J.L. Bryan

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  • Bibliography:
    40 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2009
  • Latest Book:
    October 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Ellie Jordan - Ghost Trapper

1 - Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper (Sep-2014)
2 - Cold Shadows (Nov-2014)
3 - The Crawling Darkness (Jan-2015)
4 - Terminal (Apr-2015)
5 - House of Whispers (Sep-2015)
6 - Maze of Souls (Feb-2016)
7 - Lullaby (Aug-2016)
8 - The Keeper (Dec-2016)
9 - The Tower (Oct-2017)

The Paranormals

1 - Jenny Pox (2010)
2 - Tommy Nightmare (2011)
3 - Alexander Death (2011)
4 - Jenny Plague-Bringer (2012)

Songs of Magic

1 - Fairy Metal Thunder (Sep-2011)
2 - Fairy Blues (Jan-2012)
3 - Fairystruck (Mar-2012)
4 - Fairyland (Jun-2012)
5 - Fairyvision (Feb-2013)
6 - Fairy Luck (Jun-2014)

Book List in Order: 40 titles

  • Dominion

    In the year 2036, the United States of America is ruled by a totalitarian regime controlling all information: education, religion, the mass media, and the internet. Daniel Ruppert is a talking head for the most popular nightly news program in souther...

  • Helix

    In the 28th century, humans inhabit more than a thousand self-contained orbital colonies in the near reaches of the solar system. Billions of colonists follow the religious teachings of the Aescelan, priests who promote managed evolution and control ...

  • Humanity Is Reborn

    In the 28th century, humans inhabit more than a thousand self-contained orbital colonies in the near reaches of the solar system.Billions of colonists follow the religious teachings of priests who promote managed evolution and control followers' repr...

  • Jenny Pox

    The Paranormals - 1

    Jenny has a secret: her touch spreads a deadly supernatural plague. She devotes her life to avoiding contact with people, until her senior year of high school, when she meets the one boy she can touch, and she falls in love. But there's a problem--he...

  • The Haunted E-Book

    Dee escapes her dreary librarian job and unfaithful boyfriend by reading romance and fantasy on her Kindle. She tries The Haunted E-book, the story of a 19th century tramp printer whose ghost awakens whenever someone reads a book he created. The ghos...

  • Alexander Death

    The Paranormals - 3

    The sequel to Jenny Pox and Tommy Nightmare.***While Seth searches for Jenny, Dr. Heather Reynard of the CDC unravels Seth and Jenny's secrets.Alexander opens Jenny's mind to her deep past, and to the full horrific extent of her powers.Torn between h...

  • Tommy Nightmare

    The Paranormals - 2

    The sequel to Jenny Pox.While Fallen Oak recovers from the Jenny pox, someone new is hunting Jenny.Like Jenny, Ashleigh Goodling belonged to a pair of opposites with powers that mirror each other.Now Jenny and Seth must face the opposite of love...**...

  • Fairy Metal Thunder

    Songs of Magic - 1

    The Assorted Zebras are a teenage garage band in Wisconsin with no fans and no gigs. Jason, the guitarist, tries to impress Erin, the leader singer, by stealing four magical musical instruments from the fairy world. The new instruments make the ban...

  • Fairy Blues

    Songs of Magic - 2

    “Fairies...live in green hill sides, more especially affecting the ancient tumuli. Any one straying near these on a fine summer's evening would probably hear delightful music; but he must take care, especially if he is a musician, not to linger les...



  • Jenny Plague-Bringer

    The Paranormals - 4

    The fourth book in The Paranormals series, following Jenny Pox, Tommy Nightmare, and Alexander Death.Jenny has survived in seclusion for the past year, but her peace is about to be shattered by two new paranormals, each of them with unknown intention...

  • Fairystruck

    Songs of Magic - 3

    With their first single shooting up the Billboard charts, the Zebras hit the road as the opening band for an epic stadium tour across America. The future looks bright for the band...if they can survive the rioting fans, Queen Mab of Faerie, the dull...

