Wayne Kyle Spitzer Books in Order

Roger and Savanna Aldiss strike a dinosaur while driving on the interstate. As mysterious lights, ancient trees, and prehistoric creatures appear, they join other survivors confronting a force that seems to be reversing time itself.

This screen adaptation of Algernon Blackwood's supernatural story follows two travelers on a canoe journey along the Danube. Their isolated camp among the willows becomes a place of mounting dread as the surrounding landscape suggests an otherworldly presence.

Tika notices a strange growth opening in a willow tree while music drifts through a quiet building. As sap spills from the fracture, branches and vegetation take on a human shape, turning a familiar view into an unsettling encounter.

This account examines anthropologist Grover Krantz’s investigation of Bigfoot and the controversy it brought to his academic career. It considers how his public appearances and research connected scientific debate, popular imagination and the landscapes of the Pacific Northwest.

Armed men confront a sea creature beneath a damaged dock, but young Lonny recognizes that it is hungry and dangerous rather than merely frightening them. A polluted habitat and a dead mate make their encounter increasingly perilous.

An imaginative boy grows up in Spokane amid the cultural upheavals of the 1970s. His father's white El Camino and a pair of novelty X-ray glasses become central to a memoir shaped by childhood fear, curiosity, and popular culture.

Corbin, Charlotte, and Red attempt to escape through a supermarket in a Jeep as velociraptors attack. Their flight through the transformed landscape brings another startling encounter in this opening installment of the serialized Flashback Dawn story.

A man looks back on a childhood hunting trip that ended in the killing of an unfamiliar creature. Decades later, uncertainty about what they shot and why it happened leaves the memory of his first trophy deeply troubling.

Dravidian and Shekalane hear a disturbing explanation of Ursathrax: their world may be a conscious, mortal entity nearing its end. The possibility challenges Dravidian's beliefs about its creator as signs of collapse become increasingly difficult to dismiss.

The Kid's childhood in 1970s Spokane unfolds through an El Camino, novelty X-ray glasses, and an imagination fed by monster movies and comics. This memoir installment connects family anxieties with the decade's changing culture and looming public fears.

Spitzer revisits childhood through the highly imaginative Kid, whose curiosity grows around his father's white El Camino and novelty X-ray glasses. Images of television, comics, and drive-in movies mingle with an anxious understanding of a changing world.

Beth stops at an isolated rest area with her dog, Frodo, while helicopters approach overhead. Illness and an unsettling observer turn the roadside pause into a threatening encounter in the first part of this alien horror novella.

Beth glimpses an impossible shape moving across the desert and nearly collides with another vehicle. A stranger offers reassurance that she saw a military jet, but the encounter deepens the uncertainty surrounding her disturbing experiences.

Strange colored lights fill the sky as a boy confronts the sudden intrusion of a raptor into familiar surroundings. This Flashback story depicts the violent arrival of prehistoric danger and the abrupt loss of ordinary childhood security.

A filming crew accompanies balloonists on a nighttime ascent through the clouds. Their journey becomes a confrontation with strange aerial life, turning an expedition above the familiar landscape into an encounter with creatures they never expected to find.

Ursathrax enters its ritual night of sacrifice just as Valdus's rebellion spreads through the capital and outlying provinces. An unusual convergence of possibilities unsettles old loyalties, bringing political upheaval and renewed hope into a dark fantasy world.

Dravidian and Shekalane contemplate a mysterious fountain that may offer passage beyond death. Their relationship is tested by the prospect of crossing into an unknown existence, where love must contend with fear, uncertainty, and the struggle to survive.

A polluted stretch of water becomes the setting for an armed confrontation with a dangerous sea creature. As others underestimate the threat, Lonny fears that hunger and the killing of its mate will bring lethal retaliation.

Roger and Savanna Aldiss encounter a dinosaur on the interstate as the world begins changing around them. Unnatural lights and returning prehistoric life draw scattered survivors into a struggle against a catastrophe that appears to reverse time.

