Velda Johnston

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  • Bibliography:
    36 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1968
  • Latest Book:
    May 2011
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Book List in Order: 36 titles

  • House Above Hollywood

    The Rites of Fear Weird shadows danced on the walls of the vast, grotesquely ornate living room where Tara Mornette sat motionless on her throne-like chair. Beside her stood her nephew, handsome, coldly arrogant. In the doorway were the two Orient...

  • A Howling in the Woods

    THE WALLS OF JERICHO When a distant uncle bequeathed his isolated old estate to Lisa Stanhope, the lovely young girl eagerly flew west to Jericho to claim her inheritance. Behind in Manhattan, she left a successful modeling career and a failed mar...

  • The Light in the Swamp

    The big old family house in the Long Island woods was filled with unhappy memories of an ancient scandal and a sisters’ feud. Catherine Morrel had never been invited there had never even met her Aunt Marian or Marian’s husband, Loren Hauklid. Rec...

  • The Phantom Cottage

    NO ESCAPE Jane Warren was fleeing the memory of a broken love affair when she came from Manhattan to the windswept solitude of the cottage by the sea. Neither the howling of the wild dogs in the swamp nearby, nor the strange hostility of the local...

  • The People on the Hill

    WEIRD WELCOME They were all waiting for Karen on the hill in Central Park where they met each day at dusk in what had become a kind of ritual gathering. But as Karen approached, she felt something strange in their expressions...something cold.....

  • The Late Mrs. Fonsell

    The House She Feared Was Now Her Home Irene grew up in fear of the Fonsell mansion. For years the young heiress heard the villagers talk of dark deeds performed behind its locked doors, of the violent, lustful man who was its master, and of his yo...

  • The Mourning Trees

    Wed To Terror To newlywed Paula Garbraith, her husband Wayne was the perfect mate. He was devastatingly handsome, wonderfully warm and attentive -- and she willingly put her life and love in this strong, capable hands. Then Wayne vanished, and ...

  • Masquerade in Venice

    “It is easy to see why the Venice police thought I might be responsible for that death in the Belzoni’s crumbling but proud old house, First of all, I was a stranger, an American spinster of almost twenty-four, who had arrived alone in a country ...

  • The White Pavilion

    Childhood memories of a lonely and frightened summer she spent on Dolor Island had given Jennifer Langley, New York career girl, little reason to like the island's mistress, her arrogantly selfish Aunt Evelyn. And so it was with reluctance that t...



  • I Came to the Highlands

    Passion's Perilous Path From the upright love of a God-fearing fiance in the American colonies...to the drunken assault of a brutishly powerful Scottish lord in his highland lair...to the forbidden embrace of a man with royal blood in his vein...

  • A Room With Dark Mirrors

    The Edge of Day, A Boyhood in the West of England -- "I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three, and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began..." -- Thus begins a truly lovely reading...

  • Deveron Hall

    The party was long over when beautiful Lisa Marsden came to Deveron Hall in the Scottish highlands, the party that had seen her Hollywood director father savagely slain, her glamorous actress mother committed to an asylum, and Lisa's own childhood sh...

  • The House on the Left Bank

  • The Etruscan Smile

    The Etruscan underworld goddess held the wheat-symbol of life in one hand, and in the other, the sacrificial knife. To Samantha Develin, the ancient figure seemed sinister, and not just because of the chill, enigmatic smile on its bronze lips. The re...

  • The People from the Sea

    Diana was drawn instantly to the charming old beach house in the Hamptons, even though it was David’s former mistress who had found it for her. Alone one night, Diana was startled from her sleep by soft laughter, voices, eerie piano music -- and th...

  • A Presence in An Empty Room

    After marrying handsome and wealthy widower Martin Summerslee, shy Susan Hapgood finds herself increasingly jealous of Martin's beautiful first wife, Irene, mysteriously killed in the crash of her small plane, but she soon discovers that a dark and d...

  • The Silver Dolphin

    STAR-CROSSED LOVERS ON A BITTER VOYAGE TO THE HEART OF PASSION, VENGEANCE...AND MURDER! FIONA Scorched by the shame of a villainous lie, she burns to avenge her broken heart...as other women yearn for love. BRIAN Now her whole being aches to de...

  • The Hour Before Midnight

    Here is a spellbinding story of violence, death and love. Set in the present day, its strange happenings are related to a violent and tragic event at Hampton Court Palace, one that took place four and a half centuries ago. It is a breathtaking rom...

