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Francis Paul Wilson (b. May 17, 1946 in Jersey City) is an American author, primarily in the science fiction and horror genres. His debut novel was Healer (1976). Wilson is also a part-time practicing family physician. He made his first sales in 1970 to Analog while still in medical school (graduating in 1973), and continued to write science fiction throughout the seventies. In 1981 he ventured into the horror genre with the international bestseller, The Keep, and helped define the field throughout the rest of the decade. In the 1990s he became a true genre hopper, moving from science fiction to horror to medical thrillers and branching into interactive scripting for Disney Interactive and other multimedia companies. He, along with Matthew J. Costello, created and scripted FTL Newsfeed which ran daily on the Sci-Fi Channel from 1992-1996.

Among Wilson's best-known characters is the anti-hero Repairman Jack, an urban mercenary introduced in the 1984 New York Times bestseller, The Tomb. Unwilling to start a series character at the time, Wilson refused to write a second Repairman Jack novel until Legacies in 1998. Since then he has written one per year along with side trips into vampire fiction (the retro Midnight Mass), science fiction (Sims), and even a New Age thriller (The Fifth Harmonic).

Throughout his writing — especially in his earlier science fiction works (most notably An Enemy of the State) — Wilson has included explicitly libertarian political philosophy which extends to his "Repairman Jack" series. He won the first Prometheus Award in 1979 for his novel Wheels Within Wheels and another in 2004 for Sims. The Libertarian Futurist Society has also honored Wilson with their Hall of Fame Award for Healer (in 1990) and An Enemy of the State (in 1991).

Wilson is a noted fan of H. P. Lovecraft
Why? Because HPL is special to me.Donald A. Wollheim is to blame. He started me on Lovecraft. It was 1959. I was just a kid, a mere thirteen years old when he slipped me my first fix. I was a good kid up till then, reading Ace Doubles and clean, wholesome science fiction stories by the likes of Heinlein, E.E. Smith, Poul Anderson, Fred Pohl, and the rest. But he brought me down with one anthology. He knew what he was doing. He called it THE MACABRE READER and slapped this lurid neato cool Ed Emshwiller cover on it. I couldn't resist. I bought it.I read it. And that was it. The beginning of my end.
In answer to a claim that Tolkien's Lord of the Rings was an influence on The Keep, Wilson responded:
First off, I'm not a fan of LOtR -- I struggled through it once as a teen (skimming a lot) and never looked back. ... The influences on The Keep were Ludlum, R. E. Howard, and Lovecraft.


Like most American science fiction writers directly or indirectly influenced by Campbell's view of the genre as a literature of ideas[1], Wilson makes use of his work to speculatively explore trends and technologies as they manifest. A prominent example is his novel An Enemy of the State (published in 1980), which was written during the 1970s, an era that saw stagflation develop in the U.S. economy. In that period, inflation in the United States reached its highest level since World War II, due to the issue of fiat money by the Federal Reserve. In Wilson's novel, he extends the "squeeze" of confiscatory taxation and currency debauchment to a conclusion involving a Weimar Republic-style hyperinflation that brings down a galactic empire — and from which humanity's only hope of rescue arrives in the form of an anarchist conspiracy to complete the Empire's downfall and replace that government's "official counterfeit" with honest money. Throughout the book, Wilson runs chapter headings quoting from economic works such as Fiat Money Inflation in France.

The Keep was later made into a movie and there is much talk of a Repairman Jack film based on one of Wilson's novels. [2]

Hate to say it (being a devout believer in Murphy’s law), but The Tomb looks like it’s on its way to being filmed this year. Last October, after seven years of development, numerous options, five screenwriters, and eight scripts, Beacon Films ("Air Force One," "Thirteen Days," "Spy Game," etc) finally bought film rights. Disney/Touchstone/Buena Vista will be partnering and distributing the film here and abroad.The film will be called "Repairman Jack" (the idea is to make him a franchise character).

His short stories "Foet," "Traps" and "Lipidleggin" were filmed as short films and collected on the DVD "OTHERS: The Tales of F. Paul Wilson."

His short story "Pelts" was made into an episode of Masters of Horror.

Wilson has been a resident of Wall Township, New Jersey.

