John G. Hartness

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  • Bibliography:
    69 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2009
  • Latest Book:
    March 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Black Knight Chronicles

1 - Hard Day's Knight (Oct-2010)
2 - Back in Black (Feb-2011)
2.5 - Movie Knight (Jun-2011)
2.6 - Black Magic Woman (Aug-2011)
3 - Knight Moves (Aug-2011)
3.5 - Gone Daddy Gone (Feb-2012)
4 - Paint It Black (Oct-2013)
5 - In the Still of the Knight (Jul-2015)
6 - Man in Black (Aug-2016)
7 - All Knight Long (Apr-2019)

Bubba the Monster Hunter

1 - Scattered, Smothered, & Chunked (Aug-2013)
1.05 - Family Tradition (Aug-2012)
1.1 - Voodoo Children (Sep-2011)
1.11 - Final Countdown (Oct-2012)
1.2 - Ballet of Blood (Nov-2011)
1.3 - Ho-Ho-Homicide (Dec-2011)
1.4 - Tassels of Terror (Jan-2012)
1.5 - Cat Scratch Fever (Jan-2012)
1.6 - Love Stinks (Mar-2012)
1.7 - Hall & Goats (May-2012)
1.8 - Footloose (May-2012)
1.9 - Sixteen Tons (Jun-2012)
2 - Grits, Guns & Glory (Jul-2015)
2.3 - Dead Man's Hand (Jun-2013)
3 - Wine, Women, & Song (Feb-2017)
3.1 - Moon over Bourbon Street (Nov-2015)
3.2 - Night at the Museum (Mar-2016)
4 - Monsters, Magic, & Mayhem (Aug-2018)
5 - Blood, Sweat, & Tears (Jul-2021)

Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter

1 - Raising Hell (Jan-2015)
2 - Straight to Hell (Apr-2015)
3 - Hell on Heels (Aug-2015)
3.5 - Hell Freezes Over (Jan-2016)
3.6 - Redemption Song (Sep-2017)
4 - Salvation (Mar-2019)
5 - Carl Perkins' Cadillac (Sep-2019)
6 - Inflection Point (Jan-2020)
7 - Conspiracy Theory (Mar-2021)
8 - Comes A Reckoning (Dec-2021)

TECH Ops

1 - Raptor (May-2019)

Book List in Order: 69 titles

  • Returning the Favor and Other Slices of Life

  • The Chosen

    What do you get when you mix the father of all mankind with a snotty archangel, the Father of Lies, a couple of snarky waitresses from Texas and a tattooed street preacher from Tennessee? A cross-country trip to save the world, of course! Adam (yeah ...

  • Hard Day's Knight

    Black Knight Chronicles - 1

    BOOK ONE:  HARD DAY’S KNIGHT Children are missing.  The police are stumped.  Halloween is coming, and an ancient evil is on the horizon.  The vampires are the good guys.  This is not your ordinary fall weekend in Charlotte,...

  • Back in Black

    Black Knight Chronicles - 2

    Vampire detectives Jimmy Black and Greg Knightwood investigate a series of assaults plaguing the alleys of Charlotte, North Carolina. The string of hate crimes becomes personal when Jimmy’s just-maybe-main-squeeze Detective Sabrina Law’s cousin i...

  • Red Dirt Boy

    Red Dirt Boy is a collection of Southern-fried, beer-soaked poetry with a tent revival flair. John Hartness draws on years of living in the rural south to share the laughter, tears, heartaches and fears of living, loving and drinking in the modern Am...

  • Movie Knight

    Black Knight Chronicles - 2.5

    There's a demon on the loose in the hospital. Jimmy and Greg have to kill it before it decides the nursery is a buffet. So much for a relaxing night at home watching movies.In this Black Knight Chronicles short story, Jimmy Black, Greg Knightwood and...

