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Permuted Press is an independent publisher specializing in apocalyptic fiction.

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Dead Tide    by Stephen North
Price: $5.99 USD. 97580 words. Published by Permuted Press on May 16, 2013. .

THE WOLRD IS ENDING. BUT THERE ARE SURVIVORS. Nick Talaski is a hard-bitten, angry cop. Graham is a newly divorced cab driver. Bronte is a Gulf War veteran hunting his brother’s killer. Janicea is a woman consumed by unflinching hate. Trish is a gentleman’s club dancer. Morgan is a morgue janitor.
The Becoming: Revelations (The Becoming Book 3)    by Jessica Meigs
Price: $7.99 USD. 119990 words. Published by Permuted Press on May 14, 2013. .

In a world ruled by the dead, Brandt Evans is floundering. Leadership of their dysfunctional group wasn’t something he asked for or wanted. Their problems are numerous: Remy Angellette is grief-stricken and suicidal, Gray Carter is distant and reclusive, and Cade Alton is near death. And things only get worse.
Neena Gathering (A Post-Apocalyptic Novel)    by Valerie Nieman
Price: $5.99 USD. 63890 words. Published by Permuted Press on May 13, 2013. .

The cities were all gone, the people were gone, too. And the children. All dead. A nation divided, turns on itself with brutal, primitive cruelty, unleashing the ghastly mutations of blistering chemical warfare that leave a desolate wasteland where the United States once flourished...
Times of Trouble (A Time Travel Anthology)    by Lane Adamson
Price: $5.99 USD. 110590 words. Published by Permuted Press on April 29, 2013. .

TIME TRAVEL IS THE ULTIMATE DO-OVER. It’s funny how second chances usually wind up being just another opportunity to make the same mistakes, though. The authors represented in the collection you now hold were tasked to create grim and gritty tales of time travel gone horribly wrong. They have done so, in some wildly varied ways.
Beyond the Dark (The Dark Trilogy Book 3)    by Patrick D'Orazio
Price: $7.99 USD. 91360 words. Published by Permuted Press on April 17, 2013. .

THE DEAD HAVE ENGULFED THE WORLD Michael, the charismatic leader of a group of survivors, has offered Jeff Blaine and his friends a safe haven too good to refuse. But the loyalty Michael and his cronies demand may be too high a price for Jeff and the others to pay.
The Undead Haze (The Undead Situation Book 2)    by Eloise J. Knapp
Price: $7.99 USD. 75390 words. Published by Permuted Press on April 16, 2013. .

When remorse drives Cyrus to abandon his hidden compound he doesn't realize what new dangers lurk in the undead world. He knows he must wade through the vilest remains of humanity and hordes of zombies to settle scores and find the one person who might understand him. But this time, it won't be so easy. Zombies and unpleasant survivors aren't the only thing Cyrus has to worry about.
Still Alive: A Zombie Apocalypse Novel    by A.C. Thorne
Price: $5.99 USD. 109240 words. Published by Permuted Press on April 4, 2013. .

Panning down from the evening autumn sky, the scene comes to rest on a major freeway leading to and from Tokyo, Japan during rush hour. Suddenly there is movement across the field of view, but there is nothing solid to look at. The faint outline of an elliptical object maneuvers down toward a freeway overpass bending light around it, as if somehow cloaked from view.
Blood Soaked and Contagious (Blood Soaked Book 1)    by James Crawford
Price: $5.99 USD. 125910 words. Published by Permuted Press on March 30, 2013. .

I am not going to complain to you about my life. We’ve got zombies. They are not the brainless, rotting creatures we’d been led to expect. Unfortunately for us, they’re just as smart as they were before they died, very fast, much stronger than you or me, and possess no internal editor at all. Claws. Did I mention claws?
Sudden Independents (Independents Book 1)    by Ted Hill
Price: $5.99 USD. 70730 words. Published by Permuted Press on March 28, 2013. .

