Adam-Troy Castro

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  • Bibliography:
    41 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1998
  • Latest Book:
    May 2024
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Full Series List in Order

An Andrea Cort Novel

Emissaries from the Dead (Mar-2008)
The Third Claw of God (Feb-2009)

Gustav Gloom

1 - Gustav Gloom and the People Taker (Aug-2012)
2 - Gustav Gloom and the Nightmare Vault (Apr-2013)
3 - Gustav Gloom and the Four Terrors (Aug-2013)
4 - Gustav Gloom and the Cryptic Carousel (Aug-2014)
5 - Gustav Gloom and the Inn of Shadows (Aug-2015)
6 - Gustav Gloom and the Castle of Fear (Aug-2016)

Sinister Six

1 - The Gathering of the Sinister Six (Mar-1999)
2 - The Secret of the Sinister Six (Feb-2000)
3 - Revenge of the Sinister Six (Mar-2002)

Multi-Author Series List

Marvel's Spider-Man

Spider-Man: The Sinister Six Combo ()
The Gathering of the Sinister Six (Mar-1999)
The Secret of the Sinister Six (Feb-2000)
Revenge of the Sinister Six (Mar-2002)
Spider-Man: Revenge of the Sinister Six (Sep-2012)

Book List in Order: 41 titles

  • Yes, We Did Say Chicks!

    in Did You Say Chicks?!

    Those Chicks in Chainmail are baaaack -- and They Are Not Amused! A Brief Word from the Characters: We seem to have a Failure to Communicate here. Hey, it's okay with us that Chicks in Chainmail was so popular, and reached #3 on the Locus bestsell...

  • The Gathering of the Sinister Six

    Sinister Six - 1
    Marvel's Spider-Man

    SPIDER-MAN'S DEADLIEST FOES .A GATHERING TO DESTROY HIM... On several occasions, a half-dozen of Spider-Man's greatest enemies have banded together as the Sinister Six. Now, at the behest of a deadly benefactor known only as the Gentleman, the Cha...

  • The Secret of the Sinister Six

    Sinister Six - 2
    Marvel's Spider-Man

    Peter Parker, the amazing Spider-Man, has made an astonishing discovery-he has a sister! Unfortunately, a manipulative super-villain known as the Gentleman-who had a hand in the deaths of Peter's parents-has somehow brainwashed her into becoming the ...

  • An Alien Darkness

    An Alien Darkness

    Sometimes the most impenetrable darkness appears in the most direct sunlight. Sometimes it’s just the illusory darkness that comes with territories we don’t know; sometimes a very real darkness inhabited by alien secrets. Exp...

  • Revenge of the Sinister Six

    Sinister Six - 3
    Marvel's Spider-Man

    GHOSTS OF THE PAST As the amazing Spider-Man, Peter Parker has had to endure many shocks in his life. But nothing could have ever prepared him for the latest unexpected turn in his life: the possibility that he has a long-lost sister! Unfortunatel...

  • Tangled Strings

    There are few authors who consistently turn out magnificent novella-length stories. Adam-Troy Castro is one of these authors. His stories are evocative and far-reaching. Among the stories featured in the collection are: The Funeral March of the Mario...

  • With Stars in Their Eyes

  • Fantasy Room

    in The Many Faces of Van Helsing

    An all-original anthology of short stories captures the diverse faces and feats of Van Helsing, the famed vampire hunter from Bram Stoker's Dracula, in works by such authors as Katherine Dunn, Elizabeth Hand, Kathe Koja, Tanith Lee, Kristine ...

  • Spider-Man



  • Just A Couple of Idiots Reupholstering Space and Time

  • A Desperate, Decaying Darkness

    Explore these tales of an invasion that changes the world forever...a writer whose latest book kills him one typed sentence at a time...a lone passenger who discovers the face of evil in the front seat of his taxicab...a dying woman who receives an a...