  • Black Magic Woman

    Black Knight Chronicles - 2.6

    It's the annual comic convention - what can go wrong? You just had to ask, didn't you? The boys from Black Knight Investigations get tangled up in more than they ever bargained for when they try to help a lost kid find his dad. Hilarity does not ensu...

  • Knight Moves

    Black Knight Chronicles - 3

    BOOK THREE:  KNIGHT MOVES Et tu, Vampire?  The boys discover they may be tied to a string of serial killings at the college and that they suddenly aren’t the only vampire game in town. The vampire count in Charlotte is at least three. Or ...

  • Voodoo Children

    Bubba the Monster Hunter - 1.1

    "Cross Larry the Cable Guy with The Dresden Files, and you have Bubba the Monster Hunter""Reminds be a bit of Ash from Army of Darkness""Hartness spins another tale of redneck mayhem full of his usual sarcastic humor."He's big, he's bad and he's here...



  • The Christmas Lights & Other Stories

  • Genesis

    The end of the world was just the beginning. Now they have to stay alive. 17-year-old Christin Kinsey started the day with nothing more pressing than an English exam. But when an EMP attack knocked out all technology across the globe, she found herse...

  • Ballet of Blood

    Bubba the Monster Hunter - 1.2

  • Red Dirt Review Vol. 2

  • Ho-Ho-Homicide

    Bubba the Monster Hunter - 1.3

    "Cross Larry the Cable Guy with The Dresden Files, and you have Bubba the Monster Hunter""Reminds be a bit of Ash from Army of Darkness""Hartness spins another tale of redneck mayhem full of his usual sarcastic humor."Bubba's back and this time he's ...

  • Tassels of Terror

    Bubba the Monster Hunter - 1.4

  • Cat Scratch Fever

    Bubba the Monster Hunter - 1.5

  • Gone Daddy Gone

    Black Knight Chronicles - 3.5

    In this Black Knight Chronicles prequel, the boys help a beautiful woman with her zombie problem and help her daughter with an inheritance problem. Includes a free Black Knight short story - Turkey Day Debacle, a hilarious Thanksgiving adventure feat...

  • Love Stinks

    Bubba the Monster Hunter - 1.6

  • Footloose

    Bubba the Monster Hunter - 1.8

    Bubba's back, and this one is as bad as it gets! Bubba's on the trail of a bigfoot in the Virginia mountains, and he learns more than he bargained for on this mission! Agent Amy Hall is back, too, and Bubba's not sure if that's a good thing or not. O...



  • Hall & Goats

    Bubba the Monster Hunter - 1.7

    "Cross Larry the Cable Guy with The Dresden Files, and you have Bubba the Monster Hunter""Reminds be a bit of Ash from Army of Darkness""Hartness spins another tale of redneck mayhem full of his usual sarcastic humor."Bubba's back, and this time he's...

  • Headshot

    She's a black belt. She's a world-class sniper. She's a sophomore. Meet Cindy O'Shea, a normal high school student dealing with homework, a best friend who's a geek, a single mom with her own issues, and the toughest after-school job in the world. Sh...

  • Sixteen Tons

    Bubba the Monster Hunter - 1.9

  • Balance

    A collection of three alternate reality short stories from popular fantasy author John G. Hartness, Balance explores a world like our own, but just a little bit different. In Balance, the title story, a young girl working at a fast food restaurant is...

  • Family Tradition

    Bubba the Monster Hunter - 1.05

    "Cross Larry the Cable Guy with The Dresden Files, and you have Bubba the Monster Hunter""Reminds be a bit of Ash from Army of Darkness""Hartness spins another tale of redneck mayhem full of his usual sarcastic humor."THIS is the story Bubba fans hav...

  • Crash Landing

    Jake Land is an interstellar taxi driver. He takes people from Point A to Point B, no questions asked. But this policy lands him in hot water when he finds out that his latest fare is more than just a pretty face. And a great body. She's trouble in s...

