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BRIAN KEENE is the author of over forty books, mostly in the horror, crime, and dark fantasy genres. His 2003 novel, The Rising, is often credited (along with Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead comic and Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later film) with inspiring pop culture's current interest in zombies. Keene's novels have been translated into German, Spanish, Polish, Italian, French, Taiwanese, and many more. In addition to his own original work, Keene has written for media properties such as Doctor Who, The X-Files, Hellboy, Masters of the Universe, and Superman.

Several of Keene's novels have been developed for film, including Ghoul, The Ties That Bind, and Fast Zombies Suck. Several more are in-development or under option.

Keene's work has been praised in such diverse places as The New York Times, The History Channel, The Howard Stern Show, CNN.com, Publisher's Weekly, Media Bistro, Fangoria Magazine, and Rue Morgue Magazine. He has won numerous awards and honors, including a World Horror Grand Master award, two Bram Stoker awards, and a recognition from Whiteman A.F.B. (home of the B-2 Stealth Bomber) for his outreach to U.S. troops serving both overseas and abroad. A prolific public speaker, Keene has delivered talks at conventions, college campuses, theaters, and inside Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, VA.

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The Rising: Deliverance
The Rising: Deliverance
by Brian Keene
Go back to the beginning of the end of the world...Hell has come to earth as sadistic zombies rampage and massacre the human population. Reverend Thomas Martin has lost his congregation to the chaos but has found two wayward survivors to protect - Becky and John. The three of them have holed up in Martin's church in a desperate attempt...
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Categories: All Horror
Sixty-Five Stirrup Iron Road
Sixty-Five Stirrup Iron Road
by Brian Keene, Jack Ketchum, Edward Lee, J.F. Gonzalez, Bryan Smith, Wrath James White, Nate Southard, Ryan Harding, Shane McKenzie
What starts like a haunted house novel as written by the Marquis de Sade develops into a meta-deconstruction of hardcore horror and why we love sex and violence.There is something seriously wrong with the house at Sixty-Five Stirrup Iron Road. Its history is awash with sadistic violence and fiendish sex. For generations the house has...
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Hole in the World (The Lost Level Book 3)
Hole in the World (The Lost Level Book 3)
by Brian Keene
Apex Book Company is proud to present HOLE IN THE WORLD - a weird fantasy prequel to Brian Keene's popular THE LOST LEVEL series.An hour ago, they were nineteen strangers on an airport shuttle, braving travel delays and a freak blizzard. Then they fell through a hole in the world. Now, they are nineteen strangers trapped in a dangerous...
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Categories: All Fantasy; All Horror
White Fire
White Fire
by Brian Keene
From Grandmaster of Horror, Brian Keene, comes a pandemic tale of survival and terror.When a freak storm hits, time is the enemy as a government-created super virus gets loose and spreads through the quiet little town of Godfrey, Illinois. But the virus isn't the only threat. There are mysterious forces at play and disease is just one...
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Categories: All Horror
Nemesai
Nemesai
by Brian Keene, John Urbancik
It starts with the red dreams. Everyone has them every night. But they’re just a precursor, because something deep within the bowels of the earth has awakened—something we defeated and sent back thousands of years ago. First, there are scouts which decimate cities, and the armies of humanity find their weapons impotent.Enter Atiya...
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Suburban Gothic
Suburban Gothic
by Brian Keene, Bryan Smith
Two titans of modern horror-Brian Keene and Bryan Smith-team up for the terrifying crossover sequel to both Keene's URBAN GOTHIC and Smith's THE FREAKSHOW.The Westgate Galleria Mall was once a sprawling, shining monument to American consumerism and suburban growth. Now, it is a crumbling reminder of how both have fallen-an architectural...
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Last of the Albatwitches
Last of the Albatwitches
by Brian Keene
Fan favorite ex-Amish occult detective Levi Stolzfus, the star of Ghost Walk and A Gathering of Crows, returns in two novellas of demons and monsters!The Witching TreeIn the woods of Pennsylvania there is a clearing with only one lone tree in the center. And from that tree, there comes only death.Levi has been brought in to investigate...
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Dead Sea
Dead Sea
by Brian Keene
In 2003, Brian Keene's The Rising revived horror literature's dormant obsession with zombies. In 2007, Brian Keene's Dead Sea knocked that obsession on its ass... The city streets are no longer safe. They are filled instead with the living dead, rotting predators driven only by a need to kill and eat. Some of the living still struggle to...
