When the hyper-aggressive H5N1 plague spread, the world collapsed. Billions around the world died in a few months’ time and technology and infrastructure disintegrated. Among the survivors, a rare gene in the human DNA emerged as resistant to the...
Nuclear fallout wrapped the planet in a blanket of soot, blocking the sun’s rays, wreaking havoc on the atmosphere. The planet was plunged into a deep chill that would last for years.
Plants withered. Animals died.
Famine exacted its toll...
Kenneth wakes up in an empty room with no memories of his past life and an uncertain future ahead of him.
A defiant teenager finds herself home alone, or at least that’s what she thinks…
Meanwhile, a silent and mysterious...
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The first book in a new post-apocalyptic trilogy from “a master of the genre”
Heather O’Grainne is the Assistant Secretary in the Office of Future Threat Assessment,...
"As Moody’s Autumn series continues, it’s been about a month and a half since a virus wiped out most of humanity and turned the dead into zombies—although the author doesn’t use either the word zombie or most of the familiar tropes. A small...
On the heels of Patient Zero and Pride and Prejudice with Zombies comes David Moody's electrifying sequel to Hater in which humanity fights itself to the death against a backdrop of ultimate apocalyptic destruction.
In Dog Blood the Earth has...
Nearly ten years into a horrific civil war which has claimed the lives of millions, and that neither side seems to be winning, a squad of guerrillas crawls through the remains of a once-great city far behind enemy lines. Tired, embittered, always...
At a remote site in Minnesota, filmmaker Kurt Carpenter has built a secure compound and invited a select group of people to bunker down until the worst is over. The world into which they re-emerge is like nothing they’ve ever seen. At first they...
16 POST-APOCALYPTIC HORROR STORIES
One day the world as we know it will end.
Will it become a place of stark divisions where the lower class’s best hope is a quick death, or a world infested with the undead? Maybe the end will come quietly...
Nineteen years have past since a nuclear world war wiped out the United States, leaving nothing but charred and ruined cities.
Out of the ashes, small pockets of survivors banded together to forge new societies in the few areas not ravaged by...