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Browse F. Paul Wilson books in order, with series lists, story summaries, and background on his Repairman Jack and Adversary Cycle supernatural thrillers.

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Healer

by F Paul Wilson

1976

Steven Dalt survives an alien attack and discovers another intelligence has taken up residence in his mind. Together they become an immortal healer moving through centuries of Federation history toward a vast coming conflict.

Wheels Within Wheels

by F Paul Wilson

1978

Josephine Finch investigates a conspiracy threatening the LaNague Federation and uncovers a plot tied to revolutionary interstellar travel. The deeper she goes, the more personal and dangerous the fight becomes.

An Enemy of the State

by F Paul Wilson

1980

Peter LaNague sets out to undermine the bloated Outworld Imperium and change how entire worlds think about government. It is space opera with a sharp political edge and a rebel who knows systems can be beaten.

The Keep

by F Paul Wilson

1981

In a remote keep in the Transylvanian Alps, Nazi soldiers begin dying one by one at the hands of something invisible and merciless. A folklore expert and a mysterious traveler arrive, and both know the fortress is hiding an older evil.

The Tery

by F Paul Wilson

1982

Left for dead during an extermination, a nameless tery is rescued by fugitive humans and becomes their mascot. They do not realize the creature they saved is about to change their world forever.

The Tomb

by F Paul Wilson

1984

Repairman Jack, who fixes problems rather than appliances, is hired to recover a stolen necklace carrying an ancient curse. The job turns deadly when Bengali demons and a threat to Gia's daughter Vicky force Jack into a fight he cannot sidestep.

The Tomb

by F Paul Wilson

1984

Repairman Jack takes a job recovering a stolen necklace and finds himself up against an ancient curse and a horde of Bengali demons. When Gia's daughter Vicky is threatened, the fix becomes personal.

The Touch

by F Paul Wilson

1986

Family doctor Alan Bulmer discovers he can heal any illness with a touch of his hand, for one hour a day. The gift brings fame, desperation, and a price that keeps getting steeper.

Black Wind

by F Paul Wilson

1988

Set against the years leading to and through World War II, this sweeping horror-thriller follows four people divided by love, honor, and a secret cult. The human drama is intense, but the darker forces behind the war are worse.

Buckets

by F Paul Wilson

1989

An early Wilson horror story, *Buckets* turns an ordinary situation into something nasty and memorable. It is short, sharp, and very much from his darker early period.

Dydeetown World

by F Paul Wilson

1989

In a future of cloned celebrities, wireheads, and engineered beasts, down-and-out private eye Sig Dreyer takes what should be a simple missing-person case. Instead he tips the first domino in a much larger upheaval.

Soft and Others

by F Paul Wilson

1989

Wilson's first short-fiction collection brings together hard-to-find early stories, now with extra material in later editions. It is a solid place to see his range before the big connected mythos fully took over.

Midnight Mass

by F Paul Wilson

1990

The vampires have already won most of the world, and now they are tightening control over a New Jersey shore town. A disgraced priest, a rabbi, and a few stubborn survivors try to organize a real resistance before humanity becomes cattle.

Reborn

by F Paul Wilson

1990

An ancient artifact melts away in a man's hands, a Nobel-winning geneticist dies in a crash, and an orphan inherits a legacy he does not understand. The truth behind his birth turns out to be bound up with something far older than Satan.

Reprisal

by F Paul Wilson

1991

A disgraced priest and accused child murderer is haunted by calls from a dead boy begging to be rescued. As he flees across America, a much older and crueler evil closes in to settle its own score.

Sibs / Sister Night

by F Paul Wilson

1991

Kara Wade comes to New York to claim the body of her twin sister, who plunged nearly naked from a Plaza Hotel room. She wants to know what happened, and why Kelly died looking like someone Kara barely knew.

The Barrens and Others

by F Paul Wilson

1991

This collection ranges from the Pine Barrens to the Old West, with stories that mix horror, weird fiction, and the occasional Repairman Jack appearance. It is a strong sampler of Wilson in shorter form.