Sheila and her son Erik try to navigate an inexplicable time storm as prehistoric predators invade Anchor Rock. Following a sheriff through dense fog brings them face to face with a Tyrannosaurus, turning their flight into a desperate survival struggle.

Sarah notices her lover’s strange ring glowing green after they dance together. His sudden panic and armed attempt to keep her inside transform an intimate encounter into a threat, suggesting that the ring signals danger neither can easily escape.

Beth's attempts to contact her doctor and mother fail while military aircraft pass overhead and reports of concealed radiation dangers circulate. Strange encounters leave her struggling to distinguish an unfolding alien threat from the possibility of her own unraveling perception.

Gunslinger Williams and his telepathic dinosaur companion Ank travel through a ruined world in search of Tanelorn. Their quest for a place to belong brings them toward radio broadcasts, vulnerable survivors, and threats including undead were-raptors.

Williams dreams of a brutal enemy threatening the refuge toward which he is traveling. Waking from the disturbing vision brings another urgent problem involving Ank, as the journey's psychological and physical dangers become harder to separate.

Williams worries over Ank's withdrawn mood and wonders whether his dinosaur companion is recovering memories of another life. Conversations about loneliness, friendship, and their search for Tanelorn explore what keeps the travelers moving through a shattered world.

Williams and Ank board a train carrying a bomb intended for their enemy at Barley. A shared sensation that events have changed their possible future raises fears that time is running out and their psychic connection is expanding.

Williams and his dinosaur companion Ank hear a broadcast promising food, power, and community at Barley's Hot Springs Resort. Reaching the survivors means traveling through territory patrolled by allosaurs, while deciding whether the distant refuge offers the home they seek.

Red, Charlotte, and their fellow defenders face an assault combining soldiers, tanks, and dinosaurs. Burning trenches and improvised weapons offer little protection as armored attackers breach the perimeter, bringing the settlement's struggle for survival to its gates.

Researchers studying Ank confront evidence that the forces behind the Flashback may be experimenting on survivors as well as killing them. Recognizing the dinosaur's intelligence creates another problem: understanding his thoughts and deciding how to respond.

Williams, Ank, and Luna prepare to travel toward Barley's, the source of a promising radio broadcast. Their search for a place they call Tanelorn mixes practical hopes of shelter with questions about what truly draws them onward.

Blood-covered raptors stalk the cabins of an aircraft, trapping a woman who tries to fight her way to safety. A pilot offers temporary refuge in a locked restroom, but the predators remain immediately outside the door.

A hunting party encounters deer with unsettling white eyes and red markings blocking a forest road. One hunter shoots despite his companions’ unease, turning a strange sight into a confrontation that challenges their confidence about what they have found.

A man returns home to find his cat Sadie watching from an apartment window. The rooms appear untouched, but her disappearance and his growing anxiety turn a routine search through the apartment into an encounter with something he fears to understand.

Seven stories bring together horror, strange creatures, and troubled encounters between predators and prey. One follows hunters killing an unfamiliar animal, leaving a young participant to confront what the experience means beyond the approval of his companions.

Five connected stories follow the Flashback from its first outbreak through the months that follow. Dinosaurs disrupt ordinary journeys and familiar places, while characters and situations introduced here connect with the later events of Flashback Twilight.

Williams arrives in a town whose frontier customs conceal a recent history of violence between officials and residents. Traveling with an armored dinosaur, he exchanges stories with a saloon worker whose account reveals the community's painful losses.

Beth encounters a troubling roadside accident attended by men in protective suits while low-flying military jets disturb the area. Official reassurances struggle to explain what she sees in this short tale of approaching alien terror.

Growing up in 1970s Spokane, an anxious, imaginative boy becomes fascinated by his father's white El Camino and novelty X-Ray Specs. Family illness and cultural upheaval shape a childhood in which ordinary Americana acquires increasingly monstrous possibilities.

Charlotte watches a leader proclaim racial supremacy and offer a prisoner to predatory creatures outside his compound. The performance exposes the cruelty of a community that has adapted to the Flashback by embracing sacrifice and authoritarian power.

