John Farris Books in Order

Detective Sergeant Randall is framed for murder, then finds the supposed suicide at the center of the case was killed. To clear his own name, Randall must retrace a dangerous trail through suspects, secrets, and betrayal.

Peter Mallory left the Florida mob behind and built an honest life, until his former boss is threatened by a killer. Forced back for one last job, Peter must find the murderer before his past destroys everything.

Former government agent Denver Bryant visits an old friend and finds him murdered. The search for answers pulls Bryant into a hard-boiled web of danger, old loyalties, and violence that is closing in fast.

At Harrison High, teenagers face sex, class pressure, family problems, friendship, and the fear of being left behind. Farris treats the school as a whole community, where private choices quickly become public drama.

An early John Farris suspense novel that follows characters through a long night of danger and emotional strain. The story shows his early interest in pressure, secrets, and the consequences of people pushed past their limits.

A Southern preacher with a gift for healing becomes the focus of a growing religious movement. As fame, jealousy, obsession, and promotion gather around him, King Windom must confront the darker forces circling his ministry.

Helen Connelly receives calls from her nephew Michael, a boy who died years earlier in a blizzard. As the voice grows more ominous and deaths follow, Helen must learn whether she is being haunted or hunted.

Another story from the Harrison High community, where students struggle with love, identity, family expectations, and the social rules of school. Farris brings a tougher, more adult edge to the everyday drama of adolescence.

College student Carol Watterson is kidnapped amid Vietnam-era unrest, then returns drugged, traumatized, and unable to explain what happened. Her wealthy grandfather's politics and a radical group's demands turn the case into a disturbing psychological thriller.

Trouble spreads through Harrison High as students navigate the sharp edges of growing up. Relationships, status, family pressure, and risky decisions turn ordinary school life into a series of problems with real consequences.

A new threat hangs over Harrison High, where students already have enough to manage with friendships, family expectations, and romance. The school community must deal with secrets that are becoming harder to keep hidden.

A major anniversary brings old faces and fresh complications back to Harrison High. Beneath the celebration, students and adults alike must confront the secrets, rivalries, and changing relationships that the school has carried for years.

Returning to Harrison High means facing a community where old reputations and unfinished business still matter. Farris follows another group of students and adults as personal choices collide with the pressures of school life.

Tensions at Harrison High rise as students face another round of choices about loyalty, romance, reputation, and the future. The school's familiar halls become a meeting place for private trouble and public consequences.

After a savage attack leaves Anne Ramsdell traumatized and unable to remember her assailant, she flees to America. But the man who stalked her is still watching, turning her attempt at recovery into a tense psychological nightmare.

Psychic teenagers Robin Sandza and Gillian Bellaver share abilities that make them valuable to a ruthless intelligence operative. As Robin's assassin father searches for him, Gillian must survive a conspiracy determined to turn psychic gifts into weapons.

A military wedding erupts into horrific violence, beginning a tale of the Bradwins, a Southern family stalked by an inherited curse. Old rituals, wartime secrets, and revenge drive this sprawling Southern Gothic nightmare.

Archaeologist Erika Weller searches for stolen artifacts that point to an ancient civilization hidden beneath Mount Kilimanjaro. Her pursuit becomes a dangerous expedition into catacombs, buried history, and forces that should have remained sealed.

A murderer’s son returns to the place where his father committed a terrible crime and falls in love with the daughter of one victim. Their connection draws two generations back into fear, guilt, and lingering danger.

After Barry Brennan strikes a naked stranger in a snowstorm, the amnesiac survivor becomes strangely tied to her life and family. As he recovers at their estate, unsettling signs suggest that something else may have arrived with him.

The opening Night Visions volume gathers dark fiction from several horror writers. Its stories move through fear, violence, the uncanny, and the hidden instincts that can turn familiar lives into nightmares.

A shadowy killer known as the Minotaur launches a brutal campaign that touches powerful families and international interests. This sprawling thriller mixes old grudges, political danger, and a threat that may be more than one person.

A collection of horror and dark fantasy stories from the Night Visions series. The anthology offers varied terrors, from psychological unease to more openly supernatural encounters, in concise, atmospheric pieces.

The second Night Visions anthology brings together horror fiction by multiple voices. Expect a mix of supernatural dread, strange encounters, and sharply imagined nightmares that make effective use of the short-story form.

After Yale student Rich Devon commits a terrible murder, he claims an ancient demon possessed him. His ex-priest, wrestler brother Conor must uncover the truth as a shocking court case turns into a battle against evil.

This Night Visions installment collects dark tales from Clive Barker, Lisa Tuttle, and Ramsey Campbell. It ranges from disturbing body horror to eerie psychological fiction, with each writer bringing a different kind of unease.

A Night Visions volume built around Clive Barker’s *The Hellbound Heart* and other dark fiction. It offers a potent mix of forbidden desires, grotesque transformations, and supernatural horrors that refuse to stay hidden.

Surveyor Whitman Bowers visits the ruined Langford estate in the Smoky Mountains and finds a landscape full of impossible creatures and old magic. The mountain's secrets begin pulling Whit toward a horror with no easy escape.

Anita has escaped a brutal attacker and sought refuge in Lostman's Bayou, but the isolation offers no safety. As the killer known as Angel closes in, she must face the terror she thought she had survived.

