Bryan W Alaspa Books in Order

A group of high-school friends becomes the basis for a story with superhero elements and teenage camaraderie. Their shared identity and adventures bring ordinary adolescent life into a larger, stranger conflict.

A dark mystery centered on a child who disappears and the fear that remains afterward. The search for answers pulls people toward painful secrets that may have been hidden for far too long.

A dark novel in which an ominous threat unsettles the lives of people who thought they understood their world. As the mystery deepens, fear spreads through every attempt to find a safe answer.

A nonfiction collection of St. Louis ghost lore, haunted locations, and eerie regional history. The book includes the Lemp Mansion and other stories where tragedy and legend still cling to the city.

Grady McDonnell is drawn into his family's role as a sin-eater, someone who absorbs the sins of the dead. As he serves a shadowy organization, he wonders whether saving souls will cost him his own.

A nonfiction collection of Chicago crimes, criminals, and cases shaped by the city's complicated past. These stories look beyond famous headlines to the violence, greed, and mystery left behind.

A dark suspense novel where the quiet aftermath of a snowfall hides danger rather than peace. As events unfold, characters must face what has been waiting beneath the frozen surface.

A collection of lesser-known Illinois history, strange events, and regional stories. It brings together memorable people and incidents that have slipped beyond the standard version of the state's past.

A nonfiction history of disasters that shook Chicago and the surrounding region. The book looks at catastrophic fires, accidents, weather events, and other tragedies that changed the city and its people.

Rig 42, the world's largest and most advanced oil platform, hits something beneath the sea. What follows turns the isolated installation into a terrifying trap for everyone aboard.

A nonfiction portrait of Silas Jayne, the suburban Chicago gangster whose violent career left a long shadow. The book follows his criminal world and the people drawn into it.

A collection of short fiction that moves through horror, suspense, mystery, and the supernatural. Each story offers a quick trip into the uneasy corners where ordinary life takes a dark turn.

A humorous collection of opinions, observations, and offbeat commentary. Alaspa brings a conversational, argumentative spirit to sports and the odd frustrations that inspire a good rant.

Grady McDonnell accepts his inherited role as a sin-eater after his powerful father's mysterious death. Working for a secretive organization, he cleanses the dead while questioning what its real mission might be.

A private detective investigates the apparent suicide of his former partner and finds reasons to doubt the official story. His search leads him toward a mystery that challenges everything he believes about the world.

True-crime writer Warren Hollis visits Knorr, Pennsylvania, to investigate its dark past. Then a phone that should never ring begins to ring, pulling him toward the town's buried horrors.

A collection of curious short fiction that gathers stories of suspense, horror, and unexpected endings. Each piece begins with a charged moment and follows it toward a strange or dangerous turn.

Deklan Falls is a former cop and recovering alcoholic working as a private investigator in corrupt Oldtowne, Ohio. A difficult case forces him to face the city, its powerful people, and his own damaged past.

This nonfiction account investigates the 1918 Chesterton crash and the questions surrounding it. Alaspa traces the disaster, its victims, and the lingering possibility that sabotage played a role.

A supposedly quiet weekend at a cabin turns into a nightmare when its visitors realize they are not alone. Trapped far from help, they must survive an escalating threat with a vicious appetite for fear.

A nonfiction tour through Chicago cases and mysteries that still raise questions. This collection examines crimes, suspicious events, and unexplained local stories that have lingered beyond the official record.

In the small Pennsylvania town of Knorr, bullied teenager Jimmy Parker just wants to make it through high school. But two missing sisters and the town's dark secrets pull him into a supernatural mystery.

A dark story collection that explores modern fear, urban legend, and the unsettling forces that gather at the edges of everyday life. The title tale draws on the eerie pull of the Slender Man myth.

Former cop turned private investigator Deklan Falls returns to Oldtowne for a case that cuts through the city's corruption. The deeper he digs, the more personal and dangerous the search for answers becomes.

A group of employees heads into the woods for a team-building weekend and finds themselves trapped in terror. As people disappear one by one, the survivors must discover what is hunting them and how to escape.

Sin-eater Grady McDonnell joins psychics, clairvoyants, and other specialists to stop a fellow sin-eater who has turned murderous. The hunt exposes more of the shadowy organization that controls Grady's dangerous work.

