John G. Hartness Books in Order

Poetry and short fiction explore love, loss, drinking and the absurdities of everyday life. John G. Hartness combines personal observations with humorous anecdotes, presenting relationships and misadventures through the perspective of his self-described overeducated Southern narrator.

Vampire detectives Jimmy Black and Greg Knightwood take a curse case that leads into a series of child kidnappings. With Halloween approaching, an unlikely group of allies joins them to stop the arrival of an ancient evil.

Adam gathers an unlikely group of immortals, relatives and estranged companions for a journey across America. Their destination is a meeting with Michael and Lucifer, where personal grudges and chaotic adventures intersect with the fate of the world.

A string of violent assaults draws Jimmy Black and Greg Knightwood into an investigation that becomes personal for Detective Sabrina Law. Their search takes the vampire detectives into Faerie, where trolls and rival supernatural forces threaten their survival.

Jimmy and Greg investigate college killings that may implicate them, while another vampire encroaches on their territory. Following the killer brings traps, a troublesome bounty hunter, and a plunge into the local gaming community.

Since his wife’s death, Jeremiah has withdrawn from conversation and companionship, facing the holiday season alone. An encounter with two neighbourhood children reminds him of Christmas and opens the possibility that connection is still waiting outside his grief.

This collection moves between everyday love and loss, supernatural comedy, and a Christmas story without monsters. Alongside the holiday tale, Hartness includes stories featuring the Black Knight Chronicles and Bubba the Monster Hunter, bringing together several sides of his fiction.

Three speculative stories explore the costs of changing ordinary lives. A fast-food worker gains control over customers’ fortunes, survivors seek refuge from aliens, and a father pursues a better future for his children through disturbing sacrifice.

Interstellar cab driver Jake Land normally avoids questions about his passengers. His latest fare, a dangerous woman with pursuers behind her, makes that policy impossible to maintain as an ordinary journey becomes a struggle to keep them both alive.

High-school student Cindy O’Shea juggles friends, family and a secret career as an assassin. A trip to New York for a Broadway show turns dangerous when kidnapping and violence intrude on an outing with her closest companions.

Four short adventures follow vampire detectives Jimmy Black and Greg Knightwood beyond their longer cases. Zombies, a hospital demon, a dangerous comic convention, and Thanksgiving shopping create fresh complications for the investigators and their friends.

Bubba’s first season of monster hunting brings supernatural threats, unlikely companions, and plentiful ammunition. Ten stories and an origin novella follow the oversized hunter from his early graveyard adventure into trouble involving his own family.

A cold case involving missing children connects with present disappearances, pulling Charlotte’s vampire detectives toward Faerie. Jimmy and Greg enter the Goblin’s Market, where answers can be bought but the price may be more than they can afford.

Beauregard and his inventive sister Octavia investigate missing children and strange lights in the mountains. Their search mixes supernatural dangers with unusual machinery, revealing the early monster-hunting adventures of the family that will eventually produce Bubba.

Herman Walker Jones treats Memphis as his personal hunting ground, stalking and isolating the people he chooses as prey. When he selects the wrong target, the balance of power shifts and his confidence faces an unexpected reckoning.

Rex Golden struggles with bullies, grades and an awkward crush until a school confrontation reveals inexplicable fighting abilities. Discovering his connection to King Arthur turns ordinary teenage problems into a new version of the legends of Camelot.

Bubba returns for a second season of monster hunting as unfinished business with his brother Jason comes to a head. Eleven connected adventures mix supernatural encounters, family conflict, and the increasingly complicated lives of his companions.

Murders outside Charlotte nightclubs and a new vampire society beneath the streets put Jimmy Black under pressure. Facing the city’s supernatural ruler, he must navigate territorial conflict and difficult moral choices to protect a friend.

Bubba confronts supernatural threats and unfinished family business in three linked stories. Encounters with a possible rock elemental and a pack of wolves lead toward a showdown with his brother Jason, whose ambitions threaten everyone Bubba wants to protect.

Beauregard and Octavia pursue a bank robber whose sophisticated equipment complicates their hunt through Georgia. With help from a shaman, a preacher, and Octavia's inventions, they confront mechanical threats and uncover the origins of a magical sword.

Strange events at the Carolina Renaissance Faire bring Quincy Harker to investigate a possible enchanted garment. Solving the mystery forces the demon hunter into an unfamiliar role, complete with tights, as he tries to discover what is happening to the visitors.

Newly installed as Charlotte’s master vampire, Jimmy Black inherits hostile subordinates, fractured friendships, and a demanding watchdog. A kidnapping investigation and supernatural threats leave him struggling to manage his criminal responsibilities while keeping himself alive.

