Ardath Mayhar

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  • Bibliography:
    60 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1979
  • Latest Book:
    November 2018
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Full Series List in Order

The Exiles of Damaria

1 - Riddles & Dreams (Jun-2003)

Multi-Author Series List

Battletech

The Sword and the Dagger (Apr-1987)

Book List in Order: 60 titles

  • How the Gods Wove in Kyrannon

    • / General Fiction
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    When the Tyrant seizes power in the city of Lirith, capital of Kyrannon, his ambition for conquest and his need for the great horses of Fallowden create a vortex of conflict and powers. Into this the Raithes of Fallowden -- Tisha the Wise and her dau...

  • The Seekers of Shar-Nuhn

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    The mage Kla-Noh and his foster son, Si-Lun, are "Seekers After Secrets." In their fantasy adventures, they aid a woman from another dimension, calm a Weatherwitch, and heal the Beast in the Barrens, among others. Classic fantasy in the tradi...

  • Warlock's gift

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    When Lantirion is usurped by a renegade wizard, Prince Karas must use all his skills and powers to challenge the Warlock at the heart of his lair. Part of the Tales of the Triple Moons series....

  • The Runes of the Lyre

    Created by the powerful Hasyisi, yet missing for centuries from its home world, the Lyre just hangs in a willow tree, waiting. Hasyih, the Heart of the Worlds, links contiguous dimensions, many worlds invisible to each other, yet accessible through d...

  • Khi to Freedom

    Only Hale Enbo can defeat the illegal exploitation of alien species by the Ginli scientists....

  • Soul-singer Of Tyrnos

    Tyrnos needs no armies, no police, no enforcers, for it has its Soul-Singers. These carefully trained and strongly talented people travel the country, showing the truth of their souls to nobles and commons alike, often resulting in the removal or ref...

  • Golden Dream: A Fuzzy Odyssey

    • / Science Fiction
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  • Lords of the Triple Moons

    The Old Lords of Rehannoth have been overthrown by rebel leaders who use the powers generated by the great machines to maintain their brutal rule. Only the two surviving children of the Lords, Johab and Ellora, can restore the balance and free their ...

  • The Saga of Grittel Sundotha

    Seven-foot-tall Grittel, daughter of the Lord of Sundoth, has refused the impossible marriage arranged by her domineering mother. Now an embarrassment to her family, she is sent forth to make her own way in the world. But Grittel Sundotha is no shrin...



  • The World Ends In Hickory Hollow

    NOT WITH A BANG! When the bombs fell and Western civilization ended, the residents of Hickory Hollow, Texas, scarcely noticed the difference. They were already used to fending for themselves -- growing their own food, helping their neighbors survive,...

  • Makra Choria

    The hereditary rulers of Sherath have psychic powers that can bring great good or evil to their people. When the Makra Theora murders her father and seizes his throne, her sister, the Makra Choria, raises an army, captures her sibling, and removes th...

  • The Sword and the Dagger

    Battletech

    MechWarriors believe that the only way to kill a BattleMech is with another 'Mech ... But Generals know that the best way to kill an army of 'Mechs is with a well-placed dagger. The five houses of the Successor States employ both warfare and treac...

  • The Wall

  • Two-Moons and the Black Tower

    Two-Moons-in-the-Sky, an Iroquoian warrior woman and Dreamer, is transported into the strange world of medieval Britain by a dark sorcerer, Lallius, who lives in a black tower. Lallius wants to enslave his captive, whom he regards as primitive, but l...

  • A Place of Silver Silence

  • Monkey Station

    A plague is devasting mankind. Deep within the Amazon jungle, scientists have altered the genetic makeup of macaque monkeys, making them self-aware and giving them the power of speech. Only by working together can the two races--man and monkey--find ...

  • People of the Mesa

    The Anasazi, a pre-Columbian tribe dwelling in what is now Colorado, face the greatest threat to their existence when a hostile tribe threatens, and the youthful Uhtatse assumes leadership of his people. Original....

  • Island in the Lake

    The Nadicha, also known as the Mound Builders, lived in the westernmost outpost of their kind in the woods and swamps of what is now East Texas. The Turtle Woman, their healer and seer, was disturbed when the Alligator Man appeared in their forest ho...

  • Towers of the Earth

    They were called the Geh-i-nah, and they were dying. First it was the plague, forcing them from their ancestral homes in the east. Then the terrible journey itself took its toll upon the tribe. And when they found a seeming refuge in the mountains of...



  • Hermione As Spy

    in Catfantastic III

    THE SECRET WORLD OF CATS is about to be revealed in this all-new collection of tales about those mysterious felines who rule the animal and human kingdoms. Whether they are intently stalking their prey, making humans cater to their every whim, or co...

  • Hunters of the Plains

    At a time when volcanoes were being born in what is now New Mexico, clans of hunter-gatherers were already living in the Great Plains. Primordial beasts roamed the land: creatures like the giant sloth, the flat-faced bear, the woolly mammoth, and the...