Jimmy never thought he’d be spending the apocalypse farming in Nebraska and worrying about Hunter. But when the plague killed their parents, along with everyone over the age of seventeen, Jimmy suddenly became head of the household. Then the oldest kid in town turned eighteen and the plague chased him down. Now Jimmy has one more thing to worry about--and he’s running out of time.
Into the Dark (The Dark Trilogy Book 2)    by Patrick D'Orazio
Price: $7.99 USD. 83860 words. Published by Permuted Press on March 18, 2013. .

Six weeks ago, the mysterious virus came out of nowhere and engulfed the world. Lost and alone, Jeff Blaine's only option is to destroy as many of the monsters as he can. But when he discovers Megan, George, and Jason, three other survivors not interested in giving up just yet, he reluctantly accepts that there might still be a reason to fight and live to see another day.
Tankbread    by Paul Mannering
Price: $5.99 USD. 91390 words. Published by Permuted Press on March 14, 2013. .

Ten years ago humanity lost the war for survival. Now intelligent zombies rule the world. Feeding the undead of a steady diet of cloned people called Tankbread, the survivors live in a dangerous world on the brink of final extinction.
Dead Earth: Sanctuary    by Mark Justice
Price: $7.99 USD. 85810 words. Published by Permuted Press on March 8, 2013. .

Jubal Slate has stopped a madman controlling an undead army and survived the destruction of the aliens responsible for the plague that decimated humanity. Now he leads a small band of survivors across the shattered landscape of America, fighting off the forces of the living and the dead. The group races north pursuing a legend, a post-apocalyptic fairy tale: a town protected from the walking dead.
The King of Clayfield    by Shane Gregory
Price: $3.99 USD. 96770 words. Published by Permuted Press on February 26, 2013. .

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On a cold February day in the small town of Clayfield, Kentucky, an unsuspecting and unprepared museum director he finds himself in the middle of hell on Earth. A pandemic is spreading around the globe, and it’s turning most of the residents of Clayfield into murderous zombies.
Darpocalypse (The Living Dead Series Book 2)    by Joseph Souza
Price: $7.99 USD. 125500 words. Published by Permuted Press on February 10, 2013. .

The second wave of the plague has struck with a brutal vengeance and a full-on zombie apocalypse has spread throughout every corner of the world. Abandoned by her father, Dar has managed to set up a camp in the Boston Common. Surrounded by hordes of ravenous zombies, one person living inside the camp holds the key to their survival.
Comes the Dark (The Dark Trilogy Book 1)    by Patrick D'Orazio
Price: $4.99 USD. 104590 words. Published by Permuted Press on February 8, 2013. .

The end came with a whimper, not a bang. The virus engulfed the world in a matter of days. The infected die…and then rise again. Governments collapsed, armies disappeared, and entire civilizations turned to dust as the human race tore itself to pieces. “Grabs you from the first few pages… I enjoyed the mix of good character building and tense action…” --HorrorNews.net
Ammon's Horn    by Stan Timmons
Price: $7.99 USD. 89650 words. Published by Permuted Press on February 8, 2013. .

Terrorists have unleashed the rapidly spreading virus dubbed the ’noids. Those infected become organic WMDs. Fused with the common cold, the virus spreads, turning the country into a nation of violent lunatics. Civilization collapses from within.
Dead Living    by Glenn Bullion
Price: $7.99 USD. 86540 words. Published by Permuted Press on January 12, 2013. .

It didn’t take long for the world to die. And it didn’t take long, either, for the dead to rise. Aaron was born on the day the world ended. Kept in seclusion, his family teaches him the basics. How to read and write. How to survive. Then Aaron makes a shocking discovery. The undead, who desire nothing but flesh, ignore him. It’s as if he’s invisible to them.
The Tilian Virus (The Pandemic Sequence Book 1)    by Tom Calen
Price: $4.99 USD. 72060 words. Published by Permuted Press on December 26, 2012. .

The virus spread quicker than anyone could have imagined. Within days, over half the world's population became infected. Now a small band of survivors, led by high school teacher Mike Allard, must learn to live in a world ravaged by the deadly victims of the Tilian Virus.
Mad Swine: Dead Winter    by Steven Pajak
Price: $7.99 USD. 79040 words. Published by Permuted Press on December 5, 2012. .

