Jason Parent

Jason Parent is an American author. He resides in many places in his head, but he calls the New England region his home in the real world. There are a lot of settings to write in the region and there are many different places where he can write them.

The best place to start is the Bad Apples series, the earliest of Jason Parent's multi-book series: it opens with Bad Apples: Five Slices of Halloween Horror (2014) and runs to 4 books across 2014–2016, ending with Bad Apples 3 (2016). Jason Parent's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Jason Parent has 125 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1962 and 2025. 92 of them belong to 6 named series — the largest being the Bad Apples series with 4 books — and 33 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. Jason Parent's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are What Hides Within (2012–2018, 2 books), Bad Apples (2014–2016, 4 books) and Cycle of Evil (2015–2021, 3 books), plus 1 more.

This guide splits Jason Parent's 125 books into 6 named series and 33 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Bad Apples (4 books, 2014–2016); Cycle of Evil (3 books, 2015–2021); What Hides Within (2 books, 2012–2018); Campfire Macabre (2 books, 2020–2022); Fiction Without Frontiers (64 books, 1962–2022), plus 1 further series.