Bradford Morrow

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  • Bibliography:
    31 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1991
  • Latest Book:
    January 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Forgers

1 - The Forgers (Nov-2014)
2 - The Forger's Daughter (Sep-2020)

Multi-Author Series List

Bibliomysteries

15 - The Nature of My Inheritance (Nov-2015)

Book List in Order: 31 titles

  • The Almanac Branch

     

    A brilliant allegory that traces the life of a young woman whose sanity teeters on the edge as she tries to hold together her troubled family
    Since childhood, Grace Brush has suffered episodic migraines. With them come hallucinatory visi...

  • New Gothic

    Exploring a landscape of internalized horror, stories by John Edgar Wideman, Angela Carter, Ruth Rendell, Peter Straub, Anne Rice, Martin Amis, and others present a world of madness, terror, death, evil, and perversion...

  • Trinity Fields

    Kip and Brice are best friends, sons of men who engineered the atom bomb in New Mexico. As they come of age in the mid-sixties, Brice is drawn into anti-war activism, while Kip disappears in Vietnam--leaving Brice to marry the woman they both love. T...

  • Come Sunday

    A densely layered journey into the dark heart of the American Dream that spans continents and centuries
    In Bradford Morrow’s debut novel, lightning-tongued mercenary Peter Krieger travels to Nicaragua to kidnap a man who may be a 480-year-old...

  • Sticks and Stones

  • Giovanni's Gift

    When Grant hears of the violence against his family in the Rocky Mountains, he abandons Rome and his dying marriage to try and stop it, but only finds himself drawn into the darkness that surrounds the death of Giovanni, a close family friend...

  • Eye to Eye

  • Ariel's Crossing

    Learning the true identity of her birth father, a Vietnam veteran who disappeared into Laos before she was born, Ariel Rankin, pregnant by a man who wants nothing to do with parenthood, heads west in search of her father and journeys through New Mexi...

  • An Anatomy of Roads: The Quest Issue

    Leaving home is a dangerous business. Whether it's to walk across the street or travel to another continent, one never returns the same. Conjunctions: 44, An Anatomy of Roads: The Quest Issue, explores in fiction and poetry the fascinating, complex p...



  • Conjunctions

    Our years as children are often the most vulnerable, harrowing, expansive, mysterious, blissful and dangerous times we must negotiate. Whether rich with possibility or scarred by trauma, childhood offers an endless arena of exploration for writers. T...

  • Selected Subversions: Essays on the World at Large

    This anthology of commissioned writing on subjects as wide-ranging as rock and roll lyrics, movies, science, pornography, curiosity cabinets, jazz and magic offers rich insights into a vast spectrum of ideas. The classic essay form--postulation, argu...

  • Didn't Didn't Do It

    When Didn't and his friends set out to build a tree house, a fun project turns into a chaotic adventure as clumsy mishaps and mistakes fill their busy day, but with teamwork and a bit of unexpected luck, the project finally gets back on track!...

  • Not Even Past: Hybrid Histories

    For the past 25 years, the journal Conjunctions has been known for introducing unlikely literary juxtapositions. Issue 53 takes such mergers as its theme, examining the hybrids that are created when fiction and poetry enter the supposedly objective r...

  • Shadow Selves

    The mirror is humankind's most duplicitous invention. When we look into it do we see ourselves or an other? If we see an other, is that other a lie or some complex extension of a truth we don't quite grasp? And when we set down the mirror and imagine...

  • The Diviner's Tale

    Walking a lonely forested valley on a spring morning in upstate New York, having been hired by a developer to dowse the land, Cassandra Brooks comes upon the shocking vision of a young girl hanged from a tree. When she returns with authorities to the...

  • Terra Incognita: The Voyage Issue

    Imaginary voyages are as old as literature itself. In the spirit of the ancient mythographer Euhemerus and such imaginary voyagers as Jonathan Swift, Italo Calvino, Daniel Defoe and Bruce Chatwin, Conjunctions 56: Terra Incognita, Imaginary Voyages g...

