Suzy McKee Charnas

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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1978
  • Latest Book:
    July 2019
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Full Series List in Order

Holdfast Chronicles

1 - Walk to the End of the World (Oct-1979)
2 - Motherlines (Jun-1978)
3 - The Furies (Jun-1994)
4 - The Conqueror's Child (Aug-2000)
5 - The Slave and the Free: Walk to the End of the World ; Motherlin (May-1999)

Sorcery Hall

1 - The Bronze King (Oct-1985)
2 - Silver Glove (Feb-1988)
3 - The Golden Thread (May-1989)

Book List in Order: 21 titles

  • Motherlines

    Holdfast Chronicles - 2

    After thirty years, Suzy McKee Charnas has completed her incomparable epic tale of men and women, slavery and freedom, power and human frailty.It started with Walk to the End of the World, where Alldera the Messenger is a slave among the Fems, in thr...

  • Walk to the End of the World

    Holdfast Chronicles - 1

    After thirty years, Suzy McKee Charnas has completed her incomparable epic tale of men and women, slavery and freedom, power and human frailty.It starts with Walk to the End of the World, where Alldera the Messenger is a slave among the Fems, in thra...

  • Unicorn Tapestry

  • The Vampire Tapestry

    Edward Weyland is far from your average vampire: not only is he a respected anthropology professor but his condition is biological ââ,¬â€ť rather than supernatural. He lives discrete lifetimes bounded by decades of hibernation and steals blood from ...

  • New Dimensions 11

    The exciting series that showcased the best of the 70's now launches the 80's with superb science fiction-from the terrifying to the sublime! Featuring: UNICORN TAPESTRY Suzy McKee Charnas. A vampire who teaches anthropology seeks psychiatric help an...

  • The Vampire Tapestry: A Novel

    Set in New Mexico, this surprising book is a classic of its genre and of its region....

  • The Bronze King

    Sorcery Hall - 1

  • Silver Glove

    Sorcery Hall - 2

  • Boobs



  • The Golden Thread

    Sorcery Hall - 3

  • Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep

    in A Whisper of Blood

    ROBERT SILVERBERG uncovers the dark side of sunny suburbia when a stranger extracts the neuroses of an unsuspecting town.... SUZY McKEE CHARNAS lures a reluctant vampire to play a game with death.... JONATHAN CARROLL takes a dream vacation -- a...

  • The Kingdom of Kevin Malone

    To escape the abuse of his now-dead father, Kevin Malone has created his own magical world, the Fayre Farre, and he is Prince Kavian. Amy, a former classmate, arrives in the final days before the epic battle between Prince Kavian and his nemesis. “...

  • The Furies

    Holdfast Chronicles - 3

    In Book One of the Holdfast Chronicles, Aldera the Messenger, along with all other women, is a slave. In Book Two, Aldera the Runner lives in two worlds, both consisting entirely of women. Now in Book Three, The Furies, Aldera the Conquere leads an a...

  • Beauty and the Opera or The Phantom Beast

    The local legend told of a Phantom Beast, a creature that vanished for decades at a time, returning to terrorise the poor unfortunates who strayed on to the wrong part of the moor. Matt and Jane decide to visit the section of moor where the sightings...

  • The Ruby Tear

    Nearly recovered from the auto accident that almost crippled her, beautiful actress Jessamyn Croft struggles to make a comeback, haunted by Nic, her former fiance+a7, who is doing everything he can to stop her, and by a mysterious foreigner who may b...

  • The Slave and the Free: Walk to the End of the World ; Motherlin

    Holdfast Chronicles - 5

    In these highly acclaimed and highly popular 1970s novels, Suzy McKee Charnas explores the Holdfast, where women are not women but fems enslaved to men, and the land of the Riding Women, where men are known only as a shadowy threat on the other side ...

  • Dorothea Dreams

    When her old friend, Ricky Maulders, who is dying of cancer, visits artist Dorothea Howard, he discovers she s being held captive by the magical power of one of her own creations that she refuses to let go of, and haunted by the ghost of a judge in p...

  • The Conqueror's Child

    Holdfast Chronicles - 4

    25 years after the landmark publication of Walk to the End of the World, Suzy McKee Charnas has completed her epic tale of the Holdfast.

    The Fems were slaves of the men in the Holdfast. When Alldera escaped her slavery, she led a band of reb...

  • Music of the Night

    The vampire, the werewolf, the witch, the Phantom of the Opéra -- Suzy McKee Charnas brings together four monster-movie archetypes as you’ve never encountered them before, along with an original Afterword. The rage of a tormented adolescent is poi...



  • Stagestruck Vampires: And Other Phantasms

    Hugo, Nebula, and Tiptree award -- winning author Suzy McKee Charnas offers up her lush stories in this compelling retrospective story collection. In Stagestruck Vampires, the supernatural and the real intertwine seamlessly. A villainous maestro is ...

  • A Whisper of Blood

    This “toothy follow-up to Datlow’s first-rate Blood Is Not Enough” offers “admirably inventive variations on vampirism” (Kirkus Reviews).   Featuring stories by Jonathan Carroll, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Robert Silverberg, A Whisper o...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Suzy McKee Charnas has published 21 books.

Suzy McKee Charnas does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Whisper of Blood, was published in July 2019.

The first book by Suzy McKee Charnas, Motherlines, was published in June 1978.

Yes. Suzy McKee Charnas has 2 series.
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