William F Nolan Books In Order

Logan Books In Order

  1. Logan’s Run (1967)
  2. Logan’s World (1977)
  3. Logan’s Search (1981)
  4. William F. Nolan’s Logan : A Trilogy (1986)

Sam Space Books In Order

  1. Space for Hire (1971)
  2. Look Out for Space (1985)

Novels

  1. Alien Horizons (1974)
  2. Helltracks (1991)
  3. Night Shapes (1995)
  4. The Marble Orchard (1996)
  5. Sharks Never Sleep (1998)
  6. Nightworlds (2004)

Collections

  1. Wonderworlds (1977)
  2. Best Western Stories (1983)
  3. Things Beyond Midnight (1984)
  4. Max Brand’s Best Western Stories Vol. 3 (1987)
  5. 3 for Space (1992)
  6. Down the Long Night (2000)
  7. William F. Nolan’s Dark Universe (2001)
  8. Ships in the Night (2003)
  9. Wild Galaxy (2005)
  10. Nightshadows (2007)
  11. Dark Dimensions (2010)
  12. Have You Seen The Wind? (2011)
  13. Kincaid (2011)
  14. Like a Dead Man Walking (2014)
  15. Christmas Horror Vol. 2 (2018)
  16. Christmas Horror Volume 3 (2020)

Chapbooks

Anthologies edited

  1. Impact-20 (1963)
  2. Three to the Highest Power (1968)
  3. A Sea of Space (1970)
  4. A Wilderness of Stars (1970)
  5. Black Mask Murders (1974)
  6. The Human Equation (1979)
  7. The Black Mask Boys (1985)
  8. Urban Horrors (1990)
  9. The Bradbury Chronicles (1992)
  10. California Sorcery (1999)
  11. Tales from William F. Nolan’s Dark Universe (2012)

Non fiction

  1. Dashiell Hammett (1969)
  2. Steve McQueen: Star on Wheels (1972)
  3. Hammett (1983)
  4. McQueen (1984)
  5. Max Brand, Western Giant (1985)
  6. The Work of Charles Beaumont (1986)
  7. How to Write and Sell Horror Fiction (1991)
  8. Legends and Lovers (1997)
  9. Let’s Get Creative (2006)
  10. Nolan on Bradbury (2013)

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William F Nolan Books Overview

Logan’s Run

It’s the 23rd Century and at age 21…
your life is over! Logan 6 has been trained to kill; born and bred from conception to be the best of the best. But his time is short and before his life ends he’s got one final mission: Find and destroy Sanctuary, a fabled haven for those that chose to defy the system. But when Logan meets and falls in love with Jessica, he begins to question the very system he swore to protect and soon they’re both running for their lives. When Last Day comes, will you lie down and die…
or run! Bluewater Comics proudly presents a new adaptation of William F. Nolan’s masterpiece of dystopian future: Logan’s Run.

Logan’s World

Logan’s World
With the computer system destroyed, Earth has reverted to savagery. Scattered tribes now rule a charred world. Scavengers, who prowl the broken cities. Surviving corps of the elite killers, led by a psychotic ex Sandman. Sad*istic bands of gypsy riders who kill and plunder. When tragedy strikes, his loved ones, Logan sets out on a death haunted vengeance trail across a ravaged world that leads to a startling confrontation and ultimate destruction.

The Marble Orchard

The year is 1936, and Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Erle Stanley Gardner have taken to solving crimes as amateur detectives. As narrated by Chandler, their latest adventure begins in East Los Angeles, with the discovery of what is apparently the ritual suicide of his wife’s former husband in a Chinese cemetery but was it really suicide? Following a trail of clues from the coastal splendors of the William Randolph Hearst castle to the rococo Victorian mansions of Bunker Hill, the trio of sleuths are helped and hindered by an odd assortment of characters like the mysterious screen star known as the Vampire Queen, a missing sister who prefers to stay missing, and an ex stage actor with a penchant for using his fists, and by such real life personalities as Shirley Temple, Charlie Chaplin, Hedda Hopper, and Orson Welles. The Marble Orchard is a complex, colorful, and ultimately dangerous adventure a richly textured thriller that also celebrates the joys of love and marriage between Chandler and his exceptional wife, Cissy.

Sharks Never Sleep

America’s premier mystery writers Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Erle Stanley Gardner make a comeback in this latest suspense novel from William F. Nolan. In a vivid re creation of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Erle Stanley Gardner is accused of murder and becomes a fugitive in a desperate attempt to find the real killer. As the action sweeps from an MGM movie set to an obscure fishing village on the Gulf of California, listeners are treated to a drunken John Barrymore emoting Shakespeare, a bawdy encounter with Mae West in a steam bath, a full throttle car chase with racing legend Barney Oldfield, and a shocking phone call from America’s foremost gossipmonger, Walter Winchell. The climax is a murder trial in which Gardner, in true Perry Mason style, chooses to defend himself against the threatened death sentence.

