P.N. Elrod

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  • Bibliography:
    39 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1990
  • Latest Book:
    January 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Count Strahd

1 - I, Strahd: The Memoirs of a Vampire (Sep-1993)
2 - I, Strahd: The War Against Azalin (Jun-1998)

Jonathan Barrett, Gentleman Vampire

1 - Red Death (Nov-1993)
2 - Death and the Maiden (Jul-1994)
3 - Death Masque (Feb-1995)
4 - Dance of Death (Mar-1996)

The Vampire Files

1 - Bloodlist (Mar-1990)
2 - Lifeblood (Jun-1990)
3 - Bloodcircle (Oct-1990)
4 - Art in the Blood (Feb-1991)
5 - Fire in the Blood (Jun-1991)
6 - Blood on the Water (Jun-1992)
7 - A Chill in the Blood (Jun-1998)
8 - The Dark Sleep (Jun-1999)
9 - Lady Crymsyn (Nov-2000)
10 - Cold Streets (Jan-2003)
11 - A Song in the Dark (Sep-2005)
11.3 - Hecate's Golden Eye (Jul-2009)
12 - Grave-Robbed (Sep-2007)
13 - Dark Road Rising (Sep-2009)
14 - Dark Lady (Jul-2010)
Her Mother's Daughter (Jan-2008)

Multi-Author Series List

Ravenloft

I, Strahd: The Memoirs of a Vampire (Sep-1993)
I, Strahd: The War Against Azalin (Jun-1998)

Book List in Order: 39 titles

  • Bloodlist

    The Vampire Files - 1

    I, VAMPIRE I've always had a weak spot for strange ladies. One very beautiful girl had even warned me that she was--get this--a vampire. But did I listen? No. Well, before you know it, I'm being chased by an ugly thug with a gun, and a bulle...

  • Lifeblood

    The Vampire Files - 2

    THE VAMPIRE SPEAKS! As nosferatu go, I'm basically a nice guy. Sure, I need a little blood now and then, but I never meant to hurt anyone. Too bad some people don't feel the same about me. Now I've got a bunch of crazy vampire-hunters on my ...

  • Bloodcircle

    The Vampire Files - 3

    WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN, MY DAY BEGINS ... As a vampire, I have a number of handy skills--I can hypnotize mortals, walk through walls, and shrug off bullets like insults. The one thing I haven't been able to manage, so far, is to find the woman who...

  • Art in the Blood

    The Vampire Files - 4

    CRITIC BY NIGHT I'm a vampire, not an artist, but I know what I like. And I don't like murder. So when the career of a talented young artist is fatally cut short, I know I won't sleep easy in my coffin until I find the killer. But the world ...

  • Fire in the Blood

    The Vampire Files - 5

    A VAMPIRE'S GOT TO DO WHAT A VAMPIRE'S GOT TO DO Even the dead have to work for a living. This time, a priceless heirloom bracelet's been stolen from the wealthy Sebastian Pierce. And guess who's been hired to find it? I'll give you a hint: Me. Pier...

  • Blood on the Water

    The Vampire Files - 6

    MANHUNT AT MIDNIGHT There's a new crime boss in town and he's gunning for a vampire. So are the police. Lucky me. What's worse, my thirst for the red stuff is getting out of control. I'm not sure what scares me more: the mob ... or the darkness gna...

  • I, Strahd: The Memoirs of a Vampire

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Count Strahd - 1
    Ravenloft

    ... Some of the parchment pages were the color of cream, thick and substantial, made to last many, many lifetimes. Other pages were thin and desiccated, positively yellow from age, and crackled alarmingly as Van Richten turned them over. There were n...

  • Red Death

    Jonathan Barrett, Gentleman Vampire - 1

    "Give me liberty or give me undeath!" A young upstart, Jonathan Barrett is sent to London in 1773 for his college education. There he meets Nora Jones, an unearthly beauty whose lovemaking talents entrance him--even as she drinks his blood during ...

  • Death and the Maiden

    Jonathan Barrett, Gentleman Vampire - 2

    From the blood of the living... comes the passion of the dead Jonathan Barrett died in the early days of the American Revolution, but he did not rest for long. He rose again, with strange new abilities --and an irresistible thirst for blood. No...



  • Death Masque

    Jonathan Barrett, Gentleman Vampire - 3

    His first love. His only love. His undying love... When he died, Jonathan Barrett was buried. But it was not his fate to stay in the freshly turned earth--the legacy of a new vampire bloodline pulled him from that early grave. Is his strange desti...

