Epidemic of the Living Dead
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Publisher Description
From the screenwriter of the original 1968 Night of the Living Dead comes a shocking new wave of zombie mayhem to devour your dreams—and feed your nightmares . . .
THEY ARE WHAT THEY EAT
It starts with infected needles. It spreads like a plague. Soon the town of Chapel Grove, Pennsylvania, is overrun with cannibalistic corpses. Some are taken down with a bullet to the brain. Others, torched like kindling. But a few have survived—inside a maternity ward . . .
THEY’RE EATING FOR TWO NOW
Detective Bill Curtis manages to rescue his pregnant wife Lauren from the ward in the nick of time. But the other pregnant women are not so lucky. Some of them have been bitten—and infected. Now it’s anyone’s guess what’s growing inside them . . .
THEY’RE THE NEXT GENERATION
But the nightmare isn’t over yet. The infected mothers’ newborns appear to be normal. But as the years go by, Bill and Lauren Curtis begin to worry about their beautiful, healthy daughter Jodie. Jodie is drawn to the town’s “special” children, the ones whose mothers were bitten. They’re reaching adolescence now. Their hormones are raging. And they’re starting to possess strange appetitites . . .
If you thought millenials werea pain, just wait until you meet Generation Z.
“An unrelieved orgy of sadism.”
—Variety on Night of the Living Dead
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this imaginative and twisted take on the zombie genre, the residents of Chapel Grove, Pa., live in constant fear of an outbreak of a plague that turns people into zombies. Dr. Marissa Traeger runs the local medical research institute and is looking for a cure to the plague. When infected needles disappear, she calls on police captain Pete Danko and officer Bill Curtis to investigate. The needles are now in the hands of junkies, and the plague breaks out at a heavy metal concert. When some of the victims arrive at the hospital, they attack, and four pregnant women are infected. The babies are born, but the mothers die. Marissa sees this as an opportunity and quickly gets the four orphaned children into her program. Years later, bodies begin to disappear from the mortuary, families are murdered, and the town's teens go through radical changes during puberty. Bill, worried for his daughter, slowly begins to suspect that the four orphans, now teens, are behind these events. Fans of the zombie genre will love how Russo, screenwriter of Night of the Living Dead, twists the mythos and creates a new, frightening creature to infect the world.
