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The Undead Twenty Five: The Heat by R.R. Haywood
Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBy Washington Post, WSJ, Audible & Amazon #1 bestselling author RR Haywood. Creator of the smash-hit time travel series - Extracted and the #1 sci-fi thriller The Worldship Humility.A deadly infection spreads across Europe... -
The Undead Twenty Five: The Heat by R.R. Haywood
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBy Washington Post, WSJ, Audible & Amazon #1 bestselling author RR Haywood. Creator of the smash-hit time travel series - Extracted and the #1 sci-fi thriller The Worldship Humility.A deadly infection spreads across Europe... -
Greater Love Hath No Man by R.S. Merritt
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKyler orbits more closely around Randy and Kelly's world as the chase heats up to find the fugitives and bring them to the senator for vengeance. New territories are opened and the world continues to expand. Loyalties are built and destroyed as everyone struggles to beat their way through this new normal... -
Still Standing by R.S. Merritt
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe finale to the Zombies! series brings all the players together for one epic final battle. It's a fast paced slug fest to see if a new world will be born out of the ashes of the old or if the old ways will finally destroy mankind for good. A messy, bloody, dirty battle that has to be fought... -
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Scorched Earth by R.S. Merritt
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.The Keys are an ideal vacation destination until Frank and 50 of his closest friends get stuck there during a Zombie Apocalypse. They think the ride to get there took forever, wait until they try to get out! At the end of their journey lies a meetup with Steve and his crew... -
Evolution by Eric A. Shelman
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEv o lu tion: 1) A change in the gene pool of a population from generation to generation by such processes as mutation, natural selection, and genetic drift; 2) A motion incomplete in itself, but combining with coordinated motions to produce a single action, as in a machine. Hemp Chatsworth has already figured out how 90% of the Earth's population became what they are... -
The Chatsworth Chronicles by Eric A. Shelman
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA gas emitting from the earth's core has transformed 90% of the living into ravenous, flesh-eating zombies, and the remaining 10% are fighting for their lives. Hemp Chatsworth takes the reins in book three of the Dead Hunger series, which finds our small band of heroes growing with each passing day... -
The Undead: Part 13 by R.R. Haywood, Joe Jameson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Message from The AuthorWriting The Undead is a humbling experience. I am eternally grateful to the readers and listeners for the incredible support you always show.Dan Morgan superbly narrated Parts 1 to 10, but unfortunately he was not able to continue. To my delight, the wonderfully talented Joe Jameson has now taken the series on. His range and skills are superb... -
Blood at the Premiere by R.R. Haywood
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHenrietta Swallow may be a stunning model, but she has ambitions to be a film director. At a film premiere she tries engaging a producer about a new project… before everything goes terribly wrong.Soon Swallow finds herself on the run amidst the full horror of the Undead... -
Nowhere To Hide by R.S. Merritt
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWelcome to Book 4 of the Zombies! series. This series is meant to be read in order, so if you haven't read or listened to Books 1- 3 yet you're in for a treat! In this addition to the series the world becomes a more complicated place for Kyler as he's asked to do things that are gradually eating away at his sense of right and wrong... -
Violence Solves Everything by R.S. Merritt
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPick up where Book 2 of the Zombies! series left off. Continue the adventure as Randy and Kelly continue the search for their daughters in a world gone mad. Kyler doggedly pursues his assigned espionage mission no longer knowing whether or not he believes in it... -
The Camping Shop: An Undead Short Story by R.R. Haywood
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Camping Shop. An Undead Short Story THE UK'S BEST-SELLING HORROR SERIES By Washington Post, WSJ, Audible & Amazon #1 best-selling author RR Haywood... -
The Gem Cardoza Chronicle by Eric A. Shelman
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is the second book in the Dead Hunger series. Just thought we'd make it clear in case you found this one first . . .As Flex, his niece Trina, Gem, Hemp and Charlie brave the wild world teeming with the walking dead, they make up the rules as they go along. Flex Sheridan was an electrician before the world took a nasty turn; Gem, an artist... -
