Ian Thomas Healy

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  • Bibliography:
    70 Books
  • First Book:
    January 2011
  • Latest Book:
    March 2025
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Book List in Order: 70 titles

  • Graceful Blur

  • In His Majesty's Postal Service

    -A Short Story-In Lundigo City in the Kingdom of Lund, there are many prestigious occupations, filled by men and women of great lineage and wealth. Dundicutt is not one of them. He delivers the mail. But when he's late to work one day, he winds up on...

  • Last Year's Hero

    -A Short Story-In a not-too-distant post-apocalyptic future, motorized combat has risen to the highest level of sport entertainment. Battledriver Linnea Reinert is the best of the best, having led her team to ten championships over nineteen years. Bu...

  • Bread and Circuses

  • Footprints in the Butter

    -A Short Story-After his divorce, writer Paul DiCesare was looking forward to starting over again, just he and his dog Maxie in a farmhouse in rural Virginia. But then they showed up, and footprints in the butter would only be the beginning of Paul's...

  • The Steel Soldier's Gambit

  • Troubleshooters: The Longest Joke Ever Told

    LIVE FAST, DIE YOUNG, LEAVE A GOOD-LOOKING CORPSE. Such is the credo of the modern mercenary in the economic downturn of the late 2040s. Three such antiheroes are brought together by a billionaire for a unique search-and-retrieval mission. If they su...

  • Bulletproof

    A collection of previously-published and all-new tales featuring super-strong and damage-resistant parahuman police officer Harry Blaine.Includes the following reprints:Bulletproof: Police officer Harry Blaine has kept his superpowers secret for more...

  • Pariah's Moon

    Book One of The Pariah of Verigo series. A Reluctant Warrior: Giele has spent twenty years fighting wars for the King of Aelfland, but when he makes the mistake of falling in love with the Princess of the Realm, he is stripped of his rank, his citize...



  • Young Guns

  • The Mighty Peculiar Incident at Muddy Creek

    -A Short Story-When the train doesn't stop in the Old West town of Muddy Creek, Sheriff Jesse Hawkins goes to investigate. What he finds is a mystery that goes far beyond anything in his experience: a car full of people frozen in time.This story is i...

  • The Milkman

    When Liza, an intrepid reporter, stakes her career on an interview with a milkman named Blake, things go from weird to worse when they are abducted by aliens. After finding out the real reason aliens anally probe their abductees, the two heroes have ...

  • Tuesday Night at Powerman's

    -A Short Story-Superpowered police officer Harry Blaine brings his daughter to a very special gym, where weights are measured not in pounds, but in tons.This story is included in The Bulletproof Badge collection, also by Ian Thomas Healy....

  • Hope and Undead Elvis

    HOPE WAS PLAYING FIVE-CARD DRAW WITH UNDEAD ELVIS WHEN THE WORLD ENDED. Before the world ended, Hope was a down-and-out virgin stripper. Now she's pregnant with a baby prophesied to be the world's salvation. Undead Elvis promises her that Graceland i...

  • Rookie Sensation

  • Upon A Midnight Clear

    -A Short Story-On Christmas Eve, somewhere out in the Asteroid Belt, a lonely prospector happens across something he never expected to find. This ebook is intended to be free; if your retailer is charging for it, please notify them and check competin...

  • Dental Plan

  • Blood on the Ice

    When a talented new player joins the perennially-losing sub-minor-league hockey team, the Fighting Aardvarks, it marks the beginning of a winning tradition. But things aren't as they seem, and players begin to change. First line center Hammie learns ...

  • Rooftops

    A werewolf vigilante and the vampire hunting him down must join forces to stop a sinister plot involving kidnapped women, demons, and black magic. If the two natural-born enemies can't set aside their differences and learn to trust one another, a gat...



  • The Archmage

    NOTHING LESS THAN THE WORLD The would-be Archmage has slain nearly all the magic-users in the world, taking their power for himself. If he succeeds in killing the Lucky Seven’s own mage Stratocaster, the Archmage’s power will become absolute and ...

  • Just Cause

    A NEW HERO FOR A NEW ERA Mustang Sally has some speedy shoes to fill. This young superhero has waited her whole life to join Just Cause? the premiere team of American heroes. Now she?s hoping her super-speed will earn a spot on the same team to which...

