Survival Horror Fiction

The world didn't end in a single night. It died slowly. Brutally. One day at a time. The Pleasure Beach is packed. Families queue for the Roller Coaster, arcades flash in the heat, and twelve-year-old Josh begs for just one more go. Then, the holiday crowds turn into a stampede of terror. A contagion tears through the seafront, turning tourists and neighbours into shambling, flesh-eating monsters. There is no warning. There is no time to run. In moments, the fairground becomes a slaughterhouse. Trapped in the chaos, Matt and Josh must fight through a seaside town gone to hell.

Vampires have walked among us for thousands of years. These reanimated corpses survive by draining and consuming the blood of the living, and their threat to humanity cannot be ignored. Throughout the centuries, professors and peasants have offered their own vampire-fighting tips, but these were often old wives' tales, based more on superstition than on fact. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive vampire-fighting guide for the 21st century.

Jeannie Parker married a serial killer. She didn’t know it at the time. But she blames her own demons for steering her into such a black orbit. Now, she’s running for her life... Stumbling through the frozen woods, she’s mad-lucky to find the decrepit cabin. But she can only hide so long. Their final showdown awaits. At least she’s stopped lying to herself about his depravity—so impossible to withstand, let alone outwit. Maybe she doesn’t deserve to get away given her complicity over the years. Still, a budding survival instinct within, Nag, disagrees with her assessment.

A virulent virus of unknown origins has decimated the UK, turning the majority of the population into monsters hungry for human flesh. Through luck and a sheer bloodymindedness to make the right decisions for everyone, Warren has survived. Not everyone has been so lucky, however, and he is now desperate to reunite with his family and find somewhere safe for them all to exist. Warren enters the Community; a collection of organised survivors in a gated safe-haven.

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, World War Z, The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to...

Out in the mountains, Zack and his friend, Uta, discover what they think is a large fossilized dinosaur egg. This could make their fortune! Zack takes it home to keep it safe. Only the egg isn't fossilized - it's hatching! And there's an angry mother dinosaur out there, who wants her baby back. Includes a full lenght fascinating interview with the author, Paul Zindel.

THE THRILLING 16-HOUR PENULTIMATE CHAPTER TO THE SAGA From award-winning author Andrew Masseurs comes the most terrifying chapter yet, narrated personally by the author. "This sixth instalment dropped me back into the most perilous literary world I’ve ever encountered as a horror buff... The...

When a mysterious blast goes off in a small college town, triggering a blizzard, college Professor Dominic and the few remaining survivors must decide whether to stay or leave and face the monsters who came with the snow.

In dieser Welt sind die einzigen, denen man vertrauen kann, die Toten.Ein Satellit, der nicht existieren sollte, stürzt in den Dschungel. Ein rachsüchtiger Teamkamerad kehrt aus der Vergangenheit zurück. Eine gefährliche Mission führt in eine Stadt der Toten.

The sac isn't shrinking, but those alive are! New faces are introduced as old friends are trying their best to remain alive! Who will survive, who will perish? Find out in book 5 of Zombies on the Block: Survival Isn't for All. Book 6 continues the chaos, the mayhem, and the hell unleashed. Don't forget that these dead never get satisfied, and their rage knows no end. The lucky will see another day as the living—the less fortunate will roam the Earth full of hunger and rage. A zombie no one expected and no one was ready for.

The first winter has come, and with it, new problems. No longer are the zombies the biggest threat to survival. With the global infrastructure gone, people are forced to do whatever it takes to survive...even the unthinkable. Steve faces his toughest decision yet as he tries to lead his people through one nightmare after another. Kevin risks everything to save one girl and finds himself in the middle of a military fight for power.

Tom Woodford can’t believe he’s humanity’s only hope. Awakening from a decade-long coma, he’s shocked to learn a killer virus ravaged the planet, and he’s the last-remaining pure human on Earth. His shock turns to terror when a mysterious woman plucks him from the dripping jaws of a bloodthirsty humanoid monster.

While one group looks to escape, the other struggles to survive...The end is here. A dark new beginning is upon them. In Chicago, our survivors are facing a horrifying new challenge. The exodus from the ruins of downtown are now upon them, led by a ruthless, determined man with a past as ugly as his future. In the fight to get out of town, there will be casualties. Not everyone will survive...

What happens when an EMP sends California back into the stone age? When an EMP bomb knocks out the power in LA and the rest of the United States, Ailani Ho's main goal is to survive the end of the world. Then she discovers her sister was on a plane when the bomb exploded, and she can't rest until she knows if her sister is alive or dead.

Pointvilla...A quiet town, the kind of place old folk go to watch the sea roll in and the years roll out. The kind of place guys like the man in the pig mask can make an easy dime, or an easy killing. An inhuman intelligence crawls up the shore and sprawls over Pointvilla. A thing capable of stealing bodies, and drawing minds into one, into it - the MIND. An intelligence pulling Pig Mask inward as others swirl around Pig himself, like he's a planet, a force, and the rest are drawn by gravity.

In a few short days, 37-year-old Emma Rossi's hard work will finally pay off. She will don her cap and gown and graduate with a degree in nursing, but not before she loses her first patient and is confronted with a new reality. In Cape Coral, Florida, a storm approaches. The dead are coming back to life. And they're hungry.

It turns out Addison was right: The world as he knew it did come to an end by means of a killer virus. He’s by himself now, near what was Sicily, Oklahoma, tending to a wilted vegetable garden, foraging for rabbits, and eking out not quite enough water from a dried-up well. It’s time to move. Uncle Izzy, whom he’s decided to seek out in his survivalist cabin hundreds of miles away, had prepared him well for an apocalypse - all but for the loneliness. But the virus didn’t quite kill everybody. And humanity isn't all that humane anymore.

In a world gone mad, no one is safe. Ever since leaving the salvage yard, Noah Chambers has been plagued by the infected and hunted by the men who patrol the streets. In order to survive, he'll need to summon strength he never imagined. Will he survive?

Twenty years ago the next global pandemic struck and the world wasn't at all prepared to deal with it. The virus overtook mankind, leaving in its wake a higher population of the infected rather than the healthy. Governments and economies collapsed and borders were closed. Every country around the world decided independently on just how they were going to attempt to deal with the virus, and the infected. Some smaller countries fell victim entirely while others experimented in their labs to try and find a cure.

The quest is no longer just to survive, it's to escape. The snow is melting, and the crabs are growing more violent. At the base of a blocked-off bridge spanning the South River, Dominic and his friends plan a daunting journey to flee Warren County and the monsters that came when the snow fell. But the crabs aren't the only danger they face. There are other forces at work, forces with a secret as inhuman and terrifying as the crabs themselves. And these forces are determined to never let the group leave.