Jonathan Maberry Books in Order

Pine Deep is famous for Halloween, but thirty years after an unsolved killing spree, the darkness is back. Malcolm Crow and the town's residents are pulled into murders, madness, and old evil waking under the streets.

This nonfiction guide tours vampire lore, legend, and pop culture from many traditions. It is broad, readable, and clearly written for readers who like their monsters with history attached.

The nightmare in Pine Deep did not end with one killer. Bodies keep piling up, people crack under pressure, and the town starts to feel like it is slipping out of the human world.

Co-written with David F. Kramer, this reference book explores strange creatures, odd history, folklore, and unexplained phenomena. It reads like a cabinet of curiosities built for horror and mystery fans.

Halloween festival season brings crowds to Pine Deep just as the real battle for the town begins. Survivors face a full supernatural assault in a finale that turns funfest into bloodfest.

This nonfiction book uses forensic science and police procedure to ask what a real zombie outbreak might look like. It is playful, gruesome, and smarter than the joke premise first suggests.

Baltimore detective Joe Ledger is recruited into a secret government unit to stop terrorists from unleashing a bioweapon that turns people into zombies. It launches the series with black-ops action, biotech horror, and a hero who talks as hard as he fights.

This guide explores flesh-eating monsters, predatory folklore, and the stories humans tell about being hunted. It mixes monster history with a lot of dark fun.

Wakanda is under pressure from every side, and the new Black Panther has to rise fast. The story gives Shuri high-stakes politics, superhuman threats, and a nation in crisis.

Doctor Doom makes his move on Wakanda, and the fight becomes a battle for power, vibranium, and survival. It is big Marvel conflict with Black Panther and his allies under constant pressure.

Frank Castle fights through the wreckage of a Marvel Universe overrun by cannibalistic superhumans. It is grim, violent survival horror told through the one man stubborn enough to keep shooting.

This collection sends zombie Marvel characters crashing into new corners of the multiverse. It is pulpy, nasty, and built for readers who like the franchise at its most chaotic.

Fifteen-year-old Benny Imura has to apprentice with his older brother, a zombie hunter he barely respects. What starts as a job becomes a hard lesson about mercy, memory, and the uglier monsters still walking around alive.

Joe Ledger and Echo Team go to war with rival geneticists, engineered monsters, and a revived master-race program. The threat is bigger, stranger, and far more personal than a simple terror plot.

Lawrence Talbot returns to Blackmoor to investigate a disappearance and finds a curse waiting in the woods. Maberry's novelization keeps the Gothic mood, family damage, and werewolf horror front and center.

Co-written with Janice Gable Bashman, this nonfiction book profiles vampire hunters and other monster fighters from folklore and fiction. It is part reference guide, part celebration of people who go after the dark.

Across several eras, Captain America battles Hydra's obsession with death and immortality. It plays like a wartime adventure with undead twists and a wider Marvel cast.

A prison experiment goes wrong when a condemned killer wakes up infected and hungry before burial. The outbreak that follows is fast, ugly, and frighteningly local at first.

Before The Dragon Factory, Joe confronts another nightmare built on human experimentation. It is a tight mission story about mad science, fieldwork, and how ugly secret labs can get.

Mourning a personal loss, Joe and his canine partner Ghost hunt a deadly assassin. The story is smaller than the big novels, but it hits hard because the grief is personal.

Benny and his friends step farther beyond town and into a ruined world filled with raiders, ghouls, and old grudges. The journey gets bigger, darker, and far more dangerous than Benny imagined.

This urban fantasy noir story introduces Sam Hunter, a private investigator who is also a werewolf. The case brings pack loyalty, street danger, and supernatural trouble together fast.

This entry rewinds to the fall itself, showing how the plague tears through heroes and villains alike. Wolverine is at the center, but the real story is how fast the world breaks.

Joe heads to Pine Deep to protect a witness and walks straight into the strangest town in Pennsylvania. It is a neat bridge between the Ledger world and Maberry's straight horror fiction.

This anthology offers ten horror stories with ten different flavors of dread. It is a compact sampler for readers who like short shocks rather than one long nightmare.

After a devastating attack in London, Joe is drawn into a conspiracy built around weaponized versions of the biblical plagues. The hunt moves through hot zones, assassins, and a secret society ready to profit from mass death.

Five Joe Ledger stories fill in key gaps around the early novels, from Joe's pre-DMS days to crossover trouble in Pine Deep. It works like a set of extra case files for readers who want more of the team.

This collection shows Maberry ranging across horror, fantasy, noir, and apocalypse fiction. It is a strong sampler of how weird, sharp, and varied his short fiction can get.

