Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery Series by Steve Niles, Kelley Jones, Tim Bradstreet, Eric Powell, Kyle Hotz, Michelle Madsen, Nick Stakal, Ben Templesmith, Chris Mitten

3.74 · 39 ratings
  • Criminal Macabre (Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery #1)
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    Criminal Macabre (Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery #1)

    Steve Niles

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2004

    From the author of Savage Membrane and Guns, Drugs and Monsters comes thenewest Cal McDonald mystery. Full color.

  • Last Train to Deadsville (Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery #2)
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    Last Train to Deadsville (Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery #2)

    Steve Niles, Kelley Jones

    Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 2005

    Supernatural private eye Cal McDonald thinks he's seen it all, at least until a couple of rampaging rednecks bust through his door hootin' about demonic possessions. Thus begins Cal's most spine-chilling (and side-splitting) case yet, as these Beverly Hellbillies take him down a trail of terror into the heart of a Southern California backwater brimming with monsters and mullets... more

  • Criminal Macabre: Supernatural Freak Machine (Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery #3)
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    Criminal Macabre: Supernatural Freak Machine (Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery #3)

    Steve Niles, Kelley Jones, Tim Bradstreet

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2007

    Escaped mad doctors and possessed muscle cars are all in a day's work for Cal McDonald and his undead sidekick Mo'Lock. When an old enemy Cal sent to prison escapes, his sights are set on exacting revenge on the guy who put him there. And it looks like he'll have to cut through everyone Cal loves to get to him.

  • Criminal Macabre Omnibus Volume 1 (Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery #1-3)
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    Criminal Macabre Omnibus Volume 1 (Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery #1-3)

    Ben Templesmith, Steve Niles, Kelley Jones

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2011

    In 2003 Steve Niles, creator of the 30 Days of Night comics series, launched a series of occult detective stories featuring the monstrously hard-boiled Cal McDonald. A pill-popping alcoholic reprobate, Cal is the only line of defense between Los Angeles and a growing horde of zombies, vampires, possessed muscle cars, mad scientists, werewolves, and much more weirdness!* I literally screamed HOLY $#@% when I put this book down. It is that good.. more

  • Criminal Macabre: Two Red Eyes (Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery #4)
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    Criminal Macabre: Two Red Eyes (Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery #4)

    Steve Niles, Kyle Hotz, Michelle Madsen

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 2007

    Cal McDonald, boozer, druggie, private dick who hangs with dead dudes - welcome to Rock Bottom. Your only friend in the human world is dead, your girlfriend just dumped you and moved to another city, and the district attorney has a chip on his shoulder the size of a Chevy Nova with your name on it. And what's Cal been missing since he went under?

  • Criminal Macabre: My Demon Baby: A Cal McDonald Mystery (Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery #5)
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    Criminal Macabre: My Demon Baby: A Cal McDonald Mystery (Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery #5)

    Steve Niles, Nick Stakal

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2008

    To say that Cal's been through hell and back would be a misstatement. He's been to hell, all right, and he seems to be stuck there for good. When we last checked in on Cal, he and Mo'Lock had just witnessed the vile, horrifying transformation of Cal's lovely ex, Sabrina Lynch, into a minion of the vampire Nosferatu... more

  • Criminal Macabre: Cell Block 666 (Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery #6)
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    Criminal Macabre: Cell Block 666 (Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery #6)

    Steve Niles, Nick Stakal, Tim Bradstreet

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2009

    Cal McDonald faces his greatest challenge yet -- hard time! Framed in the death of a cop, Cal finds himself at the mercy of a sadistic and corrupt police force. But now, in some of the bleakest moments of his life, the things that make him different from the rest of the world might be the only things capable of keeping his sorry butt out of deeper trouble... more

  • Criminal Macabre Omnibus Volume 2 (Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery #4-6)
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    Criminal Macabre Omnibus Volume 2 (Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery #4-6)

    Steve Niles

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2011

    Cal McDonald, the pill-popping, alcoholic antihero of the hit Criminal Macabre series, is back! Teamed with his undead partner Mo'Lock, Cal protects the sin-infested streets of Los Angeles against a growing horde of zombies, vampires, and occultists!

  • Criminal Macabre: No Peace for Dead Men (Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery #7)
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    Criminal Macabre: No Peace for Dead Men (Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery #7)

    Steve Niles, Eric Powell

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings · published 2011

    An ex-girlfriend-turned-vampire has been plotting Cal’s demise since she was first bitten. But Cal’s not done yet, and rises from the grave! Collects Die, Die, My Darling!, No Peace for Dead Men, They Fight by Night, Criminal Macabre/The Goon: When Freaks Collide, and “Call me Monster”. * Featuring the crossover with Eric Powell’s The Goon!

  • Criminal Macabre: Final Night-The 30 Days of Night Crossover (Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery #9)
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    Criminal Macabre: Final Night-The 30 Days of Night Crossover (Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery #9)

    Steve Niles

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2013

    Cal McDonald only wanted a beer but what he got was a jaded federal agent and a story about vampires up in Barrow Alaska. There’s a new vamp in LA and he’s hell bent on bringing mankind to its knees. Collects Criminal Macabre: Final Night—The 30 Days of Night Crossover #1-#4. EPIC CROSSOVER! * Features the death of a major character!

  • Criminal Macabre: The Eyes of Frankenstein (Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery #10)
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    Criminal Macabre: The Eyes of Frankenstein (Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery #10)

    Steve Niles

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2014

    With ghouls dying all around him and the mystery of his own violent illness racking his body and mind, occult detective Cal McDonald takes on a new case from an old friend--Frankenstein's monster. To solve the case, Cal seeks help from a man billed as "the world's foremost authority on the supernatural." Cal must trust this wealthy entertainer to save his friends and cure his illness. But that trust leads down a dangerous path that will leave Cal changed forever... more

  • Criminal Macabre: The Third Child (Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery #11)
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    Criminal Macabre: The Third Child (Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery #11)

    Steve Niles, Chris Mitten

    Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings · published 2015

    Cal McDonald's changed . . . and maybe not for the better. Locked away and numbing himself with booze and aspirin, the undead Cal feels the evil consuming him. Will he be able to withstand its pull or will he become the monster war's greatest weapon of destruction?

  • Criminal Macabre: The Big Bleed Out (Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery #12)
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    Criminal Macabre: The Big Bleed Out (Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery #12)

    Steve Niles

    Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings · published 2020

    A brand-new Criminal Macabre story by Steve Niles (30 Days of Night)! A noir tale of mysteries, vampires, love, and betrayal.Supernatural detective Cal McDonald, found wandering the streets as a disheveled vagrant, is ripped from his self-imposed retirement to resume his monster-killing career.But Cal is reluctant to return to the fray. What has the hard-bitten investigator so shaken? It's a long story that begins with a beautiful woman who happens to be a vampire . . . and ends with a bang... more

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