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Handling the Undead

By: John Ajvide Lindqvist
Narrated by: Steven Pacey
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Handling the Undead is a thrilling, shocking and moving story about a love that can defy death, from the acclaimed author of Let the Right One In.

In the city morgue, the dead are waking up....

What do they want?

What everybody wants: to come home.

p>Something peculiar is happening. Stockholm is enduring a heatwave, electrical appliances cannot be switched off and everyone has a blinding headache. Then the terrible news breaks - in the city morgue, the dead are waking....

David always knew his wife was far too good for him. But he never knew how lost he'd be without her until tonight when her car hit an elk. Now she's gone and he's alone. But when he goes to identify her body, she begins to move. It's terrifying, but it gives David a strange kind of hope.

Across the city, grieving families find themselves able to see their loved-ones one last time. But are these creatures really them? How long can this last? And what does it all mean?

©2010 Quercus Publishing PLC (P)2011 WF Howes Ltd Horror

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"Reminiscent of Stephen King at his best. Best read by sunlight." (Independent on Sunday)
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For better or for worse, John leans into themes such as familial relations and loss. This novel is strange but very enjoyable. Addictive. His novels read like motion pictures in both good and not so good ways. Nevertheless, I was satisfied.

This is a Lindqvist novel. That is for sure.

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