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Alone
Alone
by Brian Keene
When Daniel Miller wakes up one morning, something has gone terribly wrong. The power is out. The phones are dead. The house is silent. The street is shrouded in fog. Both his partner and their adopted daughter are missing. So are their neighbors. And so is everyone else in the world. Daniel Miller is the last person left on Earth... or...
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The Rising: Author's Preferred Edition
The Rising: Author's Preferred Edition
by Brian Keene
The classic that helped start a pop culture phenomenon - back in print and UNCUT!Since it's 2003 debut, Brian Keene's THE RISING is one of the best-selling zombie novels of all-time. It has been translated into over a dozen languages, inspired the works of other authors and filmmakers, and has become a cultural touchstone for an entire...
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Categories: All Horror; All Sex & Erotica
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Darkness on the Edge of Town
by Brian Keene
One morning the residents of Walden, Virginia, woke up to find the rest of the world gone. Just . . . gone. Surrounding their town was a wall of inky darkness, plummeting Walden into permanent night. Nothing can get in - not light, not people, not even electricity, radio, TV, internet, food, or water. And nothing can get out. No one who...
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City of the Dead: Author's Preferred Edition
City of the Dead: Author's Preferred Edition
by Brian Keene
The sequel to one of those most popular zombies of all time in a new, uncut, author's preferred edition!In this sequel to THE RISING, cities are overrun with legions of the undead, intent on destroying what's left of the living. Trapped inside a fortified skyscraper, a handful of survivors prepare to make their last stand against an...
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Dark Hollow
Dark Hollow
by Brian Keene
Something very strange is happening in LeHorn's Hollow...Eerie, piping music is heard late at night, and mysterious fires have been spotted deep in the woods. Women are vanishing without a trace overnight, leaving behind husbands and families.When up-and-coming novelist Adam Senft stumbles upon an unearthly scene, it plunges him and the...
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Earthworm Gods II: Deluge
Earthworm Gods II: Deluge
by Brian Keene
In Brian Keene's cult-classic, Earthworm Gods, global super-storms decimated the planet, eradicating most of mankind. In the midst of this ecological nightmare, the remnants of humanity fought against a supernatural menace in a war that ranged from the rooftops of submerged cities to the mountaintop islands jutting from the sea.Now, the...
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The Rising: Selected Scenes From the End of the World
The Rising: Selected Scenes From the End of the World
by Brian Keene
Brian Keene's seminal novel THE RISING and its sequel, CITY OF THE DEAD, revitalized the horror genre and gave zombie fans a new reason to celebrate. Since their original publication a decade ago, readers have hoped for a return to that universe.THE RISING: SELECTED SCENES FROM THE END OF THE WORLD is a collection of short stories set in...
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Blood on the Page: The Complete Short Fiction of Brian Keene, Volume 1
Blood on the Page: The Complete Short Fiction of Brian Keene, Volume 1
by Brian Keene
“This is my gift. This is my legacy. This is my curse…”BLOOD ON THE PAGE is the first book in a series collecting all of Keene’s short fiction. Included in this volume are such critically-acclaimed and fan favorite stories as “Burying Betsy”, “Dust”, “The Resurrection and The Life”, “I Am An Exit”, “Fast Zombies Suck”, “Bunnies In...
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The Cage
The Cage
by Brian Keene
For the employees of Big Bill's Home Electronics, it's just the end of another long workday-until a gunman bursts into the store and begins shooting. Now, with some of their co-workers dead, the hostages are disappearing one-by-one, and if they want to survive the night, they'll have to escape... THE CAGE.Deadite Press is proud to make...
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Castaways
Castaways
by Brian Keene
They came to the deserted island to compete on a popular reality television show. Each one hoped to be the last to leave. Now they're just hoping to stay alive, because the island isn't deserted after all. Contestants are disappearing, but they aren't being eliminated by the game. They're being taken by the monstrous, half-human...
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Entombed
Entombed
by Brian Keene
THERE ARE THINGS MUCH WORSE THAN ZOMBIESFirst time in paperback!In the long-awaited follow up to DEAD SEA, it has been several months since the disease known as Hamelin's Revenge decimated the world. Civilization has collapsed and the dead far outnumber the living. The survivors seek refuge from the roaming zombie hordes, but one-by-one...
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Ghoul
Ghoul
by Brian Keene
There is something in the local cemetery that comes out at night. Something that is unearthing corpses and killing people. It’s the summer of 1984 and Timmy and his friends are looking forward to no school, comic books, and adventure. But instead they will be fighting for their lives. The ghoul has smelled their blood and it is after...