The sixth Night Visions anthology collects stories from major horror and dark-fantasy writers. Its varied pieces explore monsters, dangerous obsessions, and ordinary lives pushed into frighteningly unnatural territory.

A collection of John Farris horror fiction that moves from ancient sorcery and life-after-death mysteries to forces that defy explanation. The stories and longer pieces show his taste for escalating fear and sharp supernatural turns.

A military wedding becomes a blood-soaked catastrophe, exposing a curse that has followed the Bradwin family for generations. As secrets from the American South and Africa emerge, black magic and vengeance close around the family.

Twenty years after an ax murderer slaughtered her family, Shannon is trapped in a powerless elevator with someone who seems horribly familiar. Her fractured memories pull her back toward the night she barely survived.

A concise nonfiction account of the Dust Bowl, the drought and soil erosion that devastated parts of the American Plains. It introduces the environmental crisis and the families whose farms and lives were changed by it.

Two sisters take in a troubled young man for a quiet weekend, unaware that he is tied to an old evil. In rural Tennessee, buried legends and hidden creatures turn their home into the center of a nightmare.

A concise nonfiction introduction to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and its aftermath. The book places the event in the context of World War II while focusing on its human cost and lasting historical significance.

This Night Visions volume features original dark fiction by John Farris, Stephen Gallagher, and Joe R. Lansdale. Their stories offer very different paths into horror, from strange violence to unsettling encounters and escalating dread.

A dark-fiction anthology featuring several distinct approaches to horror. The stories range from uncanny medical and psychological fears to supernatural threats, giving readers a compact tour through different shades of dread.

Greg Walker appears to be an ordinary Georgia family man, except he does not age and survives injuries no one should. Detective C.G. Butterbaugh races to uncover a Mayan ritual before Greg sacrifices his teenage daughter.

Con man Joe Bryce targets wealthy romance novelist Abby Abelard after a brutal attack leaves him scarred and hungry for a new score. At Abby's isolated Southern estate, seduction, family secrets, and danger begin to overlap.

Former Army investigator Sharan Norbeth is drawn into a case involving beautiful disabled women who vanished after meeting architect Dix Trevellian. Posing as bait brings her inside a wealthy family's polished, dangerous world.

Stuntwoman Shay Waco and her young daughter survive a forced crash in remote Utah, then find a murdered family in a nearby house. With killers closing in, Shay's hard-won skills may be all that keep them alive.

A new generation of psychics becomes entangled in a political conspiracy that reaches toward the White House. Eden Waring's extraordinary abilities may be the only defense against a campaign of terror built on mind control.

Richard Chizmar edited this revival of the Night Visions anthology series. Original stories and novellas send readers toward old sins, desperate travelers, buried evil, and dangers that grow worse after dark.

Eden Waring is an Avatar who can create Gwen, a powerful psychic double with a will of her own. As a deadly threat closes in, Eden must understand their connection before Gwen's frightening abilities overwhelm them both.

This collection gathers John Farris stories that range from psychological dread to openly supernatural terror. The tales bring together disturbed minds, old wrongs, strange violence, and the kind of dark turns that reward short-form horror readers.

The eleventh Night Visions collection brings together dark fiction by several horror writers. Its stories favor unsettling ideas, shifting realities, and characters who find that a familiar world can become hostile overnight.

In 1952 Tennessee, mute teenager Alex Gambier befriends nurse Mally Shaw and sees a ghostly train at a lonely crossing. After Mally is murdered, their bond becomes part of a supernatural fight for justice.

A landmark anthology of crime novellas, *Transgressions* brings together many of the genre’s biggest names, including a contribution from Jeffery Deaver. Each story explores what happens when ordinary people cross moral lines, delivering long‑form suspense in compact, stand‑alone doses.

A later Night Visions anthology featuring stories from P.D. Cacek, Mark Morris, Simon Clark, and Kealan Patrick Burke. The volume offers a broad mix of supernatural scares, bleak suspense, and strange encounters.

This second volume of the Transgressions crime anthology collects novellas by several writers. Each story follows people crossing moral lines, where a bad decision, a hidden motive, or a past crime quickly becomes dangerous.

The third Transgressions volume continues the anthology's focus on crime, guilt, and compromised people. Its longer stories give each writer room to build a complete tale of deception, violence, or consequences catching up.

Yale math student Chase Emrick escaped her abusive stepfather as a child, but his death has not ended his hold on her. To stop Crow Tillman for good, Chase must confront him in the terrifying realm beyond life.

The final Fury novel returns to a world where psychic power draws the attention of ruthless people and secret agencies. Old dangers resurface, forcing those with extraordinary abilities into one more violent reckoning.

Los Angeles has learned to live with lycanthropy, regulating werewolves known as Lycans through a special police force. Agent Rawson investigates a woman transforming outside the full moon, a sign that someone is changing the rules.

Anita has escaped a brutal attacker and sought refuge in Lostman's Bayou, but the isolation offers no safety. As the killer known as Angel closes in, she must face the terror she thought she had survived.

A collection of John Farris's dark fiction, including stories that move through obsession, revenge, violence, and the supernatural. These pieces offer compact doses of the uneasy, Southern-tinged horror found across his longer work.

A collection of poems that offers a different side of John Farris's writing. The pieces favor reflection, memory, dark humor, and the close attention to human feeling that also runs beneath his fiction.