Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

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  • Bibliography:
    93 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1977
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Charles Spotted Moon

1 - Bad Medicine (Aug-1990)
2 - False Notes (Feb-1991)
3 - Poison Fruit (Sep-1991)
4 - Cat's Claw (Mar-1992)

Crisis of Empire

4 - Crown of Empire (Feb-1994)

Le Comte de Saint-Germain

1 - Hotel Transylvania (Jan-1979)
2 - The Palace (Jan-1979)
3 - Blood Games (Jun-1994)
4 - Path of the Eclipse (1981)
5 - Tempting Fate (Dec-1981)
6 - The Saint-Germain Chronicles (May-1983)
7 - Darker Jewels (Mar-1993)
8 - Better in the Dark (Dec-1993)
9 - Mansions of Darkness (Aug-1996)
10 - Writ in Blood (Jul-1997)
11 - Blood Roses (Aug-1998)
12 - Communion Blood (Oct-1999)
13 - Come Twilight (Oct-2000)
14 - A Feast in Exile (Sep-2001)
15 - Night Blooming (Sep-2003)
16 - Dark of the Sun (Nov-2004)
17 - States of Grace (Sep-2005)
18 - Roman Dusk (Sep-2006)
19 - Borne in Blood (Feb-2007)
20 - A Dangerous Climate (Oct-2008)
21 - Burning Shadows (Dec-2009)
22 - An Embarrassment of Riches (Mar-2011)
23 - Commedia Della Morte (Mar-2012)
24 - Night Pilgrims (Aug-2013)
25 - Sustenance (Dec-2014)

Shattered Light

2 - Dark Light (Mar-1999)

Sisters of the Night

The Angry Angel (Apr-1998)
The Soul of an Angel (Apr-1999)

Multi-Author Series List

Dragonflight

11 - Monet's Ghost (Jun-1997)

Book List in Order: 93 titles

  • Time of the Fourth Horseman

    Twenty-first century medical science has wiped out all the deadly diseases. Yet in a large American city patients have begun to come in with smallpox, diphtheria and all the other enemies that were supposed to have been defeated forever. No one but t...

  • Hotel Transylvania

    Le Comte de Saint-Germain - 1

    HOUSE OF ETERNAL PASSION--PARIS, 1744 It was the nightmare home of occult rites of ravishment, where beauty was made to serve evil, and the jaws of horror closed over innocence. It was the decadent playground of an aristocratic society riddled ...

  • The Palace

    Le Comte de Saint-Germain - 2

    THE COUNT. HE DIDN'T CHILL THE BLOOD OF HIS BEAUTIFUL VICTIMS. HE HEATED IT. Fifteenth-century Florence. The most dazzling and depraved city in the world. In this Italian capital of power and corruption, art and immortality, intrigue and evil, ...

  • Cautionary Tales

    First paperback edition. Chilling tales full of alien beauty or terror. "Into My Own" is a story which takes please inside the head of an aging playwright in a hospital bed, trying to resign himself to giving up his soul to an organic computer. "Dist...

  • Dead and Buried

    HE THOUGHT DEAD MEN TOLD NO TALES The murders were bad enough, but what Sheriff Dan Gillis couldn't understand were the newcomers to Potter's Bluff, and their eerie resemblance to people he had seen DEAD & BURIED. He couldn't tell Janet, becau...

  • Path of the Eclipse

    Le Comte de Saint-Germain - 4

    The willow bends and does not break, but the wind that blows from the west has a name...and that name is KhanJenghiz Khan. It is to the north of ancient China where lies the greatest danger and no one is safe, especially foreigners. The man known ...

  • Tempting Fate

    Le Comte de Saint-Germain - 5

  • Hyacinths

    • / Science Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Those who dream for the entertainment of the masses must pay a terrible price in Grand Master Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's breathtaking vision of a dark, dystopian future America In tomorrow's world, Dreams are big business. When all labor is drudgery, ...

