F. Paul Wilson is a renowned American author, best known for his works in the horror and science fiction genres. He was born on May 17, 1946, in Jersey City, New Jersey, and grew up with a keen interest in reading novels, comic books, and watching horror and science fiction movies. Wilson's love for reading and watching speculative fiction from a young age significantly influenced his writing career.
Wilson has written numerous novels and short stories, with his debut novel, Healer, published in 1976. He began his writing career by selling his first story in the 1970s and has since written in various genres, including science fiction, fantasy, horror, young adult, and thrillers. Some of his most popular works include The Keep, The Tomb, Harbingers, By the Sword, and Nightworld, all of which have appeared on the New York Times Bestsellers List.
In addition to his writing career, Wilson is also a part-time practicing family physician. He made his first sales in 1970 to Analog and continued to write science fiction throughout the 1970s. In 1981, he ventured into the horror genre with the international bestseller, The Keep, and helped define the field throughout the rest of the decade. In the 1990s, he became a true genre hopper, moving from science fiction to horror to medical thrillers and branching into interactive scripting for Disney Interactive and other multimedia companies.
Wilson, along with Matthew J. Costello, created and scripted FTL Newsfeed, which ran daily on the Sci-Fi Channel from 1992-1996. He has also received several awards for his work, including the prestigious Inkpot Award from San Diego ComiCon and the Pioneer Award from the RT Booklovers Convention. His novel, The Keep, was made into a movie in 1983, and his short story, "Menage a Trois," was part of the pilot for The Hunger series that debuted on Showtime in July 1997.
In conclusion, F. Paul Wilson is a versatile author who has made significant contributions to the horror and science fiction genres. With his unique storytelling style and ability to switch genres seamlessly, he has amassed a considerable following and established himself as a prominent figure in American literature.
The LaNague Federation Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Healer
1976
2
Wheels Within Wheels
1978
3
An Enemy of the State
1980
4
The Tery
1982
5
Dydeetown World
1989
Adversary Cycle Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
The Keep
1981
2
The Tomb
1984
3
The Touch
1986
4
Reborn
1990
5
Reprisal
1991
6
Nightworld
1992
7
Signalz
2020
The Hidden Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
The Upwelling
2024
2
Lexie
2024
Repairman Jack Books
#
Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
The Tomb
1984
2
Nightworld
1992
3
Legacies
1998
4
Conspiracies
1998
5
All the Rage
2000
6
Hosts
2001
7
The Haunted Air
2002
8
Gateways
2003
9
Crisscross
2004
10
Infernal
2005
11
Harbingers
2006
12
The Last Rakosh
2006
13
Bloodline
2007
14
By the Sword
2008
15
Jack
2009
16
Ground Zero
2009
17
Fatal Error
2010
18
Quick Fixes
2011
19
The Dark at the End
2011
20
The Last Christmas
2019
21
F. Paul Wilson's Repairman Jack: Scar-Lip Redux
2020
Repairman Jack Series in Chronological Order
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
The Tomb
1984
2
Legacies
1998
3
Conspiracies
1998
4
All the Rage
2000
5
Hosts
2001
6
The Haunted Air
2002
7
Gateways
2003
8
Crisscross
2004
9
Infernal
2005
10
Harbingers
2006
11
The Last Rakosh
2006
12
Bloodline
2007
13
By the Sword
2008
14
Ground Zero
2009
15
The Last Christmas
2019
16
Fatal Error
2010
17
The Dark at the End
2011
18
Nightworld
1992
Young Repairman Jack Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Secret Histories
2008
2
Secret Circles
2009
3
Secret Vengeance
2010
Repairman Jack: The Early Years Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Cold City
2012
2
Dark City
2013
3
Fear City
2014
Repairman Jack: Scar-Lip Redux Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
