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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 2002
  • Latest Book:
    October 2019
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Full Series List in Order

Saga of the Sentenial

1 - Cauldron of Trouble (Sep-2008)
2 - For the Land that Fell (Mar-2012)

Book List in Order: 16 titles



  • Enter, with caution, the fantasy world of William Anthony Shea. A world of deception, intrigue, mind games and all manner of the weird and not always so wonderful. In this nail-biting collection of sinister stories and delightful poems, like the char...



  • The darkling pool closes, in this, the fourth and final instalment of the Darkling Pool series. As the door draws inward, the tales continue. You are immersed in the abstract moments of misery. The nightmare chokes away the last screams and the void ...



  • The door opens wider in this, the third installment in the Darkling Pool series. As the tales continue, you stand on the periphery looking into an abyss of despair. The nightmare rises to greet you as the void swells against the restless slumber prov...



  • Dare you return to the fantasy world of William Anthony Shea?Darker and deeper, the intrigue continues. The mind falls to the fantastic and the weird, spiralling ever downward into an abyss of despair. The tales continue in a dizzying maze of wonder ...



  • Returning from a war he cannot forget, the King's Sentenial becomes embroiled in the trouble surrounding an arcane vessel of power, a cauldron imprisoning the daemon Mastk. He undertakes a journey at the behest of the imp Flinstirr Gobbynstein that h...



  • A nightmare begins when innocence is lost. Following an age in darkness and blood, history is doomed to repeat itself as misery invites company. What begins with a vampire fallen to the decay of a melancholy dream, leads to tragedy and loss, and ulti...



  • Helena stands alone and unable to accept the companionship of her adopted childe, Emily, but yet compelled to impose her will to teach the fledgling vampire obedience as well as the deadly consequences of defiance.Meanwhile James is embroiled in a da...



  • The Dwarves of Odinru have abandoned their ancient home retreating from a world in conflict. The shadows are rising. Atainruin is being consumed by a nightmare that has not been seen in an age. The Sentenial must find his way through the darkness as ...



  • Oriaol is burning in a desperate gamble to preserve the last bastion of hope. The Shadows force a resolution between Bethena and their former queen with fatal consequences. Mastk realises the power is slipping from his grasp and tightens his hold on ...






  • A stranger named John Diablo visits six individuals of diverse backgrounds, who seem to have no obvious connection to each other, to offer a second chance at life â€" an offer they are all highly motivated to accept due to the tragic circumstances of...



  • The Brethren cannot continue if a mortal society is to be free to find its way. James has long realised this to be true but the vampire hierarchy are resistant to change. They will not willingly surrender control to a living world. All the pieces are...



  • The Master Sage and the Trolls are back again, taking on many different guises as well as some familiar personas from Volume One. The stories continue both in and out of their gaming and publishing lives. Like in real life, the Characters begin to ch...



  • The Darkling Pool is never done as Ripples reach out from the darker influences of the mind of William Anthony Shea to once again open other doors to stories of intrigue and menace.In this fifth instalment, the tales delve deeper into moments of true...



  • Gnarl D'Oak is a down on his luck adventurer who blunders haphazardly into strange and bewildering situations with his companions in the hopes of acquiring great fortunes. More often than not all they find is trouble in a multiverse that never quite ...



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    An old danger returns from a past that was thought to be ash on the wind, seeking answers from those who brought about the fall of the Brethren.Aaron must draw out the last of a vampire society that now exists only in the shadows of a mortal world. H...



    • / General Fiction
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    The Darkling Pool pours out from the mind of William Anthony Shea and over the verge to herald a new beginning in this sixth instalment of insightful tales.The tales resonate in moments of true horror and wonder extending a macabre influence out into...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

William Anthony Shea has published 16 books.

William Anthony Shea does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Gnarl & Other Stories, was published in October 2019.

The first book by William Anthony Shea, Tales from a Darkling Pool, was published in November 2002.

Yes. William Anthony Shea has 1 series.