The Undead Books in Order
Part ofRR Haywood Books in OrderSee 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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Publication Order
36 books
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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