Ed Kurtz

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books
  • First Book:
    April 2012
  • Latest Book:
    August 2023
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Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • Bleed

    When Walt Blackmore moves into an old gable front house on the outskirts of a small town, things are really looking up for him; he has an adoring girlfriend to whom he plans to propose, a new job teaching English at the local high school, and an alto...

  • A Wind of Knives

  • The Forty-Two

    It’s 1979 in New York City and Charley McCormick loves the Deuce -- 42nd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues -- more than anything in the world. He loves the peculiar low-budget movies. He loves the bizarre all-night circus of it all. But when a pre...

  • Control

    Leon Weissmann is an introverted loner with no control over his life. His only joy is the menagerie of insects, spiders, and scorpions he tends to in his garage. When he acquires an illegally poached rainforest spider, he unknowingly contracts a rare...

  • Blight Digest

    Debut horror fiction digest featuring stories by Ed Kurtz, Kealan Patrick Burke, Burke, Kealan Patrick, Nick Medina, Michael Bailey, John Boden, Jonathan Woodrow, Jessie Volks, MP Johnson, Sandra Seamans, and Lucas Mangum....

  • Angel of the Abyss

    When Graham Woodard is hired to restore part of a previously lost silent horror film -- Angel of the Abyss -- the last thing he expects is the first in a series of murders clearly meant to keep it lost.

    With one-time friend Jake Maitland in...

  • Nausea

    Since the night he made an ill-advised decision to commit a pair of revenge killings, Nick has made his living as a professional murderer. Early on, he dispensed with guilt or emotion. But after a routine hit gets messy, Nick gets sick and the consci...

  • The Rib from Which I Remake the World

    “A smart, deep, black magic carnie noir existential bloodbath” from the acclaimed author of Boon (Gemma Files, Shirley Jackson Award"winning author).   In the shadow of World War II, the barren, dusty streets of Litchfield, Arkansas, are e...

  • Nothing You Can Do

    Sometimes people kill for profit, sometimes revenge, and sometimes they do it just for the fun of it…

    Here are seventeen tales of crime, murder, and vengeance from Ed Kurtz, author of The Rib From Which I Remake the World and Bleed, includi...



  • Nothing You Can Do: Stories

    Sometimes people kill for profit, sometimes revenge, and sometimes they do it just for the fun of it… Here are seventeen tales of crime, murder, and vengeance from Ed Kurtz, author of The Rib From Which I Remake the World and Bleed, including the a...

  • At the Mercy of Beasts

    From the author of Bleed and The Rib From Which I Remake the World comes a triptych of historical horror novellas. A pair of Texas oil men strike something more valuable than crude that turns avarice to murder—and summons...

  • Sawbones

  • Blood They Brought

    In Medieval Scotland, an English soldier endures a devastating battle only to discover what comes in the night for the blood of war. An itinerant rider chases a crooked dream to a grim finale in the bleak, lonely desert of Old West Texas. The last su...

  • Blood They Brought and Other Stories

    In Medieval Scotland, an English soldier endures a devastating battle only to discover what comes in the night for the blood of war. An itinerant rider chases a crooked dream to a grim finale in the bleak, lonely desert of Old West Texas. The last su...

  • The RANGER

    After a run-in with the cops at a punk show goes sideways, Chelsea and her pals flee the city in search of a place to lay low. Running to the security of Chelsea's old, abandoned family cabin in the woods, they fall under the watchful eye of an overz...

  • Boon

    No man is Boon's equal, no gun more lethal.Boonsri Angchuan travels the trails, riding from town to town with her one and only friend, a portly Arkansan drunkard named Edward Splettstoesser. She has done nothing else for years, her only goal being re...

  • Vengeance of Boon

    It’s been a decade since Boonsri Angchuan and Edward Splettstoesser parted ways in California at the bloody end of her original vengeance trail. Now, she finds herself in the middle of a South American war with a new partner to tell the tale, a you...

  • A Requiem for Boon

    The epic saga of Boon Angchuan ends——but not before she finally finishes her bloody quest.Edward Splettstoesser and Liliana Contreras have been on the trail together for the better part of a decade, searching for their long-lost friend ...

  • Horseblood

    Ten stories of America's tortured frontier past from the acclaimed author of A Wind of Knives and the Boon trilogy.A drifter gives everything he has to love a woman a cruel world won't let exist. A family battles hunger and grief against the worst po...



  • In the Cold, Cold Ground

    6 AUTHORS. 6 NOVELLAS.6 STATES OF HORROR IN NEW ENGLAND.Join William D. Carl, Kristin Dearborn, Ed Kurtz, Errick Nunnally, Kyle Rader, and Morgan Sylvia for six novellas-one for each state in New England-that explore the region from its haunted past ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ed Kurtz has published 20 books.

Ed Kurtz does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, In the Cold, Cold Ground, was published in August 2023.

The first book by Ed Kurtz, Bleed, was published in April 2012.

No. Ed Kurtz does not write books in series.
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