Brendan Gerad O'Brien

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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books
  • First Book:
    August 2010
  • Latest Book:
    June 2023
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Book List in Order: 28 titles

  • Dreamin' Dreams

  • Footsteps

    A young American hitch-hiker wanders into a brutal and terrifying situation when visiting a beautiful seaside town in 1960s Ireland. Single young women are being targeted by a sinister Smiling Man and his companion. But the Gardaí dismiss the attac...

  • Can't Take You Home Again, Kathleen

    From the collection Dreamin’ Dreams; A short love story in 14,000 words.You promise to love and cherish her forever. Then you believe you've lost her and you find someone else. One day it all comes back to haunt you and the question is - were your ...

  • Going Through Changes

  • A Very Peculiar Christmas Holiday

    From the collection Dreamin’ Dreams; A short humorous story told in 4,000 words. Michael Galvin thinks he's found the bargain of a lifetime - a Christmas holiday in San Francisco. But why is Micky Dunn being so nice to him? What is he really up to ...

  • Bunny Dundee

    From the collection Dreamin’ Dreams; A funny short story in 3,300 words. The donkey was mad. We all knew that. You only had to look at the cut of it. It stood to reason, of course, that an animal like that would have an owner who would be every bit...

  • Dancing for Bunny Dundee

    From the collection Dreamin’ Dreams; A funny short story in 3,300 words. The donkey was mad. We all knew that. You only had to look at the cut of it. It stood to reason, of course, that an animal like that would have an owner who would be every bit...

  • Dapper Danny's Amazing Welsh Cousin

    From the collection Dreamin’ Dreams; A humourous short story in 4,500 words. Dapper Danny is everything that people say he is - a dapper little man. But why is he so tormented by his visit to Wales to see the beautiful Helen.....

  • Eavesdropping



  • I Dreamed Another Dream

    From the collection Dreamin’ Dreams; A short mystery in 4,000 words.What did the dream actually mean - why did it disturb my brother so much, turning it into an obsession? Was he really serious about coming back after he was dead?'I'll prove it to...

  • The Ghost of the Silver Screen

    From the collection Dreamin’ Dreams; A short ghost story in 3,500 words. It was strange seeing the old Picturedrome again. After twenty-five years I don’t know what I expected, but I never thought it would be exactly as I remembered it. A gust of...

  • The Last Confession of Father Stone

    From the collection Dreamin’ Dreams; A short ghost story in 4,800 words. Jennifer Marshall is an obnoxious, unruly teenager who takes great delight in being downright rude to everyone she meets. So what could she possibly have in common with a gent...

  • My brother's Half-Crown

  • Spider's Web

    From the collection Dreamin’ Dreams; A humourous short story in 3,170 words. We called him Spider. With his long legs and gangly arms he actually looked like a spider too, but to me, seeing him sideways on with his tongue hanging out, he looked mor...

  • The Big White Coffin

  • Dressmaker

    From the collection Dreamin’ Dreams; A humourous story in 5,700 words. Folks, this story is true. Some names have been changed because I can't remember them. Moss Scanlon was sitting in his shop when he heard the thud from the room above. A fracti...

  • Exorcizing Uncle Peter

    From the collection Dreamin’ Dreams; A short horror story in 9,200 words.Suddenly it's night - black, empty night. I'm lying in my bed and outside the moon is shimmering through the ghostly trees. Everything is silent - a deep eerie silence. Then o...

  • The First Cut

  • Hit and Run and D??j?á vu

    From the collection Dreamin' Dreams; A strange short story of mystery and imagination in 5,970 words. Be careful, if you're struggling with your business, about employing someone to do your books - especially if she's young and beautiful. Co...



  • Leg O'Lamb

    From the collection Dreamin’ Dreams; A short thriller in 3,230 words. Everyone in Ballycumscut thought Leg O’Lamb was a little bit strange. It wasn’t something you could actually put your finger on, though, and if you heard people talking about...

  • Maeve Ryan's Wicked Secret

  • Who's that in the Attic?

    From the collection Dreamin’ Dreams; A strange mystery and imagination story in 5,780 words.Claire had never been in the attic in her life. She was just a baby, only a few months old, when her mother vanished off the face of the earth, and her fath...

  • The Hospital

    A short horror story in 6692 words - If anyone tells you that hospitals aren't creepy, they are dead wrong. I'm John Smith. This story is about my time in hospital, and let me tell you; it was the only time in my life that I was ever utterly and u...

  • Dark September

    September 1940. When the German Army invades mainland Britain, Danny O'Shea is left running for his life. His house is bombed and his wife killed. His young son Adam has learning difficulties. Aware of how the Nazis treat people like that, O'Shea kno...

  • Gallows Field

    Dublin 1941. A brutal murder. A missing ledger. Mistaken identity. And Eamon Foley is running for his life. Tralee, nine months later, Foley is in a crowded pub. The music is loud. The singing is louder. His brother-in-law Joe McCarthy is shot dead. ...

  • A Pale Moon Was Rising

    A murder mystery set in Ireland during WW2A young man’s body is pulled from the River Lee. He’s wearing a distinctive silver ring. It belongs to Paudy Daly, the eldest son of the notorious Mixer Daly. Paudy has been missing for over nine months.H...

  • A Crack In The Ice

    Ireland 1945.When Florence Kite finds letters and a newspaper cutting in her late mother’s handbag, her whole world crumbles.The cutting shows a badly injured man, Marcus Fanning, receiving a medal and an engraved cigarette case for saving six ...

  • A Murder in a Different Light

    Ireland 1947. Seven weeks of relentless snow. Guard Eamon Foley is searching for a missing child.At Toby Appleyard's farm, he discovers the kitchen littered with dead cats. And the skeletal remains of a woman. Upstairs, Toby is dead in his bed.But wa...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Brendan Gerad O'Brien has published 28 books.

Brendan Gerad O'Brien does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Murder in a Different Light, was published in June 2023.

The first book by Brendan Gerad O'Brien, Dreamin' Dreams, was published in August 2010.

No. Brendan Gerad O'Brien does not write books in series.
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