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Publication Order of Arabel and Mortimer Books

Arabel's Raven (1972)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Arabel, Mortimer, and the Escaped Black Mamba (1973)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mortimer's Bread Bin (1974)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mortimer's Tie (1976)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Spiral Stair (1979)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mortimer and the Sword Excalibur (1979)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Arabel and Mortimer (1980)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mortimer's Portrait on Glass (1982)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Mystery of Mr. Jones's Disappearing Taxi (1982)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mortimer's Cross (1983)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mortimer Says Nothing (1985)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mortimer and Arabel (1992)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mortimer's Pocket (1994)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mortimer's Mine (1995)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mayhem in Rumbury (1995)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Arabel and Mortimer Stories (2019)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
More Arabel and Mortimer (2019)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Armitage Family Books

Armitage, Armitage, Fly Away Home (1968)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Serial Garden (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Felix Brooke Books

Go Saddle the Sea (1977)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Bridle the Wind (1979)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Teeth of the Gale (1988)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Jane Austen Books

Mansfield Revisited (1984)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Jane Fairfax (1990)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Eliza's Daughter (1994)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Emma Watson (1996)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Youngest Miss Ward (1998)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Lady Catherine's Necklace (1999)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Paget Family Saga Books

The Smile of the Stranger (1978)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Weeping Ash (1980)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Girl from Paris (1982)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Ribs of Death Books

The Crystal Crow (1967)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Foul Matter (1983)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of St. Ives Books

In Thunder's Pocket (2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Bone and Dream (2002)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Song of Mat and Ben (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of The Wolves Chronicles Books

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1962)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Black Hearts in Battersea (1964)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Nightbirds on Nantucket (1966)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Whispering Mountain (1968)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Cuckoo Tree (1971)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Stolen Lake (1981)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Dido and Pa (1986)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Is Underground (1992)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Cold Shoulder Road (1995)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Limbo Lodge / Dangerous Games (1998)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Midwinter Nightingale (2003)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Witch of Clatteringshaws (2005)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

The Angel Inn (1863)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Kingdom and the Cave (1960)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Silence of Herondale (1964)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Fortune Hunters (1965)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Beware of the Bouquet / Trouble with Product X (1966)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Dark Interval / Hate Begins at Home (1967)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Night Fall (1969)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Embroidered Sunset (1970)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Cluster of Separate Sparks / The Butterfly Picnic (1972)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Died on a Rainy Sunday (1972)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Midnight Is a Place (1974)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Voices in an Empty House (1975)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Castle Barebane (1976)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Last Movement (1977)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Five-Minute Marriage (1977)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mice and Mendelson (1978)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Shadow Guests (1980)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Kitchen Warriors (1983)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Deception / If I Were You (1987)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Erl King's Daughter (1988)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Blackground (1989)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Haunting of Lamb House (1991)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Cockatrice Boys (1993)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Midnight Moropus (1993)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Morningquest (1993)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Jewel Seed (1996)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Return to Harken House (1988)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Fit of Shivers (1990)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Shoemaker's Boy (1991)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Scream (2002)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Picture Books

The Moon's Revenge (1987)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (By:Jacob Grimm) (2002)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Wooden Dragon (2004)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Plays

Winterthing (1972)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Mooncusser's Daughter (1974)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Street (1978)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Collections

All You've Ever Wanted (1953)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
More Than You Bargained for (1957)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Girl's Choice (1965)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Necklace of Raindrops (1968)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Small Pinch of Weather (1969)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Windscreen Weepers (1969)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Smoke from Cromwell's Time (1970)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Kingdom Under the Sea (1971)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Green Flash (1971)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Harp of Fishbones (1972)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Not What You Expected (1974)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
All But a Few (1974)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Faithless Lollybird (1975)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Skin Spinners (1976)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Far Forests (1976)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Bundle of Nerves (1976)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Tale of a One-Way Street (1978)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Touch of Chill (1979)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Whisper in the Night (1983)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Up the Chimney Down (1984)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Last Slice of Rainbow (1985)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Past Eight O'Clock (1986)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Goose on Your Grave (1987)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Give Yourself a Fright (1989)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Foot in the Grave (1989)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Fit of Shivers (1990)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Fit of Shivers / In Black and White (1992)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Winter Sleepwalker (1994)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Creepy Company (1995)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Handful of Gold (1995)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Dead Man's Lane (1996)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Casting a Spell and Other Poems (1996)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Moon Cake (1998)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Shadows & Moonshine (2001)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Ghostly Beasts (2002)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Snow Horse (2004)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Monkey's Wedding (2011)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The People in the Castle (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Gift Giving (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

