Henry Lion Oldie

Short List of Novels & Novelettes

  • "Vitrages of Patriarchs" (novelette, 1990-1991)
    Heroic fantasy with poetry
    About 10.000 words
    Published 12 times from 1992 to 2011 (Russia, Ukraine)
  • "Living for the Last Time" (novella, 1991)
    Urban fantasy, mystical thriller, horror, vampires
    About 25.000 words
    Published 16 times from 1992 to 2011 (Russia, Ukraine, Poland)
  • "Fear" (novelette, 1991)
    Urban fantasy, mystical thriller, horror
    About 16.000 words
    Published 15 times from 1994 to 2011 (Russia, Ukraine, Poland)
  • "Getting into Character" (novella, 1991)
    Heroic urban fantasy, mystics
    About 39.000 words
    Published 13 times from 1994 to 2011 (Russia, Ukraine)
  • "The Road" (novel, 1991-1992)
    Modern heroic urban fantasy, mystics
    About 51.000 words
    Published 13 times from 1994 to 2011 (Russia, Ukraine, Poland)
  • "Twilight of the World" (novel, 1992)
    Heroic fantasy, mystics, vampires
    About 56.000 words
    Published 13 times from 1993 to 2011 (Russia, Ukraine, Poland)
  • "Waiting at Crossroads" (novella, 1992-1993)
    Adventure fantasy, mystics, mythology
    About 39.000 words
    Published 16 times from 1995 to 2011 (Russia, Ukraine, Poland)
  • "Risen from Heaven" (novel, 1993)
    Modern adventure fantasy, mystics
    About 65.000 words
    Published 11 times from 1996 to 2011 (Russia, Ukraine)
  • "The Way of the Sword" (novel, 1994)
    Heroic fantasy, martial arts
    About 147.000 words
    Published 16 times from 1996 to 2014 (Russia, Poland, Canada, Ukraine, Česká republika)
  • "A Hero Must Be Alone" (novel, 1995)
    Mythological heroic fantasy; Ancient Greece
    About 149.000 words
    Published 16 times from 1996 to 2011 (Russia, Ukraine, Poland)
  • "Stepchildren of the Eighth Commandment" (novel, 1996)
    Adventure historical fantasy-romance, Medieval Poland
    About 58.000 words
    Published 10 times from 1996 to 2009 (Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Canada)
  • "Messiah Clears the Disk" (novel, 1996)
    Adventure historical fantasy-detective, China, 1425 a. d.
    About 118.000 words
    Published 14 times from 1997 to 2010 (Russia, Lithuania, Poland)
  • "Let Them Die" (novel, 1996)
    Modern urban fantasy, mystical thriller
    About 67.000 words
    Published 10 times from 1997 to 2010 (Russia)
  • "To Put the Soul into" (novelette, 1996)
    Mystical thriller, modern mythology
    About 12.000 words
    Published 15 times from 1997 to 2012 (Russia, Ukraine, Israel)
  • "Black Trouble-Maker" (novel, vol. 1: "The Thunderstorm in Begininglessness", 1996-1997)
    Epic mythological fantasy; Ancient India
    About 108.000 words
    Published 9 times from 1997 to 2010 (Russia)
  • "Black Trouble-Maker" (novel, vol. 2: "Net for World Lords", 1997)
    Epic mythological fantasy; Ancient India
    About 112.000 words
    Published 9 times from 1998 to 2010 (Russia)
  • "Black Trouble-Maker" (novel, vol. 3: "Go Where You Want", 1997)
    Epic mythological fantasy; Ancient India
    About 102.000 words
    Published 9 times from 1998 to 2010 (Russia)
  • "I'll Take It Myself" (novel, 1998)
    Heroic adventure historical fantasy
    About 109.000 words
    Published 10 times from 1998 to 2010 (Russia)
  • "We Are to Live Here" (novel, vol. 1: "Armageddon Happened Yesterday", 1995-1998,
    written in collaboration with Andrey Valentinov)
    Apocalyptic urban fantasy, mystical thriller
    About 87.000 words
