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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books
  • First Book:
    March 1987
  • Latest Book:
    October 2025
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Book List in Order: 14 titles



  • Such a peaceful little town… Or so it appears when David Hammond and Anna Braddon arrive in Milbourne, CT where the horribly mutated body of Anna's brother has been discovered. Nobody knows what caused Jeffery's death, or the mysterious disap...



  • BEDTIME STORY They had gathered for a weekend on notorious Lammerty Island, a harsh outcropping of rock off the coast of Maine with an unsavory reputation for repeated violence and bloodshed. But none of the assembled guests believed rumors of an ...



  • *As Featured in PAPERBACKS FROM HELL*They called it porodyne. A bizarre by-product of bio-engineering, porodyne has been found - quite accidentally - to have some very special properties. Properties that could render cosmetic surgery o...



  • It appeared mysteriously, at night, and destroyed the town with amazing swiftness. Houses were flattened, the bodies of men, women and children were crushed and mangles, hundreds were missing, vanished without a trace. No one knew what had happened o...



  • Deep beneath the city streets lurks a creature hideous beyond description, powerful beyond imagining, a creature so dangerous that it can destroy its victims by the virulence of its thoughts. The emanations of its computer-like brain invade every san...



  • WILLIAM SCHOELL is the author of many books on pop culture, film and the performing arts, as well as biographies. His film and pop culture books include Comic Book Heroes of the Screen; The Nightmare Never Ends: The Official History of Freddy Kruger ...



  • From the Golden Age of the 1940s, through the Silver Age of the '60s, up until the early '80s--the end of the Bronze Age. Included are the earliest series, like American Comics Group's Adventures into the Unknown and Prize Comics' Frankenstein, and t...



  • They dwell in darkness, craving human flesh, thirsting for human blood. Only one man can stop them and keep them from infecting the world--and he is too paralyzed with fear to act. David Hammond and Anna Braddon arrive in Milbourne, Connecticut wher...



  • The Evil ... It was an obscene evil that could not be quenched with blood or sated with the flesh of its defiled victims. The Terror ... It wormed its way into the human brain, devouring the mind, controlling the body and turning its prey into savage...






  • HE IS HELL-BORN. Fear of war gripped the heart of young naval recruit Steven Russell. It gnawed at his innards, screamed at him from every New York newspaper, blasted at him from the radio. Poet, dreamer, visionary…he saw a future of blood and b...



  • Anna Corrigan, the daughter of the late movie star and entertainer Mavis Edwards, has spent years trying to deal with the emotional fall out from the decades she spent with her often difficult and neurotic mother. Anna attends her sister Estelle's si...



  • Science fiction and fantasy comics present colorful if disparate visions of the future, from bleak, post-apocalyptic nightmare scenarios, to prophetic explorations of technical advances, to startling stories of space colonization. Concentrating on th...



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    THE EVIL It was an obscene evil that could not be quenched with blood or sated with the flesh of its defiled victims. THE TERROR It wormed its way into the human brain, devouring the mind, controlling the body and turning its prey into savage...



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    Photographer Eddie Drake had expected a challenge when he joined the archeological expedition to the lost city of El Lobo, but he was unprepared for the bizarre terrors that lurked beneath the Mexican mesa. The deeper the party descended into the rui...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

William Schoell has published 14 books.

The next book by William Schoell, Fantastic Adventures in the Comics: Rockets, Genies, and Bug-Eyed Monsters, 1940s-1980s, will be published in October 2025.

The first book by William Schoell, Spawn of Hell, was published in March 1987.

No. William Schoell does not write books in series.