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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1975
  • Latest Book:
    September 2019
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Multi-Author Series List

Birthstone Gothic

7 - Blood Ruby (1975)

Zodiac Gothic

The Lion's Gate (Jul-1976)

Book List in Order: 21 titles



  • Pursued by Ghastly Horror! The severe shock of her parents' brutal deaths had plunged Helen into a world of psychiatrists and treatment at the Villa de Valle clinic. Now free to return to their shadowy old mansion, the scene of the gruesome mu...



  • Ruby Of Everlasting Death It was a Burma ruby. According to legend, it had the magic power to grant anything the heart desired. But it was cursed, and all who owned the stone would die tragically, damned for eternity. When Joseph Hanson inhe...



  • The Sign of Leothe Lion From childhood Peggy had loved her adopted sister Allison with a protective warmth that could only have come from a true Leo. But when Allison disappears from the family lake cottage, Peggy must call on her last ounce of stren...



  • STRANGE HOUSE, STRANGE PEOPLE "This is not an ordinary house," said Paul Langdon unnecessarily, but it seemed as though the inhabitants of Langdon's Purlieu could not rest content without impressing that fact upon the visitor. Jeannie had felt the...



  • Young Christmas Channing returns to Jeff because he tells her that his life's in danger, that he's being poisoned with arsenic by his wife. But when she arrives at Morgan House, she doesn’t find what she expects -- only David, the strange, ...



  • One bicycle accident changes everything when the self-absorbed New Yorker Madeleine Fox literally runs into brash Shanghai dissident David Li, in a tale that is like following an escapee from a Woody Allen movie as she looks for love and meaning amid...



  • The Mysterious Bayou Jennifer Hale, orphaned and destitute in the wake of the Civil War, arrived at Darkwater full of hope. The cold reception she received alarmed her. So did the screams of Alicia, the dying mistress of the plantation. Perhaps mo...



  • LA DEUXIEME…a house of sinister legend, site of a ghastly historical tragedy, said to be haunted… Liza Durant came to La Deuxieme and found herself caught in a strange masquerade -- pretending to be the wife of Jeffry Forrest, master of the ho...



  • A STRANGE SATANIC POWER WAS STALKING HER ... Fleeing from the tragedy of a loved-one's death, beautiful Ellen Miles come to her aunt's Southern mansion to regain her strength. Although she had only recently suffered a nervous breakdown, El...






  • Pretty, petite Mary Kirkpatrick was not given to fanciful flights of the imagination. But from the evening she came to work as governess at Green Willows, she was convinced that a ghost wandered the dark rambling halls at night. According to vill...



  • Ming, born in a bleak outpost of Sichuan province, finds an unexpected glimpse of the world beyond when she when she meets a talking monkey with golden eyes and supernatural abilities -- the immortal Monkey King, with whom Ming’s destiny is inextri...



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    Elizabeth Parker comes to Brazil to take up a job as a schoolteacher in the declining city of Manalos, skirting the Amazonian jungle. Hoping to start a new life, she instead finds forbidden love with the husband of her employer, the aristocratic Kitt...



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    THE DEVIL'S DANCE! A ring of evil buried in an ancient forest, the Devil's Dance belongs to the country of the Melungeons, that strange race of outcasts whose prehistoric origin is unknown. People believe that they worship the Devil himself, pract...



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    Masquerading as an heiress, Carol Andrews is drawn to a dark love...and an waiting madness......



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    House of Fear When Antoinette swindled Margaree Harrod out of the old estate on Cape Breton Island, Margaree swore on her mother's grave that she'd win it back. But blocking her ambition are three deadly obstacles: Antoinette, the mansion's bit...



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    A SHOCKING NOVEL OF SEX AND HORROR The old painting was done on glass, and found beneath the ruins of the ancient, decaying French mansion that Emily Hastings' sister, Irene, had inherited from the estate of the Marquis de Garac. The cold and dist...



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    Fool's End was named for the end of land on which the big old house sat, a dead end street of a promontory that went nowhere. It jutted into the ocean like a gnarled and solemn finger...and when Toby Stewart first arrived at the house coming as a su...



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    The House of Death After a whirlwind courtship, Karen Hanson married Allen Denver and returned with him to his foreboding mansion on Rose Point. She believed she was his first wife. She had no way of knowing the macabre death the first Mrs. Denver...



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    Three green men -- part of an ancient and priceless set of jade figurines, the seven immortals. According to legend, they bestowed good luck and happiness, but the luck that Nancy Durant was having was anything but good. It was true, romance had come...






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    Maggie Berke, grandest of the Hollywood grand dames, retired from acting to support her son, a talented child film star. But cruel fate, in the form of pneumonia, soon ended his career. Blaming herself for his demise, Maggie remains in her Hollywood ...



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    THE MARK OF THE BEAST! Dark tragedy strikes the three Cray brothers: two girls have been brutally torn apart by vicious beasts, and the countryside around Cray Manor blazes with the legends of the werewolf. No one believes that a man could have cause...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jan Alexander has published 21 books.

Jan Alexander does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Ms. Ming's Guide to Civilization, was published in September 2019.

The first book by Jan Alexander, The Haunting of Helen Wren, was published in January 1975.

No. Jan Alexander does not write books in series.