John Salonia

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  • Bibliography:
    47 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 2012
  • Latest Book:
    August 2018
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Full Series List in Order

Night Spawn

1 - Night Spawn (Jun-2012)
2 - Gargoyles (May-2013)
3 - D-Day of the Dead (May-2013)
4 - Rise of the Starborn (May-2015)

The Strangelove Chronicles

1 - Source & Sorcery (Sep-2013)
2 - Spells & Knickers (Sep-2013)
3 - The Charms of Cleavage (Sep-2013)
4 - The Strange Loves of Dr. Strangelove (Sep-2013)

The Supernatural Adventures of Will Sutton

1 - Will Sutton and the Wizard's Curse (Feb-2013)
2 - Will Sutton and the Deadly Scarecrows (Jan-2013)
3 - Will Sutton and the Ghost Coast (Jan-2013)
4 - Will Sutton and the Vampire's Lair (Feb-2013)
5 - Will Sutton and the Infernal Machine (May-2013)
6 - Will Sutton and the Golems of Doom (May-2013)
7 - Will Sutton and the Ghoul-Master (Mar-2014)

Wizard of Earth's End

1 - The Staff and the Stone (Jun-2012)
2 - Quest for the Hydra (Jun-2012)
3 - Madman of Ghavier (Jun-2012)
4 - The Hounds of Chaos (Jun-2012)
5 - The Shores of Sargothrond (Jun-2012)
6 - The Champion of Night and Other Fantasies (Jul-2012)
7 - The Silk Merchant's Daughter (Jun-2012)
8 - Apparitions and Other Dark Doings (Jun-2012)

Book List in Order: 47 titles

  • Bones

    HORROR WAITS IN THE SHADOWS OF THE TREES . . . Huddled deep in the primeval Maine forest, the sleepy village of Foxblood Falls has a dark secret. Zacharias Corbitt, one of its founders, kidnapped young women he fancied and offered them up as blood sa...

  • Impaler

    What makes a man into a monster? Prince Dracula, Scourge of the Turks, is a gruesome enigma to his subjects, as well as to his enemies and the spies of his "allies" at his court. His nickname, Vlad the Impaler, is well earned. However, even the most ...

  • Strigoi

    LOST IN THE SHADOWS WHERE LUST MINGLES WITH LUNACY . . .Ancient legends whisper of the demonic strigoi, a Bloodthirsty creature that once plagued the earth.For centuries, the last of the strigoi race was confined to a hellish limbo - until master occ...

  • Apparitions and Other Dark Doings

    Wizard of Earth's End - 8

    APPARITIONS AND OTHER DARK DOINGS features two new novellas about Albaric Corwen, Tierny, and Rutha Khan; plus a complete word chapter deleted from QUEST FOR THE HYDRA, presented as a stand-alone story; and a new novella in Melvale's saga. In APPARIT...

  • The Hounds of Chaos

    Wizard of Earth's End - 4

    A WORLD IN FLAMES . . . The cosmic balance between Light and Night has somehow been upset, causing a sudden, inexplicable escalation of old hatreds between humans and Starborns - bringing the two races into brutal, bloody conflict that can only end i...

  • Madman of Ghavier

    Wizard of Earth's End - 3

    AN IMMORTAL MADMAN GUARDS A WORLD-SHATTERING SECRET Stripped of his staff and the companionship of Tierny and Rutha, Albaric Corwen must undertake a dangerous journey to the sinister mountain of Ghavier. There he must learn a vital lesson from Kharet...

  • Night Spawn

    Night Spawn - 1

    When a covert government agency enlists a vampire as an operative, they gain more than a star agent. They also inherit her centuries-old feud with Charles Oliver Haddon, an immortal sorcerer who is currently behind a sinister plot to replace all gove...

  • Quest for the Hydra

    Wizard of Earth's End - 2

    A DEADLY VOYAGE TO THE FROZEN EDGE OF THE WORLD Albaric, Tierny, Rutha and Basil must embark on an epic odyssey to retrieve the mysterious jewel named Hydra, which might hold the key to Albaric's salvation. Far across the sea, in the frozen wasteland...

