David Wellington
David Wellington was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1971. He attended Penn State and received there an MFA in creative writing. He works as an archivist for the United Nations in New York City.
In 2003 he began work on the website “www.monsternovel.com”, where his novel Monster Island was serialized on-line over the course of five months and quickly became an internet cult phenomenon.
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Overwinter: A Werewolf TaleAuthor: Wellington, David |
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Frostbite: A Werewolf TaleAuthor: Wellington, David |
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For Cheyenne Clark, there’s a bad moon on the rise . . . There’s one sound a woman doesn’t want to hear when she’s lost and alone in the Arctic wilderness: a howl. When a strange wolf’s teeth slash Cheyenne’s ankle to the bone, her old life ends, and she becomes the very monster that has haunted her nightmares for years. Worse, the only one who can understand what Chey has become is the man — or wolf — who’s doomed her to this fate. He also wants to chop her head off with an axe. Yet as the line between human and beast blurs, so too does the distinction between hunter and hunted . . . for Chey is more than just the victim she appears to be. But once she’s within killing range, she may find that — even for a werewolf — it’s not always easy to go for the jugular. |
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23 Hours: A Vengeful Vampire Tale (Laura Caxton Series #4)Author: Wellington, David |
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In the next 23 hours, there will be no reprieve, When vampire hunter Laura Caxton is locked up in a maximum-security prison, the cop-turned-con finds herself surrounded by countless murderers and death-row inmates with nothing to lose . . . and plenty of time to kill. Caxton’s always been able to watch her own back — even when it’s against a cell-block wall — but soon she learns that an even greater threat has slithered behind the bars to join her. Justinia Malvern, the world’s oldest living vampire, has taken up residence, and her strength grows by the moment as she raids the inmate population like an open bar with an all-you-can-drink supply of fresh blood. The crafty old vampire knows just how to pull Caxton’s strings, too, and she’s issued an ultimatum that Laura can’t refuse. Now Laura has just 23 hours to fight her way through a gauntlet of vampires, cons, and killers . . . 23 hours to make one last, desperate attempt at protecting the world from Justinia’s evil. |
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Vampire Zero: A Gruesome Vampire Tale (Laura Caxton Series #3)Author: Wellington, David |
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One man stood between them and us. U.S. Marshal Jameson Arkeley — the country’s foremost authority on vampires — taught police investigator and vampire fighter Laura Caxton everything she knows about monsters. After a bloody war visited upon Gettysburg by an army of vampires, Arkeley gave up his own life to save others. Except he didn’t exactly die . . . Arkeley accepted the curse and is now a vampire himself. What’s worse, he’s the savviest vampire ever — he knows all the tricks better than anyone. Caxton is now faced with the task of destroying him. But Arkeley knows all her tactics too; after all, he taught them to her. Caxton realizes she must finish Arkeley before he succeeds in his quest to exterminate his own family, one member at a time. But even more important, she has to prevent him from becoming a beast exponentially more dangerous — a Vampire Zero. The author of 13 Bullets and 99 Coffins, David Wellington takes the Laura Caxton series to a whole new level in this action-packed third volume. |
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99 Coffins: A Historical Vampire Tale (Laura Caxton Series #2)Author: Wellington, David |
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Laura Caxton vowed never to face them again. The horror of what the vampires did is too close, the wounds too fresh. But when Jameson Arkeley, broken and barely recognizable, comes to her with an unfathomable, unholy discovery, her resolve crumbles. Arkeley leads Caxton to a tomb in Gettysburg recently excavated by a local archaeology professor. While the town, with its legendary role in the Civil War’s worst battle, is no stranger to cemeteries, this one is remarkably, eerily different. In it lie 100 coffins — 99 of them occupied by vampires, who, luckily, are missing their hearts. But one of the coffins is empty and smashed to pieces. Who is the missing vampire? Does he have access to the 99 hearts that, if placed back in the bodies of their owners, could reanimate an entire bloodthirsty army? How did the vampires end up there, undisturbed and undiscovered for 150 years? The answer lies in Civil War documents that contain sinister secrets about the newly found coffins — secrets that Laura Caxton is about to uncover as she is thrown into a deadly, gruesome mission of saving an entire town from a mass invasion of the undead. . . . |
