James Asher Series by Barbara Hambly

3.96 · 74 ratings
  • Those Who Hunt the Night (James Asher #1)
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    Those Who Hunt the Night (James Asher #1)

    Barbara Hambly

    · 18 ratings · published 1988

    Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. At the turn of the twentieth century, a former spy is called into service to hunt down a vampire killer...Once a spy for Queen Victoria, James Asher has fought for Britain on every continent, using his quick wits to protect the Empire at all costs. After years of grueling service, he marries and retires to a simple academic’s life at Oxford. But his peace is shattered one night with the arrival of a Spanish vampire named Don Simon... more

  • Traveling with the Dead (James Asher #2)
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    Traveling with the Dead (James Asher #2)

    Barbara Hambly

    · 14 ratings · published 1995

    Down through the deathless centuries, the vampires had drunk human blood for sustenance and for sport. They preyed where they willed, for no mortal humans could resist their unclean powers. But now came the ultimate perversion, the unthinkable: someone was conscripting the vampires into the secret services of a foreign power. No government agency or bureaucrat could control the Undead. The idea was absurd, as Dr. James Asher knew all too well... more

  • Blood Maidens (James Asher #3)
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    Blood Maidens (James Asher #3)

    Barbara Hambly

    · 10 ratings · published 2010

    The new ‘James Asher’ vampire novel from the best-selling author - It’s 1911. War is coming, and according to one of the vampires of St. Petersburg, the Kaiser is trying to recruit vampires. James Asher, Oxford don and formerly on His Majesty’s Secret Service, is forced to team up again with his vampire partner Don Simon Ysidro for a journey to the subarctic Russian capital. Are they on the trail of a rogue vampire with a plan to achieve the power to walk in daylight? Asher wonders... more

  • Magistrates of Hell (James Asher #4)
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    Magistrates of Hell (James Asher #4)

    Barbara Hambly

    · 8 ratings · published 2012

    James Asher finds himself once more in alliance with vampire Don Simon Ysidro, as their investigations takes them to far-off Peking . . . October, 1912. James Asher, his wife Lydia, and the old occultist and vampire-hunter Dr Solomon Karlebach have journeyed to the new-born Republic of China to investigate the rumour that the mindless Undead – the Others that even the vampires fear – have begun to multiply in the caverns of the hills west of Peking... more

  • The Kindred of Darkness (James Asher #5)
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    The Kindred of Darkness (James Asher #5)

    Barbara Hambly

    · 8 ratings · published 2013

    When James Asher and his wife Lydia's baby daughter Miranda is kidnapped by the Master Vampire of London, the stakes are high: blindly follow the Master Vampire's instructions, keep out of the way of the human networks that serves the vampires, destroy the interloper who seeks to seize control of the London Nest, and find the key to the Nest's tortuous inner workings: The Book of the Kindred of Darkness... more

  • Darkness on his Bones (James Asher #6)
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    Darkness on his Bones (James Asher #6)

    Barbara Hambly

    · 6 ratings · published 2015

    Simon. Something frightful has happened to Jamie. Please come...When James Asher is found unconscious in the cemetery of the Church of St. Clare Pieds-Nus with multiple puncture-wounds in his throat and arms, his wife, Lydia, knows of only one person to call: the vampire Don Simon Ysidro. Old friend and old adversary, he is the only one who can help Lydia protect her unconscious, fevered husband from the vampires of Paris... more

  • Pale Guardian (James Asher #7)
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    Pale Guardian (James Asher #7)

    Barbara Hambly

    · 6 ratings · published 2016

    During the carnage of World War One, James Asher joins forces with the vampires of Europe to counter an even deadlier threat.The vampires call them The Others. Neither living nor dead, the revenants are mindless and unstoppable and in the carnage of the First World War, governments already running short of men to throw into battle might be very interested in soldiers who don t ask questions and are hard to kill... more

  • Prisoner of Midnight (James Asher #8)
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    Prisoner of Midnight (James Asher #8)

    Barbara Hambly

    · 4 ratings · published 2019

    Vampire Don Simon Ysido has been captured and held aboard a ship heading to the US to act as a slave, and Dr Lydia Asher must stop it . . . at any cost. March, 1917. The goal of every government involved in the Great War has been achieved: industrialist Spenser Cochran has drugged and enslaved a vampire, Don Simon Ysidro, to do his bidding, and is now on the way to the US aboard a luxury ship... more

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