Nightworld

by F Paul Wilson

1992

The end begins when the sun rises late and holes open in the world. Jack, Glaeken, and a desperate handful of allies face the Otherness in Wilson's apocalyptic finale to both the Adversary Cycle and Repairman Jack.

The LaNague Chronicles

by F Paul Wilson

1992

This omnibus gathers key LaNague Federation material in one place. It is the easiest way to see Wilson's early far-future science fiction, with its politics, strange worlds, and big ideas about freedom and power.

The Select

by F Paul Wilson

1993

Poor but gifted Quinn Cleary is accepted at an elite medical school where the best students study for free. Then she notices the students changing, and discovers silent patients hidden away in a locked ward.

Implant

by F Paul Wilson

1995

Young doctor Gina Panzella admires brilliant plastic surgeon Duncan Lathram until his patients and his past stop adding up. Her search for answers uncovers a second kind of implant in his arsenal, one far more dangerous than the first.

Mirage

by F Paul Wilson

1996

Neurophysiologist Julie Gordon returns to Europe when her estranged twin falls into a mysterious coma. Using a virtual-reality memory program to probe her sister's mind, Julie begins uncovering secrets about both of their lives.

Virgin

by F Paul Wilson

1996

A supposedly fake scroll found in the Negev points to the final resting place of Mary, mother of Jesus. One woman believes it anyway, and what she finds could change the world.

Deep as the Marrow

by F Paul Wilson

1997

Organized crime decides the president must die, but without any obvious trace back to them. Their solution is monstrous, kidnap his personal physician's daughter and force the doctor to do the job.

Nightkill

by F Paul Wilson

1997

Hit man Jake Nacht is double-crossed during a political assassination and left paralyzed. His long recovery changes him, but to save the people he now cares about he may have to become a killer again.

Conspiracies

by F Paul Wilson

1998

When conspiracy theorist Melanie Ehler disappears, Jack follows the trail to a convention full of people who think the world is run by hidden powers. For once, the wildest theory in the room may still be too small.

Legacies

by F Paul Wilson

1998

Dr. Alicia Clayton wants a house from her past torn down, but everyone hired for the job winds up dead. Jack takes the fix and finds that the building is guarding a secret people are willing to kill for.

Masque

by F Paul Wilson

1998

Tristan is an artificial human designed to be the perfect spy, his mutable DNA able to wear different identities like masks. It is a sleek science thriller about control, identity, and what happens when the tool starts becoming a person.

Aftershock

by F Paul Wilson

1999

This short-fiction collection ranges across past, present, and future, from historical dread to near-future medicine to pure pulp. It also includes some standout Repairman Jack material, including *Interlude at Duane's*.

All the Rage

by F Paul Wilson

2000

A new designer drug promises confidence and edge without addiction, until it starts unleashing murderous rage. Jack digs into who made it and why, and finds a fix with body bags at the end of it.

La Causa

by F Paul Wilson

2000

This opening Sims novella introduces SimGen's world of human-enhanced chimps and the legal and moral storm building around them. Wilson sets the stakes early: science has moved fast, but conscience has not.

Sims

by F Paul Wilson

2000

In a near future where genetically altered chimpanzees perform dangerous labor, lawyer Patrick Sullivan tries to organize the sims and exposes SimGen's secrets. Wilson turns a biotech premise into a fast, angry thriller about profit and personhood.

The Christmas Thingy

by F Paul Wilson

2000

Eight-year-old Jessica wants a friendly monster for Christmas, even after the housekeeper warns her about the Thingy that once stole presents from this very house. It is a whimsical holiday tale with a slyly creepy edge.

Hosts

by F Paul Wilson

2001

Kate seeks out the brother she barely knows when her sister Jeannette changes after experimental brain-tumor treatment. Jack discovers a mutated virus with plans of its own, and stopping it may be beyond ordinary medicine.

The Portero Method

by F Paul Wilson

2001

The second Sims story digs deeper into SimGen's experiments and the methods used to control its engineered workforce. The science may be cutting edge, but the ethics are already rotten.