  • The Shores of Sargothrond

    Wizard of Earth's End - 5

    ADRIFT IN A HELLISH SEA OF SOULS . . . When a magical experiment goes disastrously wrong, it precipitates the final confrontation between Albaric Corwen and Urzoth, Lord of Demons. Before the final battle, Albaric must undertake an infernal odyssey a...



  • The Silk Merchant's Daughter

    Wizard of Earth's End - 7

    A WARRIOR-WOMAN'S DARK PAST . . . Born to luxury and idleness, Seralya Torrell is torn from her safe and comfortable life by a horrific family betrayal. Enslaved in a harem and framed for the murder of her lover, Seralya fights her way to freedom - o...

  • The Staff and the Stone

    Wizard of Earth's End - 1

    A DEMON'S WRATH AND A SORCEROUS JEWEL His soul was doomed to fall into the clutches of the Lord of Demons. Trapped between two rival arch-wizards and two feuding sword-women, sorcerer's apprentice Albaric Corwen must undertake a desperate expedition ...

  • Caviar and Popcorn

    This eclectic mix of fantastic tales has cosmic horrors and comic absurdities to chill your spine and tickle your funybone. In these pages you'll find: The lonely, misanthropic pilot who heeds the call of the wild - and an insidious, irresistible sum...

  • Cutlasses & Conjuring

    SET SAIL ON THE SEVEN SEAS OF HILARITY! At last the fabulous exploits of Captain Aleister Gaspard, the not-quite-King of the Buccaneers, can be told! Compiled from the horribly misspelled journals of his biographer at tremendous expense (and no end o...

  • Dark Apotheosis

    "Asleep in your bed or running in the street, Wherever you are, you're the Bogeyman's meat!" Welcome to Fenwood, the centuries-old city haunted by America's most nightmarish serial killer. For almost twenty years, the Bogeyman has been snatching chil...

  • The Fellowship of the Thing

    THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE THING, OR, FULL SPEED AHEAD AND DAMN THE PHOTON TORPEDOES: (NEWLY REVISED AND SUBSTANTIALLY EXPANDED FROM THE SOLD-OUT SCARLET SUCCUBUS PRESS LIMITED EDITION!) "The ultimate space opera spoof!" - Locus on Fantasy What is the mys...

  • More Caviar & Less Popcorn

    MORE CAVIAR & LESS POPCORN continues the same eclectic mix as CAVIAR & POPCORN, with the fantastic element this time centered on SF rather than dark fantasy. Read about the traps men and women make for themselves in the name of love: The alien bacter...

  • Objects of Desire

    Everybody wants something. But what will they do get it? When fabulously wealthy General Kingsley throws a coming-out party for his staggeringly beautiful (but not overly bright) daughter Julia, all the local predators swoop in for the kill: a corrup...

  • Skull Fungi

    Seven tales of terror, to play havoc with a good night's sleep . . . among the SKULL FUNGI you'll find: The tortured composer's hellish last work - haunted by a seductive yet destructive spirit of wrath and lust. The ghastly thing lurking in the anci...

  • The Sphinx of the Fang

    THE BEAST-GOD'S REVENGE When arch-wizard Khorlen falls under the curse of a demon-god, he must perform a dire sacrifice to free himself from the demon's ire: he must offer up Lysidia, princess of a ravaged city, whose life might threaten even the bas...



  • The Champion of Night and Other Fantasies

    Wizard of Earth's End - 6

    THE CHAMPION OF NIGHT contains nine new tales from the world of the Wizard of Earth's End, featuring further adventures of Albaric and Tierny, Cranley and Nefedius, and Melvale of Ethior. You'll meet: The obsessed alchemist whose dead love he must re...

  • Will Sutton and the Deadly Scarecrows

    The Supernatural Adventures of Will Sutton - 2

    During a class trip to remote Thunder Mountain, Will, Lisa and Waldo stumble upon the sinister secrets of Seth Tuttle, a mad old farmer who has made a terrible bargain with She-Who-Walks-In-Thunder, a forgotten pagan goddess. In exchange for blood sa...

