Coldbrook - Softcover

For decades scientists have been striving to reach an alternate existence at Coldbrook, a facility deep beneath the Appalachians. In 2011 it finally happens, and a new reality is breached … The new world they find is very different from our own; under a red sky there are only ruins to indicate a civilization ever existed. The first person to stumble through the breach is sick, and when he bites the infection quickly spreads. The contagion is voracious, unstoppable, and terrifying. Official reaction is confused and ineffective, and the plague expands across the United States in a matter of hours, the rest of the world within days. Millions flee before it, millions more succumb. The scientists from Coldbrook guilt-ridden for unleashing the catastrophe search in vain for a cure in the ruined world beyond the breach. Here, where survivors of the decades-old epidemic huddle in underground shelters, there might be hope. But time is running out. The plague is spreading. In our world the afflicted rage on; hard to kill, they possess only one aim spreading the disease. And as the Coldbrook survivors battle their own inner demons in their search for a solution, a terrifying truth emerges: They are being watched. Praise for Tim Lebbon: Lebbon displays the sort of cool irony and uncanny mood-making that drive the best Twilight Zone stories." New York Times Book Review One of the most powerful new voices to come along in the genre...Lebbon's work is infused with the contemporary realism of Stephen King and the lyricism of Ray Bradbury. Fangoria Lebbon is quite simply the most exciting new name in horror for years. SFX Magazine

Tim Lebbon is a multi award-winning, New York Times best-selling writer from South Wales. His novels include The Island, Bar None, Fallen, The Map of Moments (with Christopher Golden), Dusk, Dawn, Berserk, The Everlasting, White, Face, The Nature of Balance, and Desolation. He is the author of several collections, and over a hundred short stories and novellas. He has also written the media tie-in novels Hellboy: The Fire Wolves and the novelization of the movies 30 Days of Night and The Cabin in the Woods. Lebbon has won four British Fantasy Awards, a Bram Stoker Award, a Shocker Award and a Tombstone Award, and has been a finalist for International Horror Guild and World Fantasy Awards. His novellas White and Pay the Ghost are currently in development as movies, and other ongoing movie projects include Face, The Nature of Balance and Exorcising Angels (a collaboration with Simon Clark). He is collaborating on a screenplay with British screenwriter Stephen Volk, and a TV series with Hollywood writer Stephen Susco. Future publications include a new fantasy novel Echo City Falls, an original novel in the 30 Days of Night universe, two collections from Cemetery Dance Publications and PS Publications, and two contemporary fantasy novels and a YA series in collaboration with Christopher Golden, for Bantam Spectra and HarperCollins US respectively. Find out more about Tim at his website: www.timlebbon.net