A.E. Mableson

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  • Bibliography:
    69 Books
  • First Book:
    March 2011
  • Latest Book:
    March 2015
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Book List in Order: 69 titles

  • The Blessing

    The wizard Garn must bless the mussein seed or madness will envelope the land. His blessing of the seed is successful. He rests easy. But the evil wizard Tak has other plans. The Blessing is a short high fantasy story that chronicles the struggle be...

  • Warlock Revenge

    A practical joke and a wayward broom lead to a legendary wizard duel. Woe to Hideousville. Felix hexed Mary’s broom. Burt lusted for revenge on Felix. The result? Felix and Burt’s fought the legendary wizard duel that lived forever in Hideousvi...

  • Benny, Benny, Short as a Penny

    Benny peers into the coin slot of a vending machine and finds...Leprechauns? He doesn’t find a pot of gold, though Fantasy takes a humorous turn in this short story as Benny finds there is more to modern technology than meets the eye. ...

  • Ashes in the Hearth

    When the old tree blew down Conrad knew his time was near. Billy loved his grandpa and did as the old man bid without question. Little did he know of the bond between the old tree and his Grandpa. Nor could he guess that he was to inherit that magic...

  • Don't Eat the Hole of a Doughnut

    Surprises lurk inside the hole of a doughnut. Lloyd Crigg’s grandfather admonished him that something terrible would happen if he ever ate the hole of a doughnut. Gretchen Zins told him that was crazy. She badgered Lloyd to eat the hole of his dou...

  • Dunking for Apples

    Dunking for apples is an innocent, childhood game, unless you play Tommy’s version. Tommy’s friends laughed at his stupid game, until they did it. In this dark, Halloween fantasy tale Tommy invites his tormentors to his house for a party and the...

  • Five Fantastic Fantasy Tales Vol. 1

    These five fantasy short stories will captivate and enthrall you. In The Blessing, Garn, the Wizard of Reason, matches wits with Tak, the Wizard of Insanity. Leprechauns ruin Benny’s day in Benny, Benny, Short as a Penny. During a summer thundersto...

  • My God, She's A Witch

    Discovered doing a childish stunt during a thunderstorm, Carol soon learned to use her new “witchy skills” to gain wealth and kill people. My God, She's a Witch is a short, dark fantasy story that relates the tale of fresh-minted witch, Carol Zoo...

  • The Hole

    Lloyd Crigg’s grandfather admonished him that something terrible would happen if he ever ate the hole of a doughnut. Gretchen Zins told him that was crazy. She badgered Lloyd to eat the hole of his doughnut. He did. They found the old man’s warn...



  • Five Fantastic Fantasy Tales Vol. 2

    These five fantasy short stories will captivate and enthrall you. In Ashes in the Hearth, Conrad, his grandson and an old apple tree share a special link. Lloyd Criggs finds it is best to listen to your grandfather in Don’t Eat the hole of a Donut....

  • The Head in the Window

    Doomed by a magician’s curse to remain trapped in a mannequin’s head, Ellen waited for someone to release her. Ned Furrow felt silly because he was obsessed with the mannequin head display in the beauty shop. After all, she was just a head in th...

  • The Man in the Window

    Wally Bee had come to believe that all houses have spirits. Wally remembered the special relationship with one during his childhood so many years ago. The short story collections Five Fantastic Fantasy Tales Vol. 2 and Ten Fantastic Fantasy Tales bo...

  • Ten Fantastic Fantasy Tales

    This collection of ten fantasy short stories covers the dark, the humorous and the paranormal. The short story collection contains Five Fantastic Fantasy Tales Vol. 1 and Five Fantastic Fantasy Tales Vol. 2. The full novella, Wizard of the Golden Sta...

  • The Wizard of the Golden Star

    Gwaum emerged from the dark forest and devoured Arii’s family. That evil day saw the birth of enemies. To avenge his family, Arii strove to become a powerful Wizard of the Golden Star, wizards so powerful few could stand before them. The quest to a...

  • The Hungry House

    People move into the house, but they never move out. One horrible day Sally Rews found out why. Five Tales of the Campfire, Volume One and Ten Tales for the Campfire include this short dark fantasy horror story. ...

  • The Rise of Gwaum

    Delving deep into dark magic lore, the wizard Darnay unleashed Gwaum’s terror. At midnight, when the sun and moon stared at each other across the earth, Darnay conjured up the fearsome monster Gwaum. Gwaum’s first meal of living human flesh creat...

