Peter Clines

• Biography

  Peter Clines is the New York Times bestselling author of The Broken Room, Paradox Bound, several books set in the Threshold universe, and the Ex-Heroes series. He grew up in the Stephen King fallout zone of Maine and—inspired by comic books, Star Wars, and Saturday morning cartoons—began writing horrible X-Men and Boba Fett stories at an early age. Clines lives in southern California. Visit his website at www.PeterClines.com.

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• Praise for Books

  “Henry Herz’s Combat Monsters is a beautifully curated assemblage of stories set in the many battles of World War II. Myths and monsters arise from all over the globe—North Africa, the Caribbean, Tanganyika, China, the Atlantic, Burma, Japan, and Europe—to battle, defeat, and save. Anchoring their stories with fascinating historical facts—the “Night Witches” all-female flight crew; an uprising led by a witch doctor; the horrors of Unit 731—seasoned slipstream authors and exciting new voices suit up, show up … and astonish.” —Nancy Holder, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award

  “With The Broken Room, Peter Clines weaves a genre-crossing tapestry of compelling storytelling. Characters—living and dead—you care about, and plot twists you could never see coming. Absolutely brilliant!” —Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of V-Wars and the Joe Ledger thrillers

  “A beautifully wide-ranging look into a world of glorious monsters, set against a backdrop of battle that is at once familiar and transformed. A brilliant approach to the subject matter, filled with compelling, well-crafted stories. Please do not feed me to the kraken.” —Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author of the October Daye series

  “It’s rare to find this blend of pulse-pounding action and tremendous heart, but somehow Clines gives us a perfectly balanced narrative. Anchoring the twists and turns are the unlikeliest of duos, two lost souls you will find yourself falling in love with over and over again.” —Madeline Roux, author of the Asylum series

  “Combat Monsters is a challenging and rewarding read. War is always terrible, but the added dimension of supernatural creatures gives these stories a whole different slant on ‘what if.’” —Charlaine Harris, New York Times bestselling author of the Southern Vampire Mysteries

  “A dark thriller with lovable characters, a dark mystery, and a blood-curdling horror element, The Broken Room delivers a fast-paced thriller with Peter Clines’s signature lovable characters and knack for Lovecraftian mystery.” —Craig DiLouie, author of The Children of Red Peak

  “Herz makes good on the fascinating premise of his latest anthology, bringing together twenty high-octane stories that add terrifying monsters to the battlefields of WWII…Fans of alternate history and military horror will want to check this out.” —Publishers Weekly

  “Peter Clines invented his own genre, and with every book he pushes it further than you can imagine. The Broken Room is at once brutally relentless, darkly unsettling, and strangely touching. This is a straight-shot pedal-down road trip with Elmore Leonard driving and Robert Aickman working the map. It's a cosmic horror John Wick.” —Robert Brockway, author of Carrier Wave and Rx: A Tale of Electronegativity

  “Combat Monsters is fun. It adds the unexpected to history, creating new stories of the unknown that fit into the shadows and edges of the world’s greatest conflict. The stories are tightly written, taking the reader all over the world to places and battles that are not just fought by human beings.” —Larry Bond, New York Times bestselling military thriller coauthor (along with Tom Clancy) of Red Storm Rising

  “The Broken Room is one of Clines’s best books and captures that same magic that made King, McCammon, and Koontz household names." —Stephen Blackmoore, bestselling author of the Eric Carter series

  “There was so much to appreciate about this well-edited book…There is a great variety with stories featured from each theater of the last great war.” —FanFiAddict

  “Equally heartracing and heartrending, The Broken Room is a must-read for thrill-seekers longing for spooky season.” —Sam Maggs, author of The Unstoppable Wasp: Built on Hope

  “The Professional meets Stranger Things for a heart-stopping ride through Clines’s America.” —Scott Sigler, New York Times bestselling author of Ancestor and the Infected series

  “With a nod to Lone Wolf and Cub, The Broken Room is a rare mesh of horror and thriller that leads with its wit and heart and follows through with tremendous action. Clines takes the reader on an exhilarating ride to dark and unexpected places, and brings them back mostly in one piece. A fantastic read.” —Wesley Chu, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the War Arts Saga

  “The Broken Room is a delightfully unpredictable ride! It was a roller coaster made entirely out of curveballs, but Clines makes it look easy.” —Brian Clevinger, writer and cocreator of Atomic Robo

  “A full-throttle thriller that deftly fuses superspy heroics and paranormal weirdness, The Broken Room is relentless, its nonstop action intensified by author Peter Clines’s compelling portrayal of childhood trauma, adult regret, and the redemptive power of familial love.” —Marshall Karp, #1 New York Times bestselling author, cocreator/coauthor of the NYPD Red series

  “The new novel by the author of Paradox Bound (2017) and Ex-Heroes (2015) melds big ideas into carefully orchestrated moments of human drama. Clines asks us to accept a seriously out-there premise, but (as he usually does) he sells the premise through his characters…The author’s technique of dispensing information a few small pieces at a time serves him very well.” —Booklist

  “Clines knows how to tell a story and uses that ability to get the reader eager to learn more with every page turn…Kudos, Mr. Clines, for a great piece of fiction.” —Mystery & Suspense

  “It’s Jack Reacher meets Stranger Things with American Elsewhere vibes. Heart-racing adventure with highly motivated characters in truly horrific supernatural circumstances. Clines sticks the landing on this one. It’s one hell of a ride and not for the squeamish or faint-hearted.” —Jennifer Brozek, author of Never Let Me Sleep and Last Days of Salton Academy

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  • God’s Junk Drawer

  • By Peter Clines

  • Release Date: 11/11/25

  • Formats: Hardcover

  God’s Junk Drawer is a mind-bending tale of mystery and adventure set at the dawn of time.

