ELKINS
PARK - LOCAL AUTHOR JONATHAN MABERRY
Pennsylvania author Jonathan Maberry, 47, has
landed a multi-book deal with Pinnacle Books for both fiction and
nonfiction. The first of three horror thrillers, Ghost Road Blues,
is scheduled for release in June of 2006, with the rest of the
trilogy following shortly after. Ghost Road Blues is set in a fictional
Bucks County town called Pine Deep, and is a big, sprawling epic
horror. Jonathan also sold a nonfiction book on the folklore and
mythology of monsters called VAMPIRE UNIVERSE: The Dark World of
Supernatural Beings That Haunt Us, Hunt Us, and Hunger for Us,
which is due in September of 2006, just in time for Halloween.
Even months before its release Ghost Road Blues had already started
generating great buzz, with dozens of films producers from companies
like Miramax, Mandalay, Dimension Films, and others all inquiring
about the availability of the film rights. Some of the top horror
writers in the business have come out in support of the novel,
including Katherine Ramsland, a horror novelist as well as a forensic
psychologist and advisor for CSI and COLD CASE. After reading an
advance copy of the book, Ramsland commented: "If I were asked
to select only one new voice in horror fiction to read today, it
would be Jonathan Maberry. Ghost Road Blues jumps so easily out
of his blend of words, images, and characters you hardly realize
you're reading a novel rather than watching a movie."
Jonathan Maberry has been a professional writer for over 25 years,
and is the author of hundreds of articles and short stories and
eleven nonfiction books. His first novel, a psychological thriller,
Tales from the Fire Zone is currently being serialized in the Bucks
County Review, an online literary magazine (www.buckscountyreview.com)
Maberry is the Executive Director of Career Doctor for Writers
(a program that offers live and online classes for writers, editorial
services, mentoring, and other services). He is also the former
Executive Director of the Writers Room of Bucks County (a nonprofit
writers education center); serves on the Board of Directors for
the Philadelphia Writers Conference, and is a frequent lecturer
at Arcadia, Princeton, Temple, Rosemont and other colleges. His
website is www.careerdoctorforwriters.com.
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VAMPIRE
UNIVERSE:
The Dark World of Supernatural Beings
That Haunt Us, Hunt Us, and Hunger for Us
By Jonathan Maberry
It’s scary out there in the dark. There are things that
move silently in the shadows, things that can see us even if we
can’t see them. Thing that hunger.
Things that bite.
Monsters of all kinds have been part of our human experience since men huddled
in caves. Since men first learned to articulate their fears they whispered
to each other about demons and evil spirits, about vampires and werewolves,
about ghosts and other spectral shapes that go bump in the night. Accounts
of supernatural predators of one kind or another date back to our earliest
written histories; and these beliefs are global. The ancient Assyrians and
Hebrews wrote of vampiric creatures; the oldest folk tales of Tibet, China,
India and the various native peoples of the Americas all have legends of predatory
monsters that possess vast supernatural powers and prey on humans for flesh,
for blood, even for the essence of life. There is no country, no culture, which
has not had legends of supernatural evil.
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