Buffyverse Novels is a 80-book series with 80 released primary works first released in 1996 with contributions by Scott Allie, Laura J. Burns, Rebecca Rand Kirshner, Todd McIntosh, Michael Reaves, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Melinda Metz, Max Allan Collins, Matthew V. Clemens, Greg Cox, Kara Dalky, Jane Espenson, Christopher Golden, Nancy Holder, Mel Odom, Yvonne Navarro, Robert Joseph Levy, Kara Dalkey, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Arthur Byron Cover, John Vornholt, Alice Henderson, Diana G. Gallagher, Pierce Askegren, Kirsten Beyer, John Passarella, Elizabeth Massie, Ray Garton, Craig Shaw Gardner, Laura Anne Gilman, Josepha Sherman, Jeffrey J. Mariotte, Jeff Mariotte, Thomas E. Sniegoski, Cameron Dokey, Dan Jolley, Scott Ciencin, Rebecca Modesta, James A. Moore, Various, and Doranna Durgin.