Al Sarrantonio

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  • Bibliography:
    40 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1982
  • Latest Book:
    September 2015
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Full Series List in Order

Five Worlds

2 - Journey (Mar-1997)
3 - Return (Mar-1998)

The Five Worlds Trilogy

1 - Exile (Jun-1996)

A Jack Paine Mystery

1 - Cold Night (Mar-1989)
2 - Summer Cool (Aug-1993)

The Masters of Mars

2 - Sebastian of Mars (Oct-2005)
3 - Queen of Mars (Jun-2006)

A Thomas Mullin Mystery

1 - West Texas (1991)
2 - Kitt Peak (Apr-1993)

Multi-Author Series List

Babylon 5

8 - Personal Agendas (Apr-1997)

Book List in Order: 40 titles

  • The Spook Man

    in Bruce Coville's Book of Monsters II

    An ultimate scary tale collection for readers with monsters on the brain celebrates the creepy beasties of the forest, swamp, school bus, and vending machines, and highlights creatures that may even turn out to be a best friend. Original....

  • Totentanz

    A mysterious carnival brings death and unearthly terror to the quiet town of Montvale, and only thirteen-year-old Reggie Carson stands between the town and the evil, vengeful force seeking its destruction...

  • The Boy With Penny Eyes

    For New condition books; You will be the first to open the book cover. For Used condition books; It shows signs of wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. There are no problems in page content and in the paper....

  • Campbell Wood

  • The Worms

    The author's first novel!A young couple travel to the girl's hometown and are plunged into a living nightmare of evil -- an evil from deep in the past which appears in a shocking and deadly form.Provine, Massachusetts, is one of those picturesque New...

  • Moonbane

    When amateur astronomer Jason Blake and his son are out star-gazing one night, thousands of meteors suddenly fill the sky. Some of them fall nearby, but when Jason and Ritchie go to investigate, they are attacked by a werewolf-like creature, and Rit...

  • Cold Night

    A Jack Paine Mystery - 1

    Jack Paine, is battling alcoholism after a troubled youth, and his current case makes the struggle harder. Calling for an envelope as instructed by a phone call from a client, Morris Grumbach, Paine finds Grumbach dead, an apparent suicide. He has le...

  • October

    THE DYING SEASONIt's a time of ripe apples and falling leaves, a time of raging bonfires and leering jack-o'-lanterns, a time of homecoming for human and demon both.OCTOBERProfessor Kevin Michaels has returned to the picturesque town of New Polk to f...

  • West Texas

    • / Historical Mystery
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    A Thomas Mullin Mystery - 1

    Lt. Thomas Mullin may be retired from the U.S. Calvary, but he's still considered the best tracker around. So when a senator's son turns up missing, Mullin is the man called upon to find him. It doesn't take long for Mullin to figure out that quite a...



  • Red Eye

    in Under the Fang

    THEY'VE WON... They came in the night, to the towns and cities. Like a slow, insidious virus they spread from house to house, building to building, from graveyard to bedroom and cellar to boardroom. They are ancient and deathless, sun-shy and bloodt...

  • Skeletons

    As the best and worst of humanity return to the earth as a skeletal army hell-bent on conquering the living, a small group of refugees finds itself drawn together by a single vision and a shared fate. Original....

  • Kitt Peak

    A Thomas Mullin Mystery - 2

  • Summer Cool

    A Jack Paine Mystery - 2

  • Exile

    The Five Worlds Trilogy - 1

    As the twenty-fifth century draws to a close, Prime Cornelian, a ruthless usurper of Martian rule, will do anything to control all of human civilization, and the fate of all humankind is in the hands of the exiled King of Earth, Dalin Shar. Original....

  • Journey

    Five Worlds - 2

    While the Five Worlds teeter on the brink of disaster, the High Leader of Mars and his plasmatic soldiers prepare to invade Jupiter, and the exiled King of Earth struggles to escape from his icy prison on Pluto. Original....

  • Personal Agendas

    Babylon 5 - 8

    LINKS IN THE CHAIN G'Kar, once the Narn ambassador to Babylon 5, is a warrior's warrior. Now, with his homeworld enslaved by the Centauri, he is a prisoner on his enemy's planet. Despite the chains that bind him, he keeps the one freedom that fate a...

  • Return

    Five Worlds - 3

    For Dalin Shar, the twenty-sixth-century exiled king of Earth, realizing his dream of restoring his home planet to its former glory means fighting the alien High Leader for control of an inhabitable planet. Original....

  • 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense

    Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology"One of the best anthologies of horror and suspense of all time." -- Rocky Mountain NewsFrom award-winning author and “master anthologist”* Al Sarrantonio, 999: Twenty-Nine Original Tales of Horro...

  • Toybox

    Little Selene was bored. And then came the mysterious Toyman, carrying a very special toybox, filled with wonders and terrors beyond imagination. As Selene peered into the toybox, the stories tumbled out: a quiet little girl whose horrible secret bur...



  • Orangefield

  • Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction

    A revolutionary anthology of remarkable works of speculative fiction encompasses contributions by Ursula K. Le Guin, Joyce Carol Oates, Larry Niven, Harry Turtledove, Gregory Benford, Michael Moorcook, Joe Haldeman, Stephen Baxter, Catherine Asaro, a...