Meerm

by F Paul Wilson

2002

A missing sim named Meerm may hold the key to exposing SimGen's ugliest secrets. As lawsuits and sabotage close in, Patrick Sullivan and his allies race to find her before the company does.

The Haunted Air

by F Paul Wilson

2002

A house in Astoria seems to be haunted by the ghost of a little girl abducted decades earlier from Brooklyn stables. Jack takes the case and finds that freeing the dead may require untangling a very old crime.

Artifact

by F Paul Wilson

2003

Members of the Daredevils Club discover an undersea object that promises limitless free energy, then turn on one another over who will control it. What looks like a miracle quickly becomes a global threat.

Gateways

by F Paul Wilson

2003

Jack heads to Florida when he learns his estranged father is in a coma after a car accident. What waits there is a nest of strange deaths, eerie lights, and a young woman named Semelee who senses Jack is special.

The Fifth Harmonic

by F Paul Wilson

2003

Dying of throat cancer, doctor Will Burleigh agrees to follow a mysterious healer named Maya to Mesoamerica in search of the Fifth Harmonic. He wants hope, but the deeper he goes the more he fears what Maya is really asking of him.

Crisscross

by F Paul Wilson

2004

An elderly woman hires Jack to find her missing son, a search that leads into the powerful and sinister Dormentalist Church. To get answers, Jack has to step inside a cult built to crush enemies and hide its real agenda.

Infernal

by F Paul Wilson

2005

Jack reunites with his brother Tom for what looks like a treasure hunt off Bermuda. The brothers find something much stranger than wreck-diving riches, and their shaky relationship does not make the danger any easier.

The Evil Entwines, Extended Version

by F Paul Wilson

2005

This expanded edition revisits one of Wilson's shorter supernatural works, where a malignant force winds itself through human lives and choices. It is compact, unsettling, and driven more by creeping dread than spectacle.

Zero

by F Paul Wilson

2005

The fourth Sims installment deepens the mystery around the anti-SimGen figure known as Zero. As lawsuits, missing sims, and corporate secrets pile up, the series starts aiming toward open war.

Harbingers

by F Paul Wilson

2006

What starts as a favor for a worried uncle, a missing teenage girl, pulls Jack into a chain of events that feels anything but random. Old allies gather as the hidden war behind Jack's life moves into the open.

The Last Rakosh

by F Paul Wilson

2006

At a traveling carnival, Jack and his friends come across evidence that a rakosh may still exist. For a man who thought he had wiped them out for good, that is very bad news.

Bloodline

by F Paul Wilson

2007

Jack looks into a mother's fears about the older man dating her teenage daughter and finds something far worse than an ordinary creep. The case pushes him closer to the truth about who he is and why the hidden war wants him.

Sex Slaves of the Dragon Tong

by F Paul Wilson

2007

This collection revisits Wilson's Dragon Tong pulp stories and their yellow-peril roots with a knowing eye. It is part adventure throwback, part genre artifact, and part fun if you like old-school menace with modern framing.

The Peabody- Ozymandias Traveling Circus & Oddity Emporium

by F Paul Wilson

2007

Oz and his band of freak-show travelers move across the country on a mission tied to the Otherness itself. This dark novella links the carnival-road atmosphere of old horror to Wilson's bigger mythology.

By the Sword

by F Paul Wilson

2008

Jack is hired to recover a legendary katana stolen from the Hiroshima Peace Museum. The job brings in a Japanese cult, Yakuza muscle, and old enemies already circling the same blade.

Secret Histories

by F Paul Wilson

2008

Teen Jack, Weezy, and Eddie find a ritual murder victim in the Pine Barrens and an artifact no one can explain. Their curiosity opens the first real door into the secret world that will shape Jack's life.

Ground Zero

by F Paul Wilson

2009

Weezy Connell starts fitting together the hidden truth behind 9/11, and that makes her a target. Jack follows her into conspiracy culture and discovers that every public theory is smaller than the real horror.

