Fast über Nacht erscheinen massive Superstürme rund um den Globus. Diese konvergieren in der Arktis und zu einem apokalyptischen Megasturm, stören weltweit Wetter-, Kommunikations- und Sicherheitssysteme. Es herrscht Chaos … dann verebbt der Sturm, die Wolken teilen sich – doch nur, um die wahre Bedrohung preiszugeben. Hell Walks wird es genannt. Es ist sieben Meilen hoch, und jeder seiner Schritte verursacht Katastrophen, deren Auswirkungen über die Kontinente hereinbrechen. Aus seinem Leib schlüpfen aggressive Monster – jedes für sich in der Lage, eine ganze Stadt auszulöschen. Ohne etwas über die Herkunft dieser Monster zu wissen, sieht sich die Menschheit mit dem Alptraum ihrer eigenen Ausrottung konfrontiert.

The dead refuse to stay dead. The Reaper is here to put them down. As winter sets in and America's survivors struggle to rebuild a semblance of civilization, terrifying new enemies are gathering-both in the lawless badlands and within the walls of the safe zone. Most fearsome of all is the "King of the Dead." His zombified troupe of sideshow curiosities is but a fraction of his growing pack. The Reaper's quest to safeguard the humans he has befriended places him on the trail of these feral undead. But he is sorely unprepared for the return of the zombie transformed by his own flesh, the Omega-a fiend driven by something more sinister than any virus. Meanwhile, Death's questions about his origin haunt him, and he is close to the answers… but the worst of both the living and the dead are rising in his path, and he'll have to cut them all down to reach the cosmic endgame.

The year i s 2112.

The crippled U.S. government and its military forces are giving up the century-long fight against an undead plague. Born of an otherworldly energy fused with a deadly virus, the ravaging hordes of zombified humans and animals have no natural enemies. But they do have one supernatural enemy: Death himself.

Descending upon the ghost town of Jefferson Harbor, Louisiana, the Grim Reaper embarks on a bloody campaign to put down the legions that have defied his touch for so long. He will find allies in the city’s last survivors, and a nemesis in a man who wants to harness the force driving the zombies — a man who seeks to rebuild America into an empire of the dead.

Hailed as “A MACABRE MASTERPIECE OF POST-APOCALYPTIC ZOMBIE GOODNESS” on the Library of the Living Dead podcast, Empire brings stunning new twists to a shattering and unforgettable scenario of the not-too-distant future.