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Don’t Turn Out the Lights: A Tribute to Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Jonathan Maberry (Goodreads Author) (Editor),

D.J. MacHale (Goodreads Author),

R.L. Stine (Goodreads Author)

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Featuring stories from R.L. Stine and Madeleine Roux, this middle grade horror anthology, curated by New York Times bestselling author and master of macabre Jonathan Maberry, is a chilling tribute to Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.

Flesh-hungry ogres? Brains full of spiders? Haunted houses you can’t escape? This collection of 35 terrifying stories from t ...more

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Nov 19, 2020 megs_bookrack rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Don't Turn Out the Lights is a Middle Grade Horror anthology curated by bestselling author, Jonathan Maberry, as a tribute to Alvin Schwartz's, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.

The collection is comprised of 35-spine tingling tales, penned by an impressive list of authors!

I know what some of you may be thinking, Middle Grade though?

I can assure you, quite of few of these stories legit creeped me out. They're quick, fun and each one left me wanting to continue.

There really is something for ever ...more

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Oct 23, 2020 Sadie Hartmann rated it it was amazing

Shelves: middle-grade

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What a fantastic idea for an anthology! A tribute to one of the most iconic spooky short story collections for all ages. DON'T TURN OFF THE LIGHTS edited by Jonathan Maberry is presented by The Horror Writers Association and published by Harper Collins.

To say I grew up reading SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK is a bit of an understatement. My mom is a major Horror Hound and our home library was filled with adult, young adult, ...more

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Aug 27, 2020 Samantha rated it really liked it

A delightfully creepy tribute to Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.

If you’re anything like me, you were simultaneously fascinated by and terrified of Schwartz’s Scary Stories books. They were fantastic for scaring yourself silly, and many of them still send shivers down my spine when I think of them now as an adult (The girl with the green ribbon! That one where the head falls down the chimney!)

Don’t Turn Out the Lights is a satisfying homage to Schwartz’s work. Like all collec ...more

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Oct 17, 2021 AziaMinor rated it liked it

Shelves: owned-and-finished, no-romance, i-am-the-bad-guy

Overall Rating : B

"But don't forget, the kid we used to be is still alive in all of us. And the civilized part of us is only one power failure, one bad storm, one unexplainable moment of strangeness away from being a primitive and terrified caveman."

35 cute, chilling, and downright freaky stories for the terrified child in all all of us. Made me so nostalgic of the ghost stories from my age. I would definitely recommend this if you want to be transported back to when you first picked up a story ...more

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Oct 02, 2020 Liana Grace rated it liked it

Short story collections are tricky to rate. I chose only 3 stars because some stories fell flat, however, other stories I loved. This is definitely a fun, nostalgic read if you grew up with the original Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.

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Jan 02, 2021 Armand rated it liked it

Shelves: horror, anthology, childrens, read-2021

This tribute to Schwartz's seminal Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Trilogy diverges quite a bit from the original. The tone and style of the narration is different, dispensing with the whimsy and creepy charm of its source to present tales aimed at a slightly older audience. They're longer too, and there are very few of the ditties and storytelling prompts which made the former unique. Some are also unabashedly contemporary, dealing with current technologies like SMS and emails. One spirit eve ...more

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Aug 17, 2020 Irene Well Worth A Read rated it really liked it

"He reaches for me and I'm sure he plans to pull out my intestines and wear them like a scarf, but instead he pats my head."

When my son was in middle school I bought him the set of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. After he read them I did too. Don't Turn Out The Lights is exactly the kind of story collection that I would have bought for him when he was younger and that he would still keep on his book case now that he is grown. Whether you have kids or are a kid at heart these stories are a spo ...more

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Aug 30, 2020 TJL rated it it was amazing

Shelves: amazing-writing, great-plot-development, reviewed, this-book-scared-me, better-than-i-expected, wonderful-world-building, very-interesting, unique-concept, short-stories, horror

Glorious.

Perfection.

Amazing.

It invokes the original Scary Stories in a way that's both highly original and pays good homage to their forebears. Genuinely creepy, and none of the stories felt repetitive at all.