  • Emissaries from the Dead

    An Andrea Cort Novel

    Two murders have occurred on One One One, an artificial ecosystem created by the universe's dominant AIs to house several engineered species, including a violent, sentient race of sloth-like creatures. Under order from the Diplomatic Corps, Counselor...

  • The Third Claw of God

    An Andrea Cort Novel

    Andrea Cort became a "war criminal" at the age of eight when an unexplained darkness invaded her soul. Now, decades later, the Devil is calling her. Employed by the Diplomatic Corps but secretly aiding the AI masters of the universe, Counselo...

  • Z Is for Zombie

    A is for Apocalypse, B is for Buried, C is for Cannibalistic . . . A stunningly illustrated and hilarious A-to-Z guide that bears witness to the zombie horde as it slowly overruns us. Assemble a motley crew of any survivors you can. Barricade you...

  • V Is for Vampire

    A Is for Arterial Spray, B Is for Bedroom Window, C Is for Children of the Night . . . A humorous and wonderfully illustrated A-to-Z guide that takes us inside the world of bloodsuckers. Learn all about that violent nut Van Helsing, the art of u...

  • Vossoff and Nimmitz

    “Somewhere beyond the stars, well past the scattered light of the unknown universe, in a realm so distant that no life of any kind has ever ventured there, and where the fundamental rules of time and space have never applied, there’s nothing. If ...

  • Vossoff and Nimmitz: Just a Couple of Idiots Reupholstering Space and Time

  • Our Human

    On a savage backwater world, the last ragged survivors of an expedition to hunt down the infamous war criminal known as The Beast Magrison set off into an inhospitable wilderness in search of the alien village that may be sheltering this beast. The h...

  • Night of the Living POTUS

    HELL TO THE CHIEF All United States Presidents have the same lesson to learn, and they all learn it early on the first full morning of their respective Administrations. They are all confronted with the horrific secret at the heart of the White House....



  • Gustav Gloom and the People Taker

    Gustav Gloom - 1

    Meet Gustav Gloom. Fernie What finds herself lost in the Gloom mansion after her cat appears to have been chased there by its own shadow. Fernie discovers a library full of every book that was never written, a gallery of statues that are just plai...

  • Spider-Man: Revenge of the Sinister Six

    Marvel's Spider-Man

    Collects Spider-Man (1990) #15, 18-23. The Six have never been more sinister than in this star-studded saga! They've looted and slaughtered their way across an alien world, and Earth is next! If even Spider-Man's strength, wit and new web cannons can...

  • Gustav Gloom and the Nightmare Vault

    Gustav Gloom - 2

    Hugo Award nominee Adam-Troy Castro’s exciting new world full of shadows and mystery grows in book 2 of the Gustav Gloom series. In Gustav Gloom and the Nightmare Vault, Fernie and Gustav find themselves battling another shadowy foe -- The Shadow E...

  • Gustav Gloom and the Four Terrors

    Gustav Gloom - 3

    In Gustav Gloom and the Four Terrors, things are not always what they seem in the Gloom Mansion. Gustav decides that he needs to rescue his father from the Dark Country, but he can’t do that without Fernie’s help. After Gustav convinces Fernie’...

  • Her Husband's Hands and Other Stories

    • A utopia where the most privileged get to do whatever they want to do with their lives, indulging their slightest whims via the bodies whose wombs they occupy; a soldier's wife tries to love a husband who is little more than backup memory; a...

  • Fuel

    He thinks suicide is the end of all his troubles. He’s wrong. He doesn’t know that he will immediately find himself imprisoned in a strange and alien place, where the souls of despairing creatures from the breadth of space and time are tapped for...

  • Hide and Shriek

    in Games Creatures Play

    Welcome to the wide world of paranormal pastimes, where striking out might strike you dead. Editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner are your announcers for this collection of the most peculiar plays ever made—including a story featuring ...

