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  • Bibliography:
    78 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 2004
  • Latest Book:
    September 2022
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Full Series List in Order

The Carnival Cycle

1 - Gypsy Blood (Jul-2008)

Flash Virus

1 - Flash Virus (Oct-2012)
2 - The Whispering Cage (Apr-2013)
3 - The Freak Army (Aug-2013)
4 - Blue Light Special (Oct-2013)

Kelpie Tales

1 - Kelpie Christmas (Oct-2016)
2 - Kelpie Snow (Dec-2016)

Steve Vernon's Sea Tales

1 - In The Dark, In The Deep (Aug-2013)
2 - Harry's Mermaid (Feb-2014)
3 - I Know Why The Waters Of The Sea Taste Of Salt (Feb-2014)
4 - Finbar's Story (Feb-2014)
5 - Built For Hanging On (Feb-2014)

Tales From The Creep Squad

1 - Bigfoot Tracks (Dec-2014)
2 - Big Hairy Deal (Jan-2015)

Tatterdemon Trilogy

1 - Revenant (Jan-2015)
2 - Resurrection (Jan-2015)
3 - Requiem (Jan-2015)

Uncle Bob's Red Flannel Bible Camp

1 - From Eden to the Ark (Mar-2014)
2 - From Babel to the Bullrushes (Apr-2014)
3 - The Book of Genesis (Apr-2014)
4 - The Book of Exodus (Dec-2015)

Book List in Order: 78 titles

  • The Book of Monsters

    We took 10 new horror authors and asked them to create original fiction using classic horror monsters--without breaking the rules! The Endless Memory of Forever Burning Suns is Steve Vernon's contribution--new, original fiction about Frankenstein's M...

  • Haunted Harbours

    Scary tales from Nova Scotia, by the author of The Tatterdemon Omnibus and Where the Ghosts Are: A Guide to Nova Scotia’s Spookiest Places.   This is a collection of ghost stories from Nova Scotia -- from the restless spirits of...

  • Hard Roads

    There's something about a hard road that calls a body to wander. You want to know what's waiting down there just past the far edge of the horizon. What darkness hides beyond that fish hook of a blind curve scything out to the left. It calls you and a...

  • WICKED WOOOSI: GHOST STORIES FROM OLD NEW BRUNSWICK

    A new collection of ghost stories from every corner of New Brunswick.Pull up a seat and listen closely-storyteller Steve Vernon has another collection of classic, bone-chilling tales to tell. Steve takes readers from one end of New Brunswick to the o...

  • Gypsy Blood

    The Carnival Cycle - 1

    Half-Gypsy, Carnival carries his dead Poppa inside him as a perpetual adviser as he works as fortune-teller and occult troubleshooter, banishing demons and succubi with a carefree confidence born only of youth. His life journey takes a distinctly dif...

  • Leftovers

    What's left of a man when everything worth losing has already been lost? Is vengeance worth any price? Ask Father Simon. Leftovers is a story of redemption, sacrifice and leftovers. It is a story of the bottom and what you find lying beneath it. It i...

  • Halifax Haunts

    The streets of Historic Halifax are paved with the dark and eerie tales of its colorful and gruesome past. Shadowy secrets and hints of the unknown are lurking around every corner and in the mist that rolls in from the Atlantic. Centuries of tragic h...

  • Nothing to Lose

    So you think you know all about superheroes? Those guys in the capes and the lightly starched spandex speedoes. Leaping tall buildings and always getting the girl. You don't know nothing.

    Join Steve Vernon, Nova Scotia's hardest working horror...

  • Devil Tree

    The roots of evil run deeper than you can ever imagine. Lucas Sawyer and his wife Tamsen find themselves marooned in the heart of a mid-nineteenth century wilderness forest. They are rescued by Jonah Duvall, a mysterious woodsman abiding in...



  • Long Horn, Big Shaggy

    There's things out there that you ain't dreamed of. Like back-from-the-dead mountainmen, carrion stallions and zombified buffalo. LONG HORN, BIG SHAGGY: A wild wierd western tale of horror and jerked meat. If Louis Lamour and Stephen King got drunk a...

  • The Lunenburg Werewolf: And Other Stories of the Supernatural

    The wind is howling and a full moon is in the sky-it must be time for more chilling tales from storyteller Steve Vernon. Spanning the length and width of Nova Scotia, these 25 blood-chilling yarns make perfect campfire fare. Some stories are so terri...

