Anthologies#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Restless Dead |
2007 |
Buy |
Barmy Jeffers Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Barmy Jeffers and the Quasimodo Walk |
1988 |
Buy |
| Return of Barmy Jeffers and the Quasimodo Walk |
1988 |
Buy |
| Barmy Jeffers and the Shrinking Potion |
1989 |
Buy |
Bluebell Wood Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
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| Fairy Nuff |
2001 |
Buy |
| Nuff Said |
2002 |
Buy |
Flashbacks Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
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| Casting the Gods Adrift |
1998 |
Buy |
| Final Victory |
2009 |
Buy |
| Put Out The Light |
2010 |
Buy |
| A Slip in Time |
2012 |
Buy |
| Better Than Gold |
2014 |
Buy |
| The Night Run |
2014 |
Buy |
| The Ghost of the Trenches and other stories |
2014 |
Buy |
| The Lost King |
2014 |
Buy |
| The Viking’s Revenge |
2014 |
Buy |
| The Samurai’s Assassin |
2015 |
Buy |
| The Gladiator’s Victory |
2015 |
Buy |
| The Dance of Death |
2015 |
Buy |
| Katy Parker and the House that Cried |
2015 |
Buy |
| Land of the Gods |
2016 |
Buy |
| Shield Maiden |
2016 |
Buy |
| The Pharaoh’s Charioteer |
2017 |
Buy |
| The Spartan’s March |
2017 |
Buy |
| Mark of the Cyclops: An Ancient Greek Mystery |
2017 |
Buy |
| Revolt Against the Romans |
2017 |
Buy |
| Secret of the Oracle |
2017 |
Buy |
| Attack of the Vikings |
2017 |
Buy |
| The Silver Hand |
2018 |
Buy |
| Pirates of Poseidon |
2018 |
Buy |
| The First King of England |
2018 |
Buy |
| Shadow of the Centaurs |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Golden Horsemen of Baghdad |
2019 |
Buy |
| Winter of the Wolves |
2019 |
Buy |
| Queen of Darkness |
2019 |
Buy |
| The Unstoppable Letty Pegg |
2020 |
Buy |
| Mohinder’s War |
2020 |
Buy |
Grail Quest Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Castle of Darkness |
1984 |
Buy |
| Den of Dragons |
1984 |
Buy |
| The Gateway of Doom |
1984 |
Buy |
| Voyage of Terror |
1985 |
Buy |
| Kingdom of Horror |
1985 |
Buy |
| Realm Of Chaos |
1986 |
Buy |
| Tomb of Nightmares |
1986 |
Buy |
| Legion of the Dead |
1987 |
Buy |
Herbie Brennan Chapbooks Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Emily and the Werewolf |
1993 |
Buy |
| Mario Scumbini and the Big Pig Swipe |
1996 |
Buy |
| Bad Manners Day |
1996 |
Buy |
| The Thing from Knucker Hole |
1996 |
Buy |
| Eddie the Duck |
1998 |
Buy |
| Eddie And The Bad Egg |
2000 |
Buy |
| Zartog’s Remote |
2000 |
Buy |
| Eddie And The Dirty Dogs |
2001 |
Buy |
Herbie Brennan’s Forbidden Truths Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Atlantis And Other Lost Civilizations |
2001 |
Buy |
| Time Travel |
2006 |
Buy |
| Strange Powers Of The Human Mind |
2006 |
Buy |
| Parallel Worlds |
2007 |
Buy |
Non-Fiction#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Five Keys to Past Lives |
1971 |
Buy |
| Astral Doorways |
1971 |
Buy |
| Experimental Magic |
1972 |
Buy |
| The Occult Reich |
1974 |
Buy |
| Beyond The Fourth Dimension |
1975 |
Buy |
| Occult History of the World, V. 1 |
1976 |
Buy |
| How to Get Where You Want to Go |
1977 |
Buy |
| Good Con Guide |
1978 |
Buy |
| Reincarnation |
1981 |
Buy |
| Getting What You Want |
1982 |
Buy |
| Discover Reincarnation - A Complete Course in Recalling Past Lives |
1984 |
Buy |
| Mindreach |
1985 |
Buy |
| Getting Rich |
1988 |
Buy |
| The Astral Projection Workbook |
1989 |
Buy |
| Succeed at School |
1990 |
Buy |
| Make Yourself A Success |
1990 |
Buy |
| Aquarian Guide to the New Age |
1990 |
Buy |
| Understanding Reincarnation |
1991 |
Buy |
| Discover Astral Projection |
1991 |
Buy |
| Nostradamus |
1992 |
Buy |
| True Ghost Stories |
1993 |
Buy |
| Ancient Spirit |
1993 |
Buy |
| Mind, Body and Spirit |
1994 |
Buy |
| Body, Mind & Spirit |
1994 |
Buy |
| Discover Your Past Lives |
1994 |
Buy |
| A Guide to Megalithic Ireland |
1994 |
Buy |
| Memory |
1997 |
Buy |
| Seriously Weird True Stories |
1997 |
Buy |
| Letters from a Mouse |
1997 |
Buy |
| Magick for Beginners |
1998 |
Buy |
| Seriously Weird True Stories 02 |
1998 |
Buy |
| The Internet |
1998 |
Buy |
| Alien Contact |
1998 |
Buy |
| Martian Genesis |
1998 |
Buy |
| The Reincarnation Workbook |
1999 |
Buy |
| The Secret History of Ancient Egypt |
2000 |
Buy |
| Techno Future |
2000 |
Buy |
| The Little Book of Nostradamus |
2000 |
Buy |
| The Magical I Ching |
2000 |
Buy |
| The Atlantis Enigma |
2000 |
Buy |
| Dr Jenner And The Cow Pox |
2001 |
Buy |
| Why Do Cats Purr? |
2001 |