  • The Godforsaken

    CURSE OF THE DAMNED As the Inquisition spread its fiery fingers across the land of Spain, holding kingdom and king in its terrible grip, a new horror would rise to challenge even the invincible power of the Grand Inquisitor. A curse on the house o...



  • The Saint-Germain Chronicles

    Le Comte de Saint-Germain - 6

  • Nomads

  • Locadio's Apprentice

  • Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?

    in A Whisper of Blood

    ROBERT SILVERBERG uncovers the dark side of sunny suburbia when a stranger extracts the neuroses of an unsuspecting town.... SUZY McKEE CHARNAS lures a reluctant vampire to play a game with death.... JONATHAN CARROLL takes a dream vacation -- a...

  • To the High Redoubt

    The Bundhi, Lord of Darkness, stealer of souls. This master of evil had destroyed all who fought against him, all but the beautiful Surata, last surviving adept in tantric alchemy. From Surata he had taken family, vision, and freedom, selling her int...

  • A Mortal Glamour

    It is hard for Pere Guibert to accept what is happening in this once-holy sanctuary. The ecstatic moans of pleasure and wild thrashings behind closed doors. The shame, mingled with rapture, on once beatific faces. One after another, men and women who...

  • Floating Illusions

  • Baroque Fable

    Accompanied by his bored sister, Princess Felicia, Prince Andre of a Alabaster-on-Gelasta embarks on his first dragon hunt, but his intended quarry is not really a dragon, but rather a serving girl enchanted by her employer, Alfreida the witch...

  • Firecode

    Beautiful security expert Carter Milne joins investigator William Ridour in tracing a series of strange, unexplained, and devasting fires, and finds herself drawn into a deadly world of supernatural forces...

  • A Flame in Byzantium

    Atta Olivia Clemens had received St. Germain's darkest gift -- would his love save her from the True Death?...



  • Signs and Portents

  • Ariosto

    THE MASTER OF DREAMS Poet laureate to the de' Medicis in Renaissance Italy, Ludovico Ariosto is a gentle man possessed of wisdom and great talent--his verses bring honor to his patron and make hot-blooded men weep for their sheer beauty. But in...

  • Taji's Syndrome

    It began with six innocent children--and the terror they would bring to life ... A human error, an unreported lab accident. Six pregnant women, six unknown children spreading a plague far deadlier than any doctors have ever seen before--a horror that...

  • Crusader's Torch

    It is the year 1189 A.D., and war is raging all around the Mediterranean. Any woman would fear travelling among the pirate, bandits and renegade Christian knights who flock to the call of battle--but Atta Olivia Clemens has a special reason to fear.....

  • Beastnights

  • Law in Charity

    The frontier town of Charity is growing larger -- and more lawless. Enter Jason Russell, a new kind of Sheriff.Texas Territories, 1848. At the edge of the mountains, in what will someday become Colorado, the frontier community of Charity needs someon...

  • A Candle for D'Artagnan

  • Bad Medicine

    Charles Spotted Moon - 1

    A child's death hits everyone hard, and Sparky Weed's parents blamed his physician, the beautiful Dr. Miranda Trobridge. From the start, attorney Charlie Moon sensed something sinister behind the malpractice case against her. A second untimely death ...

  • Out of the House of Life

    An account of the early life of the vampire Le Comte de Saint-Germain describes his life in ancient Egypt, his sojourn in the grim Temple of Imhotep, his transformation from demon to wise and powerful immortal, and his first encounter with his belove...

  • False Notes

    Charles Spotted Moon - 2

    Exit--the famous French tenor, dead on the stage during a performance at the San Francisco Opera House. Enter--Charlie Moon, called in to determine who in the international company most hated the dead singer. The suspects can make up alibis in severa...



  • Poison Fruit

    Charles Spotted Moon - 3

  • Cat's Claw

    Charles Spotted Moon - 4

    Someone leaves murdered corpses on the doorsteps of the wealthy. Jared Eden is arrested for the crimes, and attorney/part-time detective Charlie Moon is hired to defend him. To discover if Eden is innocent or not, Moon turns to his ancient Indian her...