    Published 10 times from 1999 to 2010 (Russia)
  • "We Are to Live Here" (novel, vol. 2: "Blood is Drunk by Handfuls", 1995-1998,
    written in collaboration with Andrey Valentinov)
    Apocalyptic urban fantasy, mystical thriller
    About 84.000 words
    Published 10 times from 1999 to 2010 (Russia)
  • "Noperapon, or the Image and Likeness" (novel, 1998)
    Historical urban fantasy, martial arts, mystical thriller; Medieval Japan and modern Ukraine
    About 89.000 words
    Published 9 times from 1999 to 2009 (Russia)
  • "The Boundary" (novel, vol. 1: "Orphans Cost a Lot in Winter", 1998,
    written in collaboration with Andrey Valentinov and Marina & Sergey Dyachenko)
    Adventure philosophical fantasy based on Kabbalah; parallel worlds
    About 95.000 words
    Published 11 times from 1999 to 2010 (Russia, Poland)
  • "The Boundary" (novel, vol. 2: "The Time to Break Rules", 1998-1999,
    written in collaboration with Andrey Valentinov and Marina & Sergey Dyachenko)
    Adventure philosophical fantasy based on Kabbalah; parallel worlds
    About 110.000 words
    Published 11 times from 1999 to 2010 (Russia, Poland)
  • "Magiosi" (novel, vol. 1: "Let Their Way Be Wrong and Dark", 1999)
    Alternate history, urban fantasy; Russia, a beginning of XX century
    About 87.000 words
    Published 11 times from 2000 to 2012 (Russia, Poland, France)
  • "Magiosi" (novel, vol. 2: "My Sin is Always with Me", 1999)
    Alternate history, urban fantasy; Russia at the beginning of XX century
    About 92.000 words
    Published 11 times from 2000 to 2012 (Russia, Poland, France)
  • "Path of the Cursed" (apologia of necro-romanticism; novella, by Dmitry Gromov, 1996-1999)
    Mystical thriller, action, philosophy, vampires
    About 31.000 words
    Published 12 times from 2000 to 2011 (Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania)
  • "Odysseus Son of Laertes" (novel, vol. 1: "The Man of Nomos", 1999-2000)
    Mythological epic fantasy; Ancient Greece
    About 101.000 words
    Published 7 times from 2000 to 2012 (Russia).
  • "Odysseus Son of Laertes" (novel, vol. 2: "The Man of Cosmos", 2000)
    Mythological epic fantasy, Ancient Greece
    About 99.000 words
    Published 7 times from 2001 to 2012 (Russia)
  • "Alien among Our Own" (novella, 2000)
    Cosmic comedy
    About 20.000 words
    Published 10 times from 2001 to 2011 (Russia, Ukraine)
  • "The Almshouse" (novel, 2000-2001)
    Adventure alternate history, Medieval Europe
    About 101.000 words
    Published 7 times from 2001 to 2009 (Russia)
  • "Your Turn" (novella, 2001)
    Mystical thriller
    About 21.000 words
    Published 7 times from 2002 to 2012 (Russia, Ukraine)
  • "Where is Your Father, Adam?" (novella, 2001)
    Philosophical science fiction
    About 20.000 words
    Published 7 times from 2001 to 2011 (Russia, Ukraine)
  • "Order of St. Bestseller" (novel, 2002)
    Adventure ironic urban fantasy
    About 64.000 words
    Published 6 times from 2002 to 2008 (Russia)
  • "Second Hand" (play, 2002)
    Tragicomic mysticism
    About 10.000 words
    Published 8 times from 2002 to 2011 (Russia, Ukraine)
  • "Jesters" (novel, 2002)
    Buffoonery, grotesque, phantasmagoria, humor
    About 55.000 words
    Published 6 times from 2003 to 2011 (Russia)
  • "Songs of Peter Sliadek" (the novel-cycle of 12 novelettes, 2001-2003)
    • "Here and Now"
    • "The Ballade of the Twins"
    • "Genie Called Conscience"
    • "Pallor is No Sin, Maestro!"
