- Paperback: 332 pages
- Publisher: Permuted Press (November 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 193486126X
- ISBN-13: 978-1934861264
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 476 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #371,011 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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.
About the Author
Born in 1952, author-illustrator Mark E. Rogers is best known for the Samurai Cat books: The Adventures of Samurai Cat, More Adventures of Samurai Cat, Samurai Cat in the Real World, The Sword of Samurai Cat, and Samurai Cat Goes to the Movies. The sixth and final installment in the series, Samurai Cat Goes to Hell, was recently published by TOR. His other books include The Dead, Zorachus, The Nightmare of God, The Expected One, The Devouring Void, and The Riddled Man. One of his novellas, The Runestone, was made into a movie; and The Dead is presently under development as a feature film---with a screenplay by Mark---at KNB-EFX. Mark's work has been adapted by Marvel comics, and has appeared on the cover of Cricket Magazine; he's published three art portfolios, and a collection of his pin-up paintings, Nothing But A Smile, is due in mid-2000 from Xenophile Books. Mark lives in Newark, Delaware, with his wife Kate---a philosophy professor at the U of D---and their four lovely kids, Sophie, Jeannie, Patrick, and Nick.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Hell Of A Read,
By Stephen Stiles (Randallstown, Maryland USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Dead (Paperback)
Rapture novels as a genre first got rolling in the 1830s. My own earliest exposure to this field of religious fantasy was the discovery, in the 1950s, of Sydney Watson's gloriously wacky "In The Twinkling Of An Eye," penned in 1916. In it Watson's protagonist, a Jewish newspaper reporter, finds himself stranded on an Earth given over to satanic forces after its Christian population is "raptured" to heaven. Among the results of this radical regime change, aside from Bible burning and the extermination of rabbis in the newly reconstituted Israel, is an upswing in popularity of modern art, public nudity, jazz, and racial integration! Yow!Despite the campiness of Watson's early 20th century biases, the novel holds to its major horror: being left behind and unredeemed. You've had your chance; you didn't believe. You were wrong; you've blown it! No hope, Clyde: you're damned! Mark E. Rogers reopens these particular gates of hell in this Infinity reissue of his 1989 novel, "The Dead," where his protagonists, the dysfunctional Holland family, face the same hopeless dilemma. The Dead is a truly horrifying reading experience as the world of the living is systematically overwhelmed by the walking dead, the minions of Satan's lieutenant, Legion. Rogers, an accomplished illustrator, brings his considerable skills to paint a believable
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: The Dead (Paperback)
This book was incredible! I couldn't put it down. I loved this book because it was not your typical brain-eating zombie book. In fact, these weren't your run of the mill zombies...they were angels from Hell assuming the bodies of corpses. No brain eating here...only torturing and murder for those left behind. The book had a great plot to it and a little bit of religeon and theology thrown in. This book could even make an atheist start to wonder. Read it and you'll see what I mean!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Decent, but not Great,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Dead (Paperback)
This book is OKAY, but definitely not a great read. Lots of misspellings and grammatical errors, and the author's own pentecostal religious outloook (which is strange, because all the main characters in the book are Catholic), make it feel as if you're reading the Turner Diaries as envisioned by George Romero.There are still some good scares provided, just don't expect this to be a well-written book.
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