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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1975
  • Latest Book:
    July 2016
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Full Series List in Order

Tomoe Gozen Saga

1 - The Disfavored Hero (Apr-2015)

Book List in Order: 24 titles



  • The problem with being a spy is that you have to make friends with the enemy. Dray Prescot, Earthman, who had become prince of Vallia, was the kind of man who always stood by his friends. So in his quest to learn the war secrets of Hamal, empire of t...






  • In the next dimension there is a world very much like ours, and on this world is an island nation much like our own Japan. In Naipon, however, the myths and dreams of the Japanese people are clothed in reality -- sorcerers make magicks great and smal...



  • Tomoe turns to religion to escape her past, but destiny is not through with her yet The young girl crashes through the underbrush, desperate to escape the cackling soldiers at her back. After catching her in a tryst with a local farm boy, they intend...




  • Tales of horror and suspense detail an evil presence guarding a pond of floating corpses, a close-up view of one of the strangest deaths in time travel, an attractive hitchhiker from a dark plane of existence, and others...



  • In love with the beautiful madwoman living in the forest, Lu Khen, an ordinary mortal, is forbidden to marry one blessed with the gift of madness, so he sets out to win it for himself by discovering the forbidden tombs of the Lost Dynasty...







  • Where a half-witted genius, abandoned at birth, searches for his past identity and collides with his terrifying destiny. Where a young girl's obsession for samurai movies becomes the ultimate ticket to death. And where demons dance with saints, while...






  • Buried in the world of his own imagination, painter Anthony Shriek finds his dormant emotions awakened by the arrival of a bizarre and alluring woman whose presence turns his paintings into gateways to another world...



  • Take a spine-tingling tour of the Pacific Northwest's dark side andlearn the local legends told around the fireplaces forgenerations. Haunts include home and hotels, schools and churches,lighthouses and graveyards....




  • Winner of a 1989 Lambda Literary Award, this collection of twenty-four entertaining and haunting 19th-and 20th-century tales from the US, Britain, and Latin America reclaims a literary tradition that has long been overlooked. Using such techniques as...



  • An all-new collection of twenty-seven original tales by some of the finest authors of contemporary horror includes chilling works by Poppy Z. Brite, Peter Crowther, Edo van Belkom, Richard Laymon, Lucy Taylor, David Niall Wilson, Caitlin R. Kiernan, ...



  • Salmonson, author of 'Anthony Shriek,' 'Tomoe Gozen,' and 'The Ghost Garden,' is interested in pattern and shape here, image and sound, not sense and plot, character and reason, and so, as you read, existence becomes increasingly unstable. Before lon...



  • This is a kabbalistic interpretation of the biography of Merlin drawing on many traditional sources for Merlin and other familiar characters of King Arthur's court. It will impact even the longest long-term Arthurian devotees in unexpected ways, so t...






  • These fables are restored from translated fragments of cuneiform writings dating to between 2000 B.C. and 1500 B.C. Cuneiform is the oldest form of writing, invented in the nation of Sumer. In these old fables are many witty sayings and sentiments re...



  • Forced to betray her lord, a disgraced samurai fights to regain her honor In the fabled land of Naipon, there is no warrior more feared, no samurai more respected than the legendary Tomoe Gozen, whose twin blades can change the course of any battle. ...




  • Fourteen stories detailing Penelope Pettiwather's quest to understand the nature of ghosts. Full of the rich history and landscape of Salmonson's northwest USA, these quiet tales will appeal to the fan of the traditional ghost story. Jessica Amanda S...



Award-Winning Books by Jessica Amanda Salmonson

What Did Miss Darrington See?
1989 Lambda Literary Award -- Lesbian SF/Fantasy


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jessica Amanda Salmonson has published 24 books.

Jessica Amanda Salmonson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Complete Weird Epistles of Penelope Pettiweather, Ghost Hunter, was published in July 2016.

The first book by Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Bladesman of Antares, was published in August 1975.

Yes. Jessica Amanda Salmonson has 1 series.