  • Nothing Down

    So you think you know all about superheroes? Those guys in the capes and the lightly starched spandex speedoes. Leaping tall buildings and always getting the girl. You don't know nothing. Join Steve Vernon, Nova Scotia's hardest wo...

  • Sinking Deeper

    The tiny fishing community of Deeper Harbour is in deep trouble-and so is fourteen-year-old Roland MacTavish. Roland's mom wants to move with him to Ottawa, away from his father, his weird friend Dulsie, and his even weirder grandfather, Angus. So Ro...

  • The Weird Ones

    Some stories tiptoe up and whisper in your ear â€" all sweetness and gumdrops and happy-ever-after-after-there-you-go.Then, there are the weird ones.We’re talking talking-chickens, blue plague spam monkeys, tug boats of unbridled and fetid fecundit...

  • Roadside Ghosts

    Ghost stories. Everyone knows one. Everyone can tell you one. Ghost stories haunt and linger and tantalize. Come on along with Steve Vernon - ghost story collector, writer, and teller - as he brings you eight of the creepiest yarns imaginable, sto...

  • Two Fisted Nasty

    Welcome to the hard streets. These are four of the nastiest stories I have ever written.LEFTOVERS - What's left of a man when everything worth losing has already been lost? Is vengeance worth any price? Ask Father Simon. Leftovers is a story of redem...

  • TATTERDEMON

    Grab all three volumes of the spine-chilling TATTERDEMON trilogy, now available in one single money-saving volume.In 1691 the town of Crossfall taught the witch Thessaly how to die. They beat her, they shot her, they hung her - but nothing worked. Wh...

  • Sudden Death Overtime

    Sprague Deacon is one of the toughest old-time hockey players who ever skated upon a rink of hand-poured ice. Sprague was born and raised and he expects to die here on the Northern Labrador coast. What he did not expect was a tour bus full of vampire...

  • Midnight Hat Trick

    There is magic in the number three.The three stooges. The three wise men. The three little pigs.And now â€" MIDNIGHT HAT TRICK â€" a collection of three wonderfully chilling novels from Nova Scotia storyteller Steve Vernon.HAMMURABI ROAD is a dark t...



  • Flash Virus

    Flash Virus - 1

    "So as near as I could tell the end of the world began roughly about the time that Billy Carver's butt rang - about halfway through the War of 1812." This is the story of the end of the world, as seen and told by a teenager. Sixteen year old Briar Ga...

  • Shotgun Christmas

    There is a big old sledding hill not more than two or three good snowballs’ worth of distance from our home, just behind Hank Macabee’s house. That hill was waiting for me and my brand new toboggan. It’s one of those sneak-up kind of hills with...

  • Flash Virus: Episode Five

    This the story of the end of the world - as told by a teenager. And this is the episode that you all have been waiting for. Find out just WHO Horton Lake. Find out just WHAT Captain Albino is. Etch-a-Sketch lo...

  • The Whispering Cage

    Flash Virus - 2

    The end of the world - as told by a teenager. Briar Gamble's bad day is getting worse. There's smoke and gunfire and people getting shot.A whole lot of people getting shot. Who is Captain Albino? Why does he want to ta...

  • Flash Virus: Episode Six - Bigfoot's Story

    The end of the world - as seen by a teenager. Episode Six marks a new season and a WHOLE new direction for the Flash Virus series. This first episode of the new season is told ENTIRELY from Bigfoot Hanson's point of view - and you'...

  • The Freak Army

    Flash Virus - 3

  • In The Dark, In The Deep

    Steve Vernon's Sea Tales - 1

    There are stories that are told of the sea. This is one of them. It was Billy McTavish's first sea voyage. He had signed on to the serve as convoy escort on the THISTLE a Royal Canadian Navy corvette. Through U-Boat attack and Luftwaffe bombing r...

  • Hammurabi Road

    Hammurabi Road is a dark tale of retribution, backwoods justice, and getting closer to a black bear than was ever dreamed possible. We start off with a very dangerous variation of the eternal triangle - four men ride out in a pick-up truck; three in ...

  • Blue Light Special

    Flash Virus - 4

  • Bad Valentines Two - Six Twisted Love Stories

    Love is one of those words that people like to throw around - but sometimes love can be one of the meanest and nastiest games in town. If you've ever had your heart broken - then this book is for you. If you enjoy the taste of stro...



