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The Secret History of the World

The preponderance of my work deals with a history of the world that remains undiscovered, unexplored, and unknown to most of humanity. Some of this secret history has been revealed in the Adversary Cycle, some in the Repairman Jack novels, and bits and pieces in other, seemingly unconnected works. Taken together, even these millions of words barely scratch the surface of what has been going on behind the scenes, hidden from the workaday world.  I've listed them below in chronological order.  (NB: "Year Zero" is the end of civilization as we know it; "Year Zero Minus One is the year preceding it, etc.)

The Past:

Year Zero Minus Three:

Year Zero Minus Two:

Year Zero Minus One:

Year Zero:

*Some of you who read pre-1998 editions of THE TOMB have questioned (and rightfully so) how LEGACIES, so obviously a contemporary novel, could take place only months after THE TOMB, which was definitely set in the mid 1980s.

The answer is simple: I cheated. I changed THE TOMB for the 1998 edition and edited it yet again for the 2006 reissue.

You see, I never planned to bring Jack back. But when I did, I realized I'd either have to set his new stories in the eighties, or go back and change THE TOMB. I chose the latter and removed all references that would moor THE TOMB in a specific era. All editions published since 2006 are what we authors like to call "the preferred text."

All the new Repairman Jack novels loop out from THE TOMB and will weave their way back toward NIGHTWORLD, where the Repairman Jack stories (and just about everything else) end.  I've decided to end the series with number 15 (followed by a heavily revised NIGHTWORLD). 

** included in The Barrens & Others

*** included in Aftershock & Others

 

Current Fiction

By the Sword
By the Sword

When a Japanese businessman offers him a new assignment tracking down a legendary katana with occult properties, Jack
quickly finds himself struggling to keep the sword out of the hands of a cabal of yakuza gangsters, as well as the Kakureta Kao, a mystical order of monks who hope to channel its power to devastate New York City. Besides combining these disparate plot threads together with his usual dexterity, Wilson continues to lay the groundwork for Jack's long-awaited showdown with his
supernatural nemesis, Rasolom.

More violent and complex than its predecessors, By the Sword serves up the occult thrills fans of Wilson's series have come to expect and tantalizes with the promise of more surprises to come. - Publisher's Weekly

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Jack: Secret Histories
SECRETHISTORIES
Ever wonder what Jack was like as a teen? The first of three Repairman Jack novels for young adults (and for adults too - certain events in these stories will become important in the final Repairman Jack novels) will be published May 27. You'll meet again his mother and father, big sister Kate, his bully of a brother Tom, even an old lady with a dog. (Yikes!)

"F. Paul Wilson's first YA novel is a page-turner-an action-packed thriller with an awesome teen hero and an ending that will leave you hungry for more."
Ridley Pearson

The limited edition is sold out, but you can pre-order the regular trade edition hardcover for the ridiculous price of $10.85.

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Bloodline

Jack has been on hiatus since the events in Harbingers. With his lover Gia's encouragement he dips a toe back into the fix-it pool.

Christy Pickering’s eighteen-year-old daughter is dating Jerry Bethlehem, a man twice her age. Christy sensed something shady and sinister about him, so she hired a private investigator to look into his past. But the PI isn’t returning her calls. Will Jack find out why?

Jack learns there’s a very good reason for the unreturned calls: The PI is dead, a victim of a bizarre water-torture murder. As Jack delves into Jerry Bethlehem’s past he learns that the man is not who he says he is. Who—and what—he is will have a devastating effect on Jack’s life and future, adding another piece to the puzzle of who he really is and why he’s been drafted into this cosmic shadow war.

Black Wind
blackwind
A strikingly beautiful edition of my "lost" novel, long out of print. After finishing THE TOUCH in 1985, the next story in line returned to WW2, but this time to the Pacific Theater. I'd been reading a few books that recounted how nicely the Pearl Harbor attack played into Roosevelt's desire to go to war against the Axis, hinting that Pearl had been set up. The result was a revisionist historical family saga horror war novel (try saying that fast 3 times) that took me almost two years to write and research. A mix of cultural fanaticism and wrenchingly dark supernatural horror.

I'm very proud of BLACK WIND. Looking at it in terms of character development and sweeping plot, it's probably my most accomplished work. I'm delighted it will be back in print. It's got a high price tag, but it's high-quality bookcraft.

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Special Edition

Virgin

A two-thousand-year-old scroll is found in the Negev Desert. It describes what might be the final resting place of Mary, the mother of Jesus. To the disappointment of all, the ink is dated as less than a dozen years old. A fake. But one woman believes and goes searching. What she finds will change the world – forever.

