Gerard Houarner

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1986
  • Latest Book:
    July 2022
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Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • The Bard of Sorcery

    THE MAN WHO FLED When Tralane, an itinerant bard, was captured by the dread Sorcerer King, his only hope lay in stealing the Eye of Wyden. With that powerful amulet, he was able to escape to another variant world. But he could not so easily esc...

  • Going Postal

  • Road To Hell

    Max is a man. An assassin, to be exact. But within him lurks the Beast, an unholy demon that drives Max to kill -- and to commit acts even more hideous. Throughout the years, the Beast has taught Max well, and Max has become quite proficient in his c...

  • Dead Cat Bounce

  • Black Orchids from Aum

    Aum. City of Gates. The Lost City. The Cursed City.

    Come to Aum, where anything can be bought. Come ready to bargain for love, for power, for dreams. Just remember, the price must always be paid....

  • The Beast That Was Max

    Max walks in two worlds. He resides in the borderland between the world of shadowy government conspiracy and the world of vengeful ghosts and evil gods, between living flesh and supernatural spirits ââ,¬â€œ between life and death. For Max is the ult...

  • Dead Cats Bouncing

    An anthology of short stories based on the 2000 Bram Stoker Finalist chapbook "Dead Cat Bounce" by Gerard Houarner and illustrated by GAK. This collection has stories from: Jack Ketchum, Edward Lee, Charlee Jacob, Tom Piccirilli, Yvonne Navarro, Mick...

  • The Oz Suite

    Oz - One of the most famous literary images to cross over into the dark streets of the real world . . . Oz - The symbol for all things other. Over the rainbow. At the far end of the yellow brick road. In the shadowy parts of the brain. Where the witc...

  • A Blood of Killers

    Prolific horror author Houarner (The Oz Suite ) assembles a disturbing collection of 13 reprints and 12 originals. Most of the tales highlighting his twisted supernatural assassin, Max (featured in 2001’s The Beast That Was Max ), are brief, but â€...



  • Trick

    When living by yourself, it's easy to let little things spook you. Sometimesyour mind even plays tricks on you. Roger Cassidy lives alone. He thought hegot a great deal on his apartment, but then the knocking began. Knocking onhis door that comes and...

  • Waiting for Mister Cool

    Max, an assassin driven by terrible appetites and a demonic inner Beast, finds himself mistaken for another, far more ordinary killer hired to fight for one of two rival groups vying for control of a remote, abandoned government base with its own sec...

  • Road From Hell

    Max the Assassin is back! What started in the pages of Painfreak, continued in the books The Beast That Was Max and Road To Hell now comes to an explosive conclusion. Offered in a VERY limited edition hardcover which contains bonus material including...

  • I Love You and There Is Nothing You Can Do About It

    Twelve tales of the human condition as seen from the dark side, through the lens of myth, nightmare, romance, the weird and the surreal. The collection’s title story sets the table, turning over love’s joy to explore where such an emotion might ...

  • Into Painfreak

    Featuring all new stories from some of the top authors in modern horror and includes an all new novelette from Edward Lee!This book takes us deep, deep into the bowels of Painfreak, the traveling club that arises out of the dark and calls to those se...

  • In the Country of Dreaming Caravans

    ""Houarner, always a maestro of the "smart" horror tale, further hones his art in this scary provocative nod to The Thousand and One Nights and other ancient traditions of phantasmal story-telling. Chock full the macabre and populated by the arabes"...

  • Dark Wonderland

    Change your shades. Get a new prescription for those glasses. Take a fresh look at the world, the real world of wonders and darkness that is the heart beat of reality, the truth behind the shadow theater of human existence. Listen for the whispers, p...

  • Sleepers

    Don't sleep with your eyes open. Don't sleep with your eyes closed. Sleep and wake simultaneously. Enter realities more real than the one you came from. Realities only a shepherd should access. Be prepared, if you walk among the Dolls and Sleepers, t...

  • Painfreak

  • Visions through a Shattered Lens

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    Gerard Houarner, author of Painfreak, The Beast That Was Max and I Love You and There Is Nothing You Can Do About It, is quickly becoming one of the finest horror authors in print today. This limited edition hardcover showcases him at his best and is...



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Gerard Houarner has published 19 books.

Gerard Houarner does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Painfreak, was published in July 2022.

The first book by Gerard Houarner, The Bard of Sorcery, was published in May 1986.

No. Gerard Houarner does not write books in series.
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