Craig Shaw Gardner

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  • Bibliography:
    40 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1986
  • Latest Book:
    January 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Cineverse Cycle

1 - Slaves of the Volcano God (Oct-1989)
2 - Bride of the Slime Monster (Apr-1990)
3 - Revenge of the Fluffy Bunnies (Oct-1990)

Dragon Circle

2 - Dragon Waking (Oct-1995)
Dragon Sleeping (May-1994)

Infocom

2 - Wishbringer (Aug-1988)

A Temporary Magic Novel

1 - Temporary Monsters (Nov-2013)
2 - Temporary Hauntings (May-2014)
3 - Temporary Human (Jan-2015)

Multi-Author Series List

Angel

22 - Dark Mirror (Apr-2004)

Battlestar Galactica

The Cylons' Secret (Sep-2006)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Return to Chaos (Oct-1998)
Dark Mirror (Apr-2004)

Famous Characters: Batman

Batman (Jun-1989)
The Batman Murders (Oct-1990)
Batman Returns (Jul-1992)

Marvel's Spider-Man

Wanted: Dead or Alive (May-1998)

Book List in Order: 40 titles

  • A Malady of Magicks

    Guxx Unfufadoo is my name. And killing wizards is my game!Thus spoke the dreaded rhyming demon, come from the Netherhells, to munch a bunch of the great Ebenezum.Only it didn't quite work out that way. Ebenezum lived, cursed by Guxx with a mighty cur...

  • A Night in the Netherhells

    In the conclusion of the Ebenezum trilogy, the wizard Ebenezum and his hapless apprentice, Wuntvor, must do everything in their power to save Vushta, City of Forbidden Delights, from Guxx, the rhyming demon....

  • Lost Boys

    By Day, It Was a Sunny Beach Community. By Night, It Was the Domain of Evil. And the Lost Boys Ruled... They were the coolest biker gang on the boardwalk. They slept all day, partied all night. And Michael Emerson, the new boy in town, was eager to...

  • Wishbringer

    Infocom - 2

  • A Multitude of Monsters

    "A fun romp. The field needs more humorists of this caliber." (Robert Asprin)

    While seeking a cure for his malady of magicks, the suffering sorcerer Ebenezum and his hapless apprentice are rudely interrupted by militant monsters with a cause...

  • Batman

    Famous Characters: Batman

  • Slaves of the Volcano God

    Cineverse Cycle - 1

    SEE! South Sea beauties feed a virgin-hungry volcano! SEE! Cowboys who sing as well as they shoot! SEE! Zabana the jungle lord ride his trusty elephant companion! Roger Gordon's job in public relations was never this exciting. Not until a Captain ...

  • Bride of the Slime Monster

    Cineverse Cycle - 2

    Roger Gordon, ace movie buff, must locate Captain Crusader, the legendary movie hero and the only person capable of stopping the hundreds of celluloid evildoers who are on the loose throughout dozens of movie worlds...

  • Back to the Future



  • The Batman Murders

    Famous Characters: Batman

    THE JOKER GOES WILD A banker, missing for months, finally turns up dead--wearing the unique costume of the Cape Crusader. Three other prominent Gotham City citizens are also missing, and the only clue to their abductor's plot is a calling card--a ...

  • Revenge of the Fluffy Bunnies

    Cineverse Cycle - 3

    CHEER the hapless heroism of Captain Crusader! JEER... the wanton wickedness of Antoinette, Mistress of Evil! FEAR the animated assault of the fearsome fluffy bunnies! A terrible change has come to the Cineverse. In all its many movie worlds, bad ...

  • The Other Sinbad

    First there was Sinbad the sailor, famous for his seven voyages, and for the lavish dinner parties he would hold upon his return, such feasts often lasting a month or more. Then there was Sinbad the porter, a man of humbler origins, with ambitions be...

  • Batman Returns

    Famous Characters: Batman

    Batman has vowed to rid Gotham City of the dastardly Penguin and his slinky confederate, Catwoman--but while the Caped Crusader is repulsed by his umbrella-wielding nemesis, he is also tantalized by the darkly seductive Catwoman...

  • A Bad Day for Ali Baba

    Hark, favored ones, to the tale of Ali Baba and the forty thieves, whose quest for treasure led from an enchanted cavern to the Palace of Beautiful Women. Ah, I thought that would get your attention......

  • The Last Arabian Night

  • Dragon Sleeping

    Dragon Circle

    The dragon slept, and the dragon dreamed. And in the dragon's dream, where there once was earth and trees and homes and lives, there was nothing but fire. The dragon slept. But it will not sleep forever......

  • Dragon Waking

    Dragon Circle - 2

    The Dragon sleeps... And the ordinary people of Chestnut Circle must once again do battle in an extraordinary realm of magic and might. The Dragon sleeps... And the wizard brothers Nunn and Obar turn neighbor against neighbor in their unending s...

  • Dragon Burning

    New York Times bestselling author Craig Shaw Gardner delivers the electrifying climax to the Dragon Circle trilogy!In Dragon Sleeping, seventeen-year-old Nick Blake and the ordinary suburbanites of Chestnut Circle were transported to an extraordinary...

