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  • Legion by Dirk Patton

    Legion by Dirk Patton

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the thrilling V Plague series finale, the continued survival of what remains of the human race hangs in the balance and John is forced to make an impossible decision...
  • Resurgence by Iain Rob Wright

    Resurgence by Iain Rob Wright

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Mankind is fighting back. The demons have become less aggressive and confused, but that doesn't mean the war is anywhere close to over. New threats are arriving, and old foes are rallying. Soon, the final battle for mankind's survival will begin...
  • Adrians Untote: Teil 2 by Chris Philbrook

    Adrians Untote: Teil 2 by Chris Philbrook

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Herauszufinden, dass ein Nachbar überlebt hat, nachdem die Untoten die Welt übernommen haben, ist nicht immer eine gute Sache. Es sei denn, bei diesem Nachbarn handelt es sich um den mürrischen, bewaffneten und pensionierten Green Beret, Gilbert Donohue. In diesem Fall findet man heraus, dass dieser Nachbar so etwas wie der sprichwörtliche Jackpot ist...
  • Midnight by Chris Philbrook

    Midnight by Chris Philbrook

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The 3rd volume of the #1 rated horror series is here at long last. Tap tap tap went the zombie on the bridge. Things are getting stranger and stranger for Adrian Ring, and far more dangerous. It wasn't enough for the people of Westfield to follow Abby and her family home on Christmas Eve and try to kill them. Now they're back for more...
  • Extinction by Iain Rob Wright

    Extinction by Iain Rob Wright

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Continue the epic story of mankind’s struggle against extinction in Book 3 of the bestselling “Hell on Earth” Series: EXTINCTION. VAMPS: After dealing with his rival, Pusher, and escaping the clutches of treacherous Prime Minister, John Windsor, Vamps and his last remaining friend, Mass, set out with the mysterious Aymun. A man who came from the gate that imploded on Oxford Street...
  • Defiance by Iain Rob Wright

    Defiance by Iain Rob Wright

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Humanity's last chance could be a new beginning. It's been months since the demons arrived and slaughtered the world. The earth belongs to the damned and barely anything of civilisation remains, but some still fight. Mankind's last survivors remain defiant. Nestled deep in the middle of the UK's largest forest, a small group of adults fight to remain hidden in the apocalypse...
  • Legion by Iain Rob Wright

    Legion by Iain Rob Wright

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A world ending thrill ride of epic proportions. With so many characters and so many twists, it's like the horror equivalent of Game of Thrones.Humanity bleeds, its jugular torn and bleeding.The world needs heroes...But all it has is darkness.People need to stand and fight...Before it's too late...
  • Dog Dayz by Mark Tufo

    Dog Dayz by Mark Tufo

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Talbot clan has settled in to life at Etna Station. Mike has earned the rank of Lieutenant, but there’s no time to rest. Colonel Bennington has ordered Mike and his squad of misfits on a secretive mission to New York City where they are tasked to complete a complicated rescue that rapidly becomes nearly impossible to accomplish...
  • Forever Between by Ann Christy

    Forever Between by Ann Christy

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Four year ago the world was destroyed by medical nanites gone awry, leaving humanity divided into three groups: the living, deaders, and the horrific in-betweeners. Two years ago, Emily braved that dangerous world to try and save a group of children trapped downtown. Now, it’s Veronica’s turn to try and save Emily in return...
  • The 40th Day by Deirdre Gould

    The 40th Day by Deirdre Gould

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "Everyone here is already exposed. Don’t come here. Your family is dead. Your friends are dead. Do not trust anyone from the City. There may already be people out there who are infected and don’t know it. Do not let them in. Do not let yourself be moved by pity. They are deadly...
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    apocalyptic  zombies  adult  book  dystopia  fiction  horror  monsters
  • Mist City by Sam Sisavath

    Mist City by Sam Sisavath

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A new storyline... A new hero... Same deadly universe... A SHOOTER WITHOUT A TARGET. The man who calls himself John Smith once had a reason to fight: He was committed to a crusade he was willing to kill and die for. Trained by one of the best gunmen alive, Smith’s natural instincts with a handgun were honed to almost perfection...
  • Incursion by M.D. Massey

    Incursion by M.D. Massey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Scratch Sullivan just wanted to survive the apocalypse in peace... But when the undead bring their war right to his doorstep, it's time to ranger up and rain hell down on his enemies!Incursion: Vampire ApocalypseTHEM Post-Apocalyptic Series Book TwoIt's been eight years since the bombs fell and the dead rose, and the world has become a very dangerous place...
  • Nightfall by Joseph Zuko

    Nightfall by Joseph Zuko

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jim and Karen Blackmore have discovered that when it comes to the zombie apocalypse, there is no such thing as safety in numbers. Between their separate groups of survivors is a city of the living dead, hungry for flesh and growing in numbers by the minute...
  • Uprising by A.R. Wise