Set shortly after Patient Zero, this story drops Joe back into the aftermath of the zombie outbreak and the damage it left behind. It is a lean follow-up with the same fast, tactical feel as the novels.

After rescuing hostages in Iran, Joe chases stolen nuclear bombs and a murderous brotherhood tied to forbidden knowledge. The mission blends holy-war politics, betrayals, and secrets that shake his view of the world.

This graphic collection chronicles the early days of the V-Wars, with new vampire strains and immediate human backlash. It plays the premise as fast pandemic horror with bloodier visuals.

This short Rot & Ruin tale revisits the zombie world from a tighter angle, focusing on survival, loss, and the cost of living one more day. It is brief, but it carries the series' usual bite.

Benny, Nix, Chong, and Lilah press deeper into the wasteland, chasing answers and walking into one nightmare after another. The book widens the world while testing every bond that held the group together.

This zombie-heavy collection jumps between grim survival, black comedy, and apocalypse fallout. If you like Maberry's undead fiction in shorter forms, it gives you several flavors at once.

With the world already lost, the surviving heroes face one last impossible question, how much power Doctor Doom should get if he might save everyone. It is the war stage of Maberry's grim alternate Marvel saga.

This collection gathers five varied stories, including Sherlock Holmes, Sam Hunter, and a trip back to Pine Deep. It is a good sampler of how easily Maberry moves from horror to mystery to dark fantasy.

This short fiction collection expands the zombie world beyond the main Benny Imura novels. It adds side roads, extra voices, and more of the hard choices that define life after First Night.

This shared-world anthology begins the vampire war after a virus triggers dormant DNA and transforms people across the globe in different ways. Maberry turns vampire fiction into outbreak horror, politics, and social collapse.

The president vanishes, UFO sightings spike, and strange discoveries hint at a covert race for alien technology. Joe and the DMS plunge into paranoia and hidden science with world-war stakes.

War closes in from every side as Benny and his friends face armies, betrayals, and the long shadow of Gameland. It brings the first big arc of the series to a fierce, emotional finish.

This shared anthology opens the door to a strange company that solves impossible problems for desperate clients. The setup invites horror, dark fantasy, and moral bargains in equal measure.

Maberry gives Oz a stranger, darker edge in this short fantasy tale. It plays with familiar storybook magic while keeping one foot in danger.

Set in the Rot & Ruin universe, this story throws survivors against both the undead and the living predators around them. Maberry uses a short format, but the moral pressure feels just as sharp.

This graphic horror story turns a vampire conflict into a crime-stained survival tale. It is fast, mean, and very much in Maberry's lane.

A year into the outbreak, the vampire war is fully under way and every side is learning how bad it can get. The stories keep widening the conflict while pushing harder into fear, combat, and division.

A strike team steals the deadliest bioweapons ever locked away by the DMS, and outbreaks of madness follow across America. Joe must stop a master criminal before the country becomes another zombie war zone.

Desdemona Fox, JT Hammond, and Billy Trout watch Stebbins County fall apart as children, parents, and neighbors turn on one another. This is the point where rumor becomes full zombie apocalypse.

The graphic adaptation opens Benny's story as he is pushed into training with Tom and forced to see zombies as more than targets. It keeps the novel's heart while moving fast and visually.

Benny's apprenticeship deepens as the rules of hunting and survival get more complicated. The graphic format makes the contrast between fenced safety and the ruined world hit even harder.

As Benny and the others move farther into danger, the journey becomes a test of nerve and trust. Human cruelty starts to matter as much as the zombies.

The first graphic arc drives toward hard truths, brutal action, and Benny's growing understanding of what Tom has been trying to teach him. It lands with the same mix of horror and heart as the prose books.

This collection gathers Joe Ledger short fiction, including missions that slot between the main novels, plus bonus material on the DMS. It is a great way to fill in character beats and side operations.

This short piece starts from a familiar setup and swerves into something much less safe. It shows Maberry's knack for turning humor sideways until menace creeps in.

This V-Wars comic installment drops readers into another violent corner of the vampire conflict. The war is personal, messy, and built on the series' fear that everyone is becoming dangerous to everyone else.

This collection returns to the Rot & Ruin world through connected stories that deepen the lore and spotlight side characters. It makes the larger series feel broader, stranger, and sadder.

Four Army reservists are told to hold a rural bridge in the early days of the zombie apocalypse. What sounds simple becomes a slow trap as the dead and the living close in.

A reporter joins a special ops team on a dangerous mission against space pirates. It is a quick burst of military science fiction with newsroom curiosity dropped straight into combat.

This Pine Deep collection gathers five stories, including a direct sequel to the main trilogy. It is a strong way to revisit the town's mood, history, and unfinished horrors.