F. Paul Wilson's Repairman Jack: Scar-Lip Redux
2020
Repairman Jack Short Stories/Novellas
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Interlude at Duane's
2017
Repairman Jack Short Story Collections
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Quick Fixes
2011
Nocturnia Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Definitely Not Kansas
2013
The ICE Sequence Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Panacea
2016
2
The God Gene
2018
3
The Void Protocol
2019
Sims Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Sims
2000
2
La Causa
2000
3
The Portero Method
2001
4
Meerm
2002
5
Zero
2005
6
Thy Brother's Keeper
2010
The Secret History of the World Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Black Wind
1988
2
Sibs
1991
3
Sibs / Sister Night
1991
4
The Barrens and Others
1991
5
The Peabody- Ozymandias Traveling Circus & Oddity Emporium
2007
6
Secret Stories
2019
Duad Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Double Threat
2021
2
Double Dose
2023
Standalone Novels
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Midnight Mass
1990
2
The Select
1993
3
Implant
1995
4
Mirage
1996
5
Virgin
1996
6
Nightkill
1997
7
Deep as the Marrow
1997
8
Masque
1998
9
The Fifth Harmonic
2003
10
Draculas (With: Blake Crouch, Jeff Strand, J.A. Konrath)
2010
11
Draculas
2010
12
The Proteus Cure
2013
13
A Necessary End (With: Sarah Pinborough)
2014
14
A Necessary End
2014
15
Demonsong
2014
Children's Books
#
Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
The Christmas Thingy
2000
Collections
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Three Films and a Play
2020
2
Three Films and a Play (With: Matthew J. Costello)
2020
Short Stories/Novellas
#
Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Dat-Tay-Vao
1987
2
Traps
1987
3
Buckets
1989
4
Pelts
1990
5
The Barrens
1990
6
Sex Slaves of the Dragon Tong
2007
7
Reunion
2009
8
The Widow Lindley
2013
9
Santa Jack
2013
10
Wardenclyffe
2018
Short Story Collections
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Soft and Others
1989
2
Aftershock
1999
3
Artifact
2003
4
The Evil Entwines, Extended Version
2005
5
Aftershock & Others
2009
6
Other Sandboxes
2024
Anthologies
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Freak Show
1992
2
Diagnosis
1996
Bibliomysteries Books
#
Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
The Book of Virtue
2012
2
The Book of Virtue (By: Ken Bruen)
2012
3
Pronghorns of the Third Reich
2012
4
Pronghorns of the Third Reich (By: C.J. Box)
2012
5
The Book Thing
2012
6
The Book Thing (By: Laura Lippman)
2012
7
The Book Case (By: Nelson DeMille)
2012
8
The Book Case
2012
9
An Acceptable Sacrifice
2012
10
An Acceptable Sacrifice ( By: Jeffery Deaver)
2012
11
Death Leaves a Bookmark (By: William Link)
2012
12
Death Leaves a Bookmark
2012
13
The Final Testament (By: Peter Blauner)
2013
14
The Final Testament
2013
15
Rides a Stranger (By: David Bell)
2013
16
Rides a Stranger
2013
17
The Long Sonata of the Dead (By: Andrew Taylor)
2013
18
The Long Sonata of the Dead
2013
19
The Book of Ghosts ( By: Reed Farrel Coleman)
2013
20
The Book of Ghosts
2013
21
The Compendium of Srem
2014
22
What's in a Name? ( By: Thomas H. Cook)
2014
23
What's in a Name?
2014
24
Remaindered
2014
25
Remaindered (By: Peter Lovesey)
2014
26
The Sequel
2014
27
The Sequel (By: R.L. Stine)
2014
28
The Gospel of Sheba (By: Lyndsay Faye)
2014
29
The Gospel of Sheba
2014
30
Book Club (By: Loren D. Estleman)
2014
31
Book Club
2014
32
The Nature of My Inheritance (By: Bradford Morrow)
2014
33
The Nature of My Inheritance
2014
34
It's in the Book
2014
35
It's in the Book (By: Max Allan Collins, Mickey Spillane)
2014
36
The Scroll (By: Anne Perry)
2014
37
The Scroll
2014
38
The Book of the Lion
2015
39
The Book of the Lion (By: Thomas Perry)
2015
40
The Little Men (By: Megan Abbott)
2015
41
The Little Men
2015
42
Condor in the Stacks
2015
43
Condor in the Stacks (By: James Grady)
2015
44
Mystery, Inc.
