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  • Bibliography:
    35 Books
  • First Book:
    January 2009
  • Latest Book:
    November 2024
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Book List in Order: 35 titles



  • This book takes the reader on an adventure not only to a distant planet and the challenges its people face but to different ways of understanding the nature of consciousness and the potentials within humanity. Compelling characters are caught in a co...



  • Author John Michael Greer, host of the blog "The Archdruid Report," a weekly peak oil blog, brings together twelve original tales selected from among his readers. Each story offers glimpses into possible futures where oil scarcity and lower energy av...



  • Tested skills for thriving in the age of limitsMerlin, Gandalf, Voldemort-these well-known sorcerers from popular culture are famed for their amazing spells and spectacular magical powers. In ancient times however, a wizard was actually a freelance i...



  • The political theorist and author of After Progress examines the future of U.S. dominance on the world stage in this persuasive and provocative book. The decline and fall of America's global empire is the central feature of today's geopolitical lands...



  • More than four centuries have passed since industrial civilization stumbled to its ruin under the self-inflicted blows of climate change and resource depletion. Now, in the ruins of a deserted city, a young man mining metal risks his life to win a pr...



  • A chilling high-concept geo-political thriller where a declining United States and a resurgent China come to the brink of all out nuclear war.The year is 2025. Oil is the black gold that controls the fortunes of all nations and the once-mighty United...



  • John Michael Greer, author and host of the popular weekly peak oil blog, "The Archdruid Report," returns with another collection of twelve tales from the post oil future. As Industrial civilization staggers beneath its myriad dysfunctions, ordinary p...



  • In this latest installment, of the popular After Oil anthology series, John Michael Greer, author and host of the popular weekly peak oil blog, The Archdruid Report, brings us twelve original stories of a world centuries ahead where oil and fossil fu...



  • In this latest installment, of the popular After Oil anthology series, John Michael Greer, author and host of the popular weekly peak oil blog, The Archdruid Report, brings us twelve original stories of a world centuries ahead where oil and fossil fu...






  • Centuries after the death of Earth, an ancient evil stirs on the colony world of Eridan. Six killing machines have lunged out of the northern barrens to annihilate an isolated community. The one clue to the motive behind the killings is locked within...



  • In this fourth addition to the popular After Oil anthology series, John Michael Greer, author and host of the weekly peak oil big, The Archdruid Report, collects twelve new tales set in civilizations of the far future, a thousand years hence, in the ...



  • FORWARD TO THE PAST The year is 2065. Decades ago, the United States of America fell apart after four brutal years of civil war, and the fragments coalesced into new nations divided by economic and political rivalries. Most of the post-US America is...



  • At last, collected in a single volume, the short stories and narrative fictions that appeared during the eleven-year run of 'The Archdruid Report', author John Michael Greer’s weekly peak oil blog....



  • There Are Two Sides To Every Story

    Like every other grad student at Miskatonic University, Owen Merrill knows about the Great Old Ones, the nightmare beings out of ancient legend that H.P. Lovecraft unearthed from archaic texts and turned in...



  • A thrilling adventure on the other side of the Cthulhu Mythos: as the Old Gods awaken… Like other students at Miskatonic University, Jenny Parrish worries mostly about passing her finals and getting a graduate assistantship. Then an unexpecte...



  • A thrilling adventure on the other side of the Cthulhu Mythos: something sleeps with the hill… A last desperate hope brings Justin Martense to the little town of Dunwich in the Massachusetts hills. Justin’s family lies under an ancient ...



  • A thrilling adventure on the other side of the Cthulhu Mythos: onwards, to a country of dreams… For five and a half years, since the mysterious disappearance of two of her graduate students, Professor Miriam Akeley of Miskatonic Universityh...



  • A thrilling adventure on the other side of the Cthulhu Mythos: in a handful of dust… As the ancient war between the old gods of Earth and their bitter enemies rises toward a final confrontation, Owen Merrill sets out from his new home in Ar...



  • In the Shadow of Hob’s Hill...
    Brecken Kendall doesn’t plan on becoming a composer. She also doesn’t expect to encounter one of the eldritch realities H.P. Lovecraft borrowed for his weird fiction. A sophomore at Partridgeville State Unive...






