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  • Bibliography:
    74 Books
  • First Book:
    August 2009
  • Latest Book:
    August 2024
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Book List in Order: 74 titles

  • Sever

    20 tales of horror, from the historic to the modern:Day Trip: A couple visiting backwoods Kentucky discovers true evil.Forlorn: People are being murdered on campus, and one professor suffers blackouts.Screaming Right to The End: Which is more dangero...

  • American Crossroads

    Five short stories of turning points in people's lives.Kings of 772A group of buddies gather for beer and poker, and by the end of the night one of them comes to realize his best friend might not really be his best friend.Cadillac DreamsShe saw him o...

  • Sever, Slice and Stab

    20 tales of horror, from the historic to the modern:Day Trip: A couple visiting backwoods Kentucky discovers true evil.Forlorn: People are being murdered on campus, and one professor suffers blackouts.Screaming Right to The End: Which is more dangero...

  • SLICE

    Seven short stories of horror, from the truly gruesome to dark, historical fantasy. Forlorn Struggling with eruptions in his personal life, a college professor suffers from blackouts. What he finds when he wakes is numbing to his soul. Killing Just...

  • STAB

    20 tales of horror, from the historic to the modern:Day Trip: A couple visiting backwoods Kentucky discovers true evil.Forlorn: People are being murdered on campus, and one professor suffers blackouts.Screaming Right to The End: Which is more dangero...

  • Blade and Flame

    Kuthius Tallerus might be old and sick, but as a sergeant of the Prisonlands border wardens he still has a job to do when a pair of exiles escape with help from the outside world.Leading a squad of wardens, including his nephew the scout, Kuthius set...

  • The Impulse to Punish

    The year is 2169 and Mars has been transformed into a world not unlike rural America. Small towns. Farms. Churches. Dr. John Simon arrives from Earth, ready to take on the job of administering to the citizens of Milton Colony. Only the docto...

  • The Sword of Bayne

    Bayne kul Kanon pursues a dark wizard across a decade and eventually up a mountain path, and when the path runs out, up the side of the mountain itself. Why does Bayne seek this wizard? Because Bayne is a warrior without a past. Ten years earlier he...

  • Six Swords, One Skeleton and a Sewer

    Corporal Lidra doesn't care much for her job in the Bond City Guard, but when an ancient temple is unearthed, she does her duty and leads a squad of five into the depths of the city.What she and her fellow guards discover lurking beneath the streets ...



  • Beneath a Persian Sun

    The year is 2003 and the place is Baghdad, Iraq. U.S. forces have invaded and looting has rampaged across the city. Into this chaos arrives a mysterious figure dressed in gray and his companion, a history professor. The two venture into the depths...

  • Ghosts of the Asylum

    The streets of the city of Bond boil with discontent. 

    Political struggles within a power vacuum bring dreams of dominance to some among the lower levels of the city's underbelly. Common thugs and guild bosses alike conspire together, their g...

  • Interludes

    Science fiction, fantasy, horror, all the speculative fiction genres are to be found within Interludes, a collection of six short stories and one novelette. Meet terrors of the night, see a possible future on Mars, laugh at a fractured fairy tale, an...

  • More Than Kin

    Walt Johnson has been a rolling stone most of his life, moving from town to town and living on the edges of homelessness. Now he has run out of time as lung cancer has left him only months to live. Walt then begins a quest to find the son with whom h...

  • 100 Years of Blood

    The House of Abingdon Its story begins in the early years of the 20th Century when the servant of an English Lord arrives at an isolated county among the foothills of Appalachia. The land surveyed, work soon begins on a house spacious and fine enough...

  • Carcass and Mallet

    In 643 A.D. the armies of Islam have spread across Persia, bringing faith and flame. Seeking vengeance for the betrayal of his king and his men, a Persian officer hunts after a treacherous sorcerer only to discover his target might hold the potential...

  • Sands of Time

    Cursed by Heaven and Hell alike, the Mage of Many Names wanders the ages from land to land, his ways often mysterious, his goals changing with events and his moods. At periods he is generous, even honorable, while in other times he is diabolic and qu...

  • Demon Chains

    A sick murderer stalks the streets of the city of Bond.

    The killer leaves behind tortured and twisted bodies sliced and ripped apart, often after the most horrible of violations. No one is immune to this stalker's depredations, including chi...

  • Blooded Snow

    A hunt for raiding barbarians turns upon the hunters.But far worse is to come for the sleepy villages of northern Ursia and the soldiers who protect the villagers. The Dartague barbarians have had enough of the Ursians encroaching upon their mountain...

  • Bared Blades

    Finding his fate entwined with magic, Sergeant Guthrie Hackett escapes the barbaric Dartague once more and returns to Captain Werner's militia camp to discover a forward branch of the Ursian military has arrived in readiness for a thrust agai...



