Bad Moon Rising [Paperback]

Jonathan Maberry (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2008

Each year, the residents of Pine Deep host the Halloween Festival, drawing tourists and celebrities from across the country to enjoy the deliciously creepy fun. Those who visit the small Pennsylvania town are out for a good time, but those who live there are desperately trying to survive...For a monstrous evil lives among them, a savage presence whose malicious power has grown too powerful even for death to hold it back. Only a handful of brave souls stand against the King of the Dead and a red wave of destruction. Daylight is fading and a bad moon is rising over Pine Deep. Keep watching the shadows...

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Review

''One of the best supernatural thrillers of recent years.'' --John Connolly, New York Times bestselling author --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

About the Author

JONATHAN MABERRY is the multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Ghost Road Blues, the first of a trilogy of thrillers with a supernatural bite. A professional writer and writing teacher, he has sold more than one thousand articles, seventeen nonfiction books, six novels, and two plays. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Pinnacle; First edition (May 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786018178
• ISBN-13: 978-0786018178
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #332,875 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

JONATHAN MABERRY is a New York Times best-selling and multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author, magazine feature writer, playwright, content creator and writing teacher/lecturer. His books have been sold to more than twenty countries.

His novels include the Pine Deep Trilogy: GHOST ROAD BLUES (Pinnacle books; winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel in 2006), DEAD MAN'S SONG (2007) and BAD MOON RISING (2008); the Joe Ledger series of action thrillers from St. Martins Griffin: PATIENT ZERO (2009, voted one Best Zombie Novel of 2009; winner of the Black Quill Award and a Bram Stoke Award finalist), THE DRAGON FACTORY (2010; now available), THE KING OF PLAGUES (2011), ASSASSIN'S CODE (2012), EXTINCTION MACHINE (2013); THE WOLFMAN (NY Times bestseller from Tor and winner of the Scribe Award for Best Adaptation, based on the Universal Pictures film starring Benecio Del Toro, Emily Blunt and Sir Anthony Hopkins); the Benny Imura series of Young Adult dystopian zombie thrillers from Simon & Schuster: ROT & RUIN (2010) and DUST & DECAY (August 30, 2011), FLESH & BONE (2012) and FIRE & ASH (2013); and the forthcoming zombie thriller DEAD OF NIGHT (October 2011). Watch the book trailer for DEAD OF NIGHT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czc4WmjY1yo

Jonathan will be featured in a History Channel special on zombies scheduled to air October 26.

His nonfiction works include: VAMPIRE UNIVERSE (Citadel Press, 2006), THE CRYPTOPEDIA (Citadel, 2007 -winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction; co-authored by David F. Kramer), ZOMBIE CSU: The Forensics of the Living Dead (Winner of the Hinzman and Black Quill Awards and nominated for a Stoker Award; 2008), THEY BITE! (2009 co-authored by David F. Kramer), WANTED UNDEAD OR ALIVE (2010 co-authored by Janice Gable Bashman), and THE VAMPIRE SLAYERS FIELD GUIDE TO THE UNDEAD (2001, written under the pen name of Shane MacDougall).

He writes a variety of projects for Marvel Comics involving BLACK PANTHER, DOOMWAR, WOLVERINE, DEADPOOL, CAPTAIN AMERICA, THE X-MEN, FANTASTIC FOUR and the NY Times bestselling MARVEL ZOMBIES RETURN, MARVEL UNIVERSE vs THE PUNISHER, and MARVEL UNIVERSE VS WOLVERINE. All of Jonathan's comic book collections will be released as Graphic Novel collections.

Recent short stories include "Pegleg and Paddy Save the World" (HISTORY IS DEAD, Permuted Press 2007), "Doctor Nine" (KILLERS, Swimming Kangaroo Press, 2008; and reprinted in THE STORIES (in) BETWEEN Edited by Greg Schauer, Jeanne B. Benzel, and W.H. Horner. Fantasist Enterprises, 2009), "The Adventure of the Greenbrier Ghost" (LEGENDS OF THE MOUNTAIN STATE 2, Bloodletting Books, 2008), "Clean Sweeps" (AND SO IT BEGINS, Dark Quest Books, 2008), "Family Business" (THE NEW DEAD, St. Martins Press, 2010), and "Zero Tolerance" (THE LIVING DEAD 2, Night Shade Books). Jonathan also created two Joe Ledger short stories for the Internet: "Countdown", "Deep, Dark", "Material Witness", "Zero Tolerance", and "Dog Days", all available on audio from Blackstone.

