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The Undead Books in Order

Part ofRR Haywood Books in Order

See all The Undead books in order by RR Haywood, with quick summaries, reading order help, spin-offs, and notes on where this zombie saga begins.

Last updated: July 4, 2026

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36 books

1

The Undead Day Eight

by RR Haywood

2012

Week two begins with the survivors trying to turn a temporary haven into something solid. That sounds sensible until the next set of threats, human and otherwise, makes clear how fragile every plan really is.

2

The Undead Day Five

by RR Haywood

2012

With exhaustion setting in and no real refuge in sight, every decision starts to carry a heavier cost. The action stays sharp, but the real pull is watching Howie stumble toward leadership.

3

The Undead Day Four

by RR Haywood

2012

The group keeps moving through chaos, trying to stay ahead of the infection and the people using it for cover. Haywood widens the cast here, making the world feel bigger and a lot less safe.

4

The Undead Day One

by RR Haywood

2012

When reports of a strange infection turn into open horror, shy supermarket night manager Howie tries to reach his family before everything collapses. It is a fast, filthy start to a very British zombie apocalypse.

5

The Undead Day Seven

by RR Haywood

2012

The first week closes on a hard push toward safety that may not be safe at all. It is a strong mini-finale, full of blood, banter, and the feeling that the story is only just getting started.

6

The Undead Day Six

by RR Haywood

2012

The road ahead keeps filling with strangers, dead ends, and new ways for the infection to terrify everyone. The series is still brutal here, but it is also building the friendships that give it real staying power.

7

The Undead Day Three

by RR Haywood

2012

Howie and Dave push on through a country that is getting more dangerous by the hour. Their search for family pulls them toward bigger roads, bigger risks, and the grim truth that survivors can be worse than zombies.

8

The Undead Day Two

by RR Haywood

2012

Howie heads back into the nightmare to look for his parents and finds the world already running on panic and theft. Then he meets Dave, and the series finds one of its defining partnerships.

9

The Undead Day Eleven

by RR Haywood

2013

New allies do not make things easier, they just make the loyalties messier. The book keeps the pressure on as Howie's crowd learns that every rescue comes with a price.

10

The Undead Day Fourteen

by RR Haywood

2013

The second week reaches its breaking point as the group faces one of its hardest days yet. Haywood brings together fear, exhaustion, and sheer scale for a bruising climax.

11

The Undead Day Nine

by RR Haywood

2013

Holding ground proves almost as hard as taking it. Supply worries, clashing personalities, and the constant pressure of the undead keep this entry tight, restless, and full of bad options.

12

The Undead Day Ten

by RR Haywood

2013

Leaving the island turns into another disaster when the journey goes wrong and the group is thrown toward a Royal Navy vessel and new survivors. The scale grows here without losing the series' dirty, personal feel.

13

The Undead Day Thirteen

by RR Haywood

2013

Tension inside the group grows as badly as the danger outside it. Trapped houses, swarming infected, and an evolving outbreak make this one of the more frantic entries of the second week.

14

The Undead Day Twelve

by RR Haywood

2013

Day Twelve is built around discovery and disruption, with Howie realising that what he thought he understood may not be enough anymore. It pushes the wider mystery forward while keeping the survival stakes high.

15

The Undead Day Fifteen

by RR Haywood

2014

The fallout from the second week leaves the survivors battered, divided, and forced into tougher choices. Old plans fail fast, and trust becomes nearly as valuable as ammunition.

16

The Undead Day Sixteen

by RR Haywood

2014

As the war against the infection grows wider, the group is pushed into even more dangerous ground. Haywood keeps the action moving, but the deeper hook is how much the survivors are changing too.

17

The Undead Day Eighteen

by RR Haywood

2015

Separated loyalties and hard choices splinter the survivors just when they need each other most. The result is tense, ugly, and very good at showing how fragile any alliance can be.

18

The Undead Day Nineteen

by RR Haywood

2015

The campaign widens again as Howie's people face deeper losses, rougher politics, and fresh horrors from the infected. Safety is always temporary, and every win seems to open another front.

19

The Undead Day Seventeen

by RR Haywood

2015

New allies, old wounds, and an enemy that never stops adapting keep the pressure high. This is the sort of middle-series entry that works because the cast now matters as much as the monsters.

20

Blood on the Floor

by RR Haywood

2016

Twelve days into the outbreak, Heather survives by hiding from everyone, alive or dead. A single choice on a supply run brings her into Paco's orbit and turns this side story into a grim, strange love story.

21

The Undead Day Twenty

by RR Haywood

2016

Long-running threads crash together as the survivors fight to hold on to hope and each other. The scale is bigger now, but the heart of the book is still ordinary people trying not to break.

22

The Undead Day Twenty-One

by RR Haywood

2017

Strongholds, friendships, and plans can all collapse overnight in Haywood's world, and this book leans hard into that fact. Human ambition is becoming every bit as dangerous as the undead outside the walls.

23

The Undead Twenty-Two

by RR Haywood

2017

After everything the group has endured, the next phase of the war feels more organised, more ruthless, and far less local. The infection keeps changing, and so do the people resisting it.

24

The Undead Twenty-Three: The Fort

by RR Haywood

2018

A hoped-for refuge becomes the centre of a brutal showdown. The fort is no longer just shelter, it is a target, a symbol, and a test of who can still hold the line.