Buy |
| How To Remember Absolutely Everything |
2001 |
Buy |
| The Death Of The Dinosaurs |
2001 |
Buy |
| Magical Use of Thought Forms |
2001 |
Buy |
| Death: The Great Mystery of Life |
2002 |
Buy |
| Occult Tibet |
2002 |
Buy |
| Time Travel |
2002 |
Buy |
| Magical Techniques of Tibet |
2002 |
Buy |
| The Spy’s Handbook |
2003 |
Buy |
| Space Quest |
2003 |
Buy |
| The Ghosthunter’s Handbook |
2004 |
Buy |
| The Aliens Handbook |
2005 |
Buy |
| Tibetan Magic and Mysticism |
2005 |
Buy |
| The Codebreaker’s Handbook |
2006 |
Buy |
| The Wizard’s Apprentice |
2007 |
Buy |
| Through the Wardrobe |
2008 |
Buy |
| Whisperers |
2013 |
Buy |
| The Mysterious World of Cats |
2017 |
Buy |
Quest Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| EgyptQuest - The Lost Treasure of The Pyramids |
1997 |
Buy |
| RomanQuest |
2000 |
Buy |
| GreekQuest |
2011 |
Buy |
| AztecQuest |
2011 |
Buy |
| Kingdom of Horror |
1985 |
N/A |
Sagas of the Demonspawn Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
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| Fire*Wolf |
1984 |
Buy |
| The Crypts of Terror |
1984 |
Buy |
| Demondoom |
1985 |
Buy |
| Ancient Evil |
1985 |
Buy |
Shadow Project Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Shadow Project |
2009 |
Buy |
| The Doomsday Box |
2010 |
Buy |
Shiva Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Shiva’s Challenge |
1989 |
Buy |
| Shiva: An Adventure of the Ice Age |
1990 |
N/A |
| Shiva |
1991 |
Buy |
| Shiva Accused |
1992 |
Buy |
Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Dark Moon |
1981 |
Buy |
| The Curse of Frankenstein |
1986 |
Buy |
| Dracula’s Castle |
1986 |
Buy |
| Monster Horror Show |
1987 |
Buy |
| The Crone |
1990 |
Buy |
| Power Play |
1992 |
Buy |
| Marcus Mustard |
1994 |
Buy |
| The Mystery Machine |
1995 |
Buy |
| Little House |
1996 |
Buy |
| Blood brother |
1996 |
Buy |
| Kookaburra Dreaming |
1997 |
Buy |
| Jennet’s Tale |
2000 |
Buy |
| Frankenstella And The Video Shop Monster |
2003 |
Buy |
| Final Victory |
2009 |
Buy |
| The Secret Prophecy |
2012 |
Buy |
| Nectanebo: Traveller from an Antique Land |
2019 |
Buy |
The Faerie Wars Chronicles Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Faerie Wars |
2003 |
Buy |
| The Purple Emperor |
2004 |
Buy |
| Ruler of the Realm |
2006 |
Buy |
| Faerie Lord |
2007 |
Buy |
| The Faeman Quest |
2011 |
Buy |
J.H. Brennan, also known as Herbie Brennan, is an Irish writer whose career stretches from 1971 to 2020. He first gained widespread attention in the 1980s with his Grail Quest gamebooks, which put readers into Arthurian adventures through a choose-your-own-path format. Around the same time, his Sagas of the Demonspawn offered a darker take on the gamebook genre, and he continued producing interactive fiction with the Quest series in later decades.
Beyond gamebooks, Brennan built a reputation in several other areas. His Shiva novels, set during the Ice Age, brought prehistoric Europe to life for young readers. The Faerie Wars Chronicles, a five-book YA fantasy sequence published between 2003 and 2011, became his best-known work of traditional fiction, following a teenager pulled into a world of warring faerie factions. His children’s books, including the Barmy Jeffers and Bluebell Wood series, showed a lighter side to his writing.
Brennan’s non-fiction output is enormous, with nearly sixty titles covering the occult, reincarnation, Nostradamus, Egyptology, Tibetan Buddhism, and more. His Forbidden Truths series introduced younger readers to paranormal topics like Atlantis and time travel. Whether writing gamebooks, fantasy novels, or guides to astral projection, Brennan brought the same curiosity and energy to every project across his five-decade career.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has J.H. Brennan written?
J.H. Brennan has written 151 books across fourteen series.
What was J.H. Brennan's first book?
J.H. Brennan’s first book is Astral Doorways, published in 1971.
What genres has J.H. Brennan written in?
Brennan has written across a huge range of genres. His gamebook series like Grail Quest and Sagas of the Demonspawn were popular in the 1980s, while his Faerie Wars Chronicles brought him to a new YA audience in the 2000s. He has also written prehistoric fiction (Shiva), children’s humor (Barmy Jeffers), spy thrillers (Shadow Project), and dozens of non-fiction titles on topics from astral projection to ancient Egypt. He publishes fiction under J.H. Brennan and much of his other work under Herbie Brennan.