James P. Blaylock

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  • Bibliography:
    36 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1982
  • Latest Book:
    February 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Balumnia

1 - The Elfin Ship (Jul-1982)
2 - The Disappearing Dwarf (Aug-1985)
3 - The Stone Giant (May-1989)

Christian

1 - The Last Coin (1988)
2 - The Paper Grail (Feb-1992)
3 - All the Bells on Earth (Nov-1995)

Ghosts

1 - Night Relics (Mar-1994)
2 - Winter Tides (Aug-1997)
3 - The Rainy Season (Aug-1999)

Narbondo

1 - The Digging Leviathan (Aug-1984)
2 - Homunculus (Mar-1986)
3 - Lord Kelvin's Machine (Feb-1992)
4 - The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives (Dec-2008)
5 - The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs (Jul-2011)

A Tale of Langdon St. Ives

The Aylesford Skull (Jan-2013)

Book List in Order: 36 titles

  • The Elfin Ship

    Balumnia - 1

    A trilogy sets sail with a novel that’s “charming, light-hearted and funny . . . Feels a little like The Hobbit or The Wind in the Willows” (Fantasy Literature).   James P. Blaylock’s debut novel The Elfin Ship has be...

  • The Digging Leviathan

    Narbondo - 1

    Journey to the center of the Earth …

    Giles Peach was unique. He was born with a neat set of gills on either side of his neck - and webbed fingers. He enjoyed reading (Edgar Rice Burroughs was his favorite author) and he liked to invent t...

  • The Disappearing Dwarf

    Balumnia - 2

    Second in the fantasy trilogy set in “a magical world, magically presented . . . Having journeyed there, you will not wish to leave, nor ever forget” (Philip K. Dick).   Jonathan Bing, Master Cheeser, has been growing a b...

  • Homunculus

    Narbondo - 2

    It is the late 19th century and a mysterious airship orbits through the foggy skies. Its terrible secrets are sought by many, including the Royal Society, a fraudulent evangelist, a fiendish vivisectionist, an evil millionaire and an assorted group l...

  • Axolotl Double A-1

  • Land of Dreams

    When a boat-sized shoe and giant spectacles wash up on the shore, three of the town's orphans - Jack, Skeezix, and Helen - know there's something fishy going on; and the old ghost in the orphanage attic is inclined to agree. An evil carnival comes to...

  • The Last Coin

    Christian - 1

    Thirty pieces of silver -- the price paid Judas to betray Jesus. Twenty-nine coins--are already in the hands of a very unpleasant individual who calls himself Pennyman. The Last Coin--all that stands between the world and doom. And this coin no...

  • The Stone Giant

    Balumnia - 3

    Third in the Balumnia Trilogy from the author of The Elfin Ship and The Disappearing Dwarf, “a singular American fabulist” (William Gibson, author of Neuromancer).   Jonathan Bing wasn’t the first citizen of Twombly Town to have a run-in w...

  • Lord Kelvin's Machine

    Narbondo - 3

    Within the magical gears of Lord Kelvin's incredible machine lies the secret of time. The deadly Dr. Ignacio Narbondo would murder to possess it and scientist and explorer Professor Langdon St. Ives would do anything to use it. For the doctor it mean...



  • The Paper Grail

    Christian - 2

    The second thriller in the supernatural trilogy by the World Fantasy Award"winning author -- An “intriguing and absorbing work from a major talent” (Kirkus Reviews).   Howard Barton came to Mendocino in search of a folded scrap of paper. ...

  • Night Relics

    Ghosts - 1

    From the dark imagination of James P. Blaylock comes a new, chilling tale of the supernatural. When Peter Travers moves into an old house in a remote canyon to try to separate himself from his old existence, his wish becomes reality... all too litera...

  • All the Bells on Earth

    Christian - 3

    “Blaylock is one of the most brilliant of that new generation of fabulist writers: All the Bells on Earthmay be his best book . . . Enthralling” (The Washington Post Book World).   In the dead of night, a man climbs the tower ...

  • Thirteen Phantasms and Other Stories

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    James Blaylock is one of the finest writers in the fantasy field. Sixteen of his acclaimed short stories are collected here for the first time. Included is "Thirteen Phantasms," his brilliant World Fantasy Award-winning story of a man who returns to ...

  • Winter Tides

    Ghosts - 2

    Fifteen years ago, on a deserted California beach, Dave Quinn swam out into the winter ocean to save two drowning girls - identical twin sisters. He was only able to save one. Now, years later, he meets Anne, a struggling artist from Canada. He has n...

  • Old Curiosity Shop

  • The Rainy Season

    Ghosts - 3

    It's a gray, wet winter in southern California, and Phil Ainsworth is alone. The sudden death of young wife has left him shaken, and he gets eerie sensations as he roams around the big, old house he inherited from his mother. He's sure he's seen peop...

  • Thirteen Phantasma and Other Stories

    The first short story collection from Philip K. Dick Award-winning author James Blaylock features sixteen thought-provoking forays into the fantastic-from a tale of alien influence on an ordinary neighborhood to the story of one man's self-destructiv...

