John Shirley won the Bram Stoker Award for his story collection Black Butterflies, and is the author of numerous novels, including the best-seller DEMONS, the cyberpunk classics CITY COME A-WALKIN’, ECLIPSE, and BLACK GLASS, and his newest novels STORMLAND and A SORCERER OF ATLANTIS.
He is also a screenwriter, having written for television and movies; he was co-screenwriter of THE CROW. He has been several Year’s Best anthologies including Prime Books’ THE YEAR’S BEST DARK FANTASY AND HORROR anthology, and his newest story collection is IN EXTREMIS: THE MOST EXTREME SHORT STORIES OF JOHN SHIRLEY. His novel BIOSHOCK: RAPTURE telling the story of the creation and undoing of Rapture, from the hit videogame BIOSHOCK is out from TOR books; his Halo novel, HALO: BROKEN CIRCLE is coming out from Pocket Books.
His most recent novels are STORMLAND and (forthcoming) AXLE BUST CREEK. His new story collection is THE FEVERISH STARS. STORMLAND and other John Shirley novels are available as audiobooks.
He is also a lyricist, having written lyrics for 18 songs recorded by the Blue Oyster Cult (especially on their albums Heaven Forbidden and Curse of the Hidden Mirror), and his own recordings.
Books in order of publication:
Novels
Transmaniacon (1979)
Dracula in Love (1979)
City Come A-Walkin’ (1980)
Three-Ring Psychus (1980)
The Brigade (1981)
Cellars (1982)
Several books in the Traveler series of post-apocalyptic men’s adventure novels (as D. B. Drumm)
Several books in the Specialist series of mercenary/adventure men’s adventure novels (as John Cutter)
A Song Called Youth Series (also known as Eclipse Trilogy):
Eclipse (1985)
Eclipse Penumbra (1988)
Eclipse Corona (1990)
In Darkness Waiting (1988)
Kamus of Kadizar: The Black Hole of Carcosa (1988)
A Splendid Chaos (1988)
Wetbones (1991). A supernatural serial killer novel featuring creatures called the Akishra who take over human minds and bodies.
Silicon Embrace (1996)
Demons (2000, novella)
“…And the Angel with Television Eyes” (2001, novella)
The View From Hell (2001, novella)
Her Hunger (2001, novella)
Spider Moon (2002)
Demons, a new version with sequel novel Undercurrents (2002)
Crawlers (2003)
Doom (2005, novelization of the film version of the Id Software computer game)
Constantine (2005, novelisation of the film featuring the DC/Vertigo comic book character)
John Constantine, Hellblazer: War Lord (2006, based on the comic book character, not the movie version)
Predator: Forever Midnight (2006, Predator series tie-in)
Batman: Dead White (2006)
John Constantine, Hellblazer: Subterranean (2006)
The Other End (2007)
Alien: Steel Egg (2007)
Black Glass (2008)
Bleak History (2009)
BioShock: Rapture (2011)
Borderlands: The Fallen (2011)
Everything Is Broken (2011)
Borderlands: Unconquered (2012)
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012, novelisation of the film version of the Capcom video game)
Doyle After Death (2013)
Borderlands: Gunsight (2013)
Wyatt in Wichita (2014)
Grimm: The Icy Touch (2013)
Watch Dogs //n/Dark Clouds (2013)
Halo: Broken Circle (2014)
A Dying Machine (2018, a collaboration with Mark Tremonti of the Tremonti, incorporating ideas found in album of the same name. The novel is co-written by Mark Tremonti)
Stormland (2021), a science fiction climate-change thriller.
A Sorcerer of Atlantis (2021), a heroic fantasy novel.
Short story collections
Heatseeker (1989)
New Noir (1993)
The Exploded Heart (1996)
Black Butterflies (1998)
Really, Really, Really, Really Weird Stories (1999)
Darkness Divided (2001)
Living Shadows (2007)
In Extremis: The Most Extreme Short Stories of John Shirley (2011)
The Feverish Stars (2021)
Anthologies
Freezone (Rock On: The Greatest Hits of Science Fiction & Fantasy, Prime Books 2012)
Meerga (Altered States, Indie Authors Press, 2014)
Nonfiction
Gurdjieff – An Introduction to his Life and Ideas (2004)
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