Jonathan Carroll

Jonathan Carroll is represented by Zeno Literary Agency, with books available through the JABberwocky eBook program. He has published more than twenty novels including The Land of Laughs, The Wooden Sea, and Outside the Dog Museum, two story collections, and a collection of short nonfiction pieces, The Crow’s Dinner. His work has been translated into over thirty languages. He’s won a Pushcart Prize, World Fantasy award, British Fantasy award, French Fantasy award twice, and the Bram Stoker award. His novella Black Cocktail was dramatized in a one man show at the Edinburgh Festival. For many years he was a teacher at the American International School in Vienna while secretly writing his novels under the covers at night, lit only by hope and a dull flashlight. Carroll’s latest novel is Mr. Breakfast (2023).

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    The Crow’s Dinner
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    Teaching the Dog to Read
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    Bathing the Lion
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    The Ghost in Love
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    Bones of the Moon
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    The Land of Laughs
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Reviews

Standalone

The Crow’s Dinner
“…an eccentric and fascinating assortment of observations, musings, anecdotes, and snatches of story…bears witness to the novelist’s attentive eye and ability to illuminate the mundane.”

Publishers Weekly

Teaching the Dog to Read
“…a fantastic tale of magical realism…Carroll writes relationships and change like no one else.”

Boing Boing

Bathing the Lion
“This lyrical and thematically rich novel is not to be underestimated.”

Publishers Weekly (Starred Review!)

“Carroll is known for his magical fiction, and his newest novel is sure to please fans who have been missing him since his last.”

Booklist

The Ghost in Love
“...literal, comical, and metaphysical all at once. Delightful reading.”

Booklist

“…an excellent and dizzying view of the everyday world.”

Reactor

Bones of the Moon
“A gorgeous, frightening, imaginative, loving, unsettling, funny, gruesome, thought-provoking novel. This grand book is a triumph.”

Stephen King

The Land of Laughs
"THE LAND OF LAUGHS is a book for anyone who has ever believed that a favorite book could be a safe place to go when things get hard."

Neil Gaiman

"I envy anyone who has yet to enjoy the sexy, eerie, and addictive novels of Jonathan Carroll. They are delicious treats — with devilish tricks inside them."

Washington Post

"Smooth and fetchingly inventive."

Kirkus Reviews

"If you ever read another book in your life, it should be THE LAND OF LAUGHS."

SF Site

"For the uninitiated, THE LAND OF LAUGHS is the perfect place to begin the darkly fantastical journey through the fiction of Jonathan Carroll. Few will be disappointed."

Cemetery Dance