  • Trolling Lures

    It started out as a simple drive down a country road.Oh sure, Hillman was thinking about suicide.Oh sure, the dead woman is in his back seat was goading him on.What was the point? Why bother living?Who am I?Turns out Coyote has something to say about...

  • Built For Hanging On

    Steve Vernon's Sea Tales - 5

    It happened just yesterday or perhaps the day before. The bombs were dropped.No one knew why. Maybe a political study was taken into careful consideration. Perhaps a research grant had been involved. A new plan to invigorate the stock market. Whatev...

  • Finbar's Story

    Steve Vernon's Sea Tales - 4

    Water is a liar.If you tell a story with water it cannot be trusted and it will wash away in the first hard rain or in the tears of a long good cry. And stories told in blood and stone stick longer by far.Finbar Tanner is telling a story to his son, ...

  • I Know Why The Waters Of The Sea Taste Of Salt

    Steve Vernon's Sea Tales - 3

    This is a story set in war-torn Okinawa - back in the final days of the Pacific Campaign of World War 2.It is told from the point of view of a young Kamikaze pilot preparing to fly his fighter plane into the side of an American battleship.It is a sto...

  • Rueful Regret

    "A western that reads like a cross between Lonesome Dove and Twin Peaks.Bass Clayton is a bounty killer turned professional drunkard. Silver Grimes is the man who inadvertently turned Bass Clayton into a drunk â€" after Bass accidentally shot Silverâ...

  • Harry's Mermaid

    Steve Vernon's Sea Tales - 2

    It happened in early September, the time of year when the city does its damndest to remember what heat was, just one more time before winter rocks on in...This is a story of horror and haunting regret.(fair warning - this is a STORY - maybe about eig...

  • From Eden to the Ark

    Uncle Bob's Red Flannel Bible Camp - 1

    If you really want to know what happened on the day Noah built that big old floating zoo you REALLY ought to talk to Uncle Bob.While you are at it get him to fill you in on all of the inside information on what REALLY went on in the Garden of Eden - ...

  • The Book of Genesis

    Uncle Bob's Red Flannel Bible Camp - 3

    Here it is.The whole entire story of the Book of Genesis as told to you by the world's oldest storyteller, Uncle Bob.(Note: if you have ALREADY read Uncle Bob's Red Flannel Bible Camp: From Eden to the Ark, you have ALREADY read part of this novel)If...

  • From Babel to the Bullrushes

    Uncle Bob's Red Flannel Bible Camp - 2

  • Do-Overs and Detours

    Detours are amazing creatures. They can shortcut your existence or lead you down a forever long road that will linger far into the distant reaches of eternity. It is these unexpected tangents that people stumble across everyday that haunt in a fright...



  • October Tales

    The leaves are falling.You can smell that long-dying aroma of Autumn in the air. Kids are talking trick or treat and the leaves are already screaming at you in red and yellow and deep golden rust as they prepare for one final parachute down into the ...

  • Bigfoot Tracks

    Tales From The Creep Squad - 1

    Everything that you have read about Bigfoot is a lie. Everything that you have HEARD about Bigfoot is the truth! Enjoy three stories from the files of The Creep Squad - that pack of cryptids, legends, and nondescript rumors who fight crime and misjus...

  • Bad Valentines

    Love is one of those words that people like to throw around â€" but sometimes love can be one of the meanest and nastiest games in town. If you have ever had your heart broken - then this book is for you. If you enjoy the taste of strong meat â€" the...

  • A Hat Full of Stories

    This isn’t John Wayne.Lone Star is just a beer.Forget about the Alamo.Here then are a trio of Texas tales of terror spun from the fevered brain of a nightmare-riding cowboy.Have you wondered just what sort of a cargo is in those big eighteen-wheele...

  • Tales From The Tangled Wood

    Here are six new stories to SERIOUSLY creep you out!The Hunter's Heart - a dark retelling of the Snow White legend, told from the hunter's point of view.The Other Side Of The Moon Is A Lonely Midnight Shadow - an eerie werewolf tale, set in a strange...

