The lights are refusing to go out all over Stockholm. There's a mysterious problem in the power system. Every appliance in the city is going at full blast and the entire population is struck by blinding headaches. The pressure builds to an intolerable pitch and then...stops. Moments later, in morgues and cemeteries across Stockholm, the dead start to rise.
John Ajvide Lindqvist, the acclaimed author of the world's most original vampire novel, Let the Right One In, turns his attention to the living dead. Not the nameless zombies of classic horror but real dead people- mothers, children, grandchildren and spouses. Desperately loved, bitterly missed and now 'reliving.' Which is not, it turns out, the same as being alive. Lindqvist brings a deliciously ironic mixture of the macabre and the heartbreaking to the big questions of love and death. It makes Handling the Undead the must-read horror novel of the year.
By:
John Ajvide Lindqvist Translated by:
Ebba Segerberg Imprint: Penguin Country of Publication: Australia Dimensions:
Height: 199mm,
Width: 128mm,
Spine: 24mm
Weight: 284g ISBN:9781921656088 ISBN 10: 1921656085 Pages: 384 Publication Date:01 February 2010 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
John Ajvide Lindqvist is the acclaimed author of the vampire novel Let the Right One In.
