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Clay Riddell, an artist in Boston on the day he sells his graphic novel, watches everyone on a mobile phone suddenly turn violent, and sets off north to find his son in Maine.
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The Rising
After a demonic force reanimates the dead all over the world, Jim Thurmond, a construction worker in West Virginia, sets out across a ruined America to find his young son, who has called him from New Jersey.
The Fireman
A spore called Dragonscale is spreading across the world, marking its victims with black and gold patterns before they burst into flame, and when school nurse Harper Grayson finds the marks on herself, pregnant and abandoned, she is taken in by a hidden community and a man called the Fireman.
Salem's Lot
A writer moves to a quiet Maine town and discovers that the respectable residents are being turned into vampires, one invitation at a time.
The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye
Rick Grimes, a small-town Kentucky deputy, wakes from a coma in hospital to find the dead walking, and sets out to find his wife and son.
Cycle of the Werewolf
Month by month for a year, something kills in the small Maine town of Tarker's Mills when the moon is full, and a boy in a wheelchair is the one who works out what.
The Reapers Are the Angels
Temple, a fifteen-year-old girl who has never known the world before the dead rose, wanders the ruined American South, finding beauty in it and running from a man who wants to kill her.
The Boy on the Bridge
Twelve scientists and soldiers cross Britain in an armoured lab called the Rosalind Franklin, looking for a cure for the hungry plague, and Stephen Greaves, a gifted teenage boy among them, finds something new.
They Thirst
Prince Konrad Vulkan, an ancient vampire, sets out to take Los Angeles, and Andy Palatazin, a police captain who as a boy in Hungary saw what vampires can do, is among the few who recognise what is happening.
The Passage
A secret military project to engineer soldiers from a virus found in the Bolivian jungle needs one more subject, six-year-old Amy Harper Bellafonte, and FBI agent Brad Wolgast, sent to bring her in, cannot go through with it, just as the experiment escapes its lab.
Rot & Ruin
Benny Imura, fifteen, needs a job in his fenced town in a zombie-ridden California, and reluctantly becomes an apprentice to his older brother Tom, a zombie hunter.
Heart-Shaped Box
Ageing rock star Judas Coyne collects grim curiosities, so when an online auction offers a dead man's suit along with his ghost, he buys it, and the ghost that arrives in a heart-shaped box turns out to have a personal reason for coming.
The Cabin at the End of the World
Seven-year-old Wen and her fathers, Eric and Andrew, are on holiday at a remote lakeside cabin in New Hampshire when four strangers carrying homemade weapons arrive and tell them they must make an unthinkable choice to prevent the end of the world.