  • Final Countdown

    Bubba the Monster Hunter - 1.11

    In the startling climax to Bubba the Monster Hunter Season 1, Bubba returns home to take care of some unfinished business and rescue Uncle Father Joe from Bubba's psychotic father. "Cross Larry the Cable Guy with The Dresden Files, and you have Bubba...

  • The Big Bad

    Everybody loves bad guys, and these are some of the baddest of them all. Forget the rules. There aren't any heroes. No one is going to save you from the wickedness in the darkness. Monster hunters can easily become the hunted. Twisted perverts can fi...

  • Dead Man's Hand

    Bubba the Monster Hunter - 2.3

  • Scattered, Smothered, & Chunked

    Bubba the Monster Hunter - 1

    He's big, he's bad and he's here to save the day, Bubba The Monster Hunter. These stories feature the three "B's" of fine literature: Beer, Boobs, and Blood. Add the fourth B for Bubba and you've got a rollicking good time He may be butt-deep in gob...



  • Paint It Black

    Black Knight Chronicles - 4

    Goblins and Witches and Trolls . . . oh crap!In the fourth installment of The Black Knight Chronicles, Jimmy Black is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day and a darned fine pity party, serving the finest alcohol, when a call from his no...

  • Raising Hell

    Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter - 1

    WINNER OF THE 2016 MANLY WADE WELLMAN AWARDStraight out of the pages of the legendary vampire novel Dracula comes a demon hunter for the modern world. Mina Murray and Jonathan Harker had a son. They named him Quincy. His guardian angel calls him Q. D...

  • The Big Bad II

    Everybody Loves The Bad Guys The Big Bad II brings you more to love! A collection of best-selling fantasy and horror writers brings you twenty-four all-new tales of vampires, demons, ghosts, zombies, and the most terrifying monsters of all - humans. ...

  • Fair Play

    Herman Walker Jones is a lion. He's the king of his concrete jungle, a predator, the top of the food chain. He stalks his prey, culls it from the herd, and takes it down. He is the most dangerous thing walking the streets of Memphis. Or is he? Herman...

  • Straight to Hell

    Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter - 2

    Quincy Harker is back, and the stakes are higher than ever. The fate of the world rests on the shoulders of a swearing, drinking, misanthropic half-vampire with a bad attitude and an itchy trigger finger. Harker and his team of misfits have just a fe...

  • Grits, Guns & Glory

    Bubba the Monster Hunter - 2

    Bubba's back, and he's dealing with his brother Jason once and for all This is the collected edition of Bubba the Monster Hunter Season 2, and collects everything since Scattered, Smothered & Chunked. Included in this volume - UnHoly Night Love Hurt...

  • In the Still of the Knight

    Black Knight Chronicles - 5

    The EPIC Award Winning SeriesThe bodies are piling up!Murders are happening outside Charlotte's hottest nightspots. A new vampire society has set up shop in the sewers. And Jimmy Black's about to run afoul of the Master of the City. If Jimmy weren't ...

  • Betrayal

    It was supposed to be a simple job. Steal a gem, fence it to his normal guy, get paid and enjoy the company of one of Marie's lovely ladies for the night. Instead Remarin is running across rooftops dodging armored men and crossbow bolts, the blood ...

  • Hell on Heels

    Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter - 3

    You think your family has baggage? Quincy Harker has to not only deal with his uncle's psychotic vampire ex-minion Augustus Renfield, but there's a new Vampire Hunter in town, and her name is Van Helsing! It's not a good day for a foul-mouthed magic-...

  • From the Stone

    Rex Golden just wants to get through high school without getting beat up or expelled (again). But his crush on the hottest girl in school and his smart mouth seem determined to make sure one of both of those things happens before the end of the first...



  • Moon over Bourbon Street

    Bubba the Monster Hunter - 3.1

    This is a novella, roughly triple the length of past Bubba stories. That means three times the pages, three times the fights, three times the off-color jokes, and three times the awesome! Bubba, Skeeter, Amy and Joe are on vacation in New Orleans whe...

