John Saul

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  • Bibliography:
    52 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1981
  • Latest Book:
    September 2015
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Full Series List in Order

The Blackstone Chronicles

1 - An Eye for an Eye: The Doll (Feb-1997)
2 - Twist of Fate: The Locket (Mar-1997)
3 - Ashes to Ashes: The Dragon's Flame (Mar-1997)
4 - In the Shadow of Evil: The Handkerchief (May-1997)
5 - Day of Reckoning: The Stereoscope (May-1997)
6 - Asylum (Jul-1997)

Book List in Order: 52 titles

  • When the Wind Blows

    When the Wind Blows THE CHILDREN WILL CRY... The children were waiting. Waiting for centuries. Waiting for someone to hear their cries. Now nine-year-old Christie Lyons has come to live in the house on the hill -- the house where no child...

  • The God Project

    “[John] Saul has the instincts of a natural storyteller.” -- PeopleSomething is happening to the children of Eastbury, Massachusetts. Something that causes healthy babies to turn cold in their cribs. Something that strikes at the heart of every p...

  • Nathaniel

    For a hundred years, the people of Prairie Bend have whispered Nathaniel's name in wonder and fear.  Some say he is a folktale, created to frighten children on cold winter nights.  Some swear he is a terrifying spirit retumed to a...

  • Brainchild

    Alex Lonsdale was one of the most popular kids in La Paloma, California.  Until the horrifying car accident.  Until a brilliant doctor's medical miracle brought him back from the brink of death.  Now, Alex seems the same...

  • Baraka

    Sent to Hanoi to secure a promise of permits for offshore oil exploration, Martin Laing finds himself trying to unload five billion dollars worth of blacklisted U.S. arms and ammunition abandoned after the Vietnam War...

  • Cry for the Strangers

    Clark's Harbor was the perfect coastal haven,  jealously guarded against outsiders. But now  strangers have come to settle there. And a small boy is  suddenly free of a frenzy that had gripped him since  birth....

  • Hellfire

    The old mill has been silent for a hundred years, its dread secrets locked from view. Still, the people of Westover, Massachusetts, remember . . . and whisper of that terrible day when horrifying flames claimed eleven innocent young lives. The day th...

  • The Next Best Thing

  • Suffer the Children

    Innocence dies so easily. Evil lives again . . . and again . . . and again.One hundred years ago in Port Arbello a pretty little girl began to scream. And struggle. And die. No one heard. No one saw. Just one man whose guilty heart burst in pain as h...



  • The Unwanted

    Cassie Winslow is sixteen.  She has just lost her mother in a terrible accident.  Now, lonely and frightened, she has come to live with the father she barely knows and his new family in tiny False Harbor on Cape Cod.  Fo...

  • Paradise Eater

  • The Unloved

    Lush, a deceptively tranquil, the secluded island  basks in splendid isolation off the South Carolina  coast--as does the Devereaux mansion, a once-great  plantation house now crumbling amidst the ancient  oaks...

  • Fear Factor

  • Creature

    A powerful high-tech company. A postcard-pretty  company town. Families. Children. Sunshine.  Happiness. A high school football team that never-ever  loses. And something else. Something horrible ...  Now, ther...

  • Punish the Sinners

    Italy 1252. Inquisition. Accusation. Fear.  Torture. The guilty and the innocent dying for sins real  and imagined in the flames of the burning stake.  Neilsville, 1978. Peter Blasam has come to this  sleepy de...

  • Comes the Blind Fury

    A century ago, a gentle blind girl walked the cliffs of Paradise Point. Then the children came -- taunting, teasing -- until she lost her footing and fell, shrieking her rage to the drowning sea... Now Michelle has come from Boston to live in the big...

  • Second Child

    Beware the second child.This lush, secluded Maine seaside resort is the summer playground of the superrich, but one hundred years ago, something disturbed their play. Horror came to this village. And though no one knows it yet, the horror has never l...

  • Sleepwalk

    A terrifying new novel by the author of Darkness and ShadowsBorrego, New Mexico. A peaceful little desert town. Except for one thing. Somebody here hates teenagers.Hates them. These troublemakers, these rebels, have to be controlled.Silenced. Forever...

  • Darkness

    “[John] Saul has the instincts of a natural storyteller.” -- PeopleVillejeune, Florida. A secluded little town at the edge of a vast, eerie swamp. Far from prying eyes. Far from the laws of civilization. Here folks live by their own rules -- dark...



