James P. Blaylock

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  • Bibliography:
    36 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1982
  • Latest Book:
    February 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Balumnia

1 - The Elfin Ship (Jul-1982)
2 - The Disappearing Dwarf (Aug-1985)
3 - The Stone Giant (May-1989)

Christian

1 - The Last Coin (1988)
2 - The Paper Grail (Feb-1992)
3 - All the Bells on Earth (Nov-1995)

Ghosts

1 - Night Relics (Mar-1994)
2 - Winter Tides (Aug-1997)
3 - The Rainy Season (Aug-1999)

Narbondo

1 - The Digging Leviathan (Aug-1984)
2 - Homunculus (Mar-1986)
3 - Lord Kelvin's Machine (Feb-1992)
4 - The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives (Dec-2008)
5 - The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs (Jul-2011)

A Tale of Langdon St. Ives

The Aylesford Skull (Jan-2013)

Book List in Order: 36 titles

  • The Elfin Ship

    Balumnia - 1

    Trading with the elves used to be so simple. Every year Master Cheeser Jonathan Bing would send his very best cheeses downriver to traders who would eventually return with Elfin wonders for the people of Twombly Town. But no more. First the trading p...

  • The Digging Leviathan

    Narbondo - 1

    Born with a set of gills, webbed fingers, and flippers, Giles Peach, an ingenious, imaginative young man addicted to the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs, becomes convinced that he is an exiled native of the center of the earth and sets out to return ho...

  • The Disappearing Dwarf

    Balumnia - 2

    The Disappearing Dwarf is the fantastic sequel of Blaylock's "The Elfin Ship" and while it stands out as one of my favorite books of all time, you must understand the Blaylockian mindset to know why. Again the characters Jonathan Bing, Ahab, Professo...

  • Homunculus

    Narbondo - 2

    It is the late 19th century and a mysterious airship orbits through the foggy skies. Its terrible secrets are sought by many, including the Royal Society, a fraudulent evangelist, a fiendish vivisectionist, an evil millionaire and an assorted group l...

  • Axolotl Double A-1

  • Land of Dreams

    The 12-year solstice has come. And with it, a sinister carnival brings a new sense of terror and wonder to a small coastal town. An enormous shoe is washed up on the shore…a tiny man disguises himself as a mouse…a crow provides eyes fo...

  • The Last Coin

    Christian - 1

    Thirty pieces of silver -- the price paid Judas to betray Jesus. Twenty-nine coins--are already in the hands of a very unpleasant individual who calls himself Pennyman. The Last Coin--all that stands between the world and doom. And this coin no...

  • The Stone Giant

    Balumnia - 3

    Theophile Escargot, cast out of Twombly Town for the crime of stealing his own pie, bade a midnight farewell to his unfeeling neighbours and set out on a journey to fabled Balumnia. There he would clash with the master of an elfin airship and a co...

  • Lord Kelvin's Machine

    Narbondo - 3

    Determined to avert the doom of his beloved wife, scientist and detective Langdon St. Ives sees his only hope for doing so in Lord Kelvin's time machine, but the diabolical Dr. Ignacio Narbondo has other plans for the invention. Reprint....



  • The Paper Grail

    Christian - 2

    A California museum curator goes to Mendocino to pick up a nineteenth-century woodcut sketch for his collection and runs into strange characters who seem to think the folded scrap of paper holds magnificent powers. Reprint....

  • Night Relics

    Ghosts - 1

    Attempting to come to terms with a failed marriage and longing for his son, Peter Travers's struggle to build a new life is haunted by mysterious visions of a woman and child as the spirits of the past come alive and a dark and terrible secret refuse...

  • All the Bells on Earth

    Christian - 3

    Three people in the town of Orange, California, confront bizarre instances of evil in their own backyards and learn that the battle between good and evil goes on every day right in front of them. Reprint....

  • Thirteen Phantasms and Other Stories

    • / Science Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    The first short story collection from Philip K. Dick Award-winning author James Blaylock features sixteen thought-provoking forays into the fantastic-from a tale of alien influence on an ordinary neighborhood to the story of one man's self-destruc...

  • Winter Tides

    Ghosts - 2

    Fifteen years after he is able to save only one of two identical twins from drowning, Dave Quinn meets struggling artist Anne, unaware that she is the twin he saved and that the ghost of her dead sister is with her. Reprint....

  • Old Curiosity Shop

  • The Rainy Season

    Ghosts - 3

    While grieving over the unexpected death of his young wife, Phil Ainsworth finds his life further shaken by the death of his sister and the arrival of his young niece, Betsy, a child with a special talent to hear the voices of the dead and to see the...

  • Thirteen Phantasma and Other Stories

    The first short story collection from Philip K. Dick Award-winning author James Blaylock features sixteen thought-provoking forays into the fantastic-from a tale of alien influence on an ordinary neighborhood to the story of one man's self-destructiv...