  • Fall of the Birds

    A new novella by acclaimed author Bradford Morrow about a man who tracks an inexplicable plague of bird deaths, and the mystery’s profound effect on his family Hundreds of red-winged blackbirds are discovered scattered, lifeless, around a greenh...

  • The Uninnocent

    Bradford Morrow’s stories have garnered him awards such as the O. Henry and Pushcart Prizes and have given him a devoted following. Now gathered here for the first time is a collection of his most darkly comic, masterfully written tales. A young...

  • Riveted: The Obsession Issue

    The Riveted issue of Conjunctions explores the world of fixation through previously unpublished fiction, poetry and essays. Compulsion, it seems, is as limitless as the imagination itself. Even the most disciplined among us has at some moment been th...



  • Conjunctions: 60, in Absentia

    Missing persons, phantom limbs, lost masterpieces, lost islands, sensory deprivation and amnesia: the In Absentia issue of Conjunctions explores the presence of absence and the black holes in our everyday lives. The concept of the partial, of the unw...

  • The Forgers

    Forgers - 1

    From critically acclaimed novelist Bradford Morrow comes a richly told literary thriller about the dark side of the rare book world. The bibliophile community is stunned when a reclusive rare book collector is found on the floor of his Montauk home: ...

  • The Nature of My Inheritance

    Bibliomysteries - 15

    In frigid Wyoming lies a mystery that stretches back to Nazi Germany. Lyle and Juan wait outside the lawyer’s house in ski masks, pistols hidden behind their backs. Shortly after dawn, Paul Parker, an aged lawyer, and his old dog step into the cold...

  • Other Aliens

    New writings on our fear of -- and fascination with -- the “other” from Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub, Kelly Link, Jeffrey Ford, and more.Alien is a powerful and flexible word. Aliens are “other.” Aliens are the stuff of science fiction and...

  • The Prague Sonata

    From the critically acclaimed author Bradford Morrow, a literary quest novel that travels from Nazi-occupied Prague to turn-of-the-millennium New York as a young musicologist seeks to solve the mystery behind an eighteenth-century sonata manuscript ...

  • Inside Out

    New writings -- on rooms, buildings, and the spaces and structures that surround us -- from Robert Coover, Joyce Carol Oates, Joanna Scott, and more.   From huts to houses to high-rises, childhood bedrooms to churches, the spaces we occupy and p...

  • Being Bodies

    The human body is admired, displayed, and dissected in this eclectic collection of stories, poems, and essays from Rick Moody, Edward Carey, and more.  Being Bodies is an exploration of the complex circumstances of our flesh-and-blood existence....

  • Sanctuary

    Exploring the myriad ways in which we go about preserving what might otherwise be forfeited.   Whether trained specialists or lay people who care about something, preservationists come from every stratum of life. The archivist, the linguist, the...

  • A Cabinet of Curiosity

    Joyce Carol Oates, Ann Beattie, Diane Ackerman, and more explore the double-edged sword of curiosity . . . Curiosity is as central to life as breathing. And like breath itself, when it ceases, the vibrancy of life fades and disappears. Curi...

  • Nocturnals

    This spring 2019 edition of Bard College’s literary journal explores the fascination and mystery of night through stories, poems, essays, and memoirs. Scheherazade famously spun stories for a thousand and one nights in order to sustain her life. In...



  • The Forger's Daughter

    Forgers - 2

    Threats, promises, and the allure of Edgar Allan Poe's Tamerlane -- the rarest book in American literature -- pull readers back into the dangerous world of literary forgery in this heart-stopping sequel to The Forgers When a scream shatters t...

  • The Forger's Requiem

    “Like the love child of Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle . . . delightful to read.”—NPR.org, on The Forgers A gripping literary thriller that brings readers inside the world of expert forgery, rivalrous fury, and generatio...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Bradford Morrow has published 31 books.

The next book by Bradford Morrow, The Forger's Requiem, will be published in January 2025.

The first book by Bradford Morrow, The Almanac Branch, was published in May 1991.

Yes. Bradford Morrow has 1 series.
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