  • All Fall Down

    Something horrific is happening to the children of Eastbury, Massachusetts. Now, an entire town waits on the edge of panic for the next nightmare. There must be a reason for the terror. They all know it - but no one ever suspected....

  • Shadows

    They call it the Academy. A secluded, cliff-top mansion overlooking the rugged Pacific coast. A school for children gifted -- or cursed -- with extraordinary minds. Children soon to come under the influence of an intelligence even more brilliant than...

  • The Homing

    From the bestselling author of "Guardian," "Creature," and "Black Lightning," a spine-tingling tale of all-consuming evil as riveting and chilling as any he has ever produced.It will be a sweet homecoming for Karen Spellman. After years of living in ...

  • Black Lightning

    John Saul knows how to make the blood run cold and the heart race wild with fear. Now the author of the New York Times bestsellers Creature and The Homing delivers a chilling novel of a convicted serial killer sentenced to death -- and hell-bent on r...

  • Guardian

    "All the right scares in all the right places." The Seattle TimesA telephone rings in the dead of night with shocking news for single mother MaryAnne Carpenter: her friends the Wilkensons are suddenly, inexplicably dead, their only child, Joey, a sad...

  • An Eye for an Eye: The Doll

    The Blackstone Chronicles - 1

    Master of terror in all its forms, John Saul now thrills us with a serial novel that brings to terrifying life the small New England town of Blackstone -- and the secrets and sins that lay buried there. From the top of Blackstone's highest hill the ...

  • Ashes to Ashes: The Dragon's Flame

    The Blackstone Chronicles - 3

    John Saul, author of nineteen bestselling novels of chilling suspense, now creates a serial thriller that brings to terrifying life the small New England town of Blackstone -- where the sins of the past are returning to haunt the present. An unholy e...

  • Twist of Fate: The Locket

    The Blackstone Chronicles - 2

    Master of terror in all its forms, John Saul now thrills us with a serial novel that brings to terrifying life the small New England town of Blackstone -- and the secrets and sins that lay buried there. From the top of Blackstone's highest hill the ...

  • Day of Reckoning: The Stereoscope

    The Blackstone Chronicles - 5

    John Saul, author of nineteen bestselling novels of chilling suspense, now gives us a serial thriller set in the small New England town of Blackstone, where the inhabitants are caught in the grip of unrelenting evil. Strange gifts are appearing in th...

  • In the Shadow of Evil: The Handkerchief

    The Blackstone Chronicles - 4

    John Saul, author of nineteen bestselling novels of chilling suspense, has now created a serial thriller that brings to life the small New England town of Blackstone -- where the terrifying sins of the past threaten the innocent and guilty alike. Evi...



  • Asylum

    The Blackstone Chronicles - 6

    John Saul, master of psychological and supernatural suspense, has created a terrifying serial thriller set in the New England town of Blackstone. From the old Asylum, an insidious evil has descended upon unsuspecting souls who fall within its looming...

  • The Presence

    Beyond the sparkling Hawaiian beaches, masked by the deceptive beauty of the rainforest, evil awaits sixteen-year-old Michael Sundquist and his mother, Katharine, an anthropologist who has come to the Islands to study the unusual skeletal remains une...

  • The Right Hand of Evil

    When the Conways move into their ancestral home in Louisiana after the death of an estranged aunt, it is with the promise of a new beginning. But the house has a life of its own. Abandoned for the last forty years, surrounded by thick trees and a sti...

  • Nightshade

    Fifteen-year-old Matthew Moore seems to have a charmed life...until a mysterious fire forces his grandmother to move in with his family. The elderly woman insists on re-creating the bedroom of Cynthia, her favored child who died tragically more than ...

  • The Manhattan Hunt Club

    Falsely convicted of a brutal crime, college student Jeff Converse sees his future vanishing before his eyes. But someone has other plans for Jeff, in a place far deadlier than any penitentiary. Jeff finds himself beneath the teeming streets of Manha...

  • Midnight Voices

    The sudden, tragic death of her husband leaves Caroline Evans alone in New York City to raise her children with little money and even less hope. When she meets and marries handsome, successful Anthony Fleming, the charismatic man of her dreams, she b...

  • Black Creek Crossing

    The dark history and dire secrets of a peaceful small town are summoned from the shadows of the past. Unholy forces are stirred from long slumber to monstrous new life. And two young misfits discover the chilling art of turning persecution into retri...

