John Russo

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  • Bibliography:
    42 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1979
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A David Cristi and Vito Martinelli Mystery

1 - The Killing Truth (Aug-2022)
2 - The Killer and the Movie Star (Sep-2023)

Simon Rocail

1 - The Price of Admission (Jun-2022)
2 - Paranormal Obsession (Aug-2023)

Book List in Order: 42 titles

  • Majorettes

    They were young, beautiful and terrified. Already, two of the girls had been raped and murdered, victims of a brutal knife and a psychotic killer. But behind the veil of a murderous psychosis, there worked a cold, cruel, calculating logic with an ult...

  • Night of the Living Dead

    They are coming, rising rotten from their graves, filling the night with a furious howl, and staining the earth bloody-red ... They are growing, their powers are swelling, from feasting on flesh and gnawing on bone, now they are drunk on the sweet ta...

  • The Awakening

    Amanda Caulden led a sheltered life on her father's California ranch -- until the day Hank Montgomery stormed into town. A hot-blooded union organizer with a taste for ladies and fine champagne, he sensed the fire that smoldered beneath her prim, vir...

  • Day Care

    Augie, a student at Fairchild Academy, discovers too late that the school's celebrated method of turning children into superachievers involves techniques of brain stimulation that produce dangerous side effects HE’S A GOOD PUPPTET. HE DOES WHAT ...

  • Inhuman

    ONLY DEATH CAN STOP THEIR SAVAGE HUNGER… At a secluded marriage counseling retreat in the Shenandoah Valley, six couples gather, unaware of the monstrous force about to strike. Overhead, a jet hijacked by terrorist flies toward Cuba -- until ...

  • Living Things

    Detective Vince Dawson and the Miami police department form an unlikely alliance with the city's Mafia in a fight against a Haitian voodoo sorcerer who can not be killed and whose lust for power and revenge knows no bounds. Beneath the shimmering ...

  • Hell's Creation

    Believing she possesses occult powers, Meredith Brewster is easily lured into an evil cult that exploits her delusions. Convinced that her baby is the son of Satan, she allows them to surgically alter him at birth. Terri Summers, sister of a you...

  • Midnight

    Your book. . .guided me through my first completed movie. --Quentin Tarantino, on Scare TacticsFrom the Master of the Living DeadJohn Russo's brilliantly chilling screenplay for the 1968 groundbr...

  • Return of the Living Dead

    Freddy Travis had just found his first full-time job, at the vast, gloomy Uneeda Medical Supply Warehouse. What he didn’t expect were the racks of human skeletons…the pickled brains…the freezer compartments full of fresh corpses. But nobo...



  • The Vandenberg Diamonds

    During World War II, uncut diamonds worth millions are hidden on a pig farm in Sicily. After the war ended, only one person, Carlo Marchi, was left alive who knew where they had been hidden. Vandenberg Diamond's head of security, Sean Corklin, is dis...

  • Indian Givers

    Carl Bartelli, co-owner of Barham Armored Car Service located in Providence, initiated his scheme for a high return loan to finance Rhode Island's Upawa Indians' desire to build a full-scale casino. In order to achieve his dream of becoming a millio...

  • Escape of the Living Dead, Volume 1

    • It is 1971, and it's been three years since the blood soaked night that the dead rose from their graves, attacking and devouring the living. Now, the legacy of that horrific and unexplained event is about to be unleashed once again upon an u...

  • Undead

    Zombie Double Bill George A. Romero's classic 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead, launched a new era of gut-munching mayhem, relentelessly terrorizing the hearts of moviegoers and launching the zombie movie phenomenon. Screenwriter John A. Russo tur...

  • Escape of the Living Dead: Resurrected

    • 1971: It's been three years since the blood-soaked night that the dead rose from their graves, attacking and devouring the living. Now, the legacy of that horrific and unexplained event is about to be unleashed once again upon an unsuspectin...

  • The Legacy

    Who hasn't dreamed of an unexpected inheritance from a long-lost relative? Alonso Santina leads a comfortable life in the suburbs of New Jersey with a budding construction business, a new house, and a wife with a baby on the way. When he receives a l...

  • Grounds for Murder

    Someone had tainted the sugar at the newly opened Café Caffé coffeehouse in the village of Eastport. A dozen locals got seriously ill and one died. Nora Huggins- mother, wife, mystery buff and want-to-be sleuth-couldn’t help but to get involved. ...

  • The Gold Eagle Mystery

    Back in the 1800s, Freshman Pinkerton Detective, Ethan Edwards is assigned to investigate a string of carbon copy robberies that had taken place at each Well’s Fargo office along the entire Union-Pacific rail line. He soon discovered that at each s...

  • The Antique Toy Con

    Antique collectors are a cagey lot. So when Jason Chapman did the show circuit following in his parents footsteps he discovered greed and deception are part of the game. He played for a while until the tide turned on him....

  • Forecast for Murder

    While attending her annual Mystery Reader’s guild meeting held on Block Island Nora is quickly engrossed in the murder of the inn keeper. A hurricane prevents the mainland state police from arriving for several days, leaving the local sheriff and h...



  • Dianne's Dilemma

    Single and nearing thirty-six, Dianne Evans, computer specialist for the US Justice Department, is a compulsive perfectionist. Discovering missing material from one of the files she was transposing into the department’s new database, she was reluct...

  • Dealey Plaza

    From legendary horror and suspense writer JOHN RUSSO comes a harrowing tale where no one is safe!

    Dealey Plaza is one of the most notorious places in America, and when youthful conspiracy buffs go there in1964 to stage their own reenactment ...

