Book cover for Serpent's Vine by Matthew Medney and Stefan Petrucha
2026 Released
126 Pages
2-3 Hours
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Hardback Available November 3, 2026
GungnirISBN 9781962594110

Serpent's Vine retells Eden as a paradise where perfection decays the moment imagination awakens. Adam carves the first words in drunken despair, Eve shapes the first pictures from mud, and Felix--wild, gleeful, unrepentant--discovers death by cracking skulls and wielding fire. What begins as pleasure without consequence mutates into violence, chaos, and invention. Each act of destruction--each corpse, each scream, each flame--becomes the soil where story, art, and creation take root.
Luce, proud of his "perfect" garden, watches in horror as his children turn his gift inward, crafting weapons from vines and stone, drawing inspiration from pain, and giving language to loss. What was meant to be eternal bliss becomes a battlefield of imagination, where inspiration thrives only because death exists. In this brutal vision of origins, paradise is not lost--it is transformed. For in Eden, death did not end life. It began story.

Matthew Medney

Matthew Medney Founder, Publisher, Creator Matt Medney is a visionary storyteller, co-founder of Iconic Arts LTD, and Founder, Publisher of Gungnir Books. Former CEO of Heavy Metal Magazine and co-founder of Hero Projects, he is a best-selling author of Beyond Kuiper, Above The Ground, Dark Wing, and The Adventures of Adrienne James. Medney has led major collaborations with icons like Floyd Mayweather Jr., Shaggy, Steve Aoki, and brands such as Disney, the NFL, Coca-Cola, and Live Nation's Rolling Loud.

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Stefan Petrucha

Born in the Bronx, Stefan Petrucha spent his formative years moving between the big city and the suburbs, both of which made him prefer escapism. A fan of comic books, science fiction and horror since learning to read, in high school and college he added a love for all sorts of literary work, eventually learning that the very best fiction always brings you back to reality, so, really, there's no way out. He first came to prominence as the author of the best-selling X-Files comic book series, based on the TV show and has since written eighteen novels including Timetripper, The Shadow of Frankenstein, and The Rule of Won. His recent work includes, Paranormal State: My Journey Into the Unknown (co-authored with A&E star Ryan Buell), Split, Diary of a Stinky Dead Kid, and the upcoming Dead Mann Walking. He currently lives in Western Massachusetts with his wife and fellow writer Sarah Kinney and their two daughters.

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