The Unfamiliar Garden

Book 2 of The Comet Cycle

The Unfamiliar Garden

The night the sky fell, Jack and Nora Abernathy’s daughter vanished in the woods. And Mia’s disappearance broke her parents’ already fragile marriage. Unable to solve her own daughter’s case, Nora lost herself in her work as a homicide detective. Jack became a shell of a man; his promising career as a biologist crumbling alongside the meteor strikes that altered weather patterns and caused a massive drought.

It isn’t until five years later that the rains finally return to nourish Seattle. In this period of sudden growth, Jack uncovers evidence of a new parasitic fungus, while Nora investigates several brutal, ritualistic murders. Soon they will be drawn together by a horrifying connection between their discoveries—partnering to fight a deadly contagion as well as the government forces that know the truth about the fate of their daughter.

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The Ninth Metal

The Ninth Metal

IT BEGAN WITH A COMET…

At first, people gazed in wonder at the radiant gash in the sky. A year later, the celestial marvel became a planetary crisis when Earth spun through the comet’s debris field and the sky rained fire.

The town of Northfall, Minnesota will never be the same. Meteors cratered hardwood forests and annihilated homes, and among the wreckage a new metal was discovered. This “omnimetal” has properties that make it world-changing as an energy source…and a weapon.

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Suicide Woods

Suicide Woods

A spine-tingling new collection of stories from the acclaimed author of Thrill Me and The Dark Net

Benjamin Percy is a versatile and propulsive storyteller whose genre-busting novels and story collections have ranged from literary to thriller to postapocalyptic. In his essay collection, Thrill Me, he laid bare for readers how and why he channels disparate influences in his work. Now, in his first story collection since the acclaimed Refresh, Refresh, Percy brings his page-turning skills to bear in Suicide Woods, a potent brew of horror, crime, and weird happenings in the woods. Read more…

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The Dark Net

The Dark Net

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Content Books (for a signed, personalized copy)
Indiebound 
Powell’s
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Hell on earth is only one click of a mouse away in acclaimed writer Benjamin Percy’s terrifying new horror novel.

The Dark Net is real. An anonymous and often criminal arena that exists in the secret, far reaches of the Web, some use it to manage Bitcoins, pirate movies and music, or traffic in drugs and stolen goods. And now, an ancient darkness is gathering there as well. These demons are threatening to spread virally into the real world unless they can be stopped by members of a ragtag crew. Read more


Recent News

13th Night

Ben wrote and directed 13th Night, a short horror film. Check out the trailer here. He’s submitting it widely to festivals, and so far has heard back from two places, both acceptances. The short will be one of twelve films featured in the Final Frame Horror Short Film Competition at Stoker Con, and it is an official selection of the Chattanooga Film Festival (one of Dread Central’s top Horror Film Festivals and MovieMaker Magazines Top 25 Best Genre Festivals)

Sky Vault

Ben’s new novel, Sky Vault, will release on September 12th, 2023. You can pre-order it here. He’ll keep you updated on events, but he can already promise appearances this fall at Content Books, the KGB reading series, the Vermillion Literary Festival, Bowling Green University, and NYCC.

Urban Cowboy

Ben and director James Ponsoldt are adapting Urban Cowboy into a series for Paramount Plus. Read more about the project here: https://deadline.com/2022/02/urban-cowboy-series-adaptation-paramount-1234923977/