Jonathan Carroll

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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1980
  • Latest Book:
    July 2023
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Full Series List in Order

The Crane's View Trilogy

Kissing the Beehive (Jan-1998)
The Marriage of Sticks (Sep-1999)

Multi-Author Series List

Fairytale Retellings: Rumpelstiltskin

Sleeping in Flame (Feb-1989)

Book List in Order: 27 titles

  • Land of Laughs

    Schoolteacher Thomas Abbey travels into the enchanting supernatural when he begins the biography of his childhood idol, writer Marshall France, ironically aided by France's daughter Anna, who worshipped Abbey's own movie-star father...

  • Voice of Our Shadow

    Living in Vienna, Joseph Lennox, a young American writer haunted by the specter of his overbearing brother's tragic death, finds himself erotically, and ominously, involved with the strange and manic Paul and India Tate...

  • Bones of the Moon

    Cullen James is a young woman whose life dictates her dreams-and whose dreams control her life. In her first dream, she found the perfect man-and the same thing promptly happened in life. Now, she has begun to dream dreams set in Rondua, a fantasy w...

  • Sleeping in Flame

    Fairytale Retellings: Rumpelstiltskin

    “Jonathan Carroll is a cult waiting to be born, a novelist of rare and terrifying power.” -- Pat Conroy
     
    Ricocheting between Vienna and Los Angeles, between the worlds of desires and dreams, Sleeping in Flame is a hypnotic literary nove...

  • Child Across the Sky

    An inheritance from a suicidal friend leads a film director into an unimaginable reality in this novel by an author who is one of the special ones (Neil Gaiman). Like many young men before them, Weber and Philip went to Hollywood to make their fo...

  • The Moose Church

    in A Whisper of Blood

    ROBERT SILVERBERG uncovers the dark side of sunny suburbia when a stranger extracts the neuroses of an unsuspecting town.... SUZY McKEE CHARNAS lures a reluctant vampire to play a game with death.... JONATHAN CARROLL takes a dream vacation -- a...

  • Outside the Dog Museum

    Harry Radcliffe is a brilliant prize-winning architect---witty and remarkable. He's also a self-serving opportunist, ready to take advantage of whatever situations, and women, come his way. But now, newly divorced and having had an inexplicable ne...

  • Black Cocktail

  • After Silence

    Scarred by recent love affairs, L.A. cartoonist Max Fischer meets and moves in with Lily Aaron and her nine-year-old son, Lincoln, but soon discovers that Lily is running from a heinous crime she has committed....



  • From the Teeth of Angels

    Offers a convergence of three characters and three fates: Ian McGann, whose life depends on Death's answers to his questions; Arlen Ford, who flees Hollywood into the arms of a war correspondent; and Wyatt Leonard, terminally ill in Vienna but able t...

  • The Panic Hand

    The twenty stories collected here transmit the same intense charges of intellect and emotion that characterize Carroll's longer works. Among the many pleasures are: "Friend's Best Man" - An award-winning story about a dog that teaches its owner the r...

  • Kissing the Beehive

    The Crane's View Trilogy

    A writer returns to his hometown to look into a long-ago murder in this gripping literary thriller with a smashing and surprising climax ( Kirkus Reviews ). After nine books, three wives, and a massive advance for his as-yet-unwritten next novel, ...

  • The Marriage of Sticks

    The Crane's View Trilogy

    Miranda Romanac is a successful thirtysomething woman in today's modern world, yet she feels alone and adrift on the sea of her life. At her high school reunion she makes a shattering discovery that further undermines her already shaky sense of who s...

  • The Wooden Sea

    The Wooden Sea is the final novel in The Crane's View Trilogy from award-winning British fantasy author Jonathan Carrol.

    From the moment a three-legged dog limps into the life of Police Chief Frannie McCabe and drops dead at his feet, McCab...

  • White Apples

    Vincent Ettrich, a genial philanderer, discovers he has died and come back to life, but he has no idea why, or what the experience was like. Gradually, he discovers he was brought back by his true love, Isabelle, because she is pregnant with their...

  • Glass Soup

    For connoisseurs of imaginative fiction, the novels of Jonathan Carroll are a special treat that occupy a space all their own. His surreal fictions, which deftly mix the everyday with the extraordinary, have won him a devoted following. Now, in Glass...

  • The Ghost in Love

    Welcome to the luminous and marvelously inventive world of The Ghost in Love. A man falls in the snow, hits his head on a curb, and dies. But something strange occurs: the man doesn't die, and the ghost that's been sent to take his soul to the afterl...

  • The Woman Who Married a Cloud

    Described by Michael Dirda in The Washington Post as 'sexy, eery and addictive', the fiction of Jonathan Carroll occurs at the point where the ordinary becomes extraordinary, the commonplace becomes unsettling, and yet where we nonetheless always rec...

  • Bathing the Lion

    In Jonathan Carroll's surreal masterpiece, Bathing the Lion, five people who live in the same New England town go to sleep one night and all share the same hyper-realistic dream. Some of these people know each other; some don’t. When they wake...



  • Teaching the Dog to Read

    Since the appearance of his first novel, ''The Land of Laughs,'' in 1980, Jonathan Carroll has been one of the most compelling, consistently versatile storytellers in modern imaginative literature. His extraordinary new novella, ''Teaching the Dog to...

  • The Loud Table

    "The Loud Table" by Jonathan Carroll is an sf-fantasy about four elderly men who regularly hang out. One of the men is worried that he’s getting Alzheimer’s, but the truth might be even more discomforting.At the Publisher's request, this title is...

  • Played Your Eyes

    A fantasy about a woman bequeathed an odd gift by a former lover who broke up with her, then died -- his handwriting. Why did he do this and what does it mean? Find out in Jonathan Carroll's Played Your Eyes. At the Publisher's request, this title is...

  • Mama Bruise

    She was the first to fall. As she walked the dog one night, it saw something off to the side and bolted. A couple is concerned when their dog behaves increasingly bizarrely: first to their chagrin, and, eventually, to their alarm. . . in Jonathan C...

  • Barnstorming

    Davis Sterling, scion of Houston's leading newspaper family, was enjoying the playboy life until his father challenges him to make something of himself. Always a talented writer, his rebellious streak leads him to sports writing, a craft without the ...

  • Porgee's Boar

    In Jonathan Carrol's new Tor.com original short story, "Porgee's Bear," an artist's work attracts the eye of Andrey Porgee, a notorious gangster, who becomes her best customer. But when he commissions a painting based on a childhood photograph, the a...

  • Mr. Breakfast

    Graham Patterson is a middling comedian whose career (and love life) has gone up in smoke. After buying a new car, he embarks on a cross country road trip to see his brother Joel, to try and figure what he should do with himself and his career. Midwa...

  • Ceffo

    On a trip to Italy, a woman stuck in a crumbling relationship discovers the city she loves holds a secret that could change her life…At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied....

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jonathan Carroll has published 27 books.

Jonathan Carroll does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Ceffo, was published in July 2023.

The first book by Jonathan Carroll, Land of Laughs, was published in October 1980.

Yes. Jonathan Carroll has 1 series.
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