Autumn: The Human Condition (eBook)

The 2013 Infected Books edition of Autumn: The Human Condition. Contains Kindle and ePub versions.

The human race is finished. Mankind is all but dead and only a handful of frightened individuals remain. These people have survived through chance, not skill, and they are a desperate bunch: cheating lovers, workshy civil servants, permanently drunk publicans, teenage rebels, obsessive accountants, failed husbands, first-time cross-dressers, disrobed priests and more… Experience the end of the world as seen from almost fifty different perspectives. 

Part-companion, part-guidebook and part-sequel, AUTUMN: THE HUMAN CONDITION follows the individual stories of these desperate survivors through their final dark days. 

“The best survival horror since Richard Matheson’s I am Legend” —Wayne Simmons, author of Flu and Plastic Jesus 

“Moody is as imaginative as Barker, as compulsory as King, and as addictive as Palahniuk” —Scream the horror magazine 

“Takes the genre in a fascinating new direction. If John Wyndham was alive and writing zombie novels, they’d read like this” —Jonathan Maberry, best-selling author of Patient Zero and Rot & Ruin

BEFORE
JAKE WILSON
DAY ONE
AMY STEADMAN (part i)
JIM HARPER
SHERI NEWTON
SONYA FARLEY
HARRY STAYT
JACOB FLYNN (part i)
BRIGID CULTHORPE
PETER GUEST
WEBB
JACKIE SOAMES
GARY KEELE
CARON*
JULIET APPLEBY
KAREN CHASE
PHILIP EVANS (part i)
DAY TWO
BEGINNING TO DISINTEGRATE (part i)*
DAY THREE
AMY STEADMAN (part ii)
PHILIP EVANS (part ii)
JACOB FLYNN (part ii)
KIERAN COPE**
INNOCENCE
DAY FIVE
AMY STEADMAN (part iii)
BEGINNING TO DISINTEGRATE (part ii)*
DUCK AND COVER
PENELOPE STREET
DIGITAL*
DAY SEVEN
AMY STEADMAN (part iv)
JACKSON
OFFICE POLITICS
BEGINNING TO DISINTEGRATE (part iii)*
THE HUMAN CONDITION (part i)
DAY NINE
THE GARDEN SHED
KATE JAMES
OH NO, NOT YOU AGAIN*
ROBERT WOOLGRAVE
DAY FOURTEEN
BREAKING POINT**
DAY SEVENTEEN
AMY STEADMAN (part v)
DO YOU REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME?*
THE HUMAN CONDITION (part ii)
DAY TWENTY-THREE
AMY STEADMAN (part vi)
KILGORE
HOME**
SKIN
DAY THIRTY-EIGHT
ANNIE NELSON
ANGEL*
DAY ONE HUNDRED AND NINETEEN
UNDERGROUND

JOE AND ME**

* Brand new story – previously unreleased
** New to this collection
Other stories are available to read online at www.lastoftheliving.net – the official AUTUMN website