In the weird west of Deadlands, haunted gunman Grey Torrance rides into Paradise Falls and finds an alchemist building terrible weapons and an army of the dead. It is part western, part steampunk, part horror.

Klaw returns with a deadly plan, and Shuri has to face both the villain and her own rage. It is a compact Black Panther story with strong forward motion.

A young soldier comes back from war expecting one kind of damage and finds another waiting in Pine Deep. Home is not safer, only stranger.

A paperboy's small act of kindness leads him into something far older and more dangerous than he understands. It is one of Maberry's quieter Pine Deep stories, which only makes it creepier.

The vampire war moves into homes, streets, and relationships, because anyone can change at any time. This volume leans into the way fear makes even family life feel unsafe.

A deadly drone attack at a baseball stadium is only the start of a nationwide wave of machine-driven terror. Joe races to stop the sabotage before hacked technology turns the whole country into a weapon.

This original graphic story follows Benny, Nix, Lilah, and Chong as they cross the Sierra Nevada with zombies at their heels. It adds a fresh adventure to the series rather than just retelling old ground.

This collection hops from science fiction parody to mystery to horror, showing how comfortable Maberry is changing lanes. The stories are varied, but they all move.

Milo Silk lives in a world ravaged by alien Bugs and haunted by dreams that may be prophecy. When magical Nightsiders enter the fight, the story becomes a fun, scary mix of invasion tale and fantasy quest.

An aging MMA fighter is offered youth and strength, but the price is his humanity. It is a nasty little story about bodies, hunger, and bad bargains.

Malcolm Crow thought the evil in Pine Deep was finished, but a new wave of killings says otherwise. This sequel story brings him back into the fight with the darkness under the town.

This X-Files anthology sends Mulder and Scully into a fresh stack of creepy investigations, from monsters to conspiracies. Gini Koch's story, "Sewers," follows a string of teen disappearances into very dangerous underground territory.

This collection gathers Sam Hunter stories about a werewolf private investigator who treats clients like pack. Human evil, supernatural threats, and crossovers with Maberry's other worlds all show up here.

The third Limbus, Inc. volume returns to the secretive company that handles impossible cases for a price. As before, the appeal is the mix of odd assignments, horror ideas, and different author voices.

Survivors race to save a busload of children while zombies and human scavengers close in. It is a grim road story about how few good choices exist once society is gone.

When key systems begin failing, Joe faces a campaign meant to turn modern life itself into a trap. The real threat is not just the blackout, but who wants to rule after the collapse.

The vampire war keeps spreading, and these stories focus on ripple effects, sudden turnings, and the cost of living in a world where infection never feels far away. It keeps the series' mix of horror and social fracture.

Milo has survived one disaster, but revenge, missing allies, and a widening war pull him back in. The sequel grows the world while keeping the same kid-centered urgency.

A cemetery worker begins to suspect the dead in Pine Deep are not staying where they were put. The story turns routine graveyard work into a slow, nasty unraveling.

Edited by Maberry, this anthology gathers Colonial Marines and others for close encounters with xenomorphs. The stories cover different corners of the franchise, but all know a bug hunt is terrible news.

Fifteen-year-old Dana Scully has unsettling visions after moving to Maryland with her military family. As suspicious deaths pile up, she begins the journey toward the skeptical, evidence-driven Scully fans know.

A terrorist uses robot dogs and other autonomous weapons to smuggle mass destruction into American cities. Joe and a rebuilt DMS must stop a technological apocalypse already in motion.

A Monster Hunter International operative tracks a series of gruesome attacks that should not be possible, uncovering a predator clever enough to hide among humans. The hunt forces him to choose between following orders and doing what is right for the victims.

Teenager Tristan has trained for years to leave Earth on the first Mars colonization mission, but love, terrorism, and competing plans complicate the dream. It is a YA science fiction adventure with real emotional stakes.

This nonfiction collection looks at the minds, fears, and relationships inside the world of Supernatural. Fans get essays on trauma, family, belief, and what it means to live as a hunter.

Writers from across thriller and horror add new adventures to the Joe Ledger universe in this anthology. The stories widen the world while keeping the DMS, weird science threats, and hard-edged action front and center.

Gutsy Gomez is pulled out of hiding when her dead mother is returned from the grave and the undead start behaving in new ways. At the same time, Benny and his friends push onward in search of a cure.

A new weapon triggers earthquakes, eruptions, and waves of madness that drive people to violence before the ground even breaks. Joe uncovers a conspiracy with ancient secrets and a plan that could wake Yellowstone itself.

Recovering addict Rain Thomas starts seeing a mysterious boy through a cracked lens and cannot tell whether she is haunted or breaking down. The story turns guilt, memory, and the supernatural into one long bad day.