The Way to Write for Children (1982)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Pan Book of Horror Stories Books

with Stephen King, Ruth Rendell, Patricia Highsmith, Tanith Lee, , Jack Finney, Robert Holdstock, , , John Christopher, Roald Dahl, , , , Herbert van Thal, , , , , , , , Ian McEwan, , , , , , , Elleston Trevor
The Pan Book of Horror Stories (By:,Jack Finney,L.P. Hartley,Herbert van Thal) (1959)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The First Pan Book of Horror Stories (By:Bram Stoker,Herbert van Thal) (1959)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Second Pan Book of Horror Stories (By:Herbert van Thal) (1960)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Third Pan Book of Horror Stories (By:Herbert van Thal) (1962)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Fifth Pan Book of Horror Stories (By:,Herbert van Thal) (1964)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Sixth Pan Book of Horror Stories (By:Herbert van Thal) (1965)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The 7th Pan Book of Horror Stories (By:,Herbert van Thal) (1966)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Eighth Pan Book of Horror Stories (By:Herbert van Thal) (1967)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Ninth Pan Book of Horror Stories (By:Tanith Lee,,,,Herbert van Thal) (1968)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Tenth Pan Book of Horror Stories (With: ,,John Christopher,Herbert van Thal) (1969)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Eleventh Pan Book of Horror Stories (By:Herbert van Thal) (1970)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Twelfth Pan Book of Horror Stories (By:Patricia Highsmith,Herbert van Thal) (1971)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The 13th Pan Book of Horror Stories (By:Herbert van Thal) (1972)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The 14th Pan Book of Horror Stories (By:Herbert van Thal,,,,,Alex White) (1973)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The 15th Pan Book of Horror Stories (By:,Herbert van Thal,,,Alex White) (1974)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The 16th Pan Book of Horror Stories (By:Alan Lee,,Herbert van Thal,Giles Gordon,,,Elleston Trevor) (1975)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The 17th Pan Book of Horror Stories (By:Alan Lee,Herbert van Thal,,Alex White,Elleston Trevor) (1976)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The 18th Pan Book of Horror Stories (By:Patricia Highsmith,Herbert van Thal) (1977)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The 19th Pan Book of Horror Stories (By:Robert Holdstock,,Herbert van Thal) (1978)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The 20th Pan Book of Horror Stories (By:,Herbert van Thal) (1979)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The 21st Pan Book of Horror Stories (By:Herbert van Thal) (1980)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The 22nd Pan Book of Horror Stories (By:Herbert van Thal,,,Ian McEwan) (1981)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The 24th Pan Book of Horror Stories (By:Patricia Highsmith,Roald Dahl,Herbert van Thal) (1983)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The 25th Pan Book of Horror Stories (By:Stephen King,,Herbert van Thal) (1984)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The 28th Pan Book of Horror Stories (By:Stephen King,Christopher Fowler,,Rebecca Bradley) (1987)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The 30th Pan Book of Horror Stories (By:Stephen King,Christopher Fowler) (1989)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of The Year of the Cat Books

with Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Carole Nelson Douglas, , , Rudyard Kipling, Andre Norton, , , , , , , Dean Wesley Smith, Mark Twain, Pamela Sargent, , , , , John Adams
A Cat of a Different Color (By:Kristine Kathryn Rusch,,,,Dean Wesley Smith) (2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Cat of Perfect Taste (By:Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Dean Wesley Smith) (2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Cat of Disdainful Looks (By:Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Rudyard Kipling,,Dean Wesley Smith,Mark Twain,,John Adams) (2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Cat of Strange Lands (By:Dean Wesley Smith) (2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Cat of Cozy Situations (By:Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Dean Wesley Smith) (2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Cat of Heroic Heart (By:Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Carole Nelson Douglas,,,,,Dean Wesley Smith) (2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Cat of Artistic Sensibilities (With: Kristine Kathryn Rusch,,,,Dean Wesley Smith) (2021)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Cat of Fantastic Whims (By:Kristine Kathryn Rusch,,,,,Dean Wesley Smith) (2021)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Cat of Feral Instincts (By:Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Arthur Conan Doyle,Edgar Allan Poe,,Dean Wesley Smith,Pamela Sargent) (2021)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Anthologies

The Tenth Pan Book of Horror Stories(1969)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Baker's Dozen of Stories for Young People(1974)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Ghosts That Haunt You(1980)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
65 Great Spine Chillers(1982)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Over the Rainbow: Tales of Fantasy and Imagination(1983)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection(1988)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection - Demons and Dreams(1989)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection(1989)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Year's Best Fantasy 2 / Demons and Dreams(1990)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Drabble II: Double Century(1990)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Chilling Christmas Tales(1992)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales(1993)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Haunting Christmas Tales(1993)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Fantasy Stories(1994)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women(1995)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Simply the Best(1996)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mystery Stories(1996)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Secret City: Strange Tales of London(1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories(1999)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Puffin Book of Stories for Eight-Year-Olds(1999)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Treasury of Five-Minute Stories(2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature(2002)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Dancing with the Dark(2009)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Psychos: Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane(2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Best New Horror 23(2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Lobster's Birthday and Other Stories(2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Joan Aiken
Joan Aiken was born in Mermaid Street on September 4, 1924 in Rye, Sussex. Her dad was Conrad Aiken, an American Pulitzer Prize winning poet. Her sister was Jane Aiken Hodge, a writer, and her brother was a writer and research chemist, named John Aiken. Their mom, Jessie MacDonald, was a Master’s graduate from Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Their marriage dissolved in 1929, and Jessie remarried to Martin Armstrong, an English writer in the year 1930, while Conrad married twice more. Joan, along with John and Jane, wrote Conrad Aiken Remembered, a short appreciation of their dad.

