Empty Graves: Tales of the Living Dead

by Jonathan Maberry

Overview

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ink, the Rot and Ruin series, and the creator of V-Wars.

The undead walk. Vicious, relentless, and never tiring.

Hungry.

And the dead have their stories.

Bram Stoker Award winner Jonathan Maberry is a master of the zombie tale. Empty Graves: Tales of the Living Dead is emotionally charged and disturbing. These stories range across the genres of horror, science fiction, and biological thriller without ever straying from the fascinating humanity at the core.

Together in a single action-packed collection, these 15 gritty tales of the living dead span Maberry's career, including an exclusive never-before-published short story.

Read them now. If you dare.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781680572254
Publisher:	Wordfire Press
Publication date:	09/01/2021
Pages:	390
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Jonathan Maberry is a New York Times bestselling author, 5-time Bram Stoker Award-winner, anthology editor, and comic book writer. His vampire apocalypse book series, V-WARS, was a Netflix original series. He writes in multiple genres including suspense, thriller, horror, science fiction, fantasy, and action; and he writes for adults, teens and middle grade. His works include the Joe Ledger thrillers, Ink, Glimpse, the Rot & Ruin series, the Dead of Night series, The Wolfman, X-Files Origins: Devil's Advocate, Mars One, and many others. Several of his works are in development for film and TV. He is the editor of high-profile anthologies including The X-Files, Aliens: Bug Hunt, Out of Tune, New Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Baker Street Irregulars, Nights of the Living Dead, and others. His comics include Black Panther: DoomWar, The Punisher: Naked Kills and Bad Blood. His Rot & Ruin young adult novel was adapted into the #1 comic on Webtoon, and is being developed for film by Alcon Entertainment. He is a board member of the Horror Writers Association, the president of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, and the editor of Weird Tales Magazine. He lives in San Diego, California. Find him online at www.jonathanmaberry.com

Editorial Reviews

05/03/2021

The 16 horror stories in this repetitive collection from Stoker Award winner Maberry (Rot and Ruin) are written with great verve but too often suffer from a sameness of theme and incident. The majority are set in postapocalyptic milieus menaced by George Romero–style zombies and struck from the same narrative template: human characters first intuit that something inexplicable has upended the world, then spend the rest of the story fending off onslaughts of flesh-eating members of the living dead. Maberry is at his best when he deviates from this formula, as in “Calling Death,” an eerie tale steeped in rural folk legend; “A Small Taste of the Old Country,” about the weird fate meted out to Nazis hiding in Argentina; and “Son of the Devil,” a tale of frontier justice with an EC Horror Comics vibe. Though several of the tales stand well on their own, their clustering reduces their potency and capacity for surprises. This is best suited for die-hard zombie fans. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly