Gary Jonas

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  • Bibliography:
    45 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1997
  • Latest Book:
    February 2023
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Full Series List in Order

The Half-Assed Wizard

1 - The Half-Assed Wizard (Jun-2017)
2 - The Big-Ass Witch (Jul-2017)
3 - The Dumbass Demon (Sep-2017)
4 - The Lame-Assed Doppelganger (Dec-2017)

The Hitman Stories

1 - So You Wanna Be a Hitman (Jun-2013)
2 - The Xenophobic Hitman (Jun-2013)
3 - Death Threat for a Hitman (Jun-2013)
4 - The Homophobic Hitman (Jun-2013)
5 - The Multi-Level Hitman (Jun-2013)
6 - An Officer and a Hitman (Jan-2019)

Jonathan Shade

1 - Modern Sorcery (Oct-2011)
2 - Acheron Highway (Nov-2012)
3 - Dragon Gate (Oct-2013)
4 - Anubis Nights (Oct-2014)
5 - Sunset Specters (Nov-2017)
6 - Wizard's Nocturne (Dec-2017)
6.5 - Spirited Christmas (Jan-2018)
7 - Razor Dreams (Dec-2017)
8 - Vertigo Effect (Jan-2018)
9 - Club Eternity (Jan-2018)
10 - Timeless Gods (Jan-2018)
11 - Immortal Ascendant (May-2018)

Kelly Chan

1 - Vampire Midnight (Jan-2018)
2 - Werewolf Samurai (Jan-2018)
3 - Subhuman Resources (Nov-2016)
4 - Zombie Rising (Mar-2017)
5 - Vendetta Blues (Jan-2018)

Book List in Order: 45 titles

  • Curse Of The Magazine Killers

    These stories are cursed

    Contained in this mini-collection are five stories that killed the magazines that bought them.

    Some writers kill more magazines than others. To kill a magazine is to sell them a story that never sees print because the ...

  • One-Way Ticket to Midnight

    The killings have started again…

    …and the police are looking for a regular killer.

    Down-and-out bluesman Roy Porter has been living on the streets of Tulsa for years, and he’s seen the pattern of death before. This is no ordinary killer, ...

  • Modern Sorcery

    Jonathan Shade - 1

    Magic can be deadly... When Private Investigator Jonathan Shade's ex-lover walks into his Denver office asking him to prove her father didn't commit the murder that dozens of witnesses saw and security cameras captured, Shade finds himself in the thi...

  • Quick Shots

    The gun is loaded.

    Ready...

    Before he started the Jonathan Shade series, Gary Jonas paid his dues writing and selling short stories to various anthologies and magazines. On deck we have twenty-nine tales of horror, fantasy, and suspense.

    Ai...

  • Night Marshal

    Vampires in the Old West

    Jack Talon, a former US Marshal and infamous gunslinger, is dying of tuberculosis when he arrives in Silver Plume, Colorado with his lovely wife, Sonya. He just wants to do a bit of gambling and get on with the business ...

  • Acheron Highway

    Jonathan Shade - 2

    "He stole my heart, Mr. Shade. I want you to find him and steal it back."

    The dead won't stay buried in Denver, so Jonathan Shade isn't too surprised when a deceased woman shows up wanting to hire him. A necromancer stalker has stolen her heart--l...

  • Shepherds on the Hills of Eternity

    What price would you pay for eternal youth?Would you be willing to feed on the energy of people around you even if it drains them of their free will?Would you be willing to kill?This short story originally appeared in the collection Quick Shots by Ga...

  • Death Threat for a Hitman

    The Hitman Stories - 3

    This is the third of the Hitman stories, now available in paperback for those who want it as a single. Remember, you can get this short story in the collection Quick Shots, or in The Hitman Stories, should you want only the Hitman yarns....

  • The Homophobic Hitman

    The Hitman Stories - 4

    Equal opportunity assassin.

    The hitman is hired by a gay man to kill an ex-lover. You won't find the hitman marching in any Gay Pride parades, but a paying gig is a paying gig.

    But one thing you can always count on: domestics never pla...



  • The Multi-Level Hitman

    The Hitman Stories - 5

    So you want to kill your spouseThe hitman meets a woman at a sales seminar who wants him to kill her husband because he's driving them into a mountain of debt with his multi-level marketing business.  Before you can say, duplicate this through y...

  • So You Wanna Be a Hitman

    The Hitman Stories - 1

    This short story, first published in 1997 in the anthology Robert Bloch's Psychos, introduced the world to a blue collar hitman with attitude out to here. This is the origin story. You can get the other stories as individual chapbooks, collected as T...

  • The Xenophobic Hitman

    The Hitman Stories - 2

    This is the second story in the Hitman series. It was originally published in Noirotica 2: Pulp Friction back in 1997. This short story has sex and violence, so you might give it an R rating depending on how you're holding the Hitman's camcorder. In ...

  • By Death Abused

    A paranormal investigator tries to help a boy deal with the ghost of his dead, but still abusive father. Of course, the investigator has a secret of his own.

    This short story originally appeared as a signed/limited chapbook from Roadkill Press ba...

  • Dragon Gate

    Jonathan Shade - 3

    A RITUALISTIC MURDER

    Stephen Noble, a board member of Dragon Gate Industries (DGI), is decapitated. DGI, a front company for wizards, decides to provide executive protection services for Noble's son, Graham, and daughter, Rayna. But Graham doesn'...

  • Anubis Nights

    Jonathan Shade - 4

    A STOLEN SPELL

    A dead sorcerer in the Underworld named Henry Winslow, a contemporary of Aleister Crowley and former member of The Golden Dawn, steals a spell from The Forbidden Texts in order to fulfill the prophecy of the Thrice Born. He divides ...

  • Quick Shots: A Killer Collection

    The gun is loaded.

     Ready…

     Before he started the Jonathan Shade series, Gary Jonas paid his dues writing and selling short stories to various anthologies and magazines. On deck we have twenty-nine tales of horror, fantasy, and...

  • Night Marshal

    Vampires in the Old West!

    Jack Talon, a former US Marshal and infamous gunslinger, is dying of tuberculosis when he arrives in Silver Plume, Colorado with his lovely wife, Sonya. He just wants to do a bit of gambling and get on with the bu...

  • Guardians of the Sky

    WE ARE NOT ALONE

    When Steve Riley stops for a burger on a road trip, a dying man hands him a file that proves the US government has aliens in captivity.  Before he can even process that information, he's thrown into an ongoing battle betw...

  • Subhuman Resources

    Kelly Chan - 3

    KIDNAPPED!When Kelly's favorite student disappears under mysterious circumstances, the magically engineered assassin is drawn into a conspiracy involving vampires, ghouls, and her former employer and creator, Dragon Gate Industries.A TERRIBLE EXP...



  • Zombie Rising

    Kelly Chan - 4

    SUMMER OF LOVE? NOT QUITE.

    The rave scene is in full swing in Denver with hot new DJs mixing sick tracks. Brand goes for the music and the energy and is eager to bring Kelly.

    A DEADLY DANCE.

    But the music is laced with magic ...

  • The Half-Assed Wizard

    The Half-Assed Wizard - 1

    A couple of jerks wake me up at the crack of noon. Seems my klepto uncle stole an ancient deck of Tarot cards from a high-powered wizard, and too many losers want to ruin my day to get them back.

    The cards are cool, so I check them out, but my m...

  • The Big-Ass Witch

    The Half-Assed Wizard - 2

    Life sucks. My old man makes me work for a big-ass witch named Lakesha so I can learn magic and help people. My first gig turns out to be an abduction, which sounds like a job for law enforcement, not a half-assed wizard like yours truly. Just my lu...

  • The Dumbass Demon

    The Half-Assed Wizard - 3

    My old man sics a nuisance demon named Kevin on me to force me to grow up and stop being a slacker. The only way I can expel the jerk is to develop magic I create and control. Until then, Kevin plans to push me, prod me, and annoy me into action.

    ...

  • Sunset Specters

    Jonathan Shade - 5

    Magic and murder in the Barbary CoastChasing a sorcerer through time sucks. Kelly and I find ourselves in 1877 hunting Henry Winslow in San Francisco's Barbary Coast. That place is crazy. It's filled with gangs, crimps, thieves, cutthroats, prostitut...

  • The Lame-Assed Doppelganger

    The Half-Assed Wizard - 4

    What do you do when you've been replaced?

    I come home from a vacation to find that another version of me has taken my place. He's living my life. He has my friends. He has my career. And what really sucks is that he's doing it all so much better ...

  • Razor Dreams

    Jonathan Shade - 7

    A SIMPLE CASE FOR A NEW BEGINNING...

    ...that's all Jonathan needs. Some easy little supernatural problem to gain Kelly Chan's trust, and keep her from walking out of his life forever.

    The case goes from simple to deadly when Jonathan's action...

  • Wizard's Nocturne

    Jonathan Shade - 6

    A MURDER IN LAYERED TIME

    In the conclusion of the three-volume time travel sequence, Jonathan Shade is sent back to 1926 to kill an upstart wizard named Henry Winslow. Henry wants to die because in order to achieve his goal of immortality, he mus...

  • Club Eternity

    Jonathan Shade - 9

    AN EARLY WARNING

    When a vampire named Victor Pavlenco shows up on Jonathan's doorstep, it's clear that old enemies are closing in.

    To deal with the threat, Jonathan and Kelly need a weapon capable of killing a god, which leads them to a specia...