  Welcome to the Valley …

  Forty years ago, the Gather family—James, his daughter Beau, and his son Billy—vanished during a whitewater rafting trip and were presumed dead.

  Five years later, Billy reappeared on the far side of the world, telling an impossible tale of a primordial valley populated by dinosaurs, aliens, Neanderthals, and androids. Little Billy became the punchline of so very many jokes, until he finally faded from the public eye.

  Now, a group of graduate astronomy students follow their professor, Noah Barnes, up a mountain for what they believe is a simple stargazing trip. But they’re about to travel a lot farther than they planned …

  Noah—the now grown Billy Gather—has finally figured out how to get back to the Valley. Accidentally bringing his students along with him, he’s confident he can get everyone back home, safe and sound.

  But the Valley is a puzzle—one it turns out Noah hasn’t figured out—and they’ll need to solve it together if there’s any chance of making it out alive.

  Pulling from Earth’s past, future, and beyond, Peter Clines has created a complex, dangerous world, navigated by a dynamic ensemble cast, and a story that is thrilling as it is funny and heartfelt.

  • God’s Junk Drawer

  • By Peter Clines

  • Release Date: 11/11/25

  • Formats: Hardcover

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  • Combat Monsters

  • Edited by Henry Herz

    Introduction by Joshua Palmatier

    Stories by Jane Yolen, Mary Fan, Eugen Bacon, Jeff Edwards, Peter Clines, Lee Murray, Bishop O’Connell, Tori Eldridge, Harry Turtledove, Catherine Stine, Scott Sigler, Gaby Triana, Henry Herz, Ann Dávila Cardinal, Jonathan Maberry, Andrea Tang, Kevin Andrew Murphy, Jeremy Robinson, Tanya Huff, and David Mack

    Read by Stefan Rudnicki, Zura Johnson, Feodor Chin, JD Jackson, Antony Ferguson, Tim Campbell, Heath Miller, Pun Bandhu, Curtis Michael Holland, Gary Tiedemann, Marcio Catalano, P. J. Ochlan, Eunice Wong, Natasha Soudek, and Bradford Hastings

  • Release Date: 2/11/25

  • Formats: Trade Paperback

  Combat Monsters brings together twenty award-winning and bestselling speculative fiction authors who each bring their own spin on an alternate history of World War II.

  New research has uncovered deeply buried military secrets—both the Allied and Axis special operations during World War II included monsters. Did the Soviets use a dragon to win the Battle of Kursk? Did a vampire fight for the Canadians in Holland? Did the US drop the second atomic bomb on a kaiju?

  This collection takes real events from World War II and injects them with fantastical creatures that mirror the “unreality” of war itself. Each story—and two poems—feature mythical, mystical, and otherwise unexplainable beings that change the course of history. Dragons rise and fall, witches cast deadly spells, mermaids reroute torpedoes, and all manner of “monsters” intervene for better or worse in the global turmoil of World War II.

  Together, Combat Monsters challenge the very definition of monstrous, with the brutality of war as a sobering backdrop.

  • Combat Monsters

  • Edited by Henry Herz

    Introduction by Joshua Palmatier

    Stories by Jane Yolen, Mary Fan, Eugen Bacon, Jeff Edwards, Peter Clines, Lee Murray, Bishop O’Connell, Tori Eldridge, Harry Turtledove, Catherine Stine, Scott Sigler, Gaby Triana, Henry Herz, Ann Dávila Cardinal, Jonathan Maberry, Andrea Tang, Kevin Andrew Murphy, Jeremy Robinson, Tanya Huff, and David Mack

    Read by Stefan Rudnicki, Zura Johnson, Feodor Chin, JD Jackson, Antony Ferguson, Tim Campbell, Heath Miller, Pun Bandhu, Curtis Michael Holland, Gary Tiedemann, Marcio Catalano, P. J. Ochlan, Eunice Wong, Natasha Soudek, and Bradford Hastings

  • Release Date: 2/11/25

  • Formats: Trade Paperback

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  • The Broken Room

  • By Peter Clines

  • Release Date: 3/01/22

  • Formats: Trade Paperback, Hardcover, Large Print Hardcover

  The new supernatural thriller from New York Times bestselling author Peter Clines

  You can still owe the dead.

  Hector was the best of the best. A government operative who could bring armies to a halt and nations to their knees. But when his own country betrayed him, he dropped off the grid and picked up the first of many bottles.

  Natalie can’t remember much of her life before her family brought her to the US, but she remembers the cages. And getting taken away to the Project with dozens of other young children to become part of their nightmarish experiments. That’s how she ended up with the ghost of a dead secret agent stuck in her head.

  And Hector owes Natalie’s ghost a big favor.

  Now Hector and Natalie are on the run from an army of killers sent to retrieve her. Because the people behind the Project are willing to risk almost anything to get Natalie back and complete their experiments.

  • The Broken Room

  • By Peter Clines

  • Release Date: 3/01/22

  • Formats: Trade Paperback, Hardcover, Large Print Hardcover

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