2015
45
Mystery, Inc. (By: Joyce Carol Oates)
2015
46
Every Seven Years
2015
47
Every Seven Years (By: Denise Mina)
2015
48
From the Queen
2015
49
From the Queen (By: Carolyn Hart)
2015
50
The Travelling Companion
2016
51
The Travelling Companion ( By: Ian Rankin)
2016
52
Citadel
2016
53
Citadel (By: Stephen Hunter)
2016
54
Reconciliation Day (By: Christopher Fowler)
2016
55
Reconciliation Day
2016
56
Dead Dames Don't Sing (By: John Harvey)
2016
57
Dead Dames Don't Sing
2016
58
The Haze
2016
59
The Haze (By: James W. Hall)
2016
60
Hoodoo Harry
2017
61
Hoodoo Harry (By: Joe R. Lansdale)
2017
62
The Pretty Little Box
2018
63
The Pretty Little Box ( By: Charles Todd)
2018
64
Seven Years (By: Peter Robinson)
2018
65
Seven Years
2018
66
The Hemingway Valise (By: Robert Olen Butler)
2018
67
The Hemingway Valise
2018
68
The Last Honest Horse Thief
2018
69
The Last Honest Horse Thief (By: Michael Koryta)
2018
70
The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository
2018
71
The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository (By: John Connolly)
2018
72
The Girl Who Did Say No
2020
73
The Girl Who Did Say No (By: David Handler)
2020
74
The Traitor
2022
75
The Traitor (By: Martin Edwards)
2022
76
The Dark Door (By: Lisa Unger)
2022
77
The Dark Door
2022
78
The Honeymoon Trap
2022
79
The Honeymoon Trap (By: Peter Swanson)
2022
Bibliomysteries Series in Chronological Order
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
The Book of Virtue
2012
2
The Book of Virtue (By: Ken Bruen)
2012
3
The Scroll
2014
4
The Scroll (By: Anne Perry)
2014
5
Pronghorns of the Third Reich
2012
6
Pronghorns of the Third Reich (By: C.J. Box)
2012
7
An Acceptable Sacrifice
2012
8
An Acceptable Sacrifice ( By: Jeffery Deaver)
2012
9
Death Leaves a Bookmark (By: William Link)
2012
10
Death Leaves a Bookmark
2012
11
Seven Years (By: Peter Robinson)
2018
12
Seven Years
2018
13
The Book Thing
2012
14
The Book Thing (By: Laura Lippman)
2012
15
The Book of Ghosts ( By: Reed Farrel Coleman)
2013
16
The Book of Ghosts
2013
17
Book Club (By: Loren D. Estleman)
2014
18
Book Club
2014
19
The Long Sonata of the Dead
2013
20
The Long Sonata of the Dead (By: Andrew Taylor)
2013
21
The Final Testament
2013
22
The Final Testament (By: Peter Blauner)
2013
23
Rides a Stranger
2013
24
Rides a Stranger (By: David Bell)
2013
25
What's in a Name?
2014
26
What's in a Name? ( By: Thomas H. Cook)
2014
27
It's in the Book (By: Max Allan Collins, Mickey Spillane)
2014
28
It's in the Book
2014
29
The Nature of My Inheritance
2014
30
The Nature of My Inheritance (By: Bradford Morrow)
2014
31
Remaindered (By: Peter Lovesey)
2014
32
Remaindered
2014
33
The Compendium of Srem
2014
34
The Gospel of Sheba
2014
35
The Gospel of Sheba (By: Lyndsay Faye)
2014
36
The Sequel (By: R.L. Stine)
2014
37
The Sequel
2014
38
The Book of the Lion
2015
39
The Book of the Lion (By: Thomas Perry)
2015
40
The Little Men
2015
41
The Little Men (By: Megan Abbott)
2015
42
Every Seven Years
2015
43
Every Seven Years (By: Denise Mina)
2015
44
Citadel
2016
45
Citadel (By: Stephen Hunter)
2016
46
Condor in the Stacks (By: James Grady)
2015
47
Condor in the Stacks
2015
48
Mystery, Inc.