  • Darker Jewels

    Le Comte de Saint-Germain - 7

    Le Comte de Saint-Germain is many things: alchemist, ambassador, lover - and the most seductive vampire since Dracula himself. Throughout countless centuries, he has brought passion and adventure to many exotic historical eras, as well as to an ever-...

  • Better in the Dark

    Le Comte de Saint-Germain - 8

    Here at last is a long-hinted-at chapter in the undead existence of the immortal Count Saint-Germain: the story of Ranegonda of Saxony, one of the three great loves of Saint-Germian's life. 937 A.D. The Saxon fortress of Leosan is under the almost u...

  • Crown of Empire

    Crisis of Empire - 4

    AN EMPIRE OF FOUR THOUSAND WORLDS The Pact of Mankind is a dinosaur lumbering toward oblivion; hedged about by alien enemies, rotten with decadence and corruption, run by competing oligarchies of criminal corporations, but ruled by a single man --...

  • Blood Games

    Le Comte de Saint-Germain - 3

    Blending the dark eroticism of the vampire with suspenseful adventure in history's most exotic locales, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's award-nominated Saint-Germain epic is a unique, enduring romantic saga of a tormented hero drawn to the places where human ...

  • Catching Dreams

    in Strangers in the Night

    He existed only in her dreams, until she found him in the flesh, and herself in a nightmare....

  • Messages from Michael

  • Michael for the Millennium

  • Mansions of Darkness

    Le Comte de Saint-Germain - 9

    Ambitious in its scope and provocative in its content, the saga of Count Saint-Germain is a monumental feat of the imagination. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's powerful and evocative novels have captured Saint-Germain throughout his long existence, from th...



  • Monet's Ghost

    Dragonflight - 11

  • Writ in Blood

    Le Comte de Saint-Germain - 10

    Ambitious in its scope and provocative in its content, the saga of the undying Count Saint-Germain is a monumental feat of the imagination.

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's novels have powerfully captured Saint-Germain throughout his long existence, fro...

  • The Angry Angel

    Sisters of the Night

    In Bram Stoker's dark classic Dracula, three "weird sisters," make a brief but unforgettable appearance. The beautiful, mad brides of the vampire lord, their untold histories are at last revealed to us in Sisters of the Night, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's...

  • Blood Roses

    Le Comte de Saint-Germain - 11

    For nearly two decades, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro has recorded the undying existence of the Count Saint-Germain, and has built up one of the most devoted readerships in the dark fantasy genre. Her many fans will assuredly greet the arrival of this new Sai...

  • Dark Light

    Shattered Light - 2

    Two unlikely allies, a vampire and a paladin, draw on their own special powers to find an ancient artifact dating back to the catastrophe that forever changed Delos and the only weapon that can stop the evil Laria forever. Original....

  • The Soul of an Angel

    Sisters of the Night

    Young and beautiful, Fenice Zucchar lives in opulent splendor on the world's richest island. The pampered daughter of a wealthy and powerful owner of ocean-going merchant vessels, Fenice's soul yearns for the freedom of the sea--for the adventures an...

  • Communion Blood

    Le Comte de Saint-Germain - 12

    Saint-Germain must defend the lands and memory of Olivia Clemens, his Imperial Roman love, from the machinations of 17th century Romans who want to wrest control of the estate from Olivia's loyal, and long-lived, servant....

  • Magnificat

    What if the Pope WEREN'T Catholic? What if she never HAD been? It's 1997, in a universe much like ours. But here the Pope is dead, and the conclave to elect the new head of the Catholic Church has chosen someone who is not a Cardinal--or even a Catho...

  • Come Twilight

    Le Comte de Saint-Germain - 13

    Beginning in the 600s, Spain's old blood rituals of animal sacrifice were replaced by the new gods of Christianity and Islam, who demanded no less obedience and allegiance. Saint-Germain becomes trapped in this cauldron of blood, fear, and faith w...

