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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1995
  • Latest Book:
    December 2023
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Full Series List in Order

The Fearing

1 - Fire and Rain (Apr-2019)
2 - Water and Wind (Aug-2019)
3 - Air and Dust (Sep-2019)

Multi-Author Series List

Hot Blood

Just a Phone Call Away (May-1995)

Book List in Order: 20 titles




  • The Orpheus Box is the story of Thomas Edison's etheragraph, an invention created for communicating with the dead. ...It is possible to construct an apparatus which will be so delicate that if there are personalities in another existence or sphere wh...



  • The Rat-Catcher's King is a twisted retelling of the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, in a modern setting. A new housing development under construction in a low-income area promises a renaissance for the city, but there's just one problem. Rats. ...



  • The Beginning of an Epic YA Fantasy! Orphaned by the death of their parents, Maddie and Wil are sent to live with their aunt, a respected college professor with no experience raising children. Largely left to themselves, they find a portal in her hou...



  • You think you've got bad dreams? Consider author John F.D. Taff's nightmares.
    How about the one where a guy resurrects his dead girlfriend with a set of the prop neck bolts used on Boris Karloff in the 1932 classic Frankenstein? Or one where the...



  • The Bell Witch by John F.D. Taff is an historical horror novel/ghost story based on what is perhaps the most well-documented poltergeist case to occur in the United States. It tells the story of the Bells, an early 19th-century Tennessee farm family ...



  • Would you kill a person if you knew you could get away with it?
    When David Benning is blackmailed by a shadowy organization known only as The Group he's thrust into a world of guns, payoffs and killing unknown, seemingly ordinary people. As he b...



  • This Bram Stoker Award-nominated collection of horror is a tour de force through the emotional pain and personal anguish of the human condition. Praised as one of the best collections of heartfelt and gut-wrenching horror written in recent history, i...



  • Ben Bradley works for a typical midwestern American city that is falling apart just as his own family is, too. As he tries to put his family back together, his city embarks on a dramatic new housing redevelopment plan that will change its face. But t...







  • Multiple Bram Stoker Award®-nominated author John F.D. Taff's highly-anticipated epic supernatural thriller, The Fearing, begins with Book One: Fire & Rain where humanity faces a series of catastrophes spawned by a worldwide event that unleashes all...



  • John F.D. Taff's epic apocalypse of terror, The Fearing, continues in Book Two: Water & Wind when a group of battle-worn seniors pick up the pieces of their ravaged lives and grapple with survival after the end of the world. And for the first tim...



  • John F.D. Taff's apocalyptic novel, The Fearing, continues in Book Three: Air & Dust as Adam and Jelnik make their way to a prophetic meeting and a mysterious darkness is creeping inward from the horizon, further threatening the lives of all who rema...



  • John F.D. Taff's supernatural epic, The Fearing, concludes in Book Four: Earth & Ember as maniacal leader Tim Jacoby solidifies his militaristic control over his followers by choosing who will live and who will die.With a new destination in sight...



  • The Good Book.You might have clutched it in your church pew on Sunday mornings. You know the one?With the pebbled black soft cover, the words HOLY BIBLE stamped in gold ink.Perhaps it strengthened your faith, comforted you in dark times.Multiple Bram...





  • Dark Stars, edited by John F.D. Taff, is a tribute to horror’s longstanding short fiction legacy, featuring 12 terrifying original stories from today's most noteworthy authors.Within these pages you’ll find tales of dead men walking, an insidious...



  • Why?People grow uneasy without reasons, without an answer to every question. We demand it. We crave it. It is an utterly human curse.He cut off their heads and baked them with pumpkin spice...Why?He chopped the old man to bits and hid the remains und...






  • Welcome to Taff's nightmare. An entire novel seemingly set at that outer rim Lovecraft so deeply feared. Here plot makes room for philosophy without losing the beat, and the imagination does its work in the blackness of deepest outer space. -Josh Mal...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John F.D. Taff has published 20 books.

John F.D. Taff does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Plastic Space House, was published in December 2023.

The first book by John F.D. Taff, Just a Phone Call Away, was published in May 1995.

Yes. John F.D. Taff has 1 series.