Arthur Slade Books in Order

Three American children spend the summer with their grandfather in Manitoba, where his Icelandic tales begin to feel disturbingly real. Signs of a returning dead man draw them into a danger older than their family stories.

Michael accompanies his father to a remote island, expecting time for his father's writing about Norse legends. Local stories of spirits, sacrifices, and a sea serpent make the visit increasingly unsettling as old beliefs intrude on ordinary life.

Vacationing in Iceland with her grandfather and cousins, Angie dreams of an enormous wolf. Scratches at the window and disappearing sheep suggest something beyond nightmares, pulling the children toward a mystery rooted in their family's ancestral landscape.

In a drought-stricken Saskatchewan town, Robert Steelgate searches for his missing younger brother. A stranger's promise of rain distracts the adults from disappearing children, leaving Robert to question the comfort everyone else seems eager to accept.

After her teacher falls from the school's belfry, Daphne notices unsettling changes in the adults around her. With her friend Nick, she investigates a long-ago fire and the ghosts connected to their Moose Jaw school.

Percy studies his fellow students like an anthropologist, using their social groups to keep his own feelings at a distance. As graduation approaches, friendship and shared grief challenge the detachment he adopted after his father's death.

Wart and Cindy encounter a ghost boy at the Bessborough Hotel and ride an elevator into 1936. Their search for answers becomes a time-travel adventure as they try to understand the haunting and find a route home.

Fifteen famous monsters receive illustrated profiles combining their literary and legendary origins with imagined personal details. Dracula, Frankenstein’s creature, Baba Yaga, and others are explored through research, humor, and invented gossip that reveals how these frightening figures were created.

After his brother dies in the First World War, sixteen-year-old Edward leaves his Canadian farm to enlist. His skill with horses takes him to Palestine, where the realities of battle complicate his desire to avenge his brother.

Gordon Whillickers notices strange behavior after deliveries of Nanaimo bars, then catches an unexpected intruder stealing his dessert. Joined by Sophia and some unusual allies, he investigates an alien scheme targeting more than the town's sweets.

Fourteen historical and fictional villains receive illustrated profiles, imagined interviews, and unusual personal details. Figures from Attila the Hun to the Wicked Witch of the West reveal their notorious deeds through a mixture of researched facts and playful invention.

Newton Starker belongs to a family with a terrible history of fatal lightning strikes. At a survival academy in Moose Jaw, outdoor challenges and a competitive classmate force him to confront the danger he has spent his life avoiding.

Raised as a secret agent, Modo can temporarily disguise his unusual appearance by changing his face. In Victorian London, he and fellow operative Octavia investigate missing children and a mechanical conspiracy threatening the British Empire.

Modo and Octavia investigate ships disappearing in the Atlantic, where a mysterious submarine introduces a new technological threat. Competing agents and an unpredictable captain turn their assignment into a dangerous struggle beneath the ocean's surface.

Rumors of a powerful artifact send Modo, Octavia, and their allies to an ancient temple in Queensland. Their search becomes a race against the Clockwork Guild, whose mechanical creations make the expedition increasingly perilous.

Sixteen stories mix horror, fantasy, and dark humor in unexpected settings. A boy tries to prove he is a werewolf, future wars revolve around movie profits, and a rodeo receives an extraordinary visitor, turning familiar situations toward the bizarre.

News that his parents may still be alive draws Modo into a pursuit of the Clockwork Guild. With Octavia's help, he follows a trail across continents toward an island where his family and unusual abilities are in danger.

Shape-shifting spy Modo and Octavia Milkweed arrive in a strange western town protected by an energy field. With its sheriff dead, they take charge of law enforcement amid rumors that the town’s inventor created a weapon capable of ending wars.

Modo's ability to change his face makes him valuable to the secretive Mr. Socrates, who trains him for covert assignments. Missing children in Victorian London draw Modo and Octavia into a confrontation with the technologically dangerous Clockwork Guild.

Vampire librarian Amber Fang researches her prey carefully, feeding only on proven murderers. While searching for her missing mother, she attracts dangerous attention and receives an offer to turn her particular skills into professional assassination work.

After leaving the League, Amber Fang follows a lead about her missing mother to a remote Antarctic compound. Her search forces the vampire assassin to reconsider old alliances while investigating an organization with secrets of its own.