Three months after the beginning of the Mad Swine outbreak, the residents of Randall Oaks have reached their breaking point. After surviving the initial outbreak and a war waged with their neighboring community, Providence, their supplies are severely close to depletion. With hostile neighbors at their flanks and hordes of infected outside their walls, they have become prisoners within their own c
The Infection Box Set (2 Full Apocalyptic Thrillers)    by Craig DiLouie
Price: $9.99 USD. 207200 words. Published by Permuted Press on November 28, 2012. .

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Two full #1 bestselling apocalyptic thrillers for one low price! Includes the full novels THE INFECTION and THE KILLING FLOOR. A mysterious virus suddenly strikes down millions. Three days later, its victims awake with a single purpose: spread the Infection. As the world lurches toward the apocalypse, some of the Infected continue to change, transforming into horrific monsters.
Primeval (Werewolf Apocalypse Book 2)    by William Carl
Price: $7.99 USD. 97640 words. Published by Permuted Press on November 18, 2012. .

After the Lycan Virus went airborne in Cincinnati, transforming the infected into horrible beasts, it left a city decimated and a populace shaken. Now the Lycan Virus has mutated. Within hours, New York City has devolved into a state of frenzied madness. But can even the toughest soldiers fend off millions of primeval monsters while the Big Apple collapses around them?
Containment (Alaskan Undead Apocalypse Book 2)    by Sean Schubert
Price: $7.99 USD. 125500 words. Published by Permuted Press on November 10, 2012. .

Running. Hiding. Surviving. Anchorage, once Alaska’s largest city, has fallen. Now a threatening maze of death, the city is firmly in the cold grip of a growing zombie horde. Neil Jordan and Dr. Caldwell lead a small band of desperate survivors through the maelstrom. The group has one last hope: that this nightmare has been contained, and there still exists a sane world free of infection.
Lords of Night (An Apocalyptic Novel)    by Thom Brannan
Price: $7.99 USD. 104100 words. Published by Permuted Press on October 23, 2012. .

An ancient evil worshipped as a god in the depths of time has awakened and turned the world into a desolate and dark place. The remnants of humanity are forced to take shelter where they can, hiding from the ravenous walking dead and their inhuman shepherds, the Locust People, and the Ancient Enemy’s lieutenants, the Lords of Night.
The Reanimation of Edward Schuett    by Derek Goodman
Price: $7.99 USD. 93790 words. Published by Permuted Press on October 20, 2012. .

The last thing Edward Schuett remembers was a zombie attack on his family on the Fourth of July. When he wakes up, things are different. He is different. He can once again think and talk, but he still carries the zombie virus in his system. Now Edward is on the run across a hostile country, searching for his answers with a series of unlikely allies.
The Reawakening (The Living Dead Series Book 1)    by Joseph Souza
Price: $4.99 USD. 92010 words. Published by Permuted Press on October 5, 2012. .

A series of terrible things begin to happen when a scientist with a dark past resumes his genetic experiments in a small Maine town. The entire town soon becomes filled with the human flesh-eaters, threatening a farmhouse and the survivors within it. As the world outside them descends into total madness, a surprising leader emerges from the group who will hopefully lead them to safety.
Age of the Dead (Rise Book 2)    by Gareth Wood
Price: $7.99 USD. 83250 words. Published by Permuted Press on September 25, 2012. .

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A year has passed since the dead rose, and the citizens of Cold Lake are out of hope. Food and weapons are nearly impossible to find, and the dead are everywhere. In desperation Brian Williams leads a salvage team into the mountains. But outside the small safe zones the world is a foreign place. Williams and his team must use all of their skills to survive in the wilderness ruled by the dead.
Cannibal Corpse, M/C    by Tim Curran
Price: $7.99 USD. 98380 words. Published by Permuted Press on September 14, 2012. .