  • Moonshine & Magic

    It's not steampunk, it's SHINEpunk! Moonshine meets magic in this collection of stories featuring Great-Granddaddy Beauregard battling monsters, evil scientists and bank robbers in this Bubba the Monster Hunter ultimae prequel, featuring Bubba's Grea...

  • Hell Freezes Over

    Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter - 3.5

    He's no stranger to blood. His uncle is Count Dracula, the most famous vampire in history, after all. But what he finds in a quiet North Carolina family home rocks even the jaded Quincy Harker. Families are being slaughtered, butchered like animals, ...

  • Night at the Museum

    Bubba the Monster Hunter - 3.2

  • Man in Black

    Black Knight Chronicles - 6

    The latest book in the award-winning Black Knight Chronicles is a raucous ride through the city of Charlotte's seedy underbelly with the most unlikely crime lord ever. Jimmy Black's knack for stumbling into the right place at the wrong time has la...

  • Reunion

    You can go home again, but sometimes you really, really shouldn't. Jessica Bates is a successful paranormal investigator with a new network TV deal, a boyfriend she loves, and no idea of the trouble she's about to find herself right smack in the midd...

  • We Are Not This

    Over two dozen writers from North Carolina or with deep ties to the Tarheel State band together to raise money for LGBTQ charities in Charlotte and North Carolina as a response to the NC General Assembly's passage of HB2, the "bathroom bill." We are ...

  • Wine, Women, & Song

    Bubba the Monster Hunter - 3

    It's been a year since Bubba settled things with his crazy brother Jason once and for all, and what a year it's been! The third volume of collected Bubba stories contains more monsters, more inter-dimensional travel, more duels to the death, and more...

  • Lawless Lands

    Get your Wynonna Earp on with these weird western short stories featuring gunfights, time travel, giant lizards, faeries, magic, horror, comedy, and space jellyfish!

    A wild ride through the weird western world with New York Times Bestsellers...

  • County Fairy Tale

    Great-Grandpappy Beauregard is back with more moonshine, and more action as the ShinePunk superhero goes to the County Fair. Beauregard, the O.B. (Original Bubba) goes to the county fair with his sister Tavvy, and they find a man hawking a miraculous...



  • Fireheart

    Rachel doesn't know what's weirder - that there's a dragon in the woods by her school, or that Scott Morrison actually thinks she's beautiful. Or maybe it's the elves. Yeah, it's totally the elves. It was an ordinary weekday for Rachel Hampton. ...

  • ShinePunk

    He’s the O.B. â€" Original Bubba, and he’s here to bust your gut laughing. This collection of steampunk short stories is sure to leave you rolling in the aisles. Beauregard Ulysses Brabham is the moonshine-drinking, butt-kicking Great-Grandfather...

  • Redemption Song

    Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter - 3.6

    This weird western tale is set in the Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter universe, and is a standalone short story. A man steps into a bar. Cards stop flying across the felt. Drinks stop sliding down the bar. The piano player freezes mid-note. Trouble has a...

  • Amazing Grace

    Lila Grace Carter talks to dead people. Admittedly, that's not out of the ordinary in Lockhart, S.C. In her words, "I'm Southern. We all talk to dead people down here. As a matter of fact, I don't believe I can truly trust anybody that doesn't spe...

  • The Black Knight Chronicles Continues

    "Vampire heroes we can all believe in." -- New York Times Bestselling Author, Faith HunterBook 4: Paint It BlackGoblins and Witches and Trolls . . . oh crap!In the fourth installment of The Black Knight Chronicles, Jimmy Black is having a terrible, ...

  • Damnation

    "Quincy Harker - demon killer, monster hunter, & kin to Dracula, yeah, THIS is who i want protecting the world! I love these books." - Academy Award Winner Whoopi Goldberg She gave up her divinity to save the world. Now Quincy Harker has to track...

