Chris Philbrook Books in Order

Surviving alone on a school campus, Adrian Ring discovers that his neighbor is an armed, retired Green Beret. Their connection offers welcome help as he searches zombie-filled neighborhoods for supplies and contends with dangerous fellow survivors.

When the dead begin attacking the living, Adrian Ring retreats to a school campus and records his struggle in a diary. Rescuing loved ones, finding supplies, and evading hostile survivors test both his resourcefulness and his sanity.

Adrian Ring protects his growing community from repeated attacks by survivors from Westfield. Encounters with another settlement complicate his alliances, while disturbing developments raise questions about why the dead have returned and what role he plays.

Twins Malwynn and Umaryn lose their peaceful life when undead invaders clash with Varrland’s defenders in New Picknell. Fleeing the destruction, they pursue revenge and discover mystical powers as their world moves toward war.

This anthology gathers independent zombie stories by Chris Philbrook and other authors. Its tales range from the first outbreak to life after civilisation’s collapse, following frightened children, endangered families and survivors confronting different forms of the undead apocalypse.

Philbrook combines original short fiction with samples from his zombie, fantasy and dragon novels. Stories including All In, Hell Hole and The Vampire of Menlo Park offer further glimpses of the strange and threatening worlds his characters inhabit.

Adrian and his closest companions venture into the city for a final test that could determine humanity’s future. Their search for redemption forces them through deadly dangers as Adrian struggles to save both the world and his soul.

Unable to break Adrian Ring directly, a malevolent force turns against the people he loves, including family he believed dead. As he tries to protect them, Kevin and Michelle move closer to the same dangerous struggle.

Tesser, one of Earth’s ancient dragon guardians, awakens beneath Boston after ten thousand years without knowing how he disappeared. Adapting to modern humanity, he searches for his missing sister and confronts daemons threatening the world beyond the Veil.

Adrian and his adopted family discover that their troubling dreams carry messages from beyond the grave. As he reclaims territory from zombies and hostile survivors, new signs suggest that humanity’s fate depends on a much larger conflict.

Malwynn and Umaryn investigate who paid for the destruction of their hometown. Their search takes them to Varrland’s capital, where religious, political and guild interests obscure the truth as war with the Amaranth Empire approaches.

With winter approaching and supplies running low, Adrian faces escalating conflict with the survivors at the Factory. Kevin and Michelle follow mysterious signs toward him, while betrayal, violence, and temptation threaten the fragile community he protects.

An alliance with Westfield brings security to Adrian’s settlement, and a new romance offers hope. But the struggle between good and evil reaches into his closest relationships, threatening a betrayal whose consequences could extend far beyond him.

A bus filled with drained corpses draws Ambryn, the dragon of death, to Nevada while Tesser handles troll diplomacy. With unfamiliar allies and no help from his sister Kaula, Ambryn confronts consequences of his ancient mistakes.

Human colonies on Ghara’s moons launch an expedition to resource-rich Selva. Newlywed marines Dustin and Melody confront magnetic storms and dangerous alien life, while opposition to the mission threatens the long peace among their home colonies.

These stories revisit the collapse of the world in Adrian’s Undead Diary, following survivors beyond Adrian Ring’s immediate circle. An endangered flight, a veterinarian’s rescue efforts and Eddie Smith’s northbound convoy reveal other experiences of the zombie catastrophe.

Kevin Whitten and Harold Parker meet in London as the dead begin rising. This novella follows their struggle to survive the city’s collapse and the Royal Marines whose sacrifice enables them to escape a helicopter crash in Covent Garden.

This anthology brings additional writers into the world of Adrian’s Undead Diary. Stories span the outbreak, encounters with the White Room and months of survival, exploring different characters’ experiences within the shared zombie-apocalypse setting.

Fleeing Varrland’s capital as wanted criminals, Malwynn and Umaryn carry a mysterious key toward Duulan. An abandoned mine guarded by undead may reveal their world’s darkest secrets, but the Amaranth Empire’s invading army is advancing behind them.

Hot-air balloon pilot Tim Feely takes Julie and Lucas on their first flight, unaware that zombies are appearing nearby. Lucas has already suffered a mysterious bite, turning their peaceful morning excursion into a dangerous journey above the unfolding outbreak.

