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#Year1st ReadTitleAuthor(s)My Rating 
101 2022 Second Coming
The Konrath/Kilborn Collective #11
J A Konrath  Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0
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102 1936 2016 The Shadow Out of TimeH P Lovecraft  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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103 1977 1987 The Shining
Shining #1
Stephen King  Rated 4Rated 4Rated 4Rated 4Rated 4
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104 2017 2019 The Silent Corner
Jane Hawk #1
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Dean R Koontz  Rated 4Rated 4Rated 4Rated 4Rated 4
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A dazzling new series debuts with a remarkable heroine certain to become a new icon of suspense, propelled by the singular narrative genius of New York Times best-selling author Dean Koontz.

"I very much need to be dead."

These are the chilling words left behind by a man who had everything to live for - but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, Jane, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered...unless she does what all the grief, fear, confusion, and fury inside of her demand: find the truth, no matter what.

There is no one else to speak for Jane's husband - or the others who have followed him into death at their own hands. Although people of talent and accomplishment, people admired and happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers, no one else is willing to give up everything just to seek, to find, to know. No one except Jane. But ahead lies only risk. Because those arrayed against her are legion...and dangerously devoted to protecting something profoundly important - or terrifying - enough to exterminate any and all in their way.

Too many have already died, and those responsible will learn that all their malevolent power may not be enough to stop a woman as clever as they are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless - and who is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.
105 1985 1988 Skeleton CrewStephen King  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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106 2017 2019 Sleeping BeautiesOwen King  
Stephen King  
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107 1962 1983 Something Wicked This Way Comes
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Ray Bradbury  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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*** A MASTERPIECE OF FANTASY ***
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES

A chilling novel
of fascinating evil by
the author of
A MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY
and THE ILLUSTRATED MAN

RAY BREADBURY

Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show crept into town late one night to the errie whine of a calliope.  In the fearful days that followed, a schoolteacher suddenly became a little girl, a rosy-cheeked boy became a wizened Methuselah, a full-grown man became a tiny dwarf.  It was Jim and Will, two thirteen-year-old school boys, who first stumbled onto the grisly secrets of the Show - the sinister merry-go-round, the wax museum of living people, the strange mirror that stole souls.  But it was not until they had actually become part of the evil seductions that they discovered the most awful secret of all...
108 2004 2008 Song of Susannah
The Dark Tower #6
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The biggest and boldest achievement of Stephen King's extraordinary career. "The Dark Tower is a humane, visionary epic and a true magnum opus," raves The Washington Post.  "It will be around for a very long time."

Here is the sixth installment in the seven-volume series, a stunning book of revelations that "draws to a feverish, page-turning ending" (The Boston Globe).


STEPHEN
KING

SONG OF SUSANNAH

THE DARK TOWER VI

Susannah Dean is possessed, her body a living vessel for the demon-mother Mia. Something is growing inside Susannah's belly, something terrible, and soon she will give birth to Mia's "chap." But three unlikely allies are following them from New York City to the border of End World, hoping to prevent the unthinkable. Meanwhile, Eddie and Roland have tumbled into the state of Maine - where the author of a novel called 'Salem's Lot is about to meet his destiny....

"PURE STORYTELLING." - The Washington Post
109 1990 2018 The Stand (Unabridged)Stephen King  Rated 4Rated 4Rated 4Rated 4Rated 4
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110 1978 1987 The StandStephen King  Rated 4Rated 4Rated 4Rated 4Rated 4
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111 2006 2020 Stationary BikeStephen King  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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112 1977 1988 A Stranger is Watching
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Mary Higgins Clark  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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"TERRIFYING... ONCE A STRANGER IS WATCHING GETS HOLD OF YOU... IT DOESN'T LET GO!"
- The Washington Post

Ronald Thompson knows he never killed Nina Peterson... yet in two days the state of Connecticut will take his life, having found him guilty via due process of law.  But Thompson's death will not stop the pain and anger of Nina's husband, Steve.  Thompson's death will not still the fears of Nina's six-year-old son, Neil, witness to his mother's brutal slaying.  Not even the love and friendship of Sharon Martin, a journalist who is slowly becoming a part of their world, will ever erase their bitter memories.  Only time, perhaps, will heal their wounds.  But in the shadows a stranger waits, a cunning psychopath who has killed before, who has unfinished business at the Peterson home...

A STRANGER IS WATCHING
MARY HIGGINS CLARK

"SHATTERINGLY REAL... THERE HAVE BEEN FEW CLOCK-WATCHING CLIMAXES TO MATCH THIS."
- San Francisco Chronicle

"A MASTER OF HORROR."
- The New York Times Book Review

VISIT US ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB
http://www.SimonSays.com/mhclark
113 1842 Tales of Mystery and ImaginationEdgar Allan Poe  Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0
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114 1984 1987 The Talisman
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Stephen King  
Peter Straub  
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THE TALISMAN
You are about to take a journey... a terrifying trip across a nightmare America filled with monsters beyond anything ever imagined before... a journey into the dark heart of horror...

