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Set one year after the events of Shattered Earth, Book 1 this novella is a story of love, loss, and the attempt by Meg Carson to finally grieve the loss of her true love. Delving into the past relationship between the young women, their sundering, and Tammy's years after the collapse of human civilization, this short tale will fill in some of the gaps and events in Book 2.

The Dark Musings Collection contains six stories of horror and suspense.

It's the first Christmas following the rise of the dead, and all little Caleb wants is to see his parents again. It's up to the only family he has left, his sister Amber, to try and make his Christmas wish come true.

They arrived without warning, raining death and chaos across the surface of the Earth. Humanity fought back, and although we didn't win, we did cripple them, fighting them to a standstill on the planet and in orbit. Now, more than a hundred years later, the world is a very different place. Technology varies wildly from region to region as does which race dominates the other. After so many decades of détente, the enemy is once more on the move; but not just against the surviving enclaves of humanity, also against members of their own species.

In the tradition of Max Brooks' amazing and seminal Zombie Survival Guide, The Risen Dead is a fictional handbook written by a survivor of the Zombie Apocalypse in "The Shores of the Dead" universe. This is intended as a companion piece and a bridging tome between the first cycle of stories and the second.

Season 3 of Summer Camp of the Dead picks up right where season 2 ended. While the kids at the camp hurry to raise a defense against the approaching bandits, Bob and the rest race to reach the island of safety ahead of an approaching hoard of the hungry dead.

Everyday I watch Johnny walk home from the bus stop, and everyday I watch him be tortured...it stops today.

The Marquette Institute and the Department of Preternatural Activities (DPA) have been America's primary defense against the things that go bump in the night for more than a century and a half. It has been said that without the activities of this group and similar organizations, the human race would've fallen under the heel of dark forces long ago.

Collected in one place for the first time, these seven previously published zombie tales span the gamut of the genre. In Under the Bed, a little girl hides from a mother who's not her mommy anymore. In The Last Train Out, a terrified woman is forced to make the ultimate decision as she attempts to flee a New York City being overrun by the dead. In The Rising Water, a young boy alone on an isolated farm has to deal with the storm of the century and the rise of the dead.

Flight or fight? When Emily Paulson was first confronted with that ancient imperative, she choose fight. She lost and was subjected to cruelty that nearly fractured her soul. Now an adult and a successful reporter with a wreck of a personal life, she is returning to her childhood home accompanied by the demons from the past. On her journey along the rails between the cities of Atlanta and Detroit, she will meet a young mother and her innocent child fleeing in fear from a monster that darkly mirrors the demons of Emily's own past.

In a matter of seconds the sun, moon, and stars disappeared from the sky, replaced by an inky, infinite blackness. Global communications were disrupted, and chaos reigned worldwide as panic set in, and humanity reset to its basest of behaviors and most primal of natural instincts.

Jeff and Dawn face down the dead in a town that shouldn't exist. Jillian and Ashley meet Burke and have to reach a consensus on how they deal with the odd man. As Creighton's body heals, his mind fractures, and he enters the jungle this time on the hunt as opposed to being the hunted. In the trees and fields, Emily and the hunter square off in a duel in which only one can survive.

Set in the universe of the Earth Interregnum, Rescue Mission is the story of a group of relic hunters and adventures on a mission to save the past before it's lost. Following the end of the Commonwealth-Nal'e War, the four races turned their attentions to rebuilding the solar system and reclaiming their past. The crew of the CSS Doctor Henry Jones Jr. is determined to locate and recover the holy grail of the relic-hunting community.

Sailors have always had their stories, their tall tales of the sea. While many are the bragging and one-upmanship of men who do work no one else wants to do, some of them are frighteningly real. What a few sailors lucky enough to survive know is that beneath the icy waters of the Northern Pacific, a terror from the forgotten depths of history hunts them.

In Frankenstein, King of the Dead, Book 1, an expedition to the continent of Antarctica started a chain reaction of chaos. Mr. Franklin Victor Castle, formerly known only as Dr. Frankenstein's monster, launches into action, continuing a mission he began more than a century earlier. He never counted on her entering his life. Now, in the besieged city of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Frank's best friend and truest love is trapped by the living dead. Frank heads off with only one goal...to save her.

The end has come as the various groups and factions race to the apocalyptic climax. As the people of White harbor struggle to shore up their defenses the Rangers and Wolverines make a stand at the Mighty Mackinac Bridge in an effort to thwart the crossing of the Army of the Dead. Some will live and some will die but in the end it will all be decided with the courage of the living on the Shores of the Dead.

The world stands on the brink of collapse and the only people who can save it are two strippers from Canada and a telepathic rabbit with the transplanted mind of a 96-year-old timber baron.

Nine short stories set in the Shores of the Dead universe. Broken into blocks of three, they take place after each of the novels in the series.

When the world is ending and monsters of myth and legend roam the land there is only one person the human race can count on to stand on our side: Frankenstein! From his fortress deep in the arctic Frank gathers the information needed to determine the threats facing the world. Contacting friends and colleagues from his centuries of life, he prepares to ride out the storm of death and chaos.

In the second season our rangers and campers are forced to come together as a group. Then they are forced into town for supplies. In town a new group of kids holding up in the community center fight off the dead and an old warrior protects the town. In the woods Bob the Bear continues his hunt of the dead and his quest to protect cubs.