The first book in David Moody's epic Autumn zombie series — available in audio for the first time. Contains bonus short stories not included in the original release.

In less than twenty-four hours a vicious viral epidemic destroys virtually all of the population. Billions are killed. There are no symptoms and no warnings; within moments of infection each victim suffers a violent and agonising death. Only a handful of survivors remain. And then, animated by "phase two" of the contagion, the dead begin to rise. At first slow, blind, dumb and lumbering, the bodies soon regain their most basic senses and abilities... sight, hearing, locomotion...

As well as the instinct toward aggression and violence.

Held back only by the restraints of their rapidly decomposing flesh, the dead have only one single goal — to destroy the sole remaining attraction in the silent, lifeless world: those who have survived.

Without ever using the 'Z' word, Autumn offers a new perspective on the traditional zombie story. There's no flesh eating, no fast-moving corpses, no gore for gore's sake. Combining the atmosphere and tone of George Romero's classic living dead films with the attitude and awareness of 28 Days (and Years) Later, this horrifying novel is filled with relentless cold, dark fear.