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Plague ZoneAuthor: Wellington, David |
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From the Author: Welcome to the Plague Zone . . . Meet Tim Kempfer, the toughest librarian in post-apocalypse Seattle. There are half a million zombies in Seattle . . . Tim is just looking for one. |
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Monster Planet: A Zombie Novel (Monster Island Trilogy #3)Author: Wellington, David |
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Set twelve years after the shambling zombie masses have overrun Manhattan, America, and the world, Monster Planet is the mind-blowing conclusion to what must be the scariest trilogy ever. Oceans of blood, scattered limbs, wanton violence, and general mayhem abound, along with revivified mummies, a Welsh sorcerer, and Wellington’s signature brand of cool high-tech weaponry and sly humor — zombies, after all, are the ultimate consumers. What do the undead want, aside from fresh meat? Do the steadily diminishing number of humans who have somehow managed to survive over a decade of living hell stand a chance on a planet where they’ve been reduced to the status of prey? It all ends here, on Monster Planet. |
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13 Bullets: A Vampire Tale (Laura Caxton Series #1)Author: Wellington, David |
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13 Bullets: A Vampire Tale (Laura Caxton Series #1)Author: Wellington, David |
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All the official reports say they are dead — extinct since the late ’80s, when a fed named Arkeley nailed the last vampire in a fight that nearly killed him. But the evidence proves otherwise. When a state trooper named Caxton calls the FBI looking for help in the middle of the night, it is Arkeley who gets the assignment — who else? He’s been expecting such a call to come eventually. Sure, it has been years since any signs of an attack, but Arkeley knows what most people don’t: there is one left. In an abandoned asylum she is rotting, plotting, and biding her time in a way that only the undead can. Caxton is out of her league on this case and more than a little afraid, but the fed made it plain that there is only one way out. But the worst thing is the feeling that the vampires want more than just her blood. They want her for a reason, one she can’t guess; a reason her sphinx-like partner knows but won’t say; a reason she has to find out — or die trying. Now there are only 13 bullets between Caxton and Arkeley and the vampires. There are only 13 bullets between us, the living, and them, the damned. |
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Monster Nation: A Zombie Novel (Monster Island Trilogy #2)Author: Wellington, David |
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In the heart of America, in the world’s most secure prison, something horrible is growing in the dark. A wave of cannibalism and fear is sweeping across the heartland, spreading carnage and infection in its wake. Captain Bannerman Clark of the National Guard has been tasked with an impossible mission: discover what is happening — and then stop it before it annihilates Los Angeles. In California, he discovers a woman trapped in a hospital overrun with violent madmen. She may hold the secret to the Epidemic but she has lost everything — even her name. David Wellington’s first novel, Monster Island, explored a world overcome by horror and the few people strong enough to survive. Now he takes us back in time to where it all began — to the day the dead began to rise. From the Editors of Barnes and Noble: Monster Nation is a prequel of sorts that chronicles the very first days of the Epidemic, when an unknowing public hadn’t yet discovered the horrific truth — that tens of thousands of infected undead, hungry for succulent flesh, were creating more of their kind and systematically taking over the United States. Standing in their way is Bannerman Clark, a 