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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 2007
  • Latest Book:
    January 2016
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Full Series List in Order

The Tinseltown Trilogy

1 - Hollywood Sinners (Feb-2007)
2 - The Joan Crawford Murders (Mar-2008)
3 - Bad Movies (Oct-2008)

Book List in Order: 19 titles



  • Karin Panotchitch, raised on a sheep farm and married off to a drunken loser, finds her way to 1939 Hollywood at the tender age of sixteen. Along the way to stardom, she meets up with Ramon Classic, who with his many brothers is ready for a hostile t...



  • In the second novel of the Tinseltown trilogy, Joan Crawford returns to MGM in 1953. Her comeback to her alma mater is to make the garish musical Torch Song. Joan suspects that it's hokum, and that she's getting too old for such parts, but she is des...



  • In the mid-70s, Jill, a sex-change in denial, buses west with the hope of becoming a star. She meets an aspiring gay photographer, Andernach, who instigates her discovery at a pool party. She pratfalls into a frenzy of tacky guerrilla film making, le...



  • In the wasteland of Britain in the year 500, a cranky Merlin tutors a teenage Arthur. Missing the comfort of the Realm of Dragons, Merlin amuses himself with two simultaneous sneaky marriages to the feuding witches, Nimm and Mother Hubbard. With the ...



  • At a pizza place in uptown Minneapolis, scenesters and a psychic try very hard to find the next cool party and a pure state of punk living in the summating year of 1989. Their overripe imaginations (and beer) bring out bizarre fatal accidents, memori...



  • Joe goes to work as a carnie for a week and meets wordly gypsies: Carlos, a young man looking for trouble; Lady Fortuna, a guilt ridden old fortune teller; Pinda, a self assured young woman he thinks he might want to run off to see the world with; an...



  • In medieval England a gypsy witch and her dwarf brother help a small village fight a primitive vampire that lives in a nearby pond. And magic is used for malice. The gypsy witch finds she has to battle a prosperous member of the village, a comely bad...



  • In 16th century Rome, young Giotto gradually remembers how he became a vampire and how his new life became magically entangled with history and two of the world's most ancient kings. Memories surface, bringing insight about his own lost family. And a...



  • This is a colorful children's book that adults can enjoy, too.A magic glass castle sits on a mermaid ocean. Why is it there? It could be a shelter or a prison. A teddy bear gets tired of winter and wants a summer picnic so takes an odd trip. There is...






  • After global disaster, a dysfunctional family rules inside an underground mountain city that is crumbling. When it blows up, the daughter takes the survivors to her new outpost away from the mountain…right in the path of the attacking Vagabond army...





  • In this outrageous sequel to The Joan Crawford Murders it is now 1969 and Joan is in England at Bray Studios to film her 80th movie, Trog. Bray is also where Hammer Films made many of their masters of horror. Joan finds that she begins to suspect tha...



  • Return to Arthurian romance, magic, secrets, surprises and danger. In this bawdy sequel to Merlin’s Charge, in Camelot (a land where they say lovers can turn into swans) new horrors befall as shapeshifting chaos unleashes a violent werewolf monster...



  • In over 200 cartoon strips, the life of Hollywood's biggest movie star is shown in all its shocking detail. These cartoons first appeared in Queue Press and Outland Magazine, now they are all in one collection with never before seen cartoons added to...



  • Thorn thinks he’s a cop keeping thoughts legal in his city. But when he messes up his elevator ride to heaven, which is actually supposed to kill him and recycle him as food, he finds out he’s just one clone out of millions in research labs in a ...



  • At a large group home for adult women who are mentally ill/retarded, a client has fallen from an attic window. Was it murder, suicide or an accident? Will the disparate staff prove to be the ones who are really nuts?...





  • Helen is at her first year in science at Culver-Stockton College at the small river town of Canton Missouri, a college and town with an occult past. Her boyfriend tries to help her make sense of the strange happenings at the Mississippi River, and in...



  • In this epic dark fantasy novella, in a whirlwind around the ancient Mediterranean Sea, Egypt fights Rome for world power. Cleopatra and her brother fight for the throne of Egypt. Mark Antony and Octavian fight for Caesar. Witches are their secret we...





Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Peter Joseph Swanson has published 19 books.

Peter Joseph Swanson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Cleopatra Occult, was published in January 2016.

The first book by Peter Joseph Swanson, Hollywood Sinners, was published in February 2007.

Yes. Peter Joseph Swanson has 1 series.