David Morrell Books In Order
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First Blood | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rambo: First Blood Part II | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rambo III | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Mortalis Books
The Brotherhood of the Rose | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fraternity Of The Stone | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The League of Night and Fog | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Cavanaugh Books
The Protector | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Naked Edge | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Attitude Adjuster | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Frank Balenger Books
Publication Order of Thomas De Quincey Books
Murder as a Fine Art | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Opium-Eater | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Inspector of the Dead | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ruler of the Night | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Testament | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Last Reveille | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Totem | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood Oath | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fifth Profession | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Covenant of the Flame | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Assumed Identity | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Desperate Measures | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Extreme Denial | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Double Image | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Burnt Sienna | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Long Lost | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Spy Who Came for Christmas | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Shimmer | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
The Hundred-Year Christmas | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dead Image | (1987) | |
Orange is for Anguish, Blue for Insanity | (1988) | |
The Beautiful Uncut Hair of Graves | (1991) | |
Nothing Will Hurt You | (1992) | |
The Shrine | (1992) | |
They | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My Name is Legion | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Architecture of Snow | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Interrogator | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Black Evening | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nightscape | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Before I Wake | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Picture Books
Publication Order of Captain America Graphic Novels
Publication Order of Cultural-Icon Non-Fiction Books
John Wayne: The Westerns | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Marilyn Monroe: Legend and Tragedy | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rambo and Me: The Story Behind the Story | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Frank Sinatra: The Artist and His Music | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nelson Riddle: The Man behind the Music | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
John Barth | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fireflies | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lessons from a Lifetime of Writing | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Successful Novelist | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Thrillers: 100 Must Reads | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Anthology Books
Best New Horror | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 2 | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 3 | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Giant Book of Best New Horror | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 4 | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 5 | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 6 | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 7 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 8 | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 9 | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10 | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #11 | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #12 | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15 | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 16 | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 17 | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 18 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Best New Horror | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 19 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 20 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 21 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 22 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Body Horror | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 23 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 24 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 25 | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror #26 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 27 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 28 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 29 | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Best New Horror, Volume One | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best of Best New Horror Volume 2 | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror #30 | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror #31 | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The MatchUp Collection Books
Honor & ... | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deserves to Be Dead | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Getaway | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Midnight Flame | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Short Story | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Past Prologue | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Faking a Murderer | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dig Here | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Taking the Veil | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rambo on Their Minds | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Footloose | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Diogenes Club Books
Shadows Over Innsmouth | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 5 | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cthulhu 2000 | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Terrors 2 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark of the Night | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
White of the Moon | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Where The Bodies Are Buried | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Infinity Plus One | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Embrace the Mutation | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 16 | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Adventure | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man from the Diogenes Club | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2006: 19th Annual Collection | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 18 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Summer Chills | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Infinity Plus | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fair Folk | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 19 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction & Fantasy | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mysteries of the Diogenes Club | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of the Mummy | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Dark Delicacies Books
Dark Delicacies: Original Tales of Terror and the Macabre by the World's Greatest Horror Writers | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Delicacies II: Fear | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Delicacies III: Haunted | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
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Publication Order of Anthologies
Dark at Heart | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Millenium | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hollywood Fantasies: Ten Surreal Visions of Tinsel Town | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder for Revenge | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
These Guns for Hire | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Delicacies III: Haunted | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crucified Dreams | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Rich and the Dead | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
All-American Horror of the 21st Century: The First Decade | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chiral Mad 2 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eulogies III | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood on the Bayou | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Detours | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
MatchUp | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alive in Shape and Color | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Master of the top Action Thriller, New York Times Best Selling Author David Morell is an award winning author of the novel First Blood, in which Rambo was devised. David Morell was born in Kitchener, in Ontario, Canada. In the year 1960, at at the age of 17, he became a fan of the epic television series, route sixty six, of 2 young men in a Corvette convertible journeying the United States while in search of themselves and America. The scripts made by Stirling Silliphant mixed action with ideas and so attracted Morell that he chose to become a writer. In nineteen sixty six, the work of a different writer, Hemingsway scholar Philip Young made Morrell to go to the United States. Here he studied with Philip Young at Pennsylvania State and got his M.A and PH.D. in American Literature. He also met there the respected science fiction author, William Tenn whose real name is Philip Klass, who taught David Morell the fundamentals of fiction writing. The consequence was First Blood, an award winning novel of a returned Vietnam veteran having post trauma stress disorder who gets into conflict with a town police chief and battles his own style of the Vietnam War.