Agent Abe Fellows investigates strange mutations in London while creatures flee the eastern Atlantic. Joined by Fyelrath, the dragon of water, he searches for an arcane threat awakening beneath the sea as Earth’s returning magic grows stronger.

After his grandfather’s death, Tony spends the summer helping his grandmother at her rural home near Auburn Lake Preparatory Academy. When the dead rise, the ordinary responsibilities of caring for Nana become a fight to keep them alive.

Five years after Selva’s settlement, rebellious miners claim independence from the Gharian colonies. Dustin Cline and his team investigate New Falun, where something discovered underground has driven the unrest and may threaten more than colonial authority.

Short stories explore a troubling family lake house, a hungry tree, caffeine addicted goblins and the arrival of zombies. The collection also includes novel excerpts, bringing together dark fantasy, science fiction and supernatural horror from Philbrook’s fictional worlds.

Tesser takes his partner Matty and their dragon daughter Astrid to celebrate with Norway’s underground trolls. Divisions within the ancient community conceal forces willing to spill blood and take the child, whose existence sustains Earth’s magic.

With the undead banished, Adrian helps rebuild a thriving settlement at Bastion. As winter approaches, a powerful neighboring cooperative advances south, forcing him to decide whether its arrival offers an alliance or threatens everything his community has built.

Bastion’s alliance with a neighboring cooperative promises security, but frightened refugees arrive from overseas with troubling news. As the zombie plague returns, Adrian must navigate hunger, mistrust, and alliances tested by a renewed threat to humanity.

After being shot, Adrian Ring lies in a coma and explores a realm between life and death. Lost friends guide him through memories, possible allies and enemies, and a vision of events that have yet to occur.

An explosion at Fukushima removes radiation but leaves traces of magic. Zeud, the dragon of fire, travels to Japan with Abraham and Spoon, investigating an attempt at healing that has dangerously combined magical power with atomic energy.

Twelve stories set in Adrian’s Undead Diary explore how good and bad luck change survivors’ fates. Characters face unexpected dangers, desperate escapes and encounters with evil across different periods of the world’s zombie apocalypse.

Wounded and grieving, Adrian leaves Bastion to help a second group of potential saviors in Europe. Before facing faster, smarter undead, he must survive a difficult Atlantic crossing and conflicts with the naval crew carrying his team.

Arriving in England, Adrian searches for the people who could help end Europe’s zombie crisis. Desperate survivors and stronger undead complicate his mission, while an apparently helpful local leader may conceal dangers of his own.

Diggory Finch inherits an island, buildings and a fortune from his grandmother, hoping to build a stable life and open a game store. His family’s dark power attracts people determined to exploit the ancient evil he can access.

Adrian Ring heads into England searching for survivors and a missing father while trying to assemble humanity's saviors. Faster undead, sinister spirits, and a threat hidden among his companions make the journey more dangerous than he expects.

After averting catastrophe in Twin Falls, Diggory Finch tries to pursue romance and open his gaming store. The town’s twelve founding families seek his power, while a breach in the barrier protecting the world allows another eldritch threat inside.

After their ship is overrun, Adrian and his companions struggle through a ruined German winter and shelter at a farm. A nearby survivor community offers an alliance, but its hidden motives could threaten their search for humanity's salvation.

A monster emerges whenever Rachel sleeps, forcing Adrian to contain an evil he cannot safely destroy. As his group crosses Germany seeking survivors and his brother, their dangerous passenger draws the undead closer with every mile.

Diggory Finch seeks answers about his family’s captivity within Twin Falls and its competing supernatural cults. Another family’s demand for revenge threatens his bloodline, while an ancestral presence and the ambitions of the Twelve families narrow his choices.

After a solar flare destroys technology, floods and dwindling supplies threaten Lara Ryan’s New England community. A violent local family leaves her and her children vulnerable, forcing them to seek help from a reclusive neighbor with a hidden past.

Seth Willard’s game contract keeps the nanites treating his cancer active and provides money for his family. As he gains new abilities, deadlier monsters and concealed corporate motives make continued survival more complicated than simply leveling up.

Single father Seth Willard accepts work in an immersive zombie game because its nanites can cure his cancer. A glitch turns him into a player, leaving him fighting apparently real horrors while his job, treatment and family’s future hang in the balance.

Adrian leads his companions toward Erfurt, where help for Rachel's worsening demonic possession may await. With sedatives losing their effect and undead blocking the route, saving her could require entering a battlefield inside her own mind.