  • Spirited Christmas

    Jonathan Shade - 6.5

    Ghost of Christmas PastA ghost is haunting a little girl's family every Christmas, so she hires me to get rid of it. The hauntings have escalated from mere sightings to full-fledged possession. I figure it's an open-and-shut exorcism, but the truth i...



  • Timeless Gods

    Jonathan Shade - 10

    Jonathan Shade is back in action with Kelly Chan and the flapper ghost, Esther at his side. The Men of Anubis want revenge after Jonathan casts one of their own into the void, and will bend the very fabric of time to find him and destroy everyone he ...

  • Vampire Midnight

    Kelly Chan - 1

    Kelly Chan, the magically engineered assassin from the Jonathan Shade series in her first solo adventure! Picking up a package for a friend should be easy, but when the package is at Tally's, a shop that caters to things that go bump in the night, an...

  • Vendetta Blues

    Kelly Chan - 5

    KELLY'S BAD DAY After a simple case of supernatural pest control goes sideways, Kelly knows she's in for a really bad day. But when she's called to help protect some children on their way home, she can't refuse. Even if it means working with her ...

  • Vertigo Effect

    Jonathan Shade - 8

    Lights, Magic, Murder

    A movie stuntman dies performing a stunt on location, but the police call it an accident. His girlfriend, Angela, is a low-level wizard, and when she finds a witch's spent hex bag at the crime scene, she knows it's murder. ...

  • Werewolf Samurai

    Kelly Chan - 2

    The moon is full and Kelly Chan is back in action!A DOMESTIC DISPUTEKelly tries to help a mother and daughter out of a bad situation, but they neglect to tell her the woman's husband is not only a samurai, but he's also a freaking werewolf! TO PROTEC...

  • Dying to Live

    Ghost with a broken heartOn a dark highway, a creature from the Void confronts a lonely ghost, ready to feed on her memories. The ghost is Esther Carmichael, and she's been through so much anguish since she died. Sh...

  • Immortal Ascendant

    Jonathan Shade - 11

    A quest for Hitler's skull...

    A Washington politician hires me to track down Hitler's skull for a magical ritual. It seems that Hitler didn't die in the bunker, but instead took the ratlines to Argentina.

    Kelly and I team up with a medium, wh...

  • Taking the Dare

    Are you brave enough to take the dare?

    When Alex Peterson touches people, he gets flashes of the terrible things they've done. When he admits this in a game of Truth or Dare, his friends dare him to touch the creepy neighbor, who may be a mu...

  • Word Magic

    Believe in the magic of words

    Greg Jenkins is a lonely bookstore owner, with only a cat for company. He longs for love, but no longer believes it's possible.

    Enter romance author Susannah Hayworth, who agrees to write a story in the bo...

  • An Officer and a Hitman

    The Hitman Stories - 6

    A cop hires the hitman to kill him and his family.

    When a highly publicized court case draws near, MS-13 gang members decide to take out the witnesses. One of those witnesses is a cop, and he knows he's the next target for murder.

    But ...



  • Undead Agent

    Zombies, and ghosts, and voodoo queens, oh myI don't want the case of a missing FBI agent, but he disappeared after asking a New Orleans voodoo queen to bring his dead and cremated wife back to life. So now I'm thinking if Madame Rousseau can hand ou...

  • Living on Dream Time

    Dream your way to horror, crime, and fantasy in this gathering of stories by the author of the Jonathan Shade series.

    Six stories await you.

    "Taking the Dare" - A teenager who can touch someone and see the terrible things they've done ...

  • Hell Hunter

    Warning: This book eats souls.A Satanic cult abducts two girls, slaughtering the rest of the family in a brutal ritual. To save the girls, Peter Chessman, an occult specialist, recruits the only man ever to face off with the cult and survive:...

  • Mystic Hollow

    Small towns hide deadly secrets… When Helen Cather dies, her daughter, Melissa, must fulfill her mother's final request to spread her ashes in Mystic Hollow's fishpond. When Melissa arrives in the small Colorado mountain town, she feels l...

  • The Widow in Black

    The bank robber's wife has a secret...U.S. Marshal Thomas Kent arrives in Wekosha, Kansas on the trail of the Slattery Gang, a notorious band of deadly bank robbers. The sheriff won't help because the mayor, who runs the town, is the gang leader's fa...

  • Quadruple Shot

    Four quick shots of short story fun...A haunted movie theater.Assassins get more than they bargained for when they stalk a target in a bar.Two men talking in a diner leads to a second chance at life.And a psychic spy story based on MK Ultra.What more...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Gary Jonas has published 45 books.

Gary Jonas does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Quadruple Shot, was published in February 2023.

The first book by Gary Jonas, Curse Of The Magazine Killers, was published in June 1997.

Yes. Gary Jonas has 4 series.
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