  • Starf*cker

    Once, John Irish was a legend in the porn industry, partying with the likes of John Holmes, Peter North, Nina Hartley, and Seka, but now he's on the far side of fifty, and Ron Jeremy won't even return his phone calls. Desperate for any kind of paying...

  • Guitarist

    High school reporter Sherri "Bax" Baxter is content being an outsider, with a reputation as a nosy busybody among the students of Jericho High. Instead of friendships, she focuses on objective journalistic integrity, because it will get her out of th...

  • Day of the Destroyer

    -A City In Darkness- -Four Lost Souls Seeking A Light- July 13, 1977 - The lives of four super-powered people become irrevocably intertwined when the lights go out in New York City, plunging their world into chaos. The superheroes of Just Cause, grow...

  • Pariah's War

    Book Two of The Pariah of Verigo seriesAs one life ends, another begins anew for Giele Pariah as he settles among the Horks and prepares to become a father. But as a former soldier, he knows peace can only last so long. A young Hork woman from a dist...

  • Assassin

    In the distant future, in our own galactic backyard... With the Confederation on the brink of war, the Watchtower organization struggles to maintain peace despite the ongoing threat of the Secessionists. A killer is picking off Watchmen one by one. F...

  • Plague Ship

    -A Short Story-When the crew of the tramp freighter and sometime pirate ship Kangaroo accidentally brings the Martian Flu back on board, temporary captain Seattle Kelly orders a raid upon Callisto Colony for medical supplies. Her younger brother Vanc...

  • Pressure

    In an alternate 1899 when steam-powered spaceships ply the skies, pilot Mikhail Gusarov and the crew of the Hannibal's Bride embark upon a desperate, time-sensitive mission. The pressures of the journey will test even the sturdiest spacemen. A preque...

  • Deep Six

    When criminals are convicted, they go to jail. When they have parahuman abilities, they go to Deep Six, the most secure prison facility in the world. Six thousand feet underground, nobody has ever escaped from the maximum security facility. Until now...



  • JCU Omnibus, Vol. 1

    A collection of seven short stories set in the Just Cause Universe of superhero fiction. The Freakshow, Arrowheads, and Dust to Dust previously appeared in the collection Those Who Came Before (out of print). The Scent of Rose Petals previously appea...

  • Space Sharks

    You've seen Sharknado. You've watched Ghost Shark. Now killer sharks take to their highest altitude ever in the book that absolutely no one asked for, but everybody wants to read: Space Sharks. That's right. Sharks. In space. What more do you want?...

  • Jackrabbit

    Jay is having a pretty bad day at school. His popular cheerleader girlfriend just dumped him and a jock spilled soda all over his brand new Nikes. So when the God of Rabbits recruits him to save the world from an invasion of interstellar cockroaches,...

  • Naming Bullets

    Naming Bullets is a prequel to Western Fantasy series, The Pariah of Verigo, which includes the novels Pariah's Moon and Pariah's War. An Elven explorer named Giryati is waylaid by bandits in the frontier continent of Verigo. A native medicine woman ...

  • Making the Cut

    Making the Cut is a Young Adult/New Adult novel about two girls competing in a televised cooking competition. Midori comes from San Francisco, and grew up in a family that owns a restaurant. All she ever wanted to do was cook, but in Japanese culture...

  • Champion

    ""I will show you fear in a handful of dust." ~T.S. EliotWhen Just Cause hero Orb is murdered using a new kind of nanotechnology, Mustang Sally will stop at nothing to find and bring to justice his killer. Not even her longtime me"...

  • The Ghost in the Barbershop

    A Muddy Creek short story set in the Weird Wild West. When Muddy Creek barber Angus discovers a vengeful spirit haunting his shop, shenanigans ensue as the town sheriff tries to figure out a way to dispose of a ghost....

  • Ebony and Ivory

    It's the first Devil's Night as cop for rookie police officer Veronica Preston, but not even going through the Police Academy in Detroit in 1974 could prepare her for what she'll encounter after nightfall....

  • Pedals

    A Tale from After the Apocalypse Once the gasoline ran out, the only way for the wasteland wanderers to get around was on bicycles. Gibs is one of those lost souls, only living from day to day and mile after mile. Existing, not living. Sometimes hun...

