by Toby Tate
Kim Paffenroth
Valley of the Dead (The Truth Behind Dante's Inferno)
Using Dante’s Inferno to draw out the reality behind the fantasy, author Kim Paffenroth tells the true events...
During his lost wanderings, Dante came upon an infestation of the living dead. The unspeakable acts he witnessed —cannibalism, live burnings, evisceration, crucifixion, and dozens more—became the basis of all the horrors described in Inferno.
At last, the real story can be told.
Kim Paffenroth
Dying to Live: Life Sentence (Book 2)
When the world ended a handful of survivors banded together in a compound surrounded by the living dead. In a battle against a kingdom of savage prisoners, the survivors lost loved ones, they lost innocence, but still they coped and grew. Twelve years later even bigger surprises lay in wait, for some of the walking dead are beginning to remember who they are, and, even worse, what they’ve done.
Kim Paffenroth
Dying to Live: Last Rites (Book 3)
In a world overrun by the living dead, one band of survivors built a community with a strange sort of peace with the undead. Now they’ve exiled two undead and two living people into the wilderness outside the city walls. The four unwisely seek help in a city filled with things they had forgotten in their simple existence together: safety, good food, comfortable lives, cruelty, apathy, and greed.
Kirk Allmond
Remnants: The Colcoa Wars
After the Colcoa stripped earth of all of her natural resources and left, the planet’s average temperature soared.
Joe, his daughter Willa, and son Ezekiel are among the few brave enough to venture outside to gather food and supplies in the arid, rocky landscape.
Genetically altered animals; toys of the Colcoa, roam the surface.
Kirk Allmond
What Zombies Fear 1: A Father's Quest
After seeing a man eaten alive in the street, Victor Tookes makes a trip with his wife and son from his house in Pennsylvania to his family home in Virginia, battling zombies all the way.
He quickly discovers that everything he knew about zombies was wrong. How will he keep his family safe when the world collapses?
Kirk Allmond
What Zombies Fear 2: The Maxists
Victor and his family are still struggling to survive after a parasite that turns people into zombies wipes out civilization. After reaching the relative safety of the family home, the danger intensifies. Zombies stalk their every move but now Victor and his friends have another threat to deal with - a rogue military unit whose commander wants the boy, and the rise of a new cult, The Maxists.
Kirk Allmond
What Zombies Fear 3: The Gathering
In this third installment Victor Tookes is no longer content to sit back and watch the world go to the hell. Victor launches a plan to rid the world of zombies, for good. To build the team, they go to Charlotte, fighting zombies and raiders every step of the way. The team sets out for California, yet at each stop, the areas are too quiet. Where have all the zombies gone?
Kirk Allmond
What Zombies Fear 4: Fracture
This fourth installment picks up exactly where The Gathering left off. Victor and his post-apocalyptic crew continue their trek across the zombie-filled country to meet John’s family. It takes all the heroes can muster to overcome the depths of human depravity. Do the heroes have what it takes? Will they break under the strain?
Kirk Allmond
What Zombies Fear 5: Declaration of War
Life is good; John, Marshall and Renee, Kris and Alicia are living their lives, until the zombie hordes launch a coordinated attack against all of the major human settlements.
Only a stroke of luck saves Victor, as the E’Clei renew their offensive and declare all-out war against the humans.
Kirk Allmond
What Zombies Fear 6: The Incarnation
After heavy losses and major setbacks, the team splits up. Spread across the country, everyone is making a new life and rebuilding.
Kris and Alicia build a life for themselves in Gander Acres. John, Jo and the Australians fortify a town in the familiar climate of the Arizona desert in Yuma. Marshall and Renee take over Legion, and secure Atlanta.
Everyone thinks the war is over.
Lane Adamson
Times of Trouble (A Time Travel Anthology)
TIME TRAVEL IS THE ULTIMATE DO-OVER.
It’s funny how second chances usually wind up being just another opportunity to make the same mistakes, though.
The authors represented in the collection you now hold were tasked to create grim and gritty tales of time travel gone horribly wrong.
They have done so, in some wildly varied ways.
Lee Argus
The Road To Nowhere
Welcome to the city of Las Vegas. Gone are the days of tourist filled streets. After waking up alone in a hospital bed, everyone seems to have fled, leaving me behind. Survival becomes my only driving force. Nothing was as it should have been. Things seemed to lurk in the buildings and darkest shadows. I didn’t know what they were, but I could always feel their eyes on me.
Lee Argus
The Road to Nowhere 2: Paths Taken
Welcome to the end of the world. The blight of Kuru infection has spread, leaving few alive in its wake, and a world populated by those who have succumbed to the devastating virus.
After surviving an accident that would have left most dead, John Doe makes choices that will lead him down paths he hadn’t been prepared to take.
Luke Rhinehart
Long Voyage Back
WHEN THE BOMBS CAME, ONLY THE LUCKY ESCAPED. IN THE HORROR THAT FOLLOWED, ONLY THE STRONG WOULD SURVIVE.
