Our world is a fragile place. Meteors, famine, floods, nuclear war, solar flares, and hundreds of other calamities can plunge our small blue planet into turmoil in an instant. What would you do if tomorrow the sun went super nova or the world was swallowed by water, submerging the world into the cold darkness of the ocean? This anthology explores some of those scenarios and plunges you into total annihilation. But remember, it's only a book, and tomorrow will come as it always does. Or will it?

Bursting from the ground to rend and tear, the fourth installment of Dead Worlds: Undead Stories is here! Fast or slow, putrid or fresh, these tales of the walking dead will make you laugh, fill you with dread and fear, and most of all, entertain you. So put the kiddies to bed and curl up under a warm blanket, for the dead walk, and are searching for human flesh. Pray they don't find you.

Carl Jenkins was having a run of bad luck. Fresh out of jail, his probation tenuous, he'd lost every job he'd taken since being released. So now was his last chance, only one more job to prevent him from going back to prison. Assigned to work in a funeral home, he accidentally loses a shipment of embalming fluid. With nothing to lose, he substitutes it with a batch of chemicals from a nearby factory. The results don't go as planned, though. While his screw-up goes unnoticed, his machinations revive the cadavers in the funeral home, unleashing an evil on the world that has not been seen...

THE END OF THE WORLD
Its the End of Days, the time when all life on Earth will vanish.
Whether by a stray comet, a virus, our sun going nova, or a tidal wave so large it dwarfs the sky, sooner or later it will happen.
The odds are simply stacked too high against us for it not to.
So where will you be when the end time comes?
Will you survive?
Or will you become just another bloated body floating in a sea of despair.
In this, the second apocalyptic anthology, stories such as these, tales where man is on his last legs, the world now over, will show you the way to salvation.
So hurry, while...

In the dead city of Pittsburgh, two small enclaves struggle to survive, eking out an existence of hand to mouth. But instead of working together, both groups battle for the last remaining fuel and supplies of a city filled with the living dead. Six months after the initial outbreak, a lone helicopter arrives bearing two more survivors and a newborn baby. One enclave welcomes them, while the other schemes to steal their helicopter and escape the decaying city. With no police, fire, or social services existing, the two will battle for dominance in the steel city of the walking dead. But when...

The spooky house at the end of the street was the one all the kids avoided. With its overgrown shrubs and weeds, the place was a modern day haunted house. Especially at night. So when Ricky sneaks into the yard to retrieve his favorite ball, he comes across something he'd only seen in movies and bad dreams. He sees a zombie in the basement window of the old house, but when he tells his friends, no one believes him. Ricky knows what he saw, that something lurks in the old house, something that isn't supposed to exist. With his best friend Eric by his side, Ricky will find out the truth and...

Out of the ashes of death and decay, comes the second volume filled with the walking dead. In this tome, there are only slow, shambling monstrosities that were once human. No one knows why the dead walk; only that they do, and that they are hungry for human flesh. But these aren't your neighbors, your co-workers, or your family. Now they are the living dead, and they will tear your throat out at a moment's notice. So be warned as you delve into the pages of this book; the dead will find you, no matter where you hide. With stories by Michael Simon, John Skerchock, Mark Johnson, William Wood,...

Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a...zombie?
Thats right; this anthology explores what would happen at Christmas time if there was a full blown zombie outbreak.
Reanimated turkeys, zombie Santas, and demon reindeers that turn people to flesh-eating ghouls are just some of the tales you will find in this merry undead book.
So curl up under the Christmas tree with a cup of hot chocolate, and as the fireplace crackles with warmth, get ready to have your heart filled with holiday cheer.
But of course, then it will be ripped from your...

An unknown virus spreads across the globe, turning ordinary people into bloodthirsty, ravenous killers. Only a small percentage of the population is immune and soon become prey to the infected. Amongst the infected comes a man, stricken by the virus, yet still retaining his grasp on reality. His need to destroy the normals becomes an obsession and he raises an army of killers to seek out and kill all who aren't changed like himself. A few survivors gather together on the outskirts of Chicago and find themselves running for their lives as the specter of death looms over all. The Dead-Rage...

The dead walk Newspapers everywhere proclaim the dead have returned to feast on the living. A small group of survivors hole up in a cellar, afraid to brave the masses of animated corpses, but when food runs out, they have no choice but to venture out into a world gone mad. What they will discover, however, is that the fall of civilization has brought out the worst in their fellow man. Cannibals, psychotic preachers and rapists are just some of the atrocities they must face. In a world turned upside down, it is life that has hit a Dead End.