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Jonathan Maberry

(b.1958)

Jonathan Maberry is a New York Times best-selling and multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning horror and thriller author, magazine feature writer, playwright, content creator and writing teacher/lecturer. His books have been sold to more than a dozen countries.

Awards: Stoker (2012) see all

Genres: Horror, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Mystery, Children's Fiction

New and upcoming books

September 2024

Midnight Lullabies

October 2024

Shadow & Verse

December 2024

Mystic

March 2025

Burn to Shine
(Joe Ledger, book 14)

March 2025

Shadows of Sanctuary

Series

Pine Deep Trilogy
   1. Ghost Road Blues (2006)
   2. Dead Man's Song (2007)
   3. Bad Moon Rising (2008)
   Darkness on the Edge of Town (2015)
   Long Way Home (2015)
   Mister Pockets (2015)
   The Trouble (2015)
   Whistlin' Past the Graveyard (2015)
   Long Past Midnight (2023)

Joe Ledger
   1. Patient Zero (2009)
   2. The Dragon Factory (2010)
   3. The King of Plagues (2011)
   4. Assassin's Code (2012)
   5. Extinction Machine (2013)
   6. Code Zero (2014)
   7. Predator One (2015)
   8. Kill Switch (2016)
   8.5. Dark of Night (2016) (with Rachael Lavin)
   9. Dogs of War (2017)
   Unstoppable (2017) (with Bryan Thomas Schmidt)
   10. Deep Silence (2018)
   11. Rage (2019)
   12. Relentless (2021)
   13. Cave 13 (2023)
   Unbreakable (2023) (with Bryan Thomas Schmidt)
   14. Burn to Shine (2025)

Benny Imura
   1. Rot & Ruin (2010)
   2. Dust & Decay (2011)
   2.5. Dead & Gone (2012)
   3. Flesh & Bone (2012)
   Tales of the Rot & Ruin (2012)
   3.5. Tooth & Nail (2013)
   4. Fire & Ash (2013)
   5. Bits & Pieces (2015)

Joe Ledger Short Stories
   Dog Days (2011)
   The Missing Files (2011)
   Zero Tolerance (2011)
   Countdown (2011)
   Material Witness (2011)
   Deep, Dark (2012)
   Joe Ledger: Special Ops (2014)
   Joe Ledger: Secret Missions (2021)
   Joe Ledger: Secret Missions Volume One and Two (2021)
   Joe Ledger: Secret Missions Volume Two (2021)

Dead of Night
   1. Dead of Night (2011)
   1.5. Chokepoint (2011)
   2. Fall of Night (2014)
   3. Dark of Night (2016) (with Rachael Lavin)
   4. Still of Night (2018) (with Rachael Lavin)

V-Wars
   1. V Wars (2012)
   2. Blood and Fire (2014)
   All Of Us Monsters (2015)
   Night Terrors (2016)
   Shockwaves (2016)
   V-Wars: The Graphic Novel Collection (2019)

Limbus, Inc. (with Benjamin Kane Ethridge, Joseph Nassise, Anne C Petty and Brett J Talley)
1. Limbus, Inc. (2013)

Nightsiders
1. The Orphan Army (2015)
2. Vault of Shadows (2016)

Broken Lands
1. Broken Lands (2018)
2. Lost Roads (2020)

Kagen the Damned
   1. Kagen the Damned (2022)
   I Say Your Name in the Dark Nights (2022)
   2. Son of the Poison Rose (2023)
   3. The Dragon in Winter (2024)

Sleepers War (with Weston Ochse)
1. Alpha Wave (2023)

Necrotek
1. NecroTek (2024)

Novels

   The Wolfman (2010)
   Mars One (2017)
   Indigo (2017) (with others)
   Glimpse (2018)
   Ink (2020)

Collections

   Zombie Bits (2010) (with others)
   Grave Conditions (2010) (with others)
   The Wind Through the Fence (2011)
   Hungry Tales (2012)
   Tales from the Fire Zone (2012)
   Four Summoner's Tales (2013) (with others)
   Strange Worlds (2015)
   The Sam Hunter Collection (2016)
   Whistling Past the Graveyard (2016)
   Beneath the Skin (2016)
   Empty Graves (2021)
   Midnight Lullabies (2024)
   Mystic (2024)
   Shadows of Sanctuary (2025) (with others)

