JonathanMaberry

JONATHAN MABERRY is a multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author, magazine feature writer, playwright, content creator and writing teacher/lecturer. His books have been sold to a dozen countries; and his ‘Joe Ledger’ series of thrillers are in development for TV.

His novels include GHOST ROAD BLUES (Pinnacle books; winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel in 2006), DEAD MAN’S SONG (2007), BAD MOON RISING (2008), PATIENT ZERO (St Martins Press 2009), which is in development for TV by Sony Pictures; THE WOLFMAN (February 2010, Tor; based on the Universal Pictures film starring Benecio Del Toro, Emily Blunt and Sir Anthony Hopkins), THE DRAGON FACTORY (March 2010, St Martins Griffin), THE KING OF PLAGUES (2011), ROT & RUIN (2010, Simon & Schuster) and DUST & DECAY (2011).

His nonfiction works include VAMPIRE UNIVERSE (Citadel Press, 2006), and THE CRYPTOPEDIA (Citadel, 2007 –winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction); and ZOMBIE CSU: The Forensics of the Living Dead (Winning of the Hinzman and Black Quill Awards and nominated for a Stoker Award; 2008) and THEY BITE! (2009). His next nonfiction book will be WANTED UNDEAD OR ALIVE (2010). He is also the author of THE VAMPIRE SLAYERS FIELD GUIDE TO THE UNDEAD (2001), written under the pen name of Shane MacDougall.

He writes a variety of projects for Marvel Comics involving BLACK PANTHER, WOLVERINE, DEADPOOL, THE X-MEN, FANTASTIC FOUR and MARVEL ZOMBIES RETURN. Jonathan’s next projects are DOOMWAR, scheduled as a major Marvel event; and MARVEL: INFECTED –both scheduled to launch in early 2010. Graphic novel collections of POWER, DOOMWAR, and INFECTED will be released in 2010.

Recent short stories include “Pegleg and Paddy Save the World” (HISTORY IS DEAD, Permuted Press 2007), “Doctor Nine” (KILLERS, Swimming Kangaroo Press, 2008; and reprinted in THE STORIES (in) BETWEEN Edited by Greg Schauer, Jeanne B. Benzel, and W.H. Horner. Fantasist Enterprises, 2009), “Th

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