The Dead
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The Dead
Buy Now for £18.99
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Narrated by:
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Basil Sands
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By:
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Mark E. Rogers
About this listen
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.
©2009 Mark E. Rogers (P)2014 Audible Inc.No Romero zombies these; Roger’s version of the undead are intelligent and malicious, possessed by their own damned souls and determined to drag everyone else into Hell.
Despite being agnostic, I’ve always found religious horror terrifying. What if the universe really is run by a judgemental God who punishes disbelief with eternal torment? That’s a horrific thought, and that’s what we see play out here. God’s final judgement has come, the few truly good people are raptured off the paradise, and the evil and the undecided are left in a world slowly running down, pursued by the damned in their own reanimated bodies.
Some reviewers criticise the theological speculations between some of the characters, but if *you* were trapped in a bizarre situation, wouldn’t you try and reason out what had happened?
Roger’s plot is tense and terrifying, and grips right up to the end. There may have been better zombie apocalypse novels written, but most follow the form established by the Romero movies (no bad thing). This is something very different, and far more personal. These walking dead are smart, and they don’t just want us dead. They want us to suffer like they do, for all eternity.
Brrrrr.
Taut supernatural apocalypse thriller
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