Following a major pandemic, the country is in ruins. West of the Mississippi River is a hellzone known as the Deadlands. Here, bioengineered Corpse Worms rain from the blood-streaked sky, reanimating the dead. And here, atomic weapons have created legions of mutants, primeval monsters, and wild chaotic weather patterns. Enter: John Slaughter. Hardcore outlaw biker.
Murphy's Law (Roads Less Traveled Book 2)    by C. Dulaney
Price: $7.99 USD. 92550 words. Published by Permuted Press on September 3, 2012. .

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Kasey and the gang were held together by a set of rules, their Zombie Plan. It kept them alive through the beginning of the End. But when the chaos faded, they became careless, and Murphy’s Law decided to pay a long-overdue visit. Now the group is broken and scattered with no refuge in sight. Those remaining must make their way across West Virginia in search of those who were stolen from them.
The Harvest Cycle    by David Dunwoody
Price: $4.99 USD. 73070 words. Published by Permuted Press on September 3, 2012. .

It has been fifty years since the first Harvest. Hideous creatures, lethal and lightning-fast, rise from the ocean and hunt humans. Man hides underground in fear of the Harvesters. But he is also sought by other predators: the robots that for years were his companions are now driven to exterminate him in a warped mission of mercy.
It's Only Temporary (A Tale of the End of the World)    by Eric Shapiro
Price: $0.99 USD. 24650 words. Published by Permuted Press on July 28, 2012. .

Word gets out that humanity is doomed: a giant meteorite has been headed toward the Earth for decades, and the government is ill-equipped to stop it. On the final day of human life, Sean must decide who to spend his precious time with. When he opts to hit the road and reunite with a lost love, he encounters a mad society that is rapidly shredding the trappings of civilization.
If God Doesn't Show (A Cthulhu Mythos Novel)    by R. Thomas Riley
Price: $4.99 USD. 69130 words. Published by Permuted Press on July 28, 2012. .

Thaddeus Archer is an ex-police officer whose missing daughter holds the key to the mysterious force that threatens to lay waste to what’s left of our world. Together with Gibson Blount, an agent of a secret government agency that doesn’t officially exist, both men must overcome their differences in a world besieged by the re-animated dead, natural disasters, and elder god set on destruction.
The Becoming: Ground Zero    by Jessica Meigs
Price: $7.99 USD. 94210 words. Published by Permuted Press on July 1, 2012. .

After the Michaluk Virus decimated the southeast, Ethan and his companions became like family. But the arrival of a mysterious woman forces them to flee from the infected, and the cohesion the group cultivated is shattered. As members of the group succumb to the escalating dangers on their path, new alliances form, new loves develop, and old friendships crumble.
Eaters    by Michelle DePaepe
Price: $4.99 USD. 102750 words. Published by Permuted Press on June 15, 2012. .

Cheryl and her fiancé Mark are on their way back to Denver after a camping trip when they receive word an epidemic is spreading like wildfire. But this is no ordinary virus. Those infected, “Eaters,” are living corpses whose lust for rotten food quickly turns to an insatiable desire for human flesh. When Mark becomes infected, Cheryl is forced to venture into this insane new world on her own.
14    by Peter Clines
Price: $7.99 USD. 129910 words. Published by Permuted Press on June 5, 2012. .

Padlocked doors. Strange light fixtures. Mutant cockroaches. There are some odd things about Nate’s new apartment. Every room in this old brownstone has a mystery. Mysteries that stretch back over a hundred years. Some of them are in plain sight. Some are behind locked doors. And all together these mysteries could mean the end of Nate and his friends. Or the end of everything...
Dead Tropics    by Sue Edgerley
Price: $2.99 USD. 80070 words. Published by Permuted Press on May 19, 2012. .

Lori Nelson has always seen herself as ordinary, just doing the best she can to juggle family and work. But the most dangerous creature in nature is the mother whose offspring is threatened… When miners release an ancient virus Lori is at ground zero of the battle for survival. With the help of a laconic ex-soldier, can Lori find the strength to fight the spreading threat and save her family?
The Killing Floor (a novel of The Infection)    by Craig DiLouie
Price: $7.99 USD. 102570 words. Published by Permuted Press on April 9, 2012. .

