THE LIVING DEAD

On October 24th, John Doe rises from the dead. Assistant Medical Examiner Luis Acocella and his assistant Charlene Rutkowksi are vivisecting him when it happens, and so begins a global nightmare beyond comprehension.

Greer Morgan is a teenager living in a trailer park, and when the dead begin their assault, the true natures of her neighbors are revealed. Chuck Chaplin is a pretty-boy cable-news anchor, and the plague brings sudden purpose to his empty life.

Karl Nishimura is the helmsman of the U.S.S. Vindicator, a nuclear submarine, and he battles against a complete zombie takeover of his city upon the sea. And meanwhile, a mysterious woman named Etta Hoffmann records the progress of the epidemic from a bunker in D.C., as well as the broken dreams and stubborn hopes of a nation not ready to give up.

Spread across three separate time periods and combining Romero’s biting social commentary with Kraus’s gift for the beautiful and grotesque, the book rockets forward as the zombie plague explodes, endures, and finally, in a shocking final act, begins to radically change.

George A. Romero (1940-2017), was a legendary filmmaker and writer. His classic zombie movie cycle began with the groundbreaking Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead and continued for four more sequels. Romero also directed two Stephen King projects, Creepshow and The Dark Half, and created the TV series Tales From the Darkside. George A. Romero died in 2017 after a fifty-year career in film.

Daniel Kraus co-authored the New York Times bestselling The Shape of Water with Guillermo del Toro, based on the same idea the two created for the Academy Award-winning film. Their earlier collaboration, Trollhunters, was adapted into an Emmy Award-winning Netflix series. Kraus's novel The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch was named one of Entertainment Weekly's Top Ten Books of the Year, and his novel, Rotters, was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award. He lives in Chicago.