That father of new action novels was published in nineteen seventy two while Morrell was a university professor in the English Department of the University of Iowa. He lectured American literature there from nineteen seventy to nineteen eighty six, at the same time writing other novels, majority of them international bestsellers, that include the League of Night and Fog, The brotherhood of the Rose which was the basis for the only TV mini series to air after a Super Bowl, the classic spy trilogy, and The Fraternity of the Stone. Ultimately wearying of two professions, He gave up his academic profession in order to write fully. Shortly after, his fifteen year old son called Matthew was diagnosed with a rare strain of bone cancer and died in nineteen eight seven, a loss that not only haunts Morrell’s life but also his work, as in his memoir of his son, Matthew, his novel Desperate Measures, and Fireflies, whose main protagonist lost a son.
The mild mannered don with the bloody minded visions as called by one reviewer, David Morrell is the author of over thirty books, including such top action thrillers as The Spy Who Came For Christmas that is set in Santa Fe, where Morrell lives, the Naked Edge, and Creepers. Always interested in varying ways to say a story, he penned the six part comic book, Captain America; The Chosen. Morrell’s writing book, The Successful Novelist, investigates what he has learned in his four decades as an author.
He is a co founder of the group, International Thrillers Writers Organization. Morrell noticed for his research, is a graduate of the school, the National Outdoor Leadership School for wilderness survival and also the G.Gordon Liddy school of Corporate Security. David Morrell is an honorary lifetime member of the two associations, the Association of Intelligence Officers and the Special Operations Associations . He has been trained in defense and offensive driving, assuming identities, firearms, executive protection, and hostage negotiation, among many other action skills that he writes about in his novels. To investigate the aerial sequences in his novel, The Shimmer, David Morrell became a private pilot, the training which he describes here. In the year 2010, Morrell was with the first batch of authors to be taken on a USO tour to a war territory, Iraq. He is a three time recipient of the recognized Bram and Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association, an Edgar and Anthony finalist, and a Nero and Macavity winner. He was awarded the prestigious career achievement Thriller Master Award by the International Thriller Writers Organization. Morrell’s short stories have appeared in many Year’s Best collections. Having eighteen million print copies, His work has been translated into 26 languages.
Additional information
He was born in 1943, in Kitchener, Ontario. He is Married, with a daughter, Sarie. His son Matthew, died in 1987. David Morrell acquired a B.A Honors in English, in 1966, at ST. Jerrome’s College at the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada. He got a M.A. in American literature, in 1967, in Pennsylvania State University, his thesis was”Hemingsway’s Early Style” with Phillip Young as his director. He acquired a PH.D. in American literature, in 1970, in Pennsylvania State University. his dissertation was”\John Barth: An introduction\” with Philip Young as director.
Employment
He was a Rhetoric Instructor, at the Pennsylvania State University, in 1969-1970. He was an Assistant Professor in American Literature, at the University of Iowa, in 1970-1974. He became an Associate Professor. in American Literature, in the University of Iowa. in 1974-1977 Morrell became a Full Professor. American Literature , at the University of Iowa, in 1977-1986. He surrendered a tenured position to follow a full time career as a fictional writer, in 1986. David Morrell taught: Modern Fiction, American Novel from 1800 to 1900, American Novel from 1900 to 1945, American Novel from 1945 to the Present, American Poetry, The Hard-Boiled Novel, Hawthorne and Melville, Faulkner and Barth, American Realism of the Nineteenth Century. He conducted graduate seminars on Henry James, Hemingsway, Faulkner, and Literary Archetypes.
Honors
He received the Friends of American Writers Distinguished Recognition Award, for his novel. First Blood, in 1973. He received the Horror Writers Association best novella prize for,”Orange is for Anguish, Blue for Insanity,” in 1989. He also got the Horror Writers Association best novella prize for, ” The Beautiful Uncut Hair of Graves,” in 1991. He was nominated for Horror Writers Association best novella prize, “Nothing Will Hurt You,” and “The Shrine”, in 1992. He was Nominated for World Fantasy Award best novella awards and best short story for; The Hundred Year Christmas in 1983 and the “Dead Image” in 1985. He was also nominated for the University of Iowa prestigious Faculty Alumni Award, in 1999 David Morrell was nominated for Love Is Murder mystery conference, the Best Novel Award, for the Protector in 2003, for the Blade Magazine’s Industry Achievement prize, in 2003 and For Love Is Murder Best Thriller Award, the Creepers, in 2005. He also received the Horror Writers Association best novel prize, for the Creepers, in 2005. He also received Shock lines’ Online Bookstore Shocker prize, best novel of the Year, the Creepers, in 2005.
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