  • Changeless Fate

    The defeat of the barbaric Dartague looks imminent to the Ursians, but the Dartague still have the magic of their wyrd women behind the northern war. Once more Sergeant Guthrie Hackett is sent forth to hunt down those with magical powers, but his...

  • Hammered Iron

    Sergeant Guthrie Hackett finds himself the prisoner of Lord Verkain, King of Kobalos. Can Guthrie escape? Are his companions still alive? And what role does Verkain play in the war between Ursia and the barbaric Dartague?More importantly, G...

  • Sundered Shields

    Sergeant Guthrie Hackett manages to find himself within the relative safety of his own Ursian countrymen, but an assault by the barbaric Dartague leaves more dead and wounded. Setting off alone once more, this time in hopes of saving the cap...

  • Road of the Sword

    A hunting trip with his father ends in tragedy for a young Lerebus, a figure destined to become a warrior. His family dead, his village in pieces, the young man sets out on the road of the sword, the road of vengeance. This is the beginning of his ta...

  • An End to Rage

    He has hidden among the mountains for years, but now his enemies have come looking for him. Yet the Kobalan soldiers Lerebus Shieldbreaker hates so much are not out to slay him, but to capture him, to bring him before their captain who has...

  • Betrayal of the Self

    Lerebus Shieldbreaker might be the personal body guard to Corvin Verkain, a prince of Kobalos, but what to do when the king himself decides all his children must die? And this is no ordinary king, but the famed Lord Verkain, one of the most powerf...

  • City of Rogues

    Kron Darkbow seeks vengeance, and he plans to have it no matter the costs. Returning to the city of his birth after 15 years, he hunts down the wizard responsible for the deaths of those he loved only to find out another was responsible for the murde...

  • The Slave Pits of Mogus Potere

    The king of Kobalos is no more, but the new ruler and the nation still must pick up the pieces. To this end, Sergeant Lerebus Shieldbreaker leads a squad into the depths of the city's dungeons in order to clear out rumored monsters and to neg...

  • The Storm

    A small town in Kentucky is about to learn fear.

    Resting in the foothills of Appalachia, Coal Gap is the kind of place where everybody knows one another and people move to raise their children.

    One of those children is 10-year-old B...

  • The Castle of Endless Woe

    Althurna at 12 years of age finds herself orphaned after the execution of her father for being a wizard, and now she is trapped in a life of servitude to Duke Rand and his family. Worse yet, the duke has been appointed to a nearly forgotten castle i...



  • Road to Wrath

    Kron Darkbow has fled the city of Bond, along with healer mage Randall Tendbones and professional duelist Adara Corvus. Everywhere they turn are enemies. With a price on their heads, old foes on their trail, and dangers waiting for them along the roa...

  • Following Bayne

    Sent back in time nearly two thousands to find the ancient warrior Bayne kul Kanon, Lerebus Shieldbreaker knows no end to his troubles. An army of Trodan soldiers march the land, ready to capture or slay any perceived enemies, while slave traders see...

  • Dark King of the North

    Kron Darkbow and companions have survived the mean streets of the city of Bond and the dangers of the Prison Lands, but now they dare to journey into Kobalos, a dark northern land ruled by King Verkain, a powerful mage rumored to be immortal and mad....

  • Five Tales from the Rusty Scabbard

    The Rusty Scabbard tavern is known near and far across the continent of Ursia as a place for respite, as a safe locale where one can lay one's weary head, find a warm meal, or fill one's belly with drink. But The Rusty Scabbard also provides a littl...

  • Mage Hunter Omnibus

    Guthrie Hackett guards the border between Ursia and the barbaric nation of Dartague, but the sergeant finds himself standing alone when his squad is wiped out before his eyes. Left alive by his enemies, Guthrie seeks to rejoin the Ursian army. To do...

  • The Shieldbreaker Collection

    Lerebus Shieldbreaker is a warrior with no past and no future. His family is no more, his clan slain while he is a boy. Trained as a hunter, he hides among mountains, tracking those he believes responsible. Befriending and ultimately serving a one-t...

  • Bayne's Climb

    Bayne kul Kanon pursues a dark wizard across a decade and eventually up a mountain path, and when the path runs out, up the side of the mountain itself. Why does Bayne seek this wizard? Because Bayne is a warrior without a past. Ten years earlier he ...

  • A Thousand Wounds

    Bayne kul Kanon has passed the mountain, but now the wandering warrior finds another world opening before him. Odd lands, odd people and the oddest of rules and beliefs confront him. It is a world seemingly run by a madman, yet it might hold truths a...

  • Under the Mountain

    Bayne kul Kanon has climbed the mountain and traveled to another world. He has learned the secrets of his past, and he has suffered for gaining such knowledge. He has been broken, the scars of a thousand wounds layering every inch of his body. But he...

