Apocalypse Junkyard

Heartworm Press is proud to announce Apocalypse Junkyard by Max G Morton.

In 2007, Heartworm Press published Indestructible Wolves of the Apocalypse Junkyard, a now-legendary collection of seven stories that quickly disappeared into the hands of collectors, underground literature obsessives, and those fortunate enough to encounter Max G Morton's singular world. For years, the book and Morton's subsequent zines circulated with an almost mythological reputation, passed between readers as rumor, artifact, and obsession.

Now, nearly two decades later, Heartworm Press presents Apocalypse Junkyard, the complete collection.

Part memoir, part fever dream, part American outlaw mythology, Apocalypse Junkyard traces a path from the suburban wastelands of 1980s Florida through occult encounters, hardcore punk houses, junkyards, arcades, underground music, crime, addiction, cult cinema, and the haunted landscapes that exist between memory and imagination. Morton's writing moves effortlessly between autobiography and hallucination, creating a world where every roadside attraction conceals a portal, every neighborhood character becomes folklore, and every disaster becomes legend.

What began with seven stories in Indestructible Wolves of the Apocalypse Junkyard has expanded into a sprawling, definitive volume that finally gathers the full scope of Morton's work. Across nearly five hundred pages, Apocalypse Junkyard reveals the complete vision of one of underground literature's most elusive and revered cult voices.

For Heartworm Press, the publication marks another full-circle moment. Max G Morton was among the earliest authors published by the press during its formative years. Returning nearly twenty years later with the definitive edition of his most celebrated work, Apocalypse Junkyard stands as both a landmark publication and the culmination of a story that has been unfolding for decades.

Some books become cult classics. Others become folklore. Apocalypse Junkyard has spent years becoming both.

A fever dream of American ruin, redemption, obsession, and survival, Apocalypse Junkyard finally brings one of underground literature's most mythologized voices into full view.

Foreword by Wesley Eisold.

First copies come with signed bookplates.