    • "The Price of Money"
    • "Blind People Have Good Hearing"
    • "Shut My Eyes or The Day of All Outcasts"
    • "The Anika-Warrior's Cruel Choice"
    • "The Island Which is Always With You"
    • "The Hand and the Mirror"
    • "Vengeance is Mine, I Will Repay"
    • "Peter and Death"
    Historic adventure poetic fantasy; Medieval Europe
    Total volume is about 126.000 words
    Published 8 times from 2004 to 2011 (Russia, Ukraine)
  • "ShMagic" (novel, 2003-2004)
    Adventure ironic fantasy
    About 112.500 words
    Published 7 times from 2004 to 2011 (Russia, Ukraine)
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  • "The Pentacle" (the novel-cycle of 30 short stories, 2004,
    written in collaboration with Andrey Valentinov and Marina & Sergey Dyachenko)
    Urban fantasy, mystics
    About 145.000 words
    Published 6 times from 2004 to 2010 (Russia, Ukraine)
  • "The Asylum for Heroes" (novel, 2005)
    Adventure ironic fantasy-detective
    About 134.000 words
    Published 7 times from 2006 to 2011 (Russia, Ukraine)
  • "Shooter" (novel, 2004-2006,
    written in collaboration with Andrey Valentinov)
    Urban fantasy, mystical thriller
    About 108.000 words
    Published 7 times from 2006 to 2010 (Russia)
  • "Parasite" (novella, 2006)
    Adventure ironic fantasy
    About 31.000 words
    Published 5 times from 2006 to 2009 (Russia, Ukraine)
  • "Oikoumene" (novel; Vol. 1: "Puppeteer", 2006)
    Space Opera
    About 113.000 words
    Published 6 times from 2006 to 2012 (Russia)
  • "Oikoumene" (novel; Vol. 2: "Pupa", 2006-2007)
    Space Opera
    About 114.000 words
    Published 5 times from 2007 to 2012 (Russia)
  • "Oikoumene" (novel; Vol. 3: "The Puppet Master", 2007)
    Space Opera
    About 114.000 words
    Published 5 times from 2007 to 2012 (Russia)
  • "The Dreamulle of Reginald the Vampire" (novella, 2007)
    Adventure ironic fantasy
    About 26.000 words
    Published 7 times from 2007 to 2009 (Russia, Ukraine)
  • "Sheller" (novelette, 2007)
    Adventure ironic fantasy
    About 15.000 words
    Published 6 times from 2007 to 2009 (Russia, Ukraine)
  • "Harpy" (novel, 2007-2008)
    Adventure ironic fantasy
    About 91.000 words
    Published 2 times from 2008 to 2011 (Russia)
  • "Alumen" (novel; Vol. 1: "The Mechanism of Time", 2008,
    written in collaboration with Andrey Valentinov)
    Steam-punk, conspiracy, adventure historical novel, XIX century
    About 98.000 words
    Published 2 times from 2009 to 2011 (Russia)
  • "Alumen" (novel; Vol. 2: "The Mechanism of Space", 2008,
    written in collaboration with Andrey Valentinov)
    Steam-punk, conspiracy, adventure historical novel, XIX century
    About 109.000 words
    Published 2 times from 2009 to 2011 (Russia)
  • "Alumen" (novel; Vol. 3: "The Mechanism of Life", 2008-2009,
    written in collaboration with Andrey Valentinov)
    Steam-punk, conspiracy, adventure historical novel, XIX century
    About 101.000 words
    Published 2 times from 2009 to 2011 (Russia
  • "Ask, and It Will Be Given to You" (novel, 2009)
    Cyber-thriller
    About 62.000 words
    Published 2009 (Russia)
  • "Urbi et Orbi or To the City and To the World" (novel; Vol. 1: "The Child of Oikoumene", 2009)
    Space Opera
    About 63.000 words
    Published 2 times from 2010 to 2012 (Russia)
  • "Urbi et Orbi or To the City and To the World" (novel; Vol. 2: "The Queen of Oikoumene", 2010)
    Space Opera
    About 64.000 words
    Published 2 times from 2010 to 2012 (Russia)
