RABID HEART cover design by CLAUDIO BERGAMIN
Rabid Heart – Out Now via Riverdale Avenue Books
 
 Order Your Copy of Rabid Heart via the Retailer Links Below
“Rabid Heart maintains a sharp, persistently moving narrative of the protagonist’s personal quandary and eventual flight. It’s immensely fun, and Rhonda Driscoll dishes out one-liners with panache…an endlessly entertaining zombie tale that checks off genre conventions with style.” – Kirkus Reviews
“Rabid Heart evokes a mix of Misfits lyrics and grainy VHS horror classics.
The plot draws parallels to Cormac McCarthy’s The Road…” – Publishers Weekly
Horror author Jeremy Wagner, author of Barnes & Noble Top 10 Paperback Bestseller, The Armageddon Chord, and Riverdale Avenue Books/AFRAID Books have announced the official audiobook version of his newest horror novel, Rabid Heart, is now available via these links via Audible and Amazon!
Rabid Heart, a post-apocalyptic zombie novel about the depth of undying love in a world of horror, was released internationally in hardcover, trade paperback, digital, and audio formats this fall via the AFRAID Horror Imprint of Riverdale Avenue Books.
Listen to a free sample at www.jeremy-wagner.com here:
About Rabid Heart:
How far would you go for love when all you love is dead? Six months after the Necro Rabies pandemic turned the world into hordes of rabid undead known as “Cujos”, 21-year-old Rhonda Driscoll discovers her zombified fiancé, Brad, in her old hometown. Fearing that her Marine Colonel father will kill undead Brad, Rhonda flees, taking a road-trip with Brad in tow in hopes of starting a new life in a frightening and uncertain world complicated by numerous perils, pure horror, joy, heartbreak, and unconditional love.
Rabid Heart author Jeremy Wagner says, “I had a hard draft of Rabid Heart for some time and had it cooling for a while as I worked on some other projects for a couple years. Once I came back to Rabid Heart to revise, I fell in love with it all over again and thought I had something special for myself – I wrote for myself first and later hope others might enjoy my twisted tales. 
I like f-ed up stories, I write f-ed up things. My style of fiction and my personal tastes in what I read all leans towards really dark fiction and usually has protagonists who go through hell – there’s a lot of that in Rabid Heart. The things that my main character, Rhonda Driscoll, goes through, might fit in nicely with McCarthy’s The Road and Romero’s Day of the Dead. I hope you all enjoy the ride.
 I want to acknowledge Lori Perkins and Afraid/Riverdale Avenue Books for really getting behind this novel and making me an offer I couldn’t refuse. Watch for AFRAID/Riverdale Avenue Books to also re-release my first novel, The Armageddon Chord, in December. Thanks for reading! Support horror fiction!”
Order Rabid Heart editions here:
PAPERBACK: – Amazon | Barnes and Noble
HARDCOVER: – Amazon | Barnes and Noble
DIGITAL: – Amazon | Kobo | Barnes & Noble | iTunes | Google Play | Smashwords | Riverdale Avenue Books
AUDIOBOOK: Amazon | Audible
 
About Author JEREMY WAGNER:
Author Jeremy Wagner has written lyrics to hundreds of lyrics and songs spanning several albums with his international death-metal band, Broken Hope.  Aside from his music career, Wagner writes dark fiction novels and other books and stories full time.
Wagner’s published various works of short fiction with major and independent publishers including: Perseus Books, St. Martin’s Press, Bantam Books, Ravenous Books, Riverdale Avenue Books, Hellbound Books Publishing, and others. 
Wagner’s novel, The Armageddon Chord, peaked at #4 in Barnes & Noble’sTOP 10 “paperback” Bestseller List and peaked at #9 on B&N’s TOP 100overall Bestseller List in the first week of release. TAC also earned a Hiram Award, a first-round ballot Stoker Award Nomination, and received critical acclaim in Publisher’s Weekly and Rolling Stone magazine among many other worldwide publishing magazines, television, and popular culture entities.  
Wagner’s new novel, Rabid Heart was published in October 2018 via the AFRAID imprint of Riverdale Avenue Books and has since received massive praise and press in Publishers Weekly, Rue Morgue, Bloody Disgusting, Kirkus Reviews,the Horror Fiction Review, and more.
AFRAID will also re-release a revised edition of The Armageddon Chord in Summer 2019 with new cover artwork and more.
 
More praise for Jeremy Wagner and Rabid Heart:
 
“Jeremy is a pretty impressive dude.”
– Peter Straub, New York Times Bestselling Author, A Dark Matter, Ghost Story
 
“Rabid Heart, feels like a crowning achievement, anchored by an inspiring, salt-of-the-earth female protagonist as it brings the heart and horror in equal measure.”  
– Rue Morgue Magazine
 
“Zombies and the end of days don’t stand a chance against true love. Jeremy Wagner‘s Rabid Heart is good, clean apocalyptic fun.” 
– Alma Katsu, author of The Hunger
 
“Just when you think you’ve heard every love story, along comes Rabid Heart. My man Jeremy Wagner proves once again he’s as much of a wild man with words as he is with his guitar. This book is sick and sweet, and I say that with respect!” 
– Peter Blauner, NY Times bestselling author of The Intruder and Sunrise Highway
 
“Rabid Heart is Wagner’s finest work to date. Exciting and near-addictive. A page-turner that avid horror aficionados will be drawn to with glee.” 
– Dead Rhetoric, 9/10 Review
 
“Rabid Heart is a next level opus that raises the stakes considerably – both in terms of emotional resonance and viscera-flinging brutality. And good goddamn, is it a white-knuckle thrill ride.” 
– Decibel Magazine
 
“Wagner just has this innate ability to write about these real-life topics and put them into a blender with horror, action, and suspense.” 
– Metal Temple
 
“I like books best when I get a sense that the author really cares for their characters. Rabid Heart is one of those books. If you’d enjoy a classic tale of boy meets girl, boy turns zombie, girl tries desperately to save boy, then Rabid Heart is a book for you.” 
– L.T. Vargus, author of Beyond Good & Evil and Dead End Girl
 
“Another in a long line of zombie road trip tales, Wagner adds a romantic angle to keep things fresh among the putrefied undead.” 
– Nick Cato, author of Death Witch and Uptown Death Squad
 
“It’s f*cking brilliant… f*cking loving it. So f*cking good.” 
– Brian Keene, bestselling author of The Rising and Return to Lost Level
 
 
Praise for Jeremy Wagner’s The Armageddon Chord:
 
“Wagner debuts with a highly entertaining blend…of heavy metal and hardcore horror… Electrified by breakneck pacing, a cast of over-the-top characters and memorable lines…”
– Publishers Weekly
 
“An evil Egyptologist. A scheming billionaire. A guitar maestro. They’re all there in Jeremy Wagner‘s, The Armageddon Chord. This is pulp fiction at its breeziest best.”
– Rolling Stone
 
For more impressive press quotes, visit www.jeremy-wagner.com/jeremy-wagner-biography.
 
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