A short horror tale in which a September moon casts an ominous light over events. As the night deepens, an ordinary setting becomes a place where something unsettling can finally emerge.

The first Rotate the Earth novel drops readers into a post-apocalyptic world where safety is fragile. Survivors on the move must face danger, scarcity, and the hard choices that come with a shattered society.

A dark, strange story about a myth that may be more than a story. When its symbols begin to matter in real life, the line between folklore and danger starts to disappear.

A dark story built around the aftermath of destruction and the people left to confront it. As they search through the wreckage, they uncover dangers that did not end with the disaster.

A collection of nighttime horror and suspense stories, where darkness gives ordinary places a new and dangerous shape. The tales follow characters trying to last until morning.

Nick Winters receives a black fedora packed with technology that boosts his abilities to near-superhuman levels. But people want it back, and every use of the hat slowly kills him.

Katie discovers she can control the Earth's electromagnetic field, a power that changes everything. As danger grows around her, she must learn what she can do and whom she can trust with the truth.

A strange man arrives with documents from a country that should not exist. His impossible story opens a chilling mystery about identity, reality, and whether the world has room for things that do not belong.

A science-fiction suspense story that looks toward the institutions controlling humanity's reach beyond Earth. Ambition, authority, and the unknown collide when a larger mission begins to reveal its risks.

A concise, unsettling tale that turns a mysterious situation into a source of growing paranoia. Its characters must work out what is happening before the forces around them become impossible to escape.

A suspense story in which a simple form of communication becomes a source of escalating dread. As disturbing messages arrive, a character must work out who is reaching out and what they want.

An elevator in a high-rise becomes a gateway to terror and madness. This short horror story traps its characters in a familiar space that suddenly follows rules no one understands.

Robin Frost has powers he cannot fully control after an earlier accident changed his life. In this Elementals adventure, he must face the danger inside himself as larger forces close in around him.

The second Rotate the Earth novel continues a post-apocalyptic struggle for survival. In a world remade by catastrophe, the characters must keep moving, choose their allies carefully, and find a reason to build toward tomorrow.

A dark short story where a vivid color becomes tied to a mounting sense of danger. As clues emerge, a character finds that the threat is closer and more personal than it first appears.

A dark short story where silence becomes an omen rather than a comfort. When familiar sounds disappear, a character is left to confront the unnerving possibility that something has changed.

A compact suspense tale centered on Kai and an encounter that grows increasingly unsettling. The story builds tension through uncertainty, pushing its character toward a dangerous truth.

Private investigator Deklan Falls faces another case in the corrupt city of Oldtowne. Following leads through a web of secrets, he finds that the people behind the crime may be more dangerous than the crime itself.

Ned returns home after his childhood friend murders four people, reopening memories of a vanished boy and their old game, Storyland. To understand the crime, Ned must decide what is memory, what is fantasy, and what is real.

During World War I, a German U-boat becomes the setting for a haunted nightmare. Cut off beneath the sea, its crew faces fear that may be more dangerous than the war above.

A couple moves into a new home and discovers an abandoned well with a terrifying secret. It may have no bottom, or it may be a doorway to something far worse.

A dark, compact story about holding on when circumstances turn frightening and uncertain. Hope becomes more than a feeling as a character faces a threat that tests what they are willing to endure.

A horror thriller that turns a dangerous discovery into a fight for survival. As a strange threat spreads, the people facing it must learn the truth quickly, or become part of something far more terrifying.

A practical guide for writers who want readers to find their work online. It explains search engine optimization in plain language and focuses on useful steps authors can take for websites, pages, and book promotion.

A horror collection featuring haunted submarines, impossible elevators, ominous radio signals, and homes with dangerous secrets. These stories explore what may be waiting when darkness closes in.

A terrifying encounter with a creature that may have come from somewhere far worse than this world. As the threat closes in, survival depends on facing a fear with teeth.

A short horror story that turns an ordinary staircase into a route toward fear. Each step brings a character closer to an answer they may not want to find.

A hidden library promises knowledge beyond the ordinary, but its discovery comes with a cost. Those who enter must decide whether some stories are safer left unread.

A dark tale about a mysterious man and the disturbing secrets that surround him. Curiosity draws the characters closer, until they must decide whether they can escape what they have uncovered.