    Uprising by A.R. Wise

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The High Rollers are falling apart. Billy is leading them into war against the wishes of Laura, who is intent on living in peace. Unbeknownst to them, one among them holds the cure that could save all mankind, and there are two powerful enemies that want it...
  • Legacies by A.R. Wise

    Legacies by A.R. Wise

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the penultimate book of the second series of Deadlocked, the High Rollers struggle to find their way after an enormous loss. They fell into the trap of a madman and the horde is closing in even as the town burns around them. Meanwhile, Hero is dealing with his contraction of what is known as the Tempest Strain, a virus capable of infecting any mammal...
  • Sons of Reagan by A.R. Wise

    Sons of Reagan by A.R. Wise

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The 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...
  • The Longest Night by Lindsey Pogue

    The Longest Night by Lindsey Pogue

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Alaska can be a bleak and dangerous place, especially in the dead of winter. But when hair-raising whispers about an outbreak reach the small harbor town of Whitely, the townspeople face a new, unfathomable fear— the virus is coming for them.Sophie thought life was complicated when she had teen pregnancy and her squeaky-clean reputation as the mayor’s daughter to worry about...
  • Blood & Betrayal by T.W. Brown

    Blood & Betrayal by T.W. Brown

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The days of being afraid of the walking dead are long since past. While they still prove to be a menace when they are found in massive herds numbering in the hundreds of thousands if not the millions, it is now the living that can be the most terrifying. Humanity is clawing to regain its place, and some will do anything to ensure their own survival... even at the cost of others...
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    apocalyptic  zombies  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror  monsters
  • Dead: End by T.W. Brown

    Dead: End by T.W. Brown

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The journey has been a long one; and through its twists and turns, we have lost some dear friends. Who lives to see the next sunrise? There is only one way to find out...
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    apocalyptic  zombies  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror  monsters
  • Tooth & Nail by Jonathan Maberry

    Tooth & Nail by Jonathan Maberry

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What happened to Benny Imura and his friends after they reached Sanctuary—and discovered that it was far from the miracle they had thought it would be? Jonathan Maberry shares a glimpse into a formative moment in an exclusive e-short story that also features Joe Ledger (Patient Zero, Extinction Machine) and Iron Mike Sweeney (The Pine Deep Trilogy)...
  • Estate Of The Dead by Jake Bible

    Estate Of The Dead by Jake Bible

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jace Stanford has lost family, friends, and his arm to the zombie apocalypse that hit his formerly quiet, American subdivision of Whispering Pines. But he has also gained new allies, a new sense of purpose, and something he never in a million years would have thought would be a plus: the cannibal savant known as Elsbeth...
  • War of the Living by Joshua Guess

    War of the Living by Joshua Guess

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the early days after causing the end of the world, Kell McDonald was just trying to survive. Time passed, and along with others, a new world grew. Society began to be rebuilt. Years have passed since the mutated organism known as Chimera caused the dead to rise, and on the ashes of the old world, terrifying new forces have come into play...
  • Aftermath by A.R. Wise

    Aftermath by A.R. Wise

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Twenty years have passed since the zombie apocalypse devastated the world. A single man is on a quest of revenge in search of the people responsible for the outbreak of the zombie virus. His quest leads him to a discovery in the western United States that will irrevocably change his goal...
  • Dead & Gone by Jonathan Maberry

    Dead & Gone by Jonathan Maberry

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    How did Riot escape from the Night Church? How did she survive the Rot & Ruin—and the horrors of her own past? There’s only one way to find out....Jonathan Maberry explores the origins of a fascinating new character in an exclusive e-short story set in the land of the Rot & Ruin...
  • United States of the Dead by Joseph Talluto

    United States of the Dead by Joseph Talluto

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    White Flag Of The Dead: Book 4 During the Upheaval, city after city fell to the Enillo Virus, filling the streets with ravenous ghouls. Not even the countryside was spared, as millions of the undead flowed over the land. From the mountains of Appalachia to the beaches of the Atlantic, the East Coast was dead. Two groups must enter this nightmare...
  • Revelation by Kyle West

    Revelation by Kyle West

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Alex and friends return to a Wasteland in turmoil. The Raiders are scattered, the Exiles hunted, and the feuding Vegas gangs plot one another's destruction. Makara, head of the New Angels, has the difficult task of convincing disparate groups to work together before Emperor Augustus and his legions arrive...
  • Survival by T.W. Piperbrook

    Survival by T.W. Piperbrook

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ever since leaving the salvage yard, Noah Chambers has been plagued by the infected and hunted by the men who patrol the streets. In order to survive, he’ll need to summon strength he never imagined...
  • Dead: Revelations by T.W. Brown, Shawn Conn

