James P Blaylock Books in Order

Cheesemaker Jonathan Bing sets off downriver when his town's trade with the elves collapses. With Professor Wurzle, Dooly, and his dog Ahab, he meets goblins, magic coins, an evil dwarf, and a clock that stops time.

When a magical globe opens a way into Balumnia, the people of Twombly are pulled toward another strange adventure. Dwarfs, elves, goblins, and the troublesome Selznak complicate every attempt to set things right.

Giles Peach has gills, webbed fingers, and a plan to build a machine that burrows to the center of the earth. His unlikely invention draws dreamers and schemers into an absurd, dangerous journey below Southern California.

During a strange solstice in Northern California, a man becomes caught up in his neighbor Filby's obsession with building dragons from scraps. Hidden workshops and growing mysteries suggest that wonder is much closer than anyone expects.

A rare early collaboration by James P. Blaylock and Tim Powers, this compact speculative tale offers an offbeat visit to the strange shared territory that would shape much of their later fantasy work.

A mysterious airship circles late nineteenth-century London, carrying a secret everyone wants. Scientist Langdon St. Ives must keep its alien homunculus from the grasp of Dr. Ignacio Narbondo and a crowd of equally dangerous rivals.

When giant spectacles and a boat-sized shoe wash ashore, orphans Jack, Skeezix, and Helen know their town is changing. An evil carnival and a possible path to another world send Jack searching for the truth about his past.

The thirty silver coins paid to Judas still exist, and old Mr. Pennyman needs only five more for immortality. Innkeeper Andrew Vanbergen and Aunt Naomi are pulled into the hunt when a family silver spoon proves far from ordinary.

Humiliated former Twombly resident Theophile Escargot heads downriver looking for a barmaid and finds Balumnia instead. A submarine trip, an evil dwarf, a piratical elf, and a stone giant leave him fighting for love and his dignity.

John and Danny find mysterious spectacles and a sea-green window hidden beneath a suburban house. Passing through it leads them to goblins, ghosts, and a sleeping magical land, where helping Mr. Deener may be their only route home.

Howard Barton comes to Mendocino searching for a scrap of paper that may contain a Hokusai sketch. Rival collectors, a blood-fed garden, and a device for raising the dead draw him into a private war between secret societies.

A remarkable machine may hold the secret of time. Dr. Narbondo wants it for power, while Langdon St. Ives needs it to save his dying wife, setting off a desperate Victorian race with deeply personal stakes.

Trying to escape a failed marriage, Peter Travers moves to an old canyon house, only for his wife and son to vanish. The nearby town begins reliving a decades-old crime, forcing Peter to face both ghosts and his own past.

Mail-order businessman Walt Stebbins receives a jar holding a preserved bluebird as disturbing events erupt around Orange, California. Church bells, sudden violence, and a growing sense of evil push Walt to uncover what is happening in his town.

Fifteen years after saving one of two drowning twins, Dave Quinn meets Anne, the child he rescued now grown up. He does not know that her dead sister has returned too, carrying the past toward a frightening reckoning.

Doyle Jimmerson is struggling with grief after his wife's death and with the failures that shaped his life. A strange curiosity shop opens a path into darker territory, where he must confront what he has helped create.

Grieving widower Phil Ainsworth inherits an old house and becomes guardian to his orphaned niece, Betsy. As winter rains fill the property's well, Betsy's gift for sensing the dead reveals powers gathering around the family.

Sixteen stories explore the fantastic just beneath ordinary life, from alien influence in a quiet neighborhood to a man's destructive fixation on a dragon. The collection moves between eerie humor, nostalgia, and supernatural unease.

In this brief, tender supernatural story, an elderly lifelong couple faces the end of a shared life. Blaylock turns an ordinary love and its final separation into a quiet glimpse of what may wait beyond death.

This short-story collection visits a gently haunted California of odd pennies, childhood homes, premature glimpses of heaven, and strained marriages. The tales balance quiet sadness, dry humor, and the sense that ordinary life may hide an opening elsewhere.

Master cheeser Jonathan Bing leaves comfortable Twombly Town on a river journey to restore its Christmas trade with the elves. This earlier version of *The Elfin Ship* follows his eccentric companions into a whimsical world of trouble.

An omnibus of Langdon St. Ives tales, including *Homunculus* and *Lord Kelvin's Machine*. The Victorian scientist confronts revivified corpses, deadly sea machinery, mysterious airships, and the relentless schemes of Dr. Ignacio Narbondo.

Cartoonist Calvin Bryson accepts an invitation to the isolated home of the Knights of the Cornerstone. After a package is stolen, he learns it was a decoy for the Veil of Veronica, a relic with dangerous magical power.

Three short, reflective fantasies explore a doorway found while house-sitting, a model airplane linked to an imperfect childhood, and a funeral that exposes a father's frightening secret. Blaylock coauthored the pieces with high school students.

A meteor, a stolen map, and a hidden shipyard beneath the Thames lead Langdon St. Ives and Jack Owlesby to Morecambe Bay. Beneath its dangerous sands waits a dark ocean, human bones, and a murderous Victorian conspiracy.

This career-spanning collection gathers stories where ordinary California lives brush against ghosts, alien influence, old obsessions, and quiet dread. It includes "Paper Dragons," "Thirteen Phantasms," "The Old Curiosity Shop," and the title story.

A violent madness spreads through London's Explorers Club and a village near the English Channel as Alice St. Ives disappears. Langdon must trace the threat through fogbound chalk cliffs, while Narbondo's men close in.

An illustrated look at early steampunk, built around James P. Blaylock, K. W. Jeter, and Tim Powers. Essays and artwork revisit characters and scenes from three foundational Victorian-flavored speculative novels.

Katherine Perkins and her cousins discover a map, a skeletal hand, and a sleeping inventor whose dream has opened a passage into the hollow earth. To escape kidnappers, they must return him home without trapping themselves in his savage dream world.

In 1883, pirates seize a steam launch and a grave is robbed near Aylesford. When Dr. Ignacio Narbondo kidnaps Langdon St. Ives's young son, the professor and his loyal assistant race through London to find him.

A murdered lighthouse keeper's log sends Langdon St. Ives aboard a steam yacht bound for an uncharted volcanic island. Pirates, hidden treasure, and an ancient god turn the expedition into a threat that could reach all the way to London.

The collapse of the Victoria Embankment reveals an unknown realm beneath London. As Langdon St. Ives investigates murders, a kidnapped psychic girl, and a secret hospital, a wealthy killer works to protect the underworld's horrifying secrets.

This collection brings together five Victorian adventures starring scientist Langdon St. Ives. From underground mysteries to dangerous inventions and Narbondo's schemes, the stories send St. Ives and his allies into strange corners of London and beyond.

A girl's body and poisoned wildlife wash up along the River Medway, pointing toward secrets at a wealthy paper mill. Langdon St. Ives and Alice follow the clues into murder, ritual sacrifice, and a conspiracy that puts Alice in danger.

When Alice St. Ives inherits an eccentric seaside house, her family finds a cousin running a secretive eating club nearby. Langdon, Alice, and Finn uncover smuggling, mesmerism, and a gruesome danger beneath the coast.