Jonathan is the co-creator (with Laura Schrock) of ON THE SLAB, an entertainment news show in development by Stage 9 for ABC Disney / Stage 9. He was also a 'blog correspondent' on Sony's zombie-themed web show 'WOKE UP DEAD'; and a recurring character on 'IT'S TODD'S SHOW'.

Jonathan's Big Scary Blog (www.jonathanmaberry.com) focuses on the publishing industry. Jonathan's interviews include Charlaine Harris, Sandra Brown, Gayle Lynds, Alafair Burke, James Rollins, Harlan Coben, Jeff Abbott, John Saul, Jonathan Kellerman, Barry Eisler, Robert Kirkman, Maz Brooks, CJ Box, Laurell K. Hamilton, Jack Ketchum, Tom Piccarilli, Dale Brown, Kevin J. Anderson, Joe Lansdale, Peter Straub, Ramsey Campbell, and many other best-selling authors.

Jonathan is a Contributing Editor for The Big Thrill (the newsletter of the International Thriller Writers), and is a member of SFWA, IAMTW, MWA, SCBWI, SFWA and HWA. He is a frequent guest of honor and keynote speaker at genre cons and writers conferences, including Central Coast Writers, KillerCon, AnthoCon, Necon, ThrillerFest, Sisters in Crime, BackSpace, PennWriters, Dragon*Con, PhilCon, Horror-Realm, HorrorFind, Monster Mania, Philadelphia Writers Conference, Balticon, The Write Stuff, Hypericon, LunaCon, and many others.

Jonathan regularly visits local middle schools, high schools and colleges to talk about books, reading, publishing and the writing life.

Jonathan is a founding member of The Liars Club, a group of networking publishing professionals that includes celebrated authors Merry Jones, Gregory Frost, Jon McGoran, Ed Pettit, Dennis Tafoya, Keith Strunk, Don Lafferty, Kelly Simmons, Marie Lamba, Solomon Jones, Keith DeCandido, Sara Shepard, William Lashner, Laura Schrock, and the late L.A. Banks. The Liars Club works to support booksellers, raise awareness and support for public libraries, and cultivate a joy of reading and books.

On the last Sunday of every month Jonathan hosts the Writers Coffeehouse, a free three-hour open-agenda networking and discussion session for writers of all genres and levels of skill. The event is held at the Barnes & Noble in Willow Grove Pennsylvania.

Jonathan has been a popular writing teacher and career counselor for writers for the last two decades. He teaches a highly regard series of classes and workshops including Write Your Novel in Nine Months, Revise & Sell, Experimental Writing for Teens, and others. Many of his students have gone on to publish in short and novel-length fiction, magazine feature writing, nonfiction books, TV, film, and comics.

In 2004 Jonathan was inducted into the International Martial Arts Hall of Fame largely because of his extensive writings in that field. His martial arts books include Self-Defense for Every Woman (Vortex Multimedia, 1985); Introduction to Asian Martial Arts (Vortex Multimedia, 1986); The Self-Defense Instructor's Handbook (Vortex Multimedia, 1990); Judo and You (Kendall Hunt, 1991); Ultimate Jujutsu Principles and Practices (Strider Nolan, 2002); The Martial Arts Student Logbook (Strider Nolan, 2002); Ultimate Sparring Principles and Practices (Strider Nolan, 2003).

Visit his website at www.jonathanmaberry.com or find him on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and MySpace.

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very bad Halloween, May 6, 2008

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D. R. Wood (South Yarra, Victoria Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bad Moon Rising (Paperback)

Multiple Stoker Award winner Jonathan Maberry pulls off the near impossible in his latest novel, Bad Moon Rising (Pinnacle, 6 May 2008), the last in the Pine Deep trilogy - a truly satisfying ending to a horror epic. Far too often readers of multiple book series are left feeling just a little dissatisfied with the ending. That is not the case with Bad Moon Rising. Maberry, a highly talented new voice in storytelling, continues the breakneck pace of the first two novels, as the town of Pine Deep, Pennsylvania unknowingly awaits the Red Wave - an attack by a range of monsters as convincing as any in horror fiction. All on Halloween, in the town known as 'America's Haunted Holidayland'.

