Mark Teppo Books in Order
Explore Mark Teppo books in order, with quick summaries, series background, reading paths, and helpful guidance on where to start.
Last updated: July 15, 2026
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Mark Teppo books in publication order
37 books
Sinner
by Mark Teppo
2001
A murder and accusations of witchcraft ignite panic in a German village. Shield-Brethren Andreas and Raphael investigate before an inquisitor's violent certainty condemns an innocent woman, exposing secrets the townspeople would rather burn than reveal.
Lightbreaker
by Mark Teppo
2007
Occultist Markham returns to Seattle searching for the woman who once tore away his soul. A body-hopping spirit and a hidden cabal draw him into a magical war, armed with the Chorus, his unsettling chain of human souls.
Heartland
by Mark Teppo
2010
Markham arrives in Paris hoping to watch the magical order that cast him out collapse. Instead, he finds its internal conflict worsening and must form uneasy alliances while confronting signs that a larger game is underway.
Dreamer
by Mark Teppo
2012
During the Fifth Crusade's siege of Damietta, young Shield-Brother Raphael faces a crisis of faith. When a wounded companion's visions become useful war propaganda, Raphael must decide whether duty can coexist with compassion.
Earth Thirst
by Mark Teppo
2013
As environmental collapse closes in, the ancient Arcadian Silas uncovers a plot to destroy the planet's hidden guardians. With a journalist at his side and gaps in his own memory, he faces betrayal, private armies, and a brutal conspiracy.
Seer
by Mark Teppo
2013
This Foreworld SideQuest returns to a medieval world of hidden orders, dangerous beliefs, and conflicts shaped by what people think they know. It is a compact historical fantasy adventure that expands the wider saga from a new angle.
Rudolph!
by Mark Teppo
2014
When Santa cannot grant a grieving girl's wish to have her dead father back for Christmas, radioactive Rudolph believes a miracle may still be possible. Elf narrator Bernard Rosewood gets swept into a wild holiday mission through Heaven and Hell.
The Court of Lies
by Mark Teppo
2014
This collection gathers stories of liars, heartbreakers, fabulists, queens, princes, and dangerous kings. Each tale invites readers into a shifting court where charm is suspect, truth is unstable, and trusting the wrong guide can cost dearly.
Jumpstart Your Novel
by Mark Teppo
2015
A practical writing guide for novelists who have an idea but no clear way into the work. Teppo offers a simple Nine Box Model, brainstorming tools, and exercises designed to turn scattered notes into a workable story plan.
The Beast of Calatrava
by Mark Teppo
2015
In Reconquista-era Iberia, a badly scarred former knight has withdrawn to protect his wife and unborn child. But old violence, religious conflict, and the arrival of new armies force him to confront the man he tried to leave behind.
The Potemkin Mosaic
by Mark Teppo
2015
Dream doctor Harry Potemkin edits memories for a living, then suspects someone is editing his own mind. His dream journal leads toward a vanished drug company, a conspiracy, and the terrifying possibility that Harry may not be real.
Planning, Plotting, and Progress
by Mark Teppo
2016
This follow-up writing guide helps authors turn outlines and character notes into actual pages. It focuses on building a sustainable process, moving between plot points, and finding a writing rhythm that can carry a draft forward.
A Silence of Angels
by Mark Teppo
2017
After years of estrangement, Salvatora Quagmire is drawn back into a life shaped by family history and unresolved absence. This opening Sal Quagmire story blends a personal return with mysteries that refuse to stay safely buried.
Hidden Palms
by Mark Teppo
2017
Ex-con and former adult-film star Butch Bliss is asked to find a missing woman at an exclusive California retreat. What looks like a simple favor leads him into a dangerous tangle of rogue agents, bikers, drugs, and secrets.
In & Out
by Mark Teppo
2017
This short Butch Bliss prequel introduces a tough, good-hearted Californian whose past has left him wary of easy answers. It sets the stage for the favors, old connections, and unwanted trouble that define his later cases.
Snake Road
by Mark Teppo
2017
Butch Bliss takes on another favor in a California landscape where old loyalties and criminal schemes travel the same roads. The case tests his patience, his instincts, and his hope of staying clear of the trouble that keeps finding him.
Finish Your Novel!
by Mark Teppo
2018
For writers stuck between a promising outline and an unfinished manuscript, this guide focuses on productivity and persistence. Teppo offers practical ways to protect writing time, handle distractions, and keep moving toward a completed novel.
