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  • The BAD BLOOD trilogy by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald, complete in one volume. Includes Bad Blood, Hunters' Moon, and Judgment Night. As an added special, "Up the Airy Mountain," a Bad Blood short story, is included in this book. The Moon is Fu...



  • All Madhouse Manor e-books are presented DRM-free. You can read or store them on any device.Ghosts and LegendsA collection of fantasy stories by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald. From King Arthur's court to modern New Hampshire, from the high seas...



  • Contains:"The Last Real New Yorker in the World"It's the future. New York City is an amusement park. And the guy who calls himself The Last Real New Yorker in the World is about to get an offer he can't refuse."Dies Irae"First time in print! A milita...



  • All Madhouse Manor books are presented without Digital Rights Management (DRM). You can store them or read them on any device.Vampires and ShapeshiftersWerewolves ... and worse. We present a collection of dark fantasy short stories from Debra Doyle ...



  • Hunters' Moon is the second volume in the Val Sherwood/Bad Blood series by best-selling and award-winning authors Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald. Val faces the twin horrors of a master vampire and high-school dating as she explores the world of l...



  • "I HAD A BAD DREAM..."Valerie Sherwood knew all about nightmares. Three years ago she was turned into a werewolf, and ever since that strange moonlit night, she understood the power of the darkness. The only thing to fear was fear itself. And tonight...



  • A new look at a classic tale from the award-winning and best-selling team of Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald. "Holly and Ivy" originally appeared in Camelot: A Collection of Original Arthurian Stories, edited by Jane Yolen.  (Philomel, 1...







  • A short story collection by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald.Fantasy and science fiction from the best selling and award-winning team of Doyle and Macdonald: From humor to horror; realistic and fantastic; past, present, and future. Six tales that a...



  • This story first appeared in A Starfarer's Dozen, edited by Michael Stearns, Jane Yolen Books, Harcourt Brace, 1995....



  • A serial killer is murdering strippers. But there's more to this case than just some loony with a taste for blood... it will take the talents of Orville Nesbit, psychic investigator, to find and stop the killer.About 6,000 wordsA short story from the...




  • "On Suivi Point" first appeared in Cosmic Tales: Adventures in the Far Future, T. K. F. Weisskopf, ed. Baen Books, 2005. +++ "A Death in the Working" first appeared in Murder by Magic, Rosemary Edghill, ed., Warner/Aspect, October 2004....



  • Hunters' MoonBitten by a werewolf, Valerie had no choice but to accept the bloodthirsty call of the full moon. Even though she vowed never to kill humans, children were being murdered in the night -- drained of blood. On their necks was the mark of t...



  • Told in the spirit of an old sailor's fireside tale, "Jenny Nettles" is a middle-grade supernatural story set on the high seas, featuring true-to-life historical detail, real seafaring superstitions, and a delicate introduction to the atrocities suff...



  • "Foreshadowing of impending doom and a bit of dark humor woven into the story kept me waiting in suspense for what what was to come." -- Sift Book Reviews +++ This story originally appeared in Newer York, edited by Lawrence Watt Evans, Roc, 1991. +++...



  • One evening in 1848, an American scholar, visiting Romania, at an inn for dinner and sleep. Before the night is out he will be plunged into a wild adventure of murder, supernatural evil, and intrigue. Overtones of paranoia and undertones of unreso...



  • The Queen has a mirror in her bed chamber, a mirror covered with a thick velvet drape. By royal command, none may look into it.A fantasy story that first appeared A Wizard's Dozen, edited by Michael Stearns.Praise for A Wizard's Dozen:"...page turnin...






  • "The standout, James D. Macdonald's 'A Tremble in the Air,' introduces a psychic detective, Orville Nesbit, who's clearly heir to the tradition of such sleuths as Algernon Blackwood's John Silence and who deserves to live on in further tales."-- Publ...



  • In the First Year came the Plague, and in the Tenth Year the Burning, and afterwards came the Grooglemen out of the Dead Lands....—A History of the New World From the Beginning to the Present Day, by Absolom Steerforth, Speaker of the Amity Cro...



  • Peter Crossman is a man with a mission . . . and his boss is literally out of this world. His world is a dangerous place . . . and it's Peter Crossman's job to protect it. Men of the cloth can only do so much. Against ancient evils, you need the ...


Books Written with a Co-Author


Debra Doyle; James D. MacDonald
Danger in the Palace ()
School of Wizardry (1990)
Secret of the Tower (1990)
The High King's Daughter (1990)
The Wizard's Castle (1990)
The Wizard's Statue (1990)
The Price of the Stars (Oct-1992)
Starpilot's Grave (Jun-1993)
Uncle Joshua and the Grooglemen (Sep-1993)
By Honor Betray'd (Jul-1994)
The Gathering Flame (Jul-1995)
The Long Hunt (Aug-1996)
The Stars Asunder (Jun-1999)
Requiem for Boone (Aug-2000)
A Working of Stars (Apr-2002)
Land of Mist and Snow (Dec-2006)
Lincoln's Sword (Aug-2010)
The Confessions of Peter Crossman (Oct-2010)
The Devil in the Details (Jul-2014)

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

James D. Macdonald has published 22 books.

James D. Macdonald does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Clockwork Trollop, was published in December 2013.

The first book by James D. Macdonald, The Apocalypse Door, was published in November 2002.

No. James D. Macdonald does not write books in series.