Jonathan Carroll Books in Order

Schoolteacher Thomas Abbey travels to Galen, Missouri, hoping to write about his favorite late children's author. The town and its people seem welcoming, until the author's imagined world begins intruding into Thomas's own reality.

Young American writer Joseph Lennox lives in Vienna under the shadow of his brother's death. His friendship with the intense, unpredictable Paul and India Tate becomes increasingly intimate and ominous, pushing Joseph toward old grief and new danger.

Cullen James lives in New York, but her vivid dreams carry her to Rondua, where she searches for five powerful bones. As the dream quest intensifies, its dangers begin crossing into her waking life.

Former actor Walker Easterling enjoys a settled life in Vienna until he falls for artist Maris York. Their romance leads him toward visions of past lives and an unresolved conflict that may have followed them into the present.

Filmmaker Weber Gregston investigates the apparent suicide of his friend Philip Strayhorn after receiving a cryptic videotape. The search leads through cult movies, old friendships, and increasingly bizarre signs that Philip's story is not over.

A forgotten imaginary friend refuses to remain harmless when the child who created him grows up. This unsettling short story turns nostalgia and childhood make-believe into a problem with a will of its own.

After losing his partner in a Los Angeles earthquake, radio host Ingram York meets the story-loving Michael Billa. Their growing friendship opens onto childhood violence, stranger events, and a conspiracy that makes grief feel even less stable.

Recovering from a breakdown, architect Harry Radcliffe accepts a wealthy ruler's commission to build an extravagant dog museum. The project moves to Austria, where magic, desire, war, and impossible events reshape Harry's sense of what is real.

Los Angeles cartoonist Max Fischer falls in love with Lily Aaron and helps raise her young son, Lincoln. But Lily is hiding a devastating secret, and Max's decision to protect their fragile family brings consequences years later.

Four people are drawn into dangerous encounters with Death, whose answers come in dreams and carry a terrible price when misunderstood. Their paths converge in a tense, strange story about illness, grief, and what people fear most.

Blocked novelist Sam Bayer returns to Crane's View and reopens the murder case of a girl he knew as a teenager. His search for the truth is complicated by old memories, family tensions, and a fan whose interest turns unsettling.

Miranda Romanac's memories of school, love, and adulthood take a darker turn after an affair with a New York art dealer ends suddenly. Haunted by visions and old connections, she must confront a truth about her own identity.

A routine refrigerator delivery disrupts Bill and Rae's comfortable life when odd strangers and citywide disturbances begin pointing toward a hidden order. This eerie novella turns a domestic afternoon into a question about death, God, and reality.

Crane's View police chief Frannie McCabe adopts a three-legged stray dog, then finds himself in a mystery involving a strange feather, his teenage self, and visitors from beyond Earth. Time and memory become part of the investigation.

Vincent Ettrich learns that he recently died and was brought back for a reason tied to his unborn child. With help from a guardian angel, he must recover what he learned beyond death before Chaos reaches him.

Friends living in Vienna are caught in a chaotic struggle over Isabelle Neukor's unborn child. Life, death, God, and Chaos collide in a darkly comic fantasy that continues threads begun in *White Apples*.

Ben Gould should die after a fall on an icy Connecticut street, but a glitch in the afterlife leaves his body alive. With his ghost, Ling, and his talking dog beside him, Ben enters a world of fate, time, and second chances.

This wide-ranging collection gathers Jonathan Carroll's short fiction, including stories of love, loss, death, animals, and sudden shifts in reality. Ordinary lives keep meeting the impossible, often with dark humor and emotional stakes.

A shared dream brings several unhappy people together and awakens memories of their former work as cosmic mechanics. As chaos starts breaking reality apart, they must face old wounds and return to a job they no longer remember.

Tony Areal seems to get everything he wants, including the woman of his dreams, but he longs for something deeper. His pursuit draws him into dream worlds where desire, identity, and waking life begin to collide.

Four retired men lose their regular coffee-shop table and are forced to rethink the routine that holds their friendship together. When one fears he is losing his memory, the story takes an unexpectedly strange science-fiction turn.

After an ex-lover dies, a woman inherits his handwriting, not his money or possessions. As his script begins appearing through her hand with messages she cannot explain, grief becomes a doorway to an unnerving possibility.

A couple grows worried when their dog begins behaving in bizarre and alarming ways. What starts as an irritating pet problem becomes a compact supernatural tale about fear, change, and something impossible entering a household.

Comedian turned photographer Graham Patterson gets an unusual tattoo while fleeing his old career. It gives him glimpses of alternate versions of his life, forcing him to consider what he wants and what choice can really change.

An artist catches the attention of Andrey Porgee, a notorious gangster who becomes her most enthusiastic customer. His patronage brings opportunity and unease, as the relationship reveals a stranger, more dangerous side of creative success.

On a return trip to Italy, Annette is trapped in a crumbling relationship with a man she no longer loves. The city she once cherished holds a secret that may offer her a startling way to change her life.