The mystery virus struck down millions. Three days later, its victims awoke with a single violent purpose: spread the Infection. Ray Young, survivor of a fight to save a refugee camp from hordes of Infected, awakes from a coma to learn he has also survived Infection. Ray is not immune. Instead, he has been transformed into a superweapon that could end the world … or save it.
Pavlov's Dogs    by D.L. Snell
Price: $4.99 USD. 81510 words. Published by Permuted Press on April 8, 2012. .

WEREWOLVES Dr. Crispin has engineered the saviors of mankind: soldiers capable of transforming into beasts. ZOMBIES Ken and Jorge get caught in a traffic jam on their way home from work. It’s the first sign of a major outbreak. ARMAGEDDON Should Dr. Crisping send the Dogs out into the zombie apocalypse to rescue survivors? Or should they hoard their resources and post the Dogs as island guards?
Long Voyage Back    by Luke Rhinehart
Price: $4.99 USD. 139240 words. Published by Permuted Press on March 31, 2012. .

WHEN THE BOMBS CAME, ONLY THE LUCKY ESCAPED. IN THE HORROR THAT FOLLOWED, ONLY THE STRONG WOULD SURVIVE. The voyage of the trimaran Vagabond began as a pleasure cruise on the Chesapeake Bay. Then came the War Alert … the unholy glow on the horizon … the terrifying reports of nuclear destruction. In the days that followed, it became clear just how much chaos was still to come.
Rotter World    by Scott M. Baker
Price: $4.99 USD. 97510 words. Published by Permuted Press on March 30, 2012. .

Eight months ago vampires released the Revenant Virus on humanity. Both species were nearly wiped out. The creator of the virus claims there is a vaccine that will make humans and vampires immune to the virus, but it’s located in a secure underground facility five hundred miles away. To retrieve the vaccine, a raiding party of humans and vampires must travel down the devastated East Coast.
Zombie Apocalypse Preparation: How to Survive in an Undead World and Have Fun Doing It!    by David Houchins
Price: $4.99 USD. 88690 words. Published by Permuted Press on March 11, 2012. .

We guarantee this is the only tool you need to survive the zombie acpocalypse. OK, that’s not really true. But when the SHTF you’re going to want a survival guide that’s not just geared toward day-to-day survival. We can’t guarantee this guide will save your life. But we can guarantee it will keep you smiling while the living dead are chowing down on you.
Dead Meat    by Patrick & Chris Williams
Price: $4.99 USD. 92150 words. Published by Permuted Press on March 10, 2012. .

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The city of River’s Edge has been quarantined due to a rodent borne rabies outbreak. But it quickly becomes clear to the citizens that the infection is something much, much worse than rabies... The townsfolk are attacked and fed upon by packs of the living dead. Gavin and Benny attempt to survive the chaos in River’s Edge while making their way north in search of sanctuary.
Mad Swine: The Beginning    by Steven Pajak
Price: $4.99 USD. 75690 words. Published by Permuted Press on February 25, 2012. .

People refer to the infected as “zombies,” but that’s not what they really are. Zombie implies the infected have died and reanimated. The thing is, they didn’t die. They’re just not human anymore. As the infection spreads and crazed hordes--dubbed “Mad Swine”--take over the cities, the residents of Randall Oaks find themselves locked in a desperate struggle to survive in the new world.
The Seven Habits    by William Todd Rose
Price: $2.99 USD. 71550 words. Published by Permuted Press on February 25, 2012. .

Bosley Coughlin can travel through time. And the future does not look good. The dead walk and cities lay in ruins. This horrific future is the only world fourteen year old Ocean has ever known. In the present Bosley stumbles across Clarice Hudson. One by one, she displays the seven symptoms of the contagion that will bring Bosley’s world to an end and create the nightmare Ocean calls home.
Roses of Blood on Barbwire Vines    by D.L. Snell
Price: $0.99 USD. 75070 words. Published by Permuted Press on February 23, 2012. .

