Heroes in Hell

Heroes in Hell

Heroes in Hell, the first book in the series
Heroes in Hell The Gates of Hell Rebels in Hell Kings in Hell Crusaders in Hell Legions of Hell Angels in Hell Masters in Hell The Little Helliad War in Hell Prophets in Hell Explorers in Hell Lawyers in Hell Rogues in Hell Bridge Over Hell Dreamers in Hell Poets in Hell Doctors in Hell Hell Bound
Author	Janet Morris, series editor
Cover artist	David B. Mattingly (first book in series)
Country	United States
Genre	Novels and short stories shared world fantasy Bangsian fantasy
Publisher	Baen Books, Kerlak Enterprises/Perseid Publishing, Perseid Press
Published	1986–1989, 2011–2015

Heroes in Hell is a series of shared world fantasy books, within the genre Bangsian fantasy, created and edited by Janet Morris and written by her, Chris Morris, C. J. Cherryh and others. The first 12 books in the series were published by Baen Books between 1986 and 1989, and stories from the series include one Hugo Award winner and Nebula nominee, (Gilgamesh in the Outback by Robert Silverberg from Rebels in Hell), as well as one other Nebula Award nominee. The series was resurrected in 2011 by Janet Morris with the thirteenth book and eighth anthology in the series, Lawyers in Hell, followed by four more anthologies and two novels between 2012 and 2015.

The shared world premise of Heroes in Hell (also called The Damned Saga) is that all the dead wind up together in Hell, where they pick up where they left off when still alive.The Encyclopedia of Fantasy states "In the long series of shared world adventures begun with Heroes in Hell, Hell becomes an arena in which all the interesting people in history can come together to continue the relentless pursuit of their various ends."Brian Stableford commented that the series "adapted the backcloth of Dantean fantasy as a stage for violent adventures with ironic echoes of infernal comedy".

Science fiction and fantasy author Orson Scott Card compared the success of Heroes in Hell with other shared worlds like Thieves' World, Wild Cards and Liavek, and said that this "almost guarantees that shared worlds will be around for many years to come". The webzine SF Site discussed the popularity of shared worlds in the 1980s and listed Heroes in Hell as a "significant example" of one of them.Library Journal called Heroes in Hell "a garden of infernal delights."