The Keeper's Chronicles
#5223.92 in the official ranking · full ranking
Books 3 books Status Complete 1998–2003 Reading commitment Medium Tanya Huff Last reviewed 2026-10-09
Overview
Tanya Huff's comic urban fantasy trilogy (DAW, 1998-2003) follows Claire Hansen, a Keeper, one of the hereditary order who keep the universe in one piece by sealing the places where Darkness and Light leak into the world, and her talking cat Austin, who has opinions about everything. Summon the Keeper lands them in a Kingston, Ontario, bed-and-breakfast built over a hole to Hell; The Second Summoning brings an angel and a demon to Earth as teenagers by her sister Diana's mistake; Long Hot Summoning sends both sisters into a shopping mall that is turning evil. A lighter, sillier book than Huff's Blood Books, and a separate world from them.
Urban fantasy, Comic fantasy · For Adult
Core Canon: Reading Order (3 works) counts toward ranking
The Keeper's Chronicles Tanya Huff
| Work | Year | Internal chron. | Canon | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Summon the Keeper | 1998 | 1 | core | 3.96 (5,850 ratings) |
 | The Second Summoning | 2001 | 2 | core | 3.92 (3,599 ratings) |
 | Long Hot Summoning | 2003 | 3 | core | 3.85 (2,762 ratings) |
Tanya Huff's comic urban fantasy of the Keepers, a hereditary order who keep the universe in one piece by fixing the places where the Darkness and the Light leak into the world, as seen by Claire Hansen, her talking cat Austin and the guest house in Kingston, Ontario, that sits on a hole to Hell.
Quick answers
- How many books are in The Keeper's Chronicles? The Keeper's Chronicles's Core Canon is 3 books.
- What is the reading order for The Keeper's Chronicles? Publication order, starting with Summon the Keeper. Full list and years in the Core Canon table above.
- Is The Keeper's Chronicles finished? Complete (1998–2003).
- How much reading does The Keeper's Chronicles take? Medium reading commitment (estimated from 3 Core Canon books · ~1,213 pages).
- How is The Keeper's Chronicles ranked? #522 in this site's official ranking, based on 12,211 reader ratings across 3 Core Canon books. See the full ranking for how this is calculated.
Why is it ranked #522?
Ranked #522 in the official ranking.
- Average reader rating of 3.92 across 3 core books.
- A smaller readership (12,211 ratings), so the score carries less weight of numbers.
- Remarkably consistent across the whole series: all 3 rated core books rate within 0.11 of each other.
- Less than 0.01 behind #521, Witchlands (a finer tie-break level decides the order).
- Below the top-10 average of 4.45.
Why explore this universe?
Rated · 3 books · Complete · 12k ratings · Ranks #522 overall
Good choice if you want a moderate-length urban fantasy universe that's already finished, so there's no wait for the next book.
Reading order
Publication order (3 Core Canon books)
- Summon the Keeper (1998)
- The Second Summoning (2001)
- Long Hot Summoning (2003)
Documented internal/story chronology is recorded for every Core Canon book here, and matches publication order exactly, with no divergence to show separately.
Awards (verified)
- No award could be confirmed for the trilogy.
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Official resources
Research details
Ranking metrics: weighted average 3.92 across 12,211 ratings on 3 Core Canon books. See Why is it ranked here? above for the full breakdown, or the full ranking.
How do we know this?
Admission: Canon extension: The Keeper's Chronicles (Tanya Huff) accepted 2026-10-09
Sources: (see source tier definitions)
- Wikipedia Tier 2
- FantasticFiction Tier 2
Last reviewed: 2026-10-09
Rule: Core Canon = Summon the Keeper (1998), The Second Summoning (2001) and Long Hot Summoning (2003), complete trilogy. The collection He Said, Sidhe Said is not catalogued.