  • Fairyland

    Songs of Magic - 4

    Jason and Erin’s urgent mission takes them deep into the colorful and deadly wilds of Faerie, full of bizarre and rude creatures, and past the glittering volcanic islands of the Southward Sea.In man-world, Mitch and Dred try to prepare for a live c...

  • Fairyvision

    Songs of Magic - 5

    Jason, Erin, and the other Zebras go on a world tour with their enchanted instruments, only to encounter the mysterious supernatural Folk of India and the Far East. While they tangle with their record company, Erin tries to avoid dealing with the sec...

  • Nomad

    They took everything: her family, her home, her childhood.By the age of nineteen, Raven has spent most of her life in the sprawling slums of America, fighting as a rebel against the dictatorship. When the rebellion steals an experimental time-travel ...

  • The Unseen

    Cassidy is a young tattoo artist living in the Little Five Points neighborhood of Atlanta. She’s always suffered terrible nightmares, and sometimes the hideous creatures seem to follow her out of her dreams and into her waking life, though she’s ...

  • Fairy Luck

    Songs of Magic - 6

    The sixth book in the Songs of Magic series. While the Zebras reel from the loss of Erin, Erin herself makes some troubling discovering while connecting with her ancestors. In Faerie, Aoide and her troupe seem to finally be enjoying their big break.....

  • Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper

    Ellie Jordan - Ghost Trapper - 1

    Ellie Jordan’s job is to catch and remove unwanted ghosts. Part detective, part paranormal exterminator, Ellie operates out of Savannah, Georgia, one of the oldest and most haunted cities in North America. When a family contacts her to deal with a ...

  • Cold Shadows

    Ellie Jordan - Ghost Trapper - 2

    Footsteps in the attic. Toys that play by themselves. A dark presence in an upstairs room. Paranormal investigator Ellie Jordan faces a difficult new case. Her new clients are a family haunted by multiple ghosts and a poltergeist that wrecks their ho...

  • The Crawling Darkness

    Ellie Jordan - Ghost Trapper - 3

    Paranormal investigator Ellie Jordan faces a new case in an apartment building where a twisted, dangerous entity emerges from closets and doorways to terrorize the residents at night. A powerful spirit, it feeds on fear and takes the shape of its vic...



  • Terminal

    Ellie Jordan - Ghost Trapper - 4

    Ellie Jordan and her apprentice Stacey investigate a house in an elaborate planned community that was only half-built before it went bankrupt, leaving an instant ghost town with only a few residents. The entity haunting this house is a banshee that f...

  • House of Whispers

    Ellie Jordan - Ghost Trapper - 5

    The luxurious Lathrop Grand Hotel is a Savannah institution that has entertained guests for more than a century and a half, offering some of the finest accommodations in the city. Famously haunted, the hotel draws tourists from around the world eager...

  • Maze of Souls

    Ellie Jordan - Ghost Trapper - 6

    It's October, and down at newly opened Pine Hollow Farm, the ghosts are running wild!. This “genuine” old-time family farm offers a big heap of fun fall activities. You can drink cider fresh from the orchard, enter a pumpkin-carving contest, and ...

  • Lullaby

    Ellie Jordan - Ghost Trapper - 7

    Life is more difficult than ever at Savannah's only ghost-hunting detective agency. While Ellie copes with her mentor's departure and other unwelcome developments, she also worries about the supernatural injuries keeping her boyfriend caught in an en...

  • The Keeper

    Ellie Jordan - Ghost Trapper - 8

    The South Channel Lighthouse is a crumbling antique at the mouth of the Savannah River, abandoned and forgotten for generations. Local stories still tell of a mysterious woman in white who often stood at the old lighthouse, watching the sailors come ...

  • The Tower

    Ellie Jordan - Ghost Trapper - 9

    Ellie's new case takes her far out of town, to an historic but crumbling nineteenth-century skyscraper in downtown Atlanta. The reclusive, once-prominent family living at the top of the tower are experiencing paranormal disturbances that grow more th...