VIRGIN is a religious thriller of international scope, traipsing through the Judean Wilderness, the shore of the Dead Sea, the River Lee in Ireland, the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Big Sur, and the Central Pacific. It's peopled with various believers and skeptics: a priest and nun who are lovers; a cardinal who has spent his life debunking miracles and is now desperately in need of one; a US Senator with a son dying of AIDS; his vicious chief of security; and Kesev, the mysterious Israeli Shin Bet officer who was derelict in his unofficial life task of guarding the remains of "The Mother" and is determined to retrieve her at any cost.

A trade paperback edition at $16.95. The limited edition hardcover is almost sold out, but the good folks at Borderlands Press have decided to make the novel available to the non-collector at a fraction of the hardcover price. It’s now in large-format paperback.

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The Tery

Heroes don't always
look the part.

He was a tery, a lean, bearish creature with no name.

The human soldiers left dead. Just another dumb animal on their extermination list. But he didn't die.

Animals weren't the only beings on the list. Certain humans were marked for extinction as well.

A fugitive band found him and brought him back from the brink. He became their pet, their mascot. And still he had no name. He was simply "the tery."

He soon learned that these were no ordinary humans, and learned too that he was no ordinary tery. The humans had no idea that the creature they fed table scraps and patted on the head would soon turn their world upside down and change it forever. By then he had a name.

THE TERY - A beauty-and-the-beast fable that only F. Paul Wilson could tell, full of wonder and horror, brimming with strange landscapes and hideous mutations from science run amok. An unforgettable tale of the extremes of the human spirit--of bravery and depravity, of innocence and evil.

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"Sex Slaves of the Dragon Tong"
(The Audio Version)

A fun Yellow Peril story (with the most lurid title I could think of) originally in RETRO PULP TALES edited by Joe Lansdale.

I inserted a number of cameo appearances by famous characters; if you can’t identify them you are banned for life from reading anything else I write.

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Pelts
pelts
The gory video version of my short story, starring Meat Loaf and John Saxon, directed by Dario Argento, is now available on DVD. Amazon has it at a discount. Be warned: Lots of blood, boobs, and booty.

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Do-Gooder 

Mark of Lavendier Books hit me up at NECon to do a Jack short-short for a broadside. Since I'd never been involved with anything like this before, I knocked out a piece for him.

It's a single large sheet - illustrated with a woodcut - designed to be framed. A very small edition (200) of a very small story (700 words). Might not be any left by the time you read this.
For completist nuts only.

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 The Last Rakosh
Originally a Repairman Jack short story I did for the 1990 World Fantasy Convention program book when I was Guest of Honor. (A copy recently sold for $38.50 on eBay.) It's been virtually impossible to find - until now. I incorporated the story into ALL THE RAGE, but this revised, expanded version is a signed stand-alone with a fabulous cover by Rick Sardinha. (For those of you who've wondered what a rakosh looks like, check out Rick's version.)

This revision is unique in that I've combined the original short story (in which Vicky is present) with the new material written for ALL THE RAGE (in which Vicky is not). So this should be a new experience.

But be warned: If you've read ALL THE RAGE, you've pretty much read this story.

Signed-Limited Edition

Hardcover

Paperback

The Complete LaNague Federation Series:
( Healer, Wheels Within Wheels and An Enemy of the State )

New large-size, trade paperback editions of the core science fiction novels of the LaNague Federation series (which include all the LaNague short fiction).

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Adversary Cycle Set

THE KEEP

RAKOSHI
(formerly THE TOMB)

THE TOUCH

REBORN

REPRISAL

NIGHTWORLD

Borderlands Press has reprinted the Adversary Cycle in a matching set of limited-edition hardcovers. The six volumes fit into a single large slipcase. There are no titles on the spines, only icons to identity each book. The spines of the books, when lined up in order, form a single large painting that integrates all the icons and wraps around the sides of the slipcase. The set includes the 20th anniversary edition of THE TOMB under my original title, RAKOSHI. Once again I've revised the text and contributed a foreword recounting how the title was changed. Here's a chance to own a hardcover edition for a sensible price.

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The Peabody-Ozymandias Traveling Circus & Oddity Emporium 

SOLD OUT!

In The Pipeline

 

WINTER

 

Legacies - signed 375-copy "Tenth Anniversary Edition" from Gauntlet Press.

 

2009

 

JANUARY

New, bargain-priced ($4.99) editions of:

Deep as the Marrow

Implant

Legacies

Gateways

FEBRUARY
"Recalled" - a short story (sequel to "The Distributor") in the tribute anthology He is Legend: Celebrating Richard Matheson

MARCH
Aftershock & Others - my third short fiction collection

JULY
The Touch - (new paperback edition)

SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER
Ground Zero (RJ #13)

NOVEMBER
Reborn (new paperback edition)