Russell James Books In Order
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| Dark Inspiration | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Sacrifice | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Tales from Beyond | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Black Magic | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Deeper into Darkness | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Dark Vengeance | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Blood Red Roses | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Outer Rim | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Dreamwalker | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Antikythera Answer | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Forever Out of Time - Six More Tales of Time Travel | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Marissa Anselmo and the City Beneath the Sea | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Talking With Timothy | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Lambs Among Wolves | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Farallon Island | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Demon Dagger | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Mission San Uriel | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Grant Coleman Adventures Books
| Cavern of the Damned | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Monsters in the Clouds | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Curse of the Viper King | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Forest of Fire | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Mammoth Island | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Kathy West National Park Adventure Books
| Claws | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Dragons of Kilauea | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Ravens of Yellowstone | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Q Island Books
| Q Island | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Return to Q Island | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Rick and Rose Sinclair Adventure Books
| Quest For The Queen's Temple: Rick and Rose Sinclair Adventure #1 | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Gothic Fantasy Books
| Paradise Lost & Other Poems | (1667) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: With Poems, Letters & Biography | (1865) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| H.G. Wells Short Stories | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Science Fiction Short Stories | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Chilling Horror Short Stories | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Chilling Ghost Short Stories | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Crime & Mystery Short Stories | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Swords & Steam Short Stories | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Dystopia Utopia Short Stories | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Murder Mayhem Short Stories | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Lovecraft Short Stories | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Lost Worlds Short Stories | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Supernatural Horror Short Stories | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Time Travel Short Stories | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Heroic Fantasy Short Stories | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Edgar Allan Poe Collection | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Sherlock Holmes Short Stories | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Agents & Spies Short Stories | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Pirates & Ghosts Short Stories | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Tales of King Arthur and The Knights of the Round Table | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Alien Invasion Short Stories | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Norse Myths & Tales | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Bram Stoker Horror Stories | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Endless Apocalypse Short Stories | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Robots & Artificial Intelligence Short Stories | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Lost Souls | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Greek Myths & Tales | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Chinese Myths & Tales | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Irish Fairy Tales | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Mary Shelley Horror Stories | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Celtic Myths & Tales | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Haunted House Short Stories | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Cosy Crime Short Stories | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Brothers Grimm Short Stories | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| American Gothic Short Stories | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Short Stories from the Age of Queen Victoria | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Urban Crime Short Stories | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Lovecraft Mythos New & Classic Collection | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Epic Fantasy Short Stories | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| A Dying Planet Short Stories | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Detective Thrillers Short Stories | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Charles Dickens Supernatural Short Stories | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| African Myths & Tales: Epic Tales | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Heroes & Heroines Short Stories | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Native American MythsTales | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Witches, Wizards, Seers & Healers Myths & Tales | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| George Orwell Visions of Dystopia | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Gods & Monsters Myths & Tales | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Terrifying Ghosts Short Stories | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Black Sci-Fi Short Stories | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| M.R. James Ghost Stories | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Chilling Crime Short Stories | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Persian Myths & Tales: Epic Tales | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Japanese Myths & Tales | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| BeastsCreatures MythsTales: Epic Tales | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Asian Ghost Short Stories | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Weird Horror Short Stories | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Christmas Gothic Short Stories | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| First Peoples Shared Stories: Gothic Fantasy | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Alternate History Short Stories | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Hidden Realms Short Stories | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Immigrant Sci-Fi Short Stories | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Spirits & Ghouls Short Stories | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Lost Atlantis Short Stories | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Aztec Myths & Tales | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Algernon Blackwood Horror Stories | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Viking Folk & Fairy Tales | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Scottish Folk & Fairy Tales | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Egyptian Myths & Tales: Epic Tales | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Learning to Be Human Short Stories | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Shadows on the Water Short Stories | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Arthur Machen Horror Stories | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| William Hope Hodgson Horror Stories | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| African Ghost Short Stories | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Titans & Giants Myths & Tales: Epic Tales | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Quests & Journeys | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Babylon & Sumer Myths & Tales | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Sun Rising Short Stories | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Moon Falling Short Stories | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Sheridan Le Fanu Horror Stories | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Afrofuturism Short Stories | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Were Wolf Short Stories | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Prophecies & Oracles Myths & Tales | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Robots Past & Future Short Stories | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Kalevala & Finnish Myths & Tales | (2026) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Faeries & Nymphs Myths & Tales: Epic Tales | (2026) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Slavic Myths & Tales: Epic Tales | (2026) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Africanfuturism Short Stories | (2026) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Folklore Horror Short Stories | (2026) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Wars in the Stars Short Stories | (2026) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Christmas Horror Short Stories | (2026) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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Publication Order of Fiction Without Frontiers Books
Publication Order of Anthologies
Russell R. James is a published author.