  • "Urbi et Orbi or To the City and To the World" (novel; Vol. 3: "The Exile of Oikoumene", 2010)
    Space Opera
    About 73.000 words
    Published 2 times from 2011 to 2012 (Russia)
  • "The Grandson of Perseus" (novel, Vol. 1: "My Grandfather is a Terminator", 2011)
    Heroic mythological fantasy; Ancient Greece
    About 74.000 words
    Published 2011 (Russia)
  • "The Grandson of Perseus" (novel, Vol. 2: "The Son of Limping Alceus", 2011)
    Heroic mythological fantasy; Ancient Greece

    Published 2012 (Russia)
  • "The Cyclops" (novel, Vol. 1: "Monsters Were Kind to Me", 2012)
    Dark fantasy
    About 89.000 words
    Published 2012 (Russia)
  • "The Cyclops" (novel, Vol. 2: "The King of Stones", 2012)
    Dark fantasy
    About 89.500 words
    Published 2012 (Russia)
  • "The Savages of Oikoumene" (novel; Vol. 1: "Wolf-cub", 2013)
    Space Opera
    About 89.000 words
    Published 2013 (Russia)
  • "The Fortress of My Soul" (novel of 3 novellas, 2013,
    written in collaboration with Andrey Valentinov)
    Urban fantasy, mystical thriller, Old Testament vs. modern world
    About 81.000 words
    Published 2013 (Russia)
  • "The Savages of Oikoumene" (novel; Vol. 2: "Wolf", 2014)
    Space Opera
    About 88.500 words
    Published 2014 (Russia)
  • "The Savages of Oikoumene" (novel; Vol. 3: "Leader", 2014)
    Space Opera
    About 89.000 words
    Published 2014 (Russia)
  • "Sherlock Holmes vs. Martians" (novel, 2014)
    Mashup, steampunk, science fiction, time travels, detective, alternate history, literary fiction and some irony
    About 78.500 words
    Published 2014 (Russia)
  • "Spurt Flight" (novel; Vol. 1: "The Blades of Oikoumene", 2014)
    Space Opera
    About 87.500 words
    Published 2014 (Russia)
  • "Spurt Flight" (novel; Vol. 2: "The Ghosts of Oikoumene", 2015)
    Space Opera
    About 82.000 words
    Published 2015 (Russia)
  • "Spurt Flight" (novel; Vol. 3: "The Angels of Oikoumene", 2015)
    Space Opera
    About 81.500 words
    Published 2015 (Russia)
  • "The Poweful Ones" (novel; Vol. 1: "A Prisoner of the Iron Mountain", 2016)
    Science Fantasy
    About 97.000 words
    Published 2016 (Russia)
  • "The Poweful Ones" (novel; Vol. 2: "The Black Heart", 2016)
    Science Fantasy
    About 97.000 words
    Published 2016 (Russia)
  • "Mirror Mirror on the Wall" (novel, 2017)
    Mystical thriller / horror / urban fantasy
    About 83.500 words
    Published 2017 (Russia)
  • "Bull from a Machine" (novel, 2017)
    Noir cyberpunk detective
    About 82.000 words
    Published 2017 (Russia)
  • "Prodigal Son" (novel from space opera epic "Oikoumene"; Vol. 1: "The Renegade", 2018)
    Space opera
    About 86.000 words
    Published 2018 (Russia)
  • "Prodigal Son" (novel from space opera epic "Oikoumene"; Vol. 2: "The Fugitive", 2018)
    Space opera
    About 79.000 words
    Published 2018 (Russia)
  • "Prodigal Son" (novel from space opera epic "Oikoumene"; Vol. 3: "The Son of the Wind", 2019)
    Space opera
    About 92.000 words
    Published 2019 (Russia)
  • "Nuancers" (novel, 2019)
    Historical mystics
    About 75.000 words
    Published 2019 (Russia)
  • "Carp & Dragon. Book 1: Tales of Karma" (novel, book 1, 2019)
    Alternate history, mystics, historical detective, medieval Japan
    About 80.500 words.
    Published 2019 (Russia)
  • "Carp & Dragon. Book 2: Tales of Nightwatch" (novel, book 2, 2020)
    Alternate history, mystics, historical detective, medieval Japan
    About 89.000 words.
    Published 2020 (Russia)