S.P. Somtow

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  • Bibliography:
    57 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1984
  • Latest Book:
    March 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Aquilliad

1 - The Aquila in the New World (Dec-1987)
2 - Aquila and the Iron Horse (Apr-1988)
3 - Aquila and the Sphinx (Nov-1988)

Chronicles of the House of Darkling

1 - Riverrun (Sep-1991)
2 - Armorica (Nov-2013)
3 - Yestern (Nov-2013)

Timmy Valentine

1 - Vampire Junction (Sep-1984)
2 - Valentine: Return to Vampire Junction (Oct-1992)
3 - Vanitas: Escape from Vampire Junction (Dec-1995)

Multi-Author Series List

The Crow

4 - Temple of Night (Nov-1999)

Dragonflight

The Wizard's Apprentice (Oct-1993)

Star Trek

Do Comets Dream? (Jul-2003)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Do Comets Dream? (Jul-2003)

Book List in Order: 57 titles

  • Vampire Junction

    Timmy Valentine - 1

    "

    Now acknowledged as one of the most important classics of 20th-century gothic literature, S.P. Somtow''s tale of a 12-year-old rock star vampire, his Jungian analyst, and the Wagnerian conductor who is his nemesis turned the entire genre upside d...

  • The Shattered Horse

    S.P. Somtow's classic sequel to "The Iliad" returns to print. Firmly rooted in modern archaeological discoveries about Bronze Age cultures, "The Shattered Horse" paints a vivid picture of a decaying golden age seen through the eyes of the survivors o...

  • The Aquila in the New World

    Aquilliad - 1

    On this alternate Earth, Rome rules all...including the New World, known in other dimensions as America but here as Terra Novo.

    General Titus Papinianus is governor of that untamed land, and Aquila, chief of the savage Lacoti nation, is a R...

  • Aquila and the Iron Horse

    Aquilliad - 2

    Equus Insanus, son of the intrepid Aquila, finds the civilized life of Rome tedious. So he is eager to return to his native land of Terra Novo to assist in the construction of Caesar''s latest fancy—a transprovincial railroad.

    But on ...

  • Aquila and the Sphinx

    Aquilliad - 3

    Equus Insanus, son of Aquila, has been missing for three years on his quest to bring the vile Time Criminal to justice. His Roman half brother, Lucius, nephew to Caesar, fears him dead -- until he begins receiving strange messages from the lost La...

  • Moon Dance

    Set against a brilliant panorama of European expansion into the West in the late 1800s, Moon Dance is the horrifying tale of the illegitimate son of the Count von Bachl-Wolfling, leader of a pack of Viennese werewolves, and of the boy's all-too-human...

  • Riverrun

    Chronicles of the House of Darkling - 1

    "

    As a family travels to a cancer clinic in Mexico, son Theo has been having strange dreams. And, as they''re passing through Arizona, ""the walls between worlds dissolve and Theo is kidnapped by the vampire prince Thorn.""

    "...

  • Valentine: Return to Vampire Junction

    Timmy Valentine - 2

    The sequel to Vampire Junction finds Brian, PJ, and Terry ten years after the disappearance of vampire rock star Timmy Valentine, remembering the terrible night in Junction and fighting the Gods of Chaos who believe Timmy is still alive. Repr...

  • The Wizard's Apprentice

    Dragonflight

    The son of a Hollywood special-effects technician, Aaron wishes for some real magic and is given the chance to try out as an apprentice to a two-thousand-year-old wizard, setting off a series of spectacular mishaps....



  • Forest of the Night

  • Jasmine Nights

    Growing up on the exotic estate of his aunts and wicked uncle, twelve-year-old Justin survives his family's superficial traditions as well as the civil rights movement of the 1960s by escaping into his imagination....

  • Vanitas: Escape from Vampire Junction

    Timmy Valentine - 3

    Vampire Junction, S. P. Somtow's groundbreaking novel of vampiric horror, introduced Timmy Valentine, a world-famous rock star with the body of a twelve-year-old boy...and the ageless soul of a bloodthirsty predator. Timmy returned in Valentine, in w...

  • The Vampire's Beautiful Daughter

    When Johnny's family moves to California, he finds it hard to fit in at his new school until Rebecca, the half-human daughter of a vampire, begins to attend Johnny's school and the two of them become close friends, each facing their own personal demo...

  • Darker Angels

    Nominated for the Bram Stoker Award, Darker Angels takes the reader from the bloodstained battlefields of Virginia to the slave auctions of Haiti. As Abraham Lincoln lies in state in new York, the widow of the famous abolitionist has a chance encount...

  • Temple of Night

    The Crow - 4

    The Eternal One

    At our human limits, when we've gone as for as flesh and imagination can take us, we meet the Eternal One.

    The Crow.

    His alabaster delicate features tell of his ivory goddess ance...

  • Ultimate Mallworld

    Here collected together for the first time are all the short stories, ads, and illustrations for S. P. Somtow's Mallworld. Included in The Ultimate Mallworld are all the original stories (and the one story left out of the Starblaze trade edition), al...

  • Do Comets Dream?