He grew up on Long Island, New York. Growing up, he may have spent a little too much time watching scary movies such as Chiller, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, and Dark Shadows, even though his parents warned him against it. He also had a bookshelf that was full of books from authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King.
He attended Cornell University and then the University of Central Florida. He has flown helicopters with the United States Army and held a career as a technical writer. He now spins twisted tales that he advises are best read in the daytime with the lights on. These include the horror thrillers Dark Inspiration, Q Island, and The Playing Card Killer, among others such as Black Magic and Dark Vengeance.
Russell James is the founder of the Minnows Literary Group. He is also the author of such series as the Grant Coleman series, the Ranger Kathy West series, and the Q Island series. He has also written many different short stories as well as the compilations Out of Time and Tales From Beyond.
The author is married and resides in the sunny state of Florida along with his wife and two cats. His wife also reads her work, unfortunately sometimes rolling her eyes and telling him there is something wrong with him. If you want to read more of his short stories, you can drop by his personal website.
Q Island is the first book in the series by the same name written by Russell James. If you love a good science fiction story, check this novel out.
An ancient virus has risen to the surface and is about to strike again. This time it has appeared on Long Island, New York, and anyone that it gets into is turned instantly. They go from being your everyday normal people to having black veins and being infectious psychopathic killers.
All types of chaos and madness consistently rules. Desperate to get something accomplished, the military decides to quarantine the island. In the process, they trap a mother named Melanie Bailey there along with her autistic son, Aiden.
Aiden is somehow able to survive the infection. This means that he could also be the key to a cure. Or at least that is the possibility if they can just get him to the mainland. This is something that Melanie doesn’t know if she is going to be able to accomplish.
At the same time, gang leader Jimmy Wade is also somehow able to survive the process. But he may not have escaped its grip completely, because now in the process he has acquired a hunger for human flesh. Even worse for Melanie and Aiden, he for some reason believes that consuming Aiden is going to be able to make him all powerful.
Because he believes this, he and his gang go after hunting the boy. Now Melanie and Aiden must get out of the way of Wade and his closing in on them as well as the growing number of the infected and try to keep themselves safe. All of this they have to accomplish while trying to plan out an impossible escape from what is now called Q Island.
Return to Q Island is the second book in the Q Island series by Russell James. If you liked the first book in the series, check this one out too and see what you think!
The paleovirus has made its way through Long Island and through the process has turned the residents that it comes into contact with into psychotic killers. Meanwhile, the government has issued a quarantine that traps Patrick in Connecticut.
This means that he is separated from his mother and his sister, who is pregnant, who are now trapped on what everyone now calls Q Island. Patrick loses contact with his family and when this happens, he fears that the worst has happened.
The only chance that he has to get back is to sneak his way onto the island. He infiltrates the island posing as a guide for an illegal safari where the members hunt the infected. However, he arrives to find out that he is way more of a slave than even a guide. Worse than that, it turns out that the infected in isolation have become even more fierce.
It also turns out that he is running out of time. His sister Kim is heavily pregnant and has given birth to Charlotte in the middle of all of the living hell that the Q Island has become. Now she has a baby to protect from the infected.
Thus begins an earnest struggle to survive all of the attacks by the infected as well as betrayal from family and friends. Kim has always had a love for her daughter, and that gives her the strength to keep on fighting. However, if her brother doesn’t show up soon, Kim doesn’t know if she can keep on beating the odds time after time.
However, there appears that there is something special about Charlotte and the others that have been born under the dark cloud of contagion. Are children like her going to be the type of salvation that the islanders have been praying for? Or will they instead prove to be the final pieces in this puzzle of infected domination? Read this book to find out!
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