Jack

by F Paul Wilson

2009

Teenage Jack and his friends Weezy and Eddie find a ritual murder victim in the Pine Barrens beside an ancient artifact. The deeper they dig, the clearer it becomes that the woods hold older and darker secrets than anyone guessed.

Reunion

by F Paul Wilson

2009

This dark Wilson novella turns the idea of meeting the past again into a source of unease and danger. It is compact, eerie, and built around the bad things old connections can wake back up.

Secret Circles

by F Paul Wilson

2009

A missing child, a lost man stumbling from the woods, and a strange stone pyramid drag Jack, Weezy, and Eddie deeper into the Pine Barrens. The wilderness around them feels older and more dangerous than any map admits.

Draculas

by F Paul Wilson

2010

A dying millionaire buys a grotesque skull believed to be Dracula’s and bites its fangs into his own neck. Rushed to a rural hospital, he dies and rises again, unleashing a rabid strain of vampirism that turns one isolated ward into a slaughterhouse.

Fatal Error

by F Paul Wilson

2010

Munir Habib's family has been kidnapped, and the people holding them know exactly how to control him. Jack steps in to help, but the job collides with his role in the war to protect the Lady.

Secret Vengeance

by F Paul Wilson

2010

When Weezy is attacked by a star high school quarterback and then smeared at school, Jack refuses to let it slide. His campaign to even the score becomes both a personal reckoning and another brush with the old strangeness of the Pine Barrens.

Thy Brother's Keeper

by F Paul Wilson

2010

This later Sims installment keeps pushing the conflict over SimGen, Zero, and the fate of the sims into darker territory. The question of who counts as human, and who gets sacrificed for profit, only gets sharper.

Quick Fixes

by F Paul Wilson

2011

This collection gathers Repairman Jack short fiction, including hard-to-find stories from across the series timeline. It is a good way to catch Jack between novels and see the smaller fixes that shaped his world.

The Dark at the End

by F Paul Wilson

2011

Jack is finally ready to move directly against Rasalom, just as Glaeken's time is running out. The cosmic war tightens, alliances shift, and the endgame stops feeling far away.

Cold City

by F Paul Wilson

2012

A few months after arriving in New York, young Jack gets pulled into gang trouble, Middle Eastern intrigue, and the smuggling of preteen sex slaves. He is still finding his footing, but the instincts are already there.

Dark City

by F Paul Wilson

2013

It is 1992, Desert Storm is raging, and twenty-two-year-old Jack is finally taking charge of his own fixes in New York. When Julio's bar is threatened, Jack shows how naturally he can make biters get bit.

Definitely Not Kansas

by F Paul Wilson

2013

Emma and Ryan find themselves trapped in Nocturnia, a parallel world where monsters rule and humans are food, slaves, or both. Escaping it will mean learning why they were sent there in the first place.

Santa Jack

by F Paul Wilson

2013

A brief holiday-season glimpse of Repairman Jack, proving Christmas in Jack's world still comes with trouble attached. It is a small seasonal extra rather than a full novel.

The Proteus Cure

by F Paul Wilson

2013

At Tethys Hospital, a revolutionary stem-cell treatment appears to cure cancer with near-miraculous success. Then the patients begin changing in bizarre ways, and oncologist Sheila Takamura realizes the cure may be something much worse.

A Necessary End

by Sarah Pinborough

2014

A plague of deadly African flies is tearing civilization apart, and a strange immune sect welcomes the end. Investigative reporter Nigel crosses a collapsing England in search of a kidnapped boy and the truth behind the catastrophe.

Demonsong

by F Paul Wilson

2014

This early dark fantasy tells of the first meeting between Glaeken and Rasalom in the distant First Age. Short but important, it marks the beginning of Wilson's larger Secret History.

Fear City

by F Paul Wilson

2014

The final Early Years novel drops young Jack into 1993 New York, where secret agents, terrorists, and an old hidden society all have stakes in a coming disaster. It is the book where Jack most clearly becomes Repairman Jack.

