    Shawn Speakman, Terry Brooks, Seanan McGuire, Mark Lawrence, Anthony Ryan, Tim Marquitz, Brian Staveley, Michael J. Sullivan, John Marco, Peter Orullian, Kat Richardson, Sam Sykes, Kristen Britain, Mazarkis Williams, Jim Butcher, Rachel Caine, Harry Connolly, Delilah S. Dawson, David Anthony Durham, Jason M. Hough, Mary Robinette Kowal, Joe Abercrombie

    · 10 ratings · published 2015

    Not bound, as a book. Free. Like Unfettered before it, the contributing writers of Unbound were allowed to submit the tales they wished fans of genre to read—without the constraints of a shackling theme. The result is magical. Twenty-three all-original stories are sure to captivate you—some will move you to tears while others will keep you turning the pages long into the night. The power of Unbound lies in its variety of tales and the voices behind them... more

  • Unfettered II: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy (The Dresden Files #15.7 - Day One)
    #15.7 - Day One

    Unfettered II: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy (The Dresden Files #15.7 - Day One)

    Shawn Speakman, Naomi Novik, Brandon Sanderson, Jim Butcher, Charlaine Harris, Michael J. Sullivan, Janny Wurts, Bradley P. Beaulieu, Mark Lawrence, Seanan McGuire, Peter Orullian, Aidan Moher, Erin Lindsey, John A. Pitts, Anthony Ryan, Scott Sigler, Django Wexler, Rachel Caine, Sarah Beth Durst, David Farland, Terry Brooks

    · 10 ratings · published 2016

    Life can kick us when we are down.In Shawn Speakman’s case, he is fighting back.Lacking health insurance and diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2011, Speakman beat the disease as well as the massive medical debt he amassed from its treatment. He did this by publishing Unfettered, an anthology featuring short stories donated by some of the best science fiction and fantasy writers working today.The fight will not stop there... more

  • Peace Talks (The Dresden Files #16)
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    Peace Talks (The Dresden Files #16)

    Jim Butcher

    · 31 ratings · published 2020

    When the Supernatural nations of the world meet up to negotiate an end to ongoing hostilities, Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, joins the White Council's security team to make sure the talks stay civil. But can he succeed, when dark political manipulations threaten the very existence of Chicago--and all he holds dear?

  • Battle Ground (The Dresden Files #17)
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    Battle Ground (The Dresden Files #17)

    Jim Butcher

    · 31 ratings · published 2020

    Harry has faced terrible odds before. He has a long history of fighting enemies above his weight class. The Red Court of vampires. The fallen angels of the Order of the Blackened Denarius. The Outsiders.But this time it’s different. A being more powerful and dangerous on an order of magnitude beyond what the world has seen in a millennium is coming. And she’s bringing an army... more

  • Christmas Eve (The Dresden Files #17.1)
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    Christmas Eve (The Dresden Files #17.1)

    Jim Butcher

    · 16 ratings · published 2018

    Jim wrote a new short story, Christmas Eve, as a gift for his fans on December 24, 2018. It is posted to his website and Facebook page. The story is set after Peace Talks and Battle Ground and depicts Harry's first Christmas Eve as a dad, as well as a few other familiar faces. As it was released before its predecessor, it does offer some hints as to the happenings of Peace Talks and Battle Ground, but no major spoilers.

  • The Good People (The Dresden Files #17.3)
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    The Good People (The Dresden Files #17.3)

    Jim Butcher

    · 8 ratings · published 2020

    This Molly-POV story takes place concurrently with "Christmas Eve," so expect Battle Ground spoilers aplenty.

  • The Law (The Dresden Files #17.4)
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    The Law (The Dresden Files #17.4)

    Jim Butcher

    · 21 ratings · published 2022

    From the number one New York Times bestselling The Dresden Files series, a brand new novella set after Battle Ground, that thrusts Chicago’s only professional Wizard, Harry Dresden, back into battle–both a legal one… and the kind with explosions.Not every danger comes in the form of a mega-threat like a Titan. Some predators are a lot cozier... more personal... more

  • Fugitive (The Dresden Files #17.5)
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    Fugitive (The Dresden Files #17.5)

    Jim Butcher

    · 2 ratings · published 2023

    Fugitive is a short story set after "The Law" and appears in the anthology Instinct: An Animal Rescuers Anthology.

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