Apocalyptic Horror

The dead have risen, and they are hungry. Slow and plodding, they are legion. The undead hunt the living. Stop and they will catch you. Hide and they will find you. If you have a heartbeat, you do the only thing you can: You run. Survivors escape to an island stronghold: a cop and his daughter, a computer nerd, a garbage man with a piece of rebar, and an escapee from a mental hospital with a lifesaving secret. After reaching Alcatraz, the ever-expanding group of survivors realize that the infected are not the only threat.

An ordinary traveler. A typical business trip. Nothing unusual or out of place. If the inhabitants of Spittsville, Texas seem a bit odd, blame overbearing sunshine and endless horizons of arid wastes. Since a rational mind will neither conceive nor believe the startling truth. As gradual as the growth of a creeping vine, deep within the wilds of West Texas an unholy invasion begins. One changeling at a time.

Brace yourself for a chilling journey into the heart of darkness in Donna Burgess's spine-tingling novella, The Ghosts of Chernobyl. Set against the eerie backdrop of the 1986 nuclear disaster, this haunting tale follows twin siblings Anton and Elena as they confront the terrifying specters of their past. When a mysterious vial promising eternal life resurfaces after 25 years, Anton must embark on a perilous odyssey back to the ghostly ruins of Pripyat. But as he navigates the twisted labyrinths of the abandoned city, he discovers that the true horror lies not in the ghosts that haunt ...

In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep: They become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent; and while they sleep they go to another place.... The men of our world are abandoned, left to their increasingly primal devices. One woman, however, the mysterious Evie, is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease.

In a quiet trailer on a snow-covered hill, an ancient shaman defies the natural order of life and death. With incantations older than recorded history and a dark ritual steeped in forbidden power, he challenges the spirit world itself. But when his defiance ensnares the Guide—an ethereal entity charged with shepherding souls—the world begins to unravel. From a single act of hubris, a catastrophic chain of events is unleashed. Souls scream out in torment, trapped between worlds, as a terrifying new reality emerges. The boundaries between life and death dissolve, birthing relentless, ...

Three survivors travel the ruins of a collapsed society, sifting through the rusted relics of the Ancients' civilization as they search for a better future, hoping to escape the horrors of the past. But among those treasures lurks danger. And what they discover might be worse than what they left behind.

! For more details on the HZA visit ZA SURVIVORS episodes on Vella. Dead Reckoning is the first book of the Red Rises story arc. Dead Reckoning breaks away from the characters introduced in the first two HZA books and explores the Blue Ridge mountains, by a heroine reluctant to take that role. Taking place nearly a year into the collapse of society, but like all stories, it starts at the beginning. The dead are rising bringing hell to the world. A powerful Atlanta gang leader, makes himself into the living embodiment of the demon Sammael, the king of the Satans. Ruling the infernal regions ...

To escape Olsen’s army, they’d opened the gates of Hell. But for Wren, Robyn, and Mila, that was just the beginning. Can they lead the rescued villagers to safety? Or is everything about to come crashing down around them? Chaos reigns, and with just a few hours left, a battle against overwhelming forces looms on the horizon. It will be bloody. It will be terrifying. And for many, it will be the end. No one is safe.

It's not about the zombies; it's about the survivors. When a meteor obliterates a top-secret government research facility, the world spirals into chaos. The dead walk among the living, and humanity's hope seems lost. Chalice Hart never imagined she'd lead a band of survivors through the apocalypse. Now, she must guide her rag-tag group to safety, navigating a world where every sanctuary is fleeting, and danger lurks around every corner. As they journey through the ruins of civilization, they gather allies and lose friends, each step fraught with peril. Their one beacon of hope is Colton, ...

The hand was mangled. It looked chewed, a finger missing, maybe an accident with a dog, his mind supplied. Accidents with dogs happened. He watched the little boy stumble along. The arm a grotesque parody of a real arm, swinging freely from its shoulder socket. Their eyes met a moment later, but it was already too late for the little boy. Roux had used his hands to prop his knees so he could stand. A second of standing had told him he could walk, and a single limping step had told him he could walk well enough. It had probably been the standing, his mind supplied now. His feet scraping on ...

