Jonathan Carroll Books In Order

Rondua / Answered Prayers Books In Publication Order

  1. Bones of the Moon (1987)
  2. Sleeping in Flame (1988)
  3. A Child Across the Sky (1989)
  4. Outside the Dog Museum (1991)

Crane’s View Books In Publication Order

  1. Kissing The Beehive (1997)
  2. The Marriage Of Sticks (1999)
  3. The Wooden Sea (2001)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Land of Laughs (1980)
  2. Voice of Our Shadow (1983)
  3. After Silence (1992)
  4. From the Teeth of Angels (1994)
  5. White Apples (2002)
  6. Glass Soup (2005)
  7. The Ghost in Love (2007)
  8. Bathing the Lion (2013)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. Teaching the Dog to Read (2015)
  2. The Loud Table (2016)
  3. Played Your Eyes (2018)
  4. Mama Bruise (2019)

Chapbooks In Publication Order

  1. Black Co*cktail (1990)
  2. The Heidelberg Cylinder (2000)

Alliance Archives Role-Playing Universe Books In Publication Order

  1. The Stories in Between: A Between Books Anthology (With: Jonathan Maberry,Jeff Mariotte,,C.J. Henderson,,Jeffrey J. Mariotte,Catherynne M. Valente,,,Maria V. Snyder,,,,,Mike McPhail,John Passarella) (2010)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. The Year’s Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection (1988)
  2. Walls of Fear (1991)

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Jonathan Carroll Books Overview

Bones of the Moon

Cullen James is a young woman whose life dictates her dreams and whose dreams control her life. In her first dream, she found the perfect man and the same thing promptly happened in life. Now, she has begun to dream dreams set in Rondua, a fantasy world of high adventure, full of tests of her courage and strength. Slowly and quietly, her dream world is spilling over into her New York City reality and beginning to threaten everything she loves in life. Her friends are gathered to help her but even her newfound courage may not be enough.

Sleeping in Flame

Walker Easterling is a retired actor turned successful screenwriter living in the Vienna of strong coffee, fascinating friends, and mysterious cafes. When he falls in love with Maris York, a beautiful artist who creates cities, his life becomes alive in fantastic and unsettling ways. As Walker’s love for Maris grows, his life gets more and more bizarre he discovers he can see things happening just before they happen, and at the same time feels an incredibly strong tug from his past so a friend steers him to Venasque, an odd little man reputed to be a powerful shaman. Venasque helps Walker discover and unravel his many interconnected past lives, and it is soon clear that an unresolved conflict from these past lives has resurfaced, and now threatens to undo Walker and Maris’s love.

At once lyrical, frightening, funny, and sexy, Sleeping in Flame is a spellbinding tale where reality and fantasy merge in astonishing convolutions of magic and suspense. It confirms that Jonathan Carroll is one of the very few novelists who by constantly surprising us give us an entirely new perspective on our world. It is no wonder that he is generally considered to be the most original and provocative novelist of his generation.

A Child Across the Sky

When a film maker commits suicide, his legacy to his old friend is to solve the riddle of his death and to complete his final, flawed horror movie. This thriller transcends reality into the world of fantasy where the living and the dead intermingle.

Outside the Dog Museum

Harry Radcliffe is a brilliant prize winning architect witty and remarkable. He’s also a self serving opportunist, ready to take advantage of whatever situations, and women, come his way. But now, newly divorced and having had an inexplicable nervous breakdown, Harry is being wooed by the extremely wealthy Sultan of Saru to design a billion dollar dog museum. In Saru, he finds himself in a world even madder and more unreal than the one he left behind, and as his obsession grows, the powers of magic weave around him, and the implications of his strange undertaking grow more ominous and astounding…
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The Marriage Of Sticks

Miranda Romanac is a successful thirtysomething woman in today’s modern world, yet she feels alone and adrift on the sea of her life. At her high school reunion she makes a shattering discovery that further undermines her already shaky sense of who she is and where she is going. When she meets the remarkable Hugh Oakley, her life takes a 180 degree turn for the better but at what price?When they move to a house in the country to start a new life together, the reality Miranda had once known begins to slip away. Miranda is haunted by alarming, impossible visions and strangers whom she feels certain she has known, although they are all from other times and places. As these phantom lives consume her own and begin to affect all that she knows and loves, Miranda must learn the truth to reclaim it. But sometimes the hardest truth to accept is the knowledge of who we really are.

The Wooden Sea

Set in the fictional town of Crane’s View, New York, the familiar setting of earlier Carroll novels, The Wooden Sea also brings back the character of Police Chief Frannie McCabe. Crane s View is a small, comfortable town nestled along the river, a place where nothing out of the ordinary would happen and doesn t, to the casual observer. But when a three legged dog named Old Vertue wanders into McCabe s office and dies, he knows that something odd is beginning, and that his life will be forever altered. As with all Carroll novels, The Wooden Sea is filled with memorable characters who are so familiar that you can t help but be drawn into their world, a world that is always just a little off from the norm. Fans of his work will be delighted by the small details and recurring themes throughout the story, while newcomers will have the chance to discover all these little eccentricities for the first time. The Wooden Sea should not be missed.

The Land of Laughs

Have you ever loved a magical book above all others? Have you ever wished the magic were real? Welcome to The Land of Laughs. A novel about how terrifying that would be. Schoolteacher Thomas Abbey, unsure son of a film star, doesn’t know who he is or what he wants in life, in love, or in his relationship with the strange and intense Saxony Gardner. What he knows is that in his whole life nothing has touched him so deeply as the novels of Marshall France, a reclusive author of fabulous children’s tales who died at forty four. Now Thomas and Saxony have come to France’s hometown, the dreamy Midwestern town of Galen, Missouri, to write France’s biography. Warned in advance that France’s family may oppose them, they’re surprised to find France’s daughter warmly welcoming instead. But slowly they begin to see that something fantastic and horrible is happening. The magic of Marshall France has extended far beyond the printed page…
leaving them with a terrifying task to undertake.

