

BROKEN LANDS, the first of a new spin-off series, debuted in 2018 and was followed by LOST ROADS in fall 2020. His young adult fiction includes ROT & RUIN (2011 was named in Booklist’s Ten Best Horror Novels for Young Adults, an American Library Association Top Pick, a Bram Stoker and Pennsylvania Keystone to Reading winner winner of several state Teen Book Awards including the Cricket, Nutmeg and MASL winner of the Cybils Award, the Eva Perry Mock Printz medal, Dead Letter Best Novel Award, and four Melinda Awards) DUST & DECAY (winner of the 2011 Bram Stoker Award FLESH & BONE (winner of the Bram Stoker Award 2012 and FIRE & ASH (August 2013). Jonathan is the creator, editor and co-author of V-WARS, a shared-world vampire anthology from IDW Publishing that was adapted into a NETFLIX series starring Ian Somerhalder (LOST, VAMPIRE DIARIES). He writes in several genres including thriller, horror, science fiction, epic fantasy, and mystery and he writes for adults, middle grade, and young adult. His books have been sold to more than thirty countries. He is the recipient of the Inkpot Award, three Scribe Awards, and was named one of the Today’s Top Ten Horror Writers.

He is the editor of WEIRD TALES Magazine and president of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers. JONATHAN MABERRY is a New York Times best-seller and Audible #1 bestseller, five-time Bram Stoker Award-winner, anthology editor, comic book writer, executive producer, magazine feature writer, playwright, and writing teacher/lecturer. Everything…and not everyone in Benny’s small band of travelers will make it out alive. In the great Rot & Ruin everything wants to kill you. Worst of all… could the evil Charlie Pink-eye still be alive? But as soon as they step into the Rot & Ruin they are pursued by the living dead, wild animals, insane murderers and the horrors of Gameland –where teenagers are forced to fight for their lives in the zombie pits. Before they can even leave there is a shocking zombie attack in town. Except that everything that can go wrong does. Lilah the Lost Girl and Benny’s best friend Lou Chong are going with them. Now, after months of rigorous training with Benny’s zombie-hunter brother Tom, Benny and Nix are ready to leave their home forever and search for a better future. It’s also six months since Benny Imura and Nix Riley saw something in the air that changed their lives. Six months have passed since the terrifying battle with Charlie Pink-eye and the Motor City Hammer in the zombie-infested mountains of the Rot & Ruin.
