June 8, 2026

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The Surge Series

The Surge Series Link
by Paul Block (Author) Format: Kindle, Paperback, Audio

On October 14th, 2029, the sky tore open.
Not with fire. Not with thunder. With silence.
For 11 minutes and 47 seconds, every satellite in orbit blinked. Every power grid on Earth spiked, held, and then collapsed into something new. Scientists would later call it a “magnetospheric inversion cascade.” The rest of us called it The Surge. #Dystopian #Apocalyptic #PostApocalyptic #Horror #Epic Epic, Horror, Dystopian, Apocalyptic

The Surge: Spark
by Paul Block (Author) Format: Kindle Edition Book 01

On October 14th, 2029, the sky tore open.
Not with fire. Not with thunder. With silence.
For 11 minutes and 47 seconds, every satellite in orbit blinked. Every power grid on Earth spiked, held, and then collapsed into something new. Scientists would later call it a “magnetospheric inversion cascade.” The rest of us called it The Surge. #Dystopian #Apocalyptic #PostApocalyptic #Horror #Epic Epic, Horror, Dystopian, Apocalyptic

The Surge: Uprising
by Paul Block (Author) Format: Kindle Edition Book 02

On October 14th, 2029, the sky tore open.
Not with fire. Not with thunder. With silence.
For 11 minutes and 47 seconds, every satellite in orbit blinked. Every power grid on Earth spiked, held, and then collapsed into something new. Scientists would later call it a “magnetospheric inversion cascade.” The rest of us called it The Surge. #Dystopian #Apocalyptic #PostApocalyptic #Horror #Epic Epic, Horror, Dystopian, Apocalyptic

The Surge: Purge
by Paul Block (Author) Format: Kindle Edition Book 03

On October 14th, 2029, the sky tore open.
Not with fire. Not with thunder. With silence.
For 11 minutes and 47 seconds, every satellite in orbit blinked. Every power grid on Earth spiked, held, and then collapsed into something new. Scientists would later call it a “magnetospheric inversion cascade.” The rest of us called it The Surge. #Dystopian #Apocalyptic #PostApocalyptic #Horror #Epic Epic, Horror, Dystopian, Apocalyptic

America the Dead

America the Dead Singles
These are the individual books in the America the Dead series. This series will include all of the books, published and unpublished by Dell Sweet.
#Virus #Plague #Apocalypse #Dystopian #Saga #DellSweet Dell Sweet, Horror, Dystopian, Apocalyptic



America the Dead: Before the End Book-01 by Dell Sweet (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
Andrea Zurita had been alive for the second time for more than three days. The men who had left her body had done so carefully: Senor Prescott would be very angry to find them on his land: Transgressions had been met with violence in the past, the bodies dumped into the ocean. #Virus #Plague #Apocalypse #Dystopian #Saga #DellSweet Dell Sweet, Horror, Dystopian, Apocalyptic


America the Dead: Begins the End Book-02 by Dell Sweet (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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The virus begins to infect the world starting in Ecuador when it is accidently released. In the United States a top-secret military panel authorizes releasing it on the general public starting in America and then spreading out from there to the entire world, it is soon spreading from several places in the world and the fall of humanity is begun. #Virus #Plague #Apocalypse #Dystopian #Saga #DellSweet Dell Sweet, Horror, Dystopian, Apocalyptic


America the Dead: Los Angeles Book-03 by Dell Sweet (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
To leave the city with nine people they were going to need a truck, and that was going to have to wait until they made their way out of the city and all the stalled and wrecked vehicles that clogged the main streets. #Virus #Plague #Apocalypse #Dystopian #Saga #DellSweet Dell Sweet, Horror, Dystopian, Apocalyptic



America the Dead: Manhattan Book-04 by Dell Sweet (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
They stank of death, rotted flesh, and corruption. Their chests did not rise and fall. They did not move. Their eyes were partially slitted. It would be easy to believe that they really were dead and had been for some time. #Virus #Plague #Apocalypse #Dystopian #Saga #DellSweet Dell Sweet, Horror, Dystopian, Apocalyptic


