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In less than twenty-four hours a vicious and virulent disease destroys virtually all of the population. Billions are killed. Thousands die every second. There are no symptoms and no warnings. Within moments of infection each victim suffers a violent and agonizing death. Only a handful of survivors remain. By the end of the first day those survivors wish they were dead. Then the disease strikes again, and all hell breaks loose... The classic free underground novel finally bursts into the mainstream. Cold, dark, relentless and uncomfortably plausible. A Night of the Living Dead for the 21st Century. "the perfect zombie story" "nothing written in the genre has grabbed me in the same way as AUTUMN" "an equal to Romero's Night of the Living Dead"

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #208441 in Books
• Published on: 2005-01-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

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In less than twenty-four hours a vicious and virulent disease destroys virtually all of the population. Billions are killed. Thousands die every second. There are no symptoms and no warnings. Within moments of infection each victim suffers a violent and agonizing death. Only a handful of survivors remain. By the end of the first day those survivors wish they were dead. Then the disease strikes again, and all hell breaks loose... The classic free underground novel finally bursts into the mainstream. Cold, dark, relentless and uncomfortably plausible. A Night of the Living Dead for the 21st Century. "the perfect zombie story" "nothing written in the genre has grabbed me in the same way as AUTUMN" "an equal to Romero's Night of the Living Dead"

About the Author
David Moody is the author of the acclaimed AUTUMN living dead novels. A writer sick of square-jawed, all-American heroes and contrived happy endings, his books are unique and individual. Tried and tested horror and science-fiction themes are twisted and given a fresh perspective by this British author. Moody's characters are ordinary people - you, me, the man or woman next door or across the street - forced to survive the most extraordinary of conditions. It is this uneasy mixture of the familiar and bizarre that makes his stories such unsettling and disturbing reads.

Customer Reviews

Good zombie story in Britian.
Interesting story with the evolution of the zombies. It's drawback is that it's very slow in parts.

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This was my first taste of Mr. Moody's writting. I am now a devout fan of his books. This is a book that should not be passed up by people who like zombie/apocolyptic books.

A Psychological Approach to the Zombie Apocalypse
David Moody's novel Autumn is a realistic account of the emotional upheaval and responses that might plague the people who survive a quick-acting pandemic, and who must then struggle for survival against those who have risen after having fallen dead.

The dread from Moody's work is not the horror of blood and guts, but the slow, creeping psychological terror that must accompany being trapped within a structure while becoming increasingly surrounded on the outside by creatures that would like nothing more than to destroy you. The claustrophobia of the work is reminiscent of Romero's Day of the Dead and Matheson's I am Legend. Do not look to this novel for quick-paced action as this is not what this book is about, rather this is how the world ends for each person, individually.