JONATHAN MABERRY is a New York Times bestselling author, 5-time Bram Stoker Award-winner, 3-time Scribe Award winner, Inkpot Award winner, anthology editor, writing teacher, and comic book writer. His vampire apocalypse book series, V-WARS, was a Netflix original series starring Ian Somerhalder. He 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 Joe Ledger thrillers, Kagen the Damned, Ink, Glimpse, the Rot & Ruin series, the Dead of Night series, The Wolfman, X-Files Origins: Devil\u2019s Advocate, Mars One, and many others. Several of his works are in development for film and TV. He is the editor of high-profile anthologies including The X-Files, Aliens: Bug Hunt, Out of Tune, Don\u2019t Turn out the Lights: A Tribute to Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Baker Street Irregulars, Nights of the Living Dead, and others. His comics include Black Panther: DoomWar, The Punisher: Naked Kills and Bad Blood. His Rot & Ruin young adult novel was adapted into the #1 comic on Webtoon and is being developed for film by Alcon Entertainment. 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An action-packed graphic novel with art by Dave Acosta (<\/strong>Elvira, Mistress of the Dark<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<\/strong>TERRORWAR<\/strong><\/em>) and colors by Zac Atkinson (<\/strong>Young Justice<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<\/strong>Kolchak: The Night Stalker<\/strong><\/em>).<\/strong><\/p>\n In their first comic book adventure, Mr. Church sends Ledger and Violin on a case involving a bizarre kind of human trafficking. People\u2014mostly young and innocent\u2014are being found dead all across the U.S. Drained of blood but also missing key internal organs\u2014brains and hearts. Their bodies are marked with strange symbols from ancient religions and the deaths have all the earmarks of some deadly kind of human sacrifice.<\/p>\n But there is much more to it than that. Some of the sacrificed dead have since vanished from morgues and funeral homes. Staff at those places are found torn to pieces\u2026and their organs are missing, too.<\/p>\n Ledger and Violin have to go deep into the darkness to find out what\u2019s happening and who is behind this\u2026and every step of the way ratchets up the danger and the terror.<\/p>\n