    Star Trek
    Star Trek: The Next Generation

    Every five thousand years, so the people of the planet Thanet believe, the world ends in fire and a new cycle of creation begins. Now the Last Days are once again upon them, and a fiery star draws near. This is the Death-Bringer, the Eater of the Wor...

  • Bluebeard's Castle

    "...the J.D. Salinger of Siam"
    --George Axelrod, Oscar-winning screenwriter of Breakfast at Tiffany's

    "S. P. Somtow doesn't write like anybody else...and when he wants to spook you, he can drive the chill bone deep."
    --Dean Koontz

  • Other Edens

    Featuring the World Fantasy Award Winning story "The Bird Catcher," OTHER EDENS is a collection of five genre-defying novellas by Thai author-composer S.P. Somtow, author of the acclaimed "Jasmine Nights" and "Dragon's Fin Soup." From 1st Century Pal...



  • Tagging the Moon: Fairy Tales from L. A.

    S.P. Somtow's L.A. Fairy Tales, collected together for the first time in this new edition. Somtow puts a new spin on some classic themes in this volume of 10 short stories set in the back alleys of downtown L.A. A must-have for the modern horror read...

  • The Other City of Angels

    In this exotic retelling of the fairy tale of Bluebeard, a New Age thirty-something from California is swept off her feet by an enigmatic Thai millionaire and soon finds herself in Bangkok’s brave new world of shamans, shopping malls, and high soci...

  • Dragon's Fin Soup

    Dragon’s Fin Soup Eight Modern Siamese Fables in the tradition of the Marx Brothers... Eight Rowdy Tales where East and West don’t meet -- they collide... Eight Frightening Ruminations... where nothing is as it seems, and even the unreal is an il...

  • The Stone Buddha's Tears

    S.P. Somtow’s novel The Stone Buddha’s Tears was inspired by a real-life incident in 1991 in which the city of Bangkok, about to host an international conference, decided to throw up a corrugated iron fence around a slum in order to conceal it fr...

  • Bible Stories for Secular Humanists

    Here are eight of World Fantasy Award winner S.P. Somtow's most controversial stories, including three previously uncollected ones. Each deals with a "sacred cow" of the Judaeo-Christian tradition and subjects it to the pitiless scrutiny of historian...

  • Opus 50

    S.P.Somtow has assembled a collection of essays, poems, and fiction - and tells all about his first published poem from 1967, which earned a lengthy shelf life when it was used as the epigraph for a best-selling autobiography by Shirley MacLaine - to...

  • Armorica

    Chronicles of the House of Darkling - 2

    In the sequel to Riverrun, young Theo Etchison is drawn into Strang's terrifying dimension and begins a bizarre odyssey across an inverted land. “the finest new series of the 90s thus far... fantasy novels don’t come any better than this! the mak...

  • Yestern

    Chronicles of the House of Darkling - 3

    “The finest new series of the nineties so far … some of the finest writing the genre has produced.…” -- Locus “an object lesson in the potential of fantasy -- erudition and post-modern pop awareness spice the narrative -- adventurous,...

  • The Ultimate, Ultimate, Ultimate Mallworld

    35 years after the first Mallworld story was produced, S.P. Somtow has produced the Ultimate, Ultimate, Ultimate Mallworld collection. Included are all the original stories (and the one story left out of the Starblaze trade edition), all the ads for ...

  • The Snow Dragon

    S.P. Somtow’s much anthologized story The Fallen Country, and the acclaimed young adult novel that derived from it, have been favorites since the 1980s when they first appeared. In 2015, wearing his other hat as one of the leading contemporary oper...



  • The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 1

    The Apex Book of World SF, edited by Lavie Tidhar, features award-winning science fiction and fantasy short stories from Asia, Eastern Europe and around the world.

    The world of speculative fiction is expansive; it covers more than one count...

  • The Maestro's Noctuary

    By popular request, World Fantasy Award winning novelist and opera composer S.P. Somtow delivers nine years' worth of his dreams, meticulously recorded in a dream journal. A glimpse into the inner world of one of today's Renaissance men, The Maestro'...

  • The Bird Catcher

    two misfits lost in paradise … a serial killer and a lonely boy S.P. Somtow’s World Fantasy Award winning novella is set in a picturesque Thai village just after the Second World War. This classic reimagining of Thailand’s most famous serial ki...

  • The Singing Moons

    After 33 years, S.P. Somtow is finally creating a fifth book in the Inquestor universe, the galaxy-spanning science fantasy series that Theodore Sturgeon called "the greatest magnitude of spectacle and color since Olaf Stapledon." The book is being r...

  • My Cold Mad Father

    Announced thirty years ago from the now-defunct Pulphouse Press, S.P. Somtow's theme collection of stories about Fathers and Sons has been about to come out ever since. Diplodocus Press now brings the collection into print just as it would have been ...

  • A Woman Cloaked in Shadow

    After 33 years, S.P. Somtow is finally creating a fifth book in the Inquestor universe, the galaxy-spanning science fantasy series that Theodore Sturgeon called the greatest magnitude of spectacle and color since Olaf Stapledon. The book is being rel...