  • 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories

    Scared? You will be! Feel your nerves jangle and chills run up and down your spine thanks to the hair-raising genius of Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, E. F. Benson, H. P. Lovecraft, Fritz Leiber, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen Crane, Charles Dickens, Rob...

  • Haydn of Mars

    • / Science Fiction
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    On Mars, in the distant future, the princess Haydn's arranged marriage cannot save her beloved Republic. Her arch-enemy, the warrior-woman Frane, seeks to make herself Queen while Haydn--the legitimate heir-- must flee for her life.

    A reluct...

  • Flights

    This daring, star-packed collection is the fantasy publishing event of the year. Challenging the boundaries of modern fantasy, this all-original anthology features stories from Neil Gaiman, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne McCaffrey, Orson Scott Card, Harry T...

  • Hallows Eve

    After twelve years, Corrie Phaeder is returning home to Orangefield -- the last place in the world he wants to be. Orangefield is a town of nightmares, a town where the impossible and the horrific happen all too often, where ghosts rise screaming fro...

  • Hornets and Others

    Sarrantonio's second collection of short fiction is a blend of stories from the extremes of the horror spectrum. Some feature apocalypses that begin as local phenomena before spreading globally. Although gruesome incidents abound, Sarrantonio approac...

  • Sebastian of Mars

    The Masters of Mars - 2

    The assassination of Haydn, queen of Mars, draws her son, Sebastian, into a dangerous confrontation with enemies both at home and abroad, including his mother's nemesis, the warrior-woman Frane, who launches a revolt that forces him into exile in the...

  • Queen of Mars

    The Masters of Mars - 3

    Young Princess Clara of Mars now wears the endangered crown once worn by the grandmother, Queen Haydn, and her father, King Sebastian--both slain by the warrior-usurper Frane before her birth. As Clara uneasily holds her world together, Frane has res...

  • Horrorween

    For untold ages a dark presence has shrouded the small town of Orangefield. In addition to the plentiful pumpkins that gave the town its name, Orangefield is home to the dreaded Lord of Death himself, Samhain. When a boy from the town disappears, det...



  • The Little Yellow Book of Fevered Stories

    The tenth in the first series of Little Books from Borderlands Press is A Little Yellow Book of Fevered Stories. This collection of short fiction is by Bram Stoker Award-winning author Al Sarrantonio.Stories included in this collection:Father DearTh...

  • Halloweenland

    In Orangefield, Halloween is never normal--and this year is no exception. For Orangefield is now the home of Halloweenland, a bizarre carnival run by the mysterious Mr. Dickens. No one who sees the carnival doubts that it's a very strange place, but ...

  • Halloween and Other Seasons

    Here, to treasure, a new story collection from award-winning horror master Al Sarrantonio. In Halloween and Other Seasons you'll find: Summer that never ends... A sleepover that turns into an unending nightmare... A Summer camp that offers a one...

  • Stories

    Stories, edited by bestselling authors Neil Gaiman (author of The Ocean at the End of the Lane and the epic American Gods) and Al Sarrantonio, is 'an unmissable collection' (Guardian), filled with distinctive, original and thrilling tales from writer...

  • Tales From the Crossroad Volume 1

    Edited by David Niall Wilson & David Dodd, Tales From the Crossroad Volume 1 brings together ten short stories and five novel excerpts from a talented group of Crossroad Press authors. Consisting of obscure reprints and one original short story, plus...

  • Sisters in Mystery

    For lovers of the Nancy Drew mysteries, here she is -- times four! Four modern-day Little Women, each with her own charms and talents, solve mysteries in the beautiful New Jersey shore town of Ocean City. In "The Case of the Missing Script," a famo...

  • Underground

    Al Sarrantonio's great lost novel! In 1992, after the success of Al Sarrantonio's apocalyptic novel SKELETONS, Bantam Books was set to publish it's follow-up, UNDERGROUND. But then Bantam, almost overnight, did away with its entire horror line, and U...

  • Al Sarrantonio's Book of Holidays

    New in digital, a 5000-word collection of macabre holiday-themed short stories from Al Sarrantonio.Spend the Holidays -- all the Holidays -- with horror master Al Sarrantonio! In this very special little book, Al Sarrantonio presents a battle bet...

  • Orange Lake

    First appearance in digital and just in time for Halloween: the two newest Orangefield tales together in one affordable package: ORANGE LAKE, a 9,000 word novelette which has only appeared in Kasey Lansdale's IMPOSSIBLE MONSTERS and, as a bonus, "The...

  • The Orangefield Cycle Omnibus

    Collected in one volume -- Al Sarrantonio's Orangefield CycleHORRORWEENFor untold ages a dark presence has shrouded the small town of Orangefield. In addition to the plentiful pumpkins that gave the town its name, Orangefield is home to the dreaded ...



  • House Haunted

    • / Horror
    • Buy Buy

    Four tormented people and a New York City detective are lured to an abandoned house in upstate New York by a spirit called Bridget, who is preparing to break down the walls between this world and the next...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Al Sarrantonio has published 40 books.

Al Sarrantonio does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Orangefield Cycle Omnibus, was published in September 2015.

The first book by Al Sarrantonio, The Spook Man, was published in January 1982.

Yes. Al Sarrantonio has 5 series.
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