  • The Monster Museum

    Just outside the small but colorful mountain resort town of Foxboro, Tennessee lies Dr. Weirdman's Mountain Museum of Monsters, Curiosities, and Ancient Mysteries. Once a major tourist attraction, it offers travelers the amusement of touring unusual ...

  • Fire Devil

    Ellie's pursuit of a possessed friend and her own worst enemy takes her across the United States into forgotten corners of the countryside through haunted hotels, ghost towns, and strange highways, and toward the site of a horrific fire haunted by hu...

  • Dark Tomorrows

  • Midnight Movie

    Long ago, dreams glowed on the screen under the night sky at the old drive-in theater. Once an attraction drawing families and teenagers from miles around, the theater has sat dark and silent for years, its former bright, carnival-like atmosphere a d...



  • The Lodge

    More than a century ago, the Sea Islands of Georgia's coastline were the playground of the ultra-wealthy. Carnegies, Morgans, Rockefellers and other aristocrats of the Industrial Age built luxurious southern beach retreats on islands like Cumberland ...

  • Cabinet Jack

    Close your doors and cabinets tight, or Jack will climb out and get you tonight.The former railroad stop of Timbermill, Georgia has grown ever more quiet and empty since its boom era faded decades ago. Reduced to little more than a ghost town, it is ...

  • Fallen Wishes

    Canterbury Gardens is a centuries-old plantation outside Charleston, South Carolina. Its aristocratic founders once hosted lavish banquets and balls among fanciful pleasure gardens, canals, and large-scale follies resembling ancient and medieval ruin...

  • Sunset House

    The old Heusinkveld mansion overlooks the mostly shuttered main street of the small town of Burdener's Hill. Once a testament to local wealth and aspiration, the brooding edifice now clings to life as the Sunshine House, a retirement home inhabited b...

  • Fairy Queen

    The end of the Songs of Magic series.Darkness has fallen over the enchanted, dreamlike realm of Faerie. There's figurative darkness as the ruthless Queen Mab makes war to enforce her rule over other magical Folk. There's also literal darkness as the ...

  • The Funtime Show

    Come here, children, play with me,I'm the friend in your TV...The Calvert family's new home used to belong to the recently deceased creator of a forgotten children's program from the early days of television. The family's younger kids are fascinated ...

  • Miracle Mountain

    In the early nineteenth century, hungry gold prospectors descended on Miracle Mountain in north Georgia, ripping open the ancient wilderness, driven by dreams of glittering fortunes. Local legends tell of mysterious events, like a young girl who defi...

  • Mortuary Manor

    Come get scared...to death!Open now through Halloween, Mortuary Manor is a walk-through haunted house offering frights and fun for those seeking a serious scare. The dead have taken over this lunatic labyrinth of a funeral home that's absolutely guar...

  • Robber's Road

    According to legend, a ghostly car haunts the old, rarely traveled road twisting through the woods outside town. Those who wish to see it must follow three rules: drive at night, turn off all the lights inside and outside the car, and silence the car...

  • The Necromancer's Library

    • / Mystery
    • Buy Buy

    The antebellum mansion sits isolated in the overgrown countryside like a forgotten temple. Within it lie the dark, twisting paths of a private library possessing secrets from across the ages. The collection of ancient and medieval occult manuscripts ...



  • The Trailwalker

    • / Thriller
    • Buy Buy

    The remote campground in the mountains has a history shrouded in legend. Located by the mysterious mounds of a vanished people, it was once a popular summer destination for children, but closed long ago under tragic circumstances.Josh and Allison Con...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

J.L. Bryan has published 40 books.

The next book by J.L. Bryan, Robber's Road, will be published in October 2025.

The first book by J.L. Bryan, Dominion, was published in April 2009.

Yes. J.L. Bryan has 3 series.
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