  • The Man in the Moon

  • The Devils in the Details



  • The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives

    Narbondo - 4

    A good deal of controversy arose late in the last century over what has been referred to by the more livid newspapers as The Horror in St. James Park or The Ape-box Affair....

    So begins the first chronicle in the long and often obscure life o...

  • The Knights of the Cornerstone

    Calvin Bryson has hidden himself away from the world, losing himself in his work and his collection of rare and quirky books. He never meant to let so much time go by without visiting his aunt and uncle in the tiny town of New Cyprus, California. Whe...

  • Metamorphosis

    ...Metamorphosis: three stories, each one involving a man who discovers that he has come to dwell, for an hour or for a lifetime, in a house and in a mind not quite his own. Each one opens doors onto rooms of illusion, radiance, regret, and dark ench...

  • The Ebb Tide

    A flaming meteor over the Yorkshire Dales, a long-lost map drawn by the lunatic Bill “Cuttle” Kraken, and the discovery of a secret subterranean shipyard beneath the River Thames lead Professor Langdon St. Ives and his intrepid friend Jack Owlesb...

  • The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs

    Narbondo - 5

    Subterranean Press is proud to announce the longest Langdon St. Ives adventure in two decades, featuring a full-color wraparound dust jacket and twenty black-and-white interior illustrations by J. K. Potter. An outbreak of violent madness at the ...

  • The Magic Spectacles

    A YA adventure from World Fantasy Award winning author James P. Blaylock. A suddenly appearing curiosity shop owned by a small man who might, or might not, be the Man in the Moon; a pair of strange spectacles buried in a fishbowl full of marbles; an...

  • Zeuglodon

    A skeletal hand clutching an iron key lies hidden within a mermaid's wooden sarcophagus; a hand-drawn map is stolen from beneath the floorboards an old museum; an eccentric sleeping inventor dreams of a passage to the center of the hollow earth, and ...

  • The Aylesford Skull

    A Tale of Langdon St. Ives

    It is the summer of 1883 and Professor Langdon St. Ives - brilliant but eccentric scientist and explorer - is at home in Aylesford with his family. However, a few miles to the north a steam launch has been taken by pirates above Egypt Bay; the crew m...

  • Steam Punk: The Beginning

    features over 80 illustrations of characters and scenes from three seminal Steampunk novels: Homonculus (Berkley Publishing Group, 1986) by James Blaylock, Infernal Devices (St. Martins Press, 1987) by K.W. Jeter, and Anubis Gates (Berkley Publishing...

  • The Adventure of the Ring of Stones

    The secret log of a murdered lighthouse keeper falls into the hands of the immensely wealthy Gilbert Frobisher, who discovers encoded within it a stunning and dangerous mystery. Against all odds Langdon St. Ives and his companions set sail in the ...



  • Beneath London

    The collapse of the Victoria Embankment uncovers a passage to an unknown realm beneath the city. Langdon St. Ives sets out to explore it, not knowing that a brilliant and wealthy psychopathic murderer is working to keep the underworld’s secrets hid...

  • In for a Penny

    This mesmerizing collection from World Fantasy Award-winner James P. Blaylock offers seven brilliant excursions into one of the most idiosyncratic imaginations of our time. Highlighted by the acclaimed novella, THE TRISMEGISTUS CLUB―a brilliant rif...

  • The Further Adventures of Langdon St. Ives

    Subterranean Press is proud to present "The Further Adventures of Langdon St. Ives," which includes three classic adventures, a new novella and novelette, and more than forty illustrations by J. K. Potter. Langdon St. Ives, explorer, scientist, na...

  • River's Edge

    The body of a girl washes up on a mud bank along the edge of the River Medway amid a litter of poisoned fish and sea birds, casting an accusing shadow upon the deadly secrets of the Majestic Paper Mill and its wealthy owners. Simple answers to the my...

  • The Gobblin' Society

    For more than thirty years, James P. Blaylock has enthralled and delighted readers with a series of stories, novels and novellas featuring Langdon St. Ives, adventurer, man of science, Victorian gentleman. The best of these, such as Beneath Lo...

  • The Steampunk Adventures of Langdon St. Ives

    Within this volume lie the complete Steampunk short stories of Professor Langdon St. Ives, Victorian adventurer, written by avowed Steampunk Legend, James P. Blaylock. St. Ives, traveler through time and space and an often misunderstood member of the...

  • Pennies from Heaven

    Jerry Larkin discovers an age-old secret buried beneath the foundation of the house that he and his wife Jane, an avid reader of ghost stories, bought six months ago in the idyllic town of Old Orange in southern California.Jane Larkin, whose MacArthu...

Award-Winning Books by James P. Blaylock

Homunculus
1987 Philip K. Dick Award -- Novel
Thirteen Phantasms and Other Stories
1997 World Fantasy Award -- Short Story


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

James P. Blaylock has published 36 books.

James P. Blaylock does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Pennies from Heaven, was published in February 2023.

The first book by James P. Blaylock, The Elfin Ship, was published in July 1982.

Yes. James P. Blaylock has 5 series.
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