Edited by Aaron J. French. JournalStone, $24.95 trade paper (450p) ISBN 978-1-942712-56-5
French’s concept—12 stories, each focusing on a different horrific god—is an original one, but there isn’t much here to justify yet another anthology of cosmic horror inspired by Lovecraft’s fiction. Despite an impressive roster of contributors,...
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Charlaine Harris et al. St. Martin’s, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-07678-6
Bestseller Harris, best known for her Southern Vampire mysteries (Dead Ever After, etc.), and nine other authors have collaborated on this mixed bag of a fantasy suspense novel, which calls to mind a story told around a campfire, with each...
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Edited by Cullen Bunn. Outland, $19.95 trade paper (370p) ISBN 978-1-954255-75-3
Bunn (the Basilisk series) argues in this high-concept if not entirely successful anthology of 22 speculative shorts that sword and sorcery fantasy and pulp horror “have always been connected.” Despite this assertion, the individual tales rarely...
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Jonathan Maberry. Simon & Schuster, $16.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-4814-1575-0
In this opening installment of the Nightsiders series, Maberry (the Rot & Ruin series) mixes genres to admirable effect. Six years after the alien Swarm invaded Earth, the remaining free humans exist as nomadic refugees and rebels, scavenging to...
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Jonathan Maberry. WordFire, $24.99 (264p) ISBN 978-1-68057-699-3
Mixing equal parts grit and sentiment, bestseller Maberry collects nine stories and two poems featuring tattooed paranormal skip tracer Gerald “Monk” Addison (last seen in 2020’s Ink). Poking into the seamy side of haunted Pine Deep, Pa., brings...
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Jonathan Maberry. Blackstone, $27.99 (486p) ISBN 979-8-200-68840-1
Maberry (Son of the Poison Rose) puts a cosmic horror twist on a classic military sci-fi setup in this solid outing. An error while testing a new technology called the WarpLine gun teleports the entirety of Asphodel Station—formerly in orbit around...
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Jonathan Maberry. Griffin, $18.99 trade paper (560p) ISBN 978-1-250-78397-4
Stoker Award winner Maberry (Ghost Road Blues) launches his Kagen the Damned series with this gripping, if somewhat anticlimactic, dark fantasy. Kagen Vale, captain of the Silver Empire’s Imperial Guard, is horribly hungover when the Hakkian army...
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Jonathan Maberry. WordFire, $38.99 (404p) ISBN 978-1-68057-225-4
The 16 horror stories in this repetitive collection from Stoker Award winner Maberry (Rot and Ruin) are written with great verve but too often suffer from a sameness of theme and incident. The majority are set in postapocalyptic milieus menaced by...
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Jonathan Maberry. Griffin, $17.99 trade paper (464p) ISBN 978-1-250-76588-8
Maberry sends the hard-boiled skip tracer Monk Addison, who first appeared in 2018’s Glimpse, to the creepy small-town setting of his Pine Deep trilogy for a disquieting standalone adventure. Upon arriving in Pine Deep, Pa., the “most haunted town...
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Jonathan Maberry. St. Martin’s Griffin, $18.99 trade paper (464p) ISBN 978-1-250-30357-8
Joe Ledger, the hero of bestseller Maberry’s Deep Silence and nine other thrillers, gets a reboot in this uneven series debut introducing Rogue Team International. Ledger, a member of this autonomous group of troubleshooters headed by his former...
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Jonathan Maberry. St. Martin’s Griffin, $18.99 trade paper (480p) ISBN 978-1-250-09846-7
In the 10th and final volume of the Joe Ledger series (following 2017’s Dogs of War), Capt. Joe Ledger and the rest of the top secret Department of Military Sciences face off against their greatest threat to date: a terrorist organization that has...
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Jonathan Maberry. St. Martin’s, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-06526-1
New Yorker Rain Thomas, the tormented heroine of this uneven supernatural thriller from bestseller Maberry (Ghost Road Blues), had sex for the first time at 15 with 18-year-old Noah, who shipped off to Iraq the next day. She later learned that she...
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Jonathan Maberry. Simon & Schuster, $17.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4814-6161-0
Maberry (the Nightsiders series) falls short of his usual level of success in this sluggish SF novel. Sixteen-year-old Tristan Hart and his family are going on a one-way trip to Mars along with 38 other people as part of the privately funded Mars...
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Jonathan Maberry. St. Martin’s Griffin, $16.99 trade paper (480p) ISBN 978-1-250-06525-4
Capt. Joe Ledger of the Department of Military Sciences returns for his exuberant eighth adventure (after 2015’s Predator One), in which he once again has to prevent a disaster of apocalyptic proportions. First, his team is sent to investigate a...
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Jonathan Maberry, Author . Pinnacle $6.99 (472p) ISBN 978-0-7860-1815-4
Maberry supplies plenty of chills, both Earth-bound and otherworldly, in this atmospheric horror novel, the first of a trilogy. Thirty years after the citizens of Pine Deep, Pa., killed the serial killer known as the Reaper, the town enjoys a quiet...
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Jonathan Maberry. St. Martin’s Griffin, $15.99 trade paper (464p) ISBN 978-0-312-55221-3
Fifth in the Joe Ledger series (after Assassin’s Code), this fast-paced and somewhat tongue-in-cheek thriller sees the cop–turned–government agent facing off against conspiracy theorists, men in black, and futuristic weapons, with the fate of the...
