Al Sarrantonio Books in Order

Ancient worms awaken from centuries of confinement in an iron casket and spread through a quiet New England town. As they invade human flesh and transform their victims, an old legacy of vengeance threatens everyone they reach.

A young couple and their children face a mysterious horror in the isolated town of Campbell Wood. Their family becomes the focus of a terrifying encounter with a threat whose nature remains unknown to them.

Eleven-year-old Billy Potter watches the world with copper-colored eyes but cannot love and is not entirely human. As he searches for someone or something, death follows his travels, threatening anyone drawn into his path.

Private investigator Jack Paine receives a desperate call from a man threatening suicide, then discovers a death and photographs pointing toward buried crimes. His investigation draws him into a family's secrets while exposing disturbing connections to his own past.

After invaders from space kill his wife, Jason Blake confronts a threat that reaches far beyond his personal loss. He must find a way to stop the spreading plague before it takes over the world.

Professor Kevin Michaels returns to New Polk to revive interest in a neglected novelist and her masterpiece. His investigation into her failing memory uncovers a horror born decades earlier, just as an alien evil returns with October.

A spirit named Bridget draws four troubled people and a New York City detective to an abandoned house upstate. Inside, they become entangled in her effort to tear down the boundary separating the living from the next world.

Retired cavalry lieutenant Thomas Mullin is called back to investigate a senator's missing son. Discovering that other travelers have vanished in the same remote stretch of Texas, the gifted tracker follows scant evidence toward an unusually dangerous killer.

The dead return as a skeletal army determined to conquer the living. Amid the chaos, a small band of refugees is brought together by a shared vision and a fate that may shape humanity’s struggle to survive.

Retired Buffalo Soldier Thomas Mullins leaves Boston for Arizona after an old friend asks him to find a missing daughter. The search draws him into unfamiliar territory, where troubling evidence complicates the task he has agreed to undertake.

When a police officer abandons his family, empties their accounts, and threatens his wife, she asks private investigator Jack Paine for help. Following his former colleague's trail leads Paine toward brutal killings and a dangerous network of corruption.

As humanity spreads across the solar system, a violent coup on Mars gives an ambitious ruler a chance to seize other worlds. Earth's exiled king becomes central to resistance while hidden alien interests watch the struggle unfold.

The High Leader of Mars readies his soldiers for an invasion of Jupiter as the Five Worlds approach disaster. Far away on Pluto, Earth's exiled king struggles to escape imprisonment and reenter a conflict that threatens humanity's future.

Earth's exiled king Dalin Shar seeks a refuge for his people while their poisoned home remains uninhabitable. His hopes converge on Venus, but a conquering alien ruler also wants the planet, forcing a confrontation over humanity's survival.

A mysterious toymaker brings a girl a box filled with unsettling stories. Within its tales, childhood fears, strange creatures, and familiar celebrations take menacing forms, from a dangerous corn doll to a Christmas that refuses to end.

Orangefield celebrates Halloween with pumpkins and festivities, but its legends about Samhain conceal a real danger. When the ancient lord of death threatens the town and beyond, a girl called Wizard becomes central to resisting him.

After his successful life in Los Angeles collapses, photographer Corrie Phaeder returns to Orangefield, the hometown he hoped to escape. As Halloween approaches, old nightmares and a strange pumpkin-faced messenger draw him toward a confrontation beyond ordinary reality.

On a distant future Mars, Princess Haydn's arranged marriage fails to protect her people from a ruthless rival. Forced to flee, she crosses a treacherous landscape in search of allies and a way to reclaim her threatened kingdom.

After his mother's assassination, the young king Sebastian inherits a fragile Martian realm. A renewed rebellion drives him toward Olympus Mons, where unlikely allies and secrets beneath the mountain may offer his best chance of saving his people.

Near Halloween, five-year-old Jody Wendt sees a strange metal boy with a pumpkin head. Following the figure into the woods, he disappears, beginning another unsettling chapter in the supernatural history of the town of Orangefield.

Princess Clara struggles to defend her Martian kingdom against a returning enemy while the planet's atmosphere slowly escapes. To preserve both her people's freedom and their lives, she must win a war and recover the technology of a lost civilization.

This small collection brings together Al Sarrantonio's unsettling short fiction, including stories of childhood fears, strange encounters, and ordinary lives disrupted by the uncanny. Its tales range from sinister domestic situations to the darker possibilities hidden in familiar surroundings.

A mysterious carnival arrives in Orangefield, where Halloween already carries dangerous supernatural associations. Detective Bill Grant investigates a strange girl whose fate may determine the future of the universe, following a trail that reaches Ireland and the realm of Samhain.

Eighteen stories transform the passing seasons into sources of unease. Endless summer, a frightening sleepover, a sinister camp, and an extraordinary Halloween sit alongside tales of neighborhood rivalry and hungry vegetation, revealing threats beneath familiar routines.

A sinister carnival appears overnight, drawing visitors into attractions from which escape seems impossible. Thirteen-year-old Reggie Carson must confront its master, Ash, on his own ground in a struggle for his soul and everyone else’s.

Four sisters investigate mysteries in the New Jersey seaside town where their parents run a hotel. When a visiting movie director loses a valuable script, Meg, Biz, Ames, and Josie use their different talents to unravel the trouble.

A journey into the center of the Earth becomes a strange expedition through Hell. Along the way, figures including Dr. Foostis and Malice in Wonderland populate a darkly imaginative landscape in this long-unpublished horror novel.

A sequence of macabre short stories gives familiar holidays disturbing twists, from a struggle between the old and new year to an avenging Thanksgiving turkey. Seasonal rituals and celebrations become opportunities for dark humor and unexpected menace.

Detective Grant and the supernatural Samhain form an unlikely alliance against the Dark One in an Orangefield tale. A second story follows a gifted pumpkin vandal whose activities bring him into a dangerous encounter with the lord of Halloween.

Seventeen horror stories uncover threats inside ordinary objects, familiar places, and the natural world. A haunted computer, a deadly coat, and sinister insects are among the dangers in a collection that includes an early tale of Orangefield.