Death of Heaven Hardcover – February 13, 2026

Note: First hardcover edition (2026), featuring a newly designed cover and updated front and back matter reflecting the novel’s award recognitionWINNER — New York City Big Book Award for Horror 2024 American Legacy Book Award Finalist · Halloween Book Festival · Literary Titan Silver Award · Royal Dragonfly AwardNothing you know is true. Everything you've been taught about humanity and reality is incorrect.Two childhood friends once dug for treasure in a quiet suburban yard. What they unearthed that day set in motion something that would take decades to fully surface — and when it does, it will reframe everything that came before it.Spanning a thousand years and multiple continents, Death of Heaven assembles itself the way reality does — piece by strange piece, each fragment jagged on its own, devastating in the whole. This is cosmic horror that earns the word cosmic."Unrelentingly unique, defying the norms of the classic horror genre. JZ Murdock doesn't think outside the box — he is outside the box." — Reader Views"A Books of Blood vibe… the writing is almost poetic in its beauty." — Michael Brookes"Completely transfixed." — Lynn Worton"Lulls the reader into a false sense of security before morphing into a violent and sometimes disturbing tale." — WILDSound Writing FestivalFor readers of Clive Barker, Jeff VanderMeer, and Thomas Ligotti. Read more