THE TALISMAN
Two of the world's best-selling authors team up in the ultimate masterpiece of spine-tingling terror... the most compelling, most talked-about, most frightening book of the decade...

A CLASSIC... A JOURNEY TO RIVAL THE GREATEST ADVENTURE STORIES EVER TOLD... RARE AND DAZZLING!"
- New York DAILY NEWS

"EXTRAORDINARY... MAKES YOUR HAIR STAND ON END!"
- WASHINGTON POST
115 2002 Tempted Champions
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Adult #19
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Yvonne Navarro  Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0
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FALLEN ANGELS

Buffy's shaken to learn that Celina, the new girl in town, is actually a vamp who's heard of Buffy's rep.  She's here to challenge the Slayer and even Angel - in L.A. - is concerned that this time, Buffy may be in over her head.

Celina's not the only monster skulking about the neighborhood.  D'Hoffryn has returned to Sunnydale to offer Anya another chance as a vengeance demon.  Can she give up her romance with Xander and the friendships she's forged as a mortal for another shot at immortality - even if it comes with a horrific price tag?  Dawn tries to explain to Anya that humanity is worth the occasional heartache, even as she has doubts of her own.

Suddenly Buffy learns the terrifying truth about Celina: she's not just any vamp - she was once a Slayer herself.  Buffy has struggled with her own dark side enough to question the subtle distinction between "Slayer" and killer.  If Celina turned Buffy, and Willow restored Buffy's soul, could she possibly find love with Angel at last?  And, more imortantly, would she still be a hero?
116 1996 2024 Tick Tock
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Dean R Koontz  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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Tommy Phan is a successful detective novelist living the American dream in Southern California. One evening he comes home to find a small rag doll on his doorstep. It’s a simple doll, covered entirely in white cloth, with crossed black stitches for the eyes and mouth, and another pair forming an X over the heart. Curious, he brings it inside.

That night Tommy hears an odd popping sound and looks up to see the stitches breaking over the doll’s heart. And in minutes the fabric of Tommy Phan’s reality will be torn apart. Something terrifying emerges from the pristine white cloth, something that will follow Tommy wherever he goes. Something that he can’t destroy. It wants Tommy’s life, and he doesn’t know why. He has only one ally, a beautiful, strangely intuitive waitress he meets by chance - or by a design far beyond his comprehension. He has too many questions, no answers, and very little time. Because the vicious and demonically clever doll has left this warning on Tommy’s computer screen: The deadline is dawn.
117 1987 1987 The Tommyknockers
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Late last night and the night before,
    Tommyknockers, Tommyknockers,
        knocking at the door.
I want to go out, don't know if I can,
    'cause I'm so afraid
    of the Tommyknocker man.


It begins with nothing more frightening than a nursery rhyme; yet in Stephen King's hands it becomes an unforgettable parable of dread, a threat from an unimaginable darkness that drags the practical inhabitants of a New England village into a hell worse than their own most horrible nightmares... and yours.

It begins with a writer named Roberta Anderson, looking for firewood in the forest that stretches behind her house.  Bobbi stumbles over three inches of metal, which unusually heavy spring runoff has left sticking out of the soil.  A logger's beer can she thinks at first, but "the metal was as solid as mother-rock."

It begins with Bobbi's discovery of the ship in the earth, a ship buried for millions of years, but still vibrating faintly, still humming with some sort of life... faint... weak... but still better left alone.

Bobbi then begins to dig - tentatively at first, then compulsively - and is joined by her old friend (and onetime lover), Jim Gardener.  Aided by a weirdly advanced technology, their excavation proceeds apace.  And as they uncover more and more of an artifact both familiar and unbelievable it is almost beyond comprehension, the inhabitants of Haven start to change.

There is the new hot-water heater in Bobbi's basement - a hot-water heater that apparently runs on flashlight batteries.  The vengeful housewife who learns of her husbands affair... from a picture of Jesus on top of her TV, a picture that begins to talk.  Not to mention the ten-year-old magician who makes his little brother disappear... for real.

The townspeople of Haven are "becoming" - being welded into one organic, homicidal, and fearsomely brilliant entity in fatal thrall to the Tommyknockers.

In this riveting, nightmarish story, Stephen King has given us his tautest, most terrifying novel to date.  And the next time someone raps at your door, you may want to keep the chain on.  It just might be the Tommyknocker man.