25

The Camping Shop

by RR Haywood

2019

A stop for supplies turns into a nasty little mystery when the group enters a camping shop that has clearly seen something awful. It is short, sharp, and more interested in human cruelty than cheap shocks.

26

The Undead Twenty-Four: Equilibrium

by RR Haywood

2019

A fragile balance settles over the survivors, but balance in this series never lasts for long. Rival aims, old resentments, and the undead all push against whatever peace has been scraped together.

27

The Undead Twenty Five: The Heat

by RR Haywood

2021

The temperature rises and so do tempers as the survivors are pushed through another punishing stretch of the war. Exhaustion, pressure, and the undead all hit hard at the same time.

28

Stella

by RR Haywood

2024

This Undead novella zooms in for a smaller, more intimate survival story inside Haywood's larger world. It is a sharp reminder that the apocalypse feels different when you are close enough to one life to lose it.

29

The Undead 32. The Battle for Winchester.: Season Five. The Rain

by RR Haywood

2024

The battle for Winchester arrives in full, with siege-scale chaos and very little room for mistakes. Haywood balances the carnage with the gallows humour that keeps the series human.

30

The Undead 33. One True Race: Season Five. The Rain

by RR Haywood

2024

With the fighting widening, the story turns toward ideology as well as survival. Factional certainty, ugly thinking, and the pressure of the rain push the series into darker territory.

31

The Undead Thirty-One. Winchester: Season Five. The Rain

by RR Haywood

2024

Winchester becomes the next crucial stop in Season Five, drawing survivors into a fresh urban fight. Strategy matters, but so do nerves, timing, and who is still willing to follow orders.

32

The Undead Thirty. Hindhead Part 2: Season Five. The Rain

by RR Haywood

2024

Hindhead reaches its pay-off in a bruising continuation where positions collapse and choices narrow fast. The action is big, but the tension comes from who still has enough left to fight.

33

The Undead Twenty-Eight. Return To The Fort.

by RR Haywood

2024

Going back to the fort should feel safer, but old ground looks different after everything that has happened. This book is built on memory, loss, and the dangerous hope of trying again.

34

The Undead Twenty-Nine. Hindhead Part 1.: Season Five. The Rain.

by RR Haywood

2024

The march toward Hindhead opens a two-part conflict full of mud, pressure, and bad odds. Season Five keeps its focus on endurance, leadership, and how fast order can crack.

35

The Undead Twenty-Seven: The Garden Centre: Season Five. The Rain.

by RR Haywood

2024

A garden centre becomes the next battleground as Season Five tightens the screws. Shelter, supplies, and simple movement all become risky when the rain changes everything.

36

The Undead Twenty-Six: Rye.: Season Five. The Rain.

by RR Haywood

2024

Season Five opens under a new threat, the rain itself. In Rye, the survivors face filthy conditions, shifting rules, and the sense that the outbreak has entered another dangerous stage.

Series background & context

At the start of The Undead, the world does not end with a grand speech or a heroic call to arms. It falls apart on a Friday, and the man at the centre of it is Howie, a twenty-seven-year-old supermarket night manager from the south of England. He is not a soldier, not a survivalist, and not the sort of character who normally gets handed a giant post-apocalyptic franchise. That is exactly the point. The series begins with one ordinary man trying to get to his family while the outbreak spreads faster than anyone can understand.

Very quickly, though, The Undead becomes much bigger than one man with a blunt weapon and terrible luck.

As the books go on, Howie gathers people around him, some by choice, some by accident, and some because the end of the world leaves nobody many options. Dave is the most important of them, and one of the reasons readers stick with the series for so long. Their friendship gives the books their emotional spine. Around them grows a wider cast of soldiers, civilians, oddballs, survivors, and people who would probably have stayed miles apart in normal life. Haywood is very good at that kind of group chemistry. The banter matters almost as much as the action.

The setting matters too. These are not vague ruins or generic wastelands. The series moves through recognisable bits of southern England, supermarkets, housing estates, roads, villages, coastlines, ferries, forts, and makeshift strongholds. A lot of the tension comes from movement and logistics. How do you get from one place to another? Where do you sleep? What do you do when night changes the rules? That practical, step-by-step quality is a big part of what makes the early books so gripping.

The undead themselves are nasty enough, but the series does not stop at simple shambling horror. The infection changes, and what the survivors think they understand rarely stays settled for long. Human beings are just as dangerous. Panic, greed, ideology, cowardice, power games, and plain stupidity all get their turn. That sounds bleak, and sometimes it is, but Haywood keeps the books moving with black humour and a kind of bruised warmth. Even at their bloodiest, these stories are full of personality.

As the series grows, it opens outward. What begins as a day-by-day survival story becomes something larger, with seasons, side routes, standalones, and books that follow other characters in the same world. Stories like Blood on the Floor, The Camping Shop, and Stella widen the universe without losing the feel of the main run. Newer entries keep building on old scars, old loyalties, and the long cost of staying alive.

If you are looking for polished military horror, this is not really that. The Undead is messier, louder, funnier, and more emotional than that label suggests. It is a zombie series, yes, but it is also a story about friendship, leadership, found family, and what happens when average people have to keep going long after the point where they should have fallen apart.

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