  • Five Tales for the Campfire

    Five dark fantasy short stories of that will chill the blood in your veins The hour is getting late. A fire crackles and pops and the group huddles together closer to the fire, basking in the comfort of its warmth and light. The s’mores are now a ...

  • Promise of the White Rock

  • The Skull Garden

    Craig Nunn awakened the Skull Master from an ancient sleep and now he seeks Craig out to add him to the Skull Garden. In his autumn search for puffballs, Craig Nunn awakened an ancient race. That mistake would haunt him forever. Craig loved puffball...



  • The Covenant

    Arii and Gwaum clash in battle high atop Mt. Qui; only one can emerge victorious. His captives escaped, Gwaum descends upon Island World in a ravenous fury. His depredations spur the legendary meeting of Arii and Bearl. Together they forge a covenant...

  • Tale of the White Rock

    Gwaum lusted to devour human flesh; Arii lusted for revenge. Born of fire and forbidden magic, the beast Gwaum roamed at will through Island World, ravaging and feeding as he wished. He devoured the boy Arii's family, but Arii escaped. Arii, taken in...

  • The Woman in the Wind

    A snowy, cold night leads to a hot, flaming death. It was a cold, windy ride home from work. A mysterious woman walking in the cold along the road accepted Rudy’s charitable offer of a ride to her home. It was an offer best not given. The short ho...

  • Halloween Party

    The Gatherer rose out of the darkness of the spirit world. A happy Kelley Dawes planned a Halloween Party and her wedding. It was a wonderful time to be alive and her heart sang with joy. An evil supernatural being arose from the Underworld with othe...

  • The Sinkhole

    Whatever was in that sinkhole was hungry. Richard loved roaming the woods. It was his alone time, a time to dream. Then one day he found the sinkhole. It was the hangout of an old moon shiner many years ago. He discovered the relics at the bottom of ...

  • Five Tales for the Campfire: Volume Two

    Five dark fantasy short stories of that will chill the blood in your veinsThe hour is getting late. A fire crackles and pops and the group huddles together closer to the fire, basking in the comfort of its warmth and light. The s'mores are now a plea...

  • Ten Tales for the Campfire

    Ten creepy fantasy short stories that will turn you blood to ice. The hour is getting late. A fire crackles and pops and the group huddles together closer to the fire, basking in the comfort of its warmth and light. The s’mores are a pleasant memor...

  • Demon Soul

    Our most vulnerable moment is when the demon soul strikes. Listless, the demon drifted in the still, murky water as it waited and watched. Jason made love to Cindy on a rock in the middle of the haunted pond and both were happy. Then the demon struck...

  • The Magic Pipe

    Using the Magic Pipe as a snare Sarna lured its users into a false sense of wealth and power, after which he possessed their body and cast out their soul. The wizard Boaz and his apprentice Sarna spent the ages sucking men's souls from their bodies. ...

  • Awakening

    Gwaum vanquished, Island World awakens to war, discord and confusion. The dawn of hope flickered in the twilight after Gwaum's defeat and the folk of Island World dreamed of a better day. But the dark clouds of war gathered in the background as the k...



  • Turmoil

    The nations of Island World spiral to war. Arii’s triumph over Gwaum did not bring the hoped for peace. Vying for domination, each of the five nations strove to rise to the top. The Kingdom of Torne was the dominant kingdom. Ruther ruled the land b...

  • Pillars of Borr

    The scourge of piracy joined the twin plagues of war and discord. Island World falls even further into turmoil. The fall of Gwaum released the dreaded Raiders from his grip. Despised and hated, they wandered Island World in search of a new home. When...

  • The Oasis

    Sanctuary or trap, the Oasis could be either. Beymon Solaun sought a refuge for his wife, Rynn, the Tornese princess sought after by so many. There was a way to make the oasis safe for her, if only he could discover the secret before other forces mov...

  • War of the Crystal

    Wizard war looms over Island World. In the depths of the desert at the edge of the Oasis of Maru the battle raged, a conflict that would decide the fate of Island World. Who would gain possession of the Crystal of Maru and the Oasis it guarded? War o...

  • Appointment

    An appointment with Death is hard to break. Trigger Jones missed one appointment. Then, when he met his doppelganger he knew that Death came back to visit again.Five Tales of the Campfire, Volume One and Ten Tales for the Campfire include this short ...

