Books in series
#1
Stay Dead
2011
THEY WON’T STAY DEAD.
A band of road-weary survivors struggling to find refuge from the living dead.
A family sticking together, barricaded in their home while the living dead besiege the town.
Scientists working under the thumb of the United States government in the Mount Weather Special Facility are trying desperately to understand why the dead are returning to life, and they might have found out why…
STAY DEAD, the first novel in the series, is a fast-paced journey through the ruined streets of a world gasping for one last breath. It blends action and adventure into a dreadfully bleak look at what the inevitable zombie apocalypse will look like.
Also contains bonus material.
#2
Stay Dead 2
2013
LIVING AIN’T EASY.
After a horde of the living dead ravaged the town of New Haven, leaving it in tatters, Eddie and his band of road-weary survivors escape only to find themselves back on the road and heading up the coast.
The Caulfield’s remain vigilant and continue to stand their ground against the living dead. In a continued effort for survival, they resort to scavenging through town and looking for signs of life.
Sheriff Davis and a small group of other survivors sit trapped in a holding cell, facing an almost-certain doom.
Ben, a serial killer left for dead on a rooftop, reanimates with a score to settle.
Scientists in the Mount Weather Special Facility have discovered that there is more to the living dead than reanimated flesh…
#3
Stay Dead 3
The Condemned
2017
DEATH IS A KINDNESS. Sequestered away in the Mount Weather Special Facility, Scientists Rachel Lucas and Gregory Tran turn to dreams for answers to the horrendous nightmare their lives have become. Acting Secretary of Defense William T. Pymn II dispatches a special military unit to secure a nearby prison as part of their scientific efforts to destroy the living dead scourge. First Sergeant John Torrent leads his team of specialists into a combat situation unlike anything they’ve ever experienced. In an effort to secure the prison, they must fight not only a horde of marauding incarcerates, and their reanimated corpses, but a self-proclaimed prophet of The Unwinding capable of getting into their minds. STAY DEAD 3: THE CONDEMNED is a blend of zombie pulp fiction and fantastic supernatural terror.
#4
Stay Dead 4
The Damned Flesh
2018
Pain Is Sacred. Having taken to the sea, Eddie, and what remains of his road-weary companions, find refuge North. A friendly elderly couple point them in the direction of a nearby safe zone. Upon arriving, they find the Inn that served as a safe zone is now abandoned. Exhausted and out of options they take shelter. As the survivors rest and lick their wounds, a demented serial killer they believe dead, sheds his skin and finds a new mode of transportation. The differences between real and surreal blur as the survivors battle not only the living dead, but a supernatural psychopath with a thirst for suffering. For those fighting for survival, there are no safe havens. Not in dreams. Not even in their own minds. STAY DEAD 4: THE DAMNED FLESH is a hallucinatory whirlwind of heartache and suffering.
#a
Gallery of Horrors
2011
Henry always wanted to be a famous artist. He wanted his work in galleries around the world. He wanted to be the next Warhol, but before he could figure out how to do that the world as he knew it came to a screeching halt.Ever wonder what an artist would in a world full of the living dead? FInd out in Gallery of Horrors, a Stay Dead short story.Also includes a sample of Horror A Macabre Collection and the first three chapters of the Stay Dead novel.
#c
Kings of the Castle
2011
Keith, Connor, and Kayla must band together to survive a world overrun by monsters. The only adults they see are the dead ones outside trying to eat them, until one day a stranger comes looking for a safe haven. The kids let him in, but will they be able to get out? And if so, will be as one of the living, or the living dead?Short Story, approximate word 14,500Also comes with a sampling of Horror A Macabre Collection
#e
Tunnel Rats
2011
Tunnel Rats takes you beneath the busy streets of Titan City where the homeless have a hard enough time surviving without the dead returning to life. Follow Bark through this action packed fight for survival through the dark tunnels of Titan City's underbelly.
Author
Steve Wands
Author · 14 books
STEVE WANDS is the author of the STAY DEAD series of short stories, collections, and novels (STAY DEAD, GRAVEYARD, KINGS OF THE CASTLE, THE STRANGER, etc.). Many of his titles have hit Amazon's 100 best selling lists for their respective categories. He is currently hard at work on the second novel in the STAY DEAD series, a new collection and a promising collaboration with an indie publishing heavyweight. For 2012 he plans to release a new short story every month. Steve lives in New Jersey with his wife and son. When he's not writing he's lettering Comic Books and Graphic Novels for DC Comics, BOOM! Studios, and Random House on titles like Batman, Green Lantern, Scalped, American Vampire, The Rinse, Malignant Man, Ice Age, WordGirl, Mardock Scramble and—coming soon—Jeff Lemire's The Underwater Welder.
