My thoughts – I really do love Jonathan’s books and have read quite a few. Many thanks to Anne Cater for the chance to read and review. Today is my stop on The Darkest Lullaby blog tour. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established the award winners, and exciting, original voices. Unfortunately, she and Chris will soon learn that Lilith has other plans.įLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Ellie isn’t happy about living in such a dark, foreboding place, but she wants to get pregnant and this house has a lot more room to raise a baby than their apartment. Lilith s nephew, Chris, and his wife, Ellie, are moving in. Then Lilith died and the house sat empty. People spoke of blasphemous rituals, black rites filled with blood, sex…and sacrifices.

For years there had been rumours that the owner, Lilith Martin, had been part of an unholy cult. Jonathan’s primary interests are his wonderful wife and his three amazing children, and though he realizes that every author’s wife and children are wonderful and amazing, in this case the cliché happens to be true. In early 2017, his novel Exorcist Falls was released to critical acclaim. Children of the Dark will soon be translated into German and has been championed by the Library Journal, the School Library Journal, and Cemetery Dance. His novel Children of the Dark received a starred review in Booklist and was chosen by their board as one of the Top Ten Horror Books of the Year (August 2015-September 2016). Novels like The Nightmare Girl, Wolf Land, Savage Species, and Dust Devils prompted Thunderstorm Books to sign Jonathan to an eleven-book deal and to give him his own imprint, Jonathan Janz’s Shadow Side.

Brian Keene named his debut novel The Sorrows “the best horror novel of 2012.” The Library Journal deemed his follow-up, House of Skin, “reminiscent of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and Peter Straub’s Ghost Story.” Since then Jonathan’s work has been lauded by writers like Jack Ketchum, Edward Lee, Tim Waggoner, Bryan Smith, and Ronald Kelly. Jonathan Janz grew up between a dark forest and a graveyard, which explains everything.

The Darkest Lullaby by Jonathan Janz