Brian Francis: 55 books

Questions are answered and new mysteries introduced as Season One of Bookburners, the urban fantasy episodic series from Serial Box, comes to its thrilling conclusion. With The Book of the Hand in their possession at last, Team Three can finally kick the Hand out of Sal's body. The only problem...

Grace’s secret history comes to light. While all the members of Team Three have their secrets, only Grace seems willing to guard hers with fists of fury. Finally fed up with being kept in the dark, Sal takes matters into her own hands and engages in a friendly stalking operation to learn...

An epic smackdown ensues as Sal and Team Three match wits and magic with Mr. Norse. The stage is set for the Mr. Norse’s grand move in possessing—The Norton Anthology of Evil—aka the Codex Umbra. The team’s plans include infiltrating a yacht-party, sneaking into a secret compound, and...

Episode 13 of Bookburners, the urban fantasy episodic series from Serial Box, will be unlucky for someone -- but whom? After Sal, possessed by the Hand, turns on her friends and teammates, Team Three has to decide whether she is a victim or a target. As Father Menchu tries to buy time, Teams...

The first rule of the Market is you do not talk about the Market. When a mysterious invite arrives in the mail and Father Menchu responds by whisking Sal off to Lichtenstein, the former cop is left on very new ground as she gets more than a glimpse at the broader world of magic users. Unfortunately,...

Asanti’s murky past gets a bit clearer when an old friend visits her to reminisce…and collect on a debt. No one likes the idea of helping the mysterious magical madam, but after all, one does not simply say no to the Maitresse. This episode is brought to you by Mur Lafferty who warns you...

With the Orb broken and magic on the rise, the Bookburners look for new answers in old places. Hoping for clues from the Society’s defunct experimentation branch, Asanti leads her team through the long-locked door of Team Four’s lair – and straight into a mystery of Escher-ian proportions. This...

The day of reckoning has arrived for both Asanti the Archivist and the entire Societas Librorum Occultorum. Adapt or die; stay the course or switch streams: those are the questions faced as magic rises and Bookburners Season Two reaches its conclusion. This episode written by Max Gladstone. Magic...

Liam and Grace travel to Shanghai to investigate a lead on the Orb – and hopefully their own pasts. At the Night Market, where dragons dance in the sky, both find the remnants of their old teams…but can you ever truly return home? This episode is brought to you by Max Gladstone, who has...

This is the 3rd episode in the third season of Bookburners, a 13-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Andrea Phillips. Magic is real . . . and hungry. The annual invitation to the Market Arcanum arrives, but with Asanti barred from fieldwork, Liam recovering...

This is the 5th episode in the third season of Bookburners, a 13-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Mur Lafferty. Magic is real . . . and hungry. Sal and Perry try to entertain their parents in Rome . . . without revealing how totally weird their lives...

This is the 13th episode in the third season of Bookburners, a 13-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Max Gladstone. Magic is real . . . and hungry. The Bookburners thought they had seen some strange things in their time, but as they watch London become...

This is the 1st episode in the third season of Bookburners, a 13-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Max Gladstone. Magic is real . . . and hungry. Sal and Liam run into trouble at the Lascaux caves . . . and find themselves sucked in to the art a bit too...

This is the 11th episode in the third season of Bookburners, a 13-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Margaret Dunlap. Magic is real . . . and hungry. With Asanti and Frances in London, the rest of Team Three has no time to lose as they race to their aid....