The Compendium of Srem

by F Paul Wilson

2014

In fifteenth-century Spain, Tomás de Torquemada comes into possession of an ancient book that radiates evil. Destroying it should be simple, until the book starts corrupting everyone who touches it, including him.

Fix

by F Paul Wilson

2015

Spy Chandler comes to New York on a murky mission and winds up crossing paths with Repairman Jack. Their uneasy alliance turns a blackmail scheme into a race to stop a terrorist plot.

Panacea

by F Paul Wilson

2016

Medical examiner Laura Fanning investigates two charred bodies linked by miraculous cures and rumors of the legendary panacea. Soon she and Rick Hayden are running from a murderous brotherhood that believes suffering is sacred.

Interlude at Duane's

by F Paul Wilson

2017

Repairman Jack gets trapped in a drugstore with four killers and very few good options. It is a short, tight Jack piece that shows how inventive he can be when boxed in.

Where Nightmares Come From

by Joe R Lansdale

2017

This nonfiction anthology gathers horror writers talking frankly about craft, process, and the realities of publishing. Wilson appears as one voice in a broader conversation about how scary stories get made.

It's Alive

by Joe R Lansdale

2018

This nonfiction volume collects advice from many horror writers, including F. Paul Wilson, on craft, storytelling, and getting work into the world. It is aimed at writers who want practical help rather than airy inspiration.

The God Gene

by F Paul Wilson

2018

When zoologist Keith Somers vanishes after studying a strange blue-eyed primate, Laura Fanning and Rick Hayden go looking for him. Their search leads to an island, a genetic mystery, and a secret with world-changing implications.

Wardenclyffe

by F Paul Wilson

2018

History says Nikola Tesla abandoned Wardenclyffe after money ran out. Wilson's version asks what really happened during secret late tests of the tower, and what scared Tesla badly enough to bury the truth.

Secret Stories

by F Paul Wilson

2019

This collection gathers shorter fiction tied to Wilson's Secret History of the World. It is part sampler, part map, showing how scattered tales fit into his bigger hidden mythology.

The Last Christmas

by F Paul Wilson

2019

Set between *Ground Zero* and *Fatal Error*, this late Jack novel sends him after an escaped hybrid creature while also guarding an ancient healing object. Both jobs tie into stranger forces than Jack expects, and the city feels increasingly out of tune.

The Void Protocol

by F Paul Wilson

2019

Laura Fanning and Rick Hayden trace a chain of uncanny events to a buried postwar project and something that came through a portal decades ago. If they cannot understand it, the thing changing the world underground may finally break loose.

F. Paul Wilson's Repairman Jack: Scar-Lip Redux

by F Paul Wilson

2020

This original graphic novel brings Repairman Jack into comics, keeping the same off-grid fixer energy and hardboiled weirdness as the prose books. It is a brisk, visual side trip through Jack's dangerous New York.

Signalz

by F Paul Wilson

2020

On a trip to New York, teenage Ellie hears a terrible sound rising from Central Park, a sound almost no one else can perceive. Her encounter with it pulls her family and a separate investigation into secret signals, hidden societies, and the looming end of the world.

Three Films and a Play

by F Paul Wilson

2020

This omnibus collects screenplays and a stage play by Wilson and Matt Costello. It is a useful look at how Wilson's storytelling works when shifted out of prose and onto the page for performance.

Double Threat

by F Paul Wilson

2021

Con artist Stanka Daley walks into a desert cave and comes back sharing her mind with an alien symbiont named Pard. Their uneasy partnership leads to miraculous healing, a cult in Nespodee Springs, and a plot to bring ancient Visitors back to Earth.

Double Dose

by F Paul Wilson

2023

Picking up where *Double Threat* leaves off, Daley and Pard keep digging into the Pendry clan, the mysteries of Nespodee Springs, and a spreading affliction called the horrors. The more truth Daley tells, the less anyone wants to believe her.