Zombies have devoured mankind. And the few survivors would be better off dead because a clan of vampires, bloodthirsty and vicious, have captured the remnants of humanity for livestock. In an apartment building barricaded with wrecked cars, concrete rubble, and snarls of barbwire, the vampires breed lobotomized amputees.
Plaguesville, USA    by Jim LaVigne
Price: $4.99 USD. 142200 words. Published by Permuted Press on February 12, 2012. .

The year is 2075, and a global outbreak has wiped out over 99% of the population. A small team of specialists from the Center for Disease Control have discovered a cure for the plague in the blood of a cantankerous 102 year old. But the old man couldn’t care less whether humanity lives or dies. And he most certainly doesn’t feel like going on a road trip to sunny California.
Infection: Alaskan Undead Apocalypse    by Sean Schubert
Price: $3.99 USD. 69380 words. Published by Permuted Press on January 28, 2012. .

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Anchorage, Alaska: gateway to serene wilderness of The Last Frontier. No stranger to struggle, the city on the edge of the world is about to become even more isolated. When a plague strikes, Anchorage becomes a deadly trap for its citizens. The only two land routes out of the city are cut, forcing people to fight or die as the infection spreads.
The Junkie Quatrain    by Peter Clines
Price: $2.99 USD. 36690 words. Published by Permuted Press on January 14, 2012. .

Six months ago, the world ended. The Baugh Contagion swept across the planet. Its victims were left twitching, adrenalized cannibals that quickly became know as Junkies. THE JUNKIE QUATRAIN is four tales of survival, and four types of post-apocalypse story. Because the end of the world means different things for different people. Loss. Opportunity. Hope. Or maybe just another day on the job.
Rise    by Gareth Wood
Price: $3.99 USD. 105250 words. Published by Permuted Press on January 2, 2012. .

Within hours of succumbing to a plague, millions of dead rise to attack the living. Brian Williams flees the city with his sister Sarah. Banded with other survivors, the group remains desperately outnumbered and under-armed. With no food and little fuel, they must fight their way to safety. RISE is the story of the extreme measures a family will take to survive a trek across a country gone mad.
Containment Room 7    by Bryan Hall
Price: $2.99 USD. 65820 words. Published by Permuted Press on November 26, 2011. .

In a far corner of space, orbiting a massive black hole, a research ship discovers a strange asteroid. Then the killing begins, and a cult rises declaring the rock their god. A small group of survivors face an army of undead crew members, the reanimated corpses of hundreds of failed genetic experiments, the murderous cult, and—worst of all—the rapidly evolving creature in containment room 7.
The Wanderers    by Carlos Sisi
Price: $2.99 USD. 95280 words. Published by Permuted Press on November 26, 2011. .

In the city of Malaga thirty survivors have built a shelter to keep out the dead wandering the streets. One of the survivors casts handwritten notes from the penthouse into the dead-filled streets below. But a mad priest is the only living soul to find these cries for help. And now he knows precisely where to find the camp and carry out his morbid judgment.
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Books

Raft People: An Apocalyptic Tale of the Big Flood    by Permuted Press
Price: $5.99 USD. 121550 words. Published on February 11, 2013. Fiction.

Before the Big Flood, Liz Green worried more about hiding detention notes, the activities of her rebellious friends, and mental illness than global climate change. She lives on the Texas Coastal Plain with her single mother, brilliant older brother, and socially awkward but clever younger brother. But now the water keeps rising, and her mother, Leah, has bigger problems than Liz.
Cthulhu Unbound 3    by Permuted Press
Price: $4.99 USD. 96450 words. Published on October 9, 2012. Fiction.

The third volume of the CTHULHU UNBOUND series plunges deeper than ever into daring new visions of H.P. Lovecraft’s universe in four all-new novellas by five masters of the new weird tale. This is cosmic horror as you've never seen it before. This is the Mythos in many colors, many guises. This is Cthulhu Unbound!

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