Matthew J. Costello

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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1985
  • Latest Book:
    April 2015
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Full Series List in Order

Guardians of the Three

3 - Wizard of Tizare (1990)

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Fire Below (Jan-1994)

Time Warrior

1 - Time of the Fox (Nov-1990)
2 - Hour of the Scorpion (Dec-1991)
3 - Day of the Snake (Jul-1992)

Multi-Author Series List

Guardians of the Three

Wizard of Tizare (1990)

Book List in Order: 24 titles

  • Alone against the Dark

    "ALONE AGAINST THE DARK is a sinister solo adventure for CALL OF CTHULHU roleplayers. Beginning with the theft of a priceless relic, four friends are drawn one by one into a dark design of mystery and terror. As first a quiet linguistics professor fr...

  • Revolt on Majipoor: A Crossroads Adventure in the World of R

  • Sleep Tight

    SWEET TERROR It started with a little boy. A little boy who sneaked out to go to the pool and was never seen again. Old Miss Waverly disappeared soon afterward. And then that hotshot student vanished into thin air. Things like this just didn't hap...

  • Wizard of Tizare

    Guardians of the Three - 3
    Guardians of the Three

    Set in Tizare, where all of the inhabitants have evolved from cats, this novel follows Falon, a young herdsman, who embarks on a perilous mission to the border city of Tizare, accompanied only by a would-be wizard and a half-wild child...

  • Midsummer

    When Alan Ward returns to Stoneywood with an infection that destroys one's body as well as one's soul, the pestilence spreads throughout the town, leaving a wake of evil that, if not stopped, will culminate at the midsummer carnival...

  • Child's Play 2

  • Time of the Fox

    Time Warrior - 1

    When grad student Jim Tiber hears about a time machine at Columbia University, his first plan is to go back in time and to meet the Beatles and study the way they rose from mediocrity. However, just as he''s about to discover their secret in 1962,...

  • Child's Play 3

    Eight years have passed since Andy Barclay's doll, Chucky, had terrorized his young life, and when the toy company brings the Good Guy doll back to the shelves, Chucky gets a second chance to play mass murderer...

  • Hour of the Scorpion

    Time Warrior - 2

    Our hero becomes a US infantry lieutenant as the time war shifts focus to the Tet offensive and the attack on the US embassy in Saigon. This rewriting of military history may turn the Vietnam into World War III, and only the Time Warrior can preve...



  • Darkborn

    Twenty-seven years after he and a few high school classmates dabbled in the occult--attempting to raise a demon from a stolen book of black magic--Will Dunnigan finds that the evil is reawakening and demanding revenge...

  • Day of the Snake

    Time Warrior - 3

  • Homecoming

    American hostage Simon Farrel is coming home, to a world he thought he'd never see again. To a wife who had found a new lover. To sleepless nights of torment, haunted by the horrors he had witnessed.An ex-convict is coming home, to kill for the pleas...

  • Fire Below

    seaQuest DSV

    The year is 2018. The last frontier on earth is vast, dark, mysterious...the world's oceans. And the last hope for peace is the largest, most powerful submarine ever built... It began with a terrorist threat to the high-tech underwater resort of S...

  • See How She Runs

    After the stroke, Kate's husband was a different man... Cruel, abusive, violent. Divorce was her only salvation—but not for her daughter and son. By law, they were required to visit their father. And endure his terrible rage.So Kate decided to...

  • The 7th Guest

    Every child in town wanted one of Henry Stauf’s handcrafted toys -- so intricate, detailed, almost magically lifelike. After a terrible illness claimed the life of each child who cherished one of the toys, Stauf retired to the seclusion of his mans...

  • Maelstrom

  • Unidentified

    Freed from its long imprisonment, a malevolent force seeks the elimination of all humankind, and the only hope of survival lies in a few individuals who must brave the perils of a mysterious house which is intertwined with evil....

  • Beneath Still Waters

    Now a major motion picture!   Fifty years ago, the town of Gouldens Falls was evacuated, flooded, and submerged under two hundred feet of water. Along with its secrets. Just as well it was buried. There was always something not quite right about...

  • Secret Identity Crisis: Comic Books and the Unmasking of Cold War America

    Physicist Bruce Banner, caught in the nuclear explosion of his experimental gamma bomb is transformed into the rampaging green monster, the Hulk. High school student Peter Parker, bitten by an irradiated spider, gains the powers of the spider and bec...



  • Day One

    The electrifying prequel to VACATION by Matthew Costello, debuting this fall from St. Martin's Press.76th Precinct, Union Street, Brooklyn - 8 a.m. NYPD cop and family man Jack Murphy starts his first day of work at the 76th Precinct in Red Hook. ...

  • Vacation

    In the near future after a global crisis causes crops to fail and species to disappear . . . something even more deadly happens. Groups of humans around the world suddenly become predators, feeding off their own kind. These "Can Heads" grow to such ...

  • Home

    Besieged and attacked, a mother and her children must escape a post-apocalyptic nightmare world of cannibals and betrayal Jack Murphy thought he’d found the perfect escape for his family from a world gone horribly mad. He thought wrong. Matthew ...

  • Exiled

    Description: EXILED! Counseled by an evil sorceror, King Talwe has allowed Ar to fall into a fatal decadence. He has exiled his faithful lieutenant Paralan, and banished his concubine who is bearing his child to the barbaric outpost of Pleir. ...

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Matthew J. Costello has published 24 books.

Matthew J. Costello does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Exiled, was published in April 2015.

The first book by Matthew J. Costello, Alone against the Dark, was published in January 1985.

Yes. Matthew J. Costello has 3 series.
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