Russell James Books in Order

Doug and Laura Locke buy a farmhouse to rebuild their marriage and careers. Ghostly children and strange attic discoveries begin influencing them, while a woman’s visions warn of approaching danger.

Six friends reunite thirty years after confronting a murderous spirit called the Woodsman. When children face renewed danger, the friends must overcome old trauma to challenge the entity once more.

A stranger opens a magic shop in a declining Florida town, offering customers exactly what they desire. When harmless tricks unleash sinister changes, a small group of residents must uncover and stop his destructive plans.

Thirteen horror stories explore dangerous gifts, uncanny roadside attractions, buried secrets, and luck turned poisonous. From a railroad tunnel to desecrated veterans’ graves, ordinary desires and encounters open paths into violence and supernatural dread.

Eight horror stories follow people encountering danger in unexpected forms, from an adopted elephant with a troubling history to a teenager aboard a slave ship. A roaming serial killer and an author's pursuit of horror add further threats.

Indentured to a brutal Mississippi plantation during the Civil War, teenage Jebediah discovers that enslaved boys are disappearing. His father’s ghost and an escaped sorceress guide him toward a truth the overseer will kill to conceal.

A coven arrives near Galaxy Farm intending to sacrifice children and release an entity. Estranged allies Laura Locke and Theresa Grissom must reunite before the witches claim Theresa’s kidnapped son.

Five science fiction stories follow telepaths resisting an empire, children surviving on an unknown planet, and a space-station murder investigation. An Eddie Kane adventure adds a dangerous salvage mission aboard an abandoned warship to the collection.

Pete Holm can enter a dream world where a sinister spirit imprisons souls and commands the dead. A drug lord in waking life wants him killed, leaving Pete fighting for survival in two realities while attempting a rescue.

An ancient virus turns Long Island’s residents into violent killers, prompting a military quarantine. Melanie Bailey must escape with her autistic son, whose unusual survival may offer a cure, while an infected gang leader hunts them.

Historians Mark and Louis travel to Imperial Rome to investigate the origins of the Antikythera Device. Their planned observation mission becomes a fight against a secretive organization and disasters, with discoveries that threaten the future they left behind.

Time travel unsettles ordinary lives in these stories, from a patient's fear that doorways accelerate time to experiments that change a technician's perception. Other tales explore a supposedly engineered romance and historians investigating mysteries through journeys into the past.

Paleontologist Grant Coleman explores a sealed cavern rumored to shelter giant creatures. A collapse traps his team and a park ranger underground, leaving them to cross an ecosystem of deadly prehistoric animals in search of another exit.

Sixteen-year-old Marissa discovers her father came from Atlantis, making her a target for enemies seeking the underwater city. As her boyfriend learns his own unexpected heritage, their relationship becomes entangled in a conflict threatening both civilizations.

Separated from his family by quarantine, Patrick joins an illegal hunting expedition to return. His sister struggles to protect her newborn daughter amid infected killers, betrayal, and a collapsing society.

An expedition searching for a living dinosaur crash-lands in the Amazon before reaching its destination. Grant Coleman and his companions face giant insects and predatory reptiles while questioning whether their sponsor intends any of them to return.

Lost in the Amazon, Grant Coleman and Janaina Silva reach a logging camp and hope for rescue. After workers uncover a giant snake fossil, deadly creatures attack and destroy their escape route, sending them toward an ancient pyramid.

Two campers disappear at remote Fort Jefferson, where rangers Kathy West and Nathan Toland face an official lockdown. Mercenaries imprison them as a rogue agent prepares to release giant crabs, forcing the rangers to escape and stop the attack.

Grant Coleman joins a mission to rescue his missing mentor in China, despite expedition notes describing dragon fossils. Rival collectors, a secretive leader, and signs of living dragons turn the unauthorized journey into a fight for survival.

Russell James collects imagined conversations with Timothy, the orange tabby he adopted from a shelter. The cat's sense of entitlement, quarrels with a stuffed mouse, and fascination with boxes become the basis for humorous exchanges about their shared household.

Mysterious fires and killings in Hawaii reveal awakened dragons beneath Kilauea. Rangers Kathy West and Nathan Toland must contain the creatures and stop a plot to trigger an eruption that would drive most people from the island.

After her father dies, Cyndi meets her grandfather, a renegade exorcist in Paris. They investigate stolen relics and demonic attacks, uncovering a scheme that threatens to unleash Satan on Earth.