Hard Promises
by Mark Teppo
2018
When masked gunmen rob the Chow family store, Butch Bliss recognizes one as an old prison acquaintance with a score to settle. A local extremist gang is also targeting the Chows, pulling Butch into a fight he never wanted.
Solitaire
by Mark Teppo
2018
In 1872 Missouri, Civil War sharpshooter Elmore Stonebrook and the hard-edged Judge Wallace defend a rancher from a ruthless landowner. The dispute turns supernatural when greed leads their enemy to make a bargain with something monstrous.
All for One
by Mark Teppo
2019
A short work of speculative fiction from Mark Teppo, built for readers who enjoy compact stories with genre pressure and unexpected turns. It offers a quick visit to one of the author's darker, stranger fictional corners.
An Interpretation of Moles
by Mark Teppo
2019
The first Blaze Ward Presents anthology invites a wide range of writers to follow an unusual prompt wherever it leads. Expect odd, imaginative speculative stories that move through fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and stranger territory.
Heart of the Rail
by Mark Teppo
2019
This short Mark Teppo story delivers a concentrated dose of speculative fiction, where movement, place, and hidden danger matter as much as the destination. It is a brief, atmospheric read for fans of his offbeat genre work.
I Like My Science... Mad
by Mark Teppo
2019
This themed Blaze Ward Presents anthology turns toward mad science in all its comic, frightening, and inventive forms. Its many stories explore experiments, eccentric minds, and the consequences of asking science to go one step too far.
Instrument
by Mark Teppo
2019
When the Brethren of Perpetual Silence are murdered in their sanctuary, one survivor becomes something unnatural. Mistral, an ex-cop with an uncanny bond to the city streets, investigates who feared silence enough to destroy it.
Cloak And Dagger
by Mark Teppo
2020
Inspired by the phrase "cloak and dagger," this anthology gathers speculative tales of secrecy, danger, and intrigue. Writers take the theme through science fiction, urban fantasy, and sword-and-sorcery settings, exploring both bright and dark possibilities.
In The Mansion of Madness
by Mark Teppo
2020
A Night Office psychological assessment asks whether you can survive space jellies, cultists, and horrors from beyond time. Choose your path through this interactive training exercise, where failing badly is part of the job description.
Nuns With Guns
by Mark Teppo
2020
Nearly twenty writers answer a simple, gloriously odd prompt: nuns with guns. The resulting anthology ranges across science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, urban fantasy, and realism, with swords and firearms alike entering the picture.
The Lost Technique of Blackmail
by Mark Teppo
2020
Max Semper Dimialos, Security Theorist for InterCore Express, finds himself caught in a cyberpunk problem where information is leverage and leverage is never simple. This sharp short story explores technology, power, and the cost of control.
Crime And...
by Mark Teppo
2021
This Blaze Ward Presents volume gathers stories built around crime and its many possible consequences. The anthology moves across speculative genres, pairing mysteries, criminals, investigators, and moral complications with imaginative settings.
Crooked V.1
by Mark Teppo
2021
A science fiction crime anthology full of smugglers, investigators, con artists, and jobs gone wrong. Mark Teppo's contribution, "The Celedonia Sunset Job," follows operatives whose kidnapping target proves far more complicated than expected.
Underland Arcana Deck One
by Mark Teppo
2021
Edited by Mark Teppo, this anthology collects the first year of Underland Arcana. Thirty-eight stories explore the numinous, esoteric, supernatural, and weird, using strange fiction to ask how people face monsters and keep hope alive.
Small Gods
by Mark Teppo
2022
An anthology about minor deities, from quiet household gods to louder and stranger powers. These stories range from noir to comic fantasy, asking what happens when divine influence turns up in everyday, inconvenient places.
Underland Arcana Deck Two
by Mark Teppo
2022
The second Underland Arcana collection continues Mark Teppo's curated run of strange and unsettling fiction. Its stories range through supernatural, weird, and speculative territory, offering many voices and many different ways to meet the unknown.
Every Tomorrow Worse
by Mark Teppo
2023
This Blaze Ward Presents anthology gathers strange speculative stories under a darkly pessimistic title. Its contributors imagine uncertain futures, difficult choices, and tomorrows that may be worse, weirder, or more revealing than expected.