  • Big Hairy Deal

    Tales From The Creep Squad - 2

    So what happens when Bigfoot, the Trickster Coyote, the ghost of Sam Steele and the long-lost spirit of The Prophet, brother to the mighty Tecumseh and reincarnated in the form of a giant pink flying Winnebago go toe-to-toe with dark supernatural for...

  • Requiem

    Tatterdemon Trilogy - 3

    This is the final book of the trilogy - a fat monstrous volume of pure undiluted scarecrow terror.Maddy and Wilfred, Earl and Wendy Joe Joel go toe to toe with an unbelievable army of scarecrows.And let me tell you...these aren't your granddaddy's sc...

  • Resurrection

    Tatterdemon Trilogy - 2

    The pot has begun to boil.In 1691 the town of Crossfall taught the witch Thessaly how to die. They beat her, they shot her, they hung her - but nothing worked. When they finally tried to bury her alive Thessaly set the field against them. The first m...

  • Revenant

    Tatterdemon Trilogy - 1

    In 1691 the town of Crossfall taught the witch Thessaly how to die. They beat her, they shot her, they hung her - but nothing worked. When they finally tried to bury her alive Thessaly set the field against them. The first man died as a gust of wind ...

  • A Blurt In Time

    Burt was certain that if he hadn't hit King Kong with Darth Vader's head he would not have fallen into that Citadel Hill time traveling toilet. He wouldn't have met and been shot by the one-armed ghost and he would NOT have found himself in the wr...



  • The Book of Exodus

    Uncle Bob's Red Flannel Bible Camp - 4

    All right - so if you enjoyed UNCLE BOB'S RED FLANNEL BIBLE CAMP - THE BOOK OF GENESIS, then you are going to LOVE this next book in the series. This is the whole entire story of the Book of Exodus and several books thereafter, encompassing the en...

  • Sea Tales

    Let's face it. About seventy-five percent of the world is covered in water - and of that water nearly ninety-seven percent of it can be found in the sea. Maritimers will tell you that there is a story for every wave that has ever washed upon the shor...

  • A Fine Sacrifice

    WILL has got a secret.He keeps that secret hidden in the field out back behind his house.Sam and Artie will do just whatever Will tells them to do because they know what Will's secret is and they'll do anything to make sure that Will doesn't lose his...

  • Something After Saturday

    When Daddy put Granny out on the hill to die he thought that was that - but Daddy had another think coming to him.This is a short story of country witchcraft - just like it says in the subtitle. If you want to read something longer you REALLY ought t...

  • Kelpie Dreams

    Meet Lady Macbeth-a high school librarian, ex-assassin, and part-time kelpie, whose mother wanted to name her Hemorrhoid at birth. Now she has to take on a Sea Hag-eight legs of Godzilla-ugly poured into a bucket full of meanness-with the help of a o...

  • Uncle Bob's Red Flannel Bible Camp - The Book of Genesis

    Here it is. The whole entire story of the Book of Genesis as told to you by the world's oldest storyteller, Uncle Bob. (Note: if you have ALREADY read Uncle Bob's Red Flannel Bible Camp: From Eden to the Ark, you have ALREADY read part of this novel)...

  • Uncle Bob's Red Flannel Bible Camp - The Book of Exodus

    All right - so if you enjoyed UNCLE BOB'S RED FLANNEL BIBLE CAMP - THE BOOK OF GENESIS, then you are going to LOVE this next book in the series. This is the whole entire story of the Book of Exodus and several books thereafter, encompassing the entir...

  • Kelpie Christmas

    Kelpie Tales - 1

    A short story involving a Celtic water spirit (the kelpie), an assassin, a librarian, a ghost and a Santa-mugging street gang - a wild weird paranormal romance shoot-em-up story - written for readers who HATE to read romance.This is book#2 in the Kel...

  • Old Spice Love Knot

    A short and eerie ghost story of the love that a maritime father had for his only daughter. This supernatural tale is set in Dalhousie University in the Nova Scotia city of Halifax. I know that anyone who has ever spent anytime in Shirreff's Hall thi...

  • Kelpie Snow

    Kelpie Tales - 2

    So how DOES a kelpie, an ex-assassin high school librarian, Santa Claus, the Flying Dutchman and the Krampus wind up going toe-to-toe with a Martian Expeditionary Force in a highly unidentifiable flying gravy bowl?Why don't you grab a copy...