Highly recommend. ...more

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Oct 27, 2020 Jamesboggie rated it really liked it

Shelves: horror

I was excited to read Don’t Turn off the Lights. It is a tribute to Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and its sequels, and I love those books. I even like the stories as much as the gnarly pictures. When I saw a tribute anthology by the Horror Writers Association with authors like R.L. Stine and Tananarive Due, I knew I had to read it for Halloween.

I have mixed feelings. The first few stories disappointed me. I wonder if some of the stories were written independent of this project, without Scary ...more

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Oct 03, 2021 Rachelle rated it it was amazing

This was the perfect book to kick off the spooky season! Such creepy stories all told in honor of Schwartz's classic collection that is still one of my all time favorites. ...more

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Sep 24, 2021 Jennifer Bourque (ButterflyReader77) rated it really liked it

4 Stars

I am a huge fan of Alvin Schwartz's 1981 "Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark" and when I discovered this book "Don't Turn Out The Lights" was inspired by this classic I could not wait to read it and it definitely did not disappoint. The story offers thirty-five short stories by some of the best authors in the genre including R. L. Stine (a personal favourite), Brenna Yovanoff, Josh Malerman, D. J. McHale Margaret Stohl, and Kami Garcia. There were many authors that I have never read before 4 Stars

I am a huge fan of Alvin Schwartz's 1981 "Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark" and when I discovered this book "Don't Turn Out The Lights" was inspired by this classic I could not wait to read it and it definitely did not disappoint. The story offers thirty-five short stories by some of the best authors in the genre including R. L. Stine (a personal favourite), Brenna Yovanoff, Josh Malerman, D. J. McHale Margaret Stohl, and Kami Garcia. There were many authors that I have never read before that have piqued my interest and I will be looking at reading some of their books.

As with most short story anthologies I read, I encounter the odd few stories that don't quite captivate my attention and unfortunately my least favourite story of the book was "The Cries of the Cat" by Josh Malerman. I was excited to read a short story by him and it left me feeling immensely disappointed. I love Josh Malerman and this particular story left much to be desired for me. This story did not intrigue me but it may be exactly what other readers are looking for, so still be sure to read it along with the rest of the stories in the book.

My favourite story of the entire anthology was "Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board" by Margaret Stohl. Margaret is one of my favourite authors and she collaborated with another author found in this book, Kami Garcia, for "Beautiful Creatures". I absolutely loved this story as it had a witchcraft element to it as opposed to just the horror elements. This story also reminded me of my one of my favourite movies "The Craft" so I may be somewhat biased on this one.

I would also like to mention the following stories as I really enjoyed all of these ones as well. They are "The Knock-Knock Man - Brenna Yovanoff", "The Neighbor - Amy Lukavics", "The Painted Skin - Jamie Ford", "The Green Grabber - D. J. McHale, "The Ghost in Sam's Closet - R. L. Stine", and "Pretty Girls Make Graves - Tonya Hurley" (my second favourite story of the entire anthology). The authors Amy Lukavics, Jamie Ford, and Tonya Hurley are all new for me and I am unquestionably looking forward to see what else they have to offer.

"Don't Turn Out The Lights" has something for all fans of the genre including haunted houses, haunted portraits, monsters, ghosts, murder and mayhem just to name a few. If you like creepy, but not overly gruesome or scary, this book is a must read. It is definitely inspired by "Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark" as the stories follow the same premise. Alvin Schwartz would be proud of his legacy and the road he paved for the future of horror anthologies. ...more

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May 01, 2021 ✦BookishlyRichie✦ rated it liked it

3 STARS!!!

I’ve had a big issue for the past couple of years with Middle-Grade horror being too light and even though I think this is classified as YA because of mentions the use of curse words and alcohol, these felt like they were purposefully written for children but watered down EVEN more, which I hate. If you’re going to write any type of horror, whether it’s MG, YA, or Adult, if you’re aim isn’t to scare the crap out of someone, what’s the freaking point?

I understand these were written as a ...more

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Mar 01, 2021 Mehsi rated it really liked it

Shelves: the-butler-did-it, octarine, i-see-dead-people, warning-english-books, holidays-festivities, children-s-books, 4-twinkling-stars, don-t-turn-off-the-lights

A spooky anthology with stories from various pretty well-known authors. I really had fun reading it and flew through the pages.