2015
49
Mystery, Inc. (By: Joyce Carol Oates)
2015
50
The Travelling Companion
2016
51
The Travelling Companion ( By: Ian Rankin)
2016
52
The Haze
2016
53
The Haze (By: James W. Hall)
2016
54
Dead Dames Don't Sing (By: John Harvey)
2016
55
Dead Dames Don't Sing
2016
56
Reconciliation Day (By: Christopher Fowler)
2016
57
Reconciliation Day
2016
58
Hoodoo Harry (By: Joe R. Lansdale)
2017
59
Hoodoo Harry
2017
60
The Pretty Little Box
2018
61
The Pretty Little Box ( By: Charles Todd)
2018
62
The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository (By: John Connolly)
2018
63
The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository
2018
64
The Hemingway Valise
2018
65
The Hemingway Valise (By: Robert Olen Butler)
2018
66
The Last Honest Horse Thief
2018
67
The Last Honest Horse Thief (By: Michael Koryta)
2018
68
The Book Case
2012
69
The Book Case (By: Nelson DeMille)
2012
70
From the Queen (By: Carolyn Hart)
2015
71
From the Queen
2015
72
The Girl Who Did Say No (By: David Handler)
2020
73
The Girl Who Did Say No
2020
74
The Traitor (By: Martin Edwards)
2022
75
The Traitor
2022
76
The Dark Door (By: Lisa Unger)
2022
77
The Dark Door
2022
78
The Honeymoon Trap
2022
79
The Honeymoon Trap (By: Peter Swanson)
2022
Codename: Chandler Books (with Ann Voss Peterson, with J.A. Konrath)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Flee
2011
2
Flee (By: Ann Voss Peterson, J.A. Konrath)
2011
3
Spree (By: Ann Voss Peterson, J.A. Konrath)
2011
4
Spree
2011
5
Three
2011
6
Three (By: Ann Voss Peterson, J.A. Konrath)
2011
7
Hit (By: Ann Voss Peterson, J.A. Konrath)
2013
8
Hit
2013
9
Exposed (By: Ann Voss Peterson, J.A. Konrath)
2013
10
Exposed
2013
11
Naughty (By: Ann Voss Peterson, J.A. Konrath)
2013
12
Naughty
2013
13
Fix
2015
14
Rescue
2015
15
Rescue (By: Ann Voss Peterson, J.A. Konrath)
2015
16
Free (By: Ann Voss Peterson, J.A. Konrath)
2025
Mysterious Profiles Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Elvis Cole and Joe Pike
2022
2
Jack Taylor
2022
3
Elvis Cole and Joe Pike (By: Robert Crais)
2022
4
Jack Taylor (By: Ken Bruen)
2022
5
Jack Reacher
2022
6
Charlie Parker
2022
7
Jack Reacher (By: Lee Child)
2022
8
Hieronymus Bosch
2022
9
Charlie Parker (By: John Connolly)
2022
10
Lincoln Rhyme
2022
11
Hieronymus Bosch (By: Michael Connelly)
2022
12
Alex Delaware
2022
13
Lincoln Rhyme (By: Jeffery Deaver)
2022
14
Tess Monaghan
2022
15
Alex Delaware (By: Jonathan Kellerman)
2022
16
Tess Monaghan (By: Laura Lippman)
2022
17
Charlie Resnick
2022
18
Charlie Resnick (By: John Harvey)
2022
19
Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus
2022
20
Inspector Morse
2022
21
Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus (By: Faye Kellerman)
2022
22
Dismas Hardy
2022
23
Inspector Morse (By: Colin Dexter)
2022
24
Bob Lee Swagger
2022
25
Dismas Hardy (By: John Lescroart)
2022
26
Bob Lee Swagger (By: Stephen Hunter)
2022