  • Riddles & Dreams

    The Exiles of Damaria - 1

    The Ancient Race has ruled in Damaria for three thousand years, since arriving there from their old homeland in the south. Long-lived, yet not very prolific, the Kings of Damaria have brought several animal species to a point at which they are nearly...

  • The Clarrington Heritage

    When Marise Dering marries Ben Clarrington, and moves into the old mansion where the rest of the Clarringtons live, she's ordered to keep out of the closed-off sections of the third floor--but never told why! As the family members begin perishing...

  • Closely Knit in Scarlatt

    Olive is an unlikely secret agent. A professional assassin in her 60s, she has been quietly recruited by 'the Brokers'. Now she is hired to kidnap and kill retired British agent Benjamin Scarlatt. But when an Islamic terrorist group takes over the cr...

  • The Tulpa

    Araminta Palomer, the oversheltered child of a wealthy family, enlivens her life by imagining a near-invisible animal playmate-Willbe. But "Minta" possesses an unsuspected psychic talent, and so she unwittingly creates a tulpa, an envisioned being th...

  • Vendetta

    When their parents, the owners and performers of the Gannelli Family Circus, are murdered by a Yankee Captain in rural Arkansas during the Civil War, young Gian-Carlo and his cousin Magda barely escape with their lives into the surrounding woods. Fro...

  • Shock Treatment

    Granary--the breadbasket of the United Worlds--becomes enmeshed in civil war when its Commander, Theron Standish, attempts to impose his will over the independent granges. Only Theron's elderly grandmother and predecessor, Seleva Karmann, can stop th...

  • High Mountain Winter

    When the Stonor family joins the last wagon train to Oregon in the 1840s, little do they realize that disaster awaits. Suddenly 17-year-old Maryla Stonor is left to fend for herself in the mountains of Wyoming, just before the onset of winter. And ev...

  • Prescription For Danger

    TEXAS GUNSMOKE! When Dr. Nicholas Blasingame joins his cousin Alicia and her husband in East Texas, he is scarred from political battles in Baltimore, where he lost his efforts at reform. In this new place he hopes to practice medicine and rebuild hi...



  • Feud At Sweetwater Creek

    George Fitch, an ex-Civil War soldier, is summoned to his parents' New Mexico homestead. He arrives accompanied by an ancient Indian medicine man and two trappers, to find that his mother's cousin, on a neighboring homestead, is methodically depopula...

  • Witchfire

    A brand new thriller from the minds of sci-fi Master, Ardath Mayhar, and horror pulp writer, Ron Fortier. With Illustrations by DC/Marvel Artist, Rob Davis. "As a young child, Morgan Rein was taught by Mother Kalavela the curative powers of White Wit...

  • The Heirs Of Three Oaks

    When Robert Willingham, alias Robert Evans, came to Dry Wells, Texas, he was answering a job advertisement. Jed Cobb, a rancher, had chosen Robert because of his name on a WANTED poster -- which told Robert (now an ex-con man) that the old Texan prob...

  • Medicine Walk

    It was not to be a long flight, the trip to grandfather's. And they had plenty of time. Why not fly over the Petrified Forest, Burr suggested to his father, who was piloting their small plane. So the two went off their flight plan; and when the accid...

  • Timber Pirates

    The Hartleys live on Texas land an ancestor received in a grant from the king of Spain, and they value their trees only slightly less than the members of their family. Beau Hartley continually has run-ins with Gaitor Morfew, youngest of a clan of tro...

  • Medicine Dream

    Young Burr Henderson, who survived an airplane crash in the Arizona desert in Medicine Walk, returns to fight for the ranch that he inherited from his father, and must survive another encounter with death in the unforgiving wasteland....

  • Slewfoot Sally And The Flying Mule

  • The Door In The Hill

  • The Absolutely Perfect Horse

    When Annie is forced to resettle from Los Angeles to an East Texan farm, she saves her money to buy the "Absolutely Perfect Horse." But the nag she actually gets is a 35-year-old Appaloosa nicknamed "Dogmeat." In the end, though, this worn-out old st...

  • The Dropouts

    When their parents are killed, Nick and Nita find themselves destitute. Only an uncle they've never known offers them a refuge on his East Texas farm. The culture shock is intense for Nita, but Nick takes to farming, learning how to plow with a mule,...



  • The Lintons Of Skillet Bend

    As the Civil War lurches to a close, the Lintons of East Texas are waiting anxiously for their menfolk to return. But the stranger Finis Krim is attempting to extort land from the local women by claiming fraudulent commitments from their absent husba...

  • Lone Runner

    When Katharine's father dies in 1864, leaving her destitute, her cousin "sells" her to the beastly One-Eye Murray. She then flees west into the wilderness, but One-Eye hires Sun-Shot O'Neill to track the girl across the wasteland to "save" his invest...

