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At the penitentiary, a bored prison doctor injects a condemned serial killer with a novel formulation intended to keep his consciousness awake as his body rots in the grave. The drug backfires, after all drugs have unforeseen side‑effects, and before burial the killer revives, now hungry and infected. The contagion that spreads through his body makes him a dangerous predator, and the story follows how this merciless outbreak threatens to end humanity with a bite rather than a bell‑clapper.
First publish date: 2011
Genre: Horror/Supernatural Horror
Authors: Jonathan Maberry
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