The Raven: Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPart of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro The Raven: Tales and Poems is a landmark new anthology of Poe's work, which defied convention, shocked readers, and confounded critics. This selection of Poe's writings demonstrates the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind... -
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Return of the Dead by Jeremy Dyson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIf there was one thing Scout Johnson never learned, it was when to quit. Before the dead rose, Scout was a working mom, doing anything she had to do to take care of her family. It was never easy, but she always came through. That all changed when corpses began returning to life... -
Sons of Reagan by A.R. Wise
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe finale of the second series of Deadlocked.The High Rollers are ready to take revenge against the forces aligned against them. A hard and long winter has forced them into hiding, but has also given them a respite from something else… something far worse than anything they’ve battled so far.The Noah Initiative has begun, and the land will soon be devastated by a new virus... -
Nurse Alissa vs. the Zombies III: Firestorm by Scott M. Baker
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWill Alissa and her group survive the coming conflagration?Alissa has become used to the daily routine of a world filled with unspeakable horror. However, not all monsters are the living dead. The end of the world has brought out the worst in people, and one group of survivors crave what Alissa's team have and will do anything to take it from them... -
After Z by J.S. Patrick
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor a decade now the world has known of the existence of the Immuno-Degenerative and Epidermal Decomposition Virus (Strain 2). The world governments and several civilian agencies have, so far, managed to keep the unimaginable from happening by keeping outbreaks under control and preventing a global pandemic... -
Deadweight by Paul Forster
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen they created the perfect weight loss drug, they accidentally created the perfect zombie. Eat what you want, when you want, who you want. Millions of people from desperate teens, to pop stars, to brides and successful businessmen are attracted to the cure for fat. One which allows them to eat anything they want and still lose weight... -
I Am Legend / Hell House by Richard Matheson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI Am Legend tells the story of Robert Neville, the last living man on earth after every other human being has been transformed into a vampire by a terrible plague ... and now they are all thirsty for his blood. Following this short novel are ten more unforgettable tales.The New York Times called Hell House "a fine horror story"... -
Los mitos de Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft, Henry Kuttner
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAnticipada por notables precedentes (Lord Dunsany, Ambrose Bierce, R. W. Chambers, A. Machen, Algernon Blackwood) y enriquecida posteriormente por otros escritores, corresponde sin embargo a HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT (1890-1937) el papel más importante en la invención de LOS MITOS DE CTHULHU, ciclo de narraciones de horror cósmico ambientadas en mundos primigenios de caos y espanto... -
Red Sky in the Morning by R.S. Merritt
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAre you ready for the end? An ancient tomb is unearthed live on cable TV after months of hype. It's billed as the archeological equivalent of Shark Week. The actual footage takes a turn no one ever expected. Those minutes of footage will be combed over by governments worldwide seeking to understand what horror came out of that tomb... -
The Ways by Glynn James
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBook 3 of the Diary of the Displaced series.Alone again.Sitting on the ledge in the darkness of The Corridor.A sword thrust through his chest.His faithful companion, DogThing - thrown to the horde of Zombies below.The scaffold bridge that was his only escape - destroyed.Rudy, Adler, Reg and Marie - all separated by the closed portal.The portal key - stolen.His weapons - thrown into the darkness... -
Pigeons from Hell by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Pigeons from Hell" is a horror short story by American writer Robert E. Howard, written in late 1934 and published posthumously by Weird Tales in 1938. The story title derives from an image present in many of Howard's grandmother's ghost stories, that of an old deserted plantation mansion haunted by ghostly pigeons... -
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My Mama Says There Aren't Any Zombies, Ghosts, Vampires, Creatures, Demons, Monsters, Fiends, Goblins, or Things by Judith Viorst