  • The Dinner Bell Rings at Midnight

    Blood still stained the chain of the old dinner bell, a macabre souvenir of the deaths it witnessed.Jeremiah shuddered to think how close Death was to claiming him on that eventful Christmas Eve. Had the ghost of the old woman really saved him and hi...

  • Field of Snakes

    The snakes are coming.Todd Wilkin’s last life lesson was not to cross a snake.The boy dug some bait to go fishing when he unearthed a snake. Unthinking, he evicted it from its lair. He never gave it a second thought. Until the snake showed up and b...

  • Footsteps

    At night, all alone, a door creaks as it opens, and then the hollow sound of footsteps dragging slowly across the floor.Brewster McCallum had the house all to himself. From the basement he heard footsteps echoing on the floor over his head. He wasn't...

  • Pets

    What do you feed pet buzzards?Lost, Cagey Johnson’s tank was low on gas. There was no GPS or cell phone service. All the old woman wanted to do was drink fresh lemonade and chat. Outside, Cagey noted scores of buzzards. Pets, the old woman had call...

  • Time of Troubles

    A Mysterious Wizard Order Threatens War on Island World Wizard war and dissention gripped the mysterious, enchanted land of Island World. In the aftermath of Gwaum’s fall, Beymon Solaun, Wizard of the Eternal Flame, must find a way to defeat the ma...



  • What's in the Cooler, Mister?

    August Witherspoon didn’t want to show the annoying little girl what was in the cooler. She looked anyway.August’s dog was always bringing dead things home to roll in. The morning that the dog brought home a head was the last straw. Then the head...

  • Restoration

    Many sought the Star of Torne. Only one would find it. With the magic Star came the Crown of Cleery. Whoever gained mastery of that Kingdom had the key to Island World. Vella and her resurrected Order of the Mind Readers sought the Star and with it a...

  • Zerena

    His army destroyed, Eran barely escapes with his life. A mortal wound inflicted as he fled sealed his doom. He lived long enough to pass the Star of Torne to Bernal, a fate Keera tried to hide. But fate chose to surface in a surprising way. Torn from...

  • Radio Memories

    The old radio played memories, memories that Billy Ferguson wished to erase from his mind. In this horror short story, Billy relives the coincidences in his life that always seemed to lead to someone else’s death. Sometimes life has a way of catchi...

  • Revealed by the Light

    When the lamp shines, it reveals darkness. The lamp, simple and beautiful, had the quality of revealing that which one might wish to hide. Judy Troupe loved the lamp, bought it and brought it home to provide soft illumination for a night of love wi...

  • Seven Day Clock

    If you value life, once you wind it you had better keep it wound. Roger had no idea that when he wound the clock, he was setting a timer on his life. The clock was a seven-day clock. When the tension on the spring reached its limit, Roger had seven d...

  • Before the Storm

    The dark wizard Gault threatens to sink Island World into a storm of war. The struggles to find the Star of Torne strain a fragile society still recovering from Gwaum's dominance. Zerena, sold into slavery and rescued by Keera, resolves to end the st...

  • Gault

    Forbidden magic and immortality fascinated Gault. The witch Zerena appeared to have discovered some secret magic that conferred immortality. Gault was prepared to use forbidden crystal magic to discover her secrets. The lust to learn forbidden knowle...

  • The Order of Solaun

    The scourges of war and slavery clouded Island World. Zerena hated slavery and she detested war. Her benefactor Keera had saved her from slavery, a condition forced upon her by war. She resolved to end both. Using her magic and her resolve, Zerena de...

  • Glade of Death

    Only Aron could save his nephew Tarque from the viscous narls that had killed his parents. It was essential, because a much bigger threat than narls threatened Island World. A mysterious wizard had weakened the Covenant, weakening Arii. A weakened Ar...



  • Lament of Arii

    Gault’s ambition to dominate Island World threatens the protective net of the Covenant. As Gault’s plan to replace the Quest of the Covenant comes to fruition, Aron despairs that he cannot train his young nephew to become the Guardian To save bo...

  • Box of Secrets

  • The Wine Goblet

    Not all spirits the spirits in the wine goblet are good spirits. The warning from the old man she had purchased the wine goblet rang in her ears. The warning did not mean the alcoholic spirits of the wine. There were other spirits in the goblet. Spir...

