Peter Meredith Books in Order
Explore Peter Meredith books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and easy starting points for his zombie, fantasy, and horror novels.
Last updated: June 7, 2026
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Publication Order
44 books
An Illusion of Hell
by Peter Meredith
2011
The Jern family's curse does not end with survival. This sequel pushes them deeper into possession, paranoia, and hellish visions as the supernatural threat grows harder to deny and harder to escape.
Hell Blade
by Peter Meredith
2011
Katie Jern has lived with terror since childhood, when she first saw the demon beyond the gate. By the final book, Meredith turns her fear, fury, and paranoia into a full descent toward hell.
The Horror of the Shade
by Peter Meredith
2011
William Jern thinks he is moving his family into a dream home. Instead the house becomes the center of a demonic nightmare, and saving his daughter means facing an evil far older than the family itself.
Sprite
by Peter Meredith
2012
Abandoned by her alcoholic mother, twelve-year-old Audrey, called Odd, sets out into a brutal world wearing sunglasses to hide her red eyes. It is a sad, tense story about neglect, survival, and the rare people who choose kindness.
The Blood Lure
by Peter Meredith
2012
Ella Belmont seems ordinary until a mysterious stranger reveals that hidden kingdoms are fighting over what she is. Drawn into the Hidden Lands, she learns she is not the prize, but the bait.
The Feylands
by Peter Meredith
2012
Ella's quiet life changes when a mysterious man draws her toward a hidden realm of magic and danger. What starts like an escape turns into a deadly struggle over identity, kingdoms, and the role she was born to play.
The King's Trap / The Sun King
by Peter Meredith
2012
After disaster in the Hidden Lands, Ella and her allies scatter while enemies close in. Eireden must fight for his people and become more than a dispossessed ruler if he wants any hope of winning.
The Sacrificial Daughter
by Peter Meredith
2012
New in town and hated on sight, Jesse Clarke already has enough to survive. Then a killer in the woods chooses her, turning school cruelty and small-town anger into a nightmare.
A Perfect America
by Peter Meredith
2013
In 2122, inquisitor Phil Tarsus serves a government that owns almost everything and trusts no one. When he uncovers a dangerous secret, he becomes a hunted man in the perfect state he helped enforce.
The Apocalypse
by Peter Meredith
2013
A viral infection born of greed, terror, and bad luck tears civilization apart. The first Undead World novel throws several survivors into the chaos and asks who is fast, tough, or lucky enough to keep going.
The Punished
by Peter Meredith
2013
Young thief Curt Regis is sent to foster care, hoping for a second chance. Instead he lands in a house with dark secrets, where surviving childhood may mean facing something far worse than punishment.
To Ensnare a Queen / The Sun Queen
by Peter Meredith
2013
Separated by fate and war, the players in Meredith's hidden-world fantasy are pulled toward a struggle over power, love, and loyalty. The book raises the stakes from survival to the making of a queen.
The Apocalypse Fugitives
by Peter Meredith
2014
Neil's battered group heads west with too many mouths to feed and too few ways across a ruined country. The mighty Mississippi becomes a deadly bottleneck, and getting past it demands an awful price.
The Apocalypse Outcasts
by Peter Meredith
2014
A bounty on Neil Martin's family sends killers, zealots, and soldiers after them. Forced onto the run again, they keep moving until there is nowhere left to retreat.
The Apocalypse Survivors
by Peter Meredith
2014
The dead are everywhere, but other survivors may be worse. This sequel follows the few decent people left as they learn that living through the outbreak was only the beginning.
War of the Undead Day One
by Peter Meredith
2014
At a research facility built to change medicine, the first day of human trials turns into the first day of the end. Meredith tracks the instant when hope gives way to fire, blood, and the undead.
The Apocalypse Exile
by Peter Meredith
2015
The long trip across zombie-filled America only gets harder. Exile pushes Neil's people deeper into hunger, danger, and the dawning truth that there may be no safe corner left to reach.
The Apocalypse Renegades
by Peter Meredith
2015
Unarmed, hunted, and badly outmatched, Neil's group is pushed from trap to trap across a hostile landscape. Jillybean's brilliance and Captain Grey's absence make every decision feel desperate.
War of the Undead Day Two
by Peter Meredith
2015
The second day of the outbreak follows people trying to hold lines that are already failing. Orders, quarantines, and rescue plans all start to unravel as the dead multiply.