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMY MAMA SAYS... Maybe there isn't any mean-eyed monster with long slimy hair and pointy claws going scritchyscratch, scritchy-scritchy-scratch outside his window. And maybe there isn't a Thing in his yard, coming to swallow him up. His Mama says there positively aren't. But...sometimes even Mamas make mistakes... -
El cuarto jinete by Víctor Blázquez
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings¿Qué ocurriría si tus familiares, vecinos y todos aquellos a los que conoces se convirtieran en insaciables e incansables asesinos?Ven, acompáñame, Castle Hill es un pequeño y apacible pueblo americano digno de postal, un lugar donde la vida es tranquila y fácil. Todos los pueblos tienen ovejas negras pero, por lo general, la paz domina la vida de este pequeño y agradable lugar... -
Outbreak by Richard Denoncourt
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is an alternate cover edition for B00M2AOH78 SOCIETY HAS FALLEN, the world is infected, and one young man, Kip Garrity, must venture out into the ruins of his small town to find the medicine that can save his dying father. The only problem is, their town is overrun by the victims of a virus that turned most of humanity into mindless cannibals. Luckily, Kip has been well trained for this... -
Books of Horror Community Anthology Vol. 1 by R.J. Roles, Justin M. Woodward
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat flavor is your nightmare?Forty nine authors have come together to tell us theirs. Each story is unique in its horror but all should be read with the lights on and the shadows kept at bay, because some stories tend to stay with you even after the book is closed.From established authors, to people putting pen to paper for the first time... -
The Broken Lands by Glynn James
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBook 2 of the Diary of the Displaced SeriesThe Journal of James Halldon continues...After escaping from The Corridor with DogThing, Rudy and Adler, James discovers that the world awaiting him outside is just as harsh as the one he had left behind.The horrors that he had escaped from, that lurked in the darkness, would continue to haunt him in the bright sunlight of The Broken Lands... -
Lazarus by Leonid Andreyev
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages... -
Night of the Living Dead by John Russo, John russo george romer
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsOut of the night they come. Filling the air with chilling howls, the dead are rising from their graves, bent on feeding on the flesh and blood of the living. They seek out human life. And these monstrous corpses will let nothing stand in their way as they hunt down the living to satisfy their own evil desires... -
The War of the Worlds: H.G. Wells's Classic Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies by Eric S. Brown, H.G. Wells
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe invasion begins . . . and the dead start to rise. There's panic in the streets of London as invaders from Mars wreak havoc on the living, slaying the populace with Heat-Rays and poisonous clouds of black smoke. Humanity struggles to survive against technology far beyond its own, meeting fear and death at every turn. But that's not the only struggle mankind must face... -
Epic Apocalypse - Apocalyptic Horror Boxed Set - 6+ Bundle by Mark Tufo, John O'Brien
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEpic Apocalypse Boxed Set Welcome to the ApocalypseTis’ the season for all things that go bump in the night. Today’s top selling horror authors bring to you this boxed set of six full length apocalyptic tales and a teaser from award winning author Joe McKinney. Turn the lights off, enjoy the ride and find out what is lurking under your bed... -
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The Gatherings by Jeremy Ray
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Gatherings were supposed to bring world peace. What they brought was the apocalypse.Celebrities, politicians, and other prominent figures put together The Gatherings, an event to be held worldwide promoting global peace. When a friend invites Emily to one of the gatherings in a secluded apple orchard, she obliges... -
Horror Quickies Vol. 1 by Steve Hudgins
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIN THE MOOD FOR A QUICKIE? If you like scary stories, you've come to the right place! Over 30 Tales of Terror told in a true story style that will make your blood run cold! • The seance was just fun and games until they asked the spirits to give them a sign that they were there. • A young woman hears her mother talking in the basement. The problem is, her mother is not at home... -
Blood Tingling Tales Vol. 1 by Steve Hudgins
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIF YOU LIKE SCARY STORIES, YOU’VE COME TO THE RIGHT PLACE"Hudgins is a Horror-Meister to reckon with!" VICTOR MILLER - Writer of Friday the 13thEach volume of Blood Tingling Tales consists of short, scary stand-alone stories. You can read the series in any order.Over 15 Tales of Terror told in a true story style that will send chills down your spine... -