I have to say that I think it is hilarious how I am not a fan of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark I just love all these tribute books that are popping up. The tribute books do know how to tell a story, don’t just build it up and then suddenly the story is over, and they just weren’t scary. I know I read the book when I was an adult, but hello I grew up with Goosebumps, A spooky anthology with stories from various pretty well-known authors. I really had fun reading it and flew through the pages.

I have to say that I think it is hilarious how I am not a fan of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark I just love all these tribute books that are popping up. The tribute books do know how to tell a story, don’t just build it up and then suddenly the story is over, and they just weren’t scary. I know I read the book when I was an adult, but hello I grew up with Goosebumps, with Fear Street, with other horror stuff that scared the crap out of me, SStTitD just wasn’t anywhere in the league of those and I know as a kid I would have been really disappointed with it as well.

Back to this book, this one features 35 stories that feature haunted houses, social media and dolls, witches, murder, and much much more. Some of the stories are quite short others are much longer. I definitely loved reading them and with the excerption of a couple stories most felt like complete stories that often scared the wits out of me! Haha, definitely not the book to read at night but that is when I read it. One of my favourite stories would definitely be the Pretty Girls Make Graves, OH BOY. I loved how most of the stories had a scary ending, something to leave you screaming or something that scared the wits out of you.

Oh, and the Green Grabber? That one could have used an extra subtitle (something like x time later at x place), as I thought the story was over after x happened but instead it continued. That had me looking on the internet if something was wrong with my ecopy. But all I could find is that it was correct.

I loved the various authors that participated in this book and was happy to see several names that I recognised.

I do wonder why several stories were about naughty kids and them getting killed/murdered/in trouble/losing their legs for something naughty. I mean every kid does something naughty in their lives. That is how kids are. Even adults can be naughty. Why is it such a bad thing? I mean, given that most of the naughty things meant staying out late or calling someone a jerk it seemed too much, too excessive.

There were at least two stories that really had me wondering why they were added (I may have one or two more but these two really stood out in my eyes). One is the Sam’s closet story and the other is the story about someone rapping on the tent. Both weren’t that scary but were decent to read, but than had the most anticlimatic and horrible ending ever. They are in the midst of all the spookiness, ghosts, whistling in a graveyard, and it just doesn’t feel right to have them in here. I would have rather had two other stories that were scary.

The illustrations varied from OK to WOW to NOPE NOPE NOPE flips Kindle closed. Haha. I really want to check out more of the illustrations by this illustrator.

All in all, if you want some spooky and scary stories? Be sure to check out this book!

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Sep 10, 2020 Sara Planz rated it it was amazing

Definitely not just for kids. These stories were very much in the vein of Alvin Schwartz and repeatedly gave me the creepy crawlies.

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Oct 19, 2020 Peacegal rated it liked it

The SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK series, with its folklore-influenced stories, jump scares, and chilling illustrations, was a formative part of my reading life in childhood. I had no idea how many others have such strong memories of this series until recently, when I watched a documentary of the history and influence of the books. And now we have this, a book that attempts to capture the spirit of the short story collections.

While DON'T TURN OUT THE LIGHTS may be a tribute, it actually rem ...more

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Jun 18, 2022 Amy the book-bat rated it liked it

Shelves: suspense, audiobooks, young-adult, short-stories-and-essays, witches-wizards, ghosts, read-in-2022, tower-teams-9

I loved the concept of this short story collection. I loved Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark when I was a kid, so a book of scary stories by current authors that was inspired by the original Scary Stories book was definitely something I wanted to read.
As with any short story collection, some stories were better than others. It was a fun way to spend the afternoon. Might be more fun if being read around a campfire while on a camping trip. I think older middle grade and young adult readers will p ...more

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Jul 12, 2020 Kylie Summers rated it it was amazing

This is a very creepy collection of scary stories for young readers. It is a tribute to Alvin Schwartz’s very spooky anthology series “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.”