61-year-old captain in the Colorado National Guard who is tasked with the impossible: to find the origins of the ghoulish outbreak and somehow put a stop to it before it’s too late. His search begins in a Supermax prison outside of Colorado Springs, where a gruesomely violent riot has confirmed that numerous occupants are, in fact, zombies. And to make matters worse, the warden — quite possibly infected — has just left on vacation for California. . . . Comparable to other end-of-the-world classics like Stephen King’s The Stand and Robert R. McCammon’s Swan Song, Wellington’s Monster Nation is an absolute must-read for horror aficionados. Who knew that armies of decomposing corpses bent on sucking the life out of the remnants of humankind could be so wildly entertaining? |
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Monster Island: A Zombie Novel (Monster Island Trilogy #1)Author: Wellington, David |
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It’s one month after a global disaster. The most “developed” nations of the world have fallen to the shambling zombie masses. Only a few pockets of humanity survive — in places rife with high-powered weaponry, such as Somalia. In New York City, the dead walk the streets, driven by an insatiable hunger for all things living. One amongst them is different; though he shares their appetites he has retained his human intelligence. Alone among the mindless zombies, Gary Fleck is an eyewitness to the end of the world — and perhaps the evil genius behind it all. From the other side of the planet, a small but heavily-armed group of schoolgirls-turned-soldiers has come in search of desperately needed medicine. Dekalb, a former United Nations weapons inspector, leads them as their local guide. Ayaan, a crack shot at the age of sixteen, will stop at nothing to complete her mission. They think they are prepared for anything. On Monster Island they will find that there is something worse even than being undead, as Gary learns the true price of survival. From the Editors of Barnes and Noble: After a mysterious event known as the Epidemic sweeps across the planet, the age of humanity comes to a sudden close as the Homo mortis rise in the millions from the grave and walk the earth in search of sustenance. A few pockets of humanity still remain, battling against impossible odds to survive. One of those strongholds is in Somalia, where a charismatic leader named Mama Halima has formed an army and has begun to rebuild a community from the ground up. A former UN weapons inspector named Dekalb, in an attempt to not only save his own life but also ensure the continued safety of his seven-year-old daughter, volunteers for a highly dangerous mission to retrieve some much-needed medicine on the other side of the world in New York City. But Dekalb finds Manhattan inhabited by millions of the undead — as well as the creature “who turns off the lights when the world ends.” Horror aficionados are going to absolutely devour this macabre masterpiece, which is the first installment of a trilogy of zombie novels. Wellington’s breathless sense of pacing, his incredibly vivid narrative style, and his twisted sense of humor (zombies snapping into SlimJims, checking out Olsen Twins DVDs in video stores, etc.) will have readers laughing out loud while simultaneously trying not to lose their lunch. Reminiscent of Richard Matheson’s 1954 masterwork, I Am Legend, and Cell by Stephen King, Monster Island will soon join them in the literary pantheon of zombie classics. Two stinking, rotting thumbs way up!. |
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October 5, 2010 (Trade Paperback — Three Rivers Press)
October 5, 2010 (Trade Paperback — Three Rivers Press)
Summary:
Title List:
1. Monster Island: A Zombie Novel
2. Monster Nation: A Zombie Novel
3. 13 Bullets: A Vampire Tale
4. Monster Planet: A Zombie Novel
5. Plague Zone
6. 99 Coffins: A Historical Vampire Tale
7. Vampire Zero: A Gruesome Vampire Tale
8. 23 Hours: A Vengeful Vampire Tale
9. Frostbite: A Werewolf Tale
10. Overwinter: A Werewolf Tale
Title List: The Monster Series
1. Monster Island: A Zombie Novel
2. Monster Nation: A Zombie Novel
3. Monster Planet: A Zombie Novel
Title List: The Laura Caxton Series
1. 13 Bullets: A Vampire Tale
2. 99 Coffins: A Historical Vampire Tale
3. Vampire Zero: A Gruesome Vampire Tale
4. 23 Hours: A Vengeful Vampire Tale
Title List: The Werewolf Tale Series (Is this the correct name?)
1. Frostbite: A Werewolf Tale
2. Overwinter: A Werewolf Tale
Weblinks List:
David Wellington’s Web Site
Book List for:
The Monster Island Trilogy