  • Perfect Nightmare

    When Lindsay Marshall mysteriously vanishes froi her bedroom during the night, her mother, Kara, fears the worst. Their neighbor Patrick Shields can easily relate to Kara's grief--he is still dealing with the pain of losing his wife and two children ...

  • Arkham Tales

    Nestled along the Massachusetts coast, the small town of Arkham has existed for centuries. It is the source of countless rumors and legends. Those who have visited it each telling a different and remarkable account, whisper tales of Arkham. Reports o...

  • In the Dark of the Night

    For Chicago couple Dan and Merrill Brewster, a summer at Pinecrest, a rambling lakeside house, is an deal vacation, and for their kids, Eric and Marci, Pinecrest is the perfect place to spend some time exploring. Eric and his friends discover a curio...



  • Call It Tender

    These collected love stories, often commenting wryly on modern life, are set in Europe and beyond. John Saul's stories have appeared frequently in anthologies including New Writing and the books of Serpent's Tail. Call It Tender hopes to see his inno...

  • The Devil's Labyrinth

    After his father's untimely death sends fifteen-year-old Ryan McIntyre into an emotional tailspin, his mother enrolls him in St. Isaac's Catholic boarding school, hoping the venerable institution with a reputation for transforming wayward teens can w...

  • Faces of Fear

    Fifteen-year-old Alison Shaw may not be beautiful, but she doesn't really care: She'd much rather read a good book than primp in front of a mirror. But Alison's gorgeous mother, Risa, knows that beauty can be a key to success and wishes only the best...

  • As Rivers Flow

    'Oblivious to human exploits,' it says in the story 'Aire', 'rivers continue'. Twelve rivers, twelve stories. These waterways - eight in England, one in Portugal, one in Germany and two in France - are the backdrop to the meetings, partings, confront...

  • House of Reckoning

    For more than three decades John Saul has haunted the New York Times bestseller list -- and readers' imaginations -- with his chilling tales of psychological suspense and supernatural horror. His instinct for striking the deepest chords of fear in ou...

  • A Fairy Tale

    It's San Francisco in the early 1970s, and thirty-something Solly Steinberg still isn't married, much to the consternation of his Aunt Sylvia who is determined to correct this calamitous state of affairs before Solly's next birthday. The only trouble...

  • John Saul's God Project

    From the best selling novelist, comes "God Project". Eastbury, Mass. Quiet, peaceful, prosperous. Surely the ideal place to raise a family? For the Montgomery family, the death of their baby daughter is a mystery that medicine should be able to answe...

  • John Saul's The God Project #4

    As the bodycount rises, the truth behind the God Project begins to emerge from the shadows - but the two families who have been seeking to uncover the fates of their lost children discover that its terrifying implications stretch far beyond Eastbury,...

  • John Saul's The Blackstone Chronicles #0

    A behind the scenes look into the new horror series from John Saul. From the imagination of best-selling author John Saul comes Blackstone Asylum. Dr. Malcolm Metcalf's sadistic legacy. Madhouse. Torture chamber. As the town of Blackstone plans its ...

  • John Saul's The Blackstone Chronicles #4

    The Blackstone Curse has all but triumphed.  Just one special delivery remains: a razor used to slash the throat of a child.  Now, it's Oliver's only weapon.  Will he use it to end the Curse… or fulfill it? Discover the shocking truth in...



  • John Saul's The God Project #3

    Sally and Bernie Montgomery have found some disturbing information about the death of their baby daughter - but is it really an answer, or just another question? Malone, meanwhile, continues to search for Lucy Corliss' missing son Randy, but his ...

  • John Saul's: The God Project

    Collected for the first time. from the best selling novelist John Saul, comes "God Project". Eastbury, Mass. Quiet, peaceful, prosperous. Surely the ideal place to raise a family? For the Montgomery family, the death of their baby daughter is...

  • John Saul's The Blackstone Chronicles #1: Saul, John

    From the imagination of best-selling author John Saul comes Blackstone Asylum. Dr. Malcolm Metcalf's sadistic legacy. Madhouse. Torture chamber. As the town of Blackstone plans its demolition, a dark stranger is determined to keep the evils of th...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Saul has published 52 books.

John Saul does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, John Saul's The Blackstone Chronicles #1: Saul, John, was published in September 2015.

The first book by John Saul, When the Wind Blows, was published in August 1981.

Yes. John Saul has 1 series.
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