Mark Wheaton

Wraith

Alice awakes with no idea where she is and why there appear to be mercenaries tracking her down. She is found and aided by Este, a pathfinder making a living in the quake-ravaged Los Angeles. Together they battle their way across the US to find Alice's family, all while discovering why Alice is valued so highly by those chasing her.

The Quake Cities

In one volume for the first time is the complete Bones saga, presenting the occasionally heroic, easily distracted, yet ferociously loyal Pittsburgh police dog in nine tales of spellbinding mystery and Apocalyptic horror. In the five-part Early Years, the titular German shepherd's survival skills are honed as he faces down increasingly diabolical villains in the shadow of the coming Armageddon. Then in the four-part Apocalypse Saga, Bones confronts his destiny as devastating events conspire to decimate humanity and open the door to a new age."Trying to explain the Bones saga in a sound bite is all but impossible. Break it down into its constituent parts, and you'll end up with a soup of seemingly incompatible ingredients. Urban crime drama. Backwoods horror. Epic disaster thriller. Post-apocalyptic tragedy. Zombies. Mutants. Ghosts. Witches. Bigfoot. Put these elements in the hands of most writers and ask them to come up with something and you'll get a pungent mess, a lumpy broth that defies digestion. Like the sushi chef who knows how to serve the blowfish without poisoning his customer, you need a chef like Wheaton to make these flavors work.And work they do. The Bones saga thrills in a way very few horror series can: by surprising the reader. It's a sad truth that most genre fiction ends up being, by its nature, generic. Bones is anything but. I've read all nine Bones stories - from the twisted early horror yarns, through the chilling apocalypse trilogy, and on to the head-spinning Bigfoot coda - and couldn't even begin to predict where the tale would go from one story to the next.Even within the boundaries of each story, Bones chews up the rule book and leaves it shredded and slobbery. Freed from the predictable rhythms of narrative by his mute and reactionary lead character, Wheaton can introduce us to someone, immerse us in their life in a few deft paragraphs, let us follow them enough to share in their hopes and dreams, then destroy them utterly without pause or remorse. Through the impassive eyes of Bones, friend or foe alike, we're all just animals waiting to be hunted.It's a ruthless world, and Wheaton doesn't soften its edges with cutesy-poo anthropomorphism. Bones has no interior monologue, only instinct. He's heroic only in that he does what he's been trained for. He'll bond with you, help you, but, hey, if your eye gets torn out of its socket by a rabid seagull, you'd better believe he's going to gobble it up. There's an emotional distance in these stories that would be nihilistic if it weren't grounded in the animal kingdom. Forget Simba - this is the real circle of life." - From Dan Whitehead's introduction

Bones Omnibus

High school senior Rebecca "Bex" Koeltl is just trying to make it to graduation. But when her fellow seniors begin dying in seemingly unrelated incidents, Bex uncovers disturbing connections between their deaths, including that the teens believed they were haunted by long-dead relatives their own family members swear never existed. After Bex is visited by a malevolent specter of her own, she realizes she has to get the bottom of this horror before she's its next victim... "WHO HAUNTS YOU is the first book I've read that not only delivers an unsettling supernatural mystery, but also paints a fully realized, wholly moving portrait of the autistic teenage experience. A vital book that will make any neurodivergent young adult feel seen, heard, and understood."--Craig Perry, producer, Final Destination "I loved it. Wheaton has built a buzzsaw of a supernatural thriller here--scary, surprisingly emotional, and loaded with enough twists to keep you guessing till the final page. It's an all killer no filler thriller."--James Vanderbilt, screenwriter, Zodiac, Scream V-VI "An utterly readable teen murder tale with an intriguing twist and an endearing hero. Reminiscent of Los Duncan's classic suspense novel I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER..."--Kirkus Reviews

Who Haunts You

Fields of Wrath

When Dallas-area priest Father Billy Acosta, believes he's been shown a miracle by God, rather than be uplifted, ensuing weeks of doubt make him demand a second. Eventually driven mad by what he interprets as God's silence, he heads to his church's East Texas summer camp to massacre 99 kids - one at a time - to bring about Divine Intervention. Cut off from civilization, four 14 year-old campers - Phil, Mark, Faith and Maia - are forced to come of age as their friends begin dying in horrific fashion, convinced as they are that the Devil has come to Earth to slaughter the faithful...

