Philip Fracassi Books in Order

A self-absorbed young man recounts his encounters with adult responsibilities, romantic relationships, and corporate life. His darkly comic perspective exposes the frustrations and contradictions of someone whose outsized ego shapes every attempt to navigate the world.

Nine stories bring cosmic horror into recognizable human lives, from a community swimming pool to troubled relationships and childhood fears. Strange powers, monstrous transformations, and unseen threats turn moments of ordinary vulnerability into encounters with the inexplicable.

Twin brothers Henry and William enter the Battle of Shiloh as Confederate infantrymen and encounter horrors beyond the battlefield. Amid the slaughter of the American Civil War, supernatural forces turn an already desperate fight for survival into something more terrifying.

A family fishing trip celebrating Jack’s release from prison becomes a nightmare far offshore. When strange parasitic creatures attack their chartered boat, the small group must overcome their own tensions and take increasingly desperate measures to reach safety.

Eight horror stories move through hospitals, ruined buildings, an ocean pier, and a small Midwestern town. Supernatural intrusions and dangerous discoveries expose people to forces that transform familiar settings into struggles with death, loss, and the unknown.

Jim Honeycutt and his friends search their town’s junkyard for a car rumored to be haunted. Finding the old Commodore brings them face to face with dangers far worse than the local ghost stories have prepared them to expect.

Fifty poems reflect on experiences and moments that have shaped Philip Fracassi's life. Accompanied by drawings from Mark Licari, the collection offers a personal exploration of memory and feeling beyond the author's better-known horror fiction.

Kidnapped Henry Thorne is held in an isolated farmhouse where he develops a connection with an ancient presence in the woods. Its hostility toward his captors offers a possible escape, but the force has its own reasons for approaching the house.

A strange blue rose growing in a young girl’s garden inspires dreams of a faraway land and a lost boy. This illustrated children’s tale connects her mysterious visions with the possibilities of kindness, imagination, and generosity.

At a remote Pennsylvania orphanage, Peter Barlow hopes for a future among the boys and priests he considers family. The arrival of a dying stranger releases an ancient evil that divides the children and forces Peter to fight for their survival.

After his wife’s death, Peter Radcliffe struggles to return to ordinary life through medication and therapy. Grief and depression distort his path forward, drawing him into a dark confrontation with despair and the limits of his own sense of self.

Struggling horror novelist Tyson Parks receives an antique desk that seems to revive his career. As his new work grows increasingly disturbing and his behavior turns violent, an artifact hunter’s search exposes the danger behind his sudden creative success.

Fourteen stories combine pulp horror, futuristic mysteries, and science-fiction dangers. Haunted journals, disastrous birthday wishes, suburban vampires, a healing cat, and an inhospitable beach bring unpredictable threats into lives where survival is never assured.

An isolated dive bar draws visitors with a haunted jukebox, then refuses to let them leave. What begins as a stop for a drink becomes a supernatural trap, with the music controlling a gathering of increasingly desperate patrons.

When residents of her retirement home begin dying, Rose DuBois suspects something more sinister than age or accidents. With her friend Miller, she investigates the mounting deaths, putting herself in the path of a killer targeting their vulnerable community.

Grieving scientist Beth Darlow has created a machine that lets people briefly observe moments from their own pasts. When her supposedly passive journeys begin changing the present, she must investigate her history before her shifting reality destroys her future.

Three brothers desert a Civil War battlefield and stumble upon a remote cabin occupied by Sarafina and her son. Her hospitality promises relief from their exhausting journey, but unsettling discoveries nearby suggest that their refuge conceals an even greater danger.

Fourteen stories and novellas explore haunted objects, restless spirits, dangerous technology, and violence that breaches ordinary life. Talking corpses, misguided exorcists, deadly tombs, and prison riots reveal varied paths into the macabre, introduced by Matt Dinniman.