  • In the Face of Death

    Madeline de Montalia, the perpetually youthful and beautiful vampire, once beloved of the Count Saint-Germain, comes to America in the 1840's to live with and study the native tribes of America, desiring to document their culture and knowledge before...



  • False Dawn

    It is the turn of the twenty-first century. War, disease and pollution have made the earth nearly unfit for human habitation. Food is scarce and what food remains is quickly confiscated by the pirates. One woman named Thea, has eluded the Pirates for...

  • A Feast in Exile

    Le Comte de Saint-Germain - 14

    Saint-Germain is a prisoner in fourteenth century India. His companion, a young acrobat, is reluctant to slake Saint-Germains thirst if that will lead to her own undeath. Meanwhile, sexy Avasa Dani rises to new life and, without Saint-Germains promis...

  • Long-Term Investment

    in Dracula in London

    A DAY IN THE LIFE OF COUNT DRACULA Brain Stoker's immortal tale of vampirism told the story of how Count Vlad Tepes came to London and met his demise at the hands of Abraham van Helsing's vampire hunters. But how did Dracula occupy his time when he ...

  • Midnight Harvest

    Blending the dark eroticism of the vampire with high adventure in history's most compelling locales, the story of Saint-Germain is the enduring drama of a lonely hero who walks the earth throughout time, battling for honor...and love. To escape th...

  • Night Blooming

    Le Comte de Saint-Germain - 15

    Set in the court of Charlemagne the Great, this is the 15th novel in the popular series about the immortal vampire, Le Comte de Saint-Germain, who meets an albino woman afflicted with stigmata who is accused of witchcraft....

  • Apprehensions and Other Delusions

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro is best known for her suave, vampire-about-the-world Count Saint-Germain, but she is also an accomplished short fiction writer as well. Five Star is proud to present the best of her dark fantasy and horror fiction all in one coll...

  • Dark of the Sun

    Le Comte de Saint-Germain - 16

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's vampire hero returns to Transylvania in Dark of the Sun, a novel in the Count Saint-Germain series

    It is the 6th century of the common era. The vampire Saint-Germain, known in this time as Zangi-Ragozh, is peacefully ...

  • States of Grace

    Le Comte de Saint-Germain - 17

    Franzicco Ragoczy di Santo-Germano is a successful merchant in Venice. His lavish lifestyle and rumored cache of magnificent jewels have attracted the wrong sort of attention, and without Santo-Germano's noble―and papal―connections, he might b...

  • Gentleman of the Old School

    in Dark Delicacies

    Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology.

    Nineteen original, macabre tales of terror by the world's greatest horror writers, including Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, Whitley Strieber, F. Paul Wilson, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and many oth...

  • Roman Dusk

    Le Comte de Saint-Germain - 18

    Rome is crumbling. The child-emperor, Heliogabalus, diverts the Roman populace with parties, circuses, and celebrations, while his mother and grandmother jockey for power behind the scenes. The government is riddled with scandal and no business is co...

  • Furry Fantastic

    This original anthology gathers together eighteen fantastical stories about cats, dogs, mice, and other furry creatures from realms beyond our world.Includes stories by Michael A. Stackpole, Keith DeCandido, James M. Ward, Jody Lynn Nye, Nancy Holder...

  • Borne in Blood

    Le Comte de Saint-Germain - 19

    The year is 1817. In Switzerland, the Count Saint-Germain leads a comfortable life with his paramour Hero whose husband died fighting Napoleon. Saint-Germain's loving kindness cannot keep Hero from missing her children who are being raised by their h...

  • Saint-Germain Memoirs

    Focusing on Saint-Germain -- one of the genre’s most memorable vampires -- this collection follows the dark immortal from ancient Greece to the present as tales of his timeless life are recounted. Also included is a brief essay by the author about ...