Stephen King's most recent works are It, The Eyes of the Dragon, and Misery.  He and his wife Tabitha King, live in Bangor, Maine, with their three children.
118 2010 Trapped
The Konrath/Kilborn Collective #5
J A Konrath  Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0
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119 2005 2008 Twilight
Twilight #1
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About three things I was absolutely positive.

First, Edward was a vampire.

Second, there was a part of him -
and I didn't know how dominant that part might be -
that thirsted for my blood.

And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.

DEEPLY SEDUCTIVE AND EXTRAORDINARILY SUSPENSFUL,
TWILIGHT IS A LOVE STORY WITH BITE.

A New York Times Editor's Choice
An Amazon "Best Book of the Decade... So Far"
A Teen People "Hot List" pick
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year

* "Propelled by suspense and romance in equal parts, [this story] will keep readers madly flipping the pages of Meyer's tantalizing debut."
- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

* "The novel's danger-factor skyrockets as the excitement of secret love and hushed affection morphs into a terrifying race to stay alive.... Twilight will have readers dying to sink their teeth into it."
- School Library Journal (starred review)

THE TWILIGHT SAGA
Twilight · New Moon · Eclipse · Breaking Dawn
120 2009 2021 URStephen King  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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121 1991 2008 The Waste Lands
The Dark Tower #3
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Stephen King  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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Back cover is a photograph of Stephen King.
122 2003 2018 WatchersDean R Koontz  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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123 2016 Webcam
The Konrath/Kilborn Collective #8
J A Konrath  Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0
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124 2008 2020 Welcome to Lovecraft
Locke & Key #1
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Acclaimed suspense novelist and New York Times best-selling author Joe Hill (Heart-Shaped Box) creates an all-new story of dark fantasy and wonder: Locke & Key.

Written by Hill and featuring artwork from Gabriel Rodriguez, Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them... and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all...

"It's great!...  The art here by Gabriel Rodriguez is some of the finest stuff in comics today...  The team of Hill and Rodriguez is top notch!"
- Blair Butler,
Fresh Ink

"Solid pacing and plot twists, combined with Rodriguez's clean lines and detailed pencils make Locke & Key a lock for best horror book of the week."
- Wizard Magazine

"In a year of auspicious comics debuts.  Joe Hill turned in one of the few comics that truly came from a different place.  Written with skill that makes me jealous, courage that makes me smile, and honesty and brutality that makes me want to see what comes next.  Okay, I'm officially a fan."
- Ed Brubaker,
Eisner Award-winning writer

"Holy S#%@!  This is intense, man... you have got to pick up this comic!"
-Pete LePage.
Pulp Secret

"A modern suspense thriller meets something more wondrous and magical."
-IGN.com

Locke & Key creator Hill is a past recipient of the Bram Stoker Award, the World Fantasy Award, the International Thriller Award, and the Sydney J. Bounds Best Newcomer Award.  This collection of the first Locke & Key storyline features an introduction by Robert Crais, author of the best-selling Elvis Cole novels.
125 2019 What Happened to Lori
The Konrath/Kilborn Collective #9
J A Konrath  Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0Rated 0
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126 2017 2019 The Whispering Room
Jane Hawk #2
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Dean R Koontz  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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Jane Hawk - fiction's most relentless, resourceful, stunning new heroine - continues her battle against a murderous conspiracy in the riveting sequel to The Silent Corner.

"No time to delay. Do what you were born to do. Fame will be yours when you do this."

These are the words that ring in the mind of mild-mannered, beloved schoolteacher Cora Gundersun - just before she takes her own life, and many others', in a shocking act of carnage. When the disturbing contents of her secret journal are discovered, it seems certain that she must have been insane. But Jane Hawk knows better.

In the wake of her husband's inexplicable suicide - and the equally mysterious deaths of scores of other exemplary individuals - Jane picks up the trail of a secret cabal of powerful players who think themselves above the law and beyond punishment. But the ruthless people bent on hijacking America's future for their own monstrous ends never banked on a highly trained FBI agent willing to go rogue - and become the nation's most wanted fugitive - in order to derail their insidious plans to gain absolute power with a terrifying technological breakthrough.

Driven by love for her lost husband and by fear for the five-year-old son she has sent into hiding, Jane Hawk has become an unstoppable predator. Those she is hunting will have nowhere to run when her shadow falls across them.
127 1997 2008 Wizard and Glass
The Dark Tower #4
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Stephen King returns to the Dark Tower with the eagerly anticipated fourth volume in his bestselling series....

Wizard and Glass


Roland, The Last Gunslinger, and his band of followers have narrowly escaped one world and slipped into the next - there Roland tells them a tale of long-ago love and adventure involving a beatiful and quixotic woman named Susan Delgado.  And there they will be drawn into an ancient mystery of spellbinding magic and supreme menace....