  • Will Sutton and the Ghost Coast

    The Supernatural Adventures of Will Sutton - 3

    Will's idyllic summer vacation at the beach comes to an unexpected end when he unwittingly summons notorious pirate Red Patch Roger, the bloodiest buccaneer of them all, from his unhallowed grave. Red Patch, whispered the legend, had sold himself to ...

  • Will Sutton and the Vampire's Lair

    The Supernatural Adventures of Will Sutton - 4

    While making a Super-8 Frankenstein movie at an historic local castle, Will, Lisa Goodwin and Waldo discover a real monster: the statue of Lamia buried by the castle’s builder, Ethelbert Cramley. The statue looks like a winged sphinx with clawed ha...

  • Will Sutton and the Wizard's Curse

    The Supernatural Adventures of Will Sutton - 1

    WILL SUTTON AND THE WIZARD'S CURSE is the first of an exciting new series of supernatural adventures for Young Adults, mixing laughs with chills and thrills in a non-stop roller-coaster ride. When orphaned Will Sutton moves across country to live wit...

  • D-Day of the Dead

    Night Spawn - 3

    GASLIT GHOULISHNESS IN STEAMPUNK LONDON While investigating a simple case of grave-robbing, the lovely and lethal secret agent code-named the Wanderer stumbles across a bizarre experiment in reanimation conducted by a warped scientist named Streges -...

  • Gargoyles

    Night Spawn - 2

    FROM THE DARKEST SHADOWS OF THE PAST, THEY ARISE AGAIN TO SEDUCE AND DESTROY The old abbey forgotten in the English hills seemed like nothing more than a new toy to billionaire Nick Nicarides - especially when he found it contained the life-size scul...

  • Will Sutton and the Golems of Doom

    The Supernatural Adventures of Will Sutton - 6

    Tired of being the smallest and puniest kid in school, forever being picked on, bullied and beaten up, Waldo allows sorcerer Nathan Airmont to transfer his soul into the body of a golem, a mass of living clay in humanoid form. But Nathan doesn’t te...

  • Will Sutton and the Infernal Machine

    The Supernatural Adventures of Will Sutton - 5

    When Will searches for a prop he can use as an infernal machine (a Victorian time bomb) for a comedy melodrama his class is putting on as a school play, lawyer and sorcerer Titus Croadley realizes this is his chance for revenge. He has a score to set...

  • The Curse of the Golden Falcon

    A CURSED TREASURE FROM THE MISTS OF THE PAST In his first novel-length adventure, Aleister Gaspard must find the legendary Maltese Falcon, while somehow dodging the vengeance that both the voluptuous vixen Valencia de Karre and the vile (and violent)...



  • The Charms of Cleavage

    The Strangelove Chronicles - 3

    Remember DR. STRANGE, the groovy Master of Mystic Arts? With his lover, the slave-princess Clea; his mentor the Ancient One; his loyal servant Wong; his arch-enemies Baron Mordo, Nightmare, and the Dread Dormammu, the Sorcerer Supreme flourished in M...

  • Source & Sorcery

    The Strangelove Chronicles - 1

    Remember DR. STRANGE, the groovy Master of Mystic Arts? With his lover, the slave-princess Clea; his mentor the Ancient One; his loyal servant Wong; his arch-enemies Baron Mordo, Nightmare, and the Dread Dormammu, the Sorcerer Supreme flourished in M...

  • Spells & Knickers

    The Strangelove Chronicles - 2

    Remember DR. STRANGE, the groovy Master of Mystic Arts? With his lover, the slave-princess Clea; his mentor the Ancient One; his loyal servant Wong; his arch-enemies Baron Mordo, Nightmare, and the Dread Dormammu, the Sorcerer Supreme flourished in M...

  • The Strange Loves of Dr. Strangelove

    The Strangelove Chronicles - 4

    Remember DR. STRANGE, the groovy Master of Mystic Arts? With his lover, the slave-princess Clea; his mentor the Ancient One; his loyal servant Wong; his arch-enemies Baron Mordo, Nightmare, and the Dread Dormammu, the Sorcerer Supreme flourished in M...

  • The Two Masks

    Where does darkness end and light begin? Why, in the shadows, of course â€" and this collection begins in the darkest of shadows, where unearthly horrors slink and prowl, flesh creeps, and blood congeals at the touch of hellish talons. That's our fir...

