Dead of Night, Jonathan Maberry
Dead of Night, Jonathan Maberry
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Dead of Night
A Zombie Novel

Author: Jonathan Maberry

Narrator: William Dufris

Unabridged: 13 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/25/2011


Synopsis

A prison doctor injects a condemned serial killer with a formula designed to keep his consciousness awake while his body rots in the grave. But all drugs have unforeseen side-effects. Before he could be buried, the killer wakes up. Hungry. Infected. Contagious. This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang…but a bite.

About Jonathan Maberry

JONATHAN MABERRY (he/him) is a New York Times bestselling, Inkpot winner, five-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Relentless, Ink, Patient Zero, Rot & Ruin, Dead of Night, the Pine Deep Trilogy, The Wolfman, Zombie CSU, and They Bite, among others. His V-Wars series has been adapted by Netflix, and his work for Marvel Comics includes The Punisher, Wolverine, DoomWar, Marvel Zombie Return and Black Panther. He is the editor of Weird Tales Magazine and also edits anthologies such as Aliens vs Predator, Nights of the Living Dead (with George A. Romero), Don’t Turn out the Lights, and others.

About William Dufris

William Dufris began his audio career in London, England. He co-found the audio production company The Story Circle, Ltd in the UK. In the US, he founded Mind’s Eye Productions and co-founded Rocky Coast Radio Theatre in addition to The AudioComics Company, for which he is producer, director, actor and engineer. Durfis was nominated six times as a finalist for the APA's prestigious Audie Awards. He garnered eighteen Golden Earphones Awards through AudioFile magazine, which honored him as one of The Best Voices at the End of the Century. Of his work, AudioFile said, "William Dufris commands a dazzling array of voices that bring to life the dozens of audiobooks he’s narrated." His audiobook credits include many of Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen, Ph.D.'s works, such as Days of Infamy and Pearl Harbor, in addition to George McGovern’s Abraham Lincoln, Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon and John Scalzi’s The Ghost Bridges.Dufris acted on stage and in television and is best known as the original North American voice of the cartoon character Bob in Nickelodeon's popular children's show, Bob the Builder. Additionally, he worked with legendary director Dirk Maggs on his audio drama productions of Spider-Man.


Reviews

Goodreads review by PamG on April 01, 2024

Jonathan Maberry continues to amaze and entertain me with his range and quality of writing. Dead of Night, the first book in a series by the same name is no different. A prison doctor injects a condemned prisoner with a formula designed to punish him by keeping him awake while his body rots in i......more

Goodreads review by Frank on June 20, 2020

Solid zombie book, probably the best one I've read. I saw that this was a series, and with the way this one left off there's no doubt about it. Talk about a cliff hanger ending!! If I had to give one critique of this, it would be the main character, Dez, was over the top flawed and extremely unlikab......more

Goodreads review by Louie the Mustache on April 18, 2023

Dead of Night by Jonathan Maberry is really nothing special. It is a zombie novel, almost exactly like every other zombie novel. Probably the only nod to originality that one might argue about would be the chapters that allow the reader a zombie POV. The Human part is aware that existence is still o......more

Goodreads review by Mr. Matt on September 08, 2015

A mortician is going about his daily business. He unzips a body bag and *powie* the stiff opens his eyes, grins and chomps into the unsuspecting mortician. And so begins the zombie apocalypse. The dead guy goes out and kills some more people. The dead doc wakes up, kills some people. And the people......more

Goodreads review by Lou on March 03, 2012

I interviewed Jonathan Maberry recently here. He talks about writing, favorite books, Bram Stoker Awards and Martial arts. A military bio-weapon could be the most dangerous weapon to us all. Maberry takes you back through the turning process to where it all started with the first host. Homer Gibbon w......more


Quotes

“This has to be one of the best traditional zombie tales I've ever read... This is a zombie book for the ages.” —Seattle Post Intelligencer

“Maberry grounds the story with scientific confidence, spares no attention to detail, and presents the undead as more than faceless targets.” —Publishers Weekly