Books by John Shirley
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Untold Adventures: A Dungeons & Dragons Anthology
Your favorite award-winning, critically acclaimed, and best-selling authors unite to tell stories set in the Dungeons & Dragons world, filled with desperate dragons and cruel elves, honorable demons and fickle gods, wild... See More
The Other End
"A thrill-packed" blend of science fiction and apocalyptic thriller from the veteran horror writer and author of Halo: Broken Circle (Metro Silicon Valley). Judgment Day has arrived, and it's stranger than anyone could... See More
Black Butterflies
This collection of gritty and intense short stories compares the horrors of the real world to those of the supernatural. Winner of the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and a Publishers Weekly Best... See More
City Come A-Walkin'
Stu Cole is struggling to keep his nightclub, Club Anesthesia, afloat in the face of mob harassment when he's visited by a manifestation of the city of San Francisco, crystallized into a single enigmatic being. This amoral... See More
The Savvy Studio Owner: A Complete Guide to Setting Up and Running Your Own Recording Studio
(Book). This book covers all aspects of starting and running a professional sound recording studio, from smaller project-style facilities to million dollar majors. For the first time, here is one guide that combines serious... See More
Vampirella: Feary Tales
Collects Vampirella: Feary Tales #1-5! Nancy A. Collins (Swamp Thing, Sunglasses After Dark) has called upon some of today's finest creative talents - including Gail Simone, Steve Niles, Joe R. Lansdale, Devin Grayson... See More
…And The Angel With Television Eyes
"... And the Angel with Television Eyes" explores the region where fantasy meets reality. This surreal journey of self-discovery and transformation at once questions the nature of our world, and redefines it in the context... See More
Her Hunger
Desire can take any form, can become any fantasy... but it must be fed with life. When a strange woman appears in a small coastal California town, death follows. Only Corey -- in love with the beautiful, intelligent, quiet... See More
Living Shadows: Stories: New & Preowned
One of the darkest, edgiest, boldest writers around, John Shirley lays down an adrenalized yet artful prose that fairly skids across the page, dragging the reader along into shadowed corners of terror and desire. Yet while... See More
In Darkness Waiting
No writer combines the "delight in dread" with social consciousness and metaphysical meaning the way John Shirley does. Although In Darkness Waiting begins in much the same vein as many horror novels (mysterious deaths; a... See More
The Brigade
Saturday night in sleepy ultraconservative Salton, Oregon has turned terrifying. For thirteen weeks a killer has struck and a young woman has been viciously murdered. With all-American gumption and a lack of concern of legal... See More
Transmaniacon
John Shirley's Debut Novel! Ben Rackey, Professional Irritant: A man who is assigned to steal the Exciter -- a device that can amplify and release strong, hostile human emotions in anyone, anywhere. The Exciter can turn... See More
Silicon Embrace
A near-future where technology and ancient spiritual secrets merge into something very strange... something as strange as a silicon embrace. America has suffered ecological breakdown and the Second Civil War. But the... See More
A Splendid Chaos
Zero is a young film maker who believes his whole life and career are mapped out before him. That is, until the night he and his friends walk into a rock club... and are caught in a dazzling trap that spans worlds. They are... See More
Dracula in Love
The moment Vladimir Horescu saw the letter, he felt an ominous chill. Then, he opened it--and found a note from his unknown father, a note signed by Dracula! A haunting and terrifying Dracula tale mixed with an exquisitely... See More
Darkness Divided
Darkness can be divided. It can be split like an atom, and in it can be found a destructive fireor light. Light, too, can be folded into darkness. The stories brought to light in John Shirley's stunning DARKNESS DIVIDED... See More
Wyatt in Wichita: A Historical Novel
Author John Shirley turns his pen to the Wild West and the legendary Wyatt Earp! Wyatt in Wichita fuses historical fact with fiction, following the adventures of the young Wyatt Earp. Following the tragic loss of his first... See More
Everything is Broken
Twenty-year-old Russ arrives in the northern California town of Freedom to visit his dad. Freedom has peculiarities other than its odd name: the local mayor''s ideas of "decentralization" have left it without normal... See More
Really, Really, Really, Really Weird Stories
John Shirley takes us on a journey from the mildly bizarre to the downright weird and then some in this, his latest collection of short fiction. The book incorporates some of Shirley's classic stories along with some revised... See More
Crawlers: A Novel
In a secret government lab somewhere in Nevada, a young scientist cowers in darkness-waiting, listening, and calculating his chances of surviving the unspeakable carnage that has left him trapped and alone. Or almost alone... See More
Ralph Compton Red Trail (The Trail Drive Series)
A cattle drive faces long odds in this exciting new installment in Ralph Compton's Trail Drive series. An outbreak of hostilities with Comanches has disrupted the usual trail routes. But Mase Durst must get his cows from... See More
Ralph Compton Prairie Fire, Kansas (The Sundown Riders Series)
In this roller-coaster new installment in bestselling author Ralph Compton's Sundown Riders series, a young cowhand faces a trial by fire on his way to a new home and an old love. Fresh from a successful trail drive... See More
Demons: A Novel
"An allegory for our time, full of creepy splendorand excitement... Demons is a brave and smart book. Read it if you dare." -- San Francisco Bay Guardian "Demons is funny, outrageous, and frightening, and, as a metaphor for... See More
Ralph Compton Broken Rider (The Gunfighter Series)
In this exciting new Ralph Compton western, a man without a memory meets an unforgettable ally: the one and only Bat Masterson. Riding into the town of Smoky River on a mangy mule, Dane looks as broken down as his old... See More
Nightmare's Realm: New Tales of the Weird and Fantastic
Dreams and nightmares -- what Ambrose Bierce called "visions of the night" -- are the basis of some of the greatest weird fiction in literary history. The unruly images that torment us in sleep are usually dispelled by the... See More
Axle Bust Creek (A Cleve Trewe Western Book 1)
The first book in a thrilling new western series from John Shirley, the acclaimed co-author of the Sundown Riders western series. GOLD FEVER. BLOOD FEVER. From the battlefield of Shiloh to the prisoner camp at Slocum... See More
Black Wings of Cthulhu (Volume Two): Eighteen New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror
A FEAST OF TERROR In the second volume of the critically acclaimed Black Wings series, S.T. Joshi -- the world's foremost Lovecraft scholar -- has assembled eighteen more brand-new and imaginative horror tales, inspired by... See More
World War Cthulhu: A Collection of Lovecraftian War Stories
Update (04/23/2015): Two bonus illustrations added to the World War Cthulhu ebook edition! The world is at war against things that slink and gibber in the darkness, and titans that stride from world to world, sewing madness... See More