Jeff Menapace Books in Order

Medical student Jeremy Marsh is shattered after his mother dies in what looks like a freak accident. A disfigured stranger insists it was murder tied to a lethal conspiracy, forcing Jeremy to trust him and strike first before the same people erase him too.

A ten-year-old boy escapes his abusive father by hiding in the cornfields, where his only friends are a scarecrow and the crows that circle above. When the beatings go too far, something in the field decides it is time to teach the wicked a lesson.

On prom night, Samantha Kearns waits in her dress for a date who may never arrive, while her parents try to keep the evening from imploding. When her father goes out to find the boy, he knows that if he fails, the real horror will begin at home.

Four friends head to a remote cabin in the northern woods for a simple getaway, only to collide with an ancient, ravenous legend said to stalk the area. As night falls, myth and reality blur, and the forest itself seems determined to feed on them.

The Lambert family heads to a lakeside cabin at Crescent Lake for fishing, barbecue, and board games. The Fannelli brothers follow them there for stalking, kidnapping, and murder, turning a quiet vacation into a sadistic contest where the only rule is that the Lamberts must play.

A year after the Crescent Lake massacre, ex-Marine Domino Taylor spends his days guarding the Lamberts and replaying every mistake he made. When an old acquaintance begs him to rescue her abducted son, he accepts, only to discover the kidnapping is part of one last, carefully staged game.

The Lamberts survived their first encounter with the Fannelli brothers, but the nightmare has only changed shape. New enemies with close ties to the original killers step in, determined to punish the family, and the Lamberts must rely on the ruthless Domino Taylor to keep them alive.

In this earlier version of the Numb story, burned-out massage therapist Calvin Court rescues a client from an apparent assault, only to be framed for murder. Forced into a violent underworld that caters to the sick desires of the wealthy, he discovers just how twisted survival can become.

This collection gathers eleven of Menapace’s short works, from abused children finding vengeance in cornfields to heists gone monstrously wrong and teens facing the worst prom night imaginable. It is a rapid-fire tour of his favorite obsessions in horror, crime, and dark suspense.

A tragic accident in the Florida Everglades sparks a vicious feud between two families. When a young writer, his girlfriend, and her relatives witness a savage crime out on the water, they must flee through the night, dodging gators, snakes, and the even deadlier humans hunting them.

In a ruined world ravaged by gangs and an affliction called Cling that cuts lives short, Sadie wanders the wasteland with a painful psychic gift. Hunted by a brutal warlord, she joins a mysterious boy and descends into a hidden tunnel system where salvation and catastrophe wait side by side.

Massage therapist Calvin Court self-medicates his depression with alcohol and bad decisions. When a client frames him for murder and blackmails him, he is dragged into a black-market business that serves the very rich and very depraved, where the only way out may be bloodier than he can imagine.

Crippled by grief after losing her husband and son, FBI agent Maggie Allen volunteers for an experimental drug trial. The medication lifts her depression but supercharges her senses, turning her into the bureau’s best chance of catching a prolific serial killer—and its most fragile weapon.

A crew of small-time thieves targets a mansion in a wealthy neighborhood, expecting antiques and easy cash. Instead they discover a caged man, a hostess with a taste for the bizarre, and a secret that turns their simple heist into a grotesque fight for survival.

After barely surviving the events of Numb, Calvin Court wakes to find himself property of The Track, an exclusive club where the rich bet on staged death games. In the first episode, he is thrown into a honky-tonk nightmare and told to dance for their amusement.

Widower Allan Brown hosts a support group for the bereaved, not knowing one guest is Amy Lambert, still marked by Crescent Lake. As the meeting begins, uninvited visitors arrive with their own agenda, determined to prove that the Lamberts’ game is far from over.

The Track is not finished with Calvin Court. In Episode Two he is forced into a fresh “production,” a slasher-style scenario where wealthy spectators gamble on his death. To stay alive, Calvin has to twist every horror-movie cliché to his own advantage.

Five years after a brutal Everglades abduction, a young filmmaker and her friends return to the swamp to shoot a documentary about the crime. Their quest for shocking footage pulls them back into the Roy family’s territory, where the original nightmare never really ended.

New teacher Ryan Herb takes a job at Pinewood Elementary, a school built over the ashes of a notoriously haunted building. Strange visions and violent incidents convince him something evil survived the fire, and it wants his help as much as it wants him dead.

Ten years after Crescent Lake, the Lambert family looks successful from the outside, but grief and guilt are tearing them apart. Amy’s public story about their ordeal attracts two aspiring killers obsessed with the Fannelli brothers, and the final game begins.

Calvin Court is dragged even deeper into The Track, an underground arena where the ultra rich bet on human “ponies” thrown into lethal scenarios. Episode Three forces him into his most twisted game yet, where surviving means outsmarting the house itself.

Caleb Lambert kills people for a living, but only the ones he and his crew are sure deserve it. When a new contract mirrors the worst horrors of his childhood, his carefully controlled revenge work spirals into a much bigger, bloodier war.

Three new stories of modern dread, featuring a disgraced wrestler’s son trying to win back his father with real-life slasher crimes, a woman who swallows a “harmless” worm to lose weight, and a couple whose kind gesture at a restaurant earns them a nightmarish debt.

Caleb Lambert’s violent temper has finally crossed the wrong people, and they give him a choice, make amends on their terms or face the consequences. Forced into a dangerous new job, he has to balance his own code against a demand for bloody repayment.

Noodle, Indiana, used to be a sleepy town. After Caleb’s last visit, it became a post-apocalyptic playground for criminals and sadists. Now he returns to set things right, taking on a cabal that runs lethal underground games and wants to weaponize his deepest traumas.

Trapped in Noodle as a pawn of the town’s new rulers, Caleb Lambert is forced back into The Clinic, an underground event that uses advanced tech to exploit his worst memories. To escape, he must survive the gauntlet and turn a nest of antiheroes and villains to his side.