A suspenseful tale about the past refusing to stay fixed. When people with the power to alter what has happened begin making changes, one character must confront a reality that keeps shifting beneath their feet.

A horrifying short story about an experiment that pushes beyond the limits of rest and wakefulness. As sleep becomes impossible, the people involved discover that exhaustion is only the beginning.

A dark supernatural thriller in which an unsettling presence turns fear into a personal problem. As the danger closes in, the people caught in its path must uncover what the wraith wants before it is too late.

A threatening message makes it clear that someone is watching. This tense short story follows the panic and suspicion that grow when privacy disappears and the watcher seems impossible to find.

A dark thriller set against the unsettling pull of a river and the secrets around it. As the past surfaces, the characters are drawn toward a danger that refuses to stay buried.

A dark horror story that follows a mind and a situation moving toward the edge. As reality becomes harder to trust, the danger grows more immediate and more personal.

A place that seems to offer safety begins to reveal its darker side. This suspenseful story asks what happens when refuge becomes a trap and escape is no longer simple.

A young girl disappears while running home through a short path bordered by fences, where there should be nowhere to hide. Two detectives investigate a case that grows stranger from the start.

Deklan Falls returns to the troubled world of Oldtowne for another investigation. In a place where power and guilt travel together, he must follow the evidence before someone else decides who deserves judgment.

A tense horror story in which an extraordinary event brings hidden fears into full view. As darkness closes in, the people caught beneath it must confront a threat bigger than they expected.

A gathering among friends begins with familiar comfort but takes a darker turn. Old ties and hidden tensions become dangerous when something unsettling enters the group.

A dark tale about a mirror that reflects more than it should. As a character becomes obsessed with what appears on the other side, the familiar object turns into a source of dread.

A chilling short story where the barrier between safety and danger proves frighteningly fragile. What seems solid begins to tear away, leaving a character exposed to something they cannot explain.

A dark supernatural tale where graves and the color red signal a danger that will not remain at rest. The characters must confront a past whose hold is stronger than they expected.

A suspenseful tale centered on a mysterious figure known as the German. As secrets surrounding him surface, the people involved learn that the past can remain dangerous for a very long time.

A man recalls meeting a young man in college and the disturbing lessons that followed. This chilling short story imagines a universe that makes mistakes, then decides to correct them.

A destructive creature brings terror to St. Louis, leaving survivors Logan Field and Mike Quinton to face a nightmare that suddenly feels real. To stop it, they must confront a threat far beyond ordinary explanation.

A dark horror novel where an unnatural discovery begins to reshape ordinary life. The closer its characters come to understanding the truth, the more dangerous it becomes to look away.

A tense horror story set high above the street, where the upper floors hold more than an impressive view. As danger rises, escape becomes harder with every level.

Masked vigilante Thaddeus Vale, the Revenant, faces a deadly threat hanging over Central City. With danger arriving by air, the Man in White must uncover the plot before panic and destruction take hold.

The Revenant confronts a new enemy who uses fear as a weapon against Central City. Thaddeus Vale must push through intimidation, deception, and danger to stop a villain who wants the city helpless.

After Central City is pushed to the brink, the Revenant continues the battle for its future. Thaddeus Vale must turn hard-won resistance into real freedom before the city's enemies regroup.

Fear spreads across Central City, leaving its people vulnerable to those who profit from panic. The Revenant must uncover the source and stand against a threat designed to break the city's spirit.

The Man in White faces danger from closer than expected when betrayal and suspicion enter the fight. Thaddeus Vale must find the enemy before it can destroy the Revenant's work from inside.

Thaddeus Vale takes on a criminal alliance that threatens to tighten its grip on Central City. As the Revenant, he must break through a coordinated web of power, secrecy, and escalating violence.

A strange red mist brings a new wave of menace to Central City. The Revenant investigates the people serving it and races to stop a threat that grows more dangerous with every shadow.

A sinister new threat moves through Central City in whispers and shadows. The Revenant must investigate what is hiding in the dark before its influence becomes impossible to contain.

The Revenant meets the Gemini, a formidable new opponent with a dangerous plan for Central City. Thaddeus Vale must outthink a foe who turns duality, misdirection, and fear into weapons.

Central City falls under a tightening grip of crime and fear. The Revenant must fight to free its people, even as powerful enemies work to make the city impossible to save.