Underland Arcana Deck Three
by Mark Teppo
2023
This third Underland Arcana anthology gathers more imaginative short fiction from writers working across horror, fantasy, and the weird. Edited by Mark Teppo, it continues the project's interest in monsters, mystery, and uneasy wonder.
Crooked V.2
by Mark Teppo
2024
The second Crooked volume returns to the overlap of science fiction and crime, where future technology does not make greed, secrets, or bad plans disappear. Its standalone stories offer fresh capers, investigations, and dangerous deals.
Crooked V.3
by Mark Teppo
2024
Crooked's third anthology brings more speculative crime stories, from shadowy schemes to tense escapes and uncertain alliances. It is designed for readers who like their science fiction fast, streetwise, and full of consequences.
Where to start with Mark Teppo
For occult urban fantasy: Lightbreaker → Heartland.
For tough, funny California crime: In & Out → Hidden Palms → Snake Road → Hard Promises.
For historical adventure: Sinner → Dreamer → Seer → The Beast of Calatrava.
For surreal, standalone speculative fiction: The Potemkin Mosaic → Rudolph! → Earth Thirst.
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Short Stories/Novellas
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Standalone Mark Teppo books

Rudolph!
by Mark Teppo
2014
The Court of Lies
by Mark Teppo
2014
The Potemkin Mosaic
by Mark Teppo
2015
A Silence of Angels
by Mark Teppo
2017
An Interpretation of Moles
by Mark Teppo
2019
I Like My Science... Mad
by Mark Teppo
2019
Cloak And Dagger
by Mark Teppo
2020
In The Mansion of Madness
by Mark Teppo
2020
Nuns With Guns
by Mark Teppo
2020
Crime And...
by Mark Teppo
2021
Small Gods
by Mark Teppo
2022
Every Tomorrow Worse
by Mark Teppo
2023
Author bio
Mark Teppo was born on May 21, 1968, in Ridgecrest, California. He grew up in California and developed an early attachment to words, stories, and the odd corners of history that most people walk past without noticing.
Long before his novels reached readers, Teppo worked as a music journalist. He wrote reviews and edited for music publications, a job that sharpened his sense of rhythm, voice, and subculture. It also gave him practice getting to the point, then taking a useful detour when the subject called for one.
Writing had been in the picture for a long time. As a student, he wrote fantasy stories and kept following that impulse through college, where he studied Arts and Letters and creative mythology. His early fiction had the ingredients many young writers begin with, wandering heroes and big imagined worlds, but he kept revising his approach as his interests grew stranger and more specific.
A few books later, Lightbreaker became the novel that introduced many readers to his work.
That book begins the Codex of Souls sequence, an occult thriller series centered on L. Michael Markham, a damaged magician moving through a dangerous modern Seattle. Teppo built its magic from Western esoteric traditions, religious history, alchemy, and Hermetic ideas rather than relying on familiar monster mythology. Heartland continues Markham's story in Paris, where old alliances and old magical institutions are coming apart.
Teppo's work doesn't stay in one lane. Earth Thirst combines an environmental disaster story with a conspiracy thriller and an ancient, vampire-like race tied to the planet itself. The Potemkin Mosaic is a more experimental puzzle about dream doctor Harry Potemkin, memory, identity, and a possible corporate conspiracy. Then there is Rudolph!, an adult holiday fantasy in which Santa's operation faces a problem much bigger than a missed Christmas wish.
He also writes crime fiction as Harry Bryant. The Butch Bliss books follow Robert "Butch" Bliss, an ex-con and former adult-film performer who now makes a living doing favors for people the system has left behind. The books are lean, funny, sun-baked California mysteries with biker gangs, crooked law enforcement, old connections, and a hero who would prefer a quiet life but rarely gets one.
Collaboration has been another important part of Teppo's career. He helped shape the shared-world Foreworld project, including the historical adventure setting of The Mongoliad. His own Foreworld side stories, such as Sinner, Dreamer, Seer, and The Beast of Calatrava, move through medieval Europe and focus on knights, belief, violence, and the difficult gap between ideals and action.
He has also edited anthologies and run independent publishing projects, including Underland Press. Those projects fit his wider interests: weird fiction, horror, crime, science fiction, fantasy, and stories that don't mind being a little hard to classify.
Teppo lives in the Pacific Northwest. His bibliography ranges from occult noir to historical adventure, writing guides, oddball Christmas fiction, and experimental dream narratives, which is a good reminder that a shelf can be more fun when its books refuse to behave alike.
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