    Dead: Revelations by T.W. Brown, Shawn Conn

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The zombies have risen, the world has spiraled into chaos. Small pockets of survivors continue to struggle each day to survive. The best and worst of humanity fight the undead and themselves as they come to grips with a new, violent reality. See the world through Steve's eyes as he tries to balance the duties of leading a band of survivors while caring for a young, Hispanic orphan girl...
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    apocalyptic  zombies  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror  monsters
  • Redemption by Bryan James

    Redemption by Bryan James

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The infection came first, hordes of undead bringing mankind swiftly to its knees. Despair and misery followed, as the remaining survivors fought the living dead--and one another--for a slim chance at survival.Through the pain and the destruction, Mike McKnight has somehow survived...
  • The Last Candidate by Frank Tayell

    The Last Candidate by Frank Tayell

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Whoever wins the election, humanity will lose. Nine months after the outbreak, ten thousand survivors from across the globe have found a refuge on the Welsh island of Anglesey. Hordes of the undead ravage the wastelands of Britain and Ireland. Satellite images show that the rest of the world is no better...
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    apocalyptic  zombies  adult  book  dystopia  fiction  horror  monsters
  • What Survives of Us by Kathy Miner

    What Survives of Us by Kathy Miner

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree and Winner of National Indie Excellence AwardNaomi sees her first corpse in a Colorado Springs grocery store, but it won’t be her last. With devastating speed, a plague sweeps first the city, then the state, then the world, leaving less than 1% of the population to go on...
  • The End Begins by James D. Dean

    The End Begins by James D. Dean

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It was always a joke. The “what ifs” and the planning were just conversations to have fun with. Who would be the first to go? Where would people be safe? Who would survive the zombie apocalypse? No one is laughing anymore. Awakening to a nightmare, Dan Foster is forced to flee his suburban Chicago home...
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    apocalyptic  zombies  adult  book  dystopia  fiction  horror  monsters
  • Resistance by T.W. Piperbrook

    Resistance by T.W. Piperbrook

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    THE ONLY WAY TO SURVIVE IS TO RESIST After freeing Dan and Quinn, Sandy Duncan must fight to escape the lumberyard while protecting the others she came to save. The infected lurk outside the gates...
  • Safe Haven by Thomas Baker, Robert Wagner

    Safe Haven by Thomas Baker, Robert Wagner

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A day of death. A night of terror. The Outbreak begins. What if you withstood the zombie apocalypse only to discover there were worst monsters that survived?Thousands of years of civilization came to an end in an inconceivably short time. The worst wasn’t that the virus killed its victims, it’s how revived their dead bodies to spread itself around the globe...
  • Day 100 by Amy Cross

    Day 100 by Amy Cross

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One hundred days after humanity was brought to its knees, Elizabeth Marter has joined a small group of survivors in Boston. Under constant attack from scavengers who live beyond the city limits, Elizabeth and the others desperately try to come up with a plan. But when they learn that a more organized enemy is on the way, they realize that they face a battle for what's left of their resources...
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    apocalyptic  zombies  adult  book  dystopia  fiction  horror  monsters
  • Into the Shadows by Jason D. Morrow

    Into the Shadows by Jason D. Morrow

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The ability to see into the future has only brought Waverly pain and suffering. She has been wrong about everything. Ethan...Remi...are all of them really dead? Stuck in Shadowface's compound, Waverly meets a girl named Amber who is determined to escape. Through a simple touch, Waverly can see that she is destined to escape with her. But she knows it is not the end. Shadowface must be stopped...
  • Nurse Alissa vs. the Zombies by Scott M. Baker

    Nurse Alissa vs. the Zombies by Scott M. Baker

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One day can change a person's life forever.Alissa anticipated a normal shift at Mass General Hospital until the zombie outbreak spread through Boston like wildfire. When patients and staff in the ER begin to die, reanimate, and attack the living, Alissa must fight her way to safety to avoid becoming one of the ravenous hordes...
  • Parkway To Hell by Jake Bible

    Parkway To Hell by Jake Bible

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Grove Park Inn. From the early 1900s right up to Z-Day, the Grove Park Inn was the place for the affluent to stay when vacationing in Asheville, NC. Everyone from F. Scott Fitzgerald to President Barak Obama stayed at the Grove Park. Artists, actors, diplomats, masters of industry, all called it a temporary home at one point or another. But that was before the zombie apocalypse...
  • Resident Evil: Extinction by Keith R.A. DeCandido, Paul W.S. Anderson

