Tim Powers Books in Order

Tom Holbrook has spent decades tracking the man who murdered the woman he loved, only to find his target already dead. Refusing to give up revenge, Tom enters a bleak purgatorial afterworld to hunt his enemy's soul and face what obsession has made of him.

In a decaying future Los Angeles ruled by a mad mayor and patrolled by robot police, monastery raised Thomas escapes his rigid life and joins an eccentric troupe of actors. Their plans for revolution pull him into a surreal, satirical struggle for the city.

Young artist and swordsman Francisco Rovzar becomes an instant political criminal after witnessing an assassination on his home world. Enslaved and sent to brutal mines, then cast into the criminal undercity, he is drawn into a risky rebellion to restore the overthrown regime.

In 1529, weary Irish mercenary Brian Duffy is hired to work the door at a Vienna inn that brews a legendary dark beer. As the Ottoman army besieges the city, he discovers the brewery hides the Fisher King and a secret war for the West.

Scholarly expert Brendan Doyle joins a billionaire's time travel tour to hear Coleridge speak in 1810 London and ends up marooned there. Hunted by Egyptian sorcerers, werewolves, and beggar kings, he must navigate fixed time loops to survive.

Long after nuclear war, musician and former cult member Gregorio Rivas makes a living rescuing people from the mind shattering religion of Norton Jaybush. Hired to retrieve an old lover, he infiltrates the Holy City and the grotesque nightclub Deviant's Palace, where alien forces lurk behind the worship.

Puppeteer John Chandagnac sails to the Caribbean to reclaim a stolen inheritance and is captured by pirates. Renamed Jack Shandy, he is swept into voodoo duels, zombie crews, the schemes of Blackbeard, and a perilous quest for the Fountain of Youth.

On the morning after his wedding, doctor Michael Crawford wakes beside his wife's mutilated corpse and realizes an inhuman bride has claimed him. Fleeing into exile, he joins Byron and Shelley in a battle against vampiric muses that shape Europe's Romantic era.

Las Vegas gambler Scott Crane once touched a mystical role as Fisher King, and his occult gangster father wants that power back. Tarot driven games of chance, possession, and family secrets pull Scott into a deadly rematch played for his very identity.

Eleven year old Kootie Parganas accidentally swallows the ghost of Thomas Edison, making himself a target for aging occultists who prolong life by consuming spirits. Dodging ruthless ghost eaters across Los Angeles, Kootie and his allies race to keep both souls intact.

Twins separated at birth share a fractured destiny: one secretly alters history through time travel, the other suffers terrifying hallucinations of those changes. As an inhuman enemy closes in, both men begin to drift out of phase with reality and toward a reckoning.

Janis Cordelia Plumtree, whose multiple personalities include a murderer, and guilt haunted winemaker Sid Cochran escape a psychiatric hospital after the magical King of the West is slain. Chased by gods, gangsters, and ghosts, they cross California seeking a way to restore him.

Scholar spy Andrew Hale is drawn into Operation Declare, a decades long British mission to understand and contain vast supernatural beings on Mount Ararat. Moving through World War II and the Cold War, he clashes with double agent Kim Philby amid djinn haunted deserts and mountains.

This small volume gathers Tim Powers's novella That Good Night, James P. Blaylock's The Devil in the Details, and a joint collaboration. Together they spin quirky, unsettling tales of priests, devils, and everyday people who stumble into the miraculous at a terrible price.

Strange Itineraries collects a decade's worth of Powers's short fiction, from ghost stories and time slip tales to collaborations with James P. Blaylock. Expect haunted objects, oddball Californians, and the sense that any back road might detour into the uncanny.

Used book scout George Sydney uncovers a rare volume containing an unknown poem by tragic poet Cheyenne Fleming and soon begins seeing her ghost. As affection deepens, he discovers a risky way to restore her to life, if he is willing to rewrite his own past.

A semi retired psychic handyman once made a living altering customers' Bibles to remove troublesome verses. Drawn back into darker work when a rich man's daughter's ghost is kidnapped, he must descend into a spirit underworld and confront the broken pieces of his own soul.

