| THE DEAD by Mark E. Rogers |
A terrible judge comes like a thief in the night. While the world sleeps, everything changes. In the diseased light of a festering sun, 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. Dreaming of his father hammering his way out of a coffin, Gary Holland is jolted awake by the phone to learn that his father is dead. Bickering over infidelity and religion, the family gathers for the funeral... and confronts hell on earth at the Jersey Shore. Hounded from cellar to sewer, the staggering, bloodied survivors of the Holland clan are pushed remorselessly to choose between black despair and hopeless faith. "The Dead is the book that suggested what this new subgenre of dark fantasy — zombie horror — could be if it didn’t succumb to brainlessness. You know, like what happened to vampires." "This is more than just another zombie story, but rather, a tale of apocalyptic religious mythology that, in my opinion, rivals that of THE STAND by Stephen King." Reviews |