Williams travels with armored dinosaur Ank and young Luna toward a hoped-for refuge. Their collected adventures bring them into a transformed landscape where hostile raptors threaten not only their lives but the possibility of ever finding a home.

After Sister Samain seizes control of a coven, a hungry woman receives shelter from Jeremiah and the elderly artist Jasper. Their conversation about shared paintings reveals tenderness beneath Jeremiah's insistence that his hands also serve violence.

A strange storm transforms a drive-in theater as a tyrannosaur and triceratops appear among the parked cars. One terrified patron confronts a catastrophe that disrupts ordinary time, leaving familiar vehicles and entertainment unable to offer safety.

During a storm, Tika lies in a hospital room and encounters an elderly wheelchair user who eerily resembles her. The unsettling visitor turns threatening, introducing a story that connects disability, friendship, hope, and a monstrous presence.

In a future divided by violent gender conflict, women have become witches and men Witch Doctors. An elderly host recalls the betrayals and pogroms behind their estrangement, while armed patrols continue enforcing a deadly separation between the sexes.

Williams and his dinosaur companion Ank confront a town governed by a menacing marshal in a transformed frontier world. Missing townspeople and a desperate gathering of armed residents deepen the danger posed by the story's were-raptors.

Red searches for Charlotte after raptors attack an amusement park and leave bodies among the attractions. She takes refuge on the moving Scrambler, but its spinning carriages make it difficult for him to shoot the pursuing predators.

Naaygi discovers a mysterious affinity with a group of unusually intelligent, deadly nanotyrannosaurs. Their leader, Napoleon, carries scars from earlier journeys through time, while her connection to the strange sky lights blurs the boundaries of her identity.

Motorcyclist Sammy encounters a tyrannosaur attacking a farm machine and struggles to decide whether lingering drug effects explain the sight. The impossible intrusion turns an ordinary ride through the countryside into an encounter with the Flashback.

Four horror stories confront revenge, divided loyalties, cosmic mystery, and pursuit. A father invokes dangerous forces for his son, an intersex hero navigates a gender war, an astronaut faces a black hole, and hooded men stalk the Kentucky night.

In a world where men and women are at war, a Witch Doctor conceals an identity that crosses their rigid division. Emerging powers and the progression of M24 threaten the disguise that has made survival possible.

A New York comedian performs during a cross-country journey to visit family, provoking patrons in MAGA hats. Leaving the bar for the Kentucky night, he discovers that the tensions stirred by his act may follow him onto the road.

A wounded Crash Diver finds himself outside his cockpit and locked in a fatal sword fight beneath a red sky. Determined to endure a baffling vision, he faces its consequences while hoping future generations can cross the gulf between galaxies.

Stranded beside a wrecked medical rocket, exhausted survivors face their own captain driving a lethal machine toward them. The struggle turns from despair to immediate terror as the power meant to sustain them becomes a weapon against their lives.

Coup and Tess find themselves on an eerily deserted road as people vanish without explanation. A passenger jet plunges from the sky, and strange sounds beneath their car signal that the familiar world is giving way to prehistoric danger.

Survivors debate their next move as the dinosaur apocalypse disrupts ordinary life. Kate insists on leaving for a board meeting, but a winged creature crashes against the building’s glass, revealing how quickly everyday plans have become perilous.

As people vanish and dinosaurs attack, surviving civilians find themselves alongside the president and his guards. His promises that law enforcement and the military will restore order face a catastrophe that has already overwhelmed the institutions they depend on.

Coup clashes with the president over the border wall while their companions shelter from the dinosaur apocalypse. The argument is interrupted by a massive claw against the window, reminding them that the creatures outside pose an immediate threat.

Trapped near the Mexican border by advancing lava and prehistoric predators, Tess and Johnny consider escape. The president refuses to retreat and threatens anyone who leaves, forcing the survivors to face danger both outside their shelter and within it.

As prehistoric predators battle around a gas station, Tess witnesses an explosion that engulfs the site. The president’s limousine then charges across the desert toward her and Coup, bringing another unpredictable danger into their effort to survive the apocalypse.

