The official novelization of the seminal horror movie. A group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse find themselves fending off a horde of flesh-eating ghouls as the unburied dead return to life, and seek human victims. "They're coming to get you, Barbara." The classic film that changed cinema by redefining horror and zombies forever. George A. Romero's hit movie is reimagined in this novel by John Russo, the co-screenwriter of the beloved flick. While visiting their father's grave, Barbara and Johnny see a man slowly approaching them. Grotesque and ghost-pale, the man kills Johnny.

Barbara manages to flee to a nearby farmhouse, where six other strangers have gathered to escape an outbreak of the unburied dead returning to life and attacking the living. This ragtag group struggle to fend off the horde of flesh-eating ghouls. Will any of them make it out alive?.