A phone game sends teenagers searching for digital fairies, but a girl’s disappearance suggests something more dangerous is happening. Investigating in Nashville, Bubba is drawn into an unfamiliar world where finding the missing teenager may be his only way home.

Bubba accompanies Uncle Father Joe to Orlando when a former girlfriend’s museum exhibition begins going wrong. Surrounded by haunted artifacts and equipment for summoning demons, they face magical threats while Bubba discovers unexpected details about the priest’s past.

Visited by the ghosts of music’s past, present and future, Bubba embarks on a supernatural effort to save it. His journey involves time travel, legendary performers and a contest with a demon, with revelations about his own family awaiting him.

Immortal demon hunter Quincy Harker protects the modern world with help from a guardian angel and his uncle Dracula. These first four linked adventures introduce a foul-mouthed defender whose supernatural family ties complicate his battles against dangerous forces.

Paranormal investigator Jessica Bates arrives at a new television assignment without knowing its location. Her crew has brought her back to the school where her friends died twenty years earlier, forcing her to confront its unexplained disturbances.

Quincy Harker and his allies face angel murders, demonic invasions and threats that force them beyond familiar territory. Four linked novellas reveal the history of his guardian angel Glory and bring legendary figures into their struggle to protect the world.

Four novellas take Bubba and his companions through another season of supernatural trouble. Their adventures range across unfamiliar dimensions and dangerous encounters, combining monster hunting with musical mayhem and the complications of the team’s expanding world.

Able to speak with ghosts, Lila Grace Carter has spent her life helping people in a small South Carolina town. When a murdered teenager appears at her door, she joins a new sheriff in searching for the killer.

At the county fair, Beauregard and his sister investigate a salesman whose supposedly miraculous medicine actually works. Looking beyond the remarkable cures, they discover a sinister secret that turns their outing into another supernatural case.

After Glory sacrifices her divinity to save the world, Quincy Harker and the Shadow Council search for missing archangels who may help restore it. Four linked novellas and a Western short story follow a quest through supernatural danger and uneasy alliances.

Rachel Hampton’s difficult school day becomes stranger when mining explosions awaken a dragon near her West Virginia home. Romantic confusion and encounters with elves complicate an adventure that pushes her far beyond ordinary teenage troubles.

Bubba’s great-grandfather Beauregard brings moonshine and monster hunting to a world of steampunk adventures. Four stories trace the Brabham family’s entry into supernatural trouble, including the origins of a magical sword and an unusual family tolerance for alcohol.

Thief Remarin expects an ordinary jewel theft, but a disastrous job leaves him hunted and entangled in political intrigue. With a talking dagger and a teenage companion, he must survive people who find him more useful dead than alive.

Three stories explore Quincy Harker’s past and the origins of his ally Jo Henry. A disastrous night in New Orleans, a love lost amid wartime violence and an inherited hammer reveal experiences that shaped these present-day supernatural defenders.

Learning that he has a kidnapped sister sends Bubba and his companions into Fairyland. Four novellas follow their search through rival faerie courts, revealing uncomfortable family secrets while putting the hunters against dragons, zombies, and a deadly trickster.

Bubba’s search for his kidnapped sister reaches its most dangerous stage in Fairyland. With the trickster Puck still ahead of him and zombies blocking his path, he must face a final challenge alone before discovering what awaits him back home.

Jimmy Black welcomes a missing-person case as relief from managing Charlotte’s vampires. When the missing person becomes an uncontrollable vampire, further disappearances and a suspicious new police officer expose a possible challenge to his rule.

Back from Fairyland and out of a job, Bubba tries working as a bouncer until zombies follow a new case through the door. Protecting a vampire draws him into a conspiracy involving magic, werewolves and rogue government agents.

Quincy Harker retreats to Memphis, hoping to rebuild his life by working as a bouncer. A request for help with a supposedly minor demon problem draws him back into supernatural danger involving dragons, angels, secret agents and a high-school prom.

Six stories revisit the worlds of Quincy Harker, Bubba and the Dead Old Ladies Detective Agency. Supernatural cleanup jobs, haunted resorts and difficult family reunions mix action with personal reckoning, introducing new characters alongside familiar monster hunters and their allies.

Returning to Charlotte, Quincy Harker learns that rogue government agents have kidnapped his uncle Dracula and other supernatural beings. He and his allies must rescue the captives, expose the conspiracy and keep escaped creatures from destroying the city.

