Apocalypse Junkyard & Providence

Today is a particularly meaningful day for Heartworm Press.

Nearly twenty years ago, two of the first authors I ever published helped shape what Heartworm would become. Today, we're proud to release new books by both of them: Apocalypse Junkyard by Max G Morton and Providence by Eric Paul.Both books will be out August 28, 2026.

Apocalypse Junkyard gathers the complete scope of Max G Morton's singular underground mythology. Expanding far beyond the original Indestructible Wolves of the Apocalypse Junkyardthat Heartworm published in 2007, this nearly 500-page volume moves through suburban Florida, occult encounters, hardcore punk houses, addiction, cult cinema, crime, memory, and hallucination. Part memoir, part fever dream, part American folklore, it's the definitive collection from one of underground literature's most elusive cult voices. Some books become cult classics. Others become folklore. Apocalypse Junkyard has spent years becoming both.

Providence marks Eric Paul's return to Heartworm nearly two decades after we first published him. Named for both the city that shaped him and the forces that shape a life, the collection explores family history, addiction, fatherhood, grief, survival, and the strange humor required to endure them. It is some of his most personal and accomplished work to date.

Seeing these books arrive together feels like a full-circle moment. We've released more than a hundred titles since those early days, but Max and Eric were both there at the beginning. To have new books by them all these years later is something really beautiful, and a reminder of why Heartworm exists in the first place: to champion singular voices and remain committed to them for the long haul.

First copies of both titles include signed bookplates.

Thank you, as always, for supporting us and the authors who have helped build its history.