Repairman Jack

by F Paul Wilson

2023

This short nonfiction profile walks through who Jack is, how he began, and why the character lasted so long. It is part introduction, part behind-the-scenes guide, with spoilers saved for later sections.

Lexie

by F Paul Wilson

2024

The last known Hidden are being hunted, and hiding is getting harder. Then a giant iceberg carrying a lost Nazi U-boat and a strange artifact surfaces, tying a fresh mystery to the series' larger catastrophe.

Other Sandboxes

by F Paul Wilson

2024

A collection of Wilson pastiches and homages, this book lets him play with characters and worlds created by other writers he admired. It is less a single story than a tour through the authors who shaped him.

The Upwelling

by F Paul Wilson

2024

Pam Sirman learns that what she thought she knew about her husband may be badly wrong, just as Atlantic City vanishes in a violent upwelling from the abyss. Chan and Danni, who were there that day, can remember almost everything except the ten hours that matter most.

Where should I start?

If you want classic Repairman Jack: The TombLegaciesConspiraciesAll the Rage
If you want the big myth arc: The KeepThe TouchThe TombNightworld
If you want Jack's early life first: JackSecret CirclesSecret VengeanceCold City
If you want Wilson's science fiction: HealerWheels Within WheelsAn Enemy of the State
If you want newer global thrillers: PanaceaThe God GeneThe Void Protocol

Author bio

F. Paul Wilson was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, on May 17, 1946, and he grew up in New Jersey with a head full of comics, monster movies, radio, and paperback fiction. He has often talked about loving Uncle Scrooge and E.C. comics, and about reading writers like Lovecraft, Matheson, Bradbury, and Heinlein when he was young. That mix, pulp fun, science fiction ideas, and old-fashioned horror dread, stayed with him.

It never really went away.

Wilson did not begin as someone who planned to spend his whole life writing novels. He sold his first stories to Analog in 1970 while still in medical school, and he graduated in 1973. For years he balanced both callings, medicine and fiction, which helps explain why so many of his books feel grounded even when the premise turns strange.

His first novel, Healer, arrived in 1976 and showed how comfortable he already was with big speculative ideas. In the years that followed he wrote science fiction like Wheels Within Wheels and An Enemy of the State, then made a hard turn into horror with The Keep in 1981. That book became one of his best-known early novels, and it also opened the door to the larger secret mythology that would run through so much of his later work.

Then Repairman Jack walked in.

Jack first appeared in The Tomb in 1984, and Wilson has said he did not intend to build a long-running series around him. In fact, he waited until Legacies in 1998 to write the next full Jack novel. After that, though, the books came steadily, and readers got a hero who was not a cop, not a detective, and not quite a vigilante either. Jack is an off-the-grid fixer, and that setup let Wilson move easily from street crime to haunted houses, cults, conspiracies, ancient artifacts, and full-scale cosmic war.

That range is a big part of the appeal. Readers who come for Repairman Jack often stay for books like The Touch, Midnight Mass, Sims, Panacea, and The God Gene. Wilson likes fast plots, but he also likes systems, medicine, technology, belief, hidden histories, and the way ordinary people react when reality suddenly gets larger and meaner than they thought. Even when the story turns wild, the characters usually have bills to pay, jobs to do, and very human blind spots.

A lot of his fiction connects back to what he called the Secret History of the World, the long hidden struggle that links the Adversary books, the Jack novels, parts of his science fiction, and a surprising amount of his short fiction. That sounds grand on paper, but on the page it often works because Wilson keeps the storytelling direct. He can write about demons, altered DNA, immortal healers, or the end of the world, and still make it feel like somebody's very bad week.

Along the way he picked up major honors, including Prometheus Awards for Wheels Within Wheels and Sims, a Bram Stoker Award for the novelette Aftershock, and a lifetime achievement award from the Horror Writers Association. Several books, including The Keep, The Tomb, Harbingers, By the Sword, and Nightworld, reached the bestseller list.

He lives in Wall, New Jersey. Fittingly, for a writer whose books so often suggest that the strange is hiding just out of sight, he built a career by making the unbelievable feel close to home.

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