Tales from the Butcher's Block
by Peter Meredith
2016
This dark collection gathers shorter Peter Meredith fiction with a horror edge. The stories are quick, sharp, and interested in what happens when fear, cruelty, or desperation finally take over.
The Apocalypse Executioner
by Peter Meredith
2016
Low supplies and missing friends force Neil into a risky search for Jillybean, while Sadie and Captain Grey vanish on their own mission. What follows is a grim rescue story full of bad odds and worse choices.
The Apocalypse War
by Peter Meredith
2016
Neil's battered family finally reaches a showdown with enemies human and undead. The war tests what their long journey has made them and whether a real future can survive the bloodshed.
The Edge of Hell
by Peter Meredith
2016
Jack Dreyden, a doctoral candidate in ancient languages, translates a scroll that should have stayed buried. That mistake opens the door to hellish power and starts a supernatural apocalypse tied as much to temptation as death.
The Edge of Temptation
by Peter Meredith
2016
After the fall of New York, Jack faces a harsher, stranger world ruled by the dead and dark power. Winning may mean taking on the methods and ambitions of the enemy he wants to destroy.
War of the Undead Day Three
by Peter Meredith
2016
A flashy military response turns into chaos when zombies appear behind the lines. Soldiers and civilians are thrown together in a collapsing battlefield where fear spreads as fast as infection.
Infinite Assassins
by Peter Meredith
2017
When a radical in-game faction targets the people trying Atticus Arching, Daniel Roan becomes prey in both worlds. To strike back, he has to go deeper into Daggerland and pose as the kind of killer he hates.
Infinite Reality
by Peter Meredith
2017
FBI agent Daniel Roan enters the world's biggest online game to investigate deaths tied to its hidden creator. He is a complete outsider in Daggerland, and that makes every quest, fight, and alliance more dangerous.
The Apocalypse Revenge
by Peter Meredith
2017
Any peace Neil's people find is brief. Fresh grief and old rage push Jillybean and the survivors into another brutal stretch of the undead world, where revenge promises satisfaction but threatens everything they still have.
The Apocalypse Sacrifice
by Peter Meredith
2017
With Estes no longer safe, Neil Martin sends teams into the Rockies to find a path to a new home. The mission becomes a test of leadership, family, and what each survivor is willing to give up.
War of the Undead Day Four
by Peter Meredith
2017
The fourth day keeps the pressure on as survivors and soldiers face collapsing plans, bad calls, and a spreading tide of undead. Every mile gained feels temporary, and every mistake carries a body count.
Escape Room 303
by Peter Meredith
2018
Michelle Stewart wakes in a hotel room with a dead phone, a ticking hour, and a trail of clues leading through a killer's game. To live, she has to solve the puzzles before Room 303 closes on her.
Generation Z
by Peter Meredith
2018
Twelve years after the undead nearly erased humanity, a generation of orphans scavenges through the ruins. Jillybean and the survivors must stay alive in a world where food, ammo, and trust are all running out.
The Queen of the Dead
by Peter Meredith
2018
Jillybean is trapped, short on medicine, and slipping toward chaos while the Corsairs regroup for revenge. As fire, disease, and suspicion spread, she crowns herself queen and prepares for war.
The Queen of War
by Peter Meredith
2018
The Corsair conflict explodes across the bay, leaving Jenn Lockhart's people cut off and running low on everything. Jillybean's return may save them, but it also forces everyone to reckon with what she has done.
The Queen Unthroned
by Peter Meredith
2018
Assassins, spies, and the Black Captain push Bainbridge toward collapse. With her mind fraying and her own people doubting her, Jillybean turns to the Guardians and fights to hold on to power.
Dead Eye Hunt
by Peter Meredith
2019
More than a century after nukes failed to end the zombie plague, bounty hunter Cole works a ruined America of deserts, fallout, and disease. One job pulls him toward a hunt far bigger than a normal payday.
The Queen Enslaved
by Peter Meredith
2019
Jillybean's war grows even uglier as spies, betrayals, and old enemies close in. With Bainbridge under pressure and loyalties fraying, the Mad Queen has to survive captivity and keep her people from breaking.
The Queen Unchained
by Peter Meredith
2019
The final Generation Z novel drives Jillybean and her allies toward one last reckoning. Old debts come due, the fighting turns brutal, and freedom itself has a cost in a world already built on loss.
War of the Undead Day V
by Peter Meredith
2019
By the fifth day, exhaustion, panic, and human cruelty are everywhere. Meredith widens the lens, showing soldiers and civilians alike fighting a losing battle as the apocalypse settles in for good.
