Ergebnis für "Gray" in Postapokalyptisch

Pre-med student Coral is on vacation in Idaho when something terrible happens. The black cloud is followed by a wildfire and searing heat that lasts for days. She survives deep in a cave but emerges days later to find the world transformed, with blackened trees, an ash-filled sky, and no living creatures stirring - except for her. So begins her desperate journey to find water and food and other survivors...and the answer to the mystery of what happened.

Autumn in Michigan has always been Addie’s favorite time of year, but this fall is different in every way imaginable. After fighting to return to her family, she and her friends still find themselves on their own. Their town is void of everything that made it home. As the leaves turn colors and the temperature drops, the group prepares to survive the winter. And still, danger, both dead and alive, threatens them at every turn.

It's the end of the world...Or at least it was. The apocalypse has come and gone in all its horror and glory. After being released from years of torture underground, Khadim emerges and embarks upon this wasted planet unaware of his fate. He is meant for something much greater than himself. He doesn't know it yet, but he is destined to bring balance. In other words, some guy is going to kick a lot of ass and save everyone...Whether he wants to or not.

Jonah Downing is a hapless gas station clerk who finds himself tangled in a web of strange occurrences that seem to orbit around him. It starts with a dream and a strange book authored by an unknown hand but quickly leads to depths that may tear apart the only world he’s ever known.

Forced to flee, Wintry embarks out into the Wastelands wrought with peril. A dark god is hunting her, hoping to thwart Wintry’s role in a centuries-old-prophecy. The fate of Dangere—a race she hates—and the fate of humanity now rests on Wintry’s unwilling shoulders. Her only hope of staying alive is finding shelter with the beasts. If only her traitorous heart wasn’t drawn to the Alpha, Blaize. Lethal and oozing with wicked dominance, Blaize is everything Wintry knows she should avoid.

I’m not like those other freaks. The kids who can look inside your head and bring your nightmares to life. The weirdos who can steal your luck or make a thing true just by wishing it. The outliers born from the mess that followed Armageddon. The ones you call Moonflowers, half mockingly and half afraid. They’re the mistakes that humanity hates - and needs. I’m not like them. I’m worse. And I’m the only thing standing between you and the legions of heaven and hell. (Petal - The Armageddon-Lite Archives)

The world has just been struck by the “Perfect Apocalypse”: nuclear bombs, disease, famine, zombies, killer bees, and many other hidden terrors. As the world crumbles, a group of survivors discovers there is only one safe haven: the mysterious town of Haunted House Harbor. For some reason, all the unleashed perils cannot penetrate the city limits. But there’s one problem - Haunted House Harbor has its own dark side....

Richard Griffon and Elijah Parrish are two down-on-their-luck private detectives who barely scrape by on meager earnings they get from chasing cheating spouses. Desperate for cash, they take on what they think is a routine job to track down Angela, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, and her bodyguard Talia. Angela is a spoiled and bored socialite who drifts aimlessly from one party to another, in and out of rehab.

Notions of the undead have fascinated and terrified humanity for centuries, and none more so than those tales revolving around zombies. From the very root of the zombie myth back in the Haitian slave days to a saturation through popular culture, zombies have crawled their way up out of their graves, refusing to stay interred. Now, as their hordes increase and their hungers grow, the undead plagues cannot be stopped. It isn't just a case of no room left on Earth. The apocalypse is here.

The thin thread holding the civilized world together has been severed. Millions of citizens have been thrust into the unknown, breeding fear in the minds and souls of those seeking to survive. Wren Burton, an architect from Chicago, has been engulfed by the chaotic aftermath of an EMP blast. Her family is injured. The enemy is unknown. And help is nowhere to be found.

Twenty-five years after the end of oil, Dev hears the shocking sound of hoofbeats on the road. No one has been up the road in six years, and now the last people he wants to see have arrived: a dozen armed men on horseback, promising a return of government and order. Dev doesn't believe their promises, and they come with too terrible a cost, starting with a tax on food that he cannot afford. He and the neighbors are barely scraping by. He had feared that drought and heat would slowly kill them all, but now the danger is much more immediate.

Ten years after the end of oil, no one has the bullets left to shoot at Dev and Sierra or their neighbors. But the climate seems determined to kill them with drought and relentless heat. As the irreplaceable technologies of the civilized world break down, survival becomes more and more of a struggle - and more of an imperative, as they have a daughter, Zoe, to care for now. When a battered family escaping a terrible situation moves in down the hill at their grain farm, the neighbors have a tough choice to make.

Seven writers have fled to Mirror House, a picturesque mansion by the sea. Each member of the group is running from a terrible premonition of their own death on July 24th. What they don’t know is they were, in fact, prophesizing the end of the world, for on that very day, billions will die from a relentless heatwave triggered by global warming.

He calls her Honey. She calls him Buddy. Together they try to survive in a world overrun with the undead. By day, they kick zombie ass. By night, they seek an escape from the terrifying world in each other's arms. Honey knows she can't afford to start caring for the sexy American. Sex is sex, but love is dangerous. Love can make you do stupid things, and stupid things are a no-no in this new Dark Age.

This collection of five short stories touches on themes and topics throughout the genre including zombies, superheroes, artificial intelligence, and the changing role of birthdays in the future. "Billy and the Zombies" is a story about a boy who spent most of his life preparing for a zombie apocalypse and now has to deal with one in real life. "Mom's Special Day" talks about an indeterminate future where birthdays have a much different meaning than they do today. "The Trial of WLQC-73" discusses what happens when we create computers that are as human as we are with all of our faults and failings. "The Heist" is a story about a future where Superheroes aren't as clean cut as our comic books show them to be. "Chance Encounters" describes what happens when a simple misunderstanding spirals out of control.

I wake up surrounded by death and my memories are gone. A man in a beige hazmat suit reaches his hand through the carnage. “Come with me if you want to live.” I know I’m supposed to know that from somewhere, but I don’t. I know the world outside me is not right.

Aliens have seized the Earth's star cruisers, claiming they have committed war crimes against other worlds. Four senior women, life-long friends who refer to their group as the "Four-ever Club", watch the television reports as the aliens announce a very bizarre punishment for the people of the Earth. Two of the women are baffled by the punishment, while the other two are terrified and seem to know more than they are saying. As the horrific truth about the Earth's military is revealed, lies and betrayals within the group of women also emerge.

Giant trapdoor spiders have launched an assault against the human race and appear to be winning the war. Civilization crumbles, and all hope begins to fade. Nonetheless, even during these terrible times, Christmas still manages to arrive. John, trapped on a farm with his only surviving daughter, desperately tries to find a way to give his little girl some type of holiday joy. To his surprise, John soon discovers Christmas miracles might, in fact, be real as the perfect present arrives on their front doorstep. The only problem is, he may have to race against time to salvage this miracle before the spiders snag it in their deadly traps...

Aeron had every opportunity to explain the horses that were haunting my drawings. I asked him several times about his crazy zombie-killing horse. He omitted to tell me he was the Horseman of Death until Leif let it slip he was the Horseman of Pestilence when he introduced himself to me. I don’t know who I’m madder at—Aeron for lying to me or me for just ignoring all the clues and telling myself there was no way it was possible and trusting him.

A young couple's journey through a nightmarish hellscape. The dead in the shadows. The undead on street corners. At night, Nate must scavenge for his family. At night, death awaits. And who is the strange girl writing messages in blood? Dark, thrilling, and tragic, The Risen explores a new kind of existence, where the undead aren’t the only threat to humanity.