  • A thrilling adventure on the other side of the Cthulhu Mythos: beneath Brooklyn’s sidewalk... The last thing Justin Martense wants to do is fling himself back into the ancient war between the Great Old Ones and their relentless enemies. Now t...



  • The Stars Are Right At Last...


    Twenty years have passed since the ancient war between the Great Old Ones and their bitter enemies swept Owen Merrill away from the world he thought he inhabited. As a seventh-degree initiate in the Starry W...




  • A Whisper from Carcosa...
    Five years have passed since Brecken Kendall met the shoggoth she nicknamed Sho and began to discover the unnerving realities hidden behind the stories of iconic weird-fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft. Now Brecken and S...



  • In times of such huge confusion, the little things go on. During the 'Ten Days that Shook the World' the cafés and theaters of Moscow and Petrograd stayed open, people fell in love, sued each other, died, shed sweat and tears; and some of the ...



  • A Haliverse fantasy: A legacy from the Eldritch past... Asenath Merrill, sixteen years old, spends her summers studying witchcraft in the village of Chorazin and her nights traveling the uncanny kingdoms of the Dreamlands. It’s all perfectl...



  • Welcome back! Are you ready for more interplanetary adventures? Return once again to a different age. Journey through a solar system fl ourishing with life, ancient civilizations, and plenty of dangers beyond every asteroid field!Vintage Wo...



  • Flash! Zoom! Ready for more interplanetary tales? Ready to visit a host of alien worlds right here in our own solar system?Welcome, to Vintage Worlds 3, the third volume of stories in the ongoing Vintage Worlds anthology series. This installment incl...



  • The Definitive Guide to the Haliverse...The seven novels of John Michael Greer's epic fantasy with tentacles, The Weird of Hali, and its four companion novels take place in an eldritch universe all their own, where the rules of H.P. Lovecraft's famou...



  • A race for survival… Twenty years have passed on the colony world Eridan since the end of the war between the warrior mystics of the Halka and the heirs of the tyrannical Planetary Directorate. With the Directorate and its lethal battle-drones ...



  • Sudden disruptions in power and other major services sends a city into chaos. In the blink of an eye, the modern technological world fails. Is it a government plot? Experiment gone wrong? A foreign cyber attack? Alien invasion? A mystical incursion f...






  • Explore the occult from ancient times to the modern day with one of its most respected scholars and practitioners.Take an enlightening journey through occult history, exploring 100 dramatic incidents, arcane knowledge, and key historical figures from...



  • Occult detective Ariel Moravec investigates the strange forces stirring in the little farm town of Criswell, where a famous witch lived in colonial times. Eighteen-year-old Ariel Moravec doesn't expect much from a summer with the grandfather she has...



  • Occult detective Ariel Moravec investigates the theft of a mysterious grimoire. Ariel Moravec has started her training as an apprentice mage and amateur sleuth, under the tutelage of her grandfather, Dr. Moravec. Her days are spent garbling herbs at ...



  • A cyberpunk mystery thriller Welcome to the USA a few decades into the future. Jerry Shimizu is a problem solver for the boss of Habitat 4, a repurposed deep sea oil rig some 2 miles offshore in the Atlantic Ocean. A mysterious girl, the rumoured loc...



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    In Merigan Tales: Stories from the World of Star’s Reach, author John Michael Greer brings together eight authors in a shared-world anthology of brand new tales inspired by his popular novel, Star’s Reach. These are stories of the far future in a...



    • / Dark Fantasy
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    A Haliverse fantasy: Beneath Greenland's glaciers... All Toby Gilman wants is a postdoc position where he can pursue his studies in ancient Arctic linguistics and keep the secret of his nonhuman ancestry safely hidden. The bitter academic politic...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Michael Greer has published 35 books.

The next book by John Michael Greer, The Hall of the Homeless Gods, will be published in November 2024.

The first book by John Michael Greer, The Fires of Shalsa, was published in January 2009.

No. John Michael Greer does not write books in series.