by Blake Crouch
First published 2015
Mortimer Moorecook has weeks left to live. The retired Wall Street raider spent millions on a Romanian skull with razor teeth. In his hillside mansion, he presses the fangs into his neck as his research assistant Shanna watches. Convulsions rack his body. The ambulance rushes him to a rural hospital where he dies on the gurney. Then he comes back. Four horror writers created this vampire outbreak story, each taking a different character through the chaos that erupts in the isolated medical facility. The vampires here wear no capes and sleep in no coffins. Sunlight does not stop them. Stakes and garlic offer no protection. These creatures exist only to feed and spread. The hospital becomes a battleground where staff and patients fight creatures that were once human.
Genres: science-fiction, suspense, horror, thriller
Vibes: dark, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: creature-feature, found-family
Setting: Romania, Wall Street, Rural Hospital
Period: 21st-century
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Content warnings: gore, graphic-violence