America the Dead: War at Home 1 Book-05 by Dell Sweet (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
Ronnie’s face was gray. Sweat popped out along his brow. He had seen dozens of bodies inside, just within the small perimeter of light that had come through the open doorway, and what looked to be dozens more just beyond in the shadows. #Virus #Plague #Apocalypse #Dystopian #Saga #DellSweet Dell Sweet, Horror, Dystopian, Apocalyptic


America the Dead: War at Home 2 Book-06 by Dell Sweet (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
The smell hit them before they reached the woods.
“Jesus,” Ronnie said, “What in …”
A few feet away, a shriveled corpse, whether man or woman it was hard to tell, but something had been feeding on the body. #Virus #Plague #Apocalypse #Dystopian #Saga #DellSweet Dell Sweet, Horror, Dystopian, Apocalyptic


America the Dead: The Fold 1 Book-07 by Lindsey Rivers (Author)
The following days were strained. The survivors went about their tasks with a new awareness of their internal conflicts. Bear’s leadership was challenged, not with open rebellion, but with passive resistance. Beth withdrew, her sharp intellect now clouded by her emotional turmoil. . #Virus #Plague #Apocalypse #Dystopian #Saga #DellSweet Dell Sweet, Horror, Dystopian, Apocalyptic


America the Dead: The Fold 2 Book-08 by Lindsey Rivers (Author)
The following days were a blur of activity. It was amidst this monotonous work that Billy first saw her… Pearl…
She moved with a grace that belied the callouses on her hands, a testament to years of hard labor. #Virus #Plague #Apocalypse #Dystopian #Saga #DellSweet Dell Sweet, Horror, Dystopian, Apocalyptic

Earth’s Survivors Life Stories: Bear

Series: Earth’s Survivors Life Stories

by Dell Sweet

This book begins at the beginning of the apocalypse and works through the first few months as Bear makes his way from Manhattan to New Jersey; Pennsylvania and then through the middle states. And finally Kentucky where he meets Mike Collins and becomes a member of the fledgling Nation, founded by a group of survivors who believe they have found the perfect place to begin to rebuild society… #Horror #Series #Dystopian #Apocalyptic

Get it: https://books.apple.com/us/book/x/id1260438647




Earth’s Survivors Life Stories: Beth

Series: Earth’s Survivors Life Stories

by Dell Sweet

She travels across the country with Billy, facing both the living and the dead as she makes her way from one coast to the other. The trip is long and she is holding out hope of structure, life, safety on the east coast: Hopes that may not be realized. Still they continue. Depending only upon one another as they struggle to make their epic journey… #Horror #Series #Dystopian #Apocalyptic

Get it: https://books.apple.com/us/book/x/id1260438925




Earth’s Survivors Life Stories: Billy

Series: Earth’s Survivors Life Stories

by Dell Sweet

He lay there for a long time, the rough, unfamiliar texture of the thin mattress an insistent reality against his skin. His body ached with a weariness that went beyond mere physical exertion; it was a soul-deep fatigue, a profound exhaustion born from the relentless weight of his own undoing. The remnants of his past now pressed down on him like the relentless sun… #Horror #Series #Dystopian #Apocalyptic

Get it: https://books.apple.com/us/book/x/id1366151923




Earth’s Survivors Life Stories: Candace and Mike

Series: Earth’s Survivors Life Stories

by Dell Sweet

Candace and Mike: The two most popular people from the Earth’s Survivors series. The extended book tells their story from their point of view; start to finish as they make their way through the apocalypse… #Horror #Series #Dystopian #Apocalyptic

Get it: https://books.apple.com/us/book/x/id1359482457




Earth’s Survivors Life Stories Jack and Maria

Series: Earth’s Survivors Life Stories

by Dell Sweet

The weight of his pack felt less like a burden and more like a promise. A promise of a few more days, a few more weeks, where the immediate threat of starvation was held at bay. A promise that he could continue to move, to explore, to survive. The cacophony of the infected was not merely a byproduct of their existence. Maria, hunched over her worn journal in the meager light of her shelter… #Horror #Series #Dystopian #Apocalyptic

