Ghosts of the Void: A NecroTek Novel

by Jonathan Maberry

From New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry comes the dramatic finale to the NecroTek series, packed with action, adventure, space fights, fearsome aliens, love, and drama.

The crew and inhabitants of the space-station Asphodel have survived being teleported to the far reaches of the galaxy, and months of fighting against creatures of nightmare and legend. From the brave Lost Souls pilots to the resurrected NecroTeks to the famous and feral Jokers to the courageous scientists and philosophers, all are determined to save themselves … and humanity.

The sacrifices have been high, but the friendships forged in battle are powerful. And now, aided by the ghost-pilot Lost and the dreams of a madman, they’ve discovered a if they can stand against the fearsome Mi-Gos and recreate the legendary God Machine, they have a chance to return to Earth. A chance for peace.

For freedom and love, they will fight to the end, forging alliances in battle and trust. But the forces of the Outer Gods are vast and powerful, and whoever controls the God Machine controls the universe …

Genres: Horror

602 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 13, 2026

About the author

JONATHAN MABERRY is a NYTimes bestselling author, #1 Audible bestseller, 6-time Bram Stoker Award-winner, 4-time Scribe Award winner, Inkpot Award winner, comic book writer, and producer. He is the author of more than 50 novels, 190 short stories, 16 short story collections, 30 graphic novels, 14 nonfiction books, and has edited 26 anthologies. His vampire apocalypse book series, V-WARS, was a Netflix original series starring Ian Somerhalder. His 2009-10 run as writer on the Black Panther comic formed a large chunk of the recent blockbuster film, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. His bestselling YA zombie series, Rot & Ruin is in development for film at Alcon Entertainment; and John Wick director, Chad Stahelski, is developing Jonathan’s Joe Ledger Thrillers for TV. Jonathan writes in multiple genres including suspense, thriller, horror, science fiction, epic fantasy, and action; and he writes for adults, teens and middle grade. His works include The Pine Deep Trilogy, The Kagen the Damned Trilogy, NecroTek, Ink, Glimpse, the Rot & Ruin series, the Dead of Night series, The Wolfman, X-Files Origins: Devil’s Advocate, The Sleepers War (with Weston Ochse), Mars One, and many others. He is the editor of high-profile anthologies including Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird, The X-Files, Aliens: Bug Hunt, Out of Tune, Don’t Turn out the Lights: A Tribute to Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Baker Street Irregulars, Nights of the Living Dead, Shadows & Verse, and others. His comics include Marvel Zombies Return, The Punisher: Naked Kills, Wolverine: Ghosts, Godzilla vs Cthulhu: Death May Die, Bad Blood and many others. Jonathan has written in many popular licensed worlds, including Hellboy, True Blood, The Wolfman, John Carter of Mars, Sherlock Holmes, C.H.U.D., Diablo IV, Deadlands, World of Warcraft, Planet of the Apes, Aliens, Predator, Karl Kolchak, and many others. He the president of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, and the editor of Weird Tales Magazine. He lives in San Diego, California. Find him online at www.jonathanmaberry.com

Reviews

[DHMC45 · Rating 2 out of 5]

The resolution to the main conflict of the NecroTek series that was mostly a slog halfway filled with characters having conversations about sci-fi concepts in rooms (seriously, as if the previous books were not enough setup) and the other half a bad attempt at action and horror prose trying to be grandiose on the grand scale conflict of eldritch gods, not helped by the incessant modern language used by the characters that are living in the far future. Though I do admit that Caliban's struggle of being created as a slave race to the Mi-Go and Elder Things along with his conflict of acceptance for the sin of being born were decently enjoyable.

[Hope Stewart · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jonathan Maberry is one of my favorite authors, which means I will apparently follow him anywhere...even into deep space, where the scenery is terrible, the locals are homicidal, and the ancient cosmic entities have absolutely no interest in discussing their differences like adults.

Ghosts of the Void is a suitably bonkers conclusion: space horror, monsters, NecroTeks, Mi-Gos, Outer Gods, resurrected nightmares, and enough apocalyptic nonsense to make me wonder if Maberry was given a word count or simply told to keep adding things until the universe broke.

Naturally, I enjoyed it, though there are moments when the mythology gets a little dense, the philosophical bits start clearing their throats, and the plot becomes so gloriously complicated, trusting Maberry to eventually come back for me.

But that's part of the fun. There's a tremendous amount of imagination here, along with the usual Maberry combination of action, horror, heart, and characters you actually care about, which is always a dangerous proposition when the author clearly enjoys putting them through increasingly inventive forms of hell.