  • Gustav Gloom and the Cryptic Carousel

    Gustav Gloom - 4

    Gustav and Fernie begin their journey to the Shadow Country to save their fathers! Fernie and Gustav leave the safety of the Gloom Mansion and begin their long journey to the Shadow Country to save their families from the evil Lord Obsidian. Aided...

  • With Unclean Hands

    ANDREA CORT. War criminal. Genius. Outcast. Heroine. Sent to the home-world of the Zinn, a once-powerful race now on the long path to extinction, she’s expected to sign the approval for a simple prisoner transfer -- but why are the Zinn so eager to...

  • Gustav Gloom and the Inn of Shadows

    Gustav Gloom - 5

    Gustav and Fernie’s adventures in the Dark Country continue as they search for their families. But as they get closer to discovering their families’ fates, their mission is once again threatened by old foes -- as well as some new, even more treac...



  • Gustav Gloom and the Castle of Fear #6

    Gustav and Fernie continue their journey through Dark Country in this new title!In the final installment of Adam-Troy Castro's creepy Gustav Gloom series, the fate of the Dark Country rests on Gustav and Fernie's shoulders.  After weeks of traveling...

  • War of the Marionettes

    Andrea Cort, protagonist of Emissaries From The Dead and The Third Claw of God, returns with her lovers Oscin and Skye Porrinyard for a visit to the distant planet Vlhan, whose towering inhabitants regularly gather for a ritual that is half art-form,...

  • Gustav Gloom and the Castle of Fear

    Gustav Gloom - 6

    Gustav and Fernie continue their journey through Dark Country in this new title! In the final installment of Adam-Troy Castro's creepy Gustav Gloom series, the fate of the Dark Country rests on Gustav and Fernie's shoulders. After weeks of travel...

  • The Coward's Option

    Two stories from the early years of Andrea Cort, later the heroine of the Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel, Emissaries from the Dead. “The Coward’s Option”: On the hostile home-world of the Caith, Andrea Cort has been assigned the case of a m...

  • Sleeping Dogs

    Welcome to Greeve. A sun-drenched backwater world, where people earn their keep from the sea. It’s nowhere important, far from any of Mankind’s petty politics and intrigues. Few of its residents are more familiar than old John, who’s been fishi...

  • More Alternative Truths

    More Alternative Truths is an exploration of the potential consequences of today’s politics in our daily lives. More than our individual lives, but our American identity. This exploration defines this anthology. So many of the stories ask what has...

  • Unseen Demons

    Space prosecutor Andrea Cort returns in a tale from the author of Emissaries from the Dead, “one of the best science fiction novels of the year” (SciFi Weekly).   Emil Sandburg, serial killer. His victims were all Catarkhans, specimens of a ...

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  • The Author's Wife vs. The Giant Robot

    A silent leviathan deals daily death to the inhabitants of a typical American city...A man sees visions of his next incarnation as a crustacean...A lovelorn junk collector seeks a time traveler's assistance in a matter of the heart...A strange visito...

  • A Touch Of Strange

    A Hollywood hookup becomes a nightmare for a woman who discovers that the predators in the hills seem to include one very hungry tiger...The last people on Earth look for final distractions in a once-great city being consumed by desert wastelands... ...



  • Minnie and Earl

    Who are Minnie and Earl?In the earliest days of constructing the first permanent colony on the moon, they are the single secret shared by the everyone working on the project: two friendly old people, who somehow beat the astronauts to the lunar surfa...

  • Hiding Place

    Andrea Cort. Genius. War Criminal. Crime-Solver.An emergency summons brings Andrea and her partners, Oscin and Skye Porrinyard, to an isolated research station, where a brilliant scientist lies brutally murdered. Who committed the crime is no mystery...

Award-Winning Books by Adam-Troy Castro

Emissaries from the Dead
2009 Philip K. Dick Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Adam-Troy Castro has published 41 books.

Adam-Troy Castro does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Hiding Place, was published in May 2024.

The first book by Adam-Troy Castro, Yes, We Did Say Chicks!, was published in February 1998.

Yes. Adam-Troy Castro has 3 series.
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