Things Beyond Midnight

A classic collection of dark fantasy from the co creator of Logan’s Run.

William F. Nolan’s Dark Universe

Fifty years of top notch writing mystery, science fiction, horror, suspense admired by the likes of Stephen King, Peter Straub, and Ray Bradbury. Now, for the first time, Stealth Press is proud to present DARK UNIVERSE, a breathtaking collection spanning five decades of stunning achievement the very best from a Master of Suspense. A distillation of 50 years of short fiction; more than 40 stories each with a newly written introductory note by the author as well as an introduction by Christopher Conlon. For anyone with an appreciation of modern fantastic fiction, a perspective on the evolution of science fiction, suspense, and horror, or an interest in the craft of the short story itself DARK UNIVERSE ranks with ‘must have’ books like group tribute CALIFORNIA SORCERY edited by Nolan and William Schafer, THE ESSENTIAL ELLISON, THE STORIES OF RAY BRADBURY, THE COLLECTED STORIES OF RICHARD MATHESON: COLLECTED STORIES, George Clayton Johnson’s ALL OF US ARE DYING AND OTHER STORIES, and THE HOWLING MAN by Charles Beaumont.

Ships in the Night

This short story collection gathers many genres under one pen western, detective, sports, sci fi, the human condition. And all the treasured Nolan trademarks are here: characters defined through their actions; storylines unfurling with alacrity and grace; descriptions concise and complete.

Wild Galaxy

Representing the best of a 50 year writing career, these 19 short stories have been collected from the wide ranging oeuvre of William F. Nolan. Zany tales are included, such as ‘Toe to Tip, Tip to Toe, Pip Pop as You Go,’ in which everyone is kept in perpetual drugged states and the social deviates are those who are straight. More serious stories are also told such as ‘The Small World of Lewis Stillman,’ in which the last surviving resident of Los Angeles must conceal himself in storm sewers in order to avoid a new wave of smaller city dwellers who, although primitive, are dangerous in their numbers. Interspersed are narratives that address the emotional attachments of robots to humans, mix science fiction with the classic Wild West, and allow alien rock stars and human groupies to intermingle.

Nightshadows

Nineteen of the twenty three stories in this present volume were written in our new century following the release of Nolan’s retrospective collection Dark Universe, which covers almost all of his work into the year 2000. This is a new collection representing his best work in the genre of shock fiction over recent years right through 2007.

Have You Seen The Wind?

With 75 books and over 300 anthology appearances to his credit, William F. Nolan author of Logan’s Run is twice winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Special Award. Most recently, he accepted the International Guilds Living Legend Award for 2002. This is the first collection of Nolan’s horror fiction and verse to share a single volume. Four chilling tales of murder and madness, guns and obsession steam the pages of this haunting book, including ‘In Real Life,’ chosen for The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Delve into Nolan’s darkest worlds as he assembles tales of an ex wife claiming revenge from beyond the grave…
of an insane mind justifying the murder of his mate through the tall glass of a cold one…
of a husband who refuses and refuses and refuses to stay dead. And top it all off with a celebration of this master’s widely praised poems, on topics ranging from Bradbury to Vienna, from Hammett to Hemingway.

Black Mask Murders

In the first of a series, three famed private eye authors, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Erle Stanley Gardner, team up as the Black Mask Boys to solve a 1930s Hollywood murder, with Hammett acting as the story’s narrator.

The Bradbury Chronicles

A collection of tales in honor of the science fiction master features the work of Isaac Asimov, Ed Gorman, Richard Matheson, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Orson Scott Card, and others, as well as Bradbury himself. AB. K.

California Sorcery

Nine original stories and three classic reprints from the renowned authors of ‘the California school’: Ray Bradbury Richard Matheson Harlan Ellison Ray Russell Charles Beaumont George Clayton Johnson Robert Bloch John Tomerlin Chad Oliver Charles E. Fritch William F. Nolan Jerry Sohl

Max Brand, Western Giant

Called the King of the Pulps, Frederick Schiller Faust, aka Max Brand, wrote nearly 400 Westerns from The Untamed to Destry Rides Again a total of more than 220 books in this genre. Yet Max Brand also created Dr. Kildare of books, films, and television and wrote under twenty one pseudonyms, in another dozen genres. This book removes the mask, with deeply personal memoirs from family, friends and fellow writers, taking us through his orphaned boyhood on the brutal ranches of California, his frustrating decades in Italy, as both a classical poet and a fast action pulpist, to his heroic death as a war correspondent on the World War II battlefields. Faust’s life story is augmented by a complete bibliography of his work over a thousand books, stories, and films plus the first listing of works about Faust.

Let’s Get Creative

William F. Nolan, using the knowledge acquired by writing more than 90 works of fiction, analyzes some of his and others best work to help the reader with construction of characters, dramatic development, and dialogue. The writer will learn how to hook the reader on the first page, how to develop conflict, the craft of revision, and more.

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