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Tequila's Sunrise
Tequila's Sunrise
by Brian Keene
Discover the secret origins of the "drink of the gods" in this dark fantasy fable by best-selling author Brian Keene. Chalco, a young Aztec boy, feels helpless as conquering Spanish forces near his village. But when a messenger of the gods hands him a key to unlock the doors of human perception and visit unseen worlds, Chalco journeys...
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Urban Gothic
Urban Gothic
by Brian Keene
No one gets out alive! When their car broke down in a dangerous inner-city neighborhood, Kerri and her friends thought they would find shelter inside an old, dark row home. They thought it was abandoned. They thought they would be safe there until help arrived. They were wrong. The residents who live down in the cellar and the tunnels...
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Take the Long Way Home
Take the Long Way Home
by Brian Keene
All across the world, people suddenly vanish in the blink of an eye. From their cars during the rush hour commute. From the shopping malls. Their homes. Their beds. Even from the arms of their loved ones. Airline pilots. World leaders. Teachers. Parents. Children. Gone. Steve, Charlie and Frank were just trying to get home when it...
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Earthworm Gods: Selected Scenes from the End of the World
Earthworm Gods: Selected Scenes from the End of the World
by Brian Keene
One day it started raining-and it never stopped...So began Brian Keene's Earthworm Gods, a novel that straddled the lines between the horror and bizarro genres. Fans have long marveled over that post-apocalyptic landscape-a flooded earth filled with strange and terrifying monsters. Readers returned to that world in Earthworm Gods II:...
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Shades
Shades
by Brian Keene, Geoff Cooper
Shadesby Brian Keene & Geoff CooperFrom Geoff Cooper and Brian Keene comes a dark coming-of-age tale.When 11-year-old Danny skips school to go hunting for crabs near theHaverstraw Marina, he finds a dead body instead and stumbles across one ofthe darkest and deadliest secrets in Brackard's Point.A secret that threatens the lives of...
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The Lost Level
The Lost Level
by Brian Keene
When modern-day occultist Aaron Pace discovers the secrets of inter-dimensional travel via a mystical pathway called The Labyrinth, he wastes no time in exploring a multitude of strange new worlds and alternate realities. But then, Aaron finds himself trapped in the most bizarre dimension of all — a place where dinosaurs coexist with...
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Categories: All Fantasy; All Horror
Where We Live and Die
Where We Live and Die
by Brian Keene
The muses are monsters. With them, we live and die.Since his earliest stories, Brian Keene has deconstructed the mystique of the writing life. Isolation, relationships lost, long hours, inconsistent paychecks, and professional heartbreak are all part of the job. Keene has unflinchingly laid bare the realities of the full-time writer....
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Ghost Walk
Ghost Walk
by Brian Keene
There are all kinds of legends about the forests of Central Pennsylvania, and in this sequel to DARK HOLLOW, the truth about those legends is finally revealed.Halloween is coming, and a new haunted attraction is open for business in LeHorn's Hollow. Folks will come from miles around to walk down the spooky trail and get scared witless....
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Pressure
Pressure
by Brian Keene
Off the coast of tropical Mauritius, an ecological catastrophe with global implications is occurring. The ocean's floor is collapsing at a rapid rate. World-champion free diver and marine biologist Carrie Anderson joins a scientific expedition determined to discover the cause-and how to stop it. But what they uncover is even more...
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Categories: Action and Adventure; All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers
The Complex
The Complex
by Brian Keene
For fans of Garth Ennis' "CROSSED" and "THE EVIL DEAD" comes a new novel of savage terror.There was no warning. No chance to escape. They came suddenly. Naked. Bloodthirsty. Sadistic. They descended upon the Pine Village Apartment Complex, relentlessly torturing and killing anyone they could find.Fearing for their lives, the residents of...
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All Dark, All The Time: The Complete Short Fiction of Brian Keene, Volume 2
All Dark, All The Time: The Complete Short Fiction of Brian Keene, Volume 2
by Brian Keene
ALL DARK, ALL THE TIME is the second book in a series collecting all of Brian Keene's short fiction. Included in this volume are such critically-acclaimed and fan favorite stories as "The Girl on the Glider", "Fetish", "The Siqqusim Who Stole Christmas", "Scratch", "Lost Canyon of the Dead", and many more.These are stories about...
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Unearthed
Unearthed
by Brian Keene, Richard Chizmar, Ray Garton
From Richard ChizmarManuscripts found in a dark corner of his office, from a time long forgotten–the Eighties. Revived at the hand of two horror masters, these stories are a slice of the past brought into the present.The SculptorWith Ray GartonAn artist finds a block of stone in his home, ready to be carved. A creative dry spell now...
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