    Resident Evil: Extinction by Keith R.A. DeCandido, Paul W.S. Anderson

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Following the events of "Resident Evil: Apocalypse," the beautiful, dangerous, enigmatic Alice returns, and this time she and her fellow survivor Carlos Olivera are running with a pack of humans led by a new ally, Claire Redfield. Together they are cutting through the wastelands of the United States on a long trek to Alaska. Hunted by the minions of the scheming Dr...
  • Deadlocked 3 by A.R. Wise

    Deadlocked 3 by A.R. Wise

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Deadlocked series continues as Billy heads into the city in search of his mother. During his quest, he will meet a strident military figure that will alter his journey and two brothers that will become his closest allies. However, his trip will endanger the family he has only just met, and he might not be able to save them...
  • Deep, Dark by Jonathan Maberry, Ray Porter

    Deep, Dark by Jonathan Maberry, Ray Porter

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This chilling short story is the prequel to The Dragon Factory, the second installment in Maberry's action-packed Joe Ledger novels.Before Baltimore cop Joe Ledger goes up against two competing groups of geneticists looking to continue the master-race program in The Dragon Factory, he must battle another foe using human test subjects for his sinister plans...
  • Ravaged by Jason Brant

    Ravaged by Jason Brant

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Welcome to the mountains of Pennsylvania, one of the last vestiges of the human race.Lance York, a self-described loser in another life, has rediscovered himself in the midst of the apocalypse. Along with a cadre of other survivors, including the hardened, sexy Cass, Lance has taken refuge in a compound, struggling to survive the onslaught of monstrosities descending upon them each night...
  • Against the Current by R.S. Merritt

    Against the Current by R.S. Merritt

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In this second installment of the Zombies! series the horror continues as Randy and Kelly continue to battle their way towards Florida, Brenda and the girls keep fighting to stay alive and Kyler fights hard to make his way in this new world order. In this book the struggle to survive continues to get more intense as groups come together to keep outsiders out...
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    apocalyptic  zombies  adult  book  dystopia  fiction  horror  monsters
  • Consumed by Jason Brant

    Consumed by Jason Brant

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Nestled in the Appalachian Mountains and dissected by three rivers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is an idyllic city. It's quiet, the traffic is nonexistent, and floating down the Allegheny River on a boat is peaceful and serene.It's perfect… as long as you can ignore the mindless monstrosities roaming the streets, vampires ruling the night, and the insane, power-hungry human survivors...
  • The Living Dead Boy by Rhiannon Frater

    The Living Dead Boy by Rhiannon Frater

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Josh Rondell is twelve years old and known as the "living dead boy" due to his rampant love of all things zombie. As the head of the Zombie Hunters Club, he's obsessed with preparing for the zombocalypse. Though no one around him really believes that zombies will one day rise to devour the living, Josh is convinced it just might happen...
  • Mountain Man by Keith C. Blackmore

    Mountain Man by Keith C. Blackmore

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Augustus Berry lives a day-to-day existence comprised of waking up, getting drunk, and preparing for the inevitable day when “they” will come up the side of his mountain and penetrate his fortress. Living on the outskirts of a city and scavenging for whatever supplies remain after civilization died two years ago, Gus knows that every time he goes down into undead suburbia could be his last...
  • Victim Zero by Joshua Guess

    Victim Zero by Joshua Guess

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Kell McDonald isn't your average guy. He's a brilliant biologist and geneticist, a leading researcher in the constant fight against disease and death. He works in secret on a miraculous organism with the potential to change the world.But he isn't the only one.Victim Zero is a story about life and loss, self-awareness and the hard choices between what is right and what is necessary...
  • Resident Evil: Genesis by Keith R.A. DeCandido

    Resident Evil: Genesis by Keith R.A. DeCandido

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Hive: a subterranean genetic research facility owned and operated by Umbrella, an immensely powerful corporation with interests in everything from human longevity to biowarfare. With computerized defenses and heavily armed human backup, the Hive is impregnable and invulnerable. Or so Umbrella believes.But something has gone fatally wrong...
  • Necrópolis by Carlos Sisí

    Necrópolis by Carlos Sisí

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    El campamento de Carranque vive momentos dulces. Tras haber sobrevivido el ataque del Padre Isidro y sus enloquecedoras huestes de caminantes, los supervivientes se entregan a ensoñaciones y esperanzas de futuro propiciadas por los descubrimientos del doctor Rodríguez...
  • Sanctuary by T.W. Piperbrook

    Sanctuary by T.W. Piperbrook

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Missed books 0-3?: For a short time, the Contamination Boxed Set is $.99: amazon.com/dp/B00GBJWZDEGet Contamination 4: Escape at: amazon.com/dp/B00GTXNRIY/Get Contamination 5: Survival at: amazon.com/dp/B00JH0IONO___________In a world full of danger, reprieve is only temporary.For days the farmhouse has been a place of safety for Dan, Quinn, Meredith, and John...
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