2C – The Second Feast
It wasn’t the surprising sting of a knife’s blade stabbing and slicing. Or the shock of a needle plunging and poking. It was the strange, dull pressure of a wound being stitched, careful and quick. –...
View Articlelike no other author I’ve read
“Powerful and brutally honest. Assassin’s Creed meets a darker and more ancient mythology. Winn sees the world like no other author I’ve ever read.” – Joe Mynhardt, Publisher/Founder, award-winning...
View Articlea horror reader’s nightmare come true
“Equal parts deceptive beauty, haunting darkness and shocking brutality. Jonathan Winn’s prose drags you, the reader, through a gauntlet of experiences. It’s a horror reader’s nightmare come true.” –...
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A quick excerpt from THE WOUNDED KING, the first book in The Martuk Series, Vol. 1, A Collection of Short Fiction (available now for pre-order): ### “Yes, soon,” she said, her ample flesh shining with...
View Articlea stunning world
“Be prepared to be taken outside of your comfort zone…a stunning world…awestruck…These stories are not only about magic they are MAGIC!” Yep, the first official review of The Martuk Series, Vol. 1, A...
View Articlea pale skull shadowed in starlight
An excerpt from THE ELDER, the second book in The Martuk Series, Vol. 1, A Collection of Short Fiction (available June 20th; pre-order now): ### It sat behind tattered woolen. The body bent and broken,...
View Articlewounding the tender skin
A quick excerpt from RED AND GOLD, the third book in The Martuk Series, Vol. 1, A Collection of Short Fiction (available now for pre-order): ### Do not lose your soul … In the quiet of my mind, the...
View Articlethe shivering of bare flesh
A quick excerpt from THE TALL PRIEST, the fourth book in The Martuk Series, Vol. 1, A Collection of Short Fiction (available now for pre-order): ### I was blood. The taste of it raced ‘round my teeth...
View Articlea dark, dangerous despair
A quick excerpt from THE MAGI, the fifth book in The Martuk Series, Vol. 1, A Collection of Short Fiction (available now for pre-order): ### “In prisons made,” she said from the shadows. “Silence are...
View Articlethat someday is today
In June of 2012, a couple months after publishing Martuk the Holy, I found myself still haunted by those people in the pages. Having created monsters, I really wanted to strip them of their cruelty and...
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