I riff off of the basic set-up in Night of the Living Dead but I explore what it’s like to grow up in the world after everything’s gone to hell. It’s a dystopian coming of age story set fourteen years after an apocalyptic plague that wiped out most of humanity.

Jonathan made some time for The Big Thrill earlier this week to tell us about his new book: Jonathan’s latest thrill ride into our collective fears is a two-book YA series that starts with Rot and Ruin, coming in September from Simon and Schuster. Jonathan Maberry is just such an author, and his writing is powerful enough to sing with poetry while simultaneously scaring the hell out of you.”

Comic book fans know him from his work on Punisher, DeadPool, Black Panther and many other popular Marvel series.īestseller Tess Gerritsen writes, “Every so often, you discover an author whose writing is so lyrical that it transcends mere storytelling. Along the way he’s also written dozens of short stories and essays and a string of nonfiction books, the last five dealing with myths and legends of the supernatural, such as the Stoker Award-winning Cryptopedia (2007). He’s written a Stoker Award-winning Horror series ( The Pine Deep Trilogy), the wildly-successful, genre-creating Joe Ledger thriller trilogy ( Patient Zero, Dragon Factory and next year’s King of Plagues) which has been called “Michael Crichton meets 24,” and which has been snapped up by Sony Pictures for development as an ABC Television series. Jonathan Maberry is making the transition from bestselling thriller writer to brand name.

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