Former Marine Sheila Hewson receives a second chance through a secret programme combining human bodies with advanced technology. After an attack devastates its operatives, she and her team must identify an enemy determined to destroy the project.

Quincy Harker and the Shadow Council pursue the remaining archangels needed to restore Glory’s divinity. Four linked novellas carry the search across the country and into other dimensions, moving toward a confrontation with Lucifer that could decide the world’s fate.

Rogue agents hunt supernatural creatures across Charlotte as violence and public unrest threaten to consume the city. Quincy Harker tries to hold the opposing forces apart, but a possible traitor and his guardian angel’s hidden motives undermine his efforts.

Bubba heads to Orlando after Uncle Father Joe asks for help with a problem involving his were-alligator girlfriend. Discovering that someone else is hunting cryptids, he investigates the swamps and encounters a conspiracy reaching beyond the creatures he expected.

Assigned to hunt Count Dracula for the Department of Homeland Security, Bubba finds himself on a collision course with Quincy Harker. Protecting his famous uncle gives Harker every reason to oppose the monster hunter, even as greater dangers gather around them.

Returning from Fairyland after far more time has passed at home, Bubba and his team find themselves unemployed. Four novellas follow new jobs, supernatural complications, and a volatile encounter with fellow demon hunter Quincy Harker.

Quincy Harker and Bubba unite their teams to confront the conspiracy that has inflicted devastating losses on them. Hunting the powers behind DEMON exposes old grudges and buried secrets, forcing Harker to reckon with decisions from his own past.

Short stories and narrative poems range across science fiction, horror, comedy and everyday life. Familiar characters from Bubba and the Dead Old Ladies Detective Agency appear alongside new figures, while the poems explore memories, relationships and the rhythms of ordinary experience.

Hired to guard relics in Charlotte, Bubba questions why a government agency needs him when Quincy Harker already protects the city. Working with Harker’s allies, he begins uncovering a scheme tied to Director Shaw and the secretive organization DEMON.

A decapitated body draws Jimmy Black into the hunt for a vampire vigilante. The victims may deserve punishment, but each killing risks exposing Charlotte’s supernatural inhabitants, forcing Jimmy to balance secrecy, public safety, and his authority.

Four stories revisit Quincy Harker's supernatural world, from New Jersey after World War II to a future overrun by zombies. Harker and familiar allies face mysteries, unsettling choices, and threats that complicate the boundary between human survival and monstrous danger.

Trying to work through his grief, Bubba ventures into South Carolina’s swamps to hunt the legendary Lizard Man. Instead of a simple monster hunt, he discovers an entire lizard family in danger and finds himself taking on a rescue mission.

Bubba investigates strange events at North Carolina’s Devil’s Tramping Ground, where developers, a troublesome sheriff and an eccentric preacher complicate the case. What looks like a local hoax becomes a deadly supernatural investigation when bodies begin to appear.

After someone uses her stolen credit-card details to order sandwiches, Alexis Lieberman cannot persuade the authorities to care. She and her best friend head for Orlando to investigate, turning indignation into a chaotic road trip involving criminals and misadventures.

Bubba and his team travel to Tennessee to investigate a wampus cat, accompanied by a new liaison from the Catholic Church. Hostile locals, suspicious construction workers and an organization called Pest Control complicate a hunt they thought they understood.

Quincy Harker arrives on the Outer Banks hoping for a quiet vacation, only to discover a body bearing signs of a demon attack. More killings and his fiancée’s disturbing visions pull him into another investigation with no prospect of rest.

Bubba prepares to marry Amy, but organizing a wedding for supernatural guests creates problems monster hunting never prepared him for. Family tensions, a chaotic bachelor party, and the arrival of his mother threaten the celebration.

When murdered shapeshifters begin appearing around Charlotte, Quincy Harker infiltrates an underground arena where supernatural beings fight. Concealing his identity among vampires, werewolves and faeries, he searches for the organizer behind the killings and uncovers a threat closer than expected.

Investigating suspicious activity in a supposedly abandoned warehouse near Charlotte, Quincy Harker encounters more than he expected. Help arrives from an unlikely source in a story that introduces Nameless, the cat who becomes part of the demon hunter’s life.

Bubba reaches his wedding only to discover that the church, guests, and bride have vanished. A magical clue sends him back to Fairyland to confront his grandmother Mab, with Quincy Harker caught in the rescue effort.

This poetry collection draws together Hartness’s work from literary magazines and his life beyond fiction. Written for readers who might not usually choose poetry, the pieces address difficult experience with an outspoken voice and a concern for ordinary lives.