- Author: John Lymington Author Record # 3397
- Legal Name: Chance, John Richard Newton
- Birthplace: Streatham Hill, Lambeth, London, England, UK
- Birthdate: 21 April 1911
- Deathdate: 3 August 1983
- Language: English
- Webpages: Blogspot, SFE, Wikipedia-EN
- Used These Alternate Names: Jonathan Chance, John Newton Chance, Desmond Reid
- Author Tags: into-movie (1)
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Novels
- Night of the Big Heat (1959)
- The Giant Stumbles (1960)
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The Grey Ones (1960)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Skriket [Swedish] (1975)
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The Coming of the Strangers (1961)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Dolazak stranaca [Croatian] (1965)
- Translation: De kom ur djupet [Swedish] (1975)
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A Sword Above the Night (1962)
also appeared as:
- Translation: De kom om natten [Swedish] (1975)
- The Screaming Face (1963)
- The Sleep Eaters (1963)
- FROOMB! (1964)
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The Green Drift (1965)
also appeared as:
- Translation: De groene spinnen kwamen morgen [Dutch] (1969)
- The Star Witches (1965)
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Ten Million Years to Friday (1967)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Mardrömmen från urtiden [Swedish] (1974)
- The Night Spiders (1967)
- The Light Benders (1968) [only as by Jonathan Chance]
- The Nowhere Place (1969)
- Give Daddy the Knife, Darling (1969)
- The Year Dot (1972)
- The Hole in the World (1974)
- A Spider in the Bath (1975)
- The Laxham Haunting (1976)
- Starseed on Eye Moor (1977)
- The Waking of the Stone (1978)
- A Caller from Overspace (1979)
- Voyage of the Eighth Mind (1980)
- The Power Ball (1981)
- The Terror Version (1982)
- The Vale of Sad Banana (1984)
- The Night Spiders (1964)
- The Grey Ones / A Sword Above the Night (1978) [O]
- Anger at World's End (1963) [only as by Desmond Reid]
- Sexton Blake
- 4 Sexton Blake (Fourth Series)
- 515 Anger at World's End (1963) [only as by Desmond Reid]
- 4 Sexton Blake (Fourth Series)
- Mourning Train (1963) [also as by John Newton Chance]
- Battle of Wills (1964)
- Buttons in the Night (1964)
- Easy with Music (1964)
- Gang Aft Agley (1964)
- Head Under Arm (1964)
- Moving House (1964)
- No Sale (1964)
- Noises Off (1964)
- Pie in the Sky (1964)
- Scratch in Time (1964)
- Second Time Round (1964)
- The Bad Thought (1964)
- The Forger's Gloves (1964)
- The Hole in the World (1964)
- The Locked Room (1964)
- The Long Caretaker (1964)
- The Man Behind Me (1964)
- The Man on the Beam (1964)
- The Night Spiders (1964)
- The Shy Ghost (1964)
- The Space Traveller (1964)
- The Televisitor (1964)
- The Thief (1964)
- The Time Stopper (1964)
- The Waking Ghost (1964)
- Then I Woke Up (1964)
- Threepenny to Mars (1964)