Gary Brandner

Gary Brandner was an American bestselling horror fiction author who was best known for the “Howling Trilogy” series of novels. The first book in the series titled “The Howling” would become a very popular work that in 1981 was adapted into a motion picture. For much of his later years, he lived in Reno, Nevada alongside his wife Martine Wood Brandner and several of their cats.

The best place to start is The Big Brain series, the earliest of Gary Brandner's multi-book series: it opens with The Aardvark Affair (1975) and runs to 3 books across 1975–1976, ending with Energy Zero (1976). Gary Brandner's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Gary Brandner has 35 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1972 and 2021. 6 of them belong to 2 named series — the largest being The Big Brain series with 3 books — and 29 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Gary Brandner's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are The Big Brain (1975–1976, 3 books) and The Howling (1977–2011, 3 books).

This guide splits Gary Brandner's 35 books into 2 named series and 29 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: The Big Brain (3 books, 1975–1976); The Howling (3 books, 1977–2011).