Joseph Barone: 7 books

This is a book of short stories written by Joseph Barone, author of Harold the Imp and The Great Vampire Robbery. The tales range from futuristic sci-fi, to fantasy, to vampire and some horror for good measure. This book is a good introduction to Joseph Barone's prose and imagination.

Adam Ferro, a young salesman that just learned he has cancer. Under the advice of his therapist, he chooses to take the opportunity to do the number one thing on his bucket list- write a novel.He creates a character also named Adam, who is everything that he is not. He's smooth and smart...

Long ago there were five Shards of Aether: Time, Energy, Order, Chaos and Magic. No one truly knows when the shards shattered into billions of pieces. Some remains were as small as powder grains, and some were as large as splinters.The world is now in chaos. Something has upset the delicate...

When his third in command gets brutally murdered, mob boss Enzo Clowneone immediately suspects his archnemeses, the Juggler and Mime families.In order to stand a chance against their combined might, he must rally allied Carnival families to his cause - but who are his true allies?This...

When NYPD Detective Tanya Cora investigates a series of robberies of magical artifacts, followed by the murder of a college student by an apparent vampire, she is forced to consider a world beyond the one she was trained to deal with.Even before her homicide assignment, she'd been aware...

Harold was the King of the Imps. He had long admired humanity and sought to live among them. One hundred years ago, he gave up his Imphood to become human.However when his new home was attacked by magic, he was forced to return to his former nature and aid the kingdom of Mansfield.Now a century later...

Harold was no ordinary imp. His old age and great power gave him a perspective of the world that other Imps lacked. Tired of pulling the same old tricks, he longed to become human- to experience the gift of human frailty, ingenuity, and love. Abandoning his imp Kingdom of Monello, he seeks a witch...