New Hope is the last human city in a world ruled by the walking dead. Resources are running thin so they are forced to branch out, to try to take back some of what they have lost - but this brings them into conflict with something even more deadly than the undead, a tribe of religious fanatics that are determined to destroy everything the residents of New Hope have built.The stories in the World of the Dead series take place twenty years after a zombie apocalypse. They focus on how humanity is adapting. They are tales of hope and survival.