Dead Eye Hunt: Into the Rad Lands
by Peter Meredith
2020
Cole is set up for murder, squeezed by the mob, and sent on a suicidal run into the Rad Lands. Beyond the river waits a sea of dead, and every faction in the city wants him broken.
Jillybean and the Body
by Peter Meredith
2020
Eight-year-old Jillybean wakes covered in blood with no memory of what happened. Finding the body before Bainbridge finds out becomes a darkly funny, dangerous mystery in the middle of the undead world.
The Apocalypse Origin
by Peter Meredith
2020
This collection of linked novellas goes back to Jillybean's earliest days in the apocalypse. It shows how terror, loneliness, and survival shaped one of Meredith's strangest and most unforgettable characters.
The Culling
by Peter Meredith
2020
Daniel Magnus's twisted answer to a broken world unleashes undead chaos on New York. As the city falls, Bryce Carter and Maddy Whitmore fight through monsters, panic, and the first awful signs that they may be changing too.
Anarchy
by Peter Meredith
2021
Bryce Carter and Maddy Whitmore barely survive one nightmare before New York faces another. With demons, hive-minded undead, and incoming nukes closing in, they have to keep moving or watch millions die.
Where should I start?
If you want his biggest zombie saga: The Apocalypse → The Apocalypse Survivors → The Apocalypse Outcasts
If you want the next generation of that world: Generation Z → The Queen of the Dead → The Queen of War
If you want dark fantasy with romance and hidden kingdoms: The Blood Lure → The King's Trap / The Sun King → To Ensnare a Queen / The Sun Queen
If you want straight supernatural horror: The Horror of the Shade → An Illusion of Hell → Hell Blade
If you want a thriller inside a game world: Infinite Reality → Infinite Assassins
Author bio
Peter Meredith was born in Kodiak, Alaska, in 1967 and grew up in a military family that moved often before he finished high school on Staten Island, New York. That unsettled beginning feels like a useful clue to his fiction. His books are full of people on the move, people under pressure, and people trying to hold on when the world around them stops making sense.
He did not come to writing in a straight line. He served in the U.S. Army as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne and trained as a field medic. After that he worked a long list of jobs, including emergency room nursing, real estate, and running a lighting company.
Then writing took hold.
He began working on a novel while doing overnight work in a home for people with special needs, and that side project slowly became a career. Meredith wrote across horror, fantasy, dystopian fiction, and post-apocalyptic fiction, but even as the settings changed, his instincts stayed pretty consistent. He liked danger. He liked momentum. And he liked putting ordinary or damaged people in situations where every choice carried a cost.
One early book that says a lot about him is The Horror of the Shade. Meredith said the story grew out of a ghost sighting from his childhood, though the novel turns that memory into something much darker and more violent. That pattern shows up again and again in his work. He often starts with a human fear, a strange image, or a personal spark, then pushes it until it becomes full-blown horror.
A lot of readers know him best for his zombie fiction. The Apocalypse opened his long Undead World saga, which later spread into books and connected series like The Apocalypse Survivors, Generation Z, and War of the Undead Day One. These novels move fast and hit hard, but they are not just about monsters. They are about found family, ugly tradeoffs, stubborn endurance, and the question of what kind of person you become after the rules are gone.
He had range, though. A Perfect America is a dystopian thriller. Sprite is a sad, intimate story about a neglected girl trying to survive. The Blood Lure opens a fantasy series built around hidden kingdoms, shifting loyalties, and a heroine who learns she matters for reasons she never expected. Whatever shelf his books landed on, Meredith kept coming back to similar themes: fear, sacrifice, family, faith, guilt, and the thin line between protecting people and losing yourself.
He also had a real gift for building memorable characters. Jillybean, from the Undead books, is the obvious example, strange, brilliant, dangerous, and impossible to ignore. But there are plenty of others, from hunted survivors and reluctant leaders to children, soldiers, and outcasts trying to make a place for themselves in broken worlds. Even when the plots got wild, the emotional engine stayed simple and strong.
For many years Meredith lived in Colorado with his wife, Stacy, and their family, and writing became his full-time work. In 1991, while working in a Colorado hospital ER, he met the woman he would later marry. He died on July 5, 2022, at 55. He left behind a big shelf of novels, and they still carry the same pull they always did: sharp hooks, hard choices, and characters who feel trapped one step away from disaster.
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