  • Castles

    As a new president takes the White House, Just Cause returns to New York City for the first time in eight years, under the command of its newest leader: Mustang Sally. But not everyone is excited about the expansion of Just Cause. Senator Christine G...



  • Villains

    The second anthology from the authors of the Pen & Cape Society contains eleven all-new tales from the wrong side of the law. The proceeds of this collection will benefit long-time comic book author James Hudnall, who has fallen upon hard times, losi...

  • The Bulletproof Badge

    A collection of tales featuring super-strong and damage-resistant parahuman police officer Harry Blaine, set in the Just Cause Universe. Bulletproof: Police officer Harry Blaine has kept his superpowers secret for more than twenty years, but when a p...

  • Jcu Omnibus Volume 1

    A collection of seven short stories set in the Just Cause Universe of superhero fiction.

    The Freakshow: Four parahuman American soldiers go behind enemy lines in World War II only to discover a terrifying secret Nazi project.

    The Scent of Ros...

  • JCU Omnibus Volume 2: Just Cause Stories

    The second anthology of Just Cause Universe stories is here to add more depth and breadth to this world of superheroes and supervillains!Blacklisted is the tale of how Just Cause was created from the ashes of the first American superhero team, Americ...

  • JCU Omnibus, Vol. 2

    The second anthology of Just Cause Universe stories is here to add more depth and breadth to this world of superheroes and supervillains! This volume contains three all-new never-before-published stories and two reprints.Blacklisted is the tale of ho...

  • Muddy Creek Tales

    This collection includes both previously-published and all-new stories:

    THE MIGHTY PECULIAR INCIDENT AT MUDDY CREEK-What starts out as something simple as a train failing to stop winds up as something mighty peculiar indeed.

    CLOCKWOR...

  • The Lion and the Five Deadly Serpents

    Man. Lion. Warrior.

    Enigmatic superhero Lionheart was always cut from a different cloth than his teammates on Just Cause, so when he learns his old kung fu teacher, Master Chou, is dying, he doesn't hesitate to travel halfway around the world to p...

  • The Oilman's Daughter

    1907: A world of steam and steel, of brass and bravery. Spaceships ply the lanes above the Earth, running on coke furnaces and a prayer, while the atomic-powered Circumferential Rail runs the route between Paris, France, and Houston, Texas. Where the...

  • Tusks

    MAKE A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL

    A few years ago, Mustang Sally had to make a deal with her worst enemy in the entire world: Destroyer, the man who killed her father. He agreed to use his technology to reverse a nanotech plague and save the world. His p...

  • The Neighborhood Watch

    Seventh-grade Superheroes It's not easy being a twelve-year-old superhero, but the five kids of the Neighborhood Watch are doing the best they can. "La Capitana" super-strong flier. "Wheels" brilliant inventor. "Hothead" catches on fire. "Breezy" co...



  • High Contrast

    A collection of eight tales ranging from horror to superhero, science fiction to post-apocalyptic, that examine the darker aspects of the world. -Bread and Circuses: This weary warrior has been fighting battles for a very long time. -Dental Plan: Rob...

  • The Scene Stealers

    Steal Big. The Crew: Olivia, the Director; Anjanae, the Artist; Pancho, the Techie; Kennedy, the Actress; Jerome, the Money Man; Vajra, the Thug. The Target: A painting of Anjanae's deceased mother, stolen from her and presented for sale by a profess...

  • Horde

    Orcs used to be a fearsome fighting force, and the unleashing of the Horde brought terror to Humans, Elves, and Dwarves time and time again over the centuries. Nowadays, there aren't any more Ultimate Evils, Necromancers, or Dark Wizards left to hire...

  • Airship Lies

    Airship Lies is a Steampunk/Western anthology containing five stories from the Age of Wonder, ranging from the Old West to the wilderness beyond the Frontier to the very edge of space itself. Pressure: In a world where men have begun their conquest o...

  • Arena

    ""The enemy of my enemy. "Humanity has spent decades calling into the stars, seeking assurances that we are not alone in the galaxy. After many years of silence, someone has answered. The Hind came from afar, not to extend the"...