Voice of Our Shadow

For Joe Lennox, successful young writer, Vienna provides a refuge from the tragedy of his brother’s death, until he starts up a friendship with the eccentric India Tate and her magician husband Paul. Gradually Joe falls in love with India, but Paul finds out before he suddenly drops dread. And now Joe has two deaths on his conscience and another voice calling from beyond the grave…

After Silence

Scarred by recent love affairs, L.A. cartoonist Max Fischer meets and moves in with Lily Aaron and her nine year old son, Lincoln, but soon discovers that Lily is running from a heinous crime she has committed.

From the Teeth of Angels

Offers a convergence of three characters and three fates: Ian McGann, whose life depends on Death’s answers to his questions; Arlen Ford, who flees Hollywood into the arms of a war correspondent; and Wyatt Leonard, terminally ill in Vienna but able to raise the dead.

White Apples

Vincent Ettrich, a genial philanderer, discovers he has died and come back to life, but he has no idea why, or what the experience was like. Pushed and prodded by strange omens and stranger persons, he gradually learns that he was brought back by his one true love, Isabelle, because she is pregnant with their child a child who, if raised correctly, will play a crucial role in saving the universe. But to be brought up right, he must be educated in part by his father. Specifically, he must be taught what Vincent learned on the other side if only Vincent can remember it. On a father’s love and struggle may depend the future of everything that is. By turns quirky, romantic, awesome, and irresistible, White Apples is a tale of love, fatherhood, death, and life that will leave you seeing the world with new eyes.

Glass Soup

For connoisseurs of imaginative fiction, the novels of Jonathan Carroll are a special treat that occupy a space all their own. His surreal fictions, which deftly mix the everyday with the extraordinary, have won him a devoted following. Now, in Glass Soup, Carroll continues to astound…
. The realm of the dead is built from the dreams and nightmares of the living. Octopuses drive buses. God is a polar bear. And a crowded highway literally leads to hell. Once before, Vincent Ettrich and his lover, Isabelle Neukor, crossed over from life to death and back again. Now Isabelle bears a very special child, who may someday restore the ever changing mosaic that is reality. Unless the agents of Chaos can lure her back to the land of the dead and trap her there forever. Glass Soup is another exquisite and singular creation from the author January magazine described as ‘incapable of writing a bad book much less an uninteresting one.’

The Ghost in Love

I envy anyone who has yet to enjoy the sexy, eerie, and addictive novels of Jonathan Carroll. They are delicious treats with devilish tricks inside them. Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Neil Gaiman has written: Jonathan Carroll has the magic. He ll lend you his eyes, and you ll never see the world in quite the same way ever again.

Welcome to the luminous and marvelously inventive world of The Ghost in Love. A man falls in the snow, hits his head on a curb, and dies. But something strange occurs: the man doesn t die, and the ghost that’s been sent to take his soul to the afterlife is flabbergasted. Going immediately to its boss, the ghost asks, what should I do now? The boss says, we don t know how this happened but we re working on it. We want you to stay with this man to help us figure out what s going on.

The ghost agrees unhappily; it is a ghost, not a nursemaid. But a funny thing happens the ghost falls madly in love with the man s girlfriend, and things naturally get complicated. Soon afterward, the man discovers he did not die when he was supposed to because for the first time in their history, human beings have decided to take their fates back from the gods. It s a wonderful change, but one that comes at a price.

The Ghost in Love is about what happens to us when we discover that we have become the masters of our own fate. No excuses, no outside forces or gods to blame the responsibility is all our own. It s also about love, ghosts that happen to be gourmet cooks, talking dogs, and picnicking in the rain with yourself at twenty different ages.

Stephen King has said that Jonathan Carroll is as scary as Hitchcock, when he isn t being as funny as Jim Carrey. Jonathan Lethem sees Carroll as the master of sunlit surrealism. However one regards this beguiling original, two facts are indisputable: It s tough being a ghost on an empty stomach. And The Ghost in Love is a triumphant return.

The Stories in Between: A Between Books Anthology (With: Jonathan Maberry,Jeff Mariotte,,C.J. Henderson,,Jeffrey J. Mariotte,Catherynne M. Valente,,,Maria V. Snyder,,,,,Mike McPhail,John Passarella)

Help celebrate an iconic indie bookstore! For thirty years, Between Books has provided the Eastern Seaboard of the United States with the absolute best in alternate entertainment speculative fiction, comics, anime, and gaming. While other stores have disappeared, this shelter from the tides of bitter reality has remained, enduring by providing the finest in every genre, by stacking every shelf, every nook, cranny and tiny space in between with the strange, the beautiful and the terrifying. Now they have brought together many of the authors who have entertained the visitors to their hallowed walls in a collection so splendiferously diverse, it defies conventional description. John Passarella brings us a new Wendy Ward story in which a curse meets its match. A scientist opens her personal Pandora’s Box in a tale by Maria V. Snyder. Gregory Frost finds an Old One in the noir. A roving nightmare auditions a new cast member in a chilling tale by Jonathan Maberry. Catherynne M. Valente paints a hauntingly beautiful picture of Hell. Pleasure and longing collide in a story by CJ Henderson. Memory, loss, and comfort coalesce in a story by Jonathan Carroll. All these and more await you in The Stories in Between. Greg Schauer established Between Books in 1979. It resides at 2703 Philadelphia Pike in Claymont, DE.

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