  • The Fateful Summer

    SUMMER OF DANGEROUS SECRETS The door to the study stood open. No one looking at the lovely seaside Dorrance Cottage -- if a twenty room mansion could truly be called a beach cottage -- would ever guess what happened inside. For a pool of blood bef...



  • The Stone Maiden

    The advertisement, complete with box number, appeared in New York newspapers: "Will anyone having information about an infant abandoned in Manhattan twenty-eight years ago please communicate." -- Katherine Derwith had placed the advertisement. In ...

  • The Other Karen

    If New York City that early summer had not begun to seem like a foretaste of Hell, none of it would have happened. I would not have answered the ad in the Village Voice. And, therefore, later on I would not have stood on the shore of a wind-roughened...

  • The Crystal Cat

    Her fears did not need darkness. They flourished in the bright sunlight, in the new house... -- "Get away," her grandmother's old friend told her. "Get away and stay away." But much as Linda hated Wessex, to leave it would end her marriage to Guy N...

  • Shadow Behind the Curtain

    For twenty years the shadow has been there, unseen, a threat to Deborah’s future. She had seemed to have everything -- books, intelligence, and indulgent, rich stepfather, and a handsome, wellborn fiancé. Then in her twenty-fourth year her step...

  • Fatal Affair

    The inheritance of a condominium in New York, along with a considerable amount of money, brings Betty and Jenny Carr from the small town of Carrsville, Missouri, to the glamorous big city. Betty, the younger of the two sisters, has dreams of becoming...

  • The House on Bostwick Square

    It was in the 1880s that Laura Harmon, adopted daughter of a Brooklyn evangelist, eloped with a young Englishman, Richard Parrington. Richard was handsome, high-spirited, and charming. He was a 'remittance man', paid a monthly sum by his rich Londo...

  • Voice in the Night

    The ringing telephone brought Carla Baron awake in the early morning darkness. Confused and alarmed, she lifted the receiver to her ear. Her dead husband said, "Come back to me, Carla, you and Melissa both. Everything will be different from now o...

  • The Girl on the Beach

    Kate Killigrew leaves New York City, her advertising job, and ex-fiance to come to a small island off the North Carolina coast. She rents an old house on the beach and her first night there, she looks out the window and sees a girl, clad in a summery...

  • Flight to Yesterday

    Worldwide Mysteries - 88

    A NIGHTMARE REVISITED Sara Hargreaves spent four years in prison for a crime of passion she didn't commit. Now she's escaped, desperate to see her dying mother and to clear her name. With her photo appearing nightly on the local news, ...

  • I Came To A Castle/Castle Perilous

    INVITATION TO A HOLOCAUST She came to the ancient and fearsome Castle Estillio as the guest of a rich scientist and his frivolous sister. But she quickly realized that she was a prisoner among madmen. The bizarre tower which had been turned into a...



  • The Underground Stream

    Worldwide Mysteries - 111

    AN OLD HOUSE WITH...EVEN OLDER SECRETS For twenty-four years Gail Loring has fought both her fear of the alcoholic haze in which the women of her family have lived and the haunting images of a man -- her great-great-great-grandfather -- called the...

  • The Face in the Shadows

    THE CHILL OF SUMMER Ellen Stacey was pretty, talented, out-of-work young actress, facing a long, hot New York summer. She welcomed the offer to take care of 11-year-old Cecily Vandering at the family's seaside estate. But soon it became clear ...

  • House of Illusion

    Three young women work at Madame Theraux's luxurious brothel in Paris of 1870. Jeanne-Marie, a young, widowed French peasant with a child to support, serves caviar and champaign at Madame Theraux's soirees. Dianne Gautier, a wealthy English heiress i...

  • Along a Dark Path

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    She was tormented by the blackness of a past she could not remember -- and terrified by the truth it held... TREMORS OF EVIL Susan Sayre did not know what awaited her at Tate House. But she had a strange premonition that whatever it was would ...

  • The Frenchman

    • / Gothic
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    For Manhattan career girl Joan Creighton, the trip to Europe was a flight from the memory of cruel betrayal in a love affair. She would tour the continent as companion to a President's widow, and hope to find forgetfulness. But from the moment Jo...

  • The Man at Windmere

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  • Harriet

    • / General Fiction
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    A narrative portrait of the life and writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe examines the nineteenth-century era that spawned her work and the dramatic influence of her controversial work, Uncle Tom's Cabin. ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Velda Johnston has published 36 books.

Velda Johnston does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, House of Illusion, was published in May 2011.

The first book by Velda Johnston, House Above Hollywood, was published in January 1968.

No. Velda Johnston does not write books in series.
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