The voyage of the trimaran Vagabond began as a pleasure cruise on the Chesapeake Bay. Then came the War Alert … the unholy glow on the horizon … the terrifying reports of nuclear destruction. In the days that followed, it became clear just how much chaos was still to come.
Luke Rhinehart
Whim
WHIM is a magical teenager on a quest for the U.T. (ultimate truth) but he is continually distracted by football, sex and a sixty-foot pot plant. It's tough being human.
M.L. Katz
Raft People (Book 1)
Before the Big Flood, Liz Green worried more about hiding detention notes and the onset of mental illness than climate change. Now rising waters on the coast threaten millions of people, and Liz and her family cannot expect rescue in time. Before the Big Flood overwhelms the Texas coastal plain, Liz, her mother, and two brothers have to become Raft People if they hope to survive.
M.L. Katz
Raft People 2: Floaters
After the Big Flood, New Miami is a floating city, and Houston lies under the new Sea of Mexico. Reluctant Ensign Andrew Green tries to do his duty, but he frequently drifts off mentally to assuage his loneliness and hold onto the world that should have been. Smugglers try to kill him as he races to save a bunch of “floaters” who have been out to sea too long. Is it a good time to fall in love?
M.L. Katz
The Information Thieves
In the future, everybody's got a secret. Eli's family thinks he just plays computer games with a group of harmless nerds called the Merry Men. But when he disappears, the CIA, an underworld ninja, and worse yet, World Tech corporate security start chasing him. Now the race is on as his family, a shady art dealer, a cloned superboy and a reborn Neanderthal try to find him in time.
Mack Moyer
Sketches of the Wigwam
Part-time artist, full-time smartass and gleeful drunk Billy thought his childhood memories of the skeletal entity called the Wigwam were just his imagination. But when Billy returns to Indian Hills, he discovers the Wigwam is real–and he remembers Billy very well.
Mark D. Campbell
Day 362
A sudden apocalyptic event strikes the United States of America and catches the highest levels of government com
pletely off-guard. The president and his best men are rushed deep inside a top secret White House bunker to ride out the storm underground.
Trapped underground, will the president and his men be able to maintain their own sense of humanity–or reveal their own animalistic natures?
Mark D. Campbell
Jacob
To the outside world, author Jacob Matheson appears to have it made. With numerous bestsellers under his belt, a lavish house, and a sizable bank account, he lives a lifestyle that most could only dream about. Yet despite outwardly appearances, Jacob is a troubled soul whose only glimmer of happiness sits at the bottom of a glass.
Mark Justice
Dead Earth: The Green Dawn (Book 1)
Something bad has happened in Nevada. Rumors fly about plagues and secret government experiments. In Serenity, New Mexico, Deputy Sheriff Jubal Slate has his hands full. It seems that half the town, including his mother and his boss, are sick from an unusual malady. Even more worrisome is the oddly-colored dawn sky. Soon, the townspeople start dying. And they won't dead.
Mark Justice
Dead Earth: The Vengeance Road (Book 2)
Invaders from another world have used demonic technology to raise an unholy conquering army of the living dead. These necros destroyed Jubal Slate’s home and everyone he loved. Now the only thing left for Slate is payback. No matter how far he has to go or how many undead warriors he must slaughter, Slate and his motley band of followers will stop at nothing to end the reign of the aliens.
Mark Justice
Dead Earth: Sanctuary (Book 3)
Jubal Slate has stopped a madman controlling an undead army and survived the destruction of the aliens responsible for the plague that decimated humanity. Now he leads a small band of survivors across the shattered landscape of America, fighting off the forces of the living and the dead. The group races north pursuing a legend, a post-apocalyptic fairy tale: a town protected from the walking dead.
Mark Rogers
The Dead
A terrible judge comes like a thief in the night. Planes drop from the sky, machines sputter and stop, and the graves of the shrieking damned burst open. Angels from hell clothe themselves in the flesh of corpses to form an unholy army. Gary Holland is jolted awake to learn that his father is dead. The family gathers for the funeral... and confronts hell on earth.
Mark Tufo
Indian Hill 1: Encounters (A Michael Talbot Adventure)
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step and for Michael Talbot that step is taken at Indian Hill with his best friend Paul Ginson by his side. Together they grow up, meet girls, and go off to college.
And that's where everything changes.
Mark Tufo
Indian Hill 2: Reckoning (A Michael Talbot Adventure)
Ever since Mike's disappearance and presumed death, his college roommate Paul has been working to build, train and equip a fighting force capable of taking on anything.
Individually, Paul Ginson and Michael Talbot are forces to be reckoned with. Reunited they are a match made in Progerian Hell.
Mark Tufo
Indian Hill: The Michael Talbot Adventures 1 and 2
Nineteen-year-old Michael Talbot was an ordinary college student when the Progerian aliens came and forced him to fight for his life.
