Bewilderness: A Science Fiction Horror Thriller

by Jonathan Maberry

Genres: Horror, Science Fiction

466 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 11, 2026

About the author

JONATHAN MABERRY is a NYTimes bestselling author, #1 Audible bestseller, 5-time Bram Stoker Award-winner, 4-time Scribe Award winner, Inkpot Award winner, comic book writer, and producer. He is the author of more than 50 novels, 190 short stories, 16 short story collections, 30 graphic novels, 14 nonfiction books, and has edited 26 anthologies. His vampire apocalypse book series, V-WARS, was a Netflix original series starring Ian Somerhalder. His 2009-10 run as writer on the Black Panther comic formed a large chunk of the recent blockbuster film, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. His bestselling YA zombie series, Rot & Ruin is in development for film at Alcon Entertainment; and John Wick director, Chad Stahelski, is developing Jonathan’s Joe Ledger Thrillers for TV. Jonathan writes in multiple genres including suspense, thriller, horror, science fiction, epic fantasy, and action; and he writes for adults, teens and middle grade. His works include The Pine Deep Trilogy, The Kagen the Damned Trilogy, NecroTek, Ink, Glimpse, the Rot & Ruin series, the Dead of Night series, The Wolfman, X-Files Origins: Devil’s Advocate, The Sleepers War (with Weston Ochse), Mars One, and many others. He is the editor of high-profile anthologies including Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird, The X-Files, Aliens: Bug Hunt, Out of Tune, Don’t Turn out the Lights: A Tribute to Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Baker Street Irregulars, Nights of the Living Dead, Shadows & Verse, and others. His comics include Marvel Zombies Return, The Punisher: Naked Kills, Wolverine: Ghosts, Godzilla vs Cthulhu: Death May Die, Bad Blood and many others. Jonathan has written in many popular licensed worlds, including Hellboy, True Blood, The Wolfman, John Carter of Mars, Sherlock Holmes, C.H.U.D., Diablo IV, Deadlands, World of Warcraft, Planet of the Apes, Aliens, Predator, Karl Kolchak, and many others. He the president of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, and the editor of Weird Tales Magazine. He lives in San Diego, California. Find him online at www.jonathanmaberry.com

Reviews

[Joan]

Abby Corman has built a gateway machine to parallel worlds but when she wants to be cautious in the testing before fully opening it she is fired. Her boss brings in a disgraced scientist who has already caused a horrific accident, looking for fame, they open it wide and the result is devastating. Hundreds are killed by the first pulse wave, Manhattan is in ruins and deadly creatures from parallel worlds start coming through killing many people in the building. A hunter calling Abby the Mother of None has come to kill her. Meanwhile, Abby's boyfriend David a former soldier has arrived at the building to save her. As each new pulse wave hits things go from bad to so much worse. Can Abby, her friend Rosa and others shut the Gateway and will David reach Abby in time? This is another awesome tale from Maberry that I highly recommend to fans of the Sci-fi/horror genres. I loved this book and I'm looking forward to the next books in the series.

[Mark Andersen]

Welcome to my Nightmare

Well, this actually went beyond any nightmare I've ever had. I was introduced to this author through a popular series that he writes. When I had read all of those I decided to delve into some of his other works. I read a three book series that was a lot of fun so when this one popped up I jumped right in. This one is so far out there that I thought it might be a little much however this author showed his storytelling skills by not only telling a great story but turning it into a real page turner that was hard to put down. And the end? Well it couldn't have ended any other way. If you like strange and creative then this is definitely the book for you.

[Christina]

An entertaining read after my last slog. I was on the fence because I am not a multiverse person but this was less about multiverse and more about the dangers that can become of the hubris of science. But isn’t that most of sci-fi gone wrong when humans own self interest and arrogance cause a cataclysmic event that we need to fix.

[Bethany McPherson]

This is my first Maberry book and I'm undecided. I'll likely finish the series but I wasn't drawn in.