There are stories by some of my favorite horror writers from childhood, such as R.L. Stine and more contemporary ones such as Amy Lukavics.

The stories are all quite eerie and unnerving, much like the stories in Scary Stories to tell in the Dark, which creeped me out as a kid.

From haunted houses and ghostly hauntings, to creep ...more

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Oct 06, 2020 Rachael Fryman added it

Shelves: 2020, own-read

Six word summary: Tons of perfectly spooky short stories!

Loved: I loved the variety of the stories. While I would have loved even more variety in cultural lore, I enjoyed what was included! I think there will be several stories in this collection for every reader, especially for young fans of Scary Stories to Tell in the dark! Also, the illustrations are top notch and very reminiscent of the books that inspired this collection!

Favorite Stories:
The Funeral Portrait by Laurent Linn
Knock Knock M ...more

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Oct 02, 2020 orangerful rated it really liked it

Shelves: middle-grade-elementary, children-s-fiction, middle-school, short_stories, suspense, horror, supernatural

Getting in the mood for the spooky season, I picked up this colletion of short scary stories for middle grade readers. I was a BIG fan of the 'Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark' trilogy as a kid. This collection is just as creepy and terrifying as those stories were. Ghosts in the woods, monsters in the closet, and other creepy creatures lurk on every page. I'm not going to lie - I went to bed after reading a few stories and found myself genuinely spooked as I sat in the dark!

If you or your kid ...more

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Sep 04, 2020 Jocelyn rated it really liked it

Shelves: horror, childrens-books, short-stories, 2020-lust

3.5 rounded up. This is a great anthology and really honors the spirit of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Some stories are stronger than others, but they're all fun! I would give this to any pre-teen in my life who liked to get a bit spooky. ...more

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Sep 28, 2021 Grace W rated it really liked it

Shelves: childrens-book, horror

It’s always hard to rate a book of short stories but for the most part these are good and spooky while also being ok for middle grade kids!

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May 08, 2022 journalofhorror rated it really liked it

I have to say, some of these stories genuinely creeped me out. Really good short horror story collection and rightfully a tribute to Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark. Well done!

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May 18, 2021 Max Hadraba is currently reading it

this book is such a good book to read if you like scary stories

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Feb 16, 2022 Michelle {Book Hangovers} rated it really liked it

Nostalgic…Delightful…and Oh, sooo spooky!

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Sep 12, 2020 B. rated it it was amazing

As someone who grew up with the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark trilogy, I feel like this anthology is for those of us who are a certain age and who still like getting spooked. There are no duds in this collection however, some tales are truly more disturbing than others. My favorites of Don’t Turn Out the Lights are “The Carved Bear” by Brendan Reichs, “Tag, You’re It” by N.R. Lambert, “Lint Trap” by Jonathan Auxier, “The Green Grabber” by D.J. MacHale and “Pretty Girls Make Graves” by Tonya ...more

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Sep 30, 2021 Melanie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: horror, spooky, young-adult, paranormal, short-stories, audiobook, middle-grade, supernatural

5 🌟 | What a fun and creepy ride! This one is full of nostalgic vibes 🤗👻😧🎃👹 Be warned, some of these are truly terrifying 😈☠️

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Aug 28, 2020 Nicole Amburgey rated it liked it

2.5 Stars

I can’t tell you how much it kills me, absolutely kills me, to rate this book as just “ok.” Everything about it should have been 5 stars – A great author as editor? Check. Tribute to Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark? Check. A fantastic stable of writers? Check. And yet… This anthology really missed the mark for me.

My issues mostly lay with the unevenness of the collection. The book is marketed as YA horror and some of the stories are, but some are written to a very young middle-grade m ...more

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Jul 23, 2021 Rachel rated it did not like it

Recommends it for: No one

Recommended to Rachel by: Myself

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This book in a nutshell was a disappointment. Think "Buddy the Elf thinking he's going to meet the real Santa at the mall" level disappointment.

I was ready to rip some fake beards off, lemme tell you.

WELL this was hideous.

And not even in a good way.

Honestly, the stories were bland and dumb. Mostly I found myself wondering why many of these writers even bothered...or if they bothered at all.

