Gateways

Crisscross

Infernal

Harbingers

Bloodline

By the Sword

Ground Zero

The Last Christmas

Fatal Error

The Dark at the End

Nightworld

Quick Fixes—Tales of Repairman Jack

The Teen Trilogy*

Jack: Secret Histories

Jack: Secret Circles

Jack: Secret Vengeance

The Early Years Trilogy*

Cold City

Dark City

Fear City

The Adversary Cycle*

The Keep

The Tomb

The Touch

Reborn

Reprisal

Nightworld

Omnibus Editions

The Complete LaNague

Calling Dr. Death (3 medical thrillers)

Ephemerata

Novellas

The Peabody-Ozymandias Traveling Circus & Oddity Emporium*

“Wardenclyffe”*

“Signalz”*

The LaNague Federation

Healer

Wheels Within Wheels

An Enemy of the State

Dydeetown World

The Tery

Other Novels

Black Wind*

Sibs*

The Select

Virgin

Implant

Deep as the Marrow

Sims

The Fifth Harmonic*

Midnight Mass

Collaborations

Mirage (with Matthew J. Costello)

Nightkill (with Steven Spruill)

Masque (with Matthew J. Costello)

Draculas (with Crouch, Killborn, Strand)

The Proteus Cure (with Tracy L. Carbone)

A Necessary End (with Sarah Pinborough)

“Fix”* (with J. Konrath & Ann Voss Peterson)

The ICE Trilogy*

Panacea

The God Gene

The Void Protocol

The Nocturnia Chronicles

(with Thomas F. Monteleone)

Definitely Not Kansas

Family Secrets

The Silent Ones

Short Fiction

Soft & Others

The Barrens and Others

Aftershock and Others

The Christmas Thingy

Quick Fixes—Tales of Repairman Jack*

Sex Slaves of the Dragon Tong

Secret Stories

Editor

Freak Show

Diagnosis: Terminal

The Hogben Chronicles (with Pierce Watters)

* see “The Secret History of the World”

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The Secret History of the World

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Ellie was changed when she came out of the coma.

Not that I expected the exact same flaky, sixteen-year-old we’d all known and loved, not after she’d been dead to the world between Christmas and May Day, all the while constantly shuttled in and out of a hyperbaric chamber to help heal her burns. The doctors warned me that some cognitive changes were inevitable.