The Dark Tower

Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with shocking plit twists, stunning visual imagery, and unforgetable characters, The Dark Tower series is unlike anything you've ever read.  Here is Stephen King at his most visionary, a magical mix of fantasy and horror that may be his crowning achievement.
128 2003 2008 Wolves of the Calla
The Dark Tower #5
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Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, the DARK TOWER series is unlike anything you have ever read.

Here is the fifth installment, "one of the strongest entries yet in what will surely be a master storyteller's magnum opus" (Locus).


STEPHEN
KING

Wolves of the Calla


THE DARK TOWER V

Roland Deschain and his ka-tet are bearing southeast through the forests of Mid-World on their quest for the Dark Tower. Their path takes them to the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis. But beyond the tranquil farm town, the ground rises to the hulking darkness of Thunderclap, the source of a terrible affliction that is stealing the town's soul. The wolves of Thunderclap and their unspeakable depredation are coming. To resist them is to risk all, but these are odds the gunslingers are used to. Their guns, however, will not be enough....

"A HYPNOTIC BLEND.... A sprawling tale of demons, monstersm narrow escapes, and magic portals." - The New York Times Book Review
129 1903 2019 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Volume 1
Works of Edgar Allan Poe #1
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Volume two of the complete works in five volumes from one of the leaders of the American Romantics. Macabre parties in isolated castles … Gruesome bestial murders … Talking ravens, hellish black pits, innocents buried alive … Prepare to be chilled and enthralled by the haunting genius of the acknowledged master of gothic horror and suspense, Edgar Allan Poe. Included in this volume are; An Appreciation, Life of Poe, by James Russell Lowell, Death of Poe, by N. P. Willis, The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfall, The Gold Bug, Four Beasts in One, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt, The Balloon Hoax, MS. Found in a Bottle and The Oval Portrait.
130 1903 2020 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Volume 2
Works of Edgar Allan Poe #2
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Volume two of the complete works in five volumes from one of the leaders of the American Romantics. Macabre parties in isolated castles … Gruesome bestial murders … Talking ravens, hellish black pits, innocents buried alive … Prepare to be chilled and enthralled by the haunting genius of the acknowledged master of gothic horror and suspense, Edgar Allan Poe. Included in this volume are The Purloined Letter, The Thousand-And-Second Tale of Scheherazade, A Descent Into the Maelstrom, Von Kempelen And His Discovery, Mesmeric Revelation, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, The Black Cat, The Fall of the House of Usher, Silence-A Fable, The Masque of the Red Death, The Cask of Amontillado, The Imp of the Perverse, The Island of the Fay, The Assignation, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Premature Burial, The Domain of Arnheim, Landor’s Cottage, William Wilson, The Tell-Tale Heart, Berenice, and Eleonora.
131 1903 2021 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Volume 3
Works of Edgar Allan Poe #3
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Edgar Allan Poe  Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3Rated 3
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Volume three of the complete works in five volumes from one of the leaders of the American Romantics. Macabre parties in isolated castles … Gruesome bestial murders … Talking ravens, hellish black pits, innocents buried alive … Prepare to be chilled and enthralled by the haunting genius of the acknowledged master of gothic horror and suspense, Edgar Allan Poe. Included in this volume are Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym, Ligeia, Morella, A Tale Of The Ragged Mountains, The Spectacles, King Pest and Three Sundays In A Week.
132 1903 2022 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Volume 4
Works of Edgar Allan Poe #4
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Volume four of the complete works in five volumes from one of the leaders of the American Romantics. Macabre parties in isolated castles … Gruesome bestial murders … Talking ravens, hellish black pits, innocents buried alive … Prepare to be chilled and enthralled by the haunting genius of the acknowledged master of gothic horror and suspense, Edgar Allan Poe. Included in this volume are The Devil in the Belfry, Lionizing, X-ing a Paragraph, Metzengerstein, The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether, The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq., How to Write a Blackwood article, A Predicament, Mystification, Diddling, The Angel of the Odd, Mellonia Tauta, The Duc de l’Omlette, The Oblong Box, Loss of Breath, The Man That Was Used Up, The Business Man, The Landscape Garden, Maelzel’s Chess-Player, The Power of Words, The Colloquy of Monas and Una, The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion and Shadow–A Parable.
133 1903 2023 The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Volume 5
Works of Edgar Allan Poe #5
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134 2006 2014 World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "Prepare to be entranced by this addictively readable oral history of the great war between humans and zombies." - Entertainment Weekly

We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by that terrible time? We have (temporarily?) defeated the living dead, but at what cost? Told in the haunting and riveting voices of the men and women who witnessed the horror firsthand, World War Z is the only record of the apocalyptic years.

The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.






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