  • The Lost Prince

  • A Dangerous Climate

    Le Comte de Saint-Germain - 20

    The vampire Count Saint-Germain, disguised as a missing Hungarian nobleman, is on a spy mission in the heart of Czarist Russia. Almost by the power of his will alone, it seems, Peter the Great is wrestling the city that will one day be St. Petersburg...

  • Dead Mice

    A serial killer has taken to leaving dead bodies at the homes of prominent San Franciscans, including Charlie Moon's long-time client, Elizabeth Kendrie. When a suspect is arrested, Elizabeth urges Charlie to defend him; reluctantly Charlie does, awa...

  • Music When Sweet Voices Die

    MUSIC WHEN SWEET VOICES DIE brings another challenging case to Bay Area lawyer, and Ojibwa shaman, Charlie Moon. The death of a star singer during a performance of 'Les Contes d'Hoffman' brings pressure to bear on the San Francisco Opera?-?and suspic...

  • Poisonous Fruit

    Danger is everywhere for attorney Charlie Moon: his client Frank Girouard is accused of sexual assault on a minor and though Charlie is sure he is innocent, he is certain that the school girls accusing him have been abused by someone. While his wife,...

  • Burning Shadows

    Le Comte de Saint-Germain - 21

    Two decades strong, the Saint-Germain cycle is one of the most compelling works of dark fantasy and horror of our age. Historically accurate, these deeply emotional novels have a devoted readership. In Burning Shadows, Yarbro looks at the legendar...

  • An Embarrassment of Riches

    Le Comte de Saint-Germain - 22

    More than two decades strong, the Saint-Germain cycle is one of the most compelling works of dark fantasy and horror of our age. Historically accurate, often involving key events or figures from throughout world history, these deeply emotional novels...

  • Commedia Della Morte

    Le Comte de Saint-Germain - 23

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's modern classic, Hotel Transylvania, introduced the Count Saint-Germain and his beloved, Madelaine de Montalia. The Count is one of the most critically acclaimed vampire characters ever created, with dedicated fans who have foll...

  • Alas, Poor Yorick

    It is twenty years before the events of Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Yorick, the King's trusted jester and sometimes confidante, is caught in a web of treachery and murder as he struggles to be true to his King and to protect the infant Prince Hamlet. ...

  • Night Pilgrims

    Le Comte de Saint-Germain - 24

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's first Saint-Germain novel, Hotel Transylvania, was recently nominated as Vampire Novel of the Century. Her Saint-Germain cycle, now comprised of more than twenty-five books, is a masterwork of historical horror fiction. The vam...

  • Nimuar's Loss

    Nimuar's LossBook One of The Vildecaz TalentsStirring high fantasy adventure as two sisters must find their power in accepting their journey.Ninianee and Erianthee, the daughters of Duez Nimuar of Vildecaz, have unusual magical talents: Ninianee has ...

  • Deceptive Oracle

    Duez Nimuar is missing and his two talented daughters are determined to find him, Erianthee through her magical Puppet Shows. Ninianee through her close knowledge of animals.Both sisters are accompanied by their declared suitors. Kloveon with Erinath...

  • Agnith's Promise

    The complete set of Vildecaz Talents: including Nimuar's Loss, The Deceptive Oracle and Agnith's Promise.For Ninianee and Erianthee, their magical talents are mixed blessings, until their father, Duz Nimuar disappears, when they take up the hunt for ...

  • The Vildecaz Talents

    For Ninianee and Erianthee, their magical talents are mixed blessings until their father, Duz Nimuar, disappears. Taking up the hunt, each uses her unique gifts to pursue the few illusive clues that indicate where their father has gone, and why. Aide...

  • Arcane Wisdome

    Lucy Wisdome has a secret. In the three years since her mother died, Lucy has tried to live a normal high school life while struggling to keep her mother’s memory alive. When she stumbles upon her mother’s book collection in the attic, she is unp...

  • Sustenance

    Le Comte de Saint-Germain - 25

    The vampire Count Saint-Germain protects Americans fleeing persecution―and becomes trapped in a web of betrayal, deceit, and murder in post-WWII Europe in Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's SUSTENANCE The powerful House Un-American Activities Committee hun...

