Anthology of Evil

Note: A newly updated edition of Anthology of Evil with a redesigned cover and revised front and back matter is also available.

Where darkness begins.

Anthology of Evil collects the earliest stories of horror and dark speculative fiction by award-winning author JZ Murdock. These tales explore the strange places where science, memory, history, and human obsession cross paths with something far darker.

Inside are stories of experiments gone wrong, haunted memories that refuse to fade, medieval horrors born of faith and doubt, and surreal encounters where reality itself begins to bend.

The collection includes the novella Andrew, the original story that later grew into the award-winning horror novel Death of Heaven.

Together these stories reveal the origins of themes that would later shape Murdock's most celebrated work.

Stories included

• In Memory, Yet Crystal Clear — Sci-Fi / Horror
• Gumdrop City — Horror inspired by true crime
• Quantum History — Sci-Fi / dark humor as a lab experiment goes strangely wrong
• The London Mea Culpa Document
• The Mea Culpa Document — Medieval horror and a witch hunter's crisis of faith
• Poor Lord Ritchie's Answer (To A Question He Never Knew) — Medieval surreal horror
• Sarah — Dementia meets The Twilight Zone
• The Fall — A short tale of transformation
• Japheth, Ishvi and The Light — A zombie-haunted horror vision
• Andrew — A haunting novella that became the foundation for the novel Death of Heaven

Some of these stories have also appeared as standalone works or in audio editions.