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Janey in Amber: A woman visiting her mother's house encounters some uncomfortable realities about her own life.
Santos del Infierno: In a tale set in the world of Clive Barker's "Hellbound Hearts" (Hellraiser), a man loses his family and gains a new friend—one with a dark agenda.
The Strip: At the edge of a city plagued by zombies, a small community gathers to try to watch out for one another's humanity. But when it goes, it's gone...
Nine short works of terror by award-winning novelist and comic book writer Jeffrey J. Mariotte (The Slab, The Devil's Bait, the Dark Vengeance Quartet, Missing White Girl, River Runs Red, Cold Black Hearts, four 30 Days of Night novels, and more). Some of these stories have appeared in Hellbound Hearts, The Stories in Between, and Zombie Cop, while others are published here for the first time.
Reviewer TT Zuma, writing in Horror World, called Mariotte, "one of the most talented horror writers plying his trade today." Bestselling author Don Winslow (Savages) said, "Mariotte can flat-out write." Christopher Golden (Waking Nightmares) said, "Mariotte's a hell of a writer," and Brian Keene (The Last Zombie) called him "One of the best storytellers in the business." Download this e-book exclusive collection of 50,000+ words of terrifying and spellbinding fiction and see why the stars are raving.
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About Jeff Mariotte
Jeffrey J. Mariotte is the bestselling, multiple-award-winning author of more than sixty novels, including original thrillers Empty Rooms and The Devil's Bait; supernatural thrillers Season of the Wolf, Cold Black Hearts, River Runs Red and Missing White Girl; horror epic The Slab; and Stoker Award-nominated teen horror quartet Year of the Wicked; as well as books set in the universes of Narcos, NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: New Orleans, Deadlands, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, CSI, Supernatural, Spider-Man, Superman, Las Vegas, Conan, 30 Days of Night, Star Trek, and others. With his wife, writer Marsheila Rockwell, he's the author of the science fiction/horror/thriller 7 SYKOS and Mafia III: Plain of Jars, and numerous works of short fiction.
He is also the author of many comic books, including the original Western series Desperadoes, some of which have been nominated for Stoker and International Horror Guild awards. The miniseries Desperadoes: Buffalo Dreams was chosen as the Best Western Comic Book of 2007 by True West Magazine. Other comics work includes the bestselling Presidential Material: Barack Obama, an original miniseries based on TV series The Shield, original graphic novel Zombie Cop, the original miniseries Garrison and Fade to Black, and many more.
He has held many jobs in the publishing industry, including bookstore manager and owner, VP of marketing at WildStorm Productions/Image Comics, senior editor at WildStorm Productions/DC Comics, and editor-in-chief at IDW Publishing. He is a member of the International Thriller Writers, Sisters in Crime, the Western Writers of America, Western Fictioneers, and the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers. Learn more about him at jeffmariotte.com and follow him on Facebook at facebook.com/JeffreyJMariotte and on Twitter at @JeffMariotte.
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