  • A Cold Summer Night

    Terror Stalks the King’s Woods ...From acclaimed author Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (writing as Trystam Kith) comes the first book in the Trouble in the Forest duology, a medieval fantasy that turns all too quickly to terror. Deep in the forest, trouble i...

  • A Bright Winter Sun

    Terror Reigns in Sherwood Forest. From acclaimed author Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (writing as Trystam Kith) comes the second book in the Trouble in the Forest duology, a medieval fantasy that turns legend into horror. Deep in the forest, tro...

  • Four Horses For Tishtry

    In ancient Rome, set in the universe of Saint Germain ...Tishtry is a slave girl with only one goal in her heart -- to buy freedom for her family and for herself. It is no easy task, even for someone with her exceptional talents. She may well be the ...

  • Sins of Omission

    A beautiful, mysterious woman possesses the power to bewitch and destroy in Grand Master Chelsea Quinn Yarbro’s breathtaking novel of erotic obsession and creeping horror Her name is Fayre and she is a profound mystery, as inscrutable as she is...

  • Haunting Investigation

    Spring 1924. The world has clawed its way back from the ravages of WWI and the Spanish Flu pandemic. The 20's are beginning to roar. Poppy Thornton lives with her Aunt Jo and her excitable cat Maestro in upper-crust Philadelphia. Poppy is determined ...

  • The Case of the American Twins

    The American Twins is a classic adventure featuring the great detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful friend, Dr. John WatsonAmong the many references made to cases that Watson did not chronicle, those of Sherlock Holmes' early career are the most...

  • Brother Keeper

    Brother KeeperAdapted from characters created by Arthur Conan DoyleBefore Sherlock was the Great Detective, he was a university student sent down from Oxford to London to the care of his older brother, a rising young man at the Admiralty, and during ...

  • Sherlock Holmes Collection

    BROTHER KEEPER-Before Sherlock was the Great Detective, he was a university student sent down from Oxford to London to the care of his older brother, a rising young man at the Admiralty, and during his time in London, he has his first look at the dar...

  • Living Spectres

    Philadelphia, 1924 It's been three months since crime reporter Poppy Thornton was left to die in an abandoned warehouse by her cousin Stacy, chief suspect in a high society murder. Rescued by the quick thinking of Chesterton Holte-her "gentleman haun...

  • Disturb Not My Slumbering Fair

    Have you ever wondered what makes you cry while watching a video, what makes you willing to donate to a cause? Based on recent discoveries in neurosciences applied to marketing and fundraising, this book explains how our brain decides. It explores th...

  • Hazeldene's Gamble

    With his troop of cavalry taken away from him, Nicodemus Hazeldene finds himself with three ships and all but one of the officers of his old troop. Making the best of a bad situation, he hires a crew for the ships after accepting a commission from a...

  • Discrete Madame

  • Short Things

    Short Things is a collection of never-before-published stories based on John W. Campbell’s classic short novel, “Who Goes There?” (filmed as The Thing). Commissioned one by one as stretch goals for the Frozen Hell Kickstarter project (which br...

  • Midnight From Beyond the Stars

    There's life out there... and it's coming for you!It starts as a mild rattling of the windows disturbing your pleasant dreams. Then the trees outside your bedroom rustle from a mysterious celestial wind. When the neighborhood dogs erupt in a cacophon...

  • Ogilvie, Tallant & Moon

    • / Mystery
    • Buy Buy

    In OGILVIE, TALLANT & MOON best-selling author Chelsea Quinn Yarbro introduces San Francisco attorney Charlie Moon, who happens to be an Ojibwa shaman. He's got his lawbooks and a special gift for detection to make his cases for him but when things g...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro has published 93 books.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Midnight From Beyond the Stars, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Time of the Fourth Horseman, was published in October 1977.

Yes. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro has 5 series.
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