The writing was flaccid - most of the time the authors seemed to be parroting back a half-ba ...more

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Jul 12, 2020 Elle rated it it was amazing

Thank you to NetGalley for allowing me to read an Advanced Reader Copy of this collection in exchange for my honest review. Don't Turn Out the Lights is a beautifully done tribute to Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. It is edited by one of the masters of horror, Jonathan Mabery. There are a total of 35 original short stories written by an absolutely amazing assortment of authors, including some of my personal favorites such as DJ McHale, Josh Malerman, Kami Garcia, Madeline Rou ...more

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Aug 21, 2020 Magdalena rated it really liked it

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The subtitle and a somewhat lengthy editor’s foreword at the beginning of this book introduces it as a tribute to Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series, and as such, it’s sure to attract a lot of eager readers. Although the book as a whole is much longer than the immensely popular Scary Stories books, and most of the individual short stories are longer than Schwartz’s stories, too, it’s still similar enough in genre and appeal f The following is copied and pasted from my blog.

The subtitle and a somewhat lengthy editor’s foreword at the beginning of this book introduces it as a tribute to Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series, and as such, it’s sure to attract a lot of eager readers. Although the book as a whole is much longer than the immensely popular Scary Stories books, and most of the individual short stories are longer than Schwartz’s stories, too, it’s still similar enough in genre and appeal factors that I would absolutely recommend it to children who’ve already read (and thoroughly enjoyed) all of the Scary Stories books, especially if they’re ready for something slightly more advanced. The foreword also implied that this book is not just for kids, but since the protagonists are mostly preteens and the reading level is at an upper-elementary-school level, I expect that this book will be most popular with fourth and fifth graders.

As you would expect from a multi-author short story collection like this, the thirty-five stories vary widely in style and tone. They even vary a little in terms of target audience and sub-genre. For example, there are several stories like The Skelly-Horse by T.J. Wooldridge that describe a scary, ghostly creature without including much of a plot, but other stories like The Green Grabber by D.J. MacHale, The Neighbor by Amy Lukavics, and Lint Trap by Jonathan Auxier are much longer with detailed plotlines and, in some cases, twist endings. There are stories about cursed objects and stories about haunted houses, but then there are a few with sci-fi vibes like The Open Window by Christopher Golden and The Tall Ones by Madeleine Roux. Umbrella Man by Gary A. Braunbeck and In Stitches by Michael Northrop almost sound more like urban legends than literary short stories. And Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board by Margaret Stohl is based on the common slumber party game, but told in a narrative story fashion with its own characters.

My personal favorite was probably Pretty Girls Make Graves by Tonya Hurley. The main character Mona is an unpopular middle school girl who talks the cheerleaders into coming over for a sleepover by promising that they’ll do makeovers. Her mom is a professional makeup artist. She’s been forbidden to ever use her mother’s work makeup, but, lured by the promise of popularity, she sneaks it out of her mother’s room and uses it on all of her guests. But it turns out that she didn’t know as much as she thought she did about her mother’s job and what that makeup was for.

A close second was Tag, You’re It by N.R. Lambert, in which a boy is repeatedly tagged in online photos with a creepy doll-like creature. At first, he thinks the pictures are bizarre recreations of his own photos, but then he realizes that he’s in the background in all of them. The doll is stalking him and posting pictures of him. This continues happening even when he thinks he’s alone.

I can’t honestly say that I loved each and every one of the stories, but that’s beside the point. I can appreciate that this book contains enough variety that any reader who likes spooky stories will find at least a couple that match their personal favorite flavor of horror. While this book certainly won’t be topping my Best of the Year list, it’s well worth reading and absolutely deserves a space on the shelf in a library’s middle-grade fiction collection. ...more

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JONATHAN MABERRY is a New York Times best-seller and Audible #1 bestseller, five-time Bram Stoker Award-winner, anthology editor, comic book writer, executive producer, magazine feature writer, playwright, and writing teacher/lecturer. He is the editor of WEIRD TALES Magazine and president of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers. He is the recipient of the Inkpot Award, three Scri JONATHAN MABERRY is a New York Times best-seller and Audible #1 bestseller, five-time Bram Stoker Award-winner, anthology editor, comic book writer, executive producer, magazine feature writer, playwright, and writing teacher/lecturer. He is the editor of WEIRD TALES Magazine and president of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers. He is the recipient of the Inkpot Award, three Scribe Awards, and was named one of the Today’s Top Ten Horror Writers. His books have been sold to more than thirty countries. He writes in several genres including thriller, horror, science fiction, epic fantasy, and mystery; and he writes for adults, middle grade, and young adult.