Joan was taught at home by her mom until she was twelve from 1936 until 1940 at Wychwood School for girls in North Oxford. She never attended university. Writing stories from a young age, she finished her first full length novel when she was only sixteen years old and she had her first short story for adults accepted for publication at the age of seventeen. In the year 1941, her first children’s story was broadcasted on the BBC’s Children’s Hour.

Aiken worked from 1943 to 1949 for the United Nations Information Centre in London. She married Ronald George Brown (a journalist that was also working at UNIC), in September 1945. They had two kids together before his passing in the year 1955.

After Joan’s husband died, she joined the magazine Argosy, where she worked in different editorial capacities and learned her trade as a writer. The magazine was one of the many in which she published her short fiction between 1955 and 1960. During this time she published her first two collections of children’s stories and started writing a children’s novel, which was initially called “Bonnie Green”, and was titled “The Wolves of Willoughby Chase” when it was published in 1962.

By this time she was able to work full time as a writer at home, producing two or three books each year for the rest of her life, primarily thrillers and children’s books, as well as many articles, talks and introductions on children’s literature and on Jane Austen’s works.

She participated in the Puffin Book Club’s annual Children’s Literature Summer Camp, which was run by Colony Holidays, the predecessor to ATE Superweeks, along with other such popular kid’s authors like Clive King and Ian Serraillier.

She married Julius Goldstein, a New York landscape painter and teacher. They divided their time between New York and her home, the Hermitage in Petworth, Sussex. He passed away in the year 2001.

In September of 1999, she was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire.

She died at her home at the age of 79 on January 4, 2004 in Petworth, Sussex. She was survived by her two kids.

Joan lived in a world filled with stories, and her greatest delight was sharing them.

“The Wolves of Willoughby Chase” is the first novel in “The Wolves of Willoughby Chase” series and was released in 1962. Wicked wolves and one grim governess threaten Bonnie and Sylvia (her cousin) when Bonnie’s parents depart Willoughby Chase for their sea voyage.

Left in cruel Miss Slighcarp’s care, the girls can barely believe what is happening to their formerly happy home. The servants get dismissed, the furniture gets sold off, and Sylvia and Bonnie get shipped off to a prison-like orphan school. It appears as if the endless hours of drudgery are never going to end.

With help from Simon the gooseboy and his flock, they are able to escape. However how are they every going to get Willoughby Chase free from the evil Miss Slighcarp’s clutches?

“The Midnight Moropus” is a stand alone novel and was released in 1993. Can Jon locate a ghostly horse that has been extinct for centuries now?

Jon is a lonely orphan that lives on a farm with his adopted parents. When they ask him what he would like for his birthday, he knows immediately: to see the Moropus, which is this prehistoric horse which is furry and big, with claws on its feet instead of hooves. According to the legend, it haunts all the lonely moors at a waterfall which is known as Horse Force since its gushing cascade sounds exactly like the whinny of a mare.

However there is a problem: should Jon wish to see the ghost of this legendary creature, he must visit Horse Force exactly at the stroke of midnight. By himself. Can he strike up enough courage to go there all by himself during the dead of night? Luckily there is a friend that can help him out: Whiskers, his faithful pony!

“The Jewel Seed” is a stand alone novel and was released in 1997. One English orphan unwittingly holds the key to this powerful source of magic.

The graduation ceremony of the Grand and Ancient College of Siberian Witches is held in the wintry darkness of the Far North. However despite such a celebration, the night is filled with worry and warnings. The Wanderer is abroad searching for the coveted Jewel Seed which has been lost for centuries now. Whoever is able to find it first is going to have unlimited power and be able to unlock all knowledge.

At the same time, Nonnie Smith, an orphan, leaves the home that she shares with her grown siblings and grandma in Sesame Green to live in London with her oldest sister Una and her cousins. Her issues start when her old neighbor Mrs. Wednesday comes back from the Siberian witch conference and learns that somebody has taken a mysterious shirt off her clothesline. Nonnie’s certain that the linen blouse belonged to Una, however why is Mrs. Wednesday so very desperate to lay hands on it?

Then Una gets kidnapped, along with famous historical characters like Mozart, Julius Caesar, and Jane Austen. And it’s up to Nonnie and cousin John to outfox Mrs. Wednesday and the Winter People in order to save her.

“The Jewel Seed” is Joan Aiken’s retelling of a tale that her dad used to tell her and her siblings when they were young.

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