Sunday Billy Sunday: a Memoir

A woman tries trying to find her way home in a world decimated by earthquakes, but there are people determined to stop her and harvest her DNA. Alice wakes up in the Los Angeles Quake Zone in 2025 having no idea how she got there. As her memories slowly return, she finds she's being hunted by several armed groups intent on capturing her alive. At the same time, Este, a survivor of the quakes that destroyed Los Angeles, makes a living as a pathfinder for salvage teams in the city. Este rescues Alice from her pursuers and learns there is something not quite right about her, Alice is convinced it is 2003. Aided by Este's occasional boyfriend Wilfredo and her dog Casey, Este and Alice try to evade those chasing Alice and discover why they value her so highly, all while trying to reunite her with her family as the earthquakes around the world grow worse.

When mankind is visited by Three Great Apocalypses, the only thing standing in their way is a feckless but loyal, easily distracted yet occasionally ferocious German shepherd named Bones, a one-time cadaver dog with the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police. This is his story. In BONES, our hero must battle a plague of dangerous parasites that brings the dead back to life with the goal of destroying the planet. SHEPHERD finds Bones is delivered to earthquake-devastated Los Angeles to hunt for survivors only to run afoul of armies of rage-driven rats and birds emerging from the rubble. And when mankind reaches its final hour and a pocket of surviving Indians are all that's left of humanity, it falls on Bones to save the species before civilization is wiped out forever in ALPHA.Three Apocalyptic novellas of nature run amok, three interwoven stories that feature a German shepherd at the center of the things, three stories with so much action you might just explode reading them.Includes prequel short story, MONGREL.Praise for Wheaton's FOUR NAILS IN THE COFFIN:"Remarkably character-driven...Wheaton rather convincingly showcases his talents as a writer of horror prose, taking his time to craft characters who are thoroughly fleshed out and engaging without holding off too long on the suspense...proves here to be a quite gifted storyteller undeniably worthy of an interested reader's time and attention." - Michael Compton, FANGORIA"Genuinely twisted and engrossing...may just leave you shaken for days." - Jessa Sobczuk, RUE MORGUE [referring to SUNDAY BILLY SUNDAY]"This is muscular, original fiction that marks the debut of an exciting new voice in the speculative/dark fantasy genre." - Michael Rowe, editor of the QUEER FEAR anthology series and co-author of TRIPTYCH OF TERROR"His tales are visceral, intellectual, and often grisly, but Wheaton never forgets that touch of humanity and wry humor which allow true horror to cut that much deeper to the bone." - Ken Plume, author, THERE'S A ZOMBIE IN MY TREEHOUSE"Wheaton's writing is haunting. Days, weeks, even months later, you will find your mind returning to his worlds. Stephen King is no longer my only addiction." - Todd Farmer, screenwriter, MY BLOODY VALENTINE IN 3D, forthcoming DRIVE ANGRY"Bones is fine example of quality, independent horror literature. A new take on the zombie outbreak story, it's a good, quick read, and well worth your time." - JON IS THE BEST [referring to BONES]"I kind of like dry humor and oddities (like the whole funyun scene cracked me up for some reason, yeah, so a kid died, whatever, he scored some funyons!). I'm not so much for books that are so gory they make you wince. I like a good story. This novella was perfect for me because it met all of those criteria. A great Halloween-ish read!" - CANDY'S RAVES [referring to BONES]"FOUR NAILS IN THE COFFIN is a shotgun blast to the brain. In a good way." - Gary Dauberman, screenwriter, SWAMP DEVIL, IN THE SPIDER'S WEB

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