  • The Kobalos Trilogy Omnibus

    City of Rogues
    Kron Darkbow seeks vengeance, and he plans to have it no matter the costs. Returning to the city of his birth after 15 years, he hunts down the wizard responsible for the deaths of those he loved only to find out another was respon...



  • The Sword of Bayne Omnibus

    All 3 Books of The Sword of Bayne Book I: Bayne's Climb The warrior Bayne wakes amid battle with no memory of his identity. Thus begins his pursuit of a dark wizard who might hold the keys to Bayne's past. Eventually the trail leads up a mountain, an...

  • Guns 'n Money: Episode 2

    It's tough out there on the streets of Chisel City, and small-time gangster Jackie Cruise knows it better than most. And Jackie isn't the kind to let it get him down. With a mob boss wanting him dead, his best friend already whacked, and...

  • Guns 'n Money: Episode 3

    Jackie Cruise was just a small-time hood until a mob boss tried to take him out. Now Jackie is out for revenge, big time. Leaving blood and bodies behind him throughout Chisel City, Jackie is on the hunt for the man who wanted him dead. But a prof...

  • The Company of Seven

    An undead mage thousands of years old slinks through the city of Bond. Rising up from beneath the soil, he soon finds himself allied with escaped fugitives from the Prisonlands, a former knight, a pair of assassins and the chief of thieves. Each ha...

  • The Horrors of Bond Trilogy Omnibus

    Ty Johnston's most popular character, the black-clad Kron Darkbow, returns for another trilogy - an epic fantasy of treachery, terror, madness and magic. This omnibus edition brings together all three novels of The Horrors of Bond trilogy: Ghosts of...

  • Bible Camp 2

    Sheriff Dean Johnson is called back early from vacation after nearly a half dozen young people are savagely murdered in a camp in his county. With his deputy and the state police lending a hand, the sheriff heads off into the woods in search of a kil...

  • Where Gather the Gods

    A chance encounter with armored figures brings Itidal out of the desert. For thousands of years, perhaps longer, he has tromped across the pale sands, but now he is drawn to civilization in a world where civilization should not exist. To him, men are...

  • The Darkbow Collection - Six Epic Fantasy Novels

    This specially-priced set collects the first six novels in the Kron Darkbow series of The Ursian Chronicles. CITY OF ROGUES: Book I of The Kobalos Trilogy Kron Darkbow seeks vengeance, and he plans to have it no matter the costs. Returning to the c...

  • A Place Called Skull

    A city lies in ruins. A wizard walks into the desert, a weapon of magic in his hands. The gods themselves begin to gather. The stakes might very well be the very existence of humankind.

    To one place do all travel, the desert ruins known as S...

  • 20 Tales of Horror and Fantasy

    20 short stories, 10 of horror and 10 of fantasy ... HORROR Night of the Toys Three security guards find themselves confronted with creatures from Hell at a mall. The Woman Who Hated Cats Everyone hated her and she hated everyone, but especially she ...



  • Bible Camp

    Tragedy struck years ago at Jacob’s Bible Camp, and the scars run deep. Practically abandoned for decades, the camp is now ready to open once more. The first to arrive are a group of young people sent from a church. Their task is to prepare the cam...

  • Bible Camp 3

    It has been a year since the horrific murders at Jacob’s Bible Camp, but even though the killer was supposedly slain, the church that owns the property has decided to sell. To that end, the pastor agrees to meet a real estate agent and a potential ...

  • Bible Camp 4

    A year after Tank Tucker’s killing spree at Jacob’s Bible Camp, six people have gone missing. The local police, state patrol and now the FBI are involved, but so far their results have turned up little. They are not even convinced Tucker is alive...

  • Guns 'n Money

    Small-time mobster Jackie Cruise lands out of prison after five years only to have someone start shooting at him. Not one too take such acts without response, Jackie goes on a crusade, a tirade to discover who wants him dead. Along the way he loses s...

  • Guns 'n Money: Episode 1

    As soon as Jackie Cruise lands on the streets after being in prison for five years, someone is taking shots at him. Hoping to find out who wants him dead, he hooks up with some old pals in the Family and goes to work as a low-level thug. Making ends ...

  • Guns 'n Money: Episode 4

    It never ends for Jackie Cruise. Street war, that is. He finally avenges himself against mobster Frankie Sardona, and then discovers his own boss had set him up from the very beginning. Not one to take this, Jackie goes on the warpath again, this...

  • Guns 'n Money: Episode 5

    Small-time hood Jackie Cruise isn't so small time any more. He's been shot, blown up, battered around, and worse. But now he's hitting back, taking out his enemies one at a time. Now, in the ultimate test, Jackie finds he must go up against his old b...