  • The Homefront

    First came the Superheroes in The Good Fight. Then came their dastardly opponents in The Good Fight 2: Villains. The heroes found help in The Good Fight 3: Sidekicks. Now The Pen & Cape Society returns with The Good Fight 4: Homefront. Ever wonder ho...

  • The Path

    TRAPPED IN THE GAME Vanitha is the world's greatest parahuman hacker, who can physically enter computer systems to control them from the inside. To relax, she's created a Hindu-themed multiplayer online role-playing-game called The Path. When a myste...

  • Cinco de Mayo

    ALMOST OFFICIALFor the kids of the Neighborhood Watch, the final weeks of middle school are interminable. In the fall they will get to attend the Hero Academy, studying to become Just Cause superheroes. Their plans get derailed when police officers g...

  • The Golden Age

    Superheroes have been around for a long time, and the period from just before to several years after World War II is known as comics' golden age. In The Good Fight 5: The Golden Age, presented by the Pen and Cape Society, some of the best writers in ...

  • Search and Rescue

    ON TOP OF THE WORLDAs the world warms, civilian and commercial traffic through the Arctic increases. More people means a greater need for help, and Just Cause Arctic Circle is the superhero team assigned to find those who are lost and endangered due ...

  • Soldiers of Fortune

    Everything has a price.It was supposed to be a simple job for The Ghost, a 300-year-old unkillable mercenary: interrupt a prisoner transfer and deliver the prisoner to those footing the bill. Jingshen had done jobs like it thousands of times.But this...

  • Just Cause Universe Compendium

    From a single short story written in 2001 to a sprawling series of more than twenty books, the Just Cause Universe is a superheroic reflection of our times. Encompassing more than sixty years of history, these tales fill in the gaps, tell the side st...

  • Destroyer of Earth

    Either you die a villain or live long enough to see yourself become the hero.Forty years ago, Harlan Washington began his one-man war against the superheroes of Just Cause.One day ago, he grudgingly allied with those heroes to defend the Earth from a...

  • Flint and Steel

    It's not working out.When Ava Zhang washes out of Just Cause Chicago, she figures her career as a superhero is over. Then she gets the opportunity to partner with experienced hero Detroit Steel, and the two of them work to halt the distribution of a ...

  • The Club

    The mystery of their lives.La Capitana and the other teens of the Neighborhood Watch have spent their entire lives wondering why they have parahuman powers but not the genetic marker known to grant them. When their former rivals, the Arnold triplets,...

  • Jackrabbit: Rinse and Repeat

    WHEN THE GOING GETS WEIRD, THE WEIRD TURN PROJackrabbit is stuck in a time loop, living the same day over and over again.Jackrabbit is stuck in a time loop, living the same day over and over again and it keeps resetting no matter what he does.Jackrab...

  • Posse

    They thought he was dead.They were dead wrong.Fifteen years ago, the supervillain Misrule disappeared beneath the waves of the Mediterranean, never to be seen again.Until now.When he resurfaces in the Middle East and begins recruiting a team of merce...

  • Extinction Event

    SHE IS COMINGDeep beneath the Earth’s crust, an ancient prisoner has been trapped for 66 million years. When a nuclear blast cracks open her cell, she fights to get free and exact terrible vengeance by obliterating all life. The world’s s...

  • Roast Wyvern

    Chef Muffin is no adventurer, but she's going to have to figure out how to become one. She's got to prepare a fantastic dish for a royal wedding, using ingredients she's never heard of, that she'll have to travel the breadth of the world to find. If ...

  • Rain Must Fall

    You can check out any time you like.Super-powered assassin Jes is done. After spending years performing jobs for the shadowy organization called The Source, he's decided to stop. But with a Seattle PD detective hot on his trail, The Source can't risk...

  • Jackrabbit: Big in Japan

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    OH, JAPAN . . .All Jackrabbit, Herald of the Rabbit God Leporidus, wanted to do was give his best friend Bunny a nice pre-wedding gift in the form of a trip to Japan.Naturally, Bunny is kidnapped by ninjas shortly after their arrival, forcing Jackrab...

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Ian Thomas Healy has published 70 books.

Ian Thomas Healy does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Rain Must Fall, was published in March 2025.

The first book by Ian Thomas Healy, Graceful Blur, was published in January 2011.

No. Ian Thomas Healy does not write books in series.
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