Richard J. O'Brien

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books
  • First Book:
    October 2000
  • Latest Book:
    August 2023
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Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • The Last Dark Place

    Read The Last Dark Place, a literary fantasy about reunion, redemption, friendship, love and air conditioning. In The Last Dark Place the reader will discover the real reason behind Satan's fall from grace, some new theories about Adam, Eve and the G...

  • The Babel Codex

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    As a member of the Presence Project, Mark Dwyer has investigated dozens of cases involving the paranormal. In this novel, he chronicles the story of a select few who are called upon to destroy an ancient magical manuscript. Dwyer learns about the man...

  • Bugmen

    In Weyrd County, New Jersey, a UFO crashes into the Pinelands. Rumors soon spread throughout the county that the craft's occupants have escaped the military cordon around the crash site. As panic spreads, Bud McCracken, a pest exterminator, picks up ...

  • Fletcher's Paradox

    Max Fletcher, a descendant of the Elizabethan playwright John Fletcher, lives in present-day Philadelphia where he meets Kayla Horn, a mysterious woman who turns Fletcher's world upside down when she steals a precious family heirloom-a folio believed...

  • Circle of Stone

    Homicide detective Nash Carter investigates a murder case involving a grisly killing that resembles an ancient ceremonial sacrifice. During the investigation, Carter deals with his alcoholism, his divorce, and his teenage son. He soon discovers The C...

  • Little Flower of Luzon

    In Little Flower of Luzon, Felix Hart always maintained troublesome relationships with women. So when he meets Malaya "Memeng" Cortazar, a beautiful Filipina teen, he thinks his relationship problems are solved. Felix becomes consumed by Memeng who i...

  • The Garden of Fragile Things

    "You won’t want to put it down -- and you probably won’t either until there are no more pages to turn." ~ Thomas E. Kennedy, author of In the Company of Angels, Falling Sideways, and Kerrigan in Copenhagen

    "A dark fantasy bildungsr...

  • Infestation

    In Weyrd County, New Jersey, a UFO crashes into the Pinelands. Rumors soon spread throughout the county that the craft's occupants have escaped. As panic spreads, Bud McCracken, pest exterminator, picks up a last-minute overtime assignment, and his c...

  • Under the Bronze Moon

    In Under the Bronze Moon, Professor Harold Miller discovers the otherworldly inspiration for the late writer R.J. Hyatt's only published novel, The Land of Dust and Honey -- a long, dense exploration into an alternate world discovered by a soldier of...



  • Marigold

  • Strange Bird and Two Other Horror Tales

    Three Horror Tales including Le Grand Diablerie, Strange Bird, The Circle of the Stone.In the title story Strange Bird, Michael Mahoney, a small-town newspaper reporter writing his first true crime book, interviews Harvey Underwood, an old man once c...

  • Down & Out in Fairyland

    It's the perfect summer day for Tommy Holcomb and his friends to play stick ball. When a storm comes, a lightning strike opens up a hole in the ground. Tommy falls through the hole, and lands in a strange new world. The place is called Fragmenta. Onc...

  • Red Seven

    Police invade the home of Professor Kevin Burch, and charge him with domestic terrorism. His crime? Attending a rally denouncing the election of an American president bent on stripping away liberty and redefining what it means to be patriotic.Followi...

  • To Dream the Blackbane

    A cosmic event in 2015 fused earth with the faerie realm. Scientists refer to the event as the Anomaly. A byproduct of the Anomaly was the advent of hybrid beings - people who became mixed with whatever animal or object was nearest them the moment th...

  • The Accidental Hero of the City of Brotherly Love

    In the tumultuous days following 9/11, Spencer Lee Kavanagh works as a security professional, juggling jobs, relationships, and his writing craft while trying to figure out where his life is headed. One autumn day in 2002, Kavanagh's life changes...

  • Aleph Cafe

    Among the stories in the this collection, a man with his marriage in trouble, meets the ghost of a famous writer in a cafe and gets over writer's block; a gambler with a knack for losing can't stay dead for long, much to the chagrin of his bookie in ...

  • The People's Republic of New Arkaim

    Fifty-four-year-old army veteran and heart attack survivor Cal Paladin believes his life cannot get any worse, especially ever since his wife left him to join a desert-dwelling cult. Enter the United States Army. Cal, despite his poor health, gets ca...

  • The Aberrant Lives of Damian Callahan

    After Damian Callahan suffers a head injury that leads to a diagnosis of terminal brain cancer, his life turns upside down. The chaos begins when Callahan sets out on a quixotic journey of hallucinatory proportions to pursue the woman of his dreams-a...

  • Dark Accidents of Strange Identity

    In Dark Accidents of Strange Identity, Bobby O'Malley and his family move out of the Fairview section of Camden to the suburbs where he makes friends with two brothers, Dante and Mario Furfante, the other new kids in town. When he begins the sixth gr...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Richard J. O'Brien has published 19 books.

Richard J. O'Brien does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Dark Accidents of Strange Identity, was published in August 2023.

The first book by Richard J. O'Brien, The Last Dark Place, was published in October 2000.

No. Richard J. O'Brien does not write books in series.
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