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Total Books: 235
2012 - The Dark at the End [Repairman Jack] (Paperback)
Nightworld
2012 - Nightworld [Adversary Cycle/Repairman Jack] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780765321671
ISBN-10: 076532167X
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 0/5 Stars.
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Jack Secret Vengeance
2012 - Jack Secret Vengeance [Repairman Jack] (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780765358134
ISBN-10: 0765358131
Genre: Teens
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
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Reprisal
2011 - Reprisal (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780765321664
ISBN-10: 0765321661
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 0/5 Stars.
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Quick Fixes Tales of Repairman Jack
2011 - Quick Fixes Tales of Repairman Jack (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781461190745
ISBN-10: 1461190746
Genre: Horror
  • Currently 0/5 Stars.
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Fatal Error
2011 - Fatal Error (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780765362803
ISBN-10: 0765362805
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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Dark Doorways The Best of Post Mortem Press
2011 - Dark Doorways the Best of Post Mortem Press (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780615552026
ISBN-10: 0615552021
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 0/5 Stars.
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The Keep HC
2011 - The Keep Hc (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781613770504
ISBN-10: 1613770502
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
  • Currently 0/5 Stars.
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Halloween
2011 - Halloween (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781607012832
ISBN-10: 1607012839
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy
  • Currently 0/5 Stars.
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The Tomb
2011 - The Tomb [Repairman Jack Novels] (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780765327406
ISBN-10: 0765327406
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 0/5 Stars.
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Jack Secret Circles
2011 - Jack Secret Circles [Repairman Jack] (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780765358127
ISBN-10: 0765358123
Genres: Children's Books, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Teens
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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The Keep
2010 - The Keep [Adversary Cycle] (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette
ISBN-13: 9780765327390
ISBN-10: 0765327392
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
 3

Draculas A Novel of Terror
2010 - Draculas a Novel of Terror (Paperback)Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9781456331184
ISBN-10: 1456331183
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
 3

Ground Zero
2010 - Ground Zero [Repairman Jack, Bk 13] (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780765362797
ISBN-10: 0765362791
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
 4

Sims
2010 - Sims (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780765326652
ISBN-10: 0765326655
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 0/5 Stars.
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Secret Circles
2010 - Secret Circles [Young Pre-Repairman Jack, Bk 2] (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780765318558
ISBN-10: 0765318555
Genres: Teens, Horror
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 3

Jack Secret Histories
2009 - Jack Secret Histories [Young Repairman Jack, Bk 1] (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780765358110
ISBN-10: 0765358115
Genres: Teens, Horror
  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
 5

Reborn
2009 - Reborn (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780765321657
ISBN-10: 0765321653
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 4.6/5 Stars.
 6

Ground Zero A Repairman Jack Novel
2009 - Ground Zero a Repairman Jack Novel (Hardcover)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780765322814
ISBN-10: 0765322811
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 13

The Tery Sterling Edition - Signed Slipcased Edition
2009 - The Tery Sterling Edition - Signed Slipcased Edition (Hardcover)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781892950505
ISBN-10: 1892950502
  • Currently 0/5 Stars.
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By the Sword
2009 - By the Sword [Repairman Jack, Bk 12] (Paperback)Hardcover, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9780765356338
ISBN-10: 0765356333
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 20

The Touch
2009 - The Touch (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette
ISBN-13: 9780765321640
ISBN-10: 0765321645
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
 7

2009 - Legacies a Repairman Jack Novel [Repairman Jack Novels] (Hardcover)Paperback, Hardcover
2008 - Gateways Bk 7 [Repairman Jack] (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
2008 - Legacies [Repairman Jack, Bk 2] (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
2008 - Bloodline [Repairman Jack, Bk 11] (Paperback)Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
 
2008 - Conspiracies [Repairman Jack, Bk 3] (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
 
2007 - Virgin (Paperback)
2007 - Die Gruft (Other)
2006 - The Last Rakosh [A Repairman Jack Novel] (Paperback)Hardcover
2006 - Harbingers [Repairman Jack, Bk 10] (Hardcover)Paperback, Hardcover
 
2006 - The Tomb [Repairman Jack, Bk 1] (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
2006 - Keep (Paperback)Paperback
2006 - Crisscross [Repairman Jack, Bk 8] (Paperback)Hardcover
 
2006 - Gateways [Repairman Jack, Bk 7] (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
 
2005 - Infernal [Repairman Jack, Bk 9] (Hardcover)Paperback, Hardcover
2005 - Healer [LaNague Federation, Bk 3] (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
2005 - Legacies [Repairman Jack, Bk 2] (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
2004 - The Haunted Air [Repairman Jack, Bk 6] (Paperback)Hardcover
 
2003 - Hosts [Repairman Jack, Bk 5] (Paperback)Hardcover
2002 - Nacht (Paperback)Paperback
2000 - All the Rage [Repairman Jack, Bk 4] (Hardcover)Paperback, Hardcover
1998 - The Tomb [Repairman Jack, Bk 1] (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
1996 - Mirage [Audio Cassette - Abridged] (Audio Cassette)Paperback, Hardcover
1994 - The Select [Abridged Audio Cassette] (Audio Cassette)Paperback, Hardcover
1991 - The Bone Yard [Night Visions VI] (Paperback)
1990 - Reborn [Adversary Cycle, Bk 4] (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
1989 - Dydeetown World [LaNague Federation, Bk 4] (Paperback)
1989 - Buckets (Paperback)
1988 - Night VIsions 6 [Night Visions] (Hardcover)Hardcover
1986 - The Keep [Adversary Cycle, Bk 1] (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette
1986 - The Tomb [Repairman Jack, Bk 1] (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
1982 - The Keep [Adversary Cycle, Bk 1] (Paperback)Paperback
1980 - An Enemy of the State [LaNague Federation, Bk 1] (Hardcover)Paperback, Hardcover