Pay the Piper

George A. Romero is often considered the greatest horror director of all time. His classic “Dead” movie cycle began with the groundbreaking Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead, which were followed by four sequels. He also directed Creepshow, The Dark Half, and The Crazies, and created the TV series Tales from the Darkside. Romero died in 2017 after a fifty-year career in film.Daniel Kraus is a New York Times bestseller. With Guillermo del Toro, he wrote The Shape of Water (based on the same idea Kraus and del Toro created for the Oscar-winning film) and Trollhunters (adapted into the Emmy-winning Netflix series). Kraus followed his sci-fi thriller Wrath, co-authored with Shäron Moalem, with the widely acclaimed USA Today bestseller Whalefall. His novel The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch was named one of Entertainment Weekly’s Top Ten Books of the Year. He lives in Illinois.

PRAISE FOR PAY THE PIPER​“A captivating triumph for horror fans.”―Tananarive Due, author of The Reformatory“A great action-packed horror novel . . . for fans of waterlogged southern gothic with monsters that prey off the complicated history of a land and its people.”―BooklistPRAISE FOR THE LIVING DEAD“A horror landmark and a work of gory genius.”—Joe Hill“Will play out on the inside of your skull long after you’ve finished it.”―Clive Barker“Panoramic and sweeping, a smorgasbord of the undead, a book that will give even the most ardent zombie lovers their fix.”—New York Times“The definitive account of the zombie apocalypse. It expands, clarifies, and concludes a tale more than 50 years in the telling, and does so with wit, style, and a deep sense of commitment.”—Washington Post“A zombie tale for the ages. This is a rare gem of a story, one that pays homage to its varied source material, while also standing on its own merits. A true gift to horror fans.”—Library Journal (starred, a Top 10 Horror Novel of 2020)“Every zombie movie lives in the shadow of Romero, but he never got the budget to work at the scale he deserved. Fortunately, Daniel Kraus delivers the epic book of the dead that Romero began. That shadow just got a whole lot bigger.”—Grady Hendrix, bestselling author of The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires“Rejoice Romero fans! The Living Dead is a sprawling, timely, scary epic that honors the zombie tradition but also takes risks that pay off.”—Paul Tremblay, bestselling author of A Head Full of Ghosts