Novellas and Short Stories

   Like Part of the Family (2011)
   The Adventure of the Greenbrier Ghost (2015)
   Calling Death (2015)
   Clean Sweeps (2015)
   Cooked (2015)
   The Death Poem of Sensei Otoro (2015)
   The Death Song of Dwar Guntha (2015)
   Doctor Nine (2015)
   Pegleg and Paddy Save the World (2015)
   Plan 7 From Sin City (2015)
   Property Condemned (2015)
   The Things That Live in Cages (2015)
   The Vanishing Assassin (2015)
   Crazy Town (2016)
   A House in Need of Children (2016)
   Toby's Closet (2016)
   We All Make Sacrifices (2016)
   Lullaby (2018)

Anthologies edited

   Out of Tune (2014)
   Out of Tune - Book II (2016)
   Scary Out There (2016)
   Baker Street Irregulars (2017) (with Michael A Ventrella)
   Nights of the Living Dead (2017) (with George A Romero)
   Hardboiled Horror (2017)
   Baker Street Irregulars: The Game is Afoot (2018) (with Michael A Ventrella)
   Don't Turn Out the Lights (2020)
   Turning the Tied (2021) (with Robert Greenberger, Jean Rabe and D J Stevenson)
   Weird Tales: Best of the Early Years 1926-27 (2022) (with Kaye Lynne Booth)
   Weird Tales: Best of the Early Years 1923-25 (2022) (with Justin Criado)
   Double Trouble (2023) (with Keith R A DeCandido)
   Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird (2023)
   The Good, The Bad, & The Uncanny (2023)
   Shadow & Verse (2024)

Series contributed to

Oz Reimagined
15. The Cobbler of Oz (2013)

X-Files (misc. novels)
Trust No One (2015)
The Truth Is Out There (2016)

DeadLands
1. Ghostwalkers (2015)

X-Files
Secret Agendas (2016)

X-Files Origins
Devil's Advocate (2017)

Alien
Aliens: Bug Hunt (2017)

Little Book Series II
A Little Bronze Book of Cautionary Tales (2020)

AVP: Aliens vs. Predators
Ultimate Prey (2022) (with Brian Thomas Schmidt)

Heroic Legends
3. Solomon Kane: The Hound of God (2023)

Valhalla Books presents Horror
2. The Blood Runs Deep (2024) (with Dacre Stoker)

Graphic Novels show

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Jonathan Maberry

It Came From the Trailer Park: Volume 4 (2024)
(It Came From the Trailer Park, book 4)
edited by
Tim Bischoff and William Joseph Roberts

The Horror at Pooh Corner (2024)
edited by
Joe Monson

Bestiary of Blood (2024)
Modern Fables and Dark Tales
edited by
Jamal Hodge

More books

Awards

	2012 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel : Flesh & Bone
	2011 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel : Dust & Decay
	2006 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel : Ghost Road Blues

Award nominations

	2024 ITW Award for Best Paperback original (nominee) : Cave 13: Rogue Team International
	2021 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection (nominee) : Empty Graves: Tales of the Living Dead
	2018 Dragon Award for Best Horror Novel (nominee) : Glimpse
	2018 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel (nominee) : Broken Lands
	2018 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel (nominee) : Glimpse
	2017 ITW Award for Best Paperback original (nominee) : Kill Switch
	2016 Dragon Award for Best Alternate History Novel (nominee) : Ghostwalkers
	2014 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction (nominee) : Three Guys Walk into a Bar
	2010 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel (nominee) : Rot & Ruin
	2009 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel (nominee) : Patient Zero
	2006 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel (nominee) : Ghost Road Blues

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The Girl on the Run (2014)
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The Weaponer (2014)
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Help! Wanted (2011)
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Jeremy Robinson
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Zombie, Ohio (2011)
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Scott Kenemore
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Can You Survive the Zombie Apocalypse? (2011)
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Max Brallier
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Dismember (2010)
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Beneath the Dark Ice (2010)
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Greig Beck
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Drummer Boy (2010)
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Scott Nicholson
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The Suicide Collectors (2008)
David Oppegaard
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The Desert (2007)
Bryon Morrigan
"It's fun, fast-paced, and deliciously creepy."

Breach the Hull (2007)
(Defending the Future, book 1)
Mike McPhail
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Dead City (2006)
(Dead World , book 1)
Joe McKinney
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