  • Messengers in White

    Colonized and left to its own devices, the planet on which Lehnik the horsemaster lives has, over a thousand years, reached a medieval level. Sent with an orphaned child to the hold of the Sisters of Silence, the soldier learns that their order exist...

  • A Planet Called Heaven

    Stranded on a Hell planet ironically named Heaven, the Thomas family must flee their protective biodome in order to have any chance of survival on this strange new alien world....

  • A Road of Stars

    The greatest dancer of her generation, slowly dying from cancer, finds herself transported into the worlds displayed on paintings of the roads, paths, and streets that she never had time to explore throughout her demanding career. This helps her reco...

  • Carrots and Miggle

    After the Ramsdens lose their father, Charlotte ("Carrots"), her brother, her young sister, and her mother continue to operate their East Texas dairy farm. Then their cousin from Eastern Europe, Emiglia ("Miggle") is orphaned, and is forced to come l...

  • Crazy Quilt

    "Ardath Mayhar is a neglected writer, and that is criminal. She is one of those born storytellers and natural writers who has done so much so well that it is easy to take her for granted. Trust me, as the spider said to the fly: read Ardath's work. B...

  • Deadly Memoir

    When Margaret Thackrey, ex-government agent and writer, decides to pen her memoirs, she unwittingly gets the attention of a vicious assassin--a man whose nefarious deeds she'd nearly uncovered during her service. Now he must stop the publication of h...

  • The Fugitives

    In prehistoric Europe, Bain of the Hunting Clan flees his people, eventually encountering Arma of the Farming Clan. But the Hunters have followed their lost sheep, and when the two peoples clash, Bain and Arma rescue the Farmers' clan healer, Kalva, ...

  • Strange Doin's In The Pine Hills



  • The Body In The Swamp

    When two bodies are spit out by the local swamp, Police Chief Washington Shipp knows he has a drug problem--and the druglords will do ANYTHING to retrieve their missing stash. Only Wash, together with an unlikely crew of swamp denizens and misfits, s...

  • Death in the Square

    The upper-class inhabitants of the locked-gate community called Holroyd Square in Templeton, Texas, are used to their sedate, private lives-and the equally private secrets that each of them keeps hidden from the others. But when a vicious blackmailer...

  • A World of Weirdities

    A new collection of 29 scintillating tales of horror and fantasy, many of them never before published.

    "I've edited the Borgo Press Imprint of Wildside Press for three years now. Ardath Mayhar is one of my great 'finds.' Her work is uniformly exc...

  • The Exiles Of Damaria

    The Ancient Race of enhanced humans in Damaria has been all but destroyed by a revolt of the New People. The two survivors, Riddle the Poet and his nephew, young King Lute, flee to the City of the Mist. There they and the many other refugees plan to ...

  • Born Rebel And The Guns Of Livingston Frost - Two Short Novels

    Two short novels published for the first time: "Born Rebel" tells the story of a woman in 1825 who's sold by her father to the neighboring farmer, and flees to Texas with her beau, with a hunter-killer dogging their every step. "The Guns of Livingsto...

  • The Loquat Eyes

    Solomon Peat, the wry narrator of Slewfoot Sally and the Flying Mule, returns with 17 more tall tales of Cotton County, Texas, including "The Day of the Boomers," "Fierce as a Banty Hen," "The Ring-Tailed Sidewinder," "The Skunk Works," "The Crooked-...

  • The Methodist Bobcat and Other Tales

    Twenty-seven scintillating stories of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, all but two of which are published here for the first time. Robert Reginald says: "Ardath Mayhar is able to evoke eerie, otherworldy settings and creatures with just a few st...

  • Slaughterhouse World

    They came from outer space, these hideous, intelligent monsters, and they wanted our colonies, our goods, even our flesh. They looked like a cross between a spider and a crab, except bigger -- much bigger -- and meaner -- much meaner -- and they neve...

  • Forbidden Geometries

    In The Tradition of Dune! Nebula nominee Ardath Mayhar's science fiction spellbinder is her most imaginative novel yet! The desert world Sherazade was settled long ago by desert peoples from Earth-Kushites, Apaches, Arabs-and then forgotten. Centurie...

  • Trail of the Seahawks

    Years after a plague has decimated the world, altering the remaining animals beyond recognition, the few remnants of humanity inhabit the coast of old New England. A small group of warriors, including sentient Macaque monkeys, must fight rogue outlaw...

  • Frost Line

    A helpless woman is attacked in her home by a ruthless gang of murderers and thieves searching for her brother's valuable gun collection. They fail in their mission, and now they're coming back to finish the job - this time determined to leave no eye...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ardath Mayhar has published 60 books.

Ardath Mayhar does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Frost Line, was published in November 2018.

The first book by Ardath Mayhar, How the Gods Wove in Kyrannon, was published in January 1979.

Yes. Ardath Mayhar has 1 series.
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