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  • Bibliography:
    11 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2011
  • Latest Book:
    June 2020
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Full Series List in Order

The Twelve-Fingered Boy Trilogy

1 - The Twelve-Fingered Boy (Feb-2013)
2 - The Shibboleth (Mar-2014)
3 - The Conformity (Apr-2015)

Book List in Order: 11 titles



  • Recent World War II veteran Bull Ingram is working as muscle when a Memphis DJ hires him to find Ramblin' John Hastur. The mysterious blues man's dark, driving music - broadcast at ever-shifting frequencies by a phantom radio station - is said to mak...



  • The land is contaminated, electronics are defunct, the ravenous undead remain, and life has fallen into a nasty and brutish state of nature. Welcome to Bridge City, in what was once Arkansas: part medieval fortress, part Western outpost, and the prec...



  • Fifteen-year-old fast-talking Shreve is thriving in juvenile detention until he is assigned a strangely silent and vulnerable new cellmate, Jack, who might have superpowers and who attracts the attention of sinister Mr. Quincrux. ...



  • "There are certain shibboleths to our condition." At the end of the first book of The Twelve-Fingered Boy Trilogy, Jack and Shreve are incarcerado -- physically locked up. Shreve's back in the custody of the state of Arkansas, and Jack's somewhere in...



  • In the contested and unexplored territories at the edge of the Empire, a boat is making its laborious way up stream. Riding along the banks are the mercenaries hired to protect it - from raiders, bandits and, most of all, the stretchers, elf-like nat...



  • Mr. Quincrux is dead. Armistead Lucius Priest, founder of the Society of Extranaturals, is now seated uneasily in his protégés flesh, and though Priest's powers are not inconsiderable, the Conformity will not settle for the second-brightest flame i...



  • The world is on the brink of war. Fisk and Shoe - mercenaries, very much not wanting to get caught in the middle of a political whirlwind - must deliver a very important message, and find a very dangerous man. They have caught the eye of the powerful...



  • The world is burning. Rume is under attck. The Autumn Lords, rulers of the Tchinee empire, have had their true nature revealed. The Emperor descends into madness. And Fisk and Shoe - unlikely heroes, very likely mercenaries - must find their way to F...



  • They had escaped their country, but they couldn’t escape the past

    Having lost both her home and family to a brutal dictatorship, Isabel has fled to Spain, where she watches young, bronzed beauties and tries to forget the horrors that lie i...






  • The award-winning and critically-acclaimed master of horror returns with a pair of chilling tales -- both never-before-published in print -- that examine the violence and depravity of the human condition. Bringing together his acclaimed novella Th...



  • It's time to declare John Hornor Jacobs as a major author: every sentence he writes feels drawn from a pit of fire and hammered into a sword. --Daniel Kraus, New York Times bestselling co-author ofA terrifying collection of horror and crime noi...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Hornor Jacobs has published 11 books.

John Hornor Jacobs does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Murder Ballads and Other Horrific Tales, was published in June 2020.

The first book by John Hornor Jacobs, Southern Gods, was published in August 2011.

Yes. John Hornor Jacobs has 1 series.