  • Wanted: Dead or Alive

    Marvel's Spider-Man

    SPIDER-MAN FRAMED FOR MURDER! Brian Timilty is running for mayor on an anti-super hero ticket, and the amazing Spider-Man is his biggest target. But Timilty is secretly the pawn of Tyler Stewart, a wealthy businessman seeking to take over New Yor...



  • Return to Chaos

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer

    OLD MAGIC, NEW PROBLEM The Hellmouth (a.k.a. Sunnydale, CA) has drawn vampires, witches, and other demons to its powerful vortex. Now it has also drawn the attention of an ancient set of Druids -- allies in Buffy Summers' battle against the Undead...

  • Spider Man : Wanted Dead or Alive

    A deadly game draws to a close as the living dead girl Christabella must escape from her greatest enemies and put herself in the path of malevolent beings that are neither angels nor demons, but something worse... if she is to stop them from putting ...

  • Leprechauns

  • Jason and the Argonauts

  • A Drama of Dragons

    in Dragon-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic

  • A Difficulty With Dwarves

  • An Excess of Enchantments

    Once upon a time, a brave young lad named Wuntvor, hapless apprentice to the mighty mage Ebenezum, journeyed from Vushta, City of Forbidden Delights, to the far distant Eastern Kingdoms in search of a cure for his master's malady of magicks (which ha...

  • A Disagreement With Death

    Strange have been the travels of Wuntvor in his search of a cure for his master the mighty mage Ebenezum's malady of magicks. Yet, stranger still the road that lies ahead.For Wunt has caught the cold eye of Death himself, who seeks to add the Eternal...

  • Dark Mirror

    Angel - 22
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer

    Even if it takes an eternity, he will make amends... THE SINCEREST FORM In his two-plus centuries on Earth, Angel's seen his share of imitators: kindly, misguided people intrigued by the exotic business of being a P.I.; not-so-kindly misguide...

  • An Embarrassment of Elves

    in The Fair Folk

    SOME ARE FAIR. SOME ARE FOUL. ALL ARE FANTASTIC... Here are six stories from some of the most famous names in fantasy, all with one common thread -- The Fair Folk. The elves' serenity is tested in a fable of a magical apprentice and the less-th...



  • The Cylons' Secret

    Battlestar Galactica

    After the Cylon War, the Cylons retreated to parts unknown in deep space, and the twelve human colonies rebuilt that which was destroyed in the devastating war. The two sides honor their armistice agreement, and for twenty years nothing is heard from...

  • The Phantom Chronicles: New Tales of the Ghost Who Walks!

    • Nearly five centuries ago, pirates took the life of merchant ship captain Christopher Standish. In the heat of the battle aboard the ship, Standish's son was knocked overboard to wash ashore on a remote beach. After stumbling upon the body o...

  • The Phantom Chronicles

    17 new prose short stories of the PHANTOM! High adventure and intrigue in the African jungle, on the high seas, and in the city! There is always justice that needs to be served, whether it's in the present... or the past. Nearly five centuries ago, d...

  • A Cold Wind in July

  • Temporary Monsters

    A Temporary Magic Novel - 1

    Much to his surprise, when Lenny Hodge answers a help wanted ad for a temp agency called Terrifitemps!, he’s hired on the spot. He finds out pretty quickly, however, (the day he reports to work) that Terrifitemps! is more than simply…unusual. It ...

  • Temporary Hauntings

    A Temporary Magic Novel - 2

    Lenny Hodge has a gift. Everyone around him says it’s an amazing gift. If only Lenny could figure out what it is. Lenny works for Terrifitemps!, a “temp agency” that specializes in employing gifted people -- people capable of confronting Th...

  • Temporary Human

    A Temporary Magic Novel - 3

    The New York Times bestselling author who “skewers all the clichés of quest-fantasy with wit, style, mordant irony and great glee”* invites readers around the water cooler for another Temporary Magic tale… Welcome to Terrifitemps, a temp ag...

  • The Changeling War

    Two worlds. One teems with life and technology. It is called Earth. The other is a twisting maze of inter-connected dwellings and empty space. It is called the Castle. Both worlds know violence. Both know greed. And now, in...

  • Temporary Humans

    NOW WITH A SPECIAL STUDY GUIDE! Lenny Hodge and his supernatural team are once again called on by Terrifitemps (the temporary employment agency that secretly controls the world) to save the Earth from a dire fate! The sinister Grubnoids have appeared...

  • A Little Purple Book of Peculiar Stories



  • Scheherazade's Night Out

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    Attend, beloved listeners, to the tale of Scheherazade, whose magical stories are her only defense against mad kings, evil djinn, and an unspeakable mother-in-law...For truly it will take a silver tongue to save a pretty neck.From New York Times best...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Craig Shaw Gardner has published 40 books.

Craig Shaw Gardner does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Little Purple Book of Peculiar Stories, was published in January 2021.

The first book by Craig Shaw Gardner, A Malady of Magicks, was published in February 1986.

Yes. Craig Shaw Gardner has 4 series.
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