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Jonathan Maberry, Author . St. Martin's Griffin $14.95 (421p) ISBN 978-0-312-38285-8
While raiding a terrorist cell at the start of this exciting thriller from Stoker-winner Maberry (Dead Man's Song
), Baltimore PD Det. Joe Ledger shoots two .45 slugs into Javad Mustapha, killing him very dead. Four days later, while trying out
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Jonathan Maberry, Author . St. Martin’s Griffin $14.99 (486p) ISBN 978-0-312-38249-0
In Stoker-winner Maberry’s wild second Joe Ledger novel (after Patient Zero
), Joe and his comrades from the Department of Military Science (DMS) take on enough villains and their world-threatening plots to fill half a dozen ordinary thrillers.
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Jonathan Maberry, Simon & Schuster, $17.99 (464p) ISBN 978-1-4424-0232-4
The delineation between man and monster, survivor and victim is fiercely debated in Maberry's (Patient Zero) thoughtful, postapocalyptic coming-of-age tale. In Mountainside, an oasis of civilization in a world ravaged by zombies, residents must find
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Jonathan Maberry, St. Martin's Griffin, $14.99 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-0-312-38250-6
In Maberry's audacious third novel featuring Department of Military Science agent Joe Ledger (after The Dragon Factory), Joe must stop a cult bent on overthrowing the world order. Though Ledger is unofficially retired, a terrorist attack that levels
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Jonathan Maberry. ; , $14.99 ISBN 978-0-312-55219-0
Maberry (The King of Plagues) combines visceral horror and psychological terror in this bleak zombie thriller. When smalltown Pennsylvania police officers Dez Fox and JT Hammond respond to a break-in at a funeral home, they discover several bodies...
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Jonathan Maberry. Pocket, $14.99 trade paper (464p) ISBN 978-0-312-55220-6
Maberry’s fourth genre-bending Joe Ledger supernatural horror-thriller (after 2011’s The King of Plagues) pits U.S. Department of Military Sciences agent Ledger against a variety of foes. After successfully rescuing several American tourists from...
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Jonathan Maberry. St. Martin’s Griffin, $15.99 trade paper (464p) ISBN 978-1-250-03343-7
Bestseller Maberry’s sequel to 2009’s Patient Zero, his sixth starring Joe Ledger of the ultrasecret Department of Military Science (after 2013’s Extinction Machine), does a good job of making its variation on the zombie menace plausible. A copy of...
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Jonathan Maberry. St. Martin’s Griffin, $15.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-03494-6
Maberry continues his zombie apocalypse series with this harrowing, gory adventure, which picks up immediately after the events of 2011’s Dead of Night. Caught at the epicenter of a viral outbreak that turns humans into shambling monsters, police...
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Jonathan Maberry and Janice Gable Bashman, Citadel, $16.95 paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-8065-2821-2
Maberry (Marvel Zombies Return) and thriller writer Bashman's closeup look at the inevitable battle between good and evil spans decades upon decades of rich monster history, beginning with the definition of evil itself. Illustrations and interviews...
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Jonathan Maberry, Joseph Nassise, et al. JournalStone (www.journalstone.com), $27.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-936564-74-3
This shared-world anthology about a mysterious metaphysical employment agency is uneven in execution but pleasingly consistent in tone. Benjamin Kane Ethridge’s “The Slaughter Man” is an old-school science fiction power fantasy about a...
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Jonathan Maberry and Tyler Crook . Dark Horse, $17.99 trade paper (136p) ISBN 978-1-61655-496-5
Very smart and very bleak, this Bram Stoker Award–nominated graphic novel works fresh changes on traditional and pop-cultural vampire lore. Trick Croft is a college freshman fighting leukemia. When a monstrous vampire attacks him, it recoils in...
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Edited by Brett J. Talley. JournalStone
(www.journalstone.com), $18.95 trade paper (310p) ISBN 978-1-940161-33-4
A highly unorthodox employment agency (first seen in 2013’s Limbus, Inc.) returns in this shared-world anthology of five hardboiled horror-noir tales from bestselling and Stoker-winning contributors. Whether inspired by Emily Dickinson (Harry...
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Edited by Jonathan Maberry and George A. Romero. St. Martin’s Griffin, $17.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-11224-8
In this somewhat overwhelming collection of zombie fiction, 20 authors return to the world first seen in Romero’s 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead, to explore the original zombie apocalypse in all its gory glory. Romero himself and the film’s...
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Jonathan Maberry, read by Ray Porter. Blackstone Audio, unabridged, 13 CDs, 16 hrs., $39.95 ISBN 978-1-4417-9557-1
In Maberry's third novel about rugged, wisecracking Joe Ledger, an on-again, off-again agent for the U.S. Department of Military Science, seven loathsome "kings" and one possibly supernatural "goddess" decide to rule the world through the use of...
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Edited by Joseph Nassise. Gallery, $16 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-1-5011-5508-6
Fans of urban fantasy can read stories from some of the best-known names in the genre and discover new writers in this well-arranged anthology, which focuses on villains. In Jim Butcher’s “Even Hand,” the human crime lord who has been a thorn in...
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Kelly Armstrong, Christopher Golden, David Liss, and Jonathan Maberry. S&S/Gallery, $16 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-4516-9668-4
Powered by adept story-crafting skills, this anthology of novellas delivers limited thrills, but it does successfully showcase four prominent authors’ inventive takes on a central theme: “A strange visitor comes to town, offering to raise the...
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