  • Dance of Death

    Jonathan Barrett, Gentleman Vampire - 4

    In the sequel to Death and the Maiden, vampire Jonathan Barrett encounters an engaging four-year-old boy, the mortal son he never knew he had, but his enemies plot to use the child to destroy him. Original....

  • The Time of the Vampires

    Eighteen chilling short stories--by Tanya Huff, P. N. Elrod, Lois Tilton, and other notable authors--journey into the dark world of the vampire, revealing the exploits of these creatures of darkness throughout history, from ancient Greece to the pres...

  • A Chill in the Blood

    The Vampire Files - 7

    When he was alive, Jack Fleming was a reporter with a nose for news. Now that he's dead, he's a private eye with a thirst for justice--and blood. But being a vampire with morals is no midnight stroll on the streets of post-prohibition Chicago. In the...

  • I, Strahd: The War Against Azalin

    Count Strahd - 2
    Ravenloft

    ...Some of the parchment pages were the color of cream, thick and substantial, made to last many, many lifetimes. Other pages were thin and desiccated, positively yellow from age, and crackled alarmingly as Van Richten turned them over. There were no...

  • The Quick Way Down

    in Mob Magic

    MICKEY ZUCKER REICHERT * MIKE RESNICK * SIMON HAWKE * JEFF GRUBB * MAX ALLAN COLLINS * ROLAND GREEN * JODY LYNN NYE * AND OTHER LITERARY GANGBUSTERS Ever since human society began there have been crimes, and even in the realm of the fantastic, the...

  • The Dark Sleep

    The Vampire Files - 8

    For vampire detective Jack Fleming, stalking the mean streets of post-prohibition Chicago is a walk in the park compared to the jealousy he's feeling about his girlfriend. A famous radio star has promised to get her some airplay, but Jack's convinced...

  • Lady Crymsyn

    The Vampire Files - 9

    Vampire detective .Jack Fleming has made a good bit of money cleaning up the streets of post-prohibition Chicago--enough to realize his long-time dream of owning a nightclub where a man can get a legal drink, and where .Jack's songbird girlfriend can...

  • Quincey Morris, Vampire

    QUINCEY P. MORRIS: EXPLORER, ADVENTURER--VAMPIRE .. . Rough and ready Texan Quincey Morris thrust his Bowie knife into Dracula's heart, bringing an end to the quintessential battle between the living and the Un-Dead. It also brought an end to Quin...

  • Dog Spelled Backward

    in Familiars

    KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH * JODY LYNN NYE LAURA RESNICK * P. N. ELROD * VON JOCKS JEAN RABE * ANDRE NORTON * BILL MCcAY LAURA ANNE GILMAN * DIANE A. S. STUCKART GARY A. BRAUNBECK * SUSAN SIZEMORE JOSEPHA SHERMAN * JOHN HEIFERS MICHELLE WEST The...



  • Cold Streets

    The Vampire Files - 10

    Everyone--the famous and the infamous--is braving the cold streets of Chicago to catch the talent at Lady Crymsyn, Jack Fleming's swank new nightclub. Like the mobster in town from New York City, looking to muscle in on the local gang boss--who happe...

  • The Adventures Of Myhr

    CAN A MYHR MORTAL SURVIVE SUCH PERIL? His name is Myhr--rhymes with purr!--he's half-man, half-cat, and all-adventure, traveling the multi-verse with Terrin, a twisted wizard who's into techno-raves and obscene T-shirt art. Displaced from Earth by...

  • The Vampire Files, Volume One

    Bloodlist  introduces Jack Fleming, an investigative journalist in Prohibition-era Chicago who got bitten by a vampire. In Lifeblood and Bloodcircle Jack hunted for the men who killed him, and for his long-lost love, Maureen. Now, the original ...

  • Tarnished Linings

    in The Magic Shop

    SUSAN SIZEMORE * P. N. ELROD JODY LYNN NYE * INDIA EDGHILL LAURA RESNICK * ELIZABETH GILLIGAN MICHELLE WEST * BRADLEY H. SINOR JOSEPHA SHERMAN * BILL McCAY KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH * MEL ODOM GARY A. BRAUNBECK * VON JOCKS ROSEMARY EDGHILL Eve...

