Underland Press Books
The Living
Months after the Marseilles Plague ravished the planet, Madison McKay must escape from the city to the safety of Salus Island, the last sanctuary for those of her kind. Madison is a Reborn, one of the lucky few who traveled through death to the other side. Outside the walls of the farmhouse in which she is hiding with a ragtag group of allies, a desperate enemy awaits-a horde of murderous, bloodthirsty humans known as the Living. They are the uninfected, doomed to live life as it used to be before the plague. And they need Madison, and the secret she is carrying, in order to survive. With the help of her fellow Reborn, Madison tries to escape the farmhouse and make it to Salus Island. Will they make it out alive? In this groundbreaking, online wovel, the reader decides.
Months after the Marseilles Plague ravished the planet, Madison McKay must escape from the city to the safety of Salus Island, the last sanctuary for those of her kind. Madison is a Reborn, one of the lucky few who traveled through death to the other side. Outside the walls of the farmhouse in which she is hiding with a ragtag group of allies, a desperate enemy awaits-a horde of murderous, bloodthirsty humans known as the Living. They are the uninfected, doomed to live life as it used to be before the plague. And they need Madison, and the secret she is carrying, in order to survive. With the help of her fellow Reborn, Madison tries to escape the farmhouse and make it to Salus Island. Will they make it out alive? In this groundbreaking, online wovel, the reader decides.
Kealan Patrick Burke was described by Publisher's Weekly as "a newcomer worth watching," and by Booklist as "one of the most original authors in contemporary horror." A novelist, prolific short-story writer, and anthologist, his novel The Turtle Boy won the 2004 Bram Stoker Award, while Quietly Now was nominated for the International Horror Guild Award. A genre enthusiast, Burke turns the rules of the genre upside down. In his wovel The Living, the classic roles of antagonist and protagonist are reversed. Rather than the zombie hordes chasing and killing the living, in Burke's book the zombies are the heroes: superior beings evolutionarily aided by the plague that killed them.