Get it: https://books.apple.com/us/book/x/id934709430




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City of the Dead

Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F4Z988YB

Audible:

https://www.audible.com/ac/City-of-the-Dead-Audiobook/B0F4YZY46Z

“Hey,” he said. A young guy. Unshaven. Wild hair. I could smell the street on him. His teeth were yellowed and chipped. Looked to be blackening in places I saw. His tongue continuously licked at his cracked lips. I couldn’t speak. Wouldn’t have known what to say if I had been able to, and I was having a very hard time keeping my eyes open. The lights were too bright. 

Hey,” he said again. “I didn’t know you would be naked… In a bath tub… He didn’t say that… I’m sorry…. I really am sorry.” His hand swam into view as I watched. Normal except a black lump seemed to be fused to it. A black lump with a blacker hole in the end of it. Fire spat from the blacker hole. The lights went out… #Audio #Book #SamWolfe #DreamTravel #Readers #Listeners

Get it: https://www.audible.com/ac/City-of-the-Dead-Audiobook/B0F4YZY46Z


Chronicles from the Wastelands 01

  The collapse had been a swift, brutal amputation. The surge, a cataclysmic event that had not only silenced our digital world but had also plunged vast swathes of the planet into darkness and disarray. The immediate aftermath had been a blur of panic, of desperate attempts to comprehend the incomprehensible. The abstract threats of cyber warfare or economic collapse had been replaced by the terrifyingly concrete realities of starvation, disease, and the primal struggle for survival.
  In the early days, the focus had been singular: survive. Find food, find water, find shelter. My technical skills, so vital in the old world, were largely useless. I learned to scavenge, to ration, to move with a stealth born of necessity. I learned the silence of the wilderness, the language of rustling leaves and snapping twigs.
  But survival, I was discovering, was not an end in itself. It was a means to an end, a precarious foundation upon which something more must be built. It was a recognition that to truly survive, I needed to do more than just exist; I needed to be.

#Dystopian #Apocalyptic #Epic #Survival #Amazon #Kindle #KU #Horror 

Chronicles from the Wastelands 02

  Before Candace could speculate, a low, guttural growl echoed from the far end of the depot, followed by the distinct sound of heavy boots crunching on gravel. It was a sound of human origin, but there was an aggression to it, a territoriality that sent a prickle of alarm through Candace.
  “Someone else,” Elara whispered, her hand tightening on her pipe.
  Candace nodded, her gaze fixed on the source of the sound. “And they don’t sound friendly.” She could see them now – a group of figures emerging from the gloom, their silhouettes indistinct against the muted light. They were armed, their weapons glinting dully. Their movements were coordinated, purposeful, suggesting a trained unit rather than a disorganized band of scavengers. #Dystopian #Apocalyptic #Epic #Survival #Amazon #Kindle #KU #Horror

Chronicles from the Wastelands 03

The world ended not with a bang, but with a sickening lurch. One moment, Mike was wrestling with a stubborn garden hose, the scent of cut grass and impending rain filling the air. The next, the sky ripped open. Not with thunder, but with a silent, violent tear that bled impossible colors across the horizon… #Dystopian #ApocalypticFiction #Horror #DellSweet Dell Sweet, Apocalyptic, Dystopian, horror

Chronicles from the Wastelands 04

As they were bagging their meager findings, a sudden sound echoed from the front of the store – a faint scuff, like a boot on loose gravel. Both men froze, their bodies tensing. Mike slowly raised his rifle, his finger hovering over the trigger. Ben drew his machete, his knuckles white. The silence that followed was deafening, stretching out, each second an eternity. Then, another sound, closer this time – the unmistakable creak of the store’s front door, the one they had pried open. #Dystopian #ApocalypticFiction #Horror #DellSweet Dell Sweet, Apocalyptic, Dystopian, horror