27
Aloysius X. L. Pendergast
2022
28
Aloysius X. L. Pendergast (By: Douglas Preston)
2022
29
Lou Boldt
2022
30
Lou Boldt (By: Ridley Pearson)
2022
31
Spenser
2022
32
Spenser (By: Robert B. Parker)
2022
33
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt
2022
34
John Rebus
2022
35
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt (By: Anne Perry)
2022
36
Mallory
2022
37
John Rebus (By: Ian Rankin)
2022
38
Jane Whitefield
2022
39
Mallory (By: Carol O'Connell)
2022
40
Jane Whitefield (By: Thomas Perry)
2022
41
Ian Rutledge: A Mysterious Profile
2022
42
Amos Walker
2022
43
Ian Rutledge ( By: Charles Todd)
2022
44
Precious Ramotswe
2022
45
Amos Walker (By: Loren D. Estleman)
2022
46
Maisie Dobbs
2022
47
Precious Ramotswe (By: Alexander McCall Smith)
2022
48
The Lincoln Lawyer
2022
49
Maisie Dobbs (By: Jacqueline Winspear)
2022
50
Ben Kincaid
2023
51
The Lincoln Lawyer (By: Michael Connelly)
2022
52
Condor ( By: James Grady)
2023
53
Ben Kincaid ( By: William Bernhardt)
2023
54
Repairman Jack
2023
55
Joe Pickett (By: C.J. Box)
2024
56
Peter Diamond (By: Peter Lovesey)
2024
57
Nathan Heller (By: Max Allan Collins)
2024
Night Visions Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Night Visions: In the Blood
1984
2
Night Visions
1985
3
Night Visions 2
1985
4
Night Visions 3
1986
5
Night Visions: The Hellbound Heart
1986
6
Night Visions 6
1988
7
Night Visions 8
1990
8
Night Visions 9
1991
9
Night Visions 10
2001
10
Night Visions 11
2004
11
Night Visions 12
2006
The Dream Weaver Books on Writing Fiction Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Where Nightmares Come From
2017
2
It's Alive
2018
F. Paul Wilson Anthologies
#
Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1971
1971
2
Isaac Asimov's Marvels of Science Fiction
1979
3
Heroic Fantasy
1979
4
Perpetual Light
1982
5
Twilight Zone Magazine, December 1985
1985
6
Doom City
1987
7
The Bone Yard
1988
8
Hot Blood Tales of Erotic Horror
1989
9
Razored Saddles
1989
10
Second Annual Collection
1989
11
The Year's Best Fantasy 2 / Demons and Dreams
1990
12
Drabble II: Double Century
1990
13
Obsessions
1991
14
Best New Horror 2
1991
15
The Mammoth Book of Vampires
1992
16
Dark at Heart
1992
17
The Giant Book of Best New Horror
1993
18
Weird Business
1995
19
Cthulhu 2000
1995
20
Millenium
1997
21
The Mammoth Book of Dracula
1997
22
October Dreams
2000
23
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #11
2000
24
Artifact
2003
25
Shivers II
2003
26
The Mammoth Book of New Terror
2004
27
The Many Faces of Van Helsing
2004
28
Shivers III
2004
29
Dark Delicacies
2005
30
Retro Pulp Tales
2006
31
Night Visions 12
2006
32
Dark Territories
2008
33
The Best of Cemetery Dance II
2008
34
Black Spiral Twisted Tales of TERROR
2010
35
Rage Against the Night
2011
36
Horror for Good
2012
37
Uncommon Assassins
2012
38
Mister October, Volume I: An Anthology in Memory of Rick Hautala