Callahan Books in Order

At Mike Callahan’s unusual saloon, regulars exchange stories and dreadful puns while welcoming troubled strangers from Earth and beyond. These linked tales explore how an eccentric community helps human and alien visitors confront loneliness, grief, and personal crises.

This collection mixes stories from Callahan’s unusual bar with other fiction and essays. A talking, gin-drinking German shepherd and visitors with strange abilities join the regulars, whose wordplay and mutual support accompany encounters across time and space.

Callahan’s regulars include telepaths, a talking dog, and a vampire struggling with alcohol. When their alien friend Mickey Finn faces enslavement by a visitor from another galaxy, the saloon’s community confronts a threat extending beyond one patron.

These collected Callahan stories introduce a bar where human and extraordinary visitors find companionship amid pun contests and unusual crises. Familiar tales, including The Guy with the Eyes and The Time-Traveller, explore the regulars’ responses to troubled strangers.

Lady Sally rescues a young woman from a violent pimp and brings her into an unusual household centered on her brothel. Maureen discovers safety and unexpected companions while confronting the damage of her past and threats to her refuge.

Unlucky private investigator Joe Quigley finds a fresh opportunity at Lady Sally’s establishment, where customers need not be human. Telepathy, Nikola Tesla, and a nuclear terrorist complicate life in a household devoted to pleasure, courtesy, and mutual care.

Jake Stonebender opens Mary’s Place to the displaced regulars of Callahan’s former bar. The new establishment soon attracts equally unusual visitors, including a drunken leprechaun, as Jake works to preserve the community and spirit of its predecessor.

Drawn from the first five Callahan volumes, this illustrated collection gathers sayings, puns, observations, and songs associated with the bar’s graffiti. Phil Foglio’s artwork accompanies the selections, with brief biographies identifying the real and fictional people quoted.

Jake Stonebender and the former Callahan regulars face another extraterrestrial threat to Earth. Their ability to join minds becomes crucial as the community’s familiar storytelling, puns, and mutual support accompany the effort to confront an alien’s destructive intentions.

Jake Stonebender, his family, and the bar’s eccentric community relocate to Key West. A malfunctioning defense system threatens the universe, drawing them into an effort involving Nikola Tesla and Jake’s unusually gifted young daughter to prevent catastrophe.

A mobster demanding protection money threatens Jake Stonebender’s Key West bar, while his wife disappears into a space-time anomaly. Jake and his eccentric regulars confront these overlapping problems in an adventure also involving the legendary Fountain of Youth.