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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2010
  • Latest Book:
    November 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Savage Species

1 - Night Terrors (Jun-2013)
2 - Children (Jun-2013)
3 - Dark Zone (Jul-2013)
4 - Arena (Jul-2013)
5 - The Old One (Jul-2013)

Book List in Order: 25 titles



  • On a cool October night at the Starlight Cinema, an all-night horror movie triple feature is about to begin: Witching Hour Theatre. It's the one exciting thing in Larry Wilson's life, not counting the lovely brunette who works the concession stand. S...





  • Horace Yoder thinks he's got the perfect scam. All he has to do is pretend to have been kicked out of an Amish order, get a job on a local farm and when the family is asleep steal their valuables and resell them for a tidy profit. Unfortunately for Y...




  • Travis Coble didn’t kill and eat his family. At least that’s what a jury decided twenty years ago. But like Lizzie Borden, Travis Coble was branded guilty by an angry public and consigned to a life of suspicious whispers and sidelong stares. Now,...



  • The blood of the innocent is the ultimate sacrifice. The old house waited. For years there had been rumors that the owner, Lilith Martin, had been part of an unholy cult. People spoke of blasphemous rituals, black rites filled with blood, sex…an...



  • Peaceful Valley is about to become a slaughterhouse! The construction of the Peaceful Valley Nature Preserve, a sprawling, isolated state park, has stirred an evil that has lain dormant for nearly a century, and all the men, women and children un...



  • Peaceful Valley is about to become a slaughterhouse! Jesse thinks he’s caught a break when he, the girl of his dreams, and her friend are assigned by their newspaper to cover the opening weekend of the Peaceful Valley Nature Preserve, a sprawli...



  • Peaceful Valley is about to become a slaughterhouse! The construction of the Peaceful Valley Nature Preserve, a sprawling, isolated state park, has stirred an evil that has lain dormant for nearly a century, and all the men, women and children un...






  • Peaceful Valley is about to become a slaughterhouse! The construction of the Peaceful Valley Nature Preserve, a sprawling, isolated state park, has stirred an evil that has lain dormant for nearly a century, and all the men, women and children un...



  • Peaceful Valley is about to become a slaughterhouse! For the first time ever, Samhain Publishing will serialize a terrifying original novel, Savage Species, in five installments, with new installments coming every two weeks. The construction ...



  • Beware when the vampires come to town! When traveling actors recruited his wife for a plum role, Cody Wilson had no idea they would murder her. Twelve-year-old Willet Black was just as devastated the night the fiends slaughtered everyone he loved...



  • You can't escape the creature in the catacombs! A year ago composer Ben Shadeland traveled to the Sorrows, a reportedly haunted island off the California coast, to find inspiration for a horror movie music score. Instead, he found madness, murder, ...





  • An unholy predator on the prowl! The small town of Lakeview offers little excitement for Duane, Savannah, and their friends. They're about to endure their ten-year high school reunion when their lives are shattered by the arrival of an ancient, venge...



  • Will Burgess is used to hard knocks. Abandoned by his father, son of a drug-addicted mother, and charged with raising his six-year-old sister, Will has far more to worry about than most high school freshmen. To make matters worse, Mia Samuels, the gi...



  • "A perfect choice for those missing old-school Stephen King." --The Library Journal on Children of the Dark "A horror storyteller on the rise." --Booklist "One of the best writers in modern horror to come along in the last decade. Janz is one of my n...



  • It's dangerous out there...on the road. The highways, byways and backroads of America are teeming day and night with regular folks. Moms and dads making long commutes. Teenagers headed to the beach. Bands on their way to the next gig. Truckers pu...






  • "Worth every bit of praise it has received so far, The Siren and the Specter should definitely be on your top 10 list of horror books." -- The Splatter GeistGoodreads Choice Award finalist for Best HorrorWhen David Caine, a celebrated skeptic of th...




  • "In his latest pulp horror gem, Janz channels early Stephen King to twist the story of a secluded writers’ retreat into something unique and thought-provoking." - BooklistTen writers are selected for a summer-long writing retreat with the most cele...



  • “If you’re searching the horror horizon for a dark star, your next must-read, the silhouette you see coming your way is Jonathan Janz." - Josh Malerman, New York Times best selling author of Bird Box and Malorie Fearing that mankind is heading to...



  • “If you’re searching the horror horizon for a dark star, your next must-read, the silhouette you see coming your way is Jonathan Janz.” -- Josh Malerman, New York Times best selling author of Bird BoxBook 2 in The Raven seriesThree years ago t...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jonathan Janz has published 25 books.

Jonathan Janz does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Dismembered, was published in November 2022.

The first book by Jonathan Janz, Witching Hour Theatre, was published in April 2010.

Yes. Jonathan Janz has 1 series.