  • Death in Dover

    in Death By Dickens

    The plot Dickens... In the pages of his novels, Charles Dickens railed against injustice in all its forms--the miserliness of Ebenezer Scrooge, the indifference of the aristocracy, the cruelty of Fagin. He captured the bitter unfairness of the cla...

  • A Song in the Dark

    The Vampire Files - 11

  • All Shook Up

    in My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding

    Werewolves, vampires, witches, voodoo, Elvis---and weddings An "ordinary" wedding can get crazy enough, so can you imagine what happens when otherworldly creatures are involved? Nine of the hottest authors of paranormal fiction answer that questi...

  • Grave-Robbed

    in Many Bloody Returns
    The Vampire Files - 12

    Never-before-published vampire stories by Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, and many others. Suspenseful, surprising, sometimes dark, sometimes humorous-these all-new stories will ensure that readers never think of vampires (or bir...

  • Her Mother's Daughter

    in My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon
    The Vampire Files

    What newly married couple doesn't dream of a romantic retreat where they can escape the world for a while--but what happens when supernatural forces intrude on their wedded bliss? Nine of today's hottest paranormal authors answer that question in...

  • Hecate's Golden Eye

    in Strange Brew
    The Vampire Files - 11.3

    Today's hottest urban fantasy authors come together in this delicious brew that crackles and boils over with tales of powerful witches and dark magic! In Charlaine Harris' "Bacon," a beautiful vampire joins forces with a witch from an ancient line...



  • Dark Road Rising

    The Vampire Files - 13

    Vampire P.I. Jack Fleming is playing babysitter to Gabriel "Whitey" Kroun, a dangerously unstable mobster-and newly-created vampire-with deadly secrets to hide. As Jack tries to unravel the mystery surrounding Kroun's undead state, he gets caught ...

  • Dark Lady

    in Dark and Stormy Knights
    The Vampire Files - 14

    “Nine original stories by the modern masters of urban fantasy; an anthology that will both thrill fans and serve as a nice introduction to [the] genre.” -- BooklistIt was a dark and stormy knight, and nine dark defenders embarked upon a most per...

  • The Vampire Files, Volume Three

    Two Jack Fleming, Vampire P.I> novels - now in one volume. Chicago is a rough town, even for the undead. But someone has to clean up the dirty burg, and Jack Flemming is just the vampire for the job. The Vampire Files, Volume Three includes two adv...

  • The Devil You Know

    PREVIEW AVAILABLE at vampwriter-dot-com/DevilYouKnowEXCERPT.htmVampire PI Jack Fleming travels to Long Island to attend a funeral.Problem: There's more than one body in the grave.Delving into his past, Jack follows clues leading to an old murder, new...

  • Vampires Prefer Blondes

    in Chicks Kick Butt

    Chicks are awesome -- and never more so than when they are kicking some serious vampire/werewolf/demon/monster butt. Chicks Kick Butt is an anthology that features one of the best things about the urban fantasy genre: strong, independent, and inte...

  • The Vampire Files, Volume Four

    Two complete Jack Fleming, Vampire P.I. novels. In the latest Vampire Files omnibus, Jack Fleming now runs his own nightclub while remaining a reluctant player in the politics of gangland Chicago in the 1930s. And wherever vampires and mobsters m...

  • The Vampire Files, Volume Five

    Includes "A Song in the Dark" and "Dark Road Rising" My name is Jack Fleming, nightclub owner, P.I.--and vampire. Usually, that's a combination that keeps me safe. But when a New York lowlife muscled in on Chicago territory, I survived his attempt...

  • Outside the Box

    in Hex Appeal

    Fall under the intoxicating spell of their hex appeal… In the magical world that lies hidden beneath our own, witches and conjurers play deadly games. They know just the right spell to kill a man with one kiss -- or raise him back again. And the...

  • The Hanged Man

    On a freezing Christmas Eve in 1879, a forensic psychic reader is summoned from her Baker Street lodgings to the scene of a questionable death. Alexandrina Victoria Pendlebury (named after her godmother, the current Queen of England) is adamant that ...

  • Drawing Dead and Other Stories

    Collection of previously published short stories by P.N. Elrod, covering urban fantasy, historical fantasy, mystery, romantic suspense, and science fiction genres. Many have been given the director's cut treatment, lengthened and polished for this ne...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

P.N. Elrod has published 39 books.

P.N. Elrod does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Drawing Dead and Other Stories, was published in January 2021.

The first book by P.N. Elrod, Bloodlist, was published in March 1990.

Yes. P.N. Elrod has 3 series.
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