Dead Sea (novel)
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| Dead Sea | |
| Author | Brian Keene |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Horror novel |
| Publisher | Delirium Books |
| Publication date | 2007 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Preceded by | Ghoul |
| Followed by | Tequila's Sunrise |
Dead Sea is a horror novel featuring zombies by Brian Keene, first published in 2007.
[edit] Plot summary
The story follows Lamar Gordon, a young black gay man living in Baltimore; it is set in the same world as The Rising but under different circumstances. One day in New York rats come up from the city, not just rats but dead and rotting rats. Any person who is bitten or gets any blood or saliva into an open wound or orifice dies very shortly after and rises from the dead craving human flesh. The media refers to it as Hamelin's Revenge after the town from the Pied Piper myth. Lamar is flushed from his house as Baltimore is slowly burning to the ground. He encounters several other survivors and the fight their way to the harbor where they are rescued by the U.S.S Sprattling. From there they set sail out to sea realizing that the land now belongs to the dead.
[edit] Differences from The Rising
These zombies are more traditional then the ones from Keene's earlier novels The Rising and City of the Dead. Unlike the Sissquism they are created by a blood-borne virus called Hamelin's Revenge. Early on it only infects a few select species, humans among them, but throughout the book it jumps species several times culminating into jumping into fish then birds.