In 1987 Southern California, English professor Frank Marrity and his daughter Daphne inherit a tangle of secrets linking their family to Albert Einstein. A lost Chaplin film, psychic talents, and rival intelligence agencies converge around a hidden time machine that could rewrite history in three frantic days.

An earlier collection of short work, Night Moves and Other Stories gathers all of Powers's published tales to that date, including World Fantasy Award finalists Night Moves and The Better Boy. The pieces blend small town unease, time paradoxes, and wry, melancholy humor.

This collection brings together six stories that circle souls, ghosts, and second chances, including the title novella about a Bible altering exorcist and a coda to The Stress of Her Regard. It is a compact sampler of Powers's contemporary dark fantasy.

Years after a supernatural disaster shattered his family, London veterinarian John Crawford learns he has a daughter pursued by the vampiric spirit of John Polidori. With her mother and the Rossettis, he confronts ancient nephilim determined to turn Victorian London into their feeding ground.

San Francisco rare book dealer Richard Blanzac opens a box of junk and finds a forgotten poetry manuscript that hurls him into 1957. Tangled up with beat poet Sophie Greenwald and an apocalyptic cult, he must decide what to save when past and present collide.

Disguised as a boy, Jacky Snapp stalks the ghost of her murdered fiancé through the alleys and graveyards of nineteenth century London. To lay their pursuing spirits to rest, she turns to the mysterious exorcist known only as Nobody.

This slim collection presents three darkly humorous science fiction tales by Edward Bryant, introduced by Tim Powers. Twisted premises, sharp character work, and unsettling turns make it a quick read for fans of off center, speculative storytelling.

This large volume assembles nearly all of Powers's shorter fiction in one place, from hard to find novellas to collaborations. Time travel puzzles, haunted Los Angeles backstreets, and offbeat metaphysics make it an ideal one stop introduction to his range.

After their aunt's strange suicide, siblings Scott and Madeline Madden return to Caveat, the crumbling Hollywood mansion where they grew up. There they confront unsettling cousins, Old Hollywood obsessions, and inked spider symbols that let their minds slip through time with dangerous consequences.

Disgraced ex Secret Service agent Sebastian Vickery now drives for a covert service that steers clients away from spectral turbulence on Los Angeles freeways. When a secret agency tries to erase him, Vickery and agent Ingrid Castine plunge into a lethal ghost ridden highway between worlds.

Three academics from a Consciousness Research department sneak into a cemetery at night to capture the ghost of a dead colleague. Their experiment opens doors into parallel worlds instead, forcing them to confront alternate versions of themselves and the unintended costs of meddling with reality.

Still fugitives, Vickery and Castine see the ghostly afterimages of past disasters everywhere in Los Angeles. A visionary tech guru plans to fuse the city's dead and living minds into a predatory World God, forcing them into a race across cursed film sets and shorelines.

In the St. Giles rookery, dim Isaac Fairchild serves the monstrous clown Horrabin in a beggar guild that maims its own. Offered magical intelligence by merging with tiny homunculi, Isaac must choose between freedom and joining a terrifying group mind.

After learning too much about UFOs, Vickery becomes a target for Naval Intelligence and Russian operatives alike. On the run with Castine, he must locate an ancient relic that can banish the visiting entities before their plan for Earth turns catastrophic.

Down on his luck screenwriter Conrad takes a strange job involving a kidnapped heiress and a prophetic mummified head used as ransom. As time loops and occult bargains surface around a fading film studio, he has to choose between easy money and a chance at real redemption.

In 1846 Haworth, Emily, Charlotte, Anne, and their troubled brother Branwell Brontë discover that an ancient curse and a werewolf cult haunt the moors. When Emily rescues a wounded stranger, the family's fate tangles with pagan magic, vengeful ghosts, and the cost of love.

In 1925 Paris, American illustrator Harry Nolan is hired to work on an article about the death of a god and stumbles into a centuries old brotherhood that serves Moloch through controlled reincarnation. Alongside runaway Vivi Chastain and Gertrude Stein, he must confront both the cult and the god behind it.