Jonathan is the creator, editor and co-author of V-WARS, a shared-world vampire anthology from IDW Publishing that was adapted into a NETFLIX series starring Ian Somerhalder (LOST, VAMPIRE DIARIES).

His young adult fiction includes ROT & RUIN (2011; was named in Booklist’s Ten Best Horror Novels for Young Adults, an American Library Association Top Pick, a Bram Stoker and Pennsylvania Keystone to Reading winner; winner of several state Teen Book Awards including the Cricket, Nutmeg and MASL; winner of the Cybils Award, the Eva Perry Mock Printz medal, Dead Letter Best Novel Award, and four Melinda Awards); DUST & DECAY (winner of the 2011 Bram Stoker Award; FLESH & BONE (winner of the Bram Stoker Award; 2012; and FIRE & ASH (August 2013). BROKEN LANDS, the first of a new spin-off series, debuted in 2018 and was followed by LOST ROADS in fall 2020. ROT & RUIN is in development for film by ALCON ENTERTAINMENT and was adapted as a WEBTOON (a serialized comic formatted for cell phones), becoming their #1 horror comic.

His novels include the enormously popular Joe Ledger series from St. Martin’s Griffin (PATIENT ZERO, 2009, winner of the Black Quill and a Bram Stoker Award finalist for Best Novel) and eleven other volumes, most recently RELENTLESS. His middle grade novel, THE NIGHTSIDERS BOOK 1: THE ORPHAN ARMY (Simon & Schuster) was named one the 100 Best Books for Children 2015. His standalone novels include MARS ONE, GLIMPSE, INK, GHOSTWALKERS (based on the DEADLANDS role-playing game), X-FILES ORIGINS: DEVIL’S ADVOCATE, and THE WOLFMAN --winner of the Scribe Award for Best Movie Adaptation

His horror novels include The Pine Deep Trilogy from Pinnacle Books (GHOST ROAD BLUES, 2006, winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel and named one of the 25 Best Horror Novels of the New Millennium; DEAD MAN’S SONG, 2007; and BAD MOON RISING, 2008; as well as DEAD OF NIGHT, and its sequels, FALL OF NIGHT, DARK OF NIGHT, and STILL OF NIGHT.

His epic fantasy series, KAGEN THE DAMNED debuts in May 2022. And he just signed to co-author (with Weston Ochse) a new series of military science fiction novels that launches the SLEEPERS series. Jonathan will also be launching a new series of science fiction horror novels for the newly established Weird Tales Presents imprint of Blackstone Publishing.

He is also the editor of three THE X-FILES anthologies; the dark fantasy anthology series, OUT OF TUNE; SCARY OUT THERE, an anthology of horror for teens; and the anthologies ALIENS: BUG HUNT, NIGHTS OF THE LIVING DEAD (with George Romero), JOE LEDGER UNSTOPPABLE (with Bryan Thomas Schmidt); two volumes of mysteries: ALTERNATE SHERLOCKS and THE GAME’S AFOOT (with Michael Ventrella); and ALIENS V PREDATOR: ULTIMATE PREY (with Bryan Thomas Schmidt). He is also the editor of DON’T TURN OUT THE LIGHTS, the official tribute to SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK. His next anthology will be ALIENS VS PREDATOR: ULTIMATE PREY (with Bryan Thomas Schmidt), debuting in spring 2022.

Jonathan was an expert on the History Channel documentary series, ZOMBIES: A Living History and TRUE MONSTERS. And he was participated in the commentary track for NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: REANIMATED.

His many nonfiction works include VAMPIRE UNIVERSE (Citadel Press, 2006); THE CRYPTOPED ...more