  • The Child Collector

    After 33 years, S.P. Somtow is finally creating a fifth book in the Inquestor universe, the galaxy-spanning science fantasy series that Theodore Sturgeon called the greatest magnitude of spectacle and color since Olaf Stapledon. The book is being rel...

  • The Space Between Spaces

    After 33 years, S.P. Somtow is finally creating a fifth book in the Inquestor universe, the galaxy-spanning science fantasy series that Theodore Sturgeon called the greatest magnitude of spectacle and color since Olaf Stapledon. The book is being rel...

  • Alien Heresies

    a retrospective collection of S.P, Somtow’s science fiction stories, from Sunsteps which first appeared in Unearth magazine in 1977 to Alien Heresies from 2007, this book covers thirty years of the wide-ranging author-composer’s career. F...

  • Chronicles of the High Inquest

    Kelver had been chosen by a heretic to be the chosen one who would bring down a galactic empire that had lasted twenty thousand years and controlled a million worlds. He was sent to Uran s'Varek, the vast artificial sphere build around the black hole...



  • Homeworld of the Heart

    After forty years, S.P. Somtow has produced a fifth novel in the Chronicles of the High Inquest, one of the most lauded galactic empire epics of the 1980s. Critically acclaimed yet never previously in print as a complete set, the series has passionat...

  • Inquestor Tales Five

  • The Throne of Madness

    Kelver had been chosen by a heretic to be the chosen one who would bring down a galactic empire that had lasted twenty thousand years and controlled a million worlds. He was sent to Uran s'Varek, the vast artificial sphere build around the black hole...

  • Another Avatar

    Selected for the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 anthology, this urban contemporary fantasy novella by World Fantasy Award-winning author S.P. Somtow tells the story of Kris, a boy growing up in a Catholic orphanage in the slums of Ba...

  • The Darkling Wind

    Kelver is leading a revolution to bring about the end of the twenty-thousand-year hegemony of the godlike Inquestors, who have presided over the million-planet Dispersal of Man in a reign of staggering cruelty and stunning beauty. Conflicted in their...

  • Beyond Mallworld

    The shopping center as big as a planet is back - this time with over 80 pages of new material including the first new Mallworld story in thirty years - the jaw-dropping Mallworld Becomes Elektra which takes the premise of the enti...

  • Miram

    S.P. Somtow doesn't write like anyone else - Dean R. KoontzVirgin. Mother. Goddess. Miriam of Nazareth was all three. S.P. Somtow's deconstructive retelling of the life of the most famous woman in history is set in a richly pagan world, where helleni...

  • Miriam

    S.P. Somtow doesn't write like anyone else — Dean R. KoontzVirgin. Mother. Goddess. Miriam of Nazareth was all three. S.P. Somtow's deconstructive retelling of the life of the most famous woman in history is set in a richly pagan world, where h...

  • Starship & Haiku

    S.P. Somtow's first novel, Starship & Haiku, was awarded the Locus Award and caused a sensation in 1981 with its extraordinary Asian-skewed view of the post nuclear apocalypse. In this novel, only Japan has survived a world-wide holocaust, ...

  • Club X

    In World Fantasy Award winning author S.P. Somtow's second book in the Club X series of light novels set in a Thai boarding school full of dark secrets, Kim and his on-again off-again best friend Fluke, gender-bending Polo, psychic Danger and fish-ou...



  • Lost Valentines

    In one volume at last - all of world fantasy award winning author S.P. Somtow's vampire stories - from the sci-fi Vampire of Mallworld to the courtroom drama of Vanilla Blood, to stories about Timmy Valentine, some of which were not incorporated into...

  • Pavilion of Frozen Women

  • Delicatus

    The historian Suetonius tells us that the Emperor Nero emasculated and married his slave Sporus, the spitting image of murdered Empress Poppaea. But history has more tidbits about Sporus, who went from puer delicatus to Empress to one Emperor and con...

  • Three Little Nightmares

    Embryos go missing from a museum of the dead. A serial killer reveals his deepest secrets moments before his lethal injection. A shapeshifter realizes she isn't insane after all ... Three uncollected horror tales by S.P. Somtow from the last decade s...

  • Dinosaur Symphony

    World Fantasy Award winning author S. P. Somtow has written a book for children of all ages - a book about the symphony orchestra, reimagined as a band of dinosaurs. Pithy, outrageous poetry and humorous illustrations come together in a book original...

  • Imperatrix

    Captured by pirates and sold to a Roman aristocrat as a sex slave, Sporus attracted the attention of no less a personage than the Emperor Nero, ruler of the known world. Would-be poet, patron of the arts, aesthete, and brutal autocrat, the Divine Ner...

  • Dinosaur Ballet

    After the phenomenal success of Dinosaur Symphony, World Fantasy Award winning author S.P. Somtow has brought the surprising world of dinosaurs in classical ballet to life!When Billy brings his pet velociraptor to his sister's ballet class, he thinks...

  • Terrestrial Passions

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

S.P. Somtow has published 57 books.

S.P. Somtow does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Terrestrial Passions, was published in March 2024.

The first book by S.P. Somtow, Vampire Junction, was published in September 1984.

Yes. S.P. Somtow has 3 series.
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