Velda Johnston Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Velda Johnston was a published American author. She was known for writing novels in the Gothic Romance genre. She has used the pen name of Veronica Jason to write as well.

Velda was born in 1912. She grew up in Pasadena, California, where she also received her education. She was a student in high school when she was able to sell her first short story. She continued her education at UCLA on scholarship. There her major was journalism and she worked on the UCLA newspaper writing articles.

The author would get married to Robert Heslop. In the early fifties, they decided that it was a good time to move to New York. There they had two residences and split their time between their Manhattan apartment and their Sag Harbor nineteenth century farmhouse. The residence was formerly owned and lived in by the whaler turned Argonaut Samuel Tribie Hildreth Junior.

Her work has been featured in different American magazines and international ones too over the course of four decades, both fiction and nonfiction. Velda included in her writing many examples of different young women who go after fulfillment and happiness in an independent and assertive way.

Early novels written by the author were in the United States, but she moved on to putting more foreign settings into play for her later works. Her novel A Howling in the Woods was adapted in 1971 to a television movie. Directed by Daniel Petrie and starring Barbara Eden and Larry Hagman, a homemaker named Liza is trying to vacation in the woods but keeps finding that her time is interrupted not only by her husband trying to get in touch with her but by a strange howling at night.

Velda passed away in 1997.

A Howling in the Woods is an early novel from Velda Johnston. If you have been looking for a classic work to flip through, this story has plenty of drama and twists and turns!

Lisa moves to Jericho, Nevada, a little town where she may have not been expecting much but was not ready for all of the words and the looks that she got from the residents. They have shown hate and resentment, and she can’t explain fully how they threaten her but knows that she isn’t imagining things.

The only person that seems to even be nice to her at all is the manager of the hotel. Lisa got the hotel from her uncle, but it seems like the handsome manager alone is kind to her. She cannot say the same confidently for the rest of the residents.

With Lisa being worried about things such as the rumors of the death of a child and the howling that she keeps hearing at night that she thinks might be a dog but isn’t sure, she’s got to figure things out. Are these signs that worse is on the way yet? With Lisa’s life potentially in danger, she has to find out who is out to get her before it is too late. Read this fascinating thriller to catch all of the chills and the thrills for yourself!

The Late Mrs. Fonsell is an early novel from Velda Johnston. If you have been looking to read more of this author’s work or just have an interest in classic stories, give this one a try!

When Irene was growing up, she always was scared of the Fonsell mansion. The young heiress had heard multiple times over the years that the villagers have talked about all of the deeds that have been done behind its lake.

Irene is being put into a situation where she must marry a man and doesn’t want to at all for the simple reason that she hates him. But then she makes a deal that may end up making all of her fears come true.

She has to get into the Fonsell mansion. This is a place that she has been scared of ever since she was young, having heard of all the things that have happened there. Can she survive being in this creepy place, or will she find that the rumors were simply nothing more than that– just rumors? Read The Late Mrs. Fonsell to find out for yourself!