  • Queen of Kats

    It should have been so simple… Remarin is a thief. He was hired to steal a gem. No big deal, right? Yeah, right. He stole the gem, then everything went sideways, and now he's running for his life across rooftops, through sewers, and all over the go...

  • Monsters, Magic, & Mayhem

    Bubba the Monster Hunter - 4

    A giant redneck in Fairyland, what could possibly go wrong? Everything. Absolutely everything. Monsters, Magic, & Mayhem collects four novella chronicling Bubba the Monster Hunter's trip through the lands of the Fae in search of his kidnapped sister....

  • Salvation

    Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter - 4

    The Quest for Glory comes to its thrilling conclusion in this Quincy Harker collection! Glory's lost her wings, and Harker is running around collection Archangels like they're Pokémon, but things go from bad to worse as he gets nearer to his final b...

  • All Knight Long

    Black Knight Chronicles - 7

    Saving the world was only the beginning . . .

    Detective Jimmy Black's life as an accidental crime lord and Vampire Master of Charlotte has him longing for the days when the bad guys had neon signs above their heads and a couple of well-place...

  • Raptor

    TECH Ops - 1

    She was a Marine, but an RPG took her career, her arms, and nearly her life. Now she's been reborn as part of the secret TECH Ops program, but Sheila Hewson is no phoenix rising from the ashes. Call her Raptor. They are TECH Ops, a secret project ble...

  • Carl Perkins' Cadillac

    Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter - 5

    Where do you go when you've saved the world but given up everything and everyone you love in the process? The home of the blues, of course! Quincy Harker has retreated to Memphis to lick his wounds and get started on building a new life for hi...

  • Inflection Point

    Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter - 6

    His uncle has been kidnapped. A shadowy government agency is torturing cryptids in his city. His Sanctuary has been revoked from the one place he could drink safely. There's a medusa at the mall. A fairy princess might have just summoned an Old One i...

  • Conspiracy Theory

    Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter - 7

    There are rogue government agents hunting supernatural creatures all over Charlotte. There's a bloodbath in the parking lot of a demon bar and a massacre at a shopping mall. There are protests and tear gas and riot cops and somehow Quincy F'n Harker ...

  • Lady in Black

    Vigilante. . . check.Killer vamp. . . check.Undead serial murderer. . . check.Enough alcohol to get Jimmy through this sh*tstorm? Doubtful.Fists, fangs, and fury. It's all a matter of balance when Jimmy Black, Charlotte's Vampire Master of the City, ...

  • Blood, Sweat, & Tears

    Bubba the Monster Hunter - 5

    Bubba's back from Fairyland, and sometimes it feels like they shoulda just stayed there!Man, coming back to the real world sucks. Bubba and his whole team have been fired on account of going MIA for a year and a half (yeah, time moves differently in ...

  • Comes A Reckoning

    Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter - 8

    The conclusion of the Quincy Harker/Bubba the Monster Hunter Crossover is here!It's been a long trip, and the body count has been devastating. but despite all their losses, Quincy Harker and his team must soldier on and finish the job. And this job i...

  • Identity Theft

    It's like Stephanie Plum with a Southern Accent. - Rachel A. Brune, author of Cold Run Based (verrrrrry loosely) On True Events. Alexis Lieberman has been hacked. And not just hacked like someone stole her credit card information and did something re...

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  • Lost

    Quincy Harker needs a vacation, but there's no peace to be found in the usually sleepy seaside resort of North Carolina's Outer Banks. No, there's a serial killer stalking the streets of Manteo, and there's even more to the crimes than usual. Add in ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John G. Hartness has published 69 books.

John G. Hartness does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Lost, was published in March 2024.

The first book by John G. Hartness, Returning the Favor and Other Slices of Life, was published in August 2009.

Yes. John G. Hartness has 4 series.
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