Welcome!
Turning my Nightmares into your Reality....
JZ Murdock
Official page of Author, Screenwriter
and Surrealist Horror WordSmith
[ TheJZMurdock YouTube channel ]
For my non-Fiction works, see:
"Some Notes on Field Theory, Albert's Mind, and the Status Quo: The Necessity of Contextualism in Psychology". This ebook is only $.99 on Smashwords and also on
Amazon. This also includes the article indicated below which is avaialble separately for free as a public service on Smashwords.
And:
"Psycho-neurologically Approaching a Field Theory Understanding of Schizophrenia via Research of a Non-normative, Non-pathological Syndrome: Synesthesia, and the need for more information". This article discusses considering the research on Synesthesia being applied in some ways to the treatment of Schizophrenia and is free as a public service on Smashwords and is also included in the ebook mentioned above.
JZ Murdock has a B.A. in Psychology from Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington.
Disturbing. Frightening. Epic.
Choose your next step carefully when you read....
Death of Heaven
BUT... at your own peril.
A Writer locked in that region between One's Mind
and the Public's experience of that by now oatmeal like substance.
Murdock's Sleeping Buddha - Yes it's real and two feet tall
I think I knew I was a writer all my life. But it took nearly all my life to really get around to it. I wrote my first screenplay in college. I got my first short story publsihed six years later. It seems like forever ago now. My brother thought I should mention that the last name is Murdock, not Murdoch, I'm no relation to Rupert. Though I can't say that it might not be a good thing there, if I were.
Enter the dark shallow recesses of the mind of JZ Murdock's Blog
written in the mysteriously beautiful American Pacific Northwest
Blog:
>> Murdockinations.com <<
Thanks for stopping by!
Check out the incredible graphics by Artist
Marvin Hayes
Also visit Zilyon Publishing
and all their other great books
From Vancouver, B.C., Infernal Majesty - Between their Anthology of Death, their own Death of Heaven, I have to say, I love these guys!
Screenplays:
I use
MovieBytes.com for tracking my screenplays:
- Ahriman - My first screenplay - Science Fiction 181 pgs
- Colorado Lobsters - Short Drama
- Popsicle Death - Short Horror - included in HearthTales
- Sarah - Short Horror - included in HearthTales
- Poor Lord Ritchie - Short Surreal Tale - included in HearthTales
- Gray and Lover: The HearthTales - Original Feature Horror Comedy in Portmanteaux format with three independent stories
- Dark of kNight - Paranormal Romance Adaptation (TL Mitchell, Author)
- Sealed in Lies - Espionage Romance Adaptation (Kelly Abell, Author)
- America - Small Town allegory (currently being written)
Novels, Short Fiction, Anthologies
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No. Really. Check it out!
A Disturbing Horror Novel of Massive Proportions
Cover art by Marvin Hayes
on Ask David
Death of Heaven
Now on
Smashwords and Amazon.
Throughout the whole of Human History many philosophies and religions have attempted to answer that ultimate question:
Where did we come from?
James and Jimmy, brothers in spirit and tragedy since childhood are about to discover the answer to that ultimate of all questions. They will learn about it in a way that is as amazing as it is unbelievable. They alone will discover that reality is unlike anything that has ever before been considered. They will discover just what it is that nightmares are made of.
Friedrich Nietzsche claimed in 1882 that "God is Dead". But that was only a piece of the whole misleading truth. It is now left for two friends alone to experience the whole story, and along with the rest of the Human Race, to experience firsthand the--
Or buy it now on
Smashwords, or
Amazon.
An Epic Novel of Speculative Fiction
For more, visit:
DeathOfHeaven.com
Simon's Beautiful Thought
Get to know Murdock's writing just a little bit with his
Quirky little Sci Fi Romance
Free on Smashwords |
Free on Barnes & Noble
On Amazon
Cover art by Marvin Hayes
"Simon is a strange man. Simon connects with technology and plastic but not with women made up of flesh and blood. Simon is so afraid of screwing up a relationship that he almost screws it up. This story is so well written that you just have to read it. It's a cute spin on dating and finding the right one."
Carole McKee, Author
Anthology of Evil on Smashwords
On Amazon
AOE Kindle
[ List of stories in AOE ]
Cover art by Marvin Hayes
For more on the stories - AnthologyOfEvil.com
JZ Murdock's “Anthology of Evil” exhibits some disturbing and occasionally surreal tales that delve into nightmares of the technological, demonic and psychosocial as he brings his twisted Dreams into your once safe Reality. This new collection of nine short stories and one novella take you quite far along into some uncomfortable social as well as some very personal realms of Horror.
The Anthology opens with Murdock’s first short story ever to have been published, “In Memory, Yet Crystal Clear”. Updated for this release, it is a technological tale of Social Horror about a world famous Surgeon and Father who does whatever he can to help his late son’s best friend. It is a process that ends up changing the entire world forever. Also included is the surreal Medieval short story, “Poor Lord Ritchie”, once selected as a winner by actor Rutger Hauer in his international writing contest.
The novella, “Andrew” not only closes the Anthology but it also sets the tone for the next book to come out, an epic tale of Horror and Speculative Fiction titled, “Death of Heaven”, coming out April 2012.
Also on Amazon.com:
A Horror Sci Fi Novella
Cover art by Hannah
Thanks also to Cal Miller of Zilyon Publishing
Please note: this is not the CALVIN Miller of "Letters to Heaven" fame.
"Andrew" sets the stage for the upcoming novel, "Death of Heaven".
JZ Murdock short Horror stories also in:
Hunger Pangs: Dark Confessions Anthology
("Mr. Pakool's Spice") on Amazon
 .
Rhonny Reaper's Creature Features Anthology
("The Conqueror Worm") on Smashwords and
Amazon
 .
Proceeds going to Diabetes Research.
The Undead Nation Anthology
("Gumdrop City") on Smashwords and Amazon
 .
Proceeds going to
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
Other Short Stories of Note
"Poor Lord Ritchie's Answer to a Question he Knever Knew"
This was selected by Actor Rutger Hauer in an International short story contest held back in 2002. The expanded story is contained in, Anthology of Evil (or see links above).
"In Memory, Yet Crystal Clear"
This was originally published in 1990. It was my first published short story and is also in Anthology of Evil (or see links above).
"See also, Simon's Beautiful Thought (above)"
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