This collection brings terror to journeys through familiar American landscapes. One featured story follows a traveler pursued at high speed by armed, hooded men after an encounter in a bar, turning the open road into a threatening trap.

This collection includes a story of boys helping a Jewish father create a clay golem intended to bring justice. When local youths begin turning up dead, the apparently artistic project becomes entangled with revenge, suspicion, and a town’s mounting fear.

Stories of youth and darkness follow young people whose encounters become frightening rites of passage. In one, a lakeside camping trip brings a brutal confrontation with older bullies, interrupted by an uncanny figure whose arrival unsettles everyone involved.

Two further Witch Doctor tales explore a world scarred by M24 and conflict between the sexes. One confronts a bereaved man's path toward a movement preaching male supremacy after violence destroys the family he once knew.

A buried car starts after decades underground, carrying its driver into visions of the past and encounters with monstrous insects. This collection brings together stories in which familiar machines and places become conduits for threats their occupants cannot control.

Nick Callahan tries to understand his injured dog’s memories in a world overrun by dinosaurs. A connection with Puck reveals a terrifying chase, drawing Nick and Lisa into questions about what the animal experienced and how to help him.

Four horror stories follow a boy’s friendship with a dangerous dinosaur, a road grader possessed by alien forces, a captain caught in a gender war, and haunted wind turbines. Each turns an apparently familiar encounter toward terror.

Stories connect political authority with fear as familiar public language meets extraordinary threats. One depicts a president dismissing reports of vanished troops while survivors confront deaths and dangerous creatures, exposing the gap between confident reassurances and their immediate reality.

After the Flashback leaves dinosaurs roaming abandoned cities, young survivors gather around a destructive celebration near the White House. Calvin and Fiona’s argument exposes competing ideas about freedom and leadership, while their companion questions what their new world is becoming.

A Native American warrior and his companion navigate Las Vegas after a time catastrophe fills the city with prehistoric predators. Encountering a trapped sauropod forces a choice between protecting themselves and intervening in the suffering around them.

Traveling through a city reclaimed by dinosaurs, two survivors encounter a young sauropod trapped in a manhole. Predators are gathering around it, forcing the travelers to confront whether survival requires indifference or leaves room for an act of mercy.

A group of survivors prepares to launch a rover into a world transformed by the Flashback. Ewan celebrates the departure with champagne, but opening the garage exposes the party to predators and turns their hopeful beginning into a desperate escape.

Returning astronauts explore an abandoned shopping center and discover grisly evidence of a predator attack. As Maldano identifies tracks belonging to an enormous dinosaur, Hooper struggles to accept what Earth has become and glimpses someone hiding nearby.

Jaime and his companions shelter inside a vehicle while Atticus threatens to execute hostages unless they surrender. With a child singled out and a countdown underway, the group prepares a dangerous response in the dinosaur apocalypse’s lawless streets.

A killer leaves decapitated corpses in the coastal town of Cthulhu Gardens, and residents fear their sheriff is among the victims. This collection includes a tale of another shadow, a monstrous presence whose connection with the town raises unsettling possibilities.

This speculative collection includes a canoeist’s account of a wind farm where mutilated technicians and strange spiraling wounds defy explanation. As a detective reconstructs the encounter, ordinary industrial structures become signs of a menace that follows unfamiliar rules.

A captive man finds himself enlisted in a hunter’s quest for one final trophy: the mighty mammoth Atatilla. Amid a world filled with prehistoric creatures, he confronts an obsession with legend that makes him part of the hunt.

Stories imagine the end of the world through threats such as viruses and meteors. Across different approaches to catastrophe, the collection asks how people respond when the future they expected disappears and survival becomes the defining problem.

After a time-displacement catastrophe, dinosaurs roam the remains of modern America. These connected tales follow travelers, survivors, and a Native American warrior confronting prehistoric predators and human cruelty in ruined cities where familiar routes no longer offer safety.

In the dinosaur apocalypse, spectators gather to wager on prehistoric racers beneath illuminated stadium lights. One supporter watches his chosen animal fall behind, discovering that the spectacle’s organizers have taken dangerous measures to keep the predators under control.