Kidnapped paleontologist Grant Coleman is forced onto an expedition to an Arctic island where scientists have revived mammoths. A ruined laboratory, approaching Russian troops, and lethal creatures leave the intruders caught between competing threats with little chance of escape.

When a bitter recluse plots to unleash giant killer ravens on Yellowstone, rangers Kathy West and Nathan Toland investigate mutilated wildlife and missing hikers. Their secret mission is complicated by conspirators working inside the park.

Drew Price can recognize demons hidden inside possessed people, but has avoided becoming a hunter. When Nicobar steals his son’s soul, Drew must accept that calling and wield an ancient blade before his family is destroyed.

Former bootlegger Nate Thalmann moves his wife to an isolated lighthouse seeking peace. A child releases an imprisoned demon, leaving Nate fighting to protect his family from an deadly possession.

Antique dealers Rick and Rose Sinclair follow an explorer’s journal into Arabia in search of the Queen of Sheba’s lost temple. Rival treasure hunters and monstrous guardians threaten their expedition through the desert.

Grant Coleman accepts a fossil-cataloguing job at a billionaire's unfinished island resort. A pirate attack strands him and other residents on a forbidden atoll, where supposedly protected wildlife proves to include deadly prehistoric creatures.

A research expedition strands Grant Coleman and two fellow academics in an unmapped Utah canyon. Their mining-company sponsor has hidden motives, and living dinosaurs on the canyon floor make finding an escape increasingly urgent.

Fourteen historical horror and suspense stories find danger aboard a slave ship, in wartime skies, on a Civil War plantation, and in the frontier West. Characters seeking opportunity or escape encounter threats beyond the ordinary violence of their eras.

A genetic catastrophe makes childbirth illegal, leaving Kyle and Addie among humanity’s final generation. When Addie becomes pregnant, they flee toward a rumored refuge, pursued by authorities and threatened by the violent survivors outside the cities.

Captured by Blackbeard in 1718, physician Baxter Whitcomb discovers that a witch’s spells make the pirate captain seemingly invincible. When she falls ill, Baxter must treat an unfamiliar supernatural sickness or face execution alongside his patient.

Rick and Rose Sinclair discover a map that may reveal Blackbeard’s hidden treasure on an uncharted island. A pursuing mobster complicates their search, while supernatural defenses still guard the pirate’s long-abandoned hoard.

In wartime Tunisia, a Nazi occult unit plans to unleash a djinn capable of spreading overwhelming fear. Major Ray Hawkins and his newly assembled supernatural intelligence team must stop it before the Allied campaign collapses.

Newly released from prison, Stuart Angelino stops at a remote Kansas convenience store as a bizarre storm traps its occupants. Waves of murderous ghosts emerge outside, forcing the strangers to confront a growing rupture between worlds.

Invited to a writers' conference in Africa, Grant Coleman instead finds his lodge commandeered by a ruthless safari leader. Forced to guide mercenary poachers toward a giant rhinoceros, he encounters prehistoric predators along a river few survive.

An Aztec artifact leads Rick and Rose Sinclair toward a legendary city of gold in Mexico. Their jungle expedition encounters deadly wildlife and hostile inhabitants, uncovering supernatural dangers behind the city’s vanished explorers.

In 1812 California, Father Valentino discovers that the mission system conceals a campaign against demonic possession. He and Swift Sparrow, a medicine man’s daughter with psychic gifts, must combine their knowledge to stop a murderous possessed leader.

After thieves steal a valuable jade sculpture, Rick and Rose Sinclair pursue it to Cambodia. Their effort to recover their savings entangles them in a gangster’s scheme to resurrect a destructive supernatural power.

An SS laboratory in Sicily is preparing to transform an infantry division into werewolves before the Allied invasion. The Office of Supernatural Directives must infiltrate the island and destroy the project using military skill and unconventional magic.

Navy lieutenant Caleb Kendall is recruited to investigate a secret German base where an ancient sea demigod could power an unstoppable submarine. An unlikely group of allies must prevent its launch before it destroys Atlantic shipping.

A dam failure sweeps Grant Coleman and other holidaymakers into the forests near Mount St. Helens. Waiting for rescue proves impossible as deadly aquatic creatures, prehistoric predators, and seismic disturbances threaten the stranded group's survival.

In 1938, Rick and Rose Sinclair finance an expedition to the lost Egyptian city of Crocodopolis. Their partner’s unreliable story and predatory locals create danger, but accidentally summoned spirits turn treasure hunting into a struggle for survival.