The Vurdulak's Family: A Russian Vampire Tale by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Алексей Константинович Толстой
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMarquis d'Ufré, a young French diplomat, finds himself in a small Serbian village, in the house of an old peasant named Gorcha. The host is absent: he left the house ten days ago along with some other men to hunt for a Turk outlaw Alibek... -
Life Among the Dead by Daniel Cotton
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThere's over a million people in the city of Waterloo. Today, most of them have died, and now they're hungry. Corporal Dan Williamson is caught in the middle of the outbreak, desperately trying to reach his wife who is somewhere amid the urban decay. There are other souls out there, other tales of survival among the horror... -
Lucretia and the Kroons by Victor LaValle
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLucretia’s best friend and upstairs neighbor Sunny—a sweet pitbull of a kid, even as she struggles with a mysterious illness—has gone missing... -
GRANDMA? - Attack of the Geriatric Zombies!: The Novel by J.A. Konrath, Talon Konrath
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRandall just wanted to have a fun summer vacation with his family, visiting Grandma at her cabin on a lake in the Wisconsin Northwoods.Then everything went horribly wrong.Join fifteen-year-old Randall, and his younger brother Josh, as they fight for their lives on the eve of an elderly undead apocalypse.GRANDMA? - The Complete NovelShe won't bake you cookies.. -
Dawn of the Dead by George A. Romero, Susanna Sparrow
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsNow back in print: the riveting mix of horror and social commentary and the visionary zombie cult classic Dawn of the Dead by the revered "Grandfather of all Zombies" author and film director George A. Romero... -
Fears Unnamed by Tim Lebbon
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a remarkably short period of time, Tim Lebbon has burst upon the scene and established himself as one of the best horror writers at work today. He is the winner of numerous awards, including a Bram Stoker Award. Critics have raved about his work and fans have eagerly embraced him as a contemporary master of the macabre... -
Bigfoot War by Eric S. Brown
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJeff Taylor was an ordinary boy growing up in the small town of Babble Creek, North Carolina, until one night his life was changed forever when a sasquatch brutally murdered his family. Taylor fled the town, hoping to leave the painful memory behind. Years later, after two tours of duty in the Iraq War, hes back in Babble Creek seeking vengeance... -
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Undead by Don Borchert
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the tradition of the blockbuster sensation Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Tor is proud to offer up The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Undead. Taking the original coming of age classic, Don Borchart has inflicted it with a taste of the macabre, as the world has been overrun by a Zombie epidemic that in the South has been dubbed "Zum... -
Jake's Wake by John Skipp, Cody Goodfellow
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPastor Jake promised his followers everlasting life. . . he just didn't say what kind. So when the small-town televangelist and con man climbs out of his coffin at his own wake, it becomes Judgement Day for everyone gathered to mourn - or celebrate - his death. Jake is back, in the rotting flesh, filled with anger and vengeance. And accompanied by demons even more fightening than himself... -
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim by W. Bill Czolgosz
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFree at last! Free at last! This ain't your grandfather's Huckleberry Finn. It's nineteenth century America and a mutant strain of tuberculosis is bringing its victims back from the dead. Sometimes they come back docile, and other times vicious. The vicious ones are sent back to Hell, but the docile ones are put to work as servants and laborers... -
What Was It? (ANNOTATED) by Fitz-James O'Brien
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUnfortunately, sometimes “The Thing” you’re looking for comes looking for you. A group of friends think it’ll be fun to rent a haunted house until they’re awakened by the cries of one of them locked in a life and death struggle with the supernatural resident determined to eat him... -
Alice in Zombieland by Nickolas Cook, Lewis Carroll
Rated: 3.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThey were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank-the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable. All of them were covered in Alice's now cold and congealed blood, which made them even tastier looking to poor hungry Alice...
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