Invasion Of The Dead

Our world and our churches are neither sinful nor lost, they are dead. This dead world is the one that God engages and into which Jesus invaded with a radically different vision of life. In this groundbreaking work, based on his 211 Yale Beecher lectures, Brian K. Blount helps preachers effectively proclaim resurrection in a world consumed by death. Recognizing that both popular culture and popular Christianity are mesmerized by death and dying, Blount offers an alternative apocalyptic vision for our time--one that starts with a clear vision of life that obliterates death and reveals life's essence. Blount explores the portrait and meaning of resurrection through the New Testament (the Book of Revelation, the letters of Paul, and the Gospel of Mark) and explores how to biblically and theologically reconfigure apocalyptic preaching for today. With three illustrative sermons, this book is an ideal resource to help preachers proclaim the power of resurrection.

Out of the ashes of a devastated Woodbury, Georgia, two opposing camps of ragtag survivors develop – each one on a collision course with the other. Underground, in the labyrinth of ancient tunnels and mine shafts, Lilly Caul and her motley crew of senior citizens, misfits, and children struggle to build a new life. But a secret ambition still burns in Lilly's heart and soul. She wants her beloved town of Woodbury back from the plague of walkers, and now the only thing that stands in her way currently roams the wasted backwaters of Georgia... Way out in the hinterlands, amidst the rising tide of walkers that seem to be pushing in from all directions, the psychotic Reverend Jeremiah Garlitz rebuilds his army of followers with a diabolical secret weapon. He has designs on the destruction of Lilly and her crew – the very people who vanquished his cultish church – and now, for the first time, he has the means to bring a special brand of hell down upon the tunnel dwellers. The final confrontation between these two human factions unleashes an unthinkable weapon – forged from the monstrous hordes of undead, perfected by a madman, and soaked in the blood of innocents.

Across Tasmania, the Invasion of the Dead strengthens. The last semblance of normalcy has fallen and the government has disappeared. As the breakdown of society forces Tasmania to its knees, the survivors fight for their loved ones, each other, and themselves. But it's not only the infected they must battle. The worst kind of human behaviour surfaces as the greedy steal and bring suffering for their own reward.Held captive in the junkyard, Juliet and the others wait for help as Skoota fights for his life to uphold his promise. Surrounded by the infected, Jim must confront the possibility of further failure, and Mac must decide whether to continue the search for Jessica and drag his friends into further peril. As Kumiko and Dan grow closer, will they realise their feelings, or is it too much to ask in such a world?The survivors face threats at every turn, while new people surface, adding their personalities to post-apocalyptic life. In the Invasion world, however, nobody can avoid their fate...

"Koontz is brilliant in the creation of his characters and in building tension." CHICAGO SUN-TIMES In Los Angeles, a hot Hollywood director, high on PCP, turns a city street into a fiery apocalypse. Heroic LAPD officer Jac McGarvey is badly wounded and will not walk for months. His wife and his child are left to fend for themselves against both criminals that control an increasingly violent city and the dead director's cult of fanatic fans. In a lonely corner of Montana, Eduardo Fernandez, the father of McGarvey's murdered partner, witnesses a strange nocturnal sight. The stand of pines outside his house suddenly glows with eerie amber light, and Fernandez senses a watcher in the winter woods. As the seasons change, the very creatures of the forest seem in league with a mysterious presence. Fernandez is caught up in a series of chilling incidents that escalate toward a confronation that could rob him of his sanity or his life--or both. As events careen out of control, the McGarvey family is drawn to Fernandez's Montana ranch. In that isolated place they discover their destiny in a terrifying and fiercely suspenseful encounter with a hostile, utterly ruthless, and enigmatic enemy, from which neither the living nor the dead are safe. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz's The City.

Australia ... a huge, sprawling land filled with danger ... but nothing as dangerous as this ... Deep beneath defense headquarters in the Australian Capital Territory, the last ranking Army chief considers the collapse of his country, and the contingency plan to win it back. One hundred and fifty miles away, five friends returning from a month-long camping trip slowly discover that the world has turned horribly wrong, that a virus has ravaged the entire east coast of Australia. The dead now walk the land, seeking flesh and blood. Armed with dwindling ammunition, the friends must overcome their differences, utilize their individual skills, and face horrors they never imagined ... but not all zombies are the same ... What will they find if they can all reach their hometown? Will their families or friends have survived? What twists and turns will the group encounter, and what life-threatening decisions will they face? Their personalities and agendas will conflict, as each fights for their place in this new world, a world unlike anything they could have imagined ...

An FBI agent, rotting away in a high-security prison for a murder he did not commit... His brilliant, psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime... A young woman with an extrodinary past, on th edge of a violent breakdown... An ancient Egyptian tomb with an enigmatic curse, about to be unveiled at a celebrity-studded New York gala... Memento Mori

The walking dead are no more, but their decaying footprint remains. The world is still in chaos, and people still fight to survive day to day. Cannibals, slavery and other atrocities still continue. It's as if the walking dead were still around. Still dealing with the loss of one of their own, Henry Watson and his fellow companions make their way through this apocalyptic landscape, still hoping to find someplace to call home, where they can put down roots. Traveling to Alaska, wanting to get the stink of the rotting dead from their noses, the companions soon learn that the former USSR is raising its mighty head once more. The Soviet Union, stuck in the past, sees the fall of the walking dead as a chance to invade the United States, to finally bring back Mother Russia to its former glory. And there is only one way to do that: crush America under its heel. A ragged army of Russian soldiers is using the Bering Strait to cross into America, their intent to use Alaska as a staging ground for the invasion. Though the living dead are gone, the world is still a very dangerous place, and the struggle to survive continues.

Sous terre, dans un labyrinthe d'anciens tunnels miniers, Lilly Caul et les survivants de son groupe tentent d'organiser une nouvelle vie. Mais une ambition secrète brûle encore dans le coeur de Lilly. Elle veut voir sa Woodbury bien aimée renaître de ses cendres et débarrassée des zombies... Bien plus loin dans les terres, au milieu de vagues toujours plus terrifiantes de zombies qui semblent venir de toutes les directions, le psychotique révérend Jeremiah Garlitz rassemble de nouveaux adeptes et souhaite la destruction de Lilly et de ses amis. Or, pour la première fois, il a les moyens de faire déferler les enfers sur les survivants reclus dans les tunnels.