Jz Murdock: 31 books

Gumdrop City is a True Crime story that has been fictionalized, mostly the story about the protagonist. More or less how the end scene comes to be, is true, although in reality the police were involved. The "room" is true though the rest of the house was fictionalized. This is one of my...

Sometimes we may find we are immersed in Evil and even the best that we can do simply isn't good enough. For at every turn we find that there is simply no good choice, only ones that get us deeper and deeper into the darkness. Evil can be found in a twisting of our mental processes through situation...

A medieval Lord is sent to deliver a gift to his enemies in order to complete a negotiated peace and save his Royal family. But he has a few problems along the way. Trouble is, are the problems his, or is someone trying to convince him he is insane? Or, is something else entirely going on? A winner in Rutger Hauer's International Short Story contest of 2004.

A medieval Lord is sent to deliver a gift to his enemies in order to complete a negotiated peace and save his Royal family. But he has a few problems along the way. Trouble is, are the problems his, or is someone trying to convince him he is insane? Or, is something else entirely going on? A winner...

A science experiment goes wrong in unforeseeable ways, affecting a man and his wife across the country, in a bizarre and humorous fashion.

A world famous surgeon helps his missing son’s friend, only to find it leads to monumental changes to the United States and the world, in ways he could never have foreseen. This was my first ever published short story back in 1990. Book Trailer - http://bit.ly/1tg52Iy

It is months beyond the beginning of the zombie apocalypse. A father and his two children are trying to make it through the wintry back woods of Oregon state to somewhere safe.  They have been without food for too long now and are weak from evading the walking dead. Between the cold, lack of...

Sometimes we may find we are immersed in Evil and even the best that we can do simply isn't good enough. For at every turn we find that there is simply no good choice, only ones that get us deeper and deeper into the darkness. Evil can be found in a twisting of our mental processes through situation...

Gumdrop City is a True Crime story that has been fictionalized, mostly the story about the protagonist. More or less how the end scene comes to be, is true, although in reality the police were involved. The "room" is true through the rest of the house was fictionalized. This is one of my...

Jimmy and James are two young boys, best friends, adventurers in the realm of childhood. They decide to dig for buried treasure and dig up a terror beyond their ability to put into words. Unless that word is, a scream. The adventures of Jimmy and James are continued in the book, Death of Heaven Also available as an audiobook.

A science experiment goes unforeseeably wrong, affecting a man and his wife across the country, in a bizarre and humorous fashion. Imagine waking one day and you're simply not yourself. If fact, it's horrified your wife and she just may shoot you for it. Video Trailer - http://bit.ly/QuantumHistory

“I love you Simon. I wish I didn’t, but I do. It’s destiny, as if I were made for you.” She looked up at Simon, her eyes big, twinkling, passionate, and tracking him perfectly. He felt as if he could fall into them. “I love you too,” Simon said. “But sometimes, love is not enough. Sometimes,...

"Andrew" is the story of a very young boy, the child of a very brilliant married couple who were also rather unusual scientists. It is a story about how Andrew tries to deal with an event more traumatic than anyone should ever have to experience, no matter what age they are. This is then...

We escaped society at the commune, but these soldiers came, and these things, that they came to... has Hell crawled from the depths? Based on the Biblical tale of Abraham and his son Isaac, Japheth loves his son Isaac. Along with Ishvi's siblings, they live in a religious commune known...