Books by Peter Joseph Swanson

The Sand Witch of Oz

by Peter Joseph Swanson

In this fairy tale, Dorothy and friends must save Oz from a witch made of sand. See More

The Candy House

by Peter Joseph Swanson

(4 reviews)

Is food mostly just what we think it is? In this silly version of Hansel and Gretel, a serious story is still suggested about children wanting candy. The adventure goes beyond the candy house, even to a mountaintop castle... See More

Heiress Apocalypse

by Peter Joseph Swanson

(5 reviews)

After global disaster, a dysfunctional family rules inside an underground mountain city that is crumbling. When it blows up, the daughter takes the survivors to her new outpost away from the mountain... right in the path of... See More

Multitude

by Peter Joseph Swanson

(5 reviews)

Thorn thinks he's a cop keeping thoughts legal in his city. But when he messes up his elevator ride to heaven, which is actually supposed to kill him and recycle him as food, he finds out he's just one clone out of millions... See More

3 Children’s Stories (and 2 poems)

by Peter Joseph Swanson

(2 reviews)

This is a colorful children's book that adults can enjoy, too. A magic glass castle sits on a mermaid ocean. Why is it there? It could be a shelter or a prison. A teddy bear gets tired of winter and wants a summer picnic so... See More

Snake Girl VS the KKK

by Peter Joseph Swanson

(5 reviews)

Michael is a 20-something theatrical gay man living in a river town in 1984. He worries that life is passing him by even though he's a busy witty beautiful drag queen. Snake Girl is his pet name since he'd once played one in... See More

Bad Movies

by Peter Joseph Swanson

(11 reviews)

In the mid-70s, Jill, a sex-change in denial, buses west with the hope of becoming a star. She meets an aspiring gay photographer, Andernach, who instigates her discovery at a pool party. She pratfalls into a frenzy of tacky... See More

THE JOAN COMICS: The Life of Joan Crawford

by Peter Joseph Swanson

(5 reviews)

The life of Hollywood's biggest movie star is shown in all its shocking detail. These cartoons first appeared in Queue Press and Outland Magazine. This collection includes a sample of cartoons (it was limited for Kindle by... See More

The Werewolf of Camelot

by Peter Joseph Swanson

(9 reviews)

Return to Arthurian romance, magic, secrets, surprises and danger. In this bawdy sequel to Merlin's Charge, in Camelot (a land where they say lovers can turn into swans) new horrors befall as shapeshifting chaos unleashes a... See More

Space Monsters

by Peter Joseph Swanson

(6 reviews)

Helen is at her first year in science at Culver-Stockton College at the small river town of Canton Missouri, a college and town with an occult past. Her boyfriend tries to help her make sense of the strange happenings at the... See More

Merlin's Charge

by Peter Joseph Swanson

(37 reviews)

In the wasteland of Britain in the year 500, a cranky Merlin tutors a teenage Arthur. Missing the comfort of the Realm of Dragons, Merlin amuses himself with two simultaneous sneaky marriages to the feuding witches, Nimm and... See More

The Crows and the Jewels

by Peter Joseph Swanson

(5 reviews)

In this spooky kid's tale with lots of pictures, when a boy feeds the crows, he is rewarded with a jewel and a key. That sends him on an adventure that includes a ghost story. Along the way, mistakes are made but a new furry... See More

Cleopatra Occult

by Peter Joseph Swanson

(4 reviews)

In this epic dark fantasy novella, in a whirlwind around the ancient Mediterranean Sea, Egypt fights Rome for world power. Cleopatra and her brother fight for the throne of Egypt. Mark Antony and Octavian fight for Caesar... See More

The Joan Crawford Monsters

by Peter Joseph Swanson

(36 reviews)

In this outrageous sequel to The Joan Crawford Murders it is now 1969 and Joan is in England at Bray Studios to film her 80th movie, Trog. Bray is also where Hammer Films made many of their masters of horror. Joan finds that... See More

Three Heads in the Well: The classic fairy tale retold by Peter Joseph Swanson

by Peter Joseph Swanson

(3 reviews)

Enter the strange and fantastic world of the fairy tale. Read about what happens when two daughters of the king are rewarded or punished by the fairy heads in the well. Three Heads in the Well (or The King of Colchester's... See More

The Joan Crawford Murders

by Peter Joseph Swanson

(36 reviews)

Joan Crawford returns to MGM in 1953. Her comeback to her alma mater is to make the garish musical Torch Song. Joan suspects that it's hokum, and that she's getting too old for such parts, but she is desperate to make it... See More

Died Pretty Poems

by Peter Joseph Swanson

(1 review)

War Death Isis Angels, Witches Monsters Ghosts Skeletons Cats, Gardens Goth Tombstone Suicide Gay, Movie Stars Lemonade Vegan Punk Mall. A collection of poems by novelist Peter Joseph Swanson. See More

Vampire Pond

by Peter Joseph Swanson

(16 reviews)

In medieval England a traveling witch and her dwarf brother help a small village fight a primitive vampire that lives in a nearby pond. And magic is used for malice. The two travelers find they have to battle a prosperous... See More

By the Light of the Carnival

by Peter Joseph Swanson

(6 reviews)

Joe goes to work as a carnie for a week and meets worldly carnies: Carlos, a young man looking for trouble; Lady Fortuna, a guilt ridden old fortune teller; Pinda, a self assured young woman he thinks he might want to run... See More

Vampires of Rome

by Peter Joseph Swanson

(4 reviews)

In 16th century Rome, young Giotto gradually remembers how he became a vampire and how his new life became magically entangled with history and two of the world's most ancient kings. Memories surface, bringing insight about... See More

The Sleeping Beauty & the Dragon

by Peter Joseph Swanson

(10 reviews)

This sleeping beauty is more than she seems. And just because everybody in the kingdom has their own magic mirror on their wall shouldn't replace the importance of everybody still thinking for themselves. A fun fairy tale... See More

Punk Minneapolis

by Peter Joseph Swanson

(5 reviews)

At a pizza place in uptown Minneapolis, scenesters and a psychic try very hard to find the next cool party and a pure state of punk living in the summating year of 1989. Their overripe imaginations (and beer) bring out... See More

Hollywood Sinners

by Peter Joseph Swanson

(8 reviews)

Karin Panotchitch, raised on a sheep farm and married off to a drunken loser, finds her way to 1939 Hollywood at the tender age of sixteen. Along the way to stardom, she meets up with Ramon Classic, who with his many... See More

Alice in Halloween Land

by Peter Joseph Swanson

(14 reviews)

Alice the ghost follows the Easter Bunny down his rabbit hole to the center of the earth. She must find out what happened to Halloween. She enters a wonderland of holidays, while searching for Father Time. See More

Group Home

by Peter Joseph Swanson

(8 reviews)

At a large group home for adult women who are mentally ill/retarded, a client has fallen from an attic window. Was it murder, suicide or an accident? Will the disparate staff prove to be the ones who are really nuts? See More