  • The Academy

    He's a good puppet, he does what they say, but he's programmed for terror, and someone will pay!

    From legendary horror writer John A. Russo comes The Academy. It's every parent's dream, turning their little darlings into geniuses, super-achi...

  • The Booby Hatch

  • Limb to Limb

    SUCH A PRETTY PRETTY GIRL . . .SUCH A COLD, CRUEL KNIFE . . .Tiffany Blake was a beautiful long-limbed dancer with a glorious future and the backing of a rich benefactor. Then a monstrous accident severed her leg at the hip.And now her fellow dancers...

  • Black Cat

    SPIRITED FROM THE DARK JUNGLES OF AFRICA TO A PLACE IN THE AMERICAN DESERT . . .The evil soul of a witch doctor lives on in the body of Simon, the great jungle beast who leads his human followers â€" the Panther People â€" in their orgies of lust and...

  • The Hudson Bay Mystery

    Back in the 1800s, freshman Pinkerton Detective Ethan Edwards, after solving his first field crime case, ‘The Gold Eagle’ safe robberies, is assigned his second case. His chief, Captain Butterworth, sends Ethan to Boston to investigate a $10,000 ...

  • My Uncle John Is A Zombie!

    THE CULTURE WARS AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF A REANIMATED CORPSE!

    John Russo specializes in bringing the dead back to life.

    He did it in Night of the Living Dead when he co-wrote the screenplay and played the ghoul that gets a tire iro...

  • Epidemic of the Living Dead

    From the screenwriter of the original 1968 Night of the Living Dead comes a shocking new wave of zombie mayhem to devour your dreams -- and feed your nightmares... THEY ARE WHAT THEY EAT It starts with infected needles. It spreads like a plague...

  • The Night They Came Home

    From John A. Russo, the master of horror and co-creator of Night of the Living Dead, comes the horrifying telling of a story based on true life events.The Rufus Buck Gang is best known for a near month-long rampage of rape and murder back in 1895. Ru...



  • The Unearthly

    Best selling author John A. Russo, known for his work on Night of the Living Dead, weaves a twisted tale of alien possession wicked enough to rival The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. An attractive young nurse who has an otherworldly secret; a possib...

  • The Price of Admission

    Simon Rocail - 1

    From the co-author of Night of the Living Dead comes a gripping tale of betrayal and obsession, murder and mayhem. Aaron Scott, a successful movie director responsible for creating the depraved horror icon Simon Rocail, is the main suspect in his est...

  • Weep No More

    Louise Dunlap is a horribly abused wife intent on murdering her husband, Charles, because she believes him to be grooming her daughter for a much worse abuse. In an ironic twist of fate, Charles is killed quite suddenly. Louise thinks she's free and ...

  • The Killing Truth

    A David Cristi and Vito Martinelli Mystery - 1

    From the pen of John A. Russo, co-creator of the cult classic Night of the Living Dead, comes a suspenseful and intriguing murder mystery sure to haunt you long after the last page is read...David Cristi, a famous movie director now in his sixties, h...

  • Etta

    At age seventeen in April 1893, Henrietta Place is tremendously excited that she has been accepted by the Board of Admissions of Barnard College in New York City, where she will study to become a school teacher. But then her Aunt Hildegarde informs h...

  • The Killer Next Door

    From John A. Russo, the co-author of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, a suspense thriller that will leave you on the edge of your seat, guessing until the last page!Eighteen-year-old Clifford Chandler idolizes next-door neighbor Pete Bishop and thinks the o...

  • Dead Lives Matter

    From the co-author of Night of the Living Dead comes a brand new tale breaking out of the ground at Evans City Cemetery, the place where it all began!When a biker gangbanger and his sparkplug girlfriend bury stolen loot in the Evans City Cemetery, th...

  • The Sanity Ward

    From the mind of John A. Russo, co-creator of the cult classic Night of the Living Dead, another classic tale of horror and suspense...Jenny Teague misses her father. She's never recovered from his sudden disappearance a decade earlier. When a strang...

  • Paranormal Obsession

    Simon Rocail - 2

    From the co-author of Night of the Living Dead comes a psychological horror masterpiece that will leave you breathless.Simon Rocail is a tormented soul with a horrific past. Born into a small cult of Satanists where his own mother mutilated him to se...

  • The Killer and the Movie Star

    A David Cristi and Vito Martinelli Mystery - 2

    John A. Russo, co-creator of the cult classic Night of the Living Dead, spins an unforgettable horror suspense tale in the second installment of the David Cristi and Vito Martinelli Mysteries.Superstar Bonny Clanton, with her five Grammys and four ma...



  • The Hog Lady

    Immerse yourself in the dark and twisted world of John A. Russo's The Hog Lady, where the boundaries of horror and suspense are shattered.Sandy Jacobs, a transgender woman grappling with her own demons, possesses a chilling obsession-disposing of her...

  • The Hate Crime

    The stakes are higher than ever as private eye, Vito Martinelli and crime-solving movie director, David Cristi face ruthless murderers determined to destroy anyone in their way...Roland Fornier, a long-cherished friend from David Cristi's childhood, ...

  • Death's Angels

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    Death's AngelsI Death's Angels sono un club di motociclisti. Non riscuotono simpatie in quel di Louisville ma Hunter, un dodicenne con un padre alcolizzato e manesco, li trova una forza. Un giorno Hunter affronta un bacucco che vuole legnarlo come un...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Russo has published 42 books.

John Russo does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Hate Crime, was published in April 2024.

The first book by John Russo, Majorettes, was published in August 1979.

Yes. John Russo has 2 series.
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