  • The Man in the Moon

  • The Devils in the Details



  • The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives

    Narbondo - 4

    A good deal of controversy arose late in the last century over what has been referred to by the more livid newspapers as The Horror in St. James Park or The Ape-box Affair....

    So begins the first chronicle in the long and often obscure life o...

  • The Knights of the Cornerstone

    Calvin Bryson has hidden himself away from the world, losing himself in his work and his collection of rare and quirky books. He never meant to let so much time go by without visiting his aunt and uncle in the tiny town of New Cyprus, California. Whe...

  • Metamorphosis

    METAMORPHOSIS is collection of three short stories, written by three young students in collaboration by James P. Blaylock for a class taught by Tim Powers, who provides the introduction. Mirrors, shadows, and secret rooms: the houses in which we...

  • The Ebb Tide

    A flaming meteor over the Yorkshire Dales, a long-lost map drawn by the lunatic Bill “Cuttle” Kraken, and the discovery of a secret subterranean shipyard beneath the River Thames lead Professor Langdon St. Ives and his intrepid friend Jack Owlesb...

  • The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs

    Narbondo - 5

    Subterranean Press is proud to announce the longest Langdon St. Ives adventure in two decades, featuring a full-color wraparound dust jacket and twenty black-and-white interior illustrations by J. K. Potter. An outbreak of violent madness at the ...

  • The Magic Spectacles

    A YA adventure from World Fantasy Award winning author James P. Blaylock.A suddenly appearing curiosity shop owned by a small man who might, or might not, be the Man in the Moon; a pair of strange spectacles buried in a fishbowl full of marbles; an o...

  • Zeuglodon

    A skeletal hand clutching an iron key lies hidden within a mermaid's wooden sarcophagus; a hand-drawn map is stolen from beneath the floorboards an old museum; an eccentric sleeping inventor dreams of a passage to the center of the hollow earth, and ...

  • The Aylesford Skull

    A Tale of Langdon St. Ives

    It is the summer of 1883 and Professor Langdon St. Ives - brilliant but eccentric scientist and explorer - is at home in Aylesford with his family. However, a few miles to the north a steam launch has been taken by pirates above Egypt Bay; the crew m...

  • Steam Punk: The Beginning

    features over 80 illustrations of characters and scenes from three seminal Steampunk novels: Homonculus (Berkley Publishing Group, 1986) by James Blaylock, Infernal Devices (St. Martins Press, 1987) by K.W. Jeter, and Anubis Gates (Berkley Publishing...

  • The Adventure of the Ring of Stones

    The secret log of a murdered lighthouse keeper falls into the hands of the immensely wealthy Gilbert Frobisher, who discovers encoded within it a stunning and dangerous mystery. Against all odds Langdon St. Ives and his companions set sail in the ...



  • Beneath London

    The collapse of the Victoria Embankment uncovers a passage to an unknown realm beneath the city. Langdon St. Ives sets out to explore it, not knowing that a brilliant and wealthy psychopathic murderer is working to keep the underworld’s secrets hid...

  • In for a Penny

    This mesmerizing collection from World Fantasy Award-winner James P. Blaylock offers seven brilliant excursions into one of the most idiosyncratic imaginations of our time. Highlighted by the acclaimed novella, THE TRISMEGISTUS CLUB―a brilliant rif...

  • The Further Adventures of Langdon St. Ives

    Subterranean Press is proud to present "The Further Adventures of Langdon St. Ives," which includes three classic adventures, a new novella and novelette, and more than forty illustrations by J. K. Potter. Langdon St. Ives, explorer, scientist, na...

  • River's Edge

    The body of a girl washes up on a mud bank along the edge of the River Medway amid a litter of poisoned fish and sea birds, casting an accusing shadow upon the deadly secrets of the Majestic Paper Mill and its wealthy owners. Simple answers to the my...

  • The Gobblin' Society

    “…[A] twisted but delightful fantasy tale... Mystery, mesmerism, murder, and mayhem combine into a jolly good time. Blaylock’s fans will be gratified.” —Publishers WeeklyWhen coffins bearing what might be living corpses ...

  • The Steampunk Adventures of Langdon St. Ives

    Within this volume lie the complete Steampunk short stories of Professor Langdon St. Ives, Victorian adventurer, written by avowed Steampunk Legend, James P. Blaylock. St. Ives, traveler through time and space and an often misunderstood member of the...

  • Pennies from Heaven

    Jerry Larkin discovers an age-old secret buried beneath the foundation of the house that he and his wife Jane, an avid reader of ghost stories, bought six months ago in the idyllic town of Old Orange in southern California.Jane Larkin, whose MacArthu...

Award-Winning Books by James P. Blaylock

Homunculus
1987 Philip K. Dick Award -- Novel
Thirteen Phantasms and Other Stories
1997 World Fantasy Award -- Short Story


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

James P. Blaylock has published 36 books.

James P. Blaylock does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Pennies from Heaven, was published in February 2023.

The first book by James P. Blaylock, The Elfin Ship, was published in July 1982.

Yes. James P. Blaylock has 5 series.
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