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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 2001
  • Latest Book:
    May 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Cal Wild Chronicles

1 - The Confessions of St. Zach (Mar-2016)
2 - Lethal Birds (Sep-2016)
3 - The Near Future (Jan-2017)
4 - The Far Future (Apr-2017)

The Crime Files of Katy Green

1 - Double Jack (Oct-2017)
2 - Shadow of the Dark Angel (Jun-2018)

Book List in Order: 20 titles



  • Without doubt Gene O'Neill is the best kept secret in horror fiction. He conjures wonders and heartache with ease, painting pictures of the city as few of us ever get to see it. With stories that span genres and slip between the cracks of fantasy and...



  • After an economic/ecologic collapse, the Shields along the coast of Cal Wild cast out their criminals and malcontents to wander the dangerous wastelands. The pariahs are permanently dyed, color-coded--reds branding the violent criminals, greens the t...





  • An earthquake in Northern California casts an unlikely band of survivors together in a church in Mendocino. Amongst the turmoil and struggles, they encounter something ancient: another survivor -- one who has returned, one who is seeking. This novel ...



  • Eight stories of dark science fiction and fantasy weave a path through the underbelly of San Francisco's most notorious district in Taste of Tenderloin by Gene O'Neill. Best known for his strong sense of place and uniquely vibrant characters, O'Neill...



  • From the mind of Gene O’Neill comes 25 Science Fiction, Horror, and Suspense stories that will capture your imagination and won’t let go! IN DARK CORNERS is a relentless pursuit of insanity in a world where no one is as they appear to be, and whe...



  • Rob McKenna knew all about pain and suffering. As a member of a top secret black ops mission deep inside Pakistan, his Marine Force Recon Unit had a close up and personal tour of Hell on Earth and the horrors that men are capable of doing to one anot...



  • Once a brothel, and later turned into a rehabilitation center, a place called The Lazy K survives a century-spanning curse following the wrongful hanging of an innocent man on the branches of an old California oak. This haunting novella by legend Gen...







  • After six and a half days of steady shoveling with the inefficient garden spades, Jacob Zachary and his seventeen-year-old son, Lucas, managed to finish clearing the heavily-drifted snow along a 500-plus yard exposed stretch of the narrow, private ro...



  • Lethal Birds is a collection of five memorable stories from award winning author Gene O'Neill. It includes a novella that kicks off the beginning of his new novel The White Plague, the Bram Stoker Award ® winning novella The Blue Heron and Bram Stok...



  • In THE NEAR FUTURE, Gene O’Neill covers an immense spectrum of color in a post-apocalyptic vision of California. A meta-novel of sorts, part three of The Cal Wild Chronicles collects some of Gene’s most memorable fiction, cohesively connecting st...



  • Gene O'Neill's magnum opus of speculative fiction, The Cal Wild Chronicles, comes to a close with THE FAR FUTURE, a meta-novel with interconnecting tales that takes place shortly after -- and also intertwine with -- those in THE NEAR FUTURE and the r...



  • DOUBLE JACK, book #1 in the series, THE CRIME FILES OF KATY GREENThe novella that started it all!It’s night, Sacramento, and single female drivers who break down on the side of Interstate-5 are relieved to see the highway safety CalTrans truck arri...



  • Fires are being started in abandoned warehouses in the older industrial area of San Francisco, and none of the professionals in the fire department can figure out how they're being started in order to catch the arsonist. What is the motive? Why is th...



  • Hitch a ride with the master of setting as he blends and bends genres with science-rich, thought-provoking short stories. "Buy the ticket, take the ride." "A maestro of the field, Gene O'Neill's stories are consistently well-executed. He writes w...



  • Continue the investigations of THE CRIME FILES OF KATY GREEN with Book #2, SHADOW OF THE DARK ANGEL!Samuel Kubiak has severe issues. A distraught survivor of the California Foster Care System, he suffers from a condition of alopecia, incessant bullyi...



  • Continue the investigations of THE CRIME FILES OF KATY GREEN with Book #3, DEATHFLASH!

    Young Billy Williams has been elevated to status of Shepherd of the Flock--leader of a zealous religious cult--and granted gift of the Deathflash, the abi...



  • On a warm San Francisco night, an innocent young woman is gunned down during a gang-related drive-by shooting. The overworked police department have no leads and no suspects, and seemingly little interest in pursuing yet another case involving ongoin...






  • Entangled Soul and Other Stories contains some top reprints from Gene O'Neill and Chris Marrs as well an original from each. The highlight is the collaborative story, Entangled Soul. In Entangled Soul, Finnegan McCullough is an ex-boxer living in San...


Award-Winning Books by Gene O'Neill

Taste of Tenderloin
2009 Bram Stoker Award -- Collection


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Gene O'Neill has published 20 books.

Gene O'Neill does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Entangled Soul & Other Stories, was published in May 2021.

The first book by Gene O'Neill, Ghosts, Spirits, Computers, and World Machines, was published in November 2001.

Yes. Gene O'Neill has 2 series.