  • Will Sutton and the Ghoul-Master

    The Supernatural Adventures of Will Sutton - 7

    THE LORD OF THE GRAVEYARDS HAS A FIENDISH PLAN TO CONQUER THE EARTH! Ghouls! They creep from shadow to shadow, seeking to devour the dead. But now they have a new master â€" who orders them to prey on the living. The ghoul-master has old scores to se...

  • Supermonster Smackdown!

    DAIKAIJU DESTRUCTION DERBY!Reporter Kenji Dogaru has a nose for news, but when giant monsters rise and flying saucers fill the skies, he has more than he can handle â€" especially when the 500-foot-tall radioactive dinosaur Onijira emerges from an er...

  • The Amazingly Improbable Yet Incontrovertibly Factual Adventures of Shemlard Shoreditch and Pickles the Wonder Pig

    SORCERY AND SKULLDUGGERY IN STEAMPUNK LONDON! The Hound of the Baskervilles â€" the Sussex Vampire â€" the Devil’s Foot â€" Sherlock Holmes, the world’s first Consulting Detective, brilliantly solved these mysteries. In doing so, he proved that h...

  • Rise of the Starborn

    Night Spawn - 4

    BIRTH OF A DAMNATION Following a disastrous mission, the Wanderer spends five years as a total amnesiac. When she finally reports to Agency headquarters, she finds that her trusted contact Grimsdyke is unaccountably missing from his office - and that...

  • Kromar's Krewe

    The GET SMART of Sword and Sorcery! Join Kromar, Axel the Axecutioner, Alaric the Awful, Lemuel, Valkara, Gorsal and Snikor the Dragon for laugh-filled sword & sorcery adventures! This edition includes the complete scripts from the strip's one-page ...



  • Cain in the Arras

    When Richard Cain quit his professorship to take up full-time sleuthing, he settled in Fenwood, New Jersey â€" a thoroughly haunted city located by bad luck (and even worse civic planning) on the ominous intersection of three ley-lines. Due to the ee...

  • Hellbusters

    WHENEVER THE POWERS OF DARKNESS ATTACK, WE'RE THE GUYS YOU WANT AT YOUR BACK! IF YOU HAVE GOBLINS, DON'T HAVE A COW, PICK UP THE PHONE AND CALL US RIGHT NOW! Are devils, demons, zombies, vampires and other creatures of the night making your life hell...

  • Shadows from R'Lyeh

    HORRORS OF THE LOVECRAFT MYTHOS The dark imagination of H. P. Lovecraft transformed horror fiction for all time. He created an entire cosmos of lurking fear and dread entities waiting beyond the rim of space and time to renew their possession of the ...

  • Whispers from the Abyss

    These icy, elegant and terrifying stories explore the dark worlds that impinge on our reality, twisting minds, distorting destinies and mocking human hopes and dreams. They range in length from the short-short "The Two Masks," which reveals the monst...

  • Life Sucks, Death Swallows

    Al Tickell was having a bad day. For one thing, he was dead. For another, he was in a hell far more terrible than he'd ever dared imagine. Worst of all, he faced an excessively nasty demon who demanded his life story in detail - or else But Al was h...

  • The Crow-King and the Goblin-Queen

    The King of the Goblins had disappeared. Now the Goblin-Queen wants his bones, and their necromantic power, so she can extend her rule from the grisly Valley of the Goblins to the rest of the world. When two crafty goblins named Orlog and Marrowmulch...

  • Lace and Lash

    When people in the centuries-old city of Fenwood start turning into barbaric cannibals, Lace and Lash are drawn into investigating these revolting transformations. Did it all begin in colonial days, when the man-eating Qilpennuoc tribe fathered offsp...

  • LACE & LASH

    Mysterious disappearances and the sighting of a sinister entity bring Lace and Lash to a ruined Mayan city brooding in the steamy Yucatán jungle. Eleven men have vanished without a trace. And the mystery of how they disappeared may be less important...

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John Salonia has published 47 books.

John Salonia does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, LACE & LASH, was published in August 2018.

The first book by John Salonia, Impaler, was published in June 2012.

Yes. John Salonia has 4 series.
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