  • Flea Market Tales: Collection 1

    The old man had treasures to sell and a secret to keep. Five people buy treasures from the flea market with one common thread; the vendor is a mysterious old man selling off his collection. One by one, the buyers discover that their treasure is reall...

  • Tale of the Crystal Eye

    Hoping to subdue even Gwaum, Gault readies his plans to subdue Island World. Using the Crystal Eye, Gault could reach into the minds of the kings of Island World and control them. Employing Forbidden Magic the wizard Gault constructs a crystal networ...

  • Covenant's Peril

    The legends of the enchanted land of Island World continue. Tarque had deposed the dark wizard Gault, but failed to destroy the magic crystal network. The crystal in the high tower in Vintown posed the greatest danger. King Berl Vin outlawed the Que...

  • Barn of Fear

    The old timers were wrong when they said evil couldn’t hide in a round barn. Her parents deceased, Margaret Dreu wanted to sell her family farm. Reuben Steen, a local real estate agent, Reuben Steen, took a hand in helping her. Romance blossomed, b...

  • The Fall of Acerland

    The rending of the Covenant awakens the evil monster Gwaum. With a terrible fury, the creature sweeps down upon Vintown while the people flee before his wrath. The Kingdom of Acerland falls. Tarque, having warned the King of the danger in vain, saves...

  • Legend of the Wizard Tarque

    It is a time of legends that requires a hero to emerge. The wizard Tarque, saved from ferocious narls by his uncle Aron emerged from the shadows. He would be a great wizard. He would have to be. The dark wizard Gault’s plans threatened the Covenant...

  • Tarque's Search

    Tarque’s quest was to find Prince Bearl, sold into slavery somewhere in the vastness of Island World. The search was long and hard, and at the end, he found the Prince that he needed to rescue. This was another of Tarque’s legendary journeys in I...

  • Bearl's First Test

    A miller’s son and the Pirate king square off for the battle that decides Island World’s fate. The Pirate King and his magic sword swept down from the mountains, intent on his quest of final victory. Only an eighteen-year-old miller’s son stood...

  • Heir of the Pirate King

    Bort conceived his son while wearing the Sword of Vin. The power of the sword created a second heir of the sword. One was royal, the other spawn of the Pirate King. Zerena birthed the baby before ending her flirtation with immortality. And Island Wor...

  • The Pirate King

    Description Seeds planted by the dark wizard Gault took root and the people abandoned the Quest of the Covenant. Arii’s power weakened and then failed. The peace of that idyllic, legendary time ended. Gwaum rose in a fury, toppling the Kingdom of A...

  • Rise of the Pirate King

    Using the Sword of Vin's power, Bort clawed his way up to become the Pirate King. Using the sword's magic power, he ascends to Pirate King, killing any who would stand in his way. Once he has achieved his goal he lays plans to subdue all of Island Wo...

  • Calls After Midnight

    Monica Weed enjoyed her newly acquired antique telephone, until she began receiving telephone calls from the dead. The retro look of her office pleased her and Monica was happy. Until the phone rang. She had not hooked it up, so it was not possible ...

  • Books Don't Change

    Katy thought the book from Willy was a sweet gift. The story it told was the chronicle of their love. Then the story changed. Books Don't Change is not a story to tell in the dark. Telling spooky stories around the campfire is a traditional way to en...

  • Changing Portrait

    It was a charming portrait of an innocent young lady with a beguiling smile. Leroy Pies discovered that is was so much more. Changing Portraits is not a story to tell in the dark. Telling spooky stories around the campfire is a traditional way to e...

  • The Dollhouse

    The old man warning Velma not to let the house captivate her. He did not tell her why. The Dollhouse is not a story to tell in the dark. Telling spooky stories around the campfire is a traditional way to enjoy a summer’s evening. There is something...

  • Fading Photographs

    Walter Muhr bought a camera at the flea market that had a terrible secret. The old man at the market that sold it to him told him the photo he developed might not be the same one he took. He had wondered at its meaning. He found out. Fading Photogra...

  • The Flea Market Tales

    The old man had treasures to sell and a secret to keep. Ten people buy treasures from the flea market with one common thread. The vendor is a mysterious old man selling off his collection of old stuff. One by one, the buyers discover that their treas...

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A.E. Mableson has published 69 books.

A.E. Mableson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Flea Market Tales, was published in March 2015.

The first book by A.E. Mableson, The Blessing, was published in March 2011.

No. A.E. Mableson does not write books in series.
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