The Strain
by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan · 2009
Book one of del Toro and Hogan's trilogy: a plane lands dead at JFK and a CDC doctor uncovers not a virus but an ancient vampiric plague poised to consume New York.
Book Series
The Strain Trilogy
3 books, listed in publication order.
The Fall
by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan · 2010
Book two: the vampiric infection has spread and civilization is buckling, as a ragged band of survivors takes the fight to the ancient master behind the plague.
The Night Eternal
by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan · 2011
The trilogy's finale: two years after the vampires seized the world and blotted out the sun, the last human resistance makes a desperate bid to reclaim the day.
About This Series
Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan's reworking of vampirism as biological outbreak rather than gothic seduction. It opens with a plane landing at JFK with everyone aboard dead, and proceeds as a procedural: epidemiologists, not vampire hunters, working the problem while the infection outruns them. Three novels from 2009 to 2011, and the horror comes from the clinical detail.
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