The cast of characters - good, evil, some possibly both - developed in the first two novels, Ghost Road Blues (Horror Writers Association's Stoker winner for Superior Achievement in a First Novel for 2006) and Dead Man's Song is fully utilised as the tension mounts to the point where the reader may find it necessary to place the book aside for some hours (a problem I had last encountered decades ago with Stephen King's Salem's Lot). There is incredible mayhem and death in this book - agonisingly described at times - but all in context and all to a level of realism often missed in the genre. Maberry's diverse background in the martial arts and other areas on the edges of our culture has been given full rein, proving the maxim a writer should write what they know.

Perhaps the most refreshing aspect of the trilogy is the way Maberry has worked in his deep knowledge of vampire and werewolf folkore to provide original takes on each of these monsters, which have been so abused and overused in recent fiction and film. As he points out in his Author's Note it is not often we read of a ghost who just doesn't know how to be a ghost. Enjoyably, here is a writer who convincingly tips his hat to some of horror's icons - both fictional and real.

One of the most evil villians recently created - Ubel Griswold - shares top billing with the brutal killer Karl Ruger, the cruelly violent Vic Wingate. Iron Mike Sweeney, a 14 year old who is not at all what he seems, the ghostly Bone Man, Malcom Crow, Val Guthrie, Saul Weinstock and the other heroes all appear fully formed and true to their destiny. Maberry plays no tricks - even the appropriately named Mayor, Terry Wolfe, acts out his role with not a hint of being out of character, or destiny.

But in the end, it's the story that counts - and this is a whopper. A mini-series would not do it justice. Over three books readers slowly learn to love and loathe many of the characters, to mourn their loss, to fear the villains and to imagine themselves in some of the situations. This empathy is a gift of the writer to the reader and is part of the spell that weaves it way from page one of Ghost Road Blues through the Epilogue of Bad Moon Rising.

Maberry is undoubtedly one of horror's rising new voices. He's prolific - one top of these novels he's producing four non-fiction volumes in as many years - and will publish a new series of bio-terrorism novels starting in 2009. Now's the time to get in on the ground floor - start this trilogy with Ghost Road Blues and you'll most likely be hooked.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More of Maberry's Gory Goodness, July 5, 2009

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Jamie "Mental Apparition" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bad Moon Rising (Paperback)

I just finished reading the third installation in Jonathan Maberry's Pine Deep trilogy and all I have to say is -damn! The level of violence and gore was off the charts in this book, it is probably the bloodiest, most cringe inducing story I have ever read.

Getting past the unsettling gore-fest, however, Bad Moon Rising was a wonderful and engaging novel which had me turning pages long into the night. The continuing story of Malcolm Crow, Val Guthrie, Mike Sweeny and company picks up on the same thread where Dead Man's Song left off. After Val's near death encounter with Boyd and Crow's flight from Dark Hollow the group finally begins to realize the extent of the evil brewing in their small Pennsylvania town. Things come to a head as Halloween and the "Red Wave" approach with the heroes casting around for some desperate foothold against the looming chasm of darkness.

Though I found the violence a bit over the top I did truly enjoy this book, it was a great closing to a thrill ride trilogy of blood, guts, and terrifying monsters. As always Jonathan Maberry's prose is a treat; he writes with a lurid and lyrical voice that is all his own. If you've read the first two novels, Ghost Road Blues and Dead Man's Song, then this is a MUST! If you haven't read any of the Pine Deep trilogy, then I highly recommend you add them to your reading list!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cliched title, but the ho hums stop there. This one is a keeper., February 17, 2011

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Child King - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bad Moon Rising (Kindle Edition)

I've recently gotten into Maberry and am gobbling up all his stuff now. I did the same thing when I discovered Cormac McCarthy and Gary Braver. Maberry definitely hasn't disappointed and his Pine Deep trilogy is just flat out awesome. The cons: Wordy, sometimes overwrought. Not much else I can say. This is good stuff. Pros: Characters and arcs that you grow to care about. Gore galore, but fairly unique and potent. This one is the most suspenseful of the trilogy and several chapters leaving you hanging on a thread while Maberry veers off to update another plotline. The "heroes" are likeable and, with some rare exception, act like everyday Joes thrown into extraordinary circumstances. The villains are extra dirty with a side of nasty and a cup of soul-deep evil thrown in, but they are fun to read about and most get their comeuppance. For those of you that want a freeway to get to your destination quickly, try McCarthy's later works or Ken Bruen's Jack Taylor series (both excellent in their own right). If you want a scenic route with a very enjoyable ride and lots to see and do, Maberry is your guy.