War is coming and nobody knows the alien enemy better than Michael Talbot, but he’s going to need an army…
Mason James Cole
Buster Voodoo
In 1948, young Dixon Green’s sister vanished—taken, some said, by a sinister urban legend: Buster Voodoo. In 2005, Dixon is custodian at a second-rate amusement park. As children begin to vanish into the shadows of the dark ride known as “Marie Laveau’s Zombie Nightmare, Dixon questions his sanity, and a deadly force looms on the horizon, far more powerful than any boogeyman: Hurricane Katrina.
Mason James Cole
Pray to Stay Dead: A Zombie Novel
It’s 1974. The world is ending.
As civilization falls, a group of terrified survivors crosses bloody paths with a family of survivalists who have spent years preparing for apocalypse. As the walking dead roam in search of living flesh, they seek shelter within his walls and soon learn that the ones they should fear most are the living.
Matthew Baugh
The Vampire Count of Monte Cristo
Wrongfully imprisoned, Edmond Dantes is driven by a longing for freedom and a lust for revenge. After making a pact with unspeakable forces, he becomes something no longer human. He dies in prison, only to be reborn as a bloodthirsty monster - the mysterious and powerful Count of Monte Cristo. Now he has returned to Paris, but is he an angel of vengeance, or a bloodthirsty emissary of Hell?
Meg Files
Meridian 144
Kit Manning is 50 feet underwater, scuba diving on an old sunken warship in the harbor of a Pacific island, when everything turns a bright yellow and shock waves hit. When Kit surfaces, she returns to a devastated harbor and perhaps a decimated world. When she emerges from the sea, it is as if for the first time. Everything has changed. No one else can define her life anymore. . . or save it.
Michael Clary
The Guardian (The Guardian Interviews Book 1)
An action packed page-turner filled with humorous dialogue, and heroic moments.
When the dead rise up and take over the city, the Government is forced to close off the borders and abandon the remaining survivors. Fortunately for them, a hero is about to be chosen…a Guardian that will rise up from the ashes, and fight back against the dead.
Michael Clary
The Regulators (The Guardian Interviews Book 2)
An action packed page turner filled with humorous dialogue, and heroic moments.
The General and his misfit team are once again fighting for their lives as they re-enter the zombie filled city of El Paso in order to rescue the remaining survivors. Unfortunately for them, something has begun hunting the General, and it won’t rest until he’s dead.
Michael Clary
Broken (The Guardian Interviews Book 3)
An action packed page turner filled with humorous dialogue, and heroic moments.
A new player has entered the city of El Paso. His only desire is to kill the General. He’s bigger, he’s stronger, and his first attack has already decimated the Regulators. Can the team survive their greatest threat ever?
Michael Schutz-Ryan
Blood Vengeance
A dead serial killer and his slain prey haunt the shabby San Francisco apartment where they died. When Brennan Cooper moves in upstairs, he fights to free the souls of the victims, trapped for all these years with their murderer.
Michael Westen
Id
For those who die and return as the undead, hell is living in a body you no longer control.
Michelle DePaepe
Eaters
Cheryl and her fiancé Mark are on their way back to Denver after a camping trip when they receive word an epidemic is spreading like wildfire. But this is no ordinary virus. Those infected, “Eaters,” are living corpses whose lust for rotten food quickly turns to an insatiable desire for human flesh. When Mark becomes infected, Cheryl is forced to venture into this insane new world on her own.
Mike Fosen
Slow Burn
For two veteran police officers and their small group of friends, the first day of the outbreak starts out like any other. Random fights and car accidents keep them busy, that is until they are confronted with a new and unexpected enemy. Each one of them is forced to confront the unthinkable. Zombies were real, and craving the living with an insatiable appetite.
Mike Fosen
Slow Burn 2
Society as we know it has crumbled. The Mexican drug cartels had released a biological weapon into the population of the United States. Once deployed, the virus mutated and turned its victims into relentless killers that spread the contagion with every bite. Metropolitan areas worldwide are now overrun
by legions of undead that hunt the living with a ceaseless need to feed.
Mikhail Lerma
Z Plan: Blood on the Sand
Cale, a U.S. Army Soldier, is in the middle of one conflict, just as another more terrifying one has begun. The insurgents are the least of his worries now. Instead, the undead have become the new enemy. Fighting for his life at every turn, and losing friends along the way, he must trek across the globe just in the hopes that he will hold his wife and daughter in his arms again.
Mikhail Lerma
Z Plan: Red Tides
When Cale deployed to Iraq he never could have known a deadly virus would soon overrun the world, turning the human race into a walking nightmare. His story picks up where it left off in BLOOD ON THE SAND. After drifting alone in the open sea, he is sure the chance of rescue is hopeless. Until finally a voice crackles over the boat radio. Only his rescue isn't quite what he imagined it would be.
Mikhail Lerma
Z Plan: Homecoming
In the thrilling conclusion of the Z Plan Trilogy, Cale's limits are put to the final test as he pushes his way through the undead. But something even more sinister follows his every move. In a world where the weak die and every glimmer of hope seems extinguished, Cale’s toughest challenge will be to overcome his inner demons. Can he survive the last leg of his journey?