  • Do-Overs and Detours - Eighteen Eerie Tales

    Detours are amazing creatures.A detour can shortcut your existence or it can lead you down a forever long road that will linger far into the distant reaches of eternity. It is these unexpected tangents that people stumble across nearly every day that...

  • The Wishing Ring of Old Queen Maab

    The story of a young farmer, a wishing ring, and a fairy named Queen Maab.Old school fairy tale telling at its very finest.WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT STEVE VERNON"The genre needs new blood and Steve Vernon is quite a transfusion." â€"Edward Lee, au...

  • Dead Man's Salute

    "Leave Luther's body right where we flung him," Bates said. "You aren't burying him today." After Sally Mae Webster phoned me up to tell me that my Korean War buddy Luther Webster had been shot and killed by the Bates brothers I knew that I wasn't go...

  • The Forever Long Road of Olan Walker

    It was Easter Monday, 1952. It was a day like any other. The slat truck rolled into camp with half a dozen new convicts. I counted a couple of vagrants, one drunk, one assaulter and one assaultee. All of that and Olan Walker. Olan Wa...

  • Not Just Any Old Ghost Story

    12 Ghostly Tales and Those They HauntWorking Stiff By Kevin J. AndersonRevenant By Steve VernonMore Ghosts and Ghoulies By Deb LoganUnlocking Her Heart By Karen L. AbrahamsonThe Popcorn Thief By Leah CutterThe Soul Thief By Leah CutterThe Haunting of...

  • Dopple Dribble

    His name was Adam Kyler. He had eyes as black as licorice jujubes and a spit curl hooked across his forehead that reminded me of a young Superman. He was nine years old. It wasn't his fault he was standing in the alley, but I shot him just the sam...

  • Bigfoot Tracks: A Creep Squad Collection

    Everything that you have read about Bigfoot is a lie. Everything that you have HEARD about Bigfoot is the truth! Enjoy three stories from the files of The Creep Squad - that pack of cryptids, legends, and nondescript rumors who fight...

  • Grandpa Hated Cats

    I hate cats more than any man on the planet, Grandpa always told us. A dog you can take hunting and a moose you can shoot, but a cat only gets in the way and barfs on your carpet in the nighttime, most usually in the very spot that you step on first ...

  • The Boy Who Loved To Draw Cats

    A long plus a long plus about three more long times a hundred more longs squared to the hippopotamus long time ago, a boy sat all by himself just outside of his family's woodshed, drawing cats.The boy was waiting to be punished for drawing cats and h...

  • The Faith of Burning Glass

  • Moving Lines

  • Where the Ghosts Are

    If you’re from Halifax, you’ve probably heard that the Five Fisherman Restaurant is supposedly haunted, and that Georges Island is overrun with ghosts. If you’re from Nova Scotia, you probably know about rumours of buried treasure on Oak Island...

  • Thirteen Stakes

    The legend and the lore surrounding the vampire runs deeper than an ocean of seething blood. We love them, fear them, are fascinated and spellbound by their undead existence. Here are thirteen stories of the most dreaded monster in all of supernatura...

  • Bad Love

  • Maritime Monsters

    This children's picture book is a field guide to Maritime monsters, taken from local folklore and legends. The monsters described include Prince Edward Island's Old Hook-Snout, New Brunswick's Acadian Werewolf, Nova Scotia's Parker Road Phantom an...

  • More Maritime Murder

  • All Wood Dreams of the Sun

    • / Horror
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    It was late August, time of the summer burn. And the Tumblebug Man had come to town. This is a short story for fans of small town folk horror, and coming of age yarns. Guaranteed to chill....

  • Cat Call

    • / Horror
    • Buy Buy

    Nobody really knew how long the old Funnel mansion had stood empty, waiting up there high on Carpenter's Hill like a child's forgotten lunch box, any more than anybody knew just how long that old cat had squatted in behind the screen of the front...

  • Plague Monkey Spam

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    BOBBY KAYE's life story started and ended with an e-mail and then the monkey dung hit the fan. We're talking blue plague monkeys, tulwar-swinging cab drivers, a ride-on mower caravan of unbridled mass consumption and a moon-infatuated eight-legged...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Steve Vernon has published 78 books.

Steve Vernon does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, More Maritime Murder, was published in September 2022.

The first book by Steve Vernon, The Book of Monsters, was published in November 2004.

Yes. Steve Vernon has 7 series.
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