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On December 21, 2012, according to the Mayan Calendar, the world was supposed to end. It didn't. But on that day, 113 mysterious manuscripts were discovered around the world, each one written in blood by an unknown author. After several dozen unexplained deaths befell the finders of said manuscripts, a decision was made to lock them up for good in a secret vault beneath the Vatican. It is said that anyone who reads the stories will die, and as such they are now referred to as 'The Cursed Manuscripts.'

The world has crumbled, and the dead walk the Earth, but all is not lost. A group of survivors, led by weary veterinarian Anna and gruff loner Garfield, seek salvation at an abandoned pier where the dead can’t reach them. It's a place they might be able to call home, but then again, nowhere is truly safe. The dead are everywhere but aren't the only threat. Other people survived the apocalypse, and when an injured man turns up at the pier, it sets into motion a terrible chain of events. The world may have changed, but people haven’t.

With his eldest daughter fighting deadly cancer and his youngest determined to get herself into all kinds of trouble, Jake Penshaw is a man on the very edges of a breakdown. A father is supposed to keep his children safe, but no matter what he does, things only ever seem to get worse. He’s sick of being powerless. He’s sick of failing as a man.

It's been months since the demons arrived and slaughtered the world. The Earth belongs to the damned, and barely anything of civilization 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. In their care are almost 50 children, perhaps the last children left. Their survival is vital to mankind's survival.

After mankind's previous victories at Portsmouth and Kielder, things begin to look hopeful, but unknown to the last human survivors is that they are about to face their worst enemy yet. Crimolok has arrived, and soon, there'll be nothing left. This is the final fight between Hell and Earth - the last battle between light and dark.

Simon "Sim" Barker runs a successful True Crime YouTube channel with his girlfriend Chrissy. One day, after completing their latest episode, they are approached by Billionaire Tech Industrialist Evers Nealy, who asks them to endorse his latest–Top Secret–project.

When a quaint village in the United Kingdom is struck by a suicide bomber, the once proud nation is brought to its knees. Yet, that first attack was just the beginning of something far greater and much much worse. Something that no one could ever have predicted. The days to follow will determine if the UK has a future left in the modern world or if it will be reduced to anarchy and ashes. The one person who stands between the people of the UK and complete destruction is a damaged ex-solider, Captain Sarah Stone.

After a terrible night of arguing, a young married couple, Laura and Danny, drive home with their daughter, Rose, asleep in the back seat. Danny is drunk, and shouldn't be driving at all, but Laura keeps quiet about it. She always keeps quiet. What happens next will put Laura's strained marriage to the ultimate test as she and Danny find themselves broken down in the middle of the night on a lonely road. Their only hope for survival is to stay inside the car, because that's the only way to avoid the cannibalistic maniacs outside trying eat them.

Continue Ryan and Aaron's story as they flee the cottage by the hill and finally make it to the village where they hope to find safety, but the threat of the quickly spreading fungus is only growing worse, and not everyone in the village welcomes strangers. It's time to meet the locals....

Clip and Xavi are youngsters in love, with their whole lives ahead of them. Clip, a psychology student, and Xavi, a med student, are catching the train into the university for an afternoon lecture. But today, they aren't going to make their destination. Shortly upon entering a short tunnel, the world stops making sense, and the future suddenly seems short. There are dangers on the train, least of all the other passengers, and for some reason, the lights keep going out. Strangest of all, the train should have left the short tunnel several minutes ago.

Emily Carlton's life is going nowhere. Single, broke, and stuck in a job she hates, life is a never-ending treadmill of monotony and routine. But at least tonight will be different. She's due to meet old friends and have fun at the beach. But the fun quickly gets out of hand when one of Emily's friends brutally attacks an illegal immigrant in a fit of racist anger.

How do you go on when there's nothing left? The fungus has all but won. Only a few remain, surviving however they can. Aaron and his companions escaped the nightmare of Choirikell, only to enter a brand new hell at an army encampment near Edinburgh named Culdrake. It has big fences and lots of guns, but Aaron can't help but wonder how long before it all comes crashing down. The people in camp aren't protected; they're sitting ducks.

Aaron Cartwright is not the young boy he used to be. He is something else now. Something not quite human. His friends no longer look at him the same way. But the mission hasn’t changed. The enemy needs destroying. The Earth needs reclaiming. The problem is...a new threat is about to arrive, and everything mankind thought it knew is about to be proved dead wrong.

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.

Ryan and Aaron finally reach "safety", but soon learn that there is far more at stake than just their own lives. Other people are in peril; people who will surely die without rescue. It’s time for Ryan to decide what kind of big brother he wants to be. The nightmare in Choirikell has only just begun.

Aaron Cartwright and his friends have walked through hell and come out of the other end changed in ways they could never have imagined. But they are still human. They are still prepared to fight. And fight they must as mankind's deadly enemy unleashes a new weapon designed to end humanity once and for all. In order to stop the extinction of all life on Earth, Aaron must do something next to impossible: return home and face the enemy one last time. He will just have to hope that home still exists.

Tom and Sophie Sumner have been married for 10 years. They won't make it to 11. Infidelity and neglect have torn their relationship apart, and they part ways today. Sophie is going home to the village she grew up - Cottontree. If there's any chance of Tom persuading her to give their marriage one last chance, it's now. But Cottontree is a place with a much darker past than anybody knows, and the Sumners are about to have much bigger problems than their marriage.

Ghosts.... The latest viral sensation has arrived. All the kids are doing it. It's called "Summoning the Dead." It's just a silly Latin sacrament someone found online. They call it "Nomon's Ritual." It can't be real, right?