Mankind has known hardships. They have experienced pandemics, droughts, floods, and infections, but never have they had to face a plague of this magnitude. Where did the Changed ones come from? How can the world survive now that they've arrived? What lengths will people go to, to make sure they are the ones who remain? Join in the epic battle to save humanity in this open-ended series.

With the virus mutating, new dangers appear that threaten a bloody end to the struggle for survival. The next wave of infection sweeps across the remaining population. Betrayal threatens the alliance with the GRU. Roach descends deeper into madness, hiding in plain sight as he plots to capture Katie. With Rachel still missing, it's up to Major Chase to rescue her and reaffirm the alliance to bring down the Russian president.

Han transcurrido cinco años desde que el apocalipsis se desató en La hora muerta. El mundo ha cambiado y los seres humanos luchan con desesperación por sobrevivir y conservar los últimos restos de cordura. El círculo se cierra. Los caminos han sido trazados. Conducen al lugar donde se decidirá el destino de la humanidad. Conducen a La catedral de la carne.

Start over and burn the world. Fifteen-year-old Brinn Addam can bring make-believe characters to life. It was a power once possessed by her uncle, Neal Stauch. The little boy died more than three decades earlier, but the world he created carried on. It’s a dying land populated with troubled characters desperately searching for a new creator—a modern-day keeper with the same incredible genes to start their world over again. A rag-tag bunch of Neal’s washed up heroes reunite to set things right. Brinn sets out to help, aided by her own band of imaginary twenty-first-century friends. But...

In the heart of the South Pacific lies Point Nemo, the most desolate and remote place on Earth. At its core is a dead zone, devoid of life, where government agencies crash their obsolete satellites and space stations, confident they won't harm a soul. When the International Space Station suffers a catastrophic failure and plummets through the atmosphere, it's here that Mission Specialist Julie Rohr, an astrobiologist studying living space dust called xylem, finds herself marooned. Julie's only hope for rescue lies in the hands of her estranged father, Dr. Finn Maddern, a renowned mycologist.

When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity. Cloning, feel-good drugs, anti-aging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media: has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 A.F. (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.

After a long day on the job, house painter Gus Berry is looking forward to relaxing and spending some time with his girlfriend before returning to work the next day. But none of that is going to happen. Gus’s coworker Benny has found them a painting gig at the local Mollymart East, and it has to be done by morning. If Gus and his crew can complete the work on time, it could mean huge business with a major grocery store chain.

A terrifying threat that could only have come from the imagination of author RWK Clark. This genuinely gripping page-turner is sure to give you chills and fill you with hope. When a college student notices everyone around her is rude and violent, she senses that something has gone awry. Her suspicions are confirmed when, suddenly, the city erupts into chaos. Alicia leads a search to find the source. A riveting apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and entangled in a struggle of horror.

In a world torn apart by a virulent and mutated virus, Jane may be humanity’s last hope. Trapped in a hospital ward, she faces an unending nightmare of isolation, haunting memories, and a sense of time slipping away. For over a week, her only companions are the echoes of distant gunfire and the sickening thuds of infected guards at her door, reminders that she’s on borrowed time. Then, a familiar face reappears—a former friend, twisted beyond recognition by the virus—bringing her a code that could unlock her prison. With it comes her one chance at escape and the harsh reality of the...

For more details on the HZA visit ZA SURVIVORS episodes in Vella. Surviving the Atlanta gang, The Inferno, Red travels with her group into Tennessee. Finding a lead on the amusement park, Great Smoky Playland, the group chooses to make it their refuge from the dead. As Red and the group work to make the park a defendable home, they are joined by Tennessee mountain man, Turk. Turk had come to the park after rescuing a handful of orphaned teens, captured by a religious cult the True Believers. At the core of the True Believer faith is the risen dead, they call the fallen, are a curse from God...