In a kingdom ruled by an ancient queen, Fen's crimson hair marks her as a magical threat. When violence destroys her village and her sister is captured, she considers a dangerous source of power to fight back.

In 1920s Hollywood, orphaned twins Isabelle and Beatrice live very different lives under a filmmaker's care. While one becomes a screen star, the other investigates their parents' deaths and the disturbing plans behind a new horror film.

Young shapeshifter Modo becomes a covert operative in Victorian London, using borrowed faces to conceal his appearance. Alongside Octavia, he investigates disappearances and sinister machinery that point toward the Clockwork Guild's plans for the British Empire.

A string of vanished ships sends Modo and Octavia into an investigation across the Atlantic. A secret submarine, rival intelligence agents, and its dangerous commander bring the young spies into a mission with few easy escape routes.

Modo and Octavia travel to Queensland in search of an artifact hidden within an ancient temple. The Clockwork Guild wants the same prize, bringing mechanical threats and rival ambitions into an expedition far from London's familiar streets.

The Clockwork Guild holds Modo's parents and intends to exploit his blood for a new army. He and Octavia follow the organization's trail across Europe and North America, facing a mission that brings his own origins into focus.

Amber Fang pursues a chance to rescue her mother from ZARC, but a failed mission leaves her wounded and isolated. The vampire assassin must confront an artificial intelligence and enemies determined to capture her before she can reach her mother.

Carmen accompanies Brax across the Bitterwaters to fulfill a promise she made to the dragon. Their destination is a land of monsters, where her intended target may make her assassin's skills painfully inadequate for the task.

Seeking revenge against those who betrayed her school, Carmen must deceive an executioner and infiltrate the royal palace. With Brax unable to accompany her, the young assassin faces a dangerous test of her own resourcefulness.

Prince Conn prefers flying with his pirate crew to worrying about the throne he is unlikely to inherit. When his siblings are murdered, he becomes a suspect and must reach Skull Island to defend himself against a deadly succession plot.

Carmen is imprisoned among dragons whose competing claims to power make every alliance uncertain. She needs help to survive, but the struggle for the crown leaves her vulnerable to becoming a useful piece in someone else's plans.

As rival dragon clans fight over the crown, Carmen has a more personal aim: saving Brax. Caught within their struggle, the assassin must rely on her strength and judgment to survive a battle among creatures far more powerful than herself.

Betrayal at her assassin school leaves Carmen fighting for survival and seeking revenge. With the emperor hunting assassins, she must decide which allies to trust, including a dragon whose connection to her remains uncertain.

Carmen approaches graduation from assassin school while competing with her twin brother and facing the emperor's hostility toward her profession. Encountering a dragon that kills anyone who approaches presents an unexpected possibility for surviving the dangers ahead.

Carmen and Brax return to Ellos as the emperor's conquests threaten its remaining resistance. A powerful wizard becomes part of their struggle, forcing the assassin and dragon to confront a war that could consume the entire land.

Carmen and Brax seek the Nameless One, a wizard said to restore the dead. His abilities offer hope, but his independent plans complicate their search while the emperor's war leaves little time to understand the bargain before them.

A royal mission takes Carmen toward the little-known land of giants in search of a way to save the dragons. With Brax gravely injured, she must face the journey with different companions and unfamiliar dangers.

A visit to his scientist uncle sends Michael into another universe, where he meets Emily and falls for her. Pursued by mysterious figures, the pair must navigate alternate realities while Michael searches for a way back home.

Exploring the ocean, Carmen and Brax discover a recently killed dragon on a remote island. The death points toward an ancient enemy the dragons believed destroyed, bringing the threat of revenge back into their world.

Carmen pursues Kali, a warrior capable of moving between worlds, while seeking whoever directs her attacks. With Brax beside her, she must prepare for the mysterious threat called Deathwings, whose nature neither of them understands.

A woman riding a white dragon attacks Carmen and Brax with a golden spear. Able to move between worlds, she has already killed rulers across Ellos, leaving the pair to investigate the purpose behind her campaign.

Dragon Brax and his rider Carmen encounter a goddess threatening to conquer their world. After the Akkad emperor is murdered, protecting his young successor means confronting rival ambitions, supernatural attackers, and a deity whose true name could be crucial.

A heavy-metal concert transports Kim, her uncle, and three others into Metaloria, a fantasy realm governed by game-like rules. To survive, they must develop magical abilities and face a power-hungry wizard amid a world shaped by music.