Books like 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.
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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.
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.
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.
Cell
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.
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 Forest of Hands and Teeth
Mary lives in a fenced village ruled by the Sisterhood, surrounded by a forest of the Unconsecrated, and dreams of the ocean her mother told her about.
Swan Song
After a nuclear war leaves America a frozen wasteland, a girl called Swan who can make things grow, a former wrestler named Josh and a homeless woman known as Sister cross the ruins, hunted by an ancient evil that wants the world to stay dead.
Floating Dragon
A cloud of experimental gas leaks from a research plant over Hampstead, a wealthy Connecticut suburb, and the town's old darkness, which returns every few generations, wakes with it.
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.
Red Moon
In an America where lycans are registered and drugged, a hijacking by lycan terrorists sets off a war, and a teenage girl who is secretly one of them has to run.
Patient Zero
Joe Ledger, a Baltimore detective, is recruited by a secret agency after he kills a terrorist who then gets back up, and learns of a bioweapon that turns people into the walking dead.
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.