A brief horror tale turns something as gentle as a lullaby into a source of dread. Maberry keeps it compact, but the mood lingers after the last page.

This installment shifts into linked survival stories about people trying to do one brave thing in a ruined world. It broadens the series without losing the pressure or the sorrow.

This comic one-shot adds another sharp, bloody slice of the V-Wars universe. It blends monster mythology with outbreak panic and the sense that the world is only getting worse.

Joe leads Rogue Team International against a plague-driven massacre off Japan and a plot aimed at Korea. It opens a more international phase of the series, with bigger politics and an even harsher edge.

In a zombie-ravaged wasteland, a young scientist with a possible cure becomes the target of both the dead and violent road gangs. The rescue mission is loud, reckless, and built for pulp fun.

In Pine Deep, tattoo artist Patty Cakes and hunter Monk Addison discover that memories are being stolen right out of people's lives. It is a supernatural thriller about grief, identity, and what love leaves behind.

The search for a cure carries Benny's circle into rougher country and harder choices. The world keeps getting larger, stranger, and more unforgiving the farther they travel.

This graphic thriller pushes back against authoritarian power during a man-made plague crisis. It mixes bioterror ideas with resistance storytelling and a lot of forward momentum.

Dr. Abby Corman opens a doorway to a parallel Earth hoping to help humanity, then watches the experiment spiral into multiverse disaster. This first Bewilderness installment mixes locked-building tension with big science fiction stakes.

This anthology drops humans between two nightmare species, the Yautja and the xenomorphs, across stories set on Earth and in deep space. Sigler's contribution, "Another Mother," returns to the world of Ataegina.

With reality itself starting to break, Abby's dwindling group races to shut the threshold before the Prime Earth falls. It is a fast finale built on multiverse horror and impossible choices.

This collection gathers zombie stories from different corners of collapse, each with its own survivors and bad odds. The dead are relentless, but the human choices are what really sting.

After devastating personal losses, Joe hunts the killers through the black market world of enhanced mercenaries and illegal weapons. He is more dangerous than ever, and that makes the whole book feel raw.

These collections pull together Joe Ledger short fiction, reprints, and new adventures from across the timeline. They are packed with side missions, crossovers, and extra time with the DMS and Rogue Team International.

Abby and the survivors are now trapped inside the consequences of the failed Gateway project. Strange worlds, alien hunters, and spreading chaos make the disaster even harder to contain.

This Kagen short story sends the disgraced warrior into a stand-alone clash with supernatural predators. It is a quick, violent stop in the larger fantasy world.

Kagen Vale, captain of the imperial guard, wakes to find the royal house slaughtered and the empire shattered. What follows is a dark fantasy of oath, revenge, ruined kingdoms, and rising magic.

Humanity once created super soldiers called Sleepers to beat the alien Flock, then buried them in legend. Centuries later, the war is back, and the old weapons are waking up.

A newly discovered cave holds Dead Sea Scrolls, possible magic, and a madness that spreads to anyone who gets too close. Joe and Rogue Team International race through a conflict where religion, greed, and bioweapons all blur together.

These Pine Deep stories range from haunted-house fear to graveyard trouble to a Joe Ledger crossover. Together they make the town feel wider, older, and even harder to escape.

Maberry drops Robert E. Howard's grim wanderer into another fight against evil where faith, steel, and stubborn will are all tested. It reads like a classic dark adventure sharpened for horror readers.

With the empire in ruins, Kagen and his allies stay on the move while spies, wild magic, and a rage-inducing plague spread. The book widens the world and deepens the war against the Witch-king.

Gerald Monk Addison hunts killers by reliving the last moments of the dead faces tattooed on his skin. These linked stories blend vigilante crime fiction, ghost-story grief, and Pine Deep atmosphere.

After an experiment strands Asphodel Station on the far side of the galaxy, humanity learns eldritch monsters have noticed Earth. The answer may lie in ghost ships that can only be flown by the dead.

Armies of the living and the dead gather for the trilogy's final reckoning. Kagen's side finally has ancient magic, but so do his enemies, and the whole world feels ready to split open.

Human disease bombs, stolen research, and armed private soldiers hit the country in waves. Joe and Rogue Team International have to keep moving through grief long enough to stop a coordinated bioterror strike.

While the survivors of Asphodel fight on, a buried alien craft in Antarctica starts poisoning minds back on Earth. The sequel links cosmic war, nightmares, and ancient secrets into one escalating crisis.

A revived enemy unleashes a weaponized Black Death in London while old secrets about Mr. Church start surfacing. Joe's team fights a plague crisis and a history lesson they may not be ready to hear.

The first Sleepers are awake, their powers are growing, and the rebellion against the Flock is turning into open war. The scale gets larger, but the series keeps its military urgency.