  • Bible Camp 5

    A string of brutal murders at Jacob’s Bible Camp during the past year has left behind shattered corpses while local, state and federal law enforcement has proven ineffective. Now a Special Forces squad has been called in to take down the killer, Th...

  • Whom the Gods Slay

    The time for the gathering of the gods has arrived. Some will fall beforehand, others will bring powerful weapons, but none will be the same after they meet again, this time at the Well of Souls. Two mortals join them this time, a wizard who has sla...

  • The Walking Gods Trilogy Omnibus

    For eons they have wandered the world with little purpose, hiding from their own past and the monstrosities which created them, only coming together once every thousands of years for the Gathering, a time of meeting, a time of conflict. Now one has ...

  • The God Sword

    Warrior and general, Lord Kavrik has been tasked by King Osrick to retrieve The God Sword from the city of Gloriolus where the famed blade has resided for untold centuries, in order to fulfill an ancient prophecy which would bring immortality to mank...

  • Lost Tales and Trunk Stories

    13 short stories from the fantasy author of The Darkbow Collection and The Ursia Chronicles. Here can be found tales of fantasy, as well as a touch of horror and science fiction, along with a few stories of everyday people facing harsh circumstances,...

  • The Basement

    A new house, a new job, the future before them, the Dinsmores thought they had everything. Yet dreams of the good life quickly give way to a reality of darkness as the young couple begins to move into their new home. For something looms in the baseme...

  • Dark Triumvirate

    DARK TRIUMVIRATE collects 3 complete novels of horror. THE STORM A small town in Kentucky is about to learn fear. Resting in the foothills of Appalachia, Coal Gap is the kind of place where everybody knows one another and people move to raise their c...

  • Adventures of the Weird

    Here can be found a dozen tales of Sword & Sorcery, horrors, and of recent pasts unimagined before now. Discover worlds where stout warriors face off against mighty foes, common folk gain powers undreamed of, and the edges of the dark sometimes loom ...

  • Adventures in Fantasy

    Epic fantasy, heroic fantasy, Sword & Sorcery, call it what you will, perhaps even edges of a little Grimdark, all and more can be found within the ten stories provided here where heroes face daunting odds, sometimes triumphing and sometimes failing....

  • Scribe: An Assassin's Tale

    Her family has been part of the most deadly assassin’s guild in all known universes since long before she was born. Her training has taken years, her whole life. She has been hidden away as part of her apprenticeship, blending in with a world n...

  • Murder Giraffes

    From fantasy and horror author Ty Johnston comes a new low in horror graphic novels.MURDER GIRAFFES!They've come from the skies and they seek to destroy all of humanity. The police can't stop them. The military can't stop them. Guns don't seem to hur...

  • Ole Farty Man Johnson

    From the author of Murder Giraffes comes a new tale of ... something?OLE FARTY MAN JOHNSONThey thought it would be like any other day. Just a hike in the mountains. That's all it was. But then Angel and her grandpa and their friend, WIndy, are beset ...

  • Tiger World

    From fantasy and horror author Ty Johnston comes a new science fiction graphic novel.Tiger WorldThey saved Earth and humanity from the threat of the Murder Giraffes, but now they need our help. Returning to Earth, the space tigers recruit Airman Piet...

  • Debts No Honest Man Can Pay

    Graphic novel of crime and survivalWhen Troy loses his job and can't provide for his family, he finds himself caught in a downward spiral of desperation and greed. Debts No Honest Man Can Pay is a gripping crime noir graphic novel that follows Troy's...

  • The Broken Swordsman

    In a world where steel and sorcery clash, Kron Darkbow stands at the crossroads of despair and destiny. Stricken by the heart-wrenching loss of his beloved, who lies in an eternal sleep beyond the reach of even the most potent healing magics, Kron's ...

  • The Reluctant Witch

    Kron Darkbow has joined forces with an old enemy to save a friend.Healer, mage, former prince, and possible god Randall Tendbones has seemingly been kidnapped by foreign forces intent upon using the wizard’s talents to save one of their own, bu...

  • The Unwilling God

    In a land where faith is enforced with an iron fist, Randall Tendbones walks a perilous path. Secretly the Almighty Ashal, Randall has concealed his divine identity for years. But now, alongside his steadfast companion Kron Darkbow, he finds himself ...

  • The Long, Strange and Holy Journey of Brother Jerome

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    The King of The Middle Kingdom has seemingly gone mad, not only terrorizing his own people but sending forth troops to wage war against all the other surrounding kingdoms. To make matters worse, prophecy seems to indicate the end times have come upon...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ty Johnston